Joying to Juxtapositions

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

joying, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.421 13 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence...

joyless, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.219 6 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became ghastly, joyless...
    ET2 5.32 8 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which whistled over us;...

joyous, adj. (4)

    Tran 1.343 3 ...[Transcendentalists] are not stockish or brute,-but joyous, susceptible, affectionate;...
    Ill 6.314 3 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Elo1 7.69 9 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
    EWI 11.102 15 These men [negro slaves]...gentle and joyous themselves...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.

Joyous Science, Professors (1)

    Schr 10.262 24 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...

joys, n. (18)

    Lov1 2.169 2 ...each of [the soul's] joys ripens into a new want.
    Hsm1. 2.252 15 What joys has kind nature provided for us dear creatures!
    SwM 4.141 19 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
    ET8 5.127 6 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations: not sadder, but slow and staid, as finding their joys at home.
    ET19 5.312 1 ...I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys;...
    Ill 6.316 12 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage...some great joys.
    DL 7.120 14 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...
    Suc 7.299 16 Is...the college where you first knew the dreams of fancy and joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
    PI 8.3 21 In spite of all the joys of poets and the joys of saints, the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    PI 8.3 22 In spite of all the joys of poets and the joys of saints, the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    PPo 8.250 10 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...
    Schr 10.287 17 I invite you [scholars] not to cheap joys...
    MMEm 10.401 23 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...her joys and raptures of religion and Nature, interest like a romance...
    MMEm 10.419 7 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment.
    EWI 11.102 23 The prizes of society...the decencies and joys of marriage, honor, obedience, personal authority...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    Wom 11.410 27 ...[man] invented...all luxuries and adornments, and the elegance of privacy, to increase the joys of society.
    MLit 12.331 10 [Goethe]...gleans what straggling joys may yet remain out of [Fate's] ban.
    Trag 12.416 24 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science.

jubilant, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.139 18 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul...
    SR 2.77 19 [Prayer] is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.
    Elo1 7.83 25 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    Chr2 10.101 15 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./

jubilee, n. (4)

    DSA 1.129 1 [Jesus] said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, I am divine.
    DSA 1.150 16 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath, the jubilee of the whole world...
    EWI 11.117 10 ...the habit of oppression was not destroyed [in the West Indies] by a law and a day of jubilee.
    EWI 11.145 2 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...

jubilees, n. (1)

    War 11.157 19 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees...

Judaea, n. (4)

    Civ 7.33 4 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Chr2 10.111 15 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not England, which is the ground.
    FSLC 11.211 9 Judaea was a petty country. Yet these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...
    FSLC 11.211 10 ...these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...

Judaeus, Philo, n. (1)

    ET1 5.11 12 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also according to Philo Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...

Judaism, n. (2)

    UGM 4.4 21 Our colossal theologies of Judaism, Christism...are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
    Chr2 10.103 24 The [moral] sentiment...measures Judaism, Stoicism...or whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.

Judas, n. (2)

    SR 2.69 23 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
    Pow 6.66 5 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

Judea, n. (1)

    PC 8.220 16 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Socrates in Athens, the saints in Judea...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!

judge, n. (40)

    DSA 1.133 16 ...when I see among my contemporaries...an upright judge...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    Con 1.312 10 The king on the throne governs for thee, and the judge judges;...
    Chr1 3.114 16 ...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert judge, jury, soldier and king;...
    Gts 3.160 25 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
    PPh 4.55 4 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good, which rules rulers, and judges the judge.
    PPh 4.58 19 ...[Plato] hears the doom of the judge...
    PPh 4.60 22 I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition.
    GoW 4.276 4 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another. He sifts it. I am here, he would say, to be the measure and judge of these things.
    Pow 6.76 19 The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation...
    Wth 6.104 7 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench...
    CbW 6.245 22 The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter...
    Elo1 7.77 25 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Elo1 7.87 4 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was.
    Elo1 7.87 19 The judge was forced at last to rule something...
    Elo1 7.87 26 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation...
    Elo1 7.96 24 This man [the sturdy countryman]...is his own...judge and jury...
    Cour 7.268 26 The judge puts his mind to the tangle of contradictions in the case...and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Cour 7.269 16 ...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
    OA 7.319 17 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...
    Grts 8.315 8 ...the English judge in old times...forgave a culprit who could read and write.
    Aris 10.49 17 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
    PerF 10.80 16 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company; the jurors waked up, the sheriff forgot his duty, the judge himself beat time...
    Chr2 10.103 22 The [moral] sentiment...is the judge and measure of every expression of it...
    Edc1 10.153 14 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth...knows as much vice as the judge of a police court...
    SovE 10.187 21 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.187 22 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.187 23 Every judge is a culprit, every law an abuse.
    Plu 10.307 27 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's...
    LLNE 10.350 21 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got...a barber, a poet, a judge...and so on.
    Thor 10.464 25 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life. This made him a searching judge of men.
    HDC 11.71 12 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty. It was judge and jury and council and king.
    FSLC 11.184 7 What is the use of courts, if...no judge exerts original jurisdiction...
    FSLN 11.225 25 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    FSLN 11.225 26 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    AKan 11.261 10 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
    JBB 11.271 22 A good man will see that the use of a judge is to secure good government...
    JBB 11.272 12 A Vermont judge, Hutchinson, who has the Declaration of Independence in his heart;...is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    JBB 11.272 14 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    PLT 12.60 15 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted, and there is...no rule of life or art or science, on which it is not a competent and the only competent judge.
    Trag 12.413 11 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...

Judge, n. (2)

    Pow 6.67 9 ...with his honor the Judge [Boniface] was very cordial...
    EzRy 10.382 24 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...George Thatcher, Judge of the Supreme Court;...

judge, v. (35)

    Nat 1.39 19 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    LT 1.274 15 Religion was not invited to eat or drink or sleep with us...but was a holiday guest. Such omissions judge the church;...
    LT 1.275 10 By the books [the Times] reads and translates, judge what books it will presently print.
    LT 1.279 11 The great majority of men, unable to judge of any principle until its light falls on a fact, are not aware of the evil that is around them...
    SR 2.71 11 Let our simplicity judge [the invaders]...
    SL 2.137 27 We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope...
    OS 2.286 5 ...the wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he does not judge [men];...
    OS 2.286 6 ...[the wise man] lets [men] judge themselves...
    Pol1 3.202 24 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    Pol1 3.207 24 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy...
    NR 3.226 13 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
    PPh 4.62 25 ...to judge is to unite to an object the notion which belongs to it.
    PPh 4.67 7 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
    SwM 4.101 25 No one man is perhaps able to judge of the merits of [Swedenborg's] works on so many subjects.
    SwM 4.102 15 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries...and we are to judge, by what he can spare, of what remains.
    MoS 4.161 12 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...every one skilful to play and win,--[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    ET1 5.24 20 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression of a narrow and very English mind;...
    ET7 5.121 4 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET14 5.237 22 Judge of the splendor of a nation by the insignificance of great individuals in it.
    Ctr 6.143 17 ...the being master of [minor skills] enables the youth to judge intelligently of much on which otherwise he would give a pedantic squint.
    Ctr 6.147 7 A foreign country is a point of comparison wherefrom to judge [a man's] own.
    Ctr 6.161 9 Archimedes will look through your Connecticut machine at a glance, and judge of its fitness.
    CbW 6.248 26 Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority?
    QO 8.184 12 ...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that ran in the author more strictly, and might better judge of his own wants to supply them.
    Grts 8.311 23 [The scholar's] courage is to...judge Laplace...
    Grts 8.311 24 [The scholar's] courage is to...judge of Darwin...
    Supl 10.168 7 I judge by every man's truth of his degree of understanding, said Chesterfield.
    Prch 10.221 4 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
    LS 11.6 13 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    FSLC 11.199 19 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
    Wom 11.420 5 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions? If not, then there need be none in a hundred companies, if you educate them and accustom them to judge.
    II 12.67 13 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    Mem 12.101 24 Who can judge the new book? He who has read many books.
    Milt1 12.271 20 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant.
    MLit 12.323 25 ...[Goethe] felt his entire right and duty to stand before and try and judge every fact in Nature.

judged, v. (15)

    MN 1.201 19 That no single end may be selected and nature judged thereby, appears from this...
    OS 2.285 27 ...confronted face to face, accuser and accused, men offer themselves to be judged.
    Cir 2.305 20 Every several result is threatened and judged by that which follows.
    Cir 2.310 16 The parties [in conversation] are not to be judged by the spirit they partake and even express under this Pentecost.
    Chr1 3.108 16 Character...must not...be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs or on few occasions.
    NER 3.280 14 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    ShP 4.210 12 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher.
    DL 7.131 21 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a private property.
    Boks 7.195 19 All these [pamphlets and political chapters] are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time, who... out of a million of pages reprints one. Again it is judged,...
    Cour 7.268 8 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Insp 8.294 9 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    Dem1 10.24 6 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    MoL 10.255 11 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    Bost 12.191 14 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
    Bost 12.208 14 ...a community, as a man, is entitled to be judged by his best.

judges, n. (24)

    YA 1.363 21 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges, and officers across such tedious distances...
    Int 2.338 22 ...there are many competent judges of the best book...
    PPh 4.74 15 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul...
    ET3 5.36 24 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause...on which every body finds himself an interested party. Officers, jurors, judges have all taken sides.
    ET4 5.64 23 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...
    ET5 5.81 4 In the [English] courts the independence of the judges and the loyalty of the suitors are equally excellent.
    ET5 5.90 14 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker...
    Elo2 8.111 19 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
    Elo2 8.112 2 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot...by the exhibition of an unlooked-for bias in the judges or in the audience.
    Aris 10.54 24 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man. I mean the things themselves shall be judges, and determine.
    MoL 10.254 27 Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
    Plu 10.308 2 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most proper judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.
    HDC 11.71 8 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...
    EWI 11.136 10 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been affirmed by the legal authorities...
    FSLC 11.184 7 What is the use of courts, if judges only quote authorities...
    FSLC 11.191 17 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLN 11.229 1 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves, and it found citizens in Massachusetts willing to act as judges and captors.
    FSLN 11.233 15 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs. But what if unhappily the judges were chosen from the wolves...
    AKan 11.261 1 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law...
    JBB 11.271 5 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe. Why? Because the judges rely on the forms...
    JBB 11.271 12 ...the government, the judges, are an envenomed party...
    JBB 11.271 19 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances;...
    JBB 11.272 3 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    CInt 12.122 1 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;...

judges, v. (8)

    LT 1.279 26 ...the man of ideas...judges of the commonwealth from the state of his own mind.
    Con 1.312 11 The king on the throne governs for thee, and the judge judges;...
    Comp 2.110 7 A man cannot speak but he judges himself.
    OS 2.286 2 Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read. But who judges? and what?
    Exp 3.79 5 ...there is no crime to the intellect. That is antinomian or hypernomian, and judges law as well as fact.
    Nat2 3.170 4 Here [in the forest] we find Nature to be the circumstance which...judges like a god all men that come to her.
    PPh 4.55 4 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good, which rules rulers, and judges the judge.
    MAng1 12.228 24 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...saying that he needed to have his compasses in his eye, and not in his hand, because the hands work whilst the eye judges.

Judgment Day [John Martin] (1)

    PPr 12.386 11 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day.

Judgment, Day of, n. (2)

    LT 1.282 3 Our forefathers walked in the world and went to their graves tormented...the terror of the Day of Judgment.
    PPo 8.239 2 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny. It distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment.

Judgment, Divine, Drama of (1)

    LLNE 10.336 7 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...

Judgment, Last [Michelangel (3)

    Exp 3.62 26 ...the Transfiguration, the Last Judgment...are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...
    MAng1 12.230 19 Upon the wall [of the Sistine Chapel], over the altar, is painted the Last Judgment.
    MAng1 12.234 10 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.

Judgment, Last, n. (3)

    SR 2.45 13 ...our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
    Comp 2.94 6 The preacher...unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.
    SwM 4.139 19 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.

judgment, n. (58)

    Nat 1.4 17 ...to a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical.
    MR 1.228 23 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment...
    SR 2.57 8 It seems to be a rule of wisdom...to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present...
    Comp 2.94 7 [The preacher] assumed that judgment is not executed in this world;...
    Comp 2.121 18 ...[the criminal]...does not come to a crisis or judgment anywhere in visible nature.
    Fdsp 2.211 19 ...the least defect of self-possession vitiates, in my judgment, the entire relation [of friendship].
    Int 2.336 22 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought, under the eye of judgment...
    Pt1 3.3 12 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is...some limited judgment of color and form...
    Chr1 3.103 21 ...when [your friends]...must suspend their judgment for years to come, you may begin to hope.
    Chr1 3.110 2 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul...so that not on the tribunal only, but throughout his life, you would regard him as sitting in judgment upon kings.
    Mrs1 3.125 16 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary, in the popular judgment, to the completion of this man of the world;...
    NR 3.232 23 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
    SwM 4.97 18 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It...gives a certain violent bias which taints his judgment.
    SwM 4.131 6 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied, as much as when a bitterness in men of talent leads to satire and destroys the judgment.
    MoS 4.156 21 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgment?
    NMW 4.237 20 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
    ET1 5.16 9 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET5 5.81 27 ...the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.
    ET7 5.125 17 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
    ET8 5.130 21 [The English] doubt a man's sound judgment if he does not eat with appetite...
    ET14 5.245 11 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great ambition, inasmuch as a judgment was to be attempted on every book.
    ET14 5.259 15 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to...passages elevated to a tract of sublimity into which our habits of judgment will find it difficult to pursue them.
    Wsp 6.220 2 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    DL 7.122 4 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Boks 7.214 10 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams...enable us to form an original judgment of our duties...
    Cour 7.267 18 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil, and to command...without any the least disturbance to his judgment or spirit.
    Suc 7.310 7 ...to educate [man's] feeling and judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the only aim.
    OA 7.319 23 At seventy it was hinted to [the Massachusetts judge] that it was time to retire; but he now replied that he thought his judgment as robust and all his faculties as good as ever they were.
    PI 8.32 21 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color, which occupy the fancy and deceive the judgment.
    PI 8.41 5 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    Res 8.147 5 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc, and loses his judgment...he knows not what he does.
    Dem1 10.11 23 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Chr2 10.100 22 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth. Such souls...simply by their presence pass judgment on [men].
    Supl 10.165 12 ...the secrets of death, judgment and eternity are tedious when recurring as minute-guns.
    Supl 10.166 26 Our measure of success is the moderation and low level of an individual's judgment.
    Supl 10.177 9 ...[the religion of the Arab] distinguishes only two days in each man's history, the day of his lot, and the day of judgment.
    SovE 10.199 10 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department...to which the tests and judgment men are ready enough to show on other things, do not apply.
    Plu 10.310 12 Usually, when Thales, Anaximenes or Anaximander are quoted [by Plutarch], it is really a good judgment.
    EzRy 10.391 21 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the scholar...
    SlHr 10.441 13 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he...in private seemed ever sitting in judgment on kings.
    Thor 10.457 25 ...[Thoreau]...used an original judgment on each emergency.
    Thor 10.474 25 ...[Thoreau's] judgment on poetry was to the ground of it.
    Carl 10.497 25 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties. His errors of opinion are as nothing in comparison with this merit, in my judgment.
    LS 11.16 12 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
    LS 11.16 23 I proceed to state a few objections that in my judgment lie against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
    LVB 11.89 5 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.
    EWI 11.106 14 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed. There is a sparkle of God's righteousness in Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good.
    EWI 11.106 20 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded...
    EdAd 11.388 17 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.
    Koss 11.400 2 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment;...
    Wom 11.405 20 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste...
    FRep 11.532 18 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him; already they remember that they long ago suspected his judgment...
    FRep 11.532 19 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered.
    CInt 12.116 23 ...the new times are the times of arraignment...times of judgment.
    CInt 12.117 18 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
    Milt1 12.270 17 ...once in the History, and once again in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his judgment of the English genius.
    MLit 12.313 21 ...the single soul feels its right...itself to sit in judgment on history and literature...
    EurB 12.368 19 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show, with great deference to the superior judgment of dukes and earls, that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...

Judgment, n. (2)

    OS 2.273 23 ...we say that the Judgment is distant or near...
    ET5 5.87 23 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the Englishman's] day's wages... or his shop, he will fight to the Judgment.

judgment-day, n. (1)

    ACri 12.299 11 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times.

Judgment-day, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.98 8 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day...

judgment-days, n. (1)

    SL 2.157 25 The world is full of judgment-days...

judgment-hall, n. (1)

    Plu 10.298 26 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows the court, the camp and the judgment-hall...

judgments, n. (14)

    AmS 1.100 11 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
    YA 1.365 21 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...
    Exp 3.52 18 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Exp 3.79 3 ...the intellect qualifies in our own case the moral judgments.
    SwM 4.136 27 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of a Swedish polemic...
    SwM 4.139 20 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment (or the last of the judgments) took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    Wsp 6.217 14 Given the equality of two intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?
    Elo1 7.72 9 I [Antenor] became acquainted with the genius and the prudent judgments of [Ulysses and Menelaus].
    OA 7.318 24 ...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    Imtl 8.324 22 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips...
    Edc1 10.152 2 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action, and its balance will appear. In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer...
    Plu 10.316 1 All [Plutarch's] judgments are noble.
    HDC 11.49 17 ...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their judgments.
    PLT 12.54 21 ...[a man] does not throw himself into his judgments;...

Judicature, n. (1)

    Con 1.320 22 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...

judicial, adj. (3)

    OS 2.285 24 The intercourse of society...is one wide judicial investigation of character.
    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.
    Let 12.404 5 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are confessedly effete and offensive.

judicious, adj. (8)

    LT 1.273 3 ...the thought that [these ideas] can ever have any footing in real life, seems long since to have been exploded by all judicious persons.
    ShP 4.198 1 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...
    ET3 5.40 9 England resembles a ship in its shape, and if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position.
    WD 7.166 25 It appears that we have not made a judicious investment.
    Supl 10.178 21 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by Stephenson...
    Thor 10.462 23 [Thoreau]...could give judicious counsel in the gravest private or public affairs.
    FSLC 11.184 1 I cannot think the most judicious tubing a compensation for metaphysical debility.
    CPL 11.505 15 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.

judicious, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.188 7 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people...

jug, n. (1)

    CbW 6.250 27 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid,--to whom he is to be for spoon and jug...

juggle, n. (5)

    Con 1.316 12 ...there is a cunning juggle in riches.
    MoS 4.179 15 Shall I add, as one juggle of this enchantment, the stunning non-intercourse law which makes co-operation impossible?
    Elo1 7.73 22 ...as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a juggle...
    WD 7.174 4 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye, see through this juggle...
    Boks 7.216 19 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a cloying success or scare them with shocks of tragedy. And so, on the whole, 't is a juggle.

juggle, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.11 16 Talent may frolic and juggle;...

juggler, n. (2)

    WD 7.173 21 Ah! poor dupe, will you never slip out of the web of the master juggler...
    CInt 12.120 11 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them; not a ventriloquist, not a juggler...

jugglers, n. (2)

    SwM 4.103 19 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.
    SwM 4.131 23 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...he saw the hell of the jugglers, the hell of the assassins...

jugs, n. (1)

    PPh 4.71 7 ...the potters copied [Socrates'] ugly face on their stone jugs.

juice, n. (3)

    MN 1.216 27 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life; Love...and Poetry, whose taste is like the immortal juice of Vishnu.
    ET6 5.111 19 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.
    F 6.32 26 The plague in the sea-service from scurvy is healed by lemon juice...

juices, n. (4)

    Pow 6.71 7 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
    Wth 6.93 9 Men of sense esteem wealth to be...the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
    II 12.72 15 [Inspiration] is a tap-root that sucks all the juices of the earth.
    CW 12.178 8 We knew the root was sucking juices from the ground. But the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.

juicy, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.71 13 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature...

Juletta [Fletcher and Massi (1)

    ger,. The Sea Voyage], n Hsm1 2.256 8 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, ' t is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./

Juletta [Fletcher, Massinge (2)

    Hsm1 2.256 8 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    Hsm1 2.256 10 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./

Julian, Emperor, n. (2)

    ET9 5.152 8 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison;...
    Boks 7.202 17 Of Jamblichus the Emperor Julian said that he was posterior to Plato in time, not in genius.

Julian, St., n. (1)

    SL 2.134 15 ...[men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.

Juliet [Shakespeare, Romeo (1)

    Lov1 2.185 1 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet], has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.

July, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.79 19 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go, as sensibly as a July sun or a December frost...
    PC 8.225 3 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...

July Fourth, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.92 3 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast: but choice is born in him;...here is the Declaration of Independence, the July Fourth of zoology and astronomy.

July, Fourth of, n. (2)

    SL 2.152 14 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July...
    WD 7.168 23 Remember what boys think in the morning...of the Fourth of July...

July, n. (19)

    Nat 1.19 1 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds...
    MN 1.203 9 ...total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...
    Cir 2.302 13 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July.
    MoS 4.174 16 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight], this frost in July...there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
    ET12 5.201 12 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.
    ET16 5.273 16 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury...
    OA 7.324 12 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...
    OA 7.333 13 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned, [John Adams] said, He is now fifty-eight, or will be in July;...
    EzRy 10.382 12 ...[Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    SlHr 10.448 28 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    Thor 10.451 8 [Thoreau] was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817.
    Thor 10.481 18 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...and a bass-tree which he visited every year when it bloomed, in the middle of July.
    EWI 11.107 21 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    EWI 11.114 21 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels...
    FSLC 11.182 19 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat, on the 19th of April, the 17th of June, the 4th of July.
    SMC 11.367 18 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.
    SMC 11.368 14 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
    SMC 11.368 20 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field...
    SMC 11.374 21 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June, and arrived in Boston on the first of July.

jumble, n. (1)

    Art2 7.44 25 A jumble of musical sounds...gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.

jump, n. (1)

    PPo 8.249 1 A law or statute is to [Hafiz] what a fence is to a nimble school-boy,-a temptation for a jump.

jump, v. (5)

    Con 1.305 3 ...you cannot jump from the ground without using the resistance of the ground...
    MoS 4.168 27 Montaigne...does not wish to jump out of his skin...
    ET5 5.80 20 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...
    Insp 8.269 10 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will.
    FSLN 11.231 16 We are all conservatives...in our essences: and might as well try to jump out of our skins as to escape from our Whiggery.

jumped, v. (3)

    NER 3.259 26 ...[some intelligent persons] jumped the Greek and Latin, and read law, medicine, or sermons, without it.
    LLNE 10.367 13 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done? And long ago Fourier had exclaimed, Ah! I have it, and jumped with joy.
    FSLN 11.219 24 ...[supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] were only looking to what their great Captain did: if he jumped, they jumped...

jumpers, n. (1)

    F 6.7 5 ...the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers...these are in the system...

jumping, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.263 6 It is the groom who knows the jumping horse well who can safely ride him.

jumping, v. (3)

    ET8 5.131 24 [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.
    EWI 11.146 8 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro, when jumping over the ship's sides to escape from the white devils who surrounded him, has believed there was no vindication of right;...
    Bost 12.191 13 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men, instead of jumping on to the first land that offered, wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...

jumps, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.336 25 Nature never moves by jumps...

jumps, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.146 2 There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes, standing on the wharf, who jumps in to rescue a drowning man;...
    Wth 6.102 10 ...the clerk's [dollar] is light and nimble; leaps out of his pocket; jumps on to cards and faro-tables...

junction, n. (1)

    CbW 6.256 12 The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of the two oceans, are effected, are paltry...

juncture, n. (1)

    II 12.67 23 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion...

June, adj. (1)

    CL 12.157 11 Can you bottle the efflux of a June noon...

June, n. (22)

    Prd1 2.228 27 A gay and pleasant sound is the whetting of the scythe in the mornings of June...
    Prd1 2.237 27 ...[the drover's, the sailor's] health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.
    Cir 2.302 13 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July.
    ET7 5.123 1 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...
    OA 7.318 11 If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were June or January;...
    Insp 8.274 1 In June the morning is noisy with birds;...
    EzRy 10.385 15 And at last we have this record [from Joseph Emerson], June 4th [1735]: Disposed of my shay to Rev. Mr. White.
    HDC 11.65 10 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...
    HDC 11.70 21 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    HDC 11.79 4 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
    EWI 11.106 21 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided...
    EWI 11.116 27 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...
    FSLC 11.182 19 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat, on the 19th of April, the 17th of June, the 4th of July.
    SMC 11.364 1 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.
    SMC 11.372 15 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
    SMC 11.372 18 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space...
    SMC 11.372 26 On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the James River...
    SMC 11.374 20 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June...
    CL 12.151 11 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the miracle works faster...
    CL 12.158 6 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. What new softness in the picture! It changes the landscape from November into June.
    CW 12.179 9 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...
    Bost 12.190 5 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622, in June...

Junes, n. (1)

    MLit 12.309 9 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the fact and fortune...of these humble Junes and Decembers of mortal life.

Jung-Stilling, Johann Hein (2)

    Chr1 3.104 1 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as, so many hundred thalers given to Stilling, to Hegel, to Tischbein;...
    F 6.6 18 ...now and then an amiable parson, like Jung Stilling...believes in a pistareen-Providence...

junior, adj. (2)

    Con 1.304 19 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans...passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
    ET2 5.32 25 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...

junior, n. (1)

    ET7 5.122 25 The [English] barrister refuses the silk gown of Queen's Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.

juniors, n. (2)

    OA 7.316 20 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public...
    OA 7.328 11 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency...

Junius, Franciscus, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.190 4 Neither Aristotle, nor Leibnitz, nor Junius, nor Champollion has set down the grammar-rules of this dialect [of behavior]...

Junius [Philip Francis], n. (1)

    QO 8.197 18 Dumont was exalted by being used by Mirabeau, by Bentham and by Sir Philip Francis, who, again, was less than his own Junius;...

Juno, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.150 19 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions, and verifies the pictures of Minerva, Juno, or Polymnia;...
    MAng1 12.222 24 Goethe says that he is but half himself who has never seen the Juno in the Rondanini Palace at Rome.

Junot, Andoche, n. (2)

    NMW 4.234 9 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot...
    NMW 4.253 26 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy...

Junot, Andrache, n. (1)

    CPL 11.504 17 The Duchess d'Abrantes, wife of Marshal Junot, tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...

Junot, Laure [Duchess d'Ab (1)

    CPL 11.504 17 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...

Jupiter Capitolinus, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.225 26 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi leading to the church once the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus;...

Jupiter, n. (9)

    Con 1.297 10 ...the word of Uranus came into [Saturn's] mind like a ray of the sun, and he made Jupiter;...
    Con 1.297 12 ...to save the world, Jupiter slew his father Saturn.
    Comp 2.106 10 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind;...
    Wth 6.98 2 Every man wishes to see...the satellites and belts of Jupiter and Mars...yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    Ctr 6.153 21 ...Jupiter livre le monde/ Aux mirmidons, aux mirmidons./
    Bhr 6.177 23 In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
    WD 7.167 2 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God,--Dyaus, Deus, Zeus, Zeu pater, Jupiter...
    PerF 10.77 17 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China, or...to the planet Jupiter or Mars...
    CW 12.175 8 ...a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...

Jupiter, Scamp, n. (1)

    NMW 4.256 8 ...[Napoleon] fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.

Jupiter Scapin, n. (1)

    NMW 4.256 8 ...[Napoleon] fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.

Jupiters, n. (1)

    Int 2.346 23 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters sit in their clouds...

juries, n. (3)

    LT 1.290 6 ...[the Moral Sentiment] wins the cause with juries;...
    Comp 2.100 13 If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict.
    SlHr 10.442 4 The impression [Samuel Hoar] made on juries was honorable to him and them.

jurisdiction, n. (5)

    Cour 7.269 12 ...a new book astonishes for a few days, takes itself out of common jurisdiction...
    Edc1 10.128 27 Every one has a trust of power,-every man, every boy a jurisdiction...
    FSLC 11.184 8 What is the use of courts, if...no judge exerts original jurisdiction...
    Bost 12.189 13 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees...with unlimited jurisdiction...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...
    WSL 12.342 6 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure! what original jurisdiction!...

jurist, n. (5)

    UGM 4.12 25 Engineer...jurist...inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    DL 7.122 17 I honor that man whose ambition it is...not to be a jurist or a naturalist...but to be a master of living well...
    FSLC 11.199 15 There is...not a politician but is watching [slavery's] incalculable energy in the elections; not a jurist but is hunting up precedents;...
    FSLN 11.226 27 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages, and settled always in the same way by every great jurist, that an immoral law cannot be valid.
    Wom 11.416 8 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar. He was a terrible metaphysician. He was a jurist, a poet, a divine.

jurists, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.190 13 ...the great jurists, Cicero, Grotius...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].

jurors, n. (3)

    ET3 5.36 24 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause...on which every body finds himself an interested party. Officers, jurors, judges have all taken sides.
    PerF 10.80 15 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company; the jurors waked up, the sheriff forgot his duty, the judge himself beat time...
    SlHr 10.442 12 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.

jury, n. (13)

    SL 2.157 1 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    SL 2.157 4 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury...
    Chr1 3.114 16 ...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert judge, jury, soldier and king;...
    Mrs1 3.141 19 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at...a ball or a jury...
    ET3 5.36 21 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    CbW 6.245 19 The lawyer advises the client, and tells his story to the jury and leaves it with them...
    Ill 6.311 23 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Elo1 7.96 24 This man [the sturdy countryman]...is his own...judge and jury...
    Suc 7.290 16 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...a packed jury or caucus...
    SlHr 10.442 16 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    HDC 11.71 12 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty. It was judge and jury and council and king.
    EWI 11.140 17 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    EWI 11.140 21 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?

Jury, Trial by, n. (1)

    ET6 5.113 10 In an aristocratical country like England, not the Trial by Jury, but the dinner, is the capital institution.

jury-trial, n. (1)

    ET5 5.87 24 Magna-charta, jury-trial, habeas-corpus...are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...

Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de (1)

    Clbs 7.238 25 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when Linnaeus was the guest of Jussieu.

just, adj. (141)

    AmS 1.88 25 The writer was a just and wise spirit...
    AmS 1.94 20 As far as this is true of the studious classes, it is not just and wise.
    DSA 1.122 16 If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God;...
    LE 1.161 27 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being, as to endeavor also to be just and brave...
    LE 1.165 6 All men, in the abstract, are just and good;...
    LE 1.174 18 It is the noble, manlike, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you.
    MN 1.199 6 ...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we be felt by every true person to say what is just.
    MR 1.253 27 Every child that is born must have a just chance for his bread.
    LT 1.265 12 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind, in the just order which they take on this canvas of Time...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.280 2 ...if I am just, then is there no slavery, let the laws say what they will.
    Con 1.307 3 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act; imprisonment, if we find you afterward. And by what authority, kind gentlemen? By our law. And your law,-is it just? As just for you as it was for us.
    Con 1.307 4 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act; imprisonment, if we find you afterward. And by what authority, kind gentlemen? By our law. And your law,-is it just? As just for you as it was for us.
    Con 1.307 6 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so. I repeat the question, Is your law just?
    Con 1.307 7 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so. I repeat the question, Is your law just? Not quite just, but necessary.
    Con 1.310 8 ...[existing institutions] are not just;...
    Tran 1.332 9 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it... And this wild balloon...is a just symbol of his whole state and faculty.
    Tran 1.335 9 Am I in harmony with myself? my position will seem to you just and commanding.
    Tran 1.343 27 [Transcendentalists] wish a just and even fellowship, or none.
    YA 1.366 3 The land...is to...bring us into just relations with men and things.
    YA 1.391 2 ...the wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet;...
    Hist 2.38 21 [History] shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man.
    Comp 2.113 8 A wise man will...know that it is the part of prudence to... pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart.
    Comp 2.116 16 All love is mathematically just...
    SL 2.151 20 The world must be just.
    SL 2.159 27 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
    SL 2.162 13 I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the world of [Epaminondas's] hour.
    SL 2.164 12 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents? Is not that a just objection to much of our reading?
    Lov1 2.182 10 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities...
    Fdsp 2.193 15 What [is] so delicious as a just and firm encounter of two, in a thought...
    Prd1 2.233 26 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?
    Prd1 2.236 23 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...
    Hsm1 2.251 18 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act...
    Hsm1. 2.252 3 ...[heroism] is just, generous, hospitable, temperate...
    OS 2.285 17 We know...which of us has been just to himself...
    Pt1 3.14 27 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man...
    Exp 3.74 14 ...all just persons are satisfied with their own praise.
    Mrs1 3.133 21 [Fops] pass also at their just rate;...
    Mrs1 3.146 9 ...there is still...some just man happy in an ill fame;...
    Pol1 3.203 23 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors, on the Spartan principle of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.
    Pol1 3.203 24 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors, on the Spartan principle of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.
    Pol1 3.205 9 Under any forms, persons and property must and will have their just sway.
    Pol1 3.206 14 The law may do what it will with the owner of property; its just power will still attach to the cent.
    NR 3.245 10 ...the only way in which we can be just, is by giving ourselves the lie;...
    NER 3.251 5 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    NER 3.263 10 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    NER 3.280 3 It only needs that a just man should walk in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a contrivance is our legislation.
    SwM 4.124 16 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius, but will pass forth into the common stock of wise and just thinking.
    SwM 4.132 7 It requires, for [Swedenborg's] just apprehension, almost a genius equal to his own.
    SwM 4.139 10 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone, he is as respectable as the just man;...
    SwM 4.145 23 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
    MoS 4.185 14 ...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.
    NMW 4.244 25 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.
    GoW 4.278 5 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...just insights into life and manners and characters;...
    GoW 4.278 15 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius, and the just award of the laurel to its toils and denials, have also reason to complain.
    GoW 4.287 19 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist. Was it...that his sight was microscopic and interfered with the just perspective...
    ET1 5.7 10 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean wrath,--an untamable petulance. I do not know whether the imputation were just or not...
    ET9 5.151 9 ...[the English] are more just than kind;...
    ET18 5.301 7 The foreign policy of England...has not often been generous or just.
    ET19 5.312 2 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    F 6.5 2 Any excess of emphasis on one part would be corrected, and a just balance would be made.
    Wth 6.100 3 The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common-sense;...
    Wth 6.103 12 The value of a dollar is, to buy just things;...
    Wth 6.106 2 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
    Ctr 6.157 20 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him, and not in the censure, though it be just.
    Ctr 6.158 22 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a character, on universal grounds, and give a just opinion.
    Wsp 6.201 16 A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism.
    Wsp 6.213 17 There is...a simple...presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...and to this homage there is a consent of all thoughtful and just men in all ages and conditions.
    Wsp 6.232 9 [Man] feels the insurance of a just employment.
    Bty 6.293 16 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
    Ill 6.316 17 Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect...
    Art2 7.41 3 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends. That is a true account of all just works of useful art.
    Elo1 7.66 25 [Every audience] know so much more than the orator,--and are so just!
    Elo1 7.94 4 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts...will make any amends for want of this. All audiences are just to this point.
    Boks 7.217 15 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...a like impression made by a just book and by the face of Nature.
    Clbs 7.249 4 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an understanding on these points, and so that their united opinion shall have its just influence on public questions of education and politics.
    Suc 7.299 5 ...I have just seen a man...who told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
    Suc 7.305 12 ...our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims...
    PI 8.13 15 A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just.
    PI 8.38 22 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.
    PI 8.59 8 To an exile on an island [Taliessin] says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
    SA 8.96 13 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse...
    Comc 8.163 20 ...it is the highest degree of injustice not to be just and yet seem so...
    QO 8.191 2 If an author give us just distinctions...it is not so important to us whose they are.
    QO 8.191 25 ...we must thank Karl Otfried Muller for the just remark, Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    QO 8.192 18 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.
    QO 8.192 25 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    QO 8.201 24 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world...
    QO 8.203 11 The earliest describers of savage life...have a charm of truth and just point of view.
    PC 8.209 2 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the search for just rules affecting labor;...
    PC 8.230 8 It is an old legend of just men, Noblesse oblige;...
    Grts 8.314 8 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon, who was not generous nor just...
    Chr2 10.94 17 He who doth a just action seeth therein nothing of his own...
    Edc1 10.132 12 Whilst thus the world exists for the mind;...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken [man] to the knowledge of this fact.
    Edc1 10.151 14 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind...should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    SovE 10.199 26 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind...
    Prch 10.215 1 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
    Schr 10.266 17 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority. If this were only the reaction from excessive expectations from literature, now disappointed, it were a just censure.
    Plu 10.298 15 ...a master of ancient culture, [Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
    Plu 10.308 10 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.
    Plu 10.308 11 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.
    Plu 10.308 13 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He has a just instinct of the presence of a master...
    Plu 10.310 14 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;...
    Plu 10.313 26 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.
    LLNE 10.353 12 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just...
    EzRy 10.385 20 [Ezra Ripley] was a perfectly sincere man, punctual, severe, but just and charitable...
    EzRy 10.391 2 [Ezra Ripley] was open-handed and just and generous.
    SlHr 10.439 27 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability.
    SlHr 10.442 18 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    Thor 10.476 20 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the reading, and I confide that if at any time I do not understand the expression, it is yet just.
    Thor 10.479 25 Though he meant to be just, [Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
    GSt 10.501 12 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    GSt 10.504 13 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
    HDC 11.28 7 Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
    HDC 11.29 9 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord]. The sentiment is just, and the practice is wise.
    HDC 11.29 12 We will...pass that just verdict on [the deeds of our fathers] we expect from posterity on our own.
    HDC 11.62 1 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town. This painful incident is but too just an example of the measure which the Indians have generally received from the whites.
    HDC 11.83 19 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves. They must ever be the fountains of all just information respecting your character and customs.
    HDC 11.84 9 The old town clerks [of Concord]...contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of a free and just community.
    War 11.168 1 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit...which distinguishes offensive war as criminal, defensive war as just.
    War 11.169 22 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    JBB 11.268 7 [John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father, as a man of strong character, and his respect is probably just.
    ACiv 11.304 8 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy...puts every man in the South in just and natural relations with every man in the North...
    EPro 11.325 10 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis.
    EdAd 11.388 19 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor to have vindicated the rights of millions...we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    CPL 11.502 9 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation. It is a just type of the service rendered to mankind by wise men.
    FRep 11.538 20 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    PLT 12.17 16 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect]...
    PLT 12.40 14 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    Mem 12.92 5 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    CInt 12.114 25 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...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    Milt1 12.251 3 ...the peroration [of Milton's Defence of the English People]...is in a just spirit.
    Milt1 12.262 15 ...as basis or fountain of his rare physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
    Milt1 12.274 7 From a just knowledge of what man should be, [Milton] described what he was.
    MLit 12.321 10 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself.
    WSL 12.340 22 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...honor for every just and generous sentiment...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    Pray 12.351 19 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that I may account him to be rich, who is wise and just.
    EurB 12.365 11 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception...
    EurB 12.365 18 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe...
    EurB 12.365 23 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante, whilst they have the just and open soul, have also the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...
    PPr 12.379 23 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a brave and just book...
    Trag 12.413 11 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...

just, adv. (165)

    Nat 1.11 16 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
    AmS 1.82 21 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...just as the hand was divided into fingers...
    DSA 1.124 12 ...all things proceed out of this same spirit, which is differently named...in its different applications, just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes.
    DSA 1.128 18 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration, which daily appear more gross from the point of view we have just now taken.
    LE 1.166 14 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    MN 1.203 4 ...we are steadied by the perception...that all seems just begun;...
    Con 1.318 2 ...an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour...
    Con 1.320 3 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...
    Tran 1.332 21 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    SR 2.78 13 Our sympathy is just as base.
    SR 2.79 26 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    SR 2.89 15 He who knows that power is inborn...works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.
    SL 2.137 9 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found to answer just as well.
    Lov1 2.173 3 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors, that were so close just now, have learned to respect each other's personality.
    Prd1 2.229 12 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art, and just now especially in Dresden, how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Cir 2.305 1 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
    Cir 2.306 7 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
    Int 2.333 2 ...[men] have myriads of facts just as good [as the writer's]...
    Pt1 3.17 25 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men; just as we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.
    Pt1 3.35 7 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
    Exp 3.59 27 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...
    Exp 3.63 26 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no more root in the deep world than man, and are just such superficial tenants of the globe.
    Exp 3.75 17 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs.
    Mrs1 3.128 21 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own...
    Mrs1 3.136 8 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy...
    Mrs1 3.146 24 ...the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
    Nat2 3.171 17 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.
    Nat2 3.193 1 The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.
    Pol1 3.221 22 ...there are now men...more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.225 24 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    NR 3.237 6 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape, just as we value a general remark in conversation.
    NR 3.248 7 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first...
    NER 3.252 15 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast... and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation;...
    NER 3.267 24 In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of the deadness of its details.
    NER 3.274 21 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...
    NER 3.285 14 It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that it is just as wonderful that he should see with them;...
    UGM 4.11 20 The reason why [man] knows about [things] is that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of that thing.
    PPh 4.67 11 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
    PNR 4.85 3 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia;...
    SwM 4.111 1 The scientific works [of Swedenborg] have just now been translated into English...
    SwM 4.119 1 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.
    MoS 4.156 17 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that?
    MoS 4.160 27 The soul of man must be the type of our scheme, just as the body of man is the type after which a dwelling-house is built.
    MoS 4.167 8 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...what meats I eat and what drinks I prefer, and a hundred straws just as ridiculous...
    MoS 4.182 4 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry; cut it off, it will bear another just as bad.
    ShP 4.212 7 [Shakespeare] was...the subtilest of authors, and only just within the possibility of authorship.
    NMW 4.237 3 We are always...just on the edge of destruction...
    NMW 4.243 25 I have only to put some gold-lace on the coat of my virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately become just what I wish them.
    NMW 4.248 6 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties...
    ET1 5.19 8 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a journey.
    ET1 5.21 1 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the physical strength of the people, as had just now been done in England in the Reform Bill...
    ET1 5.22 9 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa...
    ET8 5.128 22 [The English] are just as cold, quiet and composed, at the end, as at the beginning of dinner.
    ET11 5.187 12 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry. This, just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave, handsome, accomplished and great-hearted.
    ET13 5.218 16 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience, just fresh from the Times newspaper and their wine...
    ET13 5.222 15 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET16 5.277 4 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
    ET16 5.278 13 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
    ET16 5.289 4 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross...
    F 6.7 8 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity...
    F 6.14 17 In vegetable and animal tissue it is just alike...
    F 6.17 19 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is.
    F 6.27 7 Just as much intellect as you add, so much organic power.
    Pow 6.55 22 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will, with just as much ease, sail six hundred...miles further...
    Pow 6.71 1 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...
    Wth 6.90 6 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...
    Wth 6.104 19 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad, or, what is just the same thing, introduce a demoralizing institution, would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.107 8 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough,--is too heavy, or too thin. The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness you want;...
    Wth 6.108 12 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
    Ctr 6.145 24 The stuff of all countries is just the same.
    Ctr 6.147 22 Just as a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain...rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery, so a man who looks at Paris...says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    Ctr 6.152 18 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
    Bhr 6.183 6 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.
    Bhr 6.184 3 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret; just what happens to every two persons who meet on any affair...
    Bhr 6.196 15 Every hour will show a duty as paramount as that of my whim just now...
    Wsp 6.225 22 In every variety of human employment...there are, among the numbers who do their task...just to pass...the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    Wsp 6.237 4 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street.
    CbW 6.266 25 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    CbW 6.268 19 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they are just going away;...
    CbW 6.268 22 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities. They are just starting for Wisconsin;...
    Bty 6.283 1 We are just so frivolous and skeptical.
    Bty 6.292 11 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
    Bty 6.305 6 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines... as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Ill 6.311 4 Our conversation with nature is not just what it seems.
    Ill 6.322 3 A sudden rise in the road shows us...all the summits, which have been just as near us all the year, but quite out of mind.
    Civ 7.28 4 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters].
    Civ 7.28 6 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters]. Would he take a message? Just as lief as not;...
    Art2 7.37 24 Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act; just as every plant, in the moment of germination, struggles up to light.
    Art2 7.44 16 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Farm 7.151 9 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters. Henry Carey of Philadelphia replied: Not so, Mr. Malthus, but just the opposite of so is the fact.
    WD 7.170 2 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven, as of a world just created and still becoming...
    WD 7.181 17 Just to fill the hour,--that is happiness.
    Cour 7.262 12 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way.
    Cour 7.267 15 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than