Manacled to Manque

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

manacled, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.200 16 The hands that put the chain on the slave are in that moment manacled.

manacles, n. (1)

    EWI 11.101 5 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

manage, v. (13)

    MR 1.254 24 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    LT 1.283 17 [If poets were ravished by their thought] Society could then manage to release their shoulder from its wheel...
    YA 1.381 8 ...[these communists] thought that the farm, as we manage it, did not satisfy the right ambition of man.
    SL 2.142 9 Until he can manage to communicate himself to others in his full stature and proportion, [a man] does not yet find his vocation.
    UGM 4.3 14 ...actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.
    SwM 4.108 14 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone...
    ET4 5.71 19 [The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it.
    Bhr 6.174 27 Broad lands and great interests...arrive to such heads as can manage them...
    Wsp 6.208 10 How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are?
    Edc1 10.139 20 If I can pass with [boys], I can manage well enough with their fathers.
    Schr 10.274 5 I cannot manage sword and rifle; can I not therefore be brave?
    Schr 10.284 3 ...manners, temper, lion-heart, are all good things, and if [the scholar] has none of them, he can still manage, if he have the main-mast,- if he is anything.
    CInt 12.120 12 ...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 wire-puller paid to manage the lobby and caucus.

manageable, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.70 23 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.
    PC 8.224 2 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...

managed, v. (11)

    AmS 1.114 24 Young men...are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire...
    Mrs1 3.135 20 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles. Napoleon remarked them, and speedily managed to rally them off...
    PPh 4.55 26 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    ET5 5.75 9 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;...
    ET9 5.152 23 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    Civ 7.28 11 ...we managed to meet the conditions, and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Suc 7.287 23 These boasted arts are of very recent origin. They...do not really add to our stature. The greatest men of the world have managed not to want them.
    Insp 8.289 14 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible,-these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    SovE 10.196 26 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living. I thought I managed it very well.
    ACri 12.286 26 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.
    ACri 12.295 18 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...

management, n. (7)

    LT 1.277 24 [The work of the reformer] is done in the same way [as other work], it is done profanely...by management, by tactics and clamor.
    LT 1.281 6 ...in its management and details, [the reforming movement is] timid and profane.
    YA 1.376 15 ...this patriarchal or family management gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...
    Pow 6.75 2 Concentration is the secret of strength...in all management of human affairs.
    SovE 10.197 2 ...I have never until now dreamed that this undertaking the entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.
    Thor 10.473 21 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark canoe, as well as of trying his hand in its management on the rapids.
    AgMs 12.363 21 ...the premium obviously ought to be given for the good management of a poor farm.

managements, n. (1)

    Comc 8.173 18 All our plans, managements, houses, poems...are equally imperfect and ridiculous.

manager, n. (3)

    ShP 4.218 10 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager.
    Aris 10.48 26 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager...
    EWI 11.111 15 ...[West Indian slaves] were done to death with the most shocking levity between the master and manager...

managers, n. (2)

    ShP 4.205 21 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers.
    EWI 11.134 15 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...

manages, v. (2)

    Farm 7.146 27 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
    AgMs 12.362 12 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood on each of which now a farmer manages to get a good living.

managing, n. (1)

    LT 1.273 17 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs;...

managing, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.122 5 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his accent...

man-bearing, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.211 12 ...here let [Boston] stand forever, on the man-bearing granite of the North!

Manchester, England, adj. (2)

    ET10 5.167 7 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner...
    ET17 5.291 19 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me...

Manchester, England, Athena (1)

    eT19 5.309 2 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...

Manchester, England, n. (8)

    ET2 5.25 13 The request [to lecture in England] was urged...by friendliest parties in Manchester...
    ET5 5.97 11 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall, whilst Birmingham and Manchester...had no representative.
    ET10 5.159 7 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...
    ET17 5.294 1 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...in Sheffield, in Manchester, in Liverpool.
    ET19 5.309 1 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...
    Wth 6.105 7 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills, the people at Manchester...are forced into the highway...
    Clbs 7.238 27 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
    EWI 11.126 6 It was very easy for manufacturers less shrewd than those of Birmingham and Manchester to see that if the state of things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...

man-child, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.188 18 This is the man-child that is born to the soul...
    PPh 4.54 19 ...whether his mother or his father dreamed that the infant man-child was the son of Apollo;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.

Manco Capac, n. (1)

    Civ 7.20 23 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement...

mandate, n. (1)

    SwM 4.136 24 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books, as under a heavenly mandate, the indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...

mandibles, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.210 24 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that life is an affair to put somewhat between the upper and lower mandibles.
    Comc 8.170 15 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.

Mandrake, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 20 Plant...the Mandrake and Papyrus...

mane, n. (2)

    Insp 8.270 10 They combed [the aboriginal man's] mane, they pared his nails...before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Insp 8.293 22 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...each catches by the mane one of these strong coursers...

manes, n. (1)

    F 6.42 1 Quisque suos patimur manes.

Manfield, Lord [William Mu (1)

    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...

manful, adj. (1)

    Hsm1 2.263 21 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?

manfully, adv. (4)

    ET16 5.275 7 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of manfully staying in London...
    Cour 7.260 23 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me...
    Thor 10.454 2 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions, which he manfully confronted.
    SMC 11.370 25 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully.

manger, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.241 12 There will be a new church founded on moral science; at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again...
    Milt1 12.267 3 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.

manhood, n. (33)

    Nat 1.9 4 The lover of nature is he...who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
    Hist 2.26 9 [The Greeks] combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood.
    SR 2.48 13 So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm...
    SR 2.49 26 Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
    SR 2.52 20 ...though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.
    Comp 2.118 2 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he has been put on his wits, on his manhood;...
    Mrs1 3.123 3 ...the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence; manhood first, and then gentleness.
    Pol1 3.218 17 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but...to vindicate their manhood in our eyes.
    UGM 4.3 22 The search after the great man is...the most serious occupation of manhood.
    ET4 5.66 12 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please...mainly by that uncorrupt youth in the face of manhood, which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET4 5.72 22 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood...
    ET10 5.170 15 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
    ET11 5.175 12 The Middle Age adorned itself with proofs of manhood and devotion.
    ET11 5.175 16 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...
    CbW 6.261 12 What tests of manhood could [the rich man] stand?
    Bty 6.287 4 ...the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    DL 7.103 14 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
    DL 7.124 23 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    Suc 7.311 22 We have grown to manhood and womanhood;...
    Elo2 8.117 17 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...and then a grand will, which, when legitimate and abiding, we call character, the height of manhood.
    Elo2 8.122 21 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    Res 8.147 27 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    Comc 8.169 5 The poorest man who stands on his manhood destroys the jest.
    Imtl 8.348 22 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood...
    Dem1 10.16 7 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.
    Edc1 10.138 9 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
    SlHr 10.440 24 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which, in manhood and in old age...left an infantile innocence...
    War 11.171 16 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace...
    SMC 11.348 20 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky/...
    SMC 11.360 7 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men, just wrenched away from their families and their business by this rally of all the manhood in the land.
    Scot 11.467 22 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of Mackintosh, Horner, Jeffrey...
    FRep 11.535 13 Here let there be what the earth waits for,-exalted manhood.
    MAng1 12.231 11 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward, with the heat and determination of manhood, his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...

mania, n. (5)

    PPh 4.58 15 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...but by a celestial mania these miracles are accomplished.
    PPh 4.59 22 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music, satire and irony...
    PPh 4.70 16 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods are produced to us through mania...
    Boks 7.209 14 This mania [for rare editions of books] reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
    PLT 12.50 27 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it...

maniac, n. (2)

    Schr 10.280 1 What is the use of...birth, or breeding, or money to a maniac?
    Schr 10.280 3 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac...

maniacal, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 26 The aspect this country presents is a certain maniacal activity...

Manichean, n. (1)

    Nat 1.58 19 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter, as the Manichean and Plotinus.

Manichees, n. (1)

    Tran 1.341 24 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know... what the Manichees...believed...

manifest, adj. (25)

    DSA 1.149 26 The evils of the church that now is are manifest.
    MR 1.253 11 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are... led in opposition to manifest justice and the common weal...
    LT 1.287 13 At the manifest risk of repeating what every other Age has thought of itself, we might say we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
    SR 2.47 5 ...God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
    Comp 2.115 20 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which stand as manifest in the footing of the shop-bill as in the history of a state,--do recommend to him his trade...
    OS 2.294 22 God will not make himself manifest to cowards.
    Cir 2.311 12 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things, and the meaning...of chair and clock and tester, is manifest.
    ET11 5.196 14 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart. This is more manifest every day...
    ET14 5.246 1 Hallam inspires respect...by his manifest love of good books...
    ET14 5.250 21 There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll...only lacking what ought to accompany such powers, a manifest centrality.
    ET16 5.287 22 ...I insisted that the manifest absurdity of the view to English feasibility could make no difference to a gentleman;...
    Wsp 6.229 14 To a sound constitution the defect of another is at once manifest;...
    CbW 6.258 11 'T is so manifest that there is no moral deformity but is a good passion out of place;...
    Dem1 10.23 1 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
    Edc1 10.151 8 Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope...
    SovE 10.185 1 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day. The Greeks called it Psyche, a manifest emblem of the soul.
    SlHr 10.448 11 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved...
    HDC 11.44 3 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities...
    HDC 11.62 24 In the great growth of the country, Concord participated, as is manifest from its increasing polls and increased rates.
    HDC 11.83 25 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture...of a community of great simplicity of manners, and of a manifest love of justice.
    War 11.154 27 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle...
    FSLC 11.208 5 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].
    ChiE 11.474 2 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
    CL 12.144 23 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    CW 12.177 14 ...there is a manifest increase in the taste for [walking].

Manifest Destiny, n. (1)

    AKan 11.259 24 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing.

manifest, v. (5)

    Nat 1.30 11 In due time the fraud is manifest...
    Nat 1.34 21 There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms;...
    ET1 5.16 14 [Carlyle] worships a man that will manifest any truth to him.
    Wsp 6.237 15 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is...
    Dem1 10.17 28 ...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal...

Manifestation, Divine Power (1)

    WD 7.167 5 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...importing that the Day is the Divine Power and Manifestation...

manifestation, n. (6)

    Nat 1.41 22 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants...
    PPh 4.50 19 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna]...
    PPh 4.52 25 European civility is...delight in forms, delight in manifestation...
    PNR 4.87 5 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation;...
    Bty 6.288 20 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Art2 7.51 2 The mind that made the world is not one mind, but the mind. And every work of art is a more or less pure manifestation of the same.

manifestations, n. (4)

    LE 1.161 24 ...in spite of the...jail, have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    OS 2.281 1 We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation.
    OS 2.283 24 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... heeding only the manifestations of these, never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    Ill 6.323 27 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence; as in our employments, which only differ in the manifestations but express the same laws;...

manifested, v. (6)

    NER 3.281 26 ...man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested.
    Elo1 7.75 15 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    Dem1 10.17 11 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...
    EzRy 10.382 2 [Ezra Ripley] had early manifested a desire for learning...
    EWI 11.120 19 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].
    EurB 12.367 26 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision. The choice he had made in his will manifested itself in every line to be real.

manifestly, adv. (5)

    DSA 1.148 20 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that... nobody thinks of commending it.
    SwM 4.108 1 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms;...
    GSt 10.502 22 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.
    AKan 11.259 7 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...
    FRep 11.523 11 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.

manifesto, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.243 14 Having made this manifesto and professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...

manifestoes, n. (1)

    War 11.170 9 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes...

manifold, adj. (21)

    Nat 1.8 11 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects.
    Nat 1.37 2 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of combination to one end of manifold forces.
    AmS 1.93 5 ...the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
    DSA 1.123 26 ...the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...
    Tran 1.333 21 [The idealist] does not respect...the products of labor, namely property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol...
    Hist 2.4 5 ...empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of [the first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
    Hist 2.4 6 ...empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of [the first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
    Cir 2.314 3 These manifold tenacious qualities...are means and methods only...
    Pt1 3.4 13 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...
    Pt1 3.41 17 God wills also that thou [O poet] abdicate a manifold and duplex life...
    PPh 4.50 15 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    CbW 6.246 9 We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
    WD 7.158 25 ...the vast production and manifold application of iron is new;...
    Suc 7.305 13 ...our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims...
    Imtl 8.352 4 The soul cannot be gained by knowledge...not by manifold science.
    Plu 10.301 10 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics.
    Plu 10.320 25 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    HDC 11.59 23 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    ALin 11.329 7 Old as history is, and manifold as are its tragedies, I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    Pray 12.356 16 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with its greatness take up all space.
    PPr 12.387 24 ...the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...

manifold, n. (1)

    PPh 4.51 11 Nature is the manifold.

manikin, n. (1)

    PLT 12.19 16 So works the poor little blockhead manikin.

Manila, n. (1)

    PLT 12.13 14 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return. 'T is a Manila full of pepper, and I want only a teaspoonful in a year.

manipular, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.10 8 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
    Exp 3.85 2 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.

manipulations, n. (1)

    Pow 6.79 19 To have learned the use of the tools, by thousands of manipulations;...is the power of the mechanic...

mankind, n. (207)

    AmS 1.84 19 In life, too often, the scholar errs with mankind...
    AmS 1.102 18 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    DSA 1.126 20 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind...is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    DSA 1.150 23 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple which new love, new faith, new sight shall restore to more than its first splendor to mankind.
    LE 1.156 21 This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reasonable expectation of mankind.
    LE 1.157 12 ...the diffidence of mankind in the soul has crept over the American mind;...
    LE 1.186 23 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...
    MR 1.255 6 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.
    LT 1.269 25 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
    LT 1.277 18 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
    Con 1.314 7 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    Con 1.314 26 The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the crimes of mankind...
    Con 1.315 3 ...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the corruption of mankind.
    Con 1.318 17 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation or continuance of views and practices injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Con 1.322 25 I understand well the respect of mankind for war...
    Con 1.325 12 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
    Con 1.325 20 To the intemperate and covetous person...mankind would pay no rent, no dividend, if force were once relaxed;...
    Con 1.326 4 ...it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...
    Tran 1.329 13 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...
    Tran 1.347 16 [Transcendentalists] feel that they are never so fit for friendship as when they have quitted mankind...
    Tran 1.358 1 ...the path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
    YA 1.372 25 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at... amelioration in nature, which alone permits and authorizes amelioration in mankind.
    YA 1.379 20 ...the office of statute law should be to express and not to impede the mind of mankind.
    SR 2.65 20 If I see a trait, my children will see it after me, and in course of time all mankind...
    SL 2.158 25 The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always instruct and command mankind.
    Lov1 2.172 17 All mankind love a lover.
    Hsm1 2.251 11 Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind...
    Hsm1 2.254 9 These [magnanimous] men...raise the standard of civil virtue among mankind.
    Hsm1 2.256 26 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
    Cir 2.309 2 ...the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new generalization.
    Cir 2.313 14 Christianity is rightly dear to the best of mankind;...
    Cir 2.316 10 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first... the debt of money, or the debt of thought to mankind...
    Pt1 3.11 16 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.
    Exp 3.85 8 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Chr1 3.114 12 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind.
    Mrs1 3.121 6 ...the steady interest of mankind in [the name gentleman] must be attributed to the valuable properties which it designates.
    UGM 4.20 4 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
    UGM 4.21 1 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place.
    PPh 4.40 9 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind...
    PPh 4.49 25 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me. That which I am, thou art, and that also is this world, with its gods and heroes and mankind.
    PNR 4.81 14 ...Plato has the fortune in the history of mankind to mark an epoch.
    PNR 4.88 22 The secret of [Plato's] popular success is the moral aim which endeared him to mankind.
    SwM 4.93 8 A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city-building market-going race of mankind, are the poets...
    SwM 4.117 20 The earth had fed its mankind through five or six millenniums...
    SwM 4.121 24 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.124 9 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws...entitle him to a place...among the lawgivers of mankind.
    SwM 4.139 6 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind.
    SwM 4.145 20 Swedenborg has rendered a double service to mankind...
    MoS 4.150 19 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters;...
    MoS 4.154 22 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    MoS 4.158 4 ...to put any of the questions which touch mankind nearest,-- shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
    MoS 4.161 9 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    MoS 4.177 4 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
    ShP 4.217 15 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind.
    NMW 4.243 20 ...with larger experience, [Napoleon's] respect for mankind was not increased.
    NMW 4.251 12 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte], the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
    GoW 4.266 22 Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    GoW 4.268 22 [A man] must be good of his kind. That is...all that the common-sense of mankind asks.
    ET2 5.30 3 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET3 5.35 27 ...[England] has, in the last centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with its impress.
    ET5 5.76 8 These Saxons are the hands of mankind.
    ET8 5.133 9 There are multitudes of rude young English...who, with their disdain of the rest of mankind and with this indigestion and choler, have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    ET11 5.188 24 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind...
    ET12 5.213 13 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind...
    ET15 5.266 10 ...the editor's room [of the London Times], I did not see, though I shared the curiosity of mankind respecting it.
    ET19 5.313 24 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    ET19 5.314 6 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere.
    F 6.8 18 Will you say, the disasters which threaten mankind are exceptional...
    F 6.31 3 The bulk of mankind believe in two gods.
    Pow 6.72 4 The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind.
    Wth 6.87 4 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
    Wth 6.95 1 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Wth 6.105 17 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind...
    Ctr 6.135 15 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Ctr 6.143 15 These minor skills and accomplishments...are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of mankind...
    Ctr 6.164 8 What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Ctr 6.165 5 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Wsp 6.238 19 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...
    CbW 6.248 16 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors.
    CbW 6.248 22 Franklin said, Mankind are very superficial and dastardly...
    CbW 6.250 20 In mankind [nature] is contented if she yields one master in a century.
    CbW 6.270 27 Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors...
    Bty 6.293 14 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
    Bty 6.298 24 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts...force him to stoop to the general level of mankind.
    Bty 6.300 24 Sir Philip Sidney, the darling of mankind, Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance...
    Bty 6.301 7 If a man...can lead the opinions of mankind...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Ill 6.324 13 The notions, I am, and This is mine, which influence mankind, are but delusions of the mother of the world...
    Civ 7.20 2 ...in mankind to-day the savage tribes are gradually extinguished rather than civilized.
    Civ 7.22 25 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy... guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind;...
    Elo1 7.98 27 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great, and the small small, which is the true way to astonish and reform mankind.
    Farm 7.150 20 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp. But beyond this benefit they are the text of better opinions and better auguries for mankind.
    WD 7.161 7 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind....
    WD 7.162 10 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder when from time to time the primal instincts are impressed on masses of mankind...
    WD 7.166 7 What have these arts done for the character, for the worth of mankind?
    Cour 7.253 3 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind...disinterestedness...practical power...courage...
    Cour 7.258 2 Mankind, said Franklin, are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
    Suc 7.290 22 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got...a crime which calls for another crime, and another devil behind that; these are steps to suicide, infamy and the harming of mankind.
    PI 8.8 6 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...as if the whole animal world were only a Hunterian museum to exhibit the genesis of mankind.
    PI 8.32 9 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.
    PI 8.46 25 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind.
    PI 8.50 26 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    PI 8.65 27 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself, or which it rarely reaches;--the subduing mankind to order and virtue.
    PI 8.72 8 The number of successive saltations the nimble thought can make, measures the difference between the highest and lowest of mankind.
    PI 8.73 6 The high poetry which shall thrill and agitate mankind...is deeper hid...
    SA 8.101 12 ...in the last age, this system [of hereditary nobility] has been on its trial, and the verdict of mankind is pretty nearly pronounced.
    Elo2 8.132 13 ...the great ideas that suddenly expand at some moment the mind of mankind, indicate themselves by orators.
    Res 8.147 2 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
    PC 8.207 3 We meet to-day under happy omens...to the country and to mankind.
    PC 8.212 5 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    Grts 8.302 13 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
    Grts 8.306 27 ...[every man] shares with all mankind the gift of reason and the moral sentiment...
    Grts 8.309 11 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power, so that not he, but mankind, seems to speak through his lips.
    Grts 8.310 6 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...but such as it is, it is something which the contradiction of all mankind could not shake...
    Grts 8.310 7 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...but such as it is, it is something which the contradiction of all mankind could not shake, and which the consent of all mankind could not confirm.
    Imtl 8.324 7 ...The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul.
    Imtl 8.335 1 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees, say of the sequoias, a few of which will span the whole history of mankind;...
    Imtl 8.348 2 It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of the doctrine of immortality.
    Dem1 10.18 22 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.
    Aris 10.34 17 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.40 15 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity... should keep their secrets, or only communicate them to each other, must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Aris 10.51 6 The expectation and claims of mankind indicate the duties of this class [public respresentatives].
    Aris 10.51 9 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter...
    Aris 10.63 24 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also. Then I shall not have forfeited my right to speak and act for mankind.
    Aris 10.64 9 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
    Chr2 10.109 9 Mankind at large always resemble frivolous children;...
    Chr2 10.115 7 Jesus has immense claims on the gratitude of mankind...
    Chr2 10.116 5 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss...
    Edc1 10.151 13 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;...
    Supl 10.173 7 ...fit expression is so rare that mankind have a superstitious value for it...
    Prch 10.222 26 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal, self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...
    Prch 10.228 12 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine...
    Prch 10.235 21 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.
    MoL 10.242 15 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind.
    MoL 10.250 9 [Nature says to the American] See to it that you hold and administer the continent for mankind.
    Schr 10.269 21 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    Schr 10.275 13 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he...will oppose all mankind at the call of that private and perfect Right and Beauty in which he lives.
    Schr 10.282 18 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force. There is no mass that can be a counterweight for it. This makes one man good against mankind.
    Plu 10.302 24 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
    Plu 10.308 22 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    Plu 10.318 1 What a trilogy is lost to mankind in [Plutarch's] Lives of Scipio, Epaminondas, and Pindar.
    LLNE 10.336 2 ...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...
    LLNE 10.344 12 Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer to urge and defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.
    LLNE 10.346 23 [Robert Owen] had not the least doubt that he had hit on a right and perfect socialism, or that all mankind would adopt it.
    SlHr 10.438 27 ...when the votes of the Free States...had disappointed the hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    GSt 10.507 5 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.6 15 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution, to be continued to the end of time by all mankind...would have been established in this slight manner...
    HDC 11.51 6 Thomas Hooker anticipated the opinion of Humboldt, and called [the Indians] the ruins of mankind.
    HDC 11.65 1 ...in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching... shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively. Mr. Whiting, who was chosen, was, we are told in his epitaph, a universal lover of mankind.
    EWI 11.99 13 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the attention of the best and most eminent of mankind.
    EWI 11.101 21 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right...
    EWI 11.136 9 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America: I am now in a country where the common rights of mankind are known and regarded.
    War 11.155 23 It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part.
    War 11.167 26 ...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 the common sense of all mankind has set...
    War 11.169 18 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is looked upon as the asylum of the human race and has the tears and the blessings of mankind.
    War 11.176 4 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...here, where not a family, not a few men, but mankind, shall say what shall be;...
    FSLC 11.192 18 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well...as the anchor in the respect of mankind.
    FSLC 11.195 2 Laws are merely declaratory of the natural sentiments of mankind...
    FSLC 11.197 8 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery.
    FSLC 11.207 1 ...I strongly share the hope of mankind in the power, and therefore, in the duties of the Union;...
    FSLC 11.208 12 Why in the name of common sense and the peace of mankind is not [abolition] made the subject of instant negotiation and settlement?
    FSLN 11.218 7 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    JBS 11.279 11 Our farmers...had learned that life...was to be spent in loving and serving mankind.
    JBS 11.281 14 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    ACiv 11.297 15 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    ACiv 11.303 22 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands...
    ACiv 11.308 8 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    EPro 11.316 10 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know.
    EPro 11.316 26 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience...now at last so searched and kindled that they come forward, every one a representative of mankind...
    EPro 11.318 15 ...[Lincoln] has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.
    EPro 11.321 17 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    ALin 11.328 11 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...
    ALin 11.329 8 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    ALin 11.334 10 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph of the good sense of mankind...
    HCom 11.345 4 We see...a new era, worth to mankind all the treasure and all the lives it has cost;...
    SMC 11.355 20 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were the narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
    SMC 11.376 7 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    EdAd 11.392 6 Mankind for the moment seem to be in search of a religion.
    Wom 11.406 25 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed that [women] have their own strength;...
    Wom 11.409 4 Women are, by [conversation] and their social influence, the civilizers of mankind.
    Wom 11.413 5 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother...
    RBur 11.443 20 [Burns's songs] are the property and the solace of mankind.
    FRO2 11.491 2 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who have conceived an infinite hope for mankind;...
    CPL 11.502 10 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.
    CPL 11.506 7 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.
    FRep 11.515 26 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind.
    FRep 11.516 19 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to progress...
    FRep 11.519 20 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of mankind;...
    FRep 11.526 9 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice; all mankind in its shirt-sleeves;...
    FRep 11.530 15 ...the great interests of mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
    FRep 11.538 26 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
    FRep 11.542 5 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    FRep 11.544 14 Trade and government will not alone be the favored aims of mankind...
    PLT 12.8 20 Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found everybody wrong; acute and ingenious to lampoon and degrade mankind?
    PLT 12.24 16 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat.
    PLT 12.48 9 ...in the last results, the man with the talent is the need of mankind;...
    PLT 12.50 26 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged.
    PLT 12.60 2 The history of mankind is the history of arrested growth.
    CInt 12.120 3 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind.
    CInt 12.126 14 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
    CL 12.149 2 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind!
    Bost 12.187 24 Each great city gathers these values and delights for mankind...
    Bost 12.201 10 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy...as great a gain to mankind as the opening of this continent.
    Milt1 12.262 16 [Milton] is rightly dear to mankind...
    Milt1 12.277 5 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life, in order to give weight and solemnity to his thoughts; by which they might penetrate and possess the imagination and the will of mankind.
    MLit 12.311 22 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...
    WSL 12.341 9 In these busy days...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    EurB 12.366 6 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see...the test-objects of the microscope, and then the tongue to utter the same things in words that engrave them on all the ears of mankind.

mankind's, n. (1)

    FRep 11.540 18 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's bill of rights...

manlier, adj. (3)

    AsSu 11.249 26 [Charles Sumner] has gone beyond the large expectation of his friends in his increasing ability and his manlier tone.
    HCom 11.339 5 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a nobler task than ours,/ And gave them holier thoughts and manlier powers,-/ This is the day of fruits and not of flowers!/
    Shak1 11.450 16 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours. Later they find riper and manlier lessons in the plays.

manliest, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.346 19 ...only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven,-with manliest or womanliest enduring love,-can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.

manlike, adj. (6)

    AmS 1.104 17 Manlike let [the scholar] turn and face [fear].
    LE 1.174 17 It is the noble, manlike, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you.
    NER 3.274 2 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain. I explain so,--by this manlike love of truth,--those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.
    Schr 10.277 15 I delight in men adorned and weaponed with manlike arts...
    CL 12.139 3 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
    Milt1 12.269 26 [Milton] preferred his own English, so manlike he was, to the Latin...

manlike, adv. (1)

    MLit 12.326 16 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw them...utter their whole heart manlike among their brethren.

manliness, n. (6)

    MoS 4.180 8 ...is not the satisfaction of the doubts essential to all manliness?
    ET10 5.170 27 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects. Hardly the bravest among them have the manliness to resist it successfully.
    Ctr 6.155 9 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
    Elo2 8.126 15 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness;...
    Elo2 8.127 25 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond. Now this is not want of talent or learning, but of manliness.
    ACri 12.296 23 Herrick's merit is the simplicity and manliness of his utterance...

manly, adj. (73)

    Nat 1.66 9 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
    DSA 1.131 13 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right...
    MN 1.194 15 We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy.
    LT 1.266 25 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us, but to the end that we shall play a manly part.
    SR 2.77 11 That which [men] call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly.
    SR 2.81 1 In manly hours we feel that duty is our place.
    Comp 2.95 12 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
    Comp 2.99 13 ...the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him...the best of his manly attributes.
    Fdsp 2.189 1 A ruddy drop of manly blood/ The surging sea outweighs;/...
    Fdsp 2.208 21 I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance...to find a mush of concession.
    Fdsp 2.208 22 I hate, where I looked for...at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession.
    Hsm1 2.248 1 Thomas Carlyle, with his natural taste for what is manly and daring in character, has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Hsm1 2.260 23 A simple manly character need never make an apology...
    Art1 2.364 10 ...[sculpture] is...not the manly labor of a wise and spiritual nation.
    Exp 3.67 6 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    Chr1 3.92 2 Our public assemblies are pretty good tests of manly force.
    Mrs1 3.128 1 Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue.
    PPh 4.58 4 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf...
    MoS 4.159 13 Let us have a robust, manly life;...
    GoW 4.271 12 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind...
    ET4 5.67 15 [The English] are rather manly than warlike.
    ET4 5.70 7 [The English] think...that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over another;...
    ET9 5.148 10 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing...
    ET10 5.171 2 ...not the aims of a manly life, but the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
    ET12 5.208 7 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...
    ET12 5.208 9 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds...manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged;...
    ET12 5.209 3 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.
    ET12 5.210 27 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power. A fop will fight, and in exigent circumstances will play the manly part.
    ET13 5.223 14 The Anglican Church is marked...by the manly grace of its clergy.
    ET14 5.237 16 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson, full of heroic sentiment in a manly style, were received with favor.
    ET15 5.262 13 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    Pow 6.65 14 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition. Their wrath is at least of a bold and manly cast.
    Wth 6.91 20 The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
    Ctr 6.148 22 In the country [a man] can find...manly labor...
    Bhr 6.185 3 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him. The other is irritable, shy and on his guard. The youth looks humble and manly; I choose him.
    CbW 6.261 24 ...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants, and he will come out of it with broader wisdom and manly power.
    SS 7.4 2 [My new friend] envied every drover and lumberman in the tavern their manly speech.
    Elo1 7.80 7 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments...
    DL 7.115 12 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with manly encouragement...
    PI 8.26 26 [The true poet] is the healthy, the wise, the fundamental, the manly man...
    PI 8.75 10 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
    SA 8.107 14 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here...
    Elo2 8.109 4 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    Grts 8.304 21 Young men think that the manly character requires that they should go to California...
    Dem1 10.9 14 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them,-a cheerful, manly part, or a poor drivelling part?
    Dem1 10.24 9 Read a page of Cudworth or of Bacon, and we are...armed to manly duties.
    Aris 10.31 21 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but...the success of the manly character, they find in the idea of gentleman.
    Chr2 10.115 13 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament...
    Chr2 10.121 19 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
    Plu 10.301 16 ...[Plutarch] is ever manly, far from fawning...
    EzRy 10.388 8 Right manly [Ezra Ripley] was, and the manly thing he could always say.
    EzRy 10.390 16 [Ezra Ripley] was...courtly, hospitable, manly and public-spirited;...
    Thor 10.455 26 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature... always manly and able...
    Carl 10.497 18 Carlyle has, best of all men in England, kept the manly attitude of his time.
    War 11.156 8 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue...
    FSLC 11.193 1 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.
    FSLC 11.201 25 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored, as the manly statesman to whom the choicest gifts of Nature had been accorded, disown him...
    FSLN 11.217 10 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.
    JBS 11.279 3 [John Brown] grew up a religious and manly person...
    TPar 11.291 16 ...[Theodore Parker's] manly enemies...honored him;...
    HCom 11.344 27 Ah! young brothers, all honor and gratitude to you,- you, manly defenders...
    SMC 11.357 4 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...manly farmers, skilful mechanics, young tradesmen...
    SMC 11.368 24 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick, whose manly beauty all of us remember, and Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded.
    Scot 11.467 3 [Scott] played ever a manly part.
    Bost 12.182 10 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./
    Milt1 12.254 15 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    Milt1 12.257 12 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly...
    ACri 12.297 8 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality...
    AgMs 12.358 6 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is so manly...
    EurB 12.371 18 [Jonson's beauty] is a natural manly grace of a robust workman.
    PPr 12.379 9 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...and, with a heart full of manly tenderness, offers his best counsel to his brothers.
    Let 12.398 3 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which strips them of all manly aims...
    Let 12.401 13 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius, which brings power and nobleness into manly action...

manly, adv. (2)

    Bost 12.198 24 That colonizing [of New England] was a great and generous scheme, manly meant and manly done.
    Milt1 12.274 13 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

manna, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.186 25 The person love does to us fit,/ Like manna, has the taste of all in it./

manned, v. (3)

    ET11 5.191 27 ...the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet, manned too by English sailors...
    F 6.5 7 Great men, great nations, have...been...perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
    Prch 10.226 14 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...

manner, n. (195)

    Nat 1.4 5 In like manner, nature is already...describing its own design.
    Nat 1.8 8 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind.
    Nat 1.16 12 ...we may distribute the aspects of Beauty in a threefold manner.
    Nat 1.28 11 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most...agreeable manner.
    Nat 1.33 13 In like manner, the memorable words of history...consist usually of a natural fact...
    Nat 1.38 22 In like manner, what good heed Nature forms in us!
    Nat 1.44 23 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles; which, however, may be drawn and comprise it in like manner.
    Nat 1.51 22 In a higher manner the poet communicates the same pleasure.
    AmS 1.93 19 Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office, - to teach elements.
    DSA 1.126 6 In like manner, all the expressions of this [moral] sentiment are sacred...
    DSA 1.130 24 The manner in which [Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which were once sallies of admiration and love...kills all generous sympathy...
    LE 1.171 22 ...truth will not be compelled in any mechanical manner.
    LE 1.172 17 ...any particular portraiture does not in any manner exclude or forestall a new attempt...
    LE 1.178 27 Napoleon observed that [the English soldiers'] manner of handling their arms differed from the French exercise...
    MN 1.215 7 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner of life which he had newly abandoned...
    MR 1.232 27 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result, and atoning for the manner of acquiring, by the manner of expending it.
    MR 1.233 1 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result, and atoning for the manner of acquiring, by the manner of expending it.
    MR 1.247 17 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    LT 1.271 24 This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
    Con 1.301 19 ...men are...very foolish children, who...see everything in the most absurd manner...
    Con 1.308 13 I am unworthy to arraign your manner of living, until I too have been tried.
    Con 1.309 8 My genius leads me to build a different manner of life from any of yours.
    Con 1.313 18 You are yourself the result of this manner of living...
    Tran 1.329 9 ...in like manner, thought only appears in the objects it classifies.
    Tran 1.331 1 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    Tran 1.337 15 In like manner, if there is anything grand and daring in human thought or virtue...the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Tran 1.345 12 ...we, on this sea of human thought, in like manner inquire, Where are the old idealists?...
    Tran 1.350 9 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    YA 1.378 8 Trade goes...to bring every kind of faculty of every individual that can in any manner serve any person, on sale.
    Hist 2.8 15 Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to [each man].
    Hist 2.14 20 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did.
    Hist 2.21 9 In like manner all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
    SR 2.88 25 In like manner the reformers summon conventions...
    Comp 2.94 6 The preacher...unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.
    Comp 2.102 27 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner...
    Comp 2.111 21 ...all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner.
    Comp 2.121 23 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also;...
    SL 2.133 13 In like manner our moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will.
    SL 2.155 5 In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    SL 2.161 16 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which revises our entire manner of life...
    Lov1 2.180 16 In like manner, personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...
    OS 2.272 13 In like manner [the soul] abolishes time and space.
    OS 2.282 11 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    Cir 2.312 9 In like manner we see literature best from the midst of wild nature...
    Cir 2.322 11 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    Int 2.330 11 What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced.
    Int 2.343 22 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living.
    Art1 2.353 12 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times...
    Art1 2.353 13 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times, without knowing what that manner is.
    Art1 2.360 7 [The artist] must not be in any manner pinched or hindered by his material...
    Art1 2.360 15 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Pt1 3.4 7 ...even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living...
    Pt1 3.24 24 The poet also resigns himself to his mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed, but...in a manner totally new.
    Pt1 3.27 15 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature;...
    Pt1 3.29 8 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses;...
    Exp 3.55 26 ...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of attention once, which it cannot retain, though we fain would continue to be pleased in that manner.
    Exp 3.68 25 In like manner, for practical success, there must not be too much design.
    Chr1 3.95 8 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?
    Mrs1 3.122 26 The gentleman is...not in any manner dependent and servile...
    Mrs1 3.135 1 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage and all manner of toys...
    Mrs1 3.147 26 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review, in such manner as that we could at leisure and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    Nat2 3.189 27 In like manner, there is throughout nature something mocking...
    Pol1 3.206 7 In like manner to every particle of property belongs its own attraction.
    Pol1 3.210 4 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power.
    Pol1 3.221 7 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who have pretended this design...have admitted in some manner the supremacy of the bad State.
    NR 3.228 2 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner;...
    NR 3.233 9 I find the most pleasure in reading a book in a manner least flattering to the author.
    NR 3.238 16 The recluse thinks of men as having his manner, or as not having his manner;...
    NER 3.258 24 These things [Latin, Greek, Mathematics] became stereotyped as education, as the manner of men is.
    NER 3.261 22 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
    NER 3.284 19 In like manner, let a man fall into the divine circuits, and he is enlarged.
    PPh 4.69 2 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the other section of truths.
    PPh 4.73 23 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.
    MoS 4.171 8 The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic...
    MoS 4.180 7 Is life to be led in a brave or in a cowardly manner?...
    ShP 4.205 20 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers.
    ShP 4.208 17 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me...if the former account in any manner for the latter;...
    NMW 4.232 9 [Bonaparte] is strong in the right manner, namely by insight.
    GoW 4.272 4 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    GoW 4.275 9 In like manner, in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
    ET1 5.20 4 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important.
    ET1 5.21 19 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication.
    ET3 5.34 23 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...
    ET4 5.57 24 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have weapons which they use in a determined manner...
    ET6 5.104 26 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion...
    ET6 5.114 10 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects...
    ET10 5.158 3 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.
    ET13 5.226 7 If in any manner [the wise legislator] can leave the election and paying of the priest to the people, he will do well.
    ET14 5.237 24 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin, before our modern facilities were yet ready;...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    ET17 5.295 11 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    ET17 5.295 13 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    Wth 6.111 8 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the problem.
    Bhr 6.182 19 The maxim of courts is that manner is power.
    Bhr 6.189 3 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression.
    Bhr 6.189 4 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression.
    Bhr 6.195 12 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner...
    Bhr 6.197 20 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray that she is not primary...
    Wsp 6.216 8 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man and to his highest powers, so as to be in some manner the source of intellect.
    Wsp 6.237 16 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is...
    CbW 6.270 23 How to live with unfit companions?...experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence, namely...not to mix yourself in any manner with them...
    Bty 6.284 17 What manner of man does science make?
    SS 7.7 7 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner...
    Art2 7.48 21 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must...be a man of no party and no manner...
    Art2 7.49 8 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work.
    Art2 7.54 12 In like manner it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds...
    Elo1 7.69 9 [The Sicilians] mimic the voice and manner of the person they describe;...
    Elo1 7.84 8 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
    Elo1 7.99 22 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they...thought no pains too great which contributed in any manner to further it,--resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    DL 7.123 13 In like manner, every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger.
    Farm 7.143 6 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals...
    Farm 7.152 15 It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best lands, and in the best manner.
    Boks 7.196 13 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for...there is the good company and the best information. In like manner the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
    Suc 7.300 13 In like manner, life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also.
    Suc 7.303 2 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge...
    Suc 7.303 3 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will...
    OA 7.334 14 [George Whitefield's] voice and manner helped him more than his sermons.
    PI 8.62 11 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free.
    SA 8.90 8 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse.
    Elo2 8.117 6 [The orator] knew very well behorehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead, and therefore it was wise to speak. Then the observer says, What a godsend is this manner of man to a town!...
    Elo2 8.121 25 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined, For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
    Elo2 8.131 5 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    Comc 8.170 11 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...in like manner, of the gay Rameau of Diderot...
    QO 8.202 11 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    PPo 8.245 9 After the manner of his nation, [Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences...
    Insp 8.277 25 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Insp 8.292 20 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought...allows itself to be seen as a thought, in a manner as new and entertaining to us as to our companions.
    Grts 8.306 25 ...every man...has a new countenance, new manner, new voice, new thoughts and new character.
    Grts 8.320 21 The man...sportive in manner, but inexorable in act;...he it is whom we seek...
    Dem1 10.18 2 ...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal, yes, in beasts too in a remarkable manner...
    Dem1 10.26 3 It is wholly a false view to couple these things [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] in any manner with the religious nature and sentiment...
    Aris 10.50 16 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest.
    PerF 10.70 19 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is, and in a manner so quiet that the presence of these tremendous powers is not ordinarily suspected.
    PerF 10.83 14 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it severs the man from all other men;...
    PerF 10.84 1 ...if you wish to avail yourself of [the world's energies'] might, and in like manner if you wish the force of the intellect, the force of the will, you must take their divine direction...
    Chr2 10.95 17 Not by adding...does the moral sentiment help us; no, but in quite another manner.
    Supl 10.168 3 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern...
    Prch 10.232 26 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...
    Schr 10.272 26 ...the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar' s] duties, the manner in which every day's events will find him in work, may show that his place is no sinecure.
    Schr 10.288 21 In like manner [the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person...
    Plu 10.304 23 Early this morning, asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    Plu 10.314 4 The soul, incapable of death, suffers in the same manner in the body, as birds that are kept in a cage.
    LLNE 10.331 15 The word that [Everett] spoke, in the manner in which he spoke it, became current and classical in New England.
    LLNE 10.332 19 All [Everett's] auditors felt the extreme beauty and dignity of the manner...
    LLNE 10.332 21 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.
    LLNE 10.333 2 In the pulpit...with an infantine simplicity still, of manner, [Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    LLNE 10.333 16 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;-feats which no man could better accomplish, such was his self-command and the security of his manner.
    LLNE 10.334 23 ...[Everett's power] was in the graces of manner;...
    LLNE 10.357 25 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society;...one which always establishes itself for the sane soul, though not in that manner in which they paint it;...
    EzRy 10.389 24 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.
    SlHr 10.438 24 In like manner now...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    Carl 10.490 13 ...though no mortal in America could pretend to talk with Carlyle...yet neither would he in any manner satisfy us (Americans)...
    Carl 10.491 3 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls, and then, lastly, unmistakably to the priest, in a manner that frightened the whole company.
    Carl 10.491 25 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters, and stop all manner of mischievous speaking to Buncombe, and wind-bags.
    GSt 10.504 8 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker baffles all statecraft...
    GSt 10.505 6 ...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    LS 11.6 18 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...
    LS 11.6 19 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 a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear, from their narrative, to have caught the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    LS 11.8 18 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.9 9 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.
    LS 11.10 11 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat.
    LS 11.15 13 In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...
    HDC 11.43 3 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]...gave [the freemen] the power of prescribing the manner in which freemen should be elected;...
    HDC 11.64 11 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord].
    HDC 11.67 4 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ, in any manner...
    HDC 11.76 12 ...we see what manner of persons they were who stood in the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.
    EWI 11.113 1 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be...discharged of and from all manner of slavery...
    EWI 11.113 4 ...be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...
    EWI 11.120 11 The manner in which the new festival [of emancipation in the West Indies] was celebrated, brings tears to the eyes.
    EWI 11.137 11 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...all manner of rage and stupidity;...
    EWI 11.143 23 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies and mites but their spawning numbers, which no ravages can overcome. It deals with men after the same manner.
    War 11.175 12 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
    FSLN 11.222 3 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution, and all that thereto belongs,-voice, accent, intonation, attitude, manner,- we shall not soon find again.
    AsSu 11.250 10 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...
    JBB 11.269 4 The governor of Virginia has pronounced [John Brown's] eulogy in a manner that discredits the moderation of our timid parties.
    TPar 11.285 13 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere to the best...
    ALin 11.331 17 [Lincoln] had a face and manner which disarmed suspicion...
    SMC 11.356 4 It is an interesting part of the history [of the Civil War], the manner in which this incongruous militia were made soldiers.
    Wom 11.411 2 [Man] invented marriage; and surrounded by religion...by all manner of dignities and renunciations, the union of the sexes.
    Wom 11.419 3 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.
    PLT 12.22 6 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea;...
    PLT 12.27 25 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world. An individual mind in like manner is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...
    PLT 12.54 25 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution.
    Mem 12.105 14 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so, but in such a manner that none could perceive it.
    CL 12.146 6 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels, in a manner which no confectioner can approach...
    Bost 12.184 7 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all... exchanged a good part of their patrimony of ideas for the notions, manner of seeing and habitual tone of Indian society.
    Bost 12.208 7 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city;...
    MAng1 12.221 10 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood; a manner more expressive but not admitting of correction.
    MAng1 12.221 16 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.
    MAng1 12.237 8 In like manner, [Michelangelo] possessed an intense love of solitude.
    Milt1 12.250 16 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
    ACri 12.291 1 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.
    WSL 12.341 25 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...
    Pray 12.352 17 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them.
    Pray 12.357 3 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself, shooting out beams upon me after a vehement manner;...
    Trag 12.414 12 ...the world...hates all manner of exaggeration.

mannerism, n. (1)

    NR 3.239 8 ...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking up all styles and tricks...

mannerist, n. (2)

    Art1 2.357 24 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures.
    ShP 4.212 27 ...no mannerist is [Shakespeare]...

manners, n. (308)

    AmS 1.90 22 There are creative manners...
    AmS 1.90 23 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority...
    LE 1.187 11 [Thought] will flow out of...your manners...
    LT 1.259 16 The Times-the nations, manners, institutions, opinions, votes, are to be studied as omens...
    LT 1.261 6 The fact of aristocracy, with its two weapons of wealth and manners, is as commanding a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
    LT 1.272 5 It is the interior testimony to a fairer possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with the offer of some new amendment.
    LT 1.283 2 ...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends in thought...
    Tran 1.347 22 ...[the Transcendentalists'] solitary and fastidious manners not only withdraw them from the conversation, but from the labors of the world;...
    YA 1.369 24 The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land, and carry its quality in their manners and opinions.
    YA 1.380 24 These [Communities] proceeded...from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted...
    Hist 2.16 6 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    Hist 2.17 12 ...a profound nature awakens in us...by its very looks and manners, the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    Hist 2.18 4 A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
    Hist 2.24 18 The manners of [the Grecian] period are plain and fierce.
    Hist 2.26 10 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man...
    SL 2.144 23 ...a few traits of character, manners, face...have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    SL 2.145 21 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners and name of that interest...
    SL 2.149 24 Gertrude is enamored of Guy; how high, how aristocratic, how Roman his mien and manners!...
    SL 2.150 2 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate...
    Prd1 2.241 3 ...the world of manners and actions is wrought of one stuff...
    OS 2.286 23 If [a man] have not found his home in God, his manners...will involuntarily confess it...
    Cir 2.309 2 ...the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new generalization.
    Exp 3.68 5 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages...
    Exp 3.85 6 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. They acquire democratic manners...they hate and deny.
    Chr1 3.96 6 All things exist in the man tinged with the manners of his soul.
    Chr1 3.113 23 ...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
    Chr1 3.114 7 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth who owed nothing to fortune...
    Mrs1 3.122 5 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation...
    Mrs1 3.126 15 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste.
    Mrs1 3.126 23 Fine manners show themselves formidable to the uncultivated man.
    Mrs1 3.127 4 Manners aim to facilitate life...
    Mrs1 3.131 25 ...there is nothing settled in manners...
    Mrs1 3.132 14 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    Mrs1 3.136 3 ...emperors and rich men are by no means the most skilful masters of good manners.
    Mrs1 3.138 15 Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions.
    Mrs1 3.139 20 That makes the good and bad of manners, namely what helps or hinders fellowship.
    Mrs1 3.140 15 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners...
    Mrs1 3.143 16 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters, and the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    Mrs1 3.148 26 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners...
    Mrs1 3.149 10 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.
    Mrs1 3.149 12 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were never learned there...
    Mrs1 3.151 24 [Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
    NR 3.225 16 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners;...
    NR 3.238 19 ...when [the recluse] comes into a public assembly he sees that men have very different manners from his own...
    NER 3.263 1 ...the street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
    NER 3.269 2 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...his body with inoffensive and comely manners.
    UGM 4.14 18 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent...
    UGM 4.14 26 ...in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful manners.
    UGM 4.22 17 I seem to have no good without breach of good manners.
    UGM 4.25 8 ...with the great, our thoughts and manners easily become great.
    PPh 4.45 27 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women...blunder and quarrel: their manners are full of desperation;...
    SwM 4.112 23 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg]...
    SwM 4.127 10 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls, as it would lay open the genesis of all institutions, customs and manners.
    SwM 4.144 2 ...is [Swedenborg] reporting a breach of the manners of that heavenly society?...
    MoS 4.165 4 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted, which our manners...do not allow.
    MoS 4.176 8 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say, Well, the army, after all, is the gate to fame, manners and poetry...
    MoS 4.181 10 The manners and thoughts of believers astonish [some minds]...
    ShP 4.209 25 What point...of manners...has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    ShP 4.211 5 ...[Shakespeare] wrote the text of modern life; the text of manners...
    NMW 4.247 23 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...or in our social manners and customs;...
    NMW 4.254 1 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris, because the familiarity of his manners offends the new pride of his throne.
    NMW 4.255 23 [Napoleon's] manners were coarse.
    GoW 4.261 20 Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows and in his own manners and face.
    GoW 4.276 7 ...what [Goethe] says...of manners...refuses to be forgotten.
    GoW 4.276 20 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman, and accept the manners...
    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;...
    ET3 5.36 15 Every book we read...is still English history and manners.
    ET4 5.48 22 An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.
    ET4 5.53 13 In Scotland there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners;...
    ET4 5.53 15 In Scotland...the poverty of the country makes itself remarked, and a coarseness of manners;...
    ET4 5.63 8 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...
    ET4 5.65 19 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial, respectable, grandfatherly figures, with costume and manners to suit.
    ET5 5.74 7 ...from the residence of a portion of these [Scandinavian] people in France, and from some effect of that powerful soil on their blood and manners, the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET5 5.98 7 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;...
    ET5 5.98 9 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;-- made-up men with made-up manners;...
    ET6 5.104 14 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in his manners, in his respiration...
    ET6 5.105 21 [Englishmen] have all been trained in one severe school of manners...
    ET6 5.109 7 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties.
    ET6 5.112 18 Cold, repressive manners prevail [in England].
    ET6 5.112 27 Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful [in England]. They keep to the other extreme of low tone in dress and manners.
    ET8 5.133 12 There are multitudes of rude young English...who...have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    ET8 5.143 3 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures, and forms and reforms the laws, letters, manners and occupations.
    ET10 5.165 26 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners, gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which belong to that rank.
    ET11 5.172 15 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions. Laws, customs, manners...affirm it.
    ET11 5.172 19 The estates, names and manners of the [English] nobles flatter the fancy of the people...
    ET11 5.174 1 The superior education and manners of the [English] nobles recommend them to the country.
    ET11 5.176 20 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars. Comity, social talent and fine manners, no doubt, have had their part also.
    ET11 5.179 23 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus, who are stable in their manners...
    ET11 5.180 12 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
    ET11 5.186 2 Power of any kind readily appears in the manners;...
    ET11 5.186 17 The upper classes have only birth, say the people here [in England], and not thoughts. Yes, but they have manners...
    ET11 5.186 18 ...it is wonderful how much talent runs into manners...
    ET11 5.187 8 Politeness is the ritual of society...a school of manners...
    ET11 5.187 16 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    ET11 5.187 19 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish...
    ET11 5.190 9 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.198 4 A multitude of English...bred into their society with manners, ability and the gifts of fortune, are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    ET12 5.200 3 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men, though I imputed to these English an advantage in their secure and polished manners.
    ET12 5.201 19 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    ET13 5.216 25 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system, close fitted to the manners and genius of the country...
    ET14 5.246 16 Dickens, with preternatural apprehension of the language of manners and the varieties of street life;...writes London tracts.
    ET14 5.259 8 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
    ET18 5.302 9 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts no sweetness into [Englishmen's] unaccommodating manners...
    F 6.24 9 Let [man]...show his lordship by manners and deeds on the scale of nature.
    Pow 6.56 20 ...everywhere men are led in the same manners.
    Pow 6.63 13 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Wth 6.92 5 The brave workman, who might betray his feeling of it in his manners...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wth 6.92 14 The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners...
    Ctr 6.139 18 The city breeds one kind of speech and manners;...
    Ctr 6.149 15 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    Ctr 6.150 15 I wish cities could teach their best lesson,--of quiet manners.
    Ctr 6.152 11 In an English party a man with no marked manners or features...discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...
    Ctr 6.159 18 [People] do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished, the charm of manners, of self-command, of benevolence.
    Ctr 6.160 11 Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.
    Ctr 6.160 14 ...sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.
    Ctr 6.162 24 He who aims high must dread an easy home and popular manners.
    Bhr 6.169 14 The visible carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners.
    Bhr 6.169 19 Manners are the happy way of doing things;...
    Bhr 6.170 2 Manners are very communicable;...
    Bhr 6.170 5 Consuelo, in the romance, boasts of the lessons she had given the nobles in manners, on the stage;...
    Bhr 6.170 7 Genius invents fine manners...
    Bhr 6.170 12 The power of manners is incessant...
    Bhr 6.170 17 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered...
    Bhr 6.171 14 Your manners are always under examination...
    Bhr 6.171 18 We talk much of utilities, but 't is our manners that associate us.
    Bhr 6.171 25 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we...wish for...those...whose manners do not offend us...
    Bhr 6.172 2 When we reflect on...how, in all clubs, mannners make the members;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.172 3 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.172 5 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth; that, for the most part, his manners marry him, and, for the most part, he marries manners;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.172 6 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth; that, for the most part, his manners marry him, and, for the most part, he marries manners;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.173 1 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach...
    Bhr 6.174 3 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars.
    Bhr 6.174 5 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson... held bad manners up, so that the churls could see the deformity.
    Bhr 6.174 17 Manners are factitious...
    Bhr 6.175 1 Broad lands and great interests...form manners of power.
    Bhr 6.175 3 A keen eye...will...see in the manners the degree of homage the party is wont to receive.
    Bhr 6.175 18 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
    Bhr 6.176 9 Manners are partly factitious...
    Bhr 6.176 27 A main fact in the history of manners is the wonderful expressiveness of the human body.
    Bhr 6.182 17 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners...
    Bhr 6.183 12 Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
    Bhr 6.183 26 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms? Manners: manners of power;...
    Bhr 6.183 27 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms? Manners:...sense to see his advantage, and manners up to it.
    Bhr 6.184 11 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles...
    Bhr 6.185 11 Here are creep-mouse manners, and thievish manners.
    Bhr 6.185 20 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners...
    Bhr 6.185 21 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners, and yet Blanche, who has no manners, has better manners than she;...
    Bhr 6.185 26 Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
    Bhr 6.186 13 The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
    Bhr 6.187 7 Euripides, says Aspasia, has not the fine manners of Sophocles;...
    Bhr 6.187 13 Manners require time...
    Bhr 6.188 2 Strong will and keen perception overpower old manners and create new;...
    Bhr 6.188 5 In persons of character we do not remark manners...
    Bhr 6.188 15 ...it is a point of prudent good manners to treat these reputations tenderly...
    Bhr 6.188 26 Manners impress as they indicate real power.
    Bhr 6.191 10 ...when a man does not write his poetry it...clings to his form and manners...
    Bhr 6.191 19 Society is the stage on which manners are shown;...
    Bhr 6.191 21 Novels are the journal or record of manners...
    Bhr 6.193 27 ...when [the monk Basle] came to discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing him, they...adopted his manners;...
    Bhr 6.195 2 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners!
    Bhr 6.195 20 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...
    Bhr 6.197 12 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners?...
    Wsp 6.218 22 We have learned the manners of the sun and of the moon...
    Wsp 6.241 21 [The new church founded on moral science] shall...shame these social, supplicating manners...
    CbW 6.267 4 Genial manners are good...
    Bty 6.286 13 Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners...never go out of fashion.
    Bty 6.287 3 ...the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Bty 6.287 12 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature...of manners...
    Bty 6.302 24 ...[the human form] is not only admirable in singular and salient talents, but also in the world of manners.
    Bty 6.303 26 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Bty 6.304 4 ...[chosen men and women's] face and manners carry a certain grandeur...
    Bty 6.305 19 ...the fact is familiar that...a grace of manners...plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Bty 6.306 16 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...signs and tokens of thought and character in manners...
    SS 7.13 6 ...Bacon said of manners, To obtain them, it only needs not to despise them...
    Civ 7.21 21 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. ... Invention and art are born, manners and social beauty and delight.
    DL 7.121 22 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
    DL 7.125 13 We are too easily pleased. I think this sad result appears in the manners.
    DL 7.125 21 We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man]...
    DL 7.126 11 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he...sees in each person original manners...
    DL 7.132 17 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
    Farm 7.138 3 ...[the countryman's] independence and his pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the face and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.139 4 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...
    Farm 7.153 11 Plain in manners as in dress, [the farmer] would not shine in palaces;...
    Boks 7.199 10 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...
    Boks 7.200 25 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
    Boks 7.201 1 Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory to Plato...
    Boks 7.205 1 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...and Martial will give [the student] Roman manners...
    Boks 7.214 16 ...how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is!
    Clbs 7.244 25 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Clbs 7.245 22 Nobody wishes bad manners.
    Cour 7.267 26 There is...a courage of manners in private assemblies...
    Suc 7.304 20 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight...to see the beautiful manners of the youth of either sex.
    Suc 7.308 15 We may apply this affirmative law to letters, to manners...
    PI 8.32 8 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.
    PI 8.44 27 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...they are perfect in their organs, attitude, manners;...
    PI 8.69 22 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe,--We, who speak the tongue/ That Shakspeare spake, the faith and manners hold/ Which Milton held./
    SA 8.79 2 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners.
    SA 8.79 6 ...the subject of manners has a constant interest to thoughtful persons.
    SA 8.79 8 Who does not delight in fine manners?
    SA 8.79 16 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    SA 8.79 22 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force...
    SA 8.80 23 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners...
    SA 8.81 4 Manners are stronger than laws.
    SA 8.81 11 Manners seem to say, You are you, and I am I.
    SA 8.81 18 Nature values manners.
    SA 8.81 19 Who teaches manners of majesty...
    SA 8.82 19 It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived too long in college.
    SA 8.82 24 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar...exhibits the best style of manners.
    SA 8.83 12 Whilst one man by his manners pins me to the wall, with another I walk among the stars.
    SA 8.83 22 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
    SA 8.83 26 Manners are the revealers of secrets...
    SA 8.85 13 ...we all wish to...do justice to ourselves by our manners;...
    SA 8.86 2 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers, if only for a school of manners,--the silent prayer before meals.
    SA 8.86 7 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of relfection. ... What a check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table...
    SA 8.86 10 'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
    SA 8.88 6 If a man have manners and talent he may dress roughly and carelessly.
    SA 8.89 1 Thus much for manners: but we are not content with pantomime;...
    SA 8.91 5 'T is a defect in our manners that they have not yet reached the prescribing a limit to visits.
    SA 8.99 19 Manners first, then conversation.
    SA 8.99 20 Manners first, then conversation. Later, we see that as life was not in manners, so it is not in talk.
    SA 8.99 21 Manners are external;...
    SA 8.106 16 Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
    SA 8.107 8 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
    SA 8.107 15 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here...
    Elo2 8.122 1 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners...in their style;...
    Elo2 8.129 23 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
    Comc 8.171 12 More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the man himself.
    PC 8.218 24 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne by rank or official power...
    PC 8.232 7 It was what we call plantation manners which drove peaceable forgiving New England to emancipation without phrase.
    PC 8.232 14 ...nobody doubts the power of manners...
    Grts 8.303 11 You say of some new person, That man will go far,-for you see in his manners that the recognition of him by others is not necessary to him.
    Grts 8.304 18 I am to infer that you keep good company by your better information and manners...
    Imtl 8.324 17 The credence of men...makes their manners and customs;...
    Aris 10.34 10 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners;...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.35 13 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are not superficial...
    Aris 10.43 2 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions;...
    Aris 10.43 19 ...the manners betray the like puny constitution.
    Aris 10.54 19 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction...
    Aris 10.54 21 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man.
    Aris 10.55 2 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.
    Aris 10.56 2 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field are those of men at rest...
    Aris 10.65 22 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles;...
    Aris 10.65 26 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles; but the fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man, a beauty which reaches through and through, from the manners to the soul;...
    Chr2 10.107 20 So of the changed position and manners of the clergy.
    Chr2 10.107 22 [The clergy] have dropped, with the sacerdotal garb and manners of the last century, many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Edc1 10.155 26 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...resume their haunts and their ordinary labors and manners...
    Edc1 10.159 1 According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.
    Supl 10.163 14 There is a superlative temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a certain desperation.
    Prch 10.218 15 ...elegance of taste and of manners and pursuit, a boundless ambition of intellect...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    MoL 10.244 9 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    Schr 10.284 1 ...manners, temper, lion-heart, are all good things...
    LLNE 10.325 1 The ancient manners were giving way.
    LLNE 10.328 2 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week. In social manners and morals the revolution is just as evident.
    LLNE 10.338 25 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times.
    LLNE 10.345 3 ...[State Street] did not fancy brusque manners.
    LLNE 10.346 2 ...[the pilgrim] had the courage which so stern a return to Arcadian manners required...
    LLNE 10.365 23 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined...
    LLNE 10.368 4 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    LLNE 10.369 11 The yeoman [at Brook Farm] saw refined manners in persons who were his friends;...
    EzRy 10.389 4 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy...which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
    MMEm 10.405 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] delighted...in genius, in manners.
    SlHr 10.440 4 [Samuel Hoar] was...fond of birds, and attentive to their manners and habits;...
    SlHr 10.446 27 [Samuel Hoar]...spent all his energy in creating purity of manners and careful education.
    SlHr 10.447 12 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school...
    SlHr 10.447 17 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is...always a few young men to whom these manners are native.
    Thor 10.454 24 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
    Thor 10.459 17 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
    Thor 10.466 20 ...the fishes [in the Concord River], and their spawning and nests, their manners, their food;...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.467 11 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river...
    GSt 10.506 8 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    HDC 11.64 5 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.
    HDC 11.83 25 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture...of a community of great simplicity of manners...
    EWI 11.101 11 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.123 17 The national aim and employment streams into...our habits and our manners.
    EWI 11.126 18 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers, if once freedom and civility and European manners could get a foothold there.
    War 11.172 22 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.
    FSLC 11.197 23 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who, by the fear of public opinion, or through the dangerous ascendency of Southern manners, have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.205 21 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas.
    FSLN 11.221 5 [Webster's] countenance, his figure, and his manners were all in so grand a style, that he was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
    FSLN 11.224 4 ...there is...not an observation on life and manners...that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
    JBS 11.279 24 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown] learned the manners of animals...
    ALin 11.334 13 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph...of the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class president, at last. Yes, in manners and sympathies, but not in powers, for his powers were superior.
    SMC 11.357 3 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...young men...of excellent education and polished manners...
    EdAd 11.387 17 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality in the careless self-reliance of the manners...
    Wom 11.409 16 [Women] finish society, manners, language.
    Wom 11.409 24 [Women's] genius delights...in decorating life with manners...
    Wom 11.411 18 ...I think [women] should magnify their ritual of manners.
    Wom 11.426 1 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course.
    ChiE 11.471 18 ...by some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    FRep 11.533 25 Our politics threaten [England]. Her manners threaten us.
    PLT 12.9 1 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have corrected this folly...
    II 12.77 12 ...all beauty of discourse or of manners lies in launching on the thought, and forgetting ourselves;...
    Mem 12.98 24 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books. Your conversation, action, your face and manners, report of no more...
    CInt 12.128 27 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [are] the romantic manners?...you expose your atheism.
    CL 12.142 14 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...
    CL 12.148 3 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty, it has a positive effect on manners...
    CL 12.166 25 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must...have manners that speak of reality and great elements...
    Bost 12.183 16 According to quality and according to temperature, [the air] must have effect on manners.
    Bost 12.198 1 I do not look to find in England better manners than the best manners here [in New England].
    Bost 12.198 2 I do not look to find in England better manners than the best manners here [in New England].
    Milt1 12.257 9 [Milton's] manners and his carriage did him no injustice.
    ACri 12.299 13 ...[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.
    MLit 12.324 10 With the sharpest eye for...engraving, medals, persons and manners, [Goethe] never stopped at surface...
    WSL 12.337 12 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him,-persons, manners, customs, politics, geography.
    EurB 12.373 8 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America. The effect on manners cannot be less sensible...
    EurB 12.378 4 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures...
    EurB 12.378 8 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners...
    PPr 12.382 21 [A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing...

Manners, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.169 5 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech. This silent and subtile language is Manners;...

Manners of the Germans, On (1)

    ET4 5.48 7 I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the Germans, not long since...

manning, n. (1)

    ET4 5.56 5 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was, causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of his galleys.

Manning, n. (1)

    Nat 1.8 17 Miller owns this field...and Manning the woodland beyond.

manoeuvre, n. (3)

    NMW 4.230 2 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution...
    ET5 5.86 15 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    WD 7.181 7 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming out again, and repeat the delicious manoeuvre for hours.

manoeuvring, v. (1)

    NMW 4.230 6 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.

man-of-war, n. (2)

    ET2 5.32 18 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.
    EWI 11.110 23 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.

manor, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.42 11 Thou [O poet] shalt have the whole land for thy park and manor...
    Wth 6.117 22 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time.
    Wth 6.118 1 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor;...
    Schr 10.270 13 For [the poet] arms, art, politics, trade, waited like menials, until the lord of the manor should arrive.
    EWI 11.122 17 The owner of a New York manor imitates the mansion and equipage of the London nobleman;...

manor-hall, n. (1)

    ET16 5.284 15 [Wilton Hall]...is esteemed a noble specimen of the English manor-hall.

manors, n. (1)

    ET11 5.188 17 In these [English] manors, after the frenzy of war and destruction subsides a little, the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar... without so much as a new layer of dust...

manque, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 22 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.

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