Morgan, Lady to Motes
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Morgan, Lady [Sydney Owens (1)
ET17 5.293 4 It was my privilege also [in London] to
converse with Miss
Baillie, with Lady Morgan, with Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Somerville.
Morgan, Mr., n. (1)
Plu 10.317 3 I can almost regret that the learned editor
of the present
republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of
Mr. Morgan...
morgue, n. (4)
GoW 4.289 18 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being
both representatives
of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of
conventions...
ET11 5.194 17 With the tribe of artistes, including the
musical tribe, the
patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
Clbs 7.243 6 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who
first...broke
through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and
learning as well as men of rank...
Carl 10.498 1 ...in England, where the morgue of
aristocracy has very
slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has carried himself
erect...
moribund, adj. (1)
ET12 5.213 10 ...when you have settled it that the
universities are
moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
Moritz, Karl Philipp, n. (1)
MAng1 12.217 19 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly
borrow the
language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that because the
understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it
beautiful? for that reason it is so.
Mormonism, n. (1)
Wsp 6.203 21 I and my neighbors have been bred in the
notion that unless
we came soon to some good church,--Calvinism, or Behmenism, or
Romanism, or Mormonism,--there would be a universal thaw and
dissolution.
Mormons, n. (1)
Wsp 6.209 1 In creeds never was such levity;
witness...the maundering of
Mormons...
morn, n. (11)
Nat 1.53 20 Take those lips away/.../And those eyes, the
break of day,/ Lights that do mislead the morn./
Art1 2.349 12 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/
Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make
each morrow a new morn./
ET2 5.27 4 ...[the good ship] has reached the
Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;
no fishermen; she has passed the
Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at
sundown, which were far east of us at morn...
WD 7.172 16 We are coaxed, flattered and duped from
morn to eve...
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;/...
PPo 8.258 3 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All
day the rain/
Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to
night/
Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
MoL 10.244 12 See the activity of the imagination in
the Crusades: the
front of morn was full of fiery shapes;...
MMEm 10.411 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my
expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every
morn;...
War 11.149 3 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure
cope,/ Waits
through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but unto Victory
born./
CW 12.169 11 ...unto me not morn's
magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such
resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me
when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/
Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
MAng1 12.216 22 It is a happiness to find...a soul at
intervals born to
behold and create only Beauty. So shall not...the great spectacle of
morn
and evening which shut and open the most disastrous day, want
observers.
morning, adj. (34)
Nat 1.17 10 ...I dilate and conspire with the morning
wind.
Nat 1.31 25 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall
reappear in their
morning lustre...
Nat 1.73 20 ...the knowledge of man is an evening
knowledge...but that of
God is a morning knowledge...
LT 1.274 7 [The wealthy man] entertains [the
divine]...lodges him; his
religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep;
rises...is
better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed
on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...
Tran 1.349 26 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found
that...from the courtesies
of the academy and the college to the conventions of the cotillon-room
and
the morning call, there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
Tran 1.356 14 Grave seniors insist on
[Transcendentalists'] respect...to
some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what
does
not concern them.
Hist 2.16 12 What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a
morning thought...
Hist 2.16 13 What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a
morning thought, as
the horses in it are only a morning cloud?
Hist 2.39 13 [Each man] shall...bring with him into
humble cottages the
blessing of the morning stars...
Prd1 2.226 14 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows,
nature has...spread a
table for [the islander's] morning meal.
Exp 3.68 19 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful
obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great
a tax. Theirs is the beauty of...the morning light, and not of art.
Nat2 3.188 15 Each young and ardent person writes a
diary, in which, when
the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The
pages
thus written are to him burning and fragrant; he reads them on his
knees... by the morning star;...
Pol1 3.217 1 We think our civilization near its
meridian, but we are yet
only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
SwM 4.143 8 It is the best sign of a great nature that
it...like the breath of
morning landscapes, invites us onward.
MoS 4.184 17 Each man woke in the morning with...a
spirit for action and
passion without bounds; he could lay his hand on the morning star;...
Wth 6.115 14 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up
from his idiot dream
of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought...
Bhr 6.170 2 If [manners] are superficial, so are the
dew-drops which give
such a depth to the morning meadows.
Wsp 6.212 27 ...the moral sense reappears to-day with
the same morning
newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.
Elo1 7.67 23 When each auditor...shudders with cold at
the thinness of the
morning audience...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then
inestimable.
DL 7.101 5 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had
leaped from one fair
mother's arms/...
WD 7.155 8 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/
Forgot my
morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/
Turned
and departed silent./
Clbs 7.244 19 If [my friend] were sure to find at No.
2000 Tremont Street
what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston
would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.
PC 8.224 26 How cunningly [Nature] hides every wrinkle
of her
inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
PPo 8.254 14 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz]
says,-Boast not
rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the
temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from
the musky
morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour
of
the day.
Edc1 10.152 13 Each [pupil] requires so much
consideration, that the
morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
MMEm 10.413 8 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the
morning
walk, a foreigner...
LS 11.2 4 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In
groves of oak, or fanes of
gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the
willing
mind./
HDC 11.37 9 When you came over the morning waters, said
one of the
Sachems, we took you into our arms.
FSLN 11.218 14 Look into the morning trains which, from
every suburb, carry the business men into the city...
PLT 12.33 21 Right thought comes spontaneously, comes
like the morning
wind;...
Mem 12.94 26 Memory was called by the schoolmen
vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command
of the future which
we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina
cognitio, or morning knowledge.
Bost 12.187 1 I do not know that Charles River or
Merrimac water is more
clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers, yet the
men
that drink it get up earlier, and some of the morning light lasts
through the
day.
Milt1 12.264 21 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the
suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...
Milt1 12.265 9 ...[Milton] replies to the...calumny
respecting his morning
haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up
and
stirring...with...labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to
render...obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our
country's
liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and
cover
their stations. These are the morning practices.
morning, n. (132)
Nat 1.8 14 The charming landscape which I saw this
morning is indubitably
made up of some twenty or thirty farms.
Nat 1.14 10 [The private poor man] sets his house upon
the road, and the
human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a
path
for him.
Nat 1.17 2 I see the spectacle of morning...with
emotions which an angel
might share.
Nat 1.19 10 The shows of day, the dewy morning...if too
eagerly hunted... mock us with their unreality.
Nat 1.53 16 The freshness of youth and love dazzles
[Shakspeare] with its
resemblance to morning;...
Nat 1.54 14 The charm dissolves apace/ And, as the
morning steals upon
the night,/...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes
that
mantle/ Their clearer reason./
LE 1.159 18 The sense of spiritual independence is like
the lovely varnish
of the dew, whereby the old, hard, peaked earth and its old self-same
productions are made new every morning...
LE 1.163 6 ...in the hopes of the morning...behold
Charles the Fifth's day;...
LE 1.168 18 Whilst I read the poets, I think that
nothing new can be said
about morning and evening.
LE 1.168 27 That is morning, to cease for a bright hour
to be a prisoner of
this sickly body...
MN 1.205 24 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying in
thy senses the
morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy;...
MN 1.220 5 What a debt is ours to that old religion,
which, in the
childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the
country of
New England...
MN 1.220 27 ...we also can bask in the great morning
which rises forever
out of the eastern sea...
MR 1.248 15 What is a man born for but to be...a
restorer of truth and
good, imitating that great Nature which...every hour repairs herself,
yielding us every morning a new day...
MR 1.252 2 ...there will dawn ere long...on our modes
of living, a nobler
morning than that Arabian faith...
MR 1.254 20 Have you not seen in the woods, in a late
autumn morning, a
poor fungus or mushroom...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its
way
up through the frosty ground...
LT 1.267 10 Slowly, like light of morning, it steals on
us, the new fact, that
we who were pupils or aspirants are now society...
Con 1.298 22 We are...reformers in the morning,
conservers at night.
Con 1.314 27 ...rising one morning before day from his
bed of moss and
dry leaves, [Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...
Hist 2.31 27 The philosophical perception of identity
through endless
mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who
laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this
morning stood and ran?
SR 2.80 21 ...the immortal light...will beam over the
universe as on the first
morning.
Comp 2.91 2 The wings of Time are black and white,/
Pied with morning
and with night./
Lov1 2.175 6 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of
that power to his heart
and brain...which made...the morning and the night varied
enchantments;...
Fdsp 2.194 1 I awoke this morning with devout
thanksgiving for my
friends...
Cir 2.320 21 [The new position of the advancing
man]...is itself an
exhalation of the morning.
Int 2.328 17 You cannot with your best deliberation and
heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you,
whilst
you...walk abroad in the morning after meditating the matter before
sleep
on the previous night.
Art1 2.365 11 The oratorio has already lost its
relation to the morning...
Pt1 3.10 12 I remember when I was young how much I was
moved one
morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me
at
table.
Pt1 3.24 15 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn,
and saw the
morning break...
Exp 3.52 12 Men resist the conclusion in the morning,
but adopt it as the
evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place
and
condition...
Exp 3.62 9 In the morning I awake and find the old
world...not far off.
Chr1 3.93 10 In his parlor I see very well that [the
natural merchant] has
been at hard work this morning...
Chr1 3.106 10 It was only this morning that I sent away
some wild flowers
of these wood-gods.
Mrs1 3.137 6 We should meet each morning as from
foreign countries...
Mrs1 3.144 8 ...here is...Monsieur Jovaire, who came
down this morning in
a balloon;...
Nat2 3.170 7 We have crept out of our close and crowded
houses into the
night and morning...
Nat2 3.170 13 The tempered light of the woods is like a
perpetual
morning...
Nat2 3.176 14 The uprolled clouds and the colors of
morning and evening
will transfigure maples and alders.
Nat2 3.194 19 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves
with the work, we feel
that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the
peace of
the morning dwelling first in our hearts...
Nat2 3.196 20 That power...which makes the whole and
the particle its
equal channel, delegates its smile to the morning...
NR 3.231 14 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox,
geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through
[the day-laborer's] mind.
NR 3.242 10 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took
up this book of
Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...large as morning or
night...
NER 3.272 15 In the morning...[men] are radicals.
MoS 4.184 14 Each man woke in the morning with an
appetite that could
eat the solar system like a cake;...
ShP 4.190 3 A great man does not wake up on some fine
morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an
Antarctic continent...
NMW 4.241 9 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation
to his troops is
the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz...
ET1 5.3 5 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed
in London at the
Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning;...
ET2 5.29 4 ...I waked every morning [at sea] with the
belief that some one
was tipping up my berth.
ET4 5.58 27 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a
morning for a
frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their
horses'
mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
ET13 5.218 13 It was strange to hear the pretty
pastoral of the betrothal of
Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with
circumstantiality
in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
ET14 5.251 26 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse
has a slight hint
of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created...by no means as the bird
of a
new morning...
ET15 5.263 10 What you read in the morning in that
journal [London
Times], you shall hear in the evening in all society.
ET15 5.265 7 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small
share in the
proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you
please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office
when you
will; I shall publish The New Times next Monday morning.
ET16 5.280 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound
[Stonehenge] in
the twilight, with the design to return the next morning...
ET16 5.280 20 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only
milk for one cup
of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My
friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the
dog-cart...in
which we were to be sent to Wilton.
F 6.40 19 ...of all the drums and rattles by which
men...are led out solemnly
every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are
brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
Ctr 6.152 21 ...I remember one rainy morning in the
city of Palermo the
street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
Ctr 6.156 5 In the morning,--solitude; said
Pythagoras;...
Bhr 6.196 22 ...if you have headache...or
thunderstroke, I beseech you...to
hold your peace, and not pollute the morning...
CbW 6.262 11 We learn geology the morning after the
earthquake...
Bty 6.297 18 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere,
flock to see the
Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to
see her
get into her post-chaise next morning.
Bty 6.304 27 The poets are quite right in decking their
mistresses with the
spoils of the landscape...flushes of morning and stars of night...
Art2 7.52 3 These [ancient sculptures] are...the face
of man in the morning
of the world.
Elo1 7.59 11 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In
his every syllable/
Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/
The
pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons
be/
And life pulsates in rock or tree./
DL 7.105 4 The childhood, said Milton, shows the man,
as morning shows
the day.
Farm 7.144 1 No particle of oxygen can rust or wear,
but has the same
energy as on the first morning.
WD 7.168 22 Remember what boys think in the morning of
Election day...
WD 7.170 1 The scholar must look long for the right
hour for Plato's
Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives...
WD 7.180 27 Cannot we let the morning be?
Boks 7.217 7 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke;
great rainbows
seemed to span the sky, a morning among the mountains;...
Boks 7.217 12 ...this passion for romance, and this
disappointment, show
how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show
us, in morning and night...the analogons of our own thoughts...
Cour 7.256 15 How short a time since this whole nation
rose every
morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers
in the
field...
Cour 7.272 24 The best act of the marvellous genius of
Greece was...in the
instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with
its
antiquities and organic slavery,--from corrupting the hope and new
morning
of the West.
OA 7.335 9 [John Adams]...is better the next day after
having visitors in his
chamber from morning to night.
Elo2 8.120 26 I have heard an eminent preacher say that
he learns from the
first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a
successful day.
Elo2 8.127 23 ...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.
Elo2 8.128 9 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot
learned this morning
he has the air of having known from all eternity.
Res 8.144 23 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in
his blanket, and the
falling snow...is his eider-down, in which he sleeps warm till the
morning.
Comc 8.167 24 ...I was hastening to visit an old and
honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his
physician, who accosted me...with
joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I
inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I
have
ever seen;...
PPo 8.251 15 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike
down,/ Poises Arcturus
aloft morning and evening his spear./
PPo 8.253 1 This morning heard I how the lyre of the
stars resounded,/ Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!/
PPo 8.253 5 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus,
and it said in the early
morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!
PPo 8.257 8 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found
the grove in the
morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to
cure./
Insp 8.274 1 In June the morning is noisy with
birds;...
Insp 8.284 16 The fine influences of the morning few
can explain, but all
will admit.
Insp 8.285 5 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me
pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my
quiet industry./ But they
left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened,/ And after every
late
morning/ Followed unprofitable days./
Insp 8.285 23 At last it has become summer,/ And at the
first glimpse of
morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
Insp 8.286 11 The French have a proverb to the effect
that not the day only, but all things have their morning...
Insp 8.286 13 ...it is a primal rule to defend your
morning...
Insp 8.286 19 I remember a capital prudence of old
President Quincy, who
told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the
studies
for the next morning.
Insp 8.286 22 ...in our good days a well-ordered mind
has a new thought
awaiting it every morning.
Grts 8.311 2 Let the student...sedulously wait every
morning for the news
concerning the structure of the world which the spirit will give him.
Dem1 10.11 6 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is
filled with
innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
PerF 10.81 12 See in a circle of school-girls one
with...no special
vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone,
but
at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers
around
her...
Chr2 10.105 9 ...we read with surprise the horror of
Athens when, one
morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
Chr2 10.107 6 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers
were said, morning
and evening, in all families;...
Chr2 10.117 21 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear
of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
MoL 10.258 14 Who would not, if it could be made
certain that the new
morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing
of one
generation, who would not consent to die?
Plu 10.301 2 [Plutarch] believes...in demons and
ghosts,-but prefers...to
talk of these in the morning.
Plu 10.304 22 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...
LLNE 10.330 24 The novelty of the learning lost nothing
in the skill and
genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a
new
morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.
MMEm 10.412 16 ...in dead of night, nearer morning,
when the eastern
stars glow...then, however awed, who can fear?
MMEm 10.415 22 This morning rich in existence;...
HDC 11.60 26 ...[King Philip] was at last shot down by
an Indian deserter, as he fled alone in the dark of the morning...
HDC 11.67 16 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again
at Concord, on
Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the
Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of
the
two.
EWI 11.116 21 On the next Monday morning [after
emancipation in the
West Indies], with very few exceptions, every negro on every plantation
was in the field at his work.
FSLC 11.179 10 I wake in the morning with a painful
sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that
ignominy which has
fallen on Massachusetts...
JBB 11.266 11 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Came
homeward in the
morning to find his house burned down./
HCom 11.344 20 [Harvard men] might say, with their
forefathers the old
Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.
SMC 11.357 11 I have a note of a conversation that
occurred in our first
company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
SMC 11.362 19 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine
for officers
swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used
to
such talk. I told the colonel this morning I should [march my men
away], and shall...
SMC 11.362 25 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told
that officer from
West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he
did
yesterday;...
SMC 11.364 24 [George Prescott writes] I told
Lieutenant Bowers, this
morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles...
SMC 11.370 10 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth
[Regiment], came to
him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to
appreciate the
Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity
they
have not found it out before it was all gone. We have a hundred and
seventy-seven guns this morning.
SMC 11.373 1 Early in the morning of the eighteenth
[the Thirty-second
Regiment] went to the front...
SMC 11.373 12 [George Prescott] was carried off the
field to the division
hospital, and died on the following morning.
SMC 11.373 27 On the first of January, 1865, the
Thirty-second Regiment
made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of
works
before Petersburg. On the fourth of February, sudden orders came to
move
next morning at daylight.
Koss 11.396 3 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer
them no more;/ Up to
my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
SHC 11.435 5 The morning, the moonlight, the spring
day, are magical
painters...
FRO1 11.477 2 Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding
this house this
morning, that I had come into the right hall.
FRep 11.532 10 See how fast [our people] extend the
fleeting fabric of
their trade...with the same abandonment to the moment and the facts of
the
hour as the Esquimau who sells his bed in the morning.
PLT 12.28 18 Silent, passive, even sulkily, Nature
offers every morning
her wealth to man.
II 12.71 10 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and
reappears, another
creature;...the Ancient of Days in the dew of the morning.
Mem 12.107 12 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is
best knocking in the
nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
CInt 12.130 7 Watch the breaking morning, the
enchantments of the sunset.
CL 12.136 27 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go
with him on
excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects,
birds and
eggs. These parties started at seven in the morning...
CL 12.151 17 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest
through his arteries; the
loquacity of all birds in the morning;...
CL 12.157 3 Can you hear what the morning says to you,
and believe that?
Bost 12.195 3 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton,
Fenelon, to our
devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will
say with
Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the
evening die, I can be happy.
MLit 12.310 25 ...[the library of the Present Age]
vents books that breathe
of new morning...
MLit 12.333 13 When one of these grand monads is
incarnated whom
Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think
that...the trivial forms of daily life will now end, and a new morning
break
on us all.
EurB 12.377 25 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an
Iliad any rainy
morning, if fame were not such a bore.
morning-redness, n. (1)
Pt1 3.34 21 The morning-redness happens to be the
favorite meteor to the
eyes of Jacob Behmen...
mornings, n. (10)
LE 1.167 27 Further inquiry will discover...that [these
chanting poets]...saw
one or two mornings...
YA 1.379 16 Our part is plainly...to watch the uprise
of successive
mornings...
Lov1 2.179 1 [The lover's] friends find in [his
mistress] a likeness to her
mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees
no
resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings...
Prd1 2.228 26 A gay and pleasant sound is the whetting
of the scythe in the
mornings of June...
NR 3.223 7 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every
child they
wake/...
SwM 4.106 5 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge
makes his style
lustrous...and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air
sparkles with crystals.
PPo 8.250 1 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music,
to give vent to his
immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
Imtl 8.337 23 I have seen what glories...of summer
mornings and
evenings...
CW 12.171 5 When I bought my farm...as little did I
guess what sublime
mornings and sunsets I was buying...
EurB 12.368 9 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn
and on the margin
of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime
midnights for his theme...
morning's, n. (1)
Insp 8.275 14 The raptures of goodness are as old as
history and new with
this morning's sun.
morn's, n. (1)
CW 12.169 3 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/ Nor the
red rainbow of a
summer's eve,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such
resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/
Ope in
such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the
black loam./
mornward, adv. (1)
ALin 11.328 23 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of
Europe fronting
mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal
scheme deface;/...
morocco, n. (1)
SL 2.154 11 ...vellum and morocco...will not preserve a
book in circulation
beyond its intrinsic date.
morose, adj. (6)
Comp 2.99 1 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends
him a troop of
pretty sons and daughters...
NR 3.240 4 Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy...
ET8 5.127 1 The English race are reputed morose.
ET8 5.138 10 If anatomy is reformed according to
national tendencies, I
suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found
in
the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate
another
anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and
caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last
tender-hearted...
SA 8.97 6 ...there are...swainish, morose people, who
must be kept down
and quieted as you would those who are a little tipsy;...
MLit 12.329 24 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself]
...every keen
beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister], and will
acquit
me of prejudging the cause of humanity by painting it with this morose
fidelity.
moroseness, n. (1)
WSL 12.347 22 [Landor] hates false words, and seeks with
care, difficulty
and moroseness those that fit the thing.
Morphy, Paul Charles, n. (1)
Cour 7.269 6 Morphy played a daring game in chess...
Morris, Mowbray, n. (1)
ET15 5.265 19 I went one day with a good friend to The
[London] Times
office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in
Printing-House
Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a
powder-mill; but...by dint of some transmission of cards, we were at
last
conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris...
morrow, n. (8)
Tran 1.339 4 Nature...ever works and advances, yet takes
no thought for
the morrow.
OS 2.297 13 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the
negligency of that
trust which carries God with it...
Int 2.329 2 We are the prisoners of ideas. They...so
fully engage us that we
take no thought for the morrow...
Art1 2.349 12 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/
Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make
each morrow a new morn./
PPo 8.247 21 ...quick perception and corresponding
expression, a
constitution to which every morrow is a new day...this generosity of
ebb
and flow satisfies...
Imtl 8.322 6 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And
send conviction
without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our
days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal
youth./ Monadnoc.
MMEm 10.397 4 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day
goes drudging
through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and
can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his
conquering aid./
HCom 11.344 23 ...in how many cases it chanced, when
the hero had
fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned
to the
war-path...
Morrow, n. (1)
MLit 12.329 10 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself]
That all shall
right itself in the long Morrow, I may well allow, and my novel
[Wilhelm
Meister] may wait for the same regeneration.
morsel, n. (3)
Prd1 2.233 18 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful
drivellers whom
travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who
skulk
about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their
morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
PPh 4.77 18 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet
and of men, have
passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no
longer bread, but body: so all this mammoth morsel has become Plato.
NMW 4.255 18 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy
when he had
intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women
about him...
mortal, adj. (28)
AmS 1.105 2 ...what overgrown error you behold is there
only by
sufferance, - by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have
already
dealt it its mortal blow.
MN 1.223 15 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities
which house to-day
in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a
similar
frame...
Hist 2.15 7 ...we have [the Greek national mind
expressed] once again in
sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some
religious
dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat,
never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
Comp 2.107 7 ...a leaf fell on [Siegfried's] back
whilst he was bathing in
the dragon's blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal.
OS 2.273 3 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep
us so. Such a
thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Every man
parts
from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages
than
to mortal life.
OS 2.293 12 [God's presence] inspires in man an
infallible trust. ... In the
presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so
universal
that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of
mortal condition in its flood.
Int 2.327 4 ...man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies
open to the mercy of
coming events.
Pt1 3.23 23 The songs, thus flying immortal from their
mortal parent, are
pursued by clamorous flights of censures...
Exp 3.77 6 The great and crescive self...ruins the
kingdom of mortal
friendship and love.
Exp 3.83 21 The effect is deep and secular as the
cause. It works on periods
in which mortal lifetime is lost.
ET14 5.252 14 The tone of colleges and of scholars and
of literary society [in England] has this mortal air.
F 6.7 25 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as
mortal to some tribes
as a frost to the crickets...
Ctr 6.140 9 Incapacity of melioration is the only
mortal distemper.
Art2 7.57 14 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face
[beauty, truth and
goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images
to
remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
PI 8.27 21 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not
imagine in
stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than
his
perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
PI 8.27 25 William Blake...writes thus... The painter
of this work asserts
that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and
more
minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
PI 8.37 25 Poetry is the consolation of mortal men.
PI 8.39 26 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the
Creator that made and
makes men. How much of the original craft remains in him, and he a
mortal
man!
PI 8.40 17 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his
condition. In that
prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy
machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby
he can transfer his visions to mortal canvas...
Comc 8.156 1 And if I laugh at any mortal thing/ 't is
that I may not weep./ Byron.
Imtl 8.322 6 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And
send conviction
without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our
days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal
youth./ Monadnoc.
Chr2 10.95 1 High instincts, before which our mortal
nature/ Doth tremble
like a guilty thing surprised,-/...
Wom 11.412 10 More vulnerable, more infirm, more mortal
than men, [women] could not be such excellent artists in this element
of fancy if they
did not lend and give themselves to it.
Shak1 11.448 10 Genius is the consoler of our mortal
condition...
CW 12.177 16 [Walking] is the consolation of mortal
men.
MAng1 12.243 24 In the church of Santa Croce are
[Michelangelo's] mortal remains.
MLit 12.309 10 When we flout all particular books as
initial merely, we
truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the
fact and
fortune...of these humble Junes and Decembers of mortal life.
Pray 12.355 28 Let these few scattered leaves...stand
as an example of
innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has
reported...
mortal, n. (11)
Nat 1.39 6 What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he
enters into the
councils of the creation...
SR 2.79 1 To the persevering mortal, said Zoroaster,
the blessed Immortals
are swift.
Hsm1 2.264 7 ...the love that will be annihilated
sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the
deeps of absolute and
inextinguishable being.
Int 2.339 13 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose
balance is lost
by the exaggeration of a single topic.
SwM 4.116 13 ...if we choose to express any natural
truth in physical and
definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only
into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a
spiritual truth
or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept:
although no
mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly
arise
by bare literal transposition;...
Bhr 6.167 4 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every
mortal/...
Bty 6.287 15 The ancients believed that a genius or
demon took possession
at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
Ill 6.325 10 The young mortal enters the hall of the
firmament; there is he
alone with [the gods] alone...
Elo1 7.72 25 ...when...his words fell like the winter
snows, not then would
any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
Insp 8.283 22 To the persevering mortal the blessed
immortals are swift.
Carl 10.490 10 ...no mortal in America could pretend to
talk with Carlyle...
mortality, n. (2)
SS 7.5 4 [My friend's] dismay at his visibility had
blunted the fears of
mortality.
Imtl 8.340 10 Salt is a good preserver; cold is: but a
truth cures the taint of
mortality better...
mortally, adv. (1)
SMC 11.373 5 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were
ordered to take the
Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels. In this charge,
Colonel
George L. Prescott was mortally wounded.
mortals, n. (11)
MN 1.214 2 Things divine are not attainable by mortals
who understand
sensual things...
Hist 2.30 23 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust
justice of the Eternal
Father and the race of mortals...
SwM 4.140 22 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt
an early syllable
to answer the longings of saints, the fears of mortals.
ET6 5.106 13 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated
to read and threw
out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been
accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;...
Bhr 6.196 18 ...there is one topic peremptorily
forbidden to all well-bred, to
all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
WD 7.178 25 ...Homer said, The gods ever give to
mortals their
apportioned share of reason only on one day.
Boks 7.211 18 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of
Arts and Sciences is a
specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the
gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a
literature while other mortals read a few books.
Insp 8.279 13 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever
without some
mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of
common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.
Imtl 8.350 18 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those
desires that are difficult
to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;...
FSLN 11.241 2 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with
the principles on
which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the
patience it
requires is almost too sublime for mortals...
MLit 12.325 18 We are provoked with...the patronizing
air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and
performances of other
mortals...
mortar, n. (3)
ET4 5.51 26 ...as water, lime and sand make mortar, so
certain
temperaments marry well...
Suc 7.299 17 Is...the college where you first knew the
dreams of fancy and
joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
War 11.164 22 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy
which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or
two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid
wood
and brick and mortar.
mortared, v. (1)
ET13 5.230 24 Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared
up and ended...
Morte d' Arthur [Thomas Ma (1)
Insp 8.291 11 ...the wise student will remember the
prudence of Sir
Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when
his
strength increased;...
Morte d'Arthur [Thomas Mal (1)
PI 8.60 12 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so
well as Sir Gawain'
s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
mortem, post, adj. (1)
Bty 6.286 10 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side
with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm
in the study of
Beauty;...
mortgage, n. (3)
GoW 4.290 13 No mortgage, or attainder, will hold on men
or hours.
Ctr 6.155 17 There is a great deal of self-denial and
manliness in poor and
middle-class houses in town and country...that...pays off the mortgage
on
the paternal farm...
Schr 10.271 19 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that
genius
and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because
they have...a first mortgage that takes effect before the right of the
present
proprietor.
mortgaged, v. (3)
LE 1.159 12 ...the new man must feel that he...has not
come into the world
mortgaged to the opinions and usages of Europe...
ET4 5.64 7 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the
kingdom to his brother
the Earl of Cornwall...
EWI 11.126 27 ...the West Indian estate was owned or
mortgaged in
England...
mortgagee, n. (1)
EWI 11.127 1 ...the West Indian estate was owned or
mortgaged in
England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations
that
the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and
velocity...
mortgages, n. (2)
YA 1.381 14 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and
the auctioneer's
flag...
Nat2 3.190 23 ...this bank-stock and file of
mortgages;...all for a little
conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
mortgages, v. (1)
NER 3.265 5 ...in the hour in which [a man] mortgages
himself to two or
ten or twenty, he dwarfs himself below the stature of one.
mortification, n. (8)
MN 1.194 3 The power of mind is not mortification, but
life.
NER 3.276 3 ...instead of avoiding these men who make
his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their
society only, woo and
embrace this his humiliation and mortification...
CbW 6.261 5 The first-class minds...had the poor man's
feeling and
mortification.
Elo1 7.96 15 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went
through, in
childhood, the drill of Calvinism, with text and mortification...
OA 7.323 24 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner
marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee
threatens mortification.
Chr2 10.109 19 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay
bare to the eyes of
men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they whould not be
able
to suppress a feeling of mortification, and would exclaim, with
disappointment, Is that all?
FSLC 11.180 7 Every hour brings us from distant
quarters of the Union the
expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
FSLC 11.202 2 [Webster] must learn...that he who was
their pride in the
woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...
mortifications, n. (3)
YA 1.394 14 ...[the English] need all and more than all
the resources of the
past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the
mortifications
prepared for him by the system of society...
Prd1 2.233 24 Is it not better that a man should accept
the first pains and
mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other
good than
the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
Elo2 8.124 3 In the mortifications of disappointment,
[Science's] soothing
voice shall whisper serenity and peace.
mortified, adj. (1)
Farm 7.138 9 All men keep the farm in reserve as an
asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who
knows how many glances of
remorse are turned this way...from mortified pleaders in courts and
senates...
mortified, v. (7)
LT 1.280 15 I am not mortified by our vice;...
YA 1.375 10 We should be mortified to learn that the
little benefit we
chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost [the things we do]
would yield.
NR 3.226 19 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a
generosity of
affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently mortified by
the
discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to
the
general ends than his companions;...
Thor 10.462 25 [Thoreau] lived for the day, not
cumbered and mortified by
his memory.
FRep 11.525 2 ...we know, all over this country, men of
integrity... mortified by the national disgrace...
MAng1 12.225 1 ...[Michelangelo]...was mortified by
receiving from the
government reproaches at his credulity and fear.
Let 12.399 23 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of
Frederic Holderlin's
Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of
the
despair of Germany, whose tone is still so familiar that we were
somewhat
mortified to find that it was written in 1799.
mortifies, v. (2)
PI 8.55 12 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/ A sigh
that piercing
mortifies/...
SA 8.106 14 Would we codify the laws that should reign
in households, and
whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us...we must learn to
adorn
every day with sacrifices.
mortify, v. (1)
II 12.76 16 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit
that Heaven cannot
enough mortify and snub us...
mortifying, adj. (6)
SR 2.55 18 There is a mortifying experience in
particular...I mean the
foolish face of praise...
Exp 3.51 19 Very mortifying is the reluctant experience
that some
unfriendly excess or imbecility neutralizes the promise of genius.
Bhr 6.186 22 ...Godfrey acts ever as if he suffered
from some mortifying
circumstance.
MMEm 10.407 4 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes, in
finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to
as a
specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his
vanity, or trying to. Alas! never done but by mortifying affliction.
MMEm 10.412 22 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt]
was
brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight!...
FRO1 11.479 13 ...in the thirteenth century the First
Person began to
appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for
worship, but
only through favor of his Son. These mortifying puerilities abound in
religious history.
mortifying, v. (2)
ET5 5.79 2 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage is
so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is
mortifying.
QO 8.179 18 The highest statement of new philosophy
complacently caps
itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is
something mortifying in this perpetual circle.
mortise, n. (1)
ET16 5.278 19 I...was ready to maintain that some
cleverer elephants or
mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on
another. Only the good beasts must have known how to cut a well-wrought
tenon and mortise...
Morton, Ichabod, n. (1)
LLNE 10.361 27 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and
built a
house on [Brook] farm...
Morton, Thomas, n. (1)
Bost 12.190 5 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in
1622...
Mosaic, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.180 1 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our
Mosaic and
Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
mosaic, n. (3)
F 6.42 17 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is...the
mosaic, angulated
and ground to fit into the gap he fills.
II 12.67 24 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture
of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion...
ACri 12.291 10 As soon as you read aloud, you will find
what sentences
drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find the words that drag.
'T is
like a pebble inserted in a mosaic.
mosaics, n. (2)
ET5 5.83 23 [The English] are...not good in jewelry or
mosaics...
Edc1 10.138 7 ...we sacrifice the genius of the
pupil...to a neat and safe
uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art...
Mosely [Mozley], Thomas (?) (1)
ET15 5.266 14 The staff of The [London] Times has always
been made up
of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr.
Bailey, have contributed to its renown...
Moses [Michelangelo], n. (1)
MAng1 12.229 13 In sculpture, [Michelangelo's] greatest
work is the statue
of Moses in the Church of Pietro in Vincolo, in Rome.
Moses, n. (12)
DSA 1.129 26 [Jesus] felt respect for Moses and the
prophets...
DSA 1.145 4 ...one good soul shall make the name of
Moses...reverend
forever.
Con 1.316 26 ...the gravity and sense of some slave
Moses...sufficed to
build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the
sound
mind in a sound body appeared.
Hist 2.28 4 How easily these old worships of
Moses...domesticate
themselves in the mind.
SR 2.45 15 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,
Plato, and Milton is
that they...spoke...what they thought.
SR 2.83 25 There is at this moment for you an utterance
brave and grand as
that of...the pen of Moses or Dante...
SL 2.154 16 ...Moses and Homer stand for ever.
SwM 4.94 17 ...Moses, Menu, Jesus, work directly on
this problem [of
essence].
Civ 7.33 1 The appearance of the Hebrew Moses, of the
Indian Buddh...are
casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
Aris 10.48 27 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be
paid for a
superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager, an educated
slave; a
man of genius, a Moses educated in Egypt?
Chr2 10.97 10 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried:
Let not the Lord
speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
MLit 12.316 26 Of the perception now fast becoming a
conscious fact...that
Moses and Confucius, Montaigne and Leibnitz, are not so much
individuals
as they are parts of man and parts of me, and my intelligence proves
them
my own,-literature is far the best expression.
Moses', n. (1)
MMEm 10.425 18 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as
decked by the hand of
Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to
Science.
mosque, n. (2)
LT 1.263 22 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect
soever,-would
be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he
would; and not only in ours but in any church, mosque, or temple on the
planet;...
OA 7.317 25 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old
Persian of a
hundred and fifty years...
mosquito, n. (1)
ET4 5.68 20 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John
Franklin, that if he found
Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never
turned
his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness that he would not brush
away a
mosquito.
mosquitos, n. (2)
Prd1 2.225 27 ...if we walk in the woods we must feed
mosquitos;...
NER 3.253 5 ...a society for the protection of
ground-worms, slugs and
mosquitos was to be incorporated without delay.
Moss, Chat, England, n. (1)
ET5 5.95 12 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and
Cambridgeshire
are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.
Moss, English Chat, n. (1)
Farm 7.150 16 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make
it sweet and
friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden...
moss, n. (8)
Nat 1.33 17 ...A rolling stone gathers no moss;...
LE 1.169 9 ...the pines, bearded with savage
moss...this beauty...has never
been recorded by art...
Con 1.314 27 ...rising one morning before day from his
bed of moss and
dry leaves, [Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...
Con 1.317 25 ...no moss, no lichen is so easily born
[as man];...
Comp 2.101 27 ...God reappears with all his parts in
every moss and
cobweb.
Ctr 6.149 8 In the country, in long time, for want of
good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on
them...
Imtl 8.334 8 After science begins, belief of permanence
must follow in a
healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so
transcendently
skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find
out...the
delicate contrivance and adjustment...of a moss...and the contriver of
it all
forever hidden!
II 12.73 9 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows
us...how the daily
sunshine and sap may be made to feed wheat instead of moss and Canada
thistle;...
mosses, n. (1)
YA 1.395 2 Our houses and towns are like mosses and
lichens, so slight and
new;...
most, adj. (129)
Nat 1.8 24 Most persons do not see the sun.
Nat 1.16 7 ...almost all the individual forms [in
nature] are agreeable to the
eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the
wings
and forms of most birds...
Nat 1.20 7 ...[man] may...abdicate his kingdom, as most
men do...
LE 1.161 19 ...the most hopeless...may now theorize and
hope.
LT 1.277 17 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the
greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
LT 1.284 22 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even
of those
adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with
most success into active life.
Tran 1.337 19 ...if there is...any presentiment, any
extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
YA 1.370 17 ...the uprise and culmination of the new
and anti-feudal power
of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American
at
this hour.
Hist 2.25 13 ...Xenophon is as sharp-tongued as any and
sharper-tongued
than most...
SR 2.50 4 The virtue in most request is conformity.
SR 2.55 4 ...most men have bound their eyes with one or
another
handkerchief...
SR 2.75 16 ...we see that most natures are insolvent...
SR 2.89 18 Most men gamble with [Fortune]...
Comp 2.113 18 He is great who confers the most
benefits.
Comp 2.125 6 ...in some happier mind [these
revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely
about him, becoming as it were
a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and
not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates
and
no settled character...
OS 2.272 14 The influence of the senses has in most men
overpowered the
mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look
real
and insurmountable;...
Int 2.326 3 The considerations...of profit and hurt,
tyrannize over most men'
s minds.
Pt1 3.21 27 ...the origin of most of our words is
forgotten...
Exp 3.64 25 Law of copyright and international
copyright is to be
discussed, and in the interim we will sell our books for the most we
can.
Chr1 3.93 25 [Character] works with most energy in the
smallest
companies and in private relations.
Mrs1 3.121 22 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's
description of good
society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and
feelings of
precisely that class who have most vigor...
Gts 3.161 9 ...our tokens of compliment and love are
for the most part
barbarous.
Pol1 3.208 19 We might as wisely reprove the east wind
or the frost, as a
political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no
account of
their position...
Pol1 3.218 11 Most persons of ability meet in society
with a kind of tacit
appeal.
NR 3.233 8 I find the most pleasure in reading a book
in a manner least
flattering to the author.
UGM 4.14 9 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know
that he can toil
terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of
Hampden, who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or
wearied by the
most laborious...of Falkland...
PPh 4.60 24 ...disregarding the honors that most men
value...I shall
endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
PPh 4.78 24 A chief structure of human wit...it
requires all the breath of
human faculty to know [Plato]. I think it is trueliest seen when seen
with
the most respect.
PNR 4.88 26 [Plato's] writings have...the sempiternal
youth of poetry. For
their arguments, most of them, might have been couched in sonnets...
MoS 4.164 12 [Montaigne] took up his economy in good
earnest, and made
his farms yield the most.
MoS 4.169 21 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are
guided by
example, not choice.
ET1 5.3 19 Like most young men at that time, I was much
indebted to the
men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review...
ET1 5.16 13 ...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death, Qualis
artifex pereo! better
than most history.
ET5 5.75 8 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 the most bottom and longevity...
ET10 5.154 15 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's
Athenae
Oxonienses], as in most English books, are, first, disloyalty to Church
and
State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
ET11 5.182 1 ...most of the historical [English] houses
are masked or lost
in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
ET11 5.193 26 Most of [the English noblemen] are only
chargeable with
idleness...
ET11 5.194 3 [English noblemen] might be little
Providences on earth, said
my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
ET13 5.225 13 The chatter of French politics...and the
noise of embarking
emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
ET14 5.241 1 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part
of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits
drawing a bucket
now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was
the
dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures.
ET14 5.253 27 ...for the most part the natural science
in England is out of
its loyal alliance with morals...
F 6.11 22 Most men and most women are merely one couple
more.
F 6.11 23 Most men and most women are merely one couple
more.
F 6.23 12 ...nothing is more disgusting than the
crowing about liberty by
slaves, as most men are...
Ctr 6.135 6 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness,
an incuriosity, as
soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
Ctr 6.145 5 For the most part, only the light
characters travel.
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...
CbW 6.260 3 Marcus Antoninus says that Fronto told him
that the so-called
high-born are for the most part heartless;...
CbW 6.260 12 ...the most meritorious public services
have always been
performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.
CbW 6.270 20 How to live with unfit companions?--for
with such, life is
for the most part spent;...
Bty 6.294 10 The cell of the bee is built at that angle
which gives the most
strength with the least wax;...
Bty 6.294 12 ...the bone or the quill of the bird gives
the most alar strength
with the least weight.
Bty 6.299 5 Portrait painters say that most faces and
forms are irregular and
unsymmetrical;...
Bty 6.300 21 It was said of Hooke, the friend of
Newton, He is the most, and promises the least, of any man in England.
Bty 6.302 20 The radiance of the human form, though
sometimes
astonishing...in most, rapidly declines.
SS 7.10 18 ...coop up most men and you undo them.
SS 7.15 22 ...most men are cowed in society...
Art2 7.38 19 ...most of our necessary words are
unconsciously said.
Elo1 7.89 2 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me
of little use for the
most part to those who have it...
Elo1 7.95 8 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers,
like Burke; but most
of them were not...
Farm 7.139 23 In the town where I live...most of the
first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day,
would find their own blood and
names still in possession.
Boks 7.189 13 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The
shipmaster walks in a
modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or
from
Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no
respect better than when he took them on board. So is it with books,
for the
most part;...
Boks 7.216 3 For the most part, our novel-reading is a
passion for results.
Clbs 7.242 12 Does it never occur that we perhaps live
with people too
superior to be seen,--as there are musical notes too high for the scale
of
most ears?
Suc 7.291 4 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who
writes thus of
himself:...I began to understand that the promises of this world are
for the
most part vain phantoms...
PI 8.10 3 The poet who plays with [the law of
correspondence] with most
boldness best justifies himself;...
SA 8.80 18 ...we for the most part are all drawn into
the charivari;...
Res 8.137 8 The world is...strings of tension waiting
to be struck; the earth
sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic and impressionable
medium...
QO 8.194 4 Most of the classical citations you shall
hear or read in the
current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
PPo 8.243 6 ...for the most part, [the Persians] affect
short poems and
epigrams.
Insp 8.273 6 With most men, scarce a link of memory
holds yesterday and
to-day together.
Insp 8.284 4 To-morrow to [Mirabeau] was not the same
impostor as to
most others.
Insp 8.296 16 The day is good in which we have had the
most perceptions.
Insp 8.297 1 [Scholars] are, for the most part, men who
needed only a little
wealth.
Imtl 8.338 26 Most men are insolvent...
Dem1 10.23 20 The fault of most men is that they are
busybodies;...
Edc1 10.150 6 ...though every young man is born with
some determination
in his nature...it is, in the most, obstructed and delayed...
Supl 10.165 20 ...much of the rhetoric of terror...most
men have realized
only in dreams and nightmares.
Supl 10.174 16 All rests at last on the simplicity of
nature, or real being. Nothing is for the most part less esteemed.
Prch 10.224 25 A man acts not from one motive, but from
many shifting
fears and short motives...so that the result of most lives is zero.
Plu 10.309 25 Except as historical curiosities, little
can be said in behalf of
the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the
Questions and the Symposiacs. They are, for the most part, very crude
opinions;...
Plu 10.312 25 Plutarch...thought it the top of
wisdom...to reach in mirth the
same ends which the most serious are proposing.
Plu 10.317 23 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece
[Apothegms of Noble
Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes were already scattered
in his works.
LLNE 10.364 18 There is agreement in the testimony that
[Brook Farm] was, to most of the associates, education;...
Thor 10.460 17 Before the first friendly word had been
spoken for Captain
John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John
Brown...
Thor 10.462 1 [Thoreau]...would probably outwalk most
countrymen in a
day's journey.
Thor 10.467 23 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of
Massachusetts
embraced almost all the important plants of America,-most of the oaks,
most of the willows...
Thor 10.467 24 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of
Massachusetts
embraced almost all the important plants of America,-most of the oaks,
most of the willows...
Thor 10.467 27 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage
to a friend of
whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena
noted might be observed in Concord.
LS 11.19 8 Most men find the bread and wine [of the
Lord's Supper] no aid
to devotion...
HDC 11.29 19 The river, by whose banks most of us were
born, every
winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows
which, in ages, it had formed.
HDC 11.72 4 The clergy of New England were, for the
most part, zealous
promoters of the Revolution.
HDC 11.83 26 For the most part, the town [Concord] has
deserved the
name it wears.
HDC 11.84 11 ...for the most part, [our fathers] deal
generously by their
minister...
HDC 11.84 13 If, at any time, in common with most of
our towns, [our
fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be
remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
EWI 11.116 25 ...for the most part, throughout the
[West Indian] islands, nothing painful occurred.
War 11.158 25 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast
of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of
ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed
at, I
burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had
taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a
great
ship of the king's...
FSLN 11.221 7 ...[Webster] was, without effort, as
superior to his most
eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
JBB 11.269 27 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of
Slavery, when the
governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he
declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he
has
ever met.
TPar 11.287 4 The old religions have a charm for most
minds which it is a
little uncanny to disturb.
TPar 11.289 6 ...it was complained...that [Theodore
Parker's] zeal burned
with too hot a flame. It is so difficult, in evil times, to escape this
charge! for the faithful preacher most of all.
EPro 11.319 3 A day which most of us dared not hope to
see...seems now
to be close before us.
Wom 11.422 1 ...if any man will take the trouble to see
how our people
vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as
wisely.
ChiE 11.471 7 All share the surprise and pleasure when
the venerable
Oriental dynasty,-hitherto a romantic legend to most of us-suddenly
steps into the fellowship of nations.
FRep 11.519 13 The spirit of our political action, for
the most part, considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.
FRep 11.527 3 ...here that same great body [of the
people] has arrived at a
sloven plenty...the man...honest and kind for the most part...
PLT 12.29 18 There are two mischievous superstitions, I
know not which
does the most harm...
PLT 12.36 6 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his
shepherd's pipe,- silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of
the spheres...
PLT 12.36 21 The action of the Instinct is for the most
part negative...
PLT 12.48 19 Most men's minds do not grasp anything.
PLT 12.48 22 Most men's minds do not grasp anything.
All slips through
their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country
houses are
used to raise or drop the curtain...
PLT 12.55 10 Literary men for the most part have a
settled despair as to the
realization of ideas in their own time.
PLT 12.60 4 This premature stop, I know not how,
befalls most of us in
early youth;...
II 12.76 25 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is
very certain that
these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of
our
days...
II 12.84 9 ...men are best and most by themselves...
Mem 12.96 13 In the minds of most men memory is nothing
but a farm-book
or a pocket-diary.
Mem 12.99 11 ...there is a wild memory in children and
youth which makes
what is early learned impossible to forget; and perhaps in the
beginning of
the world it had most vigor.
Mem 12.102 15 ...I suppose I speak the sense of most
thoughtful men when
I say, I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought
and
felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that
have
been published in a century.
CW 12.175 9 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the
Pleiades, or Seven
Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
CW 12.175 15 How many poems have been written, or, at
least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty
constellation is called for
thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
Bost 12.183 22 There are countries, said Howell, where
the heaven is a
fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of
the
year.
MAng1 12.215 19 The means, the materials of
[Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated, being
addressed for the most part to
the eye;...
MAng1 12.221 7 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his
contemporaries
inform us, were made with a pen...
Milt1 12.272 9 The tracts [Milton] wrote on these
topics [divorce and
freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent
to-day as
they were then.
Milt1 12.273 21 [Milton] admonished his friend not to
admire military
prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
PPr 12.380 24 Though...more than most philosophers a
believer in political
systems, Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in
false
and superficial aims of the people...
Trag 12.410 10 [Sorrow] is superficial; for the most
part fantastic, or in the
appearance and not in things.
Trag 12.415 10 Most suffering is only apparent.
most, adv. (545)
Nat 1.4 17 ...to a sound judgment, the most abstract
truth is the most
practical.
Nat 1.4 18 ...to a sound judgment, the most abstract
truth is the most
practical.
Nat 1.8 9 When we speak of nature in this manner, we
have a distinct but
most poetical sense in the mind.
Nat 1.28 6 ...the most trivial of these [natural]
facts...applied to the
illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the
most
lively...manner.
Nat 1.28 11 ...the most trivial of these [natural]
facts...in any way
associated to human nature, affects us in the most lively...manner.
Nat 1.37 23 Debt...is needed most by those who suffer
from it most.
Nat 1.51 5 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very
slight change in the
point of vision,) please us most.
Nat 1.51 7 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very
slight change in the
point of vision,) please us most.
Nat 1.54 25 The perception of real affinities between
events...enables the
poet thus to make free with the most imposing forms and phenomena of
the
world...
Nat 1.58 13 The uniform language that may be heard in
the churches of the
most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the
world;...
Nat 1.59 25 ...[the ideal theory] presents the world in
precisely that view
which is most desirable to the mind.
Nat 1.61 22 Of that ineffable essence which we call
Spirit, he that thinks
most, will say least.
Nat 1.67 10 It is not so pertinent to man to know all
the individuals of the
animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing
unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies
things, endeavoring to reduce the most diverse to one form.
Nat 1.67 24 ...we become sensible of a certain occult
recognition and
sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast,
fish, and insect.
Nat 1.68 8 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long
as the naturalist
overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the
world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile
inhabitant, but
because he is its head and heart...
Nat 1.72 12 ...he that works most in [the world] is but
a half-man...
Nat 1.75 9 To the wise...a fact is...the most beautiful
of fables.
AmS 1.85 4 The scholar is he of all men whom this
spectacle [of nature] most engages.
AmS 1.86 8 ...science is nothing but the finding of
analogy, identity, in the
most remote parts.
AmS 1.92 1 We read the verses of one of the great
English poets...with the
most modern joy...
AmS 1.103 24 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his
privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
AmS 1.103 25 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his
privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the...most public...
AmS 1.105 23 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of
studies...
AmS 1.112 16 Goethe, in this very thing the most modern
of the moderns, has shown us...the genius of the ancients.
AmS 1.112 22 The most imaginative of men...[Swedenborg]
endeavored to
engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of
his time.
DSA 1.134 24 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his
dream] with solemn
joy...but clearest and most permanent, in words.
DSA 1.148 26 The silence that accepts merit as the most
natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
DSA 1.150 26 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly,
the institution of
preaching...essentially the most flexible of all organs...
LE 1.180 26 ...when all tactics had come to an end then
[Napoleon]... availed himself of the mighty saltations of the most
formidable soldiers in
nature.
LE 1.181 10 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the
reverence of the
humble commerce and humble needs of life...the secret of the world is
to be
learned...
MN 1.222 26 Do what you know, and perception is
converted into
character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest
and
fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
MR 1.229 25 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened
money-catcher
who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted
by the new ideas.
MR 1.240 22 ...the husbandman's is the oldest and most
universal
profession...
MR 1.246 18 Sofas, ottomans...theatre,
entertainments,-all these [infirm
people] want...and if they miss any one, they represent themselves as
the
most wronged...persons on earth.
MR 1.246 19 Sofas, ottomans...theatre,
entertainments,-all these [infirm
people] want...and if they miss any one, they represent themselves as
the... most wretched persons on earth.
MR 1.249 23 We use these words as if they were as
obsolete as Selah and
Amen. And yet they have...the most cogent application to Boston in this
year.
LT 1.265 10 Could we...indicate those who most
accurately represent every
good and evil tendency of the general mind...we should have a series of
sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of
ours.
LT 1.274 25 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the
woman, as much as
the most diffusive and universal action.
LT 1.276 27 I think that the soul of reform;...the
feeling that then are we
strongest when most most private and alone.
LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in the
grasp of a society
which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of
property
adds the most daring theories;...
LT 1.287 13 Is there not something comprehensive in the
grasp of a
society...which explores the subtlest and most universal problems?
Con 1.295 7 The conservative party established the
reverend hierarchies
and monarchies of the most ancient world.
Con 1.301 18 ...men are...very foolish children,
who...see everything in the
most absurd manner...
Con 1.310 10 [Existing institutions] have, it is most
true, left you no acre
for your own...
Con 1.316 21 ...the plant Man does not require for his
most glorious
flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
Tran 1.331 5 Even the materialist Condillac, perhaps
the most logical
expounder of materialism, was constrained to say...it is always our own
thought that we perceive.
Tran 1.344 17 ...[the Transcendentalists] are the most
exacting and
extortionate critics.
Tran 1.345 6 ...this masterpiece is the result of such
an extreme delicacy
that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most
aspiring
genius, and spoil the work.
Tran 1.345 7 ...this masterpiece is the result of such
an extreme delicacy
that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most
aspiring
genius, and spoil the work.
Tran 1.357 24 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the
Genius then most when
his impulse is wildest;...
Tran 1.357 25 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the
Genius...then most
when he seems to lead to uninhabitable deserts of thought and life;...
YA 1.366 13 This inclination [to cultivate the soil]
has appeared in the most
unlooked-for quarters...
YA 1.368 16 ...the culture of years will never make the
most painstaking
apprentice [the man of genius's] equal...
YA 1.369 12 Whatever events in progress shall go to
disgust men with
cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real
life...
YA 1.371 10 It seems so easy for America to inspire and
express the most
expansive and humane spirit;...
YA 1.374 23 ...the existing generation are conspiring
with a beneficence... which infatuates the most selfish men to act
against their private interest for
the public welfare.
YA 1.381 6 These communists preferred the agricultural
life as the most
favorable condition for human culture;...
YA 1.389 6 I might not set down our most proclaimed
offences as the worst.
YA 1.392 9 We are full of vanity, of which the most
signal proof is our
sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure.
YA 1.393 7 The English, the most conservative people
this side of India, are not sensible of the restraint [of
aristocracy]...
Hist 2.6 20 Universal history, the poets, the
romancers, do not in their
stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better
men; but
rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home.
Hist 2.16 1 [Nature]...delights in startling us with
resemblances in the most
unexpected quarters.
SR 2.46 4 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our
spontaneous
impression...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other
side.
SR 2.55 26 The muscles...grow tight about the outline
of the face, with the
most disagreeable sensation.
SL 2.131 23 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as
he might. Allow for
exaggeration in the most patient and sorely ridden hack that ever was
driven.
SL 2.146 5 ...a man may come to find that the strongest
of defences and of
ties,--that he has been understood; and he who has received an opinion
may
come to find it the most inconvenient of bonds.
SL 2.147 2 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets
to a carpenter, and
he shall be never the wiser...
SL 2.150 7 The most wonderful talents...really avail
very little with us;...
SL 2.150 8 ...the most meritorious exertions really
avail very little with us;...
SL 2.155 10 ...[what the great man did] was the most
natural thing in the
world...
SL 2.156 2 The most fugitive deed and word...expresses
character.
Lov1 2.172 19 The earliest demonstrations of
complacency and kindness
are nature's most winning pictures.
Lov1 2.173 15 The girls may have little beauty, yet
plainly do they
establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding
relations;...
Lov1 2.175 9 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of
that power to his heart
and brain...when...the most trivial circumstance associated with one
form is
put in the amber of memory;...
Lov1 2.177 23 Into the most pitiful and abject [love]
will infuse a heart and
courage to defy the world...
Lov1 2.179 19 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline
doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the
most excellent things...
Fdsp 2.205 2 ...I offer myself faintly and bluntly to
those whose I
effectually am, and tender myself least to him to whom I am the most
devoted.
Fdsp 2.205 24 The end of friendship is a commerce the
most strict and
homely that can be joined;...
Fdsp 2.207 8 ...three cannot take part in a
conversation of the most sincere
and searching sort.
Prd1 2.229 26 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is
the quietest and most
passionless piece you can imagine;...
Prd1 2.236 9 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition
to...keep a slender human
word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither
and
thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear
to
redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
Prd1 2.237 1 On the most profitable lie the course of
events presently lays
a destructive tax;...
Prd1 2.237 12 He who wishes to walk in the most
peaceful parts of life
with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution.
Hsm1 2.255 18 ...that which takes my fancy most in the
heroic class, is the
good-humor and hilarity they exhibit.
Hsm1 2.263 12 It may calm the apprehension of calamity
in the most
susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost
infliction of malice.
OS 2.268 5 The most exact calculator has no prescience
that somewhat
incalculable may not balk the very next moment.
OS 2.272 6 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom,
Power. These
natures...tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests
tempt
us to wound them.
OS 2.288 4 ...the most illuminated class of men are no
doubt superior to
literary fame...
OS 2.293 11 [God's presence] inspires in man an
infallible trust. ... In the
presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so
universal
that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of
mortal condition in its flood.
Cir 2.306 23 What I write, whilst I write it, seems the
most natural thing in
the world;...
Int 2.328 2 In the most worn...self-tormentor's life,
the greatest part is
incalculable by him...
Int 2.335 20 The most wonderful inspirations die with
their subject if he
has no hand to paint them to the senses.
Int 2.336 17 ...the power of picture or expression, in
the most enriched and
flowing nature, implies...a certain control over the spontaneous
states...
Int 2.342 3 He in whom the love of repose predominates
will accept...the
first political party he meets,--most likely his father's.
Int 2.345 19 I shall not presume to interfere in the
old politics of the skies;-- The cherubim know most; the seraphim love
most.
Int 2.346 26 Well assured that their speech is
intelligible and the most
natural thing in the world, [the Greek philosophers] add thesis to
thesis...
Art1 2.352 13 What is a man but a finer and compacter
landscape than the
horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of
nature, but a
still finer success...the spirit or moral of it contracted into a
musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil?
Art1 2.359 2 The best of beauty is...a wonderful
expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest
and simplest attributes of our
nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which
have
these attributes.
Art1 2.363 8 Art has not yet come to its maturity if it
do not put itself
abreast with the most potent influences of the world...
Pt1 3.11 21 ...the phrase will be the fittest, most
musical, and the unerring
voice of the world for that time.
Pt1 3.16 27 Some stars...on an old rag of
bunting...shall make the blood
tingle under the rudest or the most conventional exterior.
Pt1 3.18 27 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to
nature and the Whole... disposes very easily of the most disagreeable
facts.
Exp 3.48 4 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach
it, but there is at
last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding
surfaces;...
Exp 3.49 21 I take this evanescence and lubricity of
all objects...to be the
most unhandsome part of our condition.
Exp 3.68 14 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful
obliquely...
Exp 3.84 11 In good earnest I am willing to spare this
most unnecessary
deal of doing.
Chr1 3.91 16 ...the most confident and the most violent
persons learn that
here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and
terror are wasted...
Chr1 3.91 17 ...the most confident and the most violent
persons learn that
here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and
terror are wasted...
Chr1 3.105 4 How death-cold is literary genius before
this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that...give [my
soul] eyes to pierce the
dark of nature. I find, where I thought myself poor, there was I most
rich.
Chr1 3.105 23 Two persons lately, very young children
of the most high
God, have given me occasion for thought.
Chr1 3.109 6 The most credible pictures are those of
majestic men who
prevailed at their entrance...
Chr1 3.111 25 Those relations to the best men...become,
in the progress of
the character, the most solid enjoyment.
Chr1 3.112 18 When each the other shall avoid,/ Shall
each by each be
most enjoyed./
Chr1 3.113 25 We shall one day see that the most
private is the most public
energy...
Chr1 3.113 26 We shall one day see that the most
private is the most public
energy...
Mrs1 3.121 9 An element which unites all the most
forcible persons of
every country...must be an average result of the character and
faculties
universally found in men.
Mrs1 3.127 15 Thus grows up Fashion...the most
puissant, the most
fantastic and frivolous...
Mrs1 3.127 16 Thus grows up Fashion...the most feared
and followed...
Mrs1 3.131 19 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if
it will, passes
unchallenged into the most guarded ring.
Mrs1 3.136 2 ...emperors and rich men are by no means
the most skilful
masters of good manners.
Mrs1 3.136 23 ...that of all the points of
good-breeding I most require and
insist upon, is deference.
Mrs1 3.141 24 England...furnished, in the beginning of
the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves,
in Mr. Fox, who added
to his great abilities the most social disposition and real love of
men.
Mrs1 3.143 13 ...the respect which these mysteries [of
fashion] inspire in
the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the
love
of cultivated manners.
Mrs1 3.148 6 There must be romance of character, or the
most fastidious
exclusion of impertinencies will not avail.
Mrs1 3.150 13 Certainly let [woman] be as much better
placed in the laws
and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
Mrs1 3.153 1 For the present distress...of those who
are predisposed to
suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy
remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four,
will
commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
Nat2 3.172 22 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the crackling and
spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory
to the
walls and faces in the sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures
of the
most ancient religion.
Nat2 3.173 9 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our
little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival
that
valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes
itself on the instant.
Nat2 3.177 13 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as
wood-cutters and Indians
should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous
drawing-rooms
of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
Nat2 3.177 19 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to
Pan...
Nat2 3.177 21 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan,
who ought to be
represented in the mythology as the most continent of gods.
Nat2 3.180 26 ...the addition of matter from year to
year arrives at last at
the most complex forms;...
Nat2 3.181 17 ...the artist still goes back for
materials and begins again
with the first elements on the most advanced stage;...
Pol1 3.210 16 ...the conservative party, composed of
the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is
timid...
Pol1 3.220 6 ...let not the most conservative and timid
fear anything from a
premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
Pol1 3.220 20 There is not, among the most religious
and instructed men of
the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral
sentiment...
Pol1 3.220 21 There is not, among the most religious
and instructed men of
the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral
sentiment...
NR 3.231 8 ...[general ideas] round and ennoble the
most partial and sordid
way of living.
NR 3.246 3 ...the least of [our earth's] rational
children, the most dedicated
to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise,
the
universal problem.
NR 3.247 11 ...the most sincere and revolutionary
doctrine...shall in a few
weeks be coldly set aside...
NER 3.260 3 ...in a few months the most conservative
circles of Boston and
New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred,
and who was not.
NER 3.272 13 Men are conservatives...when they are most
luxurious.
NER 3.277 8 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be
lifted to some
higher platform...
NER 3.281 3 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse
with the most
commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no
inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
UGM 4.3 21 The search after the great man is...the most
serious occupation
of manhood.
UGM 4.14 10 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I
know that he can toil
terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of
Hampden, who was...of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and
sharp...of
Falkland...
UGM 4.24 7 The worthless and offensive members of
society...invariably
think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
PPh 4.43 16 If you would know [great geniuses'] tastes
and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles
them.
PPh 4.55 2 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the
most popular of all
principles, the absolute good...
PPh 4.69 13 ...beauty is the most lovely of all
things...
PPh 4.70 23 Socrates and Plato are the double star
which the most powerful
instruments will not entirely separate.
PPh 4.72 27 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure,
which he loves, of
talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young
men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues,
good or
bad, for sale.
PPh 4.75 3 The fame of this prison [of Socrates], the
fame of the discourses
there and the drinking of the hemlock are one of the most precious
passages
in the history of the world.
PNR 4.86 10 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals
to [Plato] the fact of
eternity; and the doctrine of reminiscence he offers as the most
probable
particular explication.
PNR 4.88 17 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's
proper genius that
hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic]
school.
SwM 4.93 2 Among eminent persons, those who are most
dear to men are
not of the class which the economist calls producers...
SwM 4.98 15 This man [Swedenborg]...no doubt led the
most real life of
any man then in the world...
SwM 4.100 18 At the Diet of 1751...the most solid
memorials on finance
were from [Swedenborg's] pen.
SwM 4.103 7 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best
acquainted with
modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
SwM 4.119 10 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce
the law most
sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.
SwM 4.120 7 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the
fine fable of a
most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the
gods;...
SwM 4.123 13 ...[Swedenborg] is a rich discoverer, and
of things which
most import us to know.
SwM 4.132 13 The wise people of the Greek race were
accustomed to lead
the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian
mysteries...
SwM 4.136 11 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner
proposing to take
away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with...palm-trees
and shittim-wood, instead of sassafras and hickory,--seems the most
needless.?
MoS 4.165 6 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with
a most uncanonical
levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the
offence is superficial.
MoS 4.165 20 When I the most strictly and religiously
confess myself, [says Montaigne,] I find that the best virtue I have
has in it some tincture of
vice;...
MoS 4.167 15 [I seem to hear Montaigne say]
I...think...plain topics where
I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.
MoS 4.174 7 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable
friend, one of the most
penetrating of men, finds that all direct ascension...leads to this
ghastly
insight...
ShP 4.189 12 The greatest genius is the most indebted
man.
ShP 4.189 19 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic
in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with
the most determined
aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
ShP 4.199 20 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast
a Delphi whereof to ask
concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay?
and to
have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could
contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of
originality; for the ministrations of books and of other minds are a
whiff of smoke to
that most private reality with which he has conversed.
ShP 4.204 10 ...it was with the introduction of
Shakspeare into German, by
Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately
connected.
ShP 4.208 7 Shakspeare is the only biographer of
Shakspeare; and even he
can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us, that is, to our most
apprehensive and sympathetic hour.
ShP 4.208 18 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...which gives the most
historical insight into the man.
ShP 4.208 26 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we
have really the
information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...that which, if we
were
about to meet the man and deal with him, would most import us to know.
ShP 4.209 13 Who ever read the volume of
[Shakespeare's] Sonnets
without finding that the poet had there revealed...the confusion of
sentiments in the most susceptible, and, at the same time, the most
intellectual of men?
ShP 4.209 14 Who ever read the volume of
[Shakespeare's] Sonnets
without finding that the poet had there revealed...the confusion of
sentiments in the most susceptible, and, at the same time, the most
intellectual of men?
NMW 4.223 3 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth
century, Bonaparte is far the...most powerful;...
NMW 4.224 22 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes']
virtues and their
vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is
material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and
most various
means to that end;...
NMW 4.237 19 In one of his conversations with Las
Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with
the two-o'clock-in-the-
morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen
events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
NMW 4.248 19 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most
unfavorable
season for the passage of lofty mountains.
NMW 4.251 1 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of
talking, and with
those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed...
NMW 4.251 25 The most agreeable portion [of Bonaparte's
memoirs] is
the Campaign in Egypt.
NMW 4.253 20 The highest-placed individual in the most
cultivated age
and population of the world,--[Napoleon] has not the merit of common
truth
and honesty.
NMW 4.257 3 Here [in Napoleon] was an experiment, under
the most
favorable conditions, of the powers of intellect without conscience.
GoW 4.268 7 The greatest action may easily be one of
the most private
circumstance.
GoW 4.276 10 Take the most remarkable example that
could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
GoW 4.279 4 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's
Consuelo] become the
servants...of the most generous social ends;...
GoW 4.282 15 ...through every clause and part of speech
of a right book I
meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
GoW 4.282 25 ...the German nation have the most
ridiculous good faith on
these [philosophical] subjects...
GoW 4.286 19 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und
Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us
a Life of
Goethe;...a period of ten years, that should be the most active in his
life, after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
GoW 4.290 4 Man is the most composite of all
creatures;...
ET1 5.7 12 ...[Landor] was the most patient and gentle
of hosts.
ET1 5.13 20 ...[Coleridge] compared one island [Malta]
with the other [Sicily]...Sicily was an excellent school of political
economy; for, in any
town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and
reverse
that, to know what ought to be done; it was the most felicitously
opposite
legislation to anything good and wise.
ET1 5.16 11 ...[Carlyle] still thought man the most
plastic little fellow in
the planet...
ET1 5.21 26 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most
obscurely.
ET2 5.31 19 ...some of the happiest and most valuable
hours I have owed to
books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
ET3 5.36 10 The influence of France is a constituent of
modern civility, but
not enough opposed to the English for the most wholesome effect.
ET4 5.50 17 The best nations are those most widely
related;...
ET4 5.50 19 ...navigation, as effecting a world-wide
mixture, is the most
potent advancer of nations.
ET4 5.60 14 ...the foundations of the new civility were
to be laid by the
most savage men.
ET4 5.62 12 It took many generations to trim and comb
and perfume the
first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the
Garter;...
ET4 5.68 6 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was of
a nature the
most affectionate and domestic.
ET4 5.68 15 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was
so modest and
gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him, until
they
found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a mask for the most
terrible determination.
ET4 5.70 22 [The English] are the most voracious people
of prey that ever
existed.
ET5 5.86 27 ...[the English] rely most on the simplest
means...
ET5 5.96 25 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to
be translated from
foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most
approved
works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
ET5 5.98 12 The manners and customs of [English]
society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a
work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most
fruitful, luxurious and imperial land
in the whole earth.
ET6 5.104 2 Nothing but the most serious business could
give one any
counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
ET6 5.111 24 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable
word an Englishman
can pronounce.
ET7 5.124 10 The old Italian author of the Relation of
England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when
the war is actually raging
most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their
other
comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
ET7 5.126 10 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says
of them,--In
close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they
know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere
infirmity
without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That
English treasons never can succeed;/ For they 're so open-hearted, you
may
know/ Their own most secret thoughts, and others' too./
ET8 5.142 10 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton
shrinks from
public life as charlatanism...
ET9 5.149 14 ...[the English] feel themselves at
liberty to assume the most
extraordinary tone on the subject of English merits.
ET9 5.150 14 ...in books of science, one is surprised
[in England] by the
most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
ET9 5.150 16 In a tract on Corn, a most
amiable...gentleman [William
Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's
idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height,
still she
would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does
both in
this secondary quality...
ET10 5.165 22 [The Englishman] goes with the most
powerful protection...
ET11 5.186 24 [The English upper classes] have...the
power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their
festive meetings.
ET11 5.195 1 ...[English nobles] were expert in every
species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices...
ET12 5.199 2 Of British universities, Cambridge has the
most illustrious
names on its list.
ET12 5.200 18 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at
Oxford], comprising
the most spirited of the aristocracy, a duel has never occurred.
ET12 5.200 25 In the reign of Edward I., it is
pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students; and nineteen
most noble foundations were
then established.
ET12 5.209 23 Oxford...mis-spends the revenues bestowed
for such youths
as should be most meet for towardness, poverty and painfulness;...
ET13 5.222 13 The most sensible and well-informed
[English] men possess
the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
ET13 5.228 25 The English, abhorring change in all
things, abhorring it
most in matters of religion...are dreadfully given to cant.
ET14 5.249 3 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life,
his vast attempts but
most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
ET14 5.252 2 ...[the English] are the most conditioned
men...
ET15 5.262 7 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of
Northumberland; mark
my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of
Northumberland out of their titles...
ET15 5.263 7 The most conspicuous result of this talent
[for writing for
journals] is the Times newspaper.
ET15 5.269 7 [The London Times] attacks a duke as
readily as a
policeman, and with the most provoking airs of condescension.
ET16 5.277 8 It was pleasant to see that just this
simplest of all simple
structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid
across...were
like what is most permanent on the face of the planet...
F 6.17 5 It is a rule that the most casual and
extraordinary events...become
matter of fixed calculation.
F 6.18 22 In a large city, the most casual things...are
produced as
punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
F 6.34 21 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a
different disposition
of society...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic
form
of a State.
F 6.40 19 ...of all the drums and rattles by which
men...are led out solemnly
every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are
brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
F 6.41 13 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the
most absurd acts, so a
drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange
company
and work.
F 6.44 18 The truth is in the air, and the most
impressionable brain will
announce it first...
F 6.44 21 ...women, as the most susceptible, are the
best index of the
coming hour.
F 6.44 23 ...the great man, that is, the man most
imbued with the spirit of
the time, is the impressionable man;...
Pow 6.54 14 The most valiant men are the best believers
in the tension of
the laws.
Pow 6.65 10 Men in power...may be had cheap for any
opinion, for any
purpose; and if it be only a question between the most civil and the
most
forcible, I lean to the last.
Pow 6.65 11 Men in power...may be had cheap for any
opinion, for any
purpose; and if it be only a question between the most civil and the
most
forcible, I lean to the last.
Pow 6.66 9 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a
certain pleasure
in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
Pow 6.67 18 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals
in town-meeting
with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and
precisely the most public-spirited citizen.
Pow 6.68 6 All the elements whose aid man calls in will
sometimes become
his masters, especially those of most subtle force.
Wth 6.111 19 We must use the means, and yet, in our
most accurate using
somehow screen and cloak them...
Wth 6.117 2 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep
the most pathetic
family from ruin...
Ctr 6.139 14 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of
all wild beasts;...
Ctr 6.148 2 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I
should be driven from
my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most
prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could
contrive and accumulate.
Ctr 6.148 14 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it
may, it will repel quite
as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city,
the total
attraction of all the citizens is sure to...drag the most improbable
hermit
within its walls some day in the year.
Ctr 6.157 11 The saint and poet seek privacy to ends
the most public and
universal...
Bhr 6.193 24 ...such was the eloquence and good humor
of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and
civilly treated
even by the most uncivil angels;...
Bhr 6.196 27 The oldest and the most deserving person
should come very
modestly into any newly awaked company...
Wsp 6.217 13 Given the equality of two
intellects,--which will form the
most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?
CbW 6.246 17 ...it is only as [a man]...draws on this
most private wisdom, that any good can come to him.
CbW 6.260 16 ...what we ask daily, is to be
conventional. Supply, most
kind gods! this defect in my address...which puts me a little out of
the ring...
Bty 6.281 3 Our books approach very slowly the things
we most wish to
know.
Bty 6.289 2 The most useful man in the most useful
world, so long as only
commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
Bty 6.289 12 [Beauty] is the most enduring quality...
Bty 6.289 13 It is the most enduring quality, and the
most ascending quality.
Bty 6.291 25 In the midst of...a festal procession gay
with banners, I saw a
boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set
it
turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and
drew
away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
Bty 6.293 23 ...the circumstances may be easily
imagined in which woman
may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach, and all the
most
naturally in the world, if only it come by degrees.
Bty 6.298 3 We observe [women's] intellectual influence
on the most
serious student.
Bty 6.300 13 If command...exist in the most deformed
person, all the
accidents that usually displease, please...
Ill 6.318 5 We begin low with coarse masks and rise to
the most subtle and
beautiful.
SS 7.4 15 The most agreeable compliment you could pay
[my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house
or a street where
you had met him.
Civ 7.21 3 The most advanced nations are always those
who navigate the
most.
Civ 7.21 4 The most advanced nations are always those
who navigate the
most.
Art2 7.53 5 The most perfect form to answer an end is
so far beautiful.
Art2 7.53 24 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of
Shakspeare...were made...in
tears and smiles of suffering and loving men. Viewed from this point
the
history of Art becomes...one of the most agreeable studies.
Elo1 7.62 27 Of all the musical instruments on which
men play, a popular
assembly is that...out of which, by genius and study, the most
wonderful
effects can be drawn.
Elo1 7.63 4 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a
certain social
organism, which fills each member...and most of all the orator...
Elo1 7.69 20 The virtue of books is to be readable, and
of orators to be
interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes, the most
laborious
student in that kind, signified his sense of this necessity when he
wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
Elo1 7.70 6 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer
fast; steals away...his
memory, that he shall not remember the most pressing affairs;...
Elo1 7.70 15 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers
in Ispahan and other
cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience,
keeping
them for many hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant
adventures.
Elo1 7.73 14 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech
on his
impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an
hour as
if I were the most culpable being on earth.
Elo1 7.75 19 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness
sometimes manifested
by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage
suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public
service.
Elo1 7.78 15 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken
by pirates. What
then? He threw himself into their ship, established the most
extraordinary
intimacies...
Elo1 7.79 17 ...there are men of the most peaceful way
of life and peaceful
principle, who are felt wherever they go...
Elo1 7.80 27 Does [any one] think that not possibly a
man may come to
him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
Elo1 7.91 25 There is for every man a statement
possible of that truth
which he is most unwilling to receive...
Elo1 7.93 24 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest
narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it...speaks only
through the most poetic
forms;...
Elo1 7.98 4 Everything hostile is stricken down in the
presence of the [moral] sentiments; their majesty is felt by the most
obdurate.
Elo1 7.99 10 Eloquence...rests on laws the most exact
and determinate.
DL 7.122 1 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little
more than ten miles
from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most
polite
and accurate men of that University...
DL 7.122 5 ...[the most polite and accurate men of
Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity
of judgment in [Lord
Falkland], so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical
ratiocination...that
they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
DL 7.128 19 It has been finely added by Landor to his
definition of the
great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when
it
pleases him.
WD 7.160 19 The soil of Holland, once the most populous
in Europe, is
below the level of the sea.
WD 7.179 17 ...him I reckon the most learned
scholar...who can unfold the
theory of this particular Wednesday.
Boks 7.194 1 The inspection of the catalogue [of the
Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard
writers who are on every
private shelf; and to these it can afford only the most slight and
casual
additions.
Boks 7.196 27 ...Never read any [books] but what you
like;, or, in
Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In
brief, sir, study what you most affect./
Boks 7.197 23 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic
translation, though the most literal prose version is the best of all.
Boks 7.197 27 ...in these days, when it is found that
what is most
memorable of history is a few anecdotes...[Herodotus's history] is
regaining
credit.
Boks 7.215 16 In novels the most serious questions are
beginning to be
discussed.
Clbs 7.225 18 ...of all the cordials known to us, the
best, safest and most
exhilarating...is society;...
Clbs 7.225 20 ...every healthy and efficient mind
passes a large part of life
in the company most easy to him.
Clbs 7.242 18 ...in all civil nations attempts have
been made to organize
conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most
favorable conditions.
Cour 7.263 10 Use makes a better soldier than the most
urgent
considerations of duty...
Cour 7.265 19 The torments of martyrdoms are probably
most keenly felt
by the by-standers.
Cour 7.271 4 'T is still observed those men most
valiant are/ Who are most
modest ere they came to war./
Cour 7.271 5 'T is still observed those men most
valiant are/ Who are most
modest ere they came to war./
Cour 7.275 22 In the most private life, difficult duty
is never far off.
Suc 7.288 4 The Arabian sheiks, the most dignified
people in the planet, do
not want [American arts];...
Suc 7.310 14 Despondency comes readily enough to the
most sanguine.
Suc 7.310 21 Which of [the most sanguine] has not
failed to please where
they most wished it?...
Suc 7.310 22 Which of [the most sanguine] has
not...blundered where they
were most ambitious of success?...
OA 7.316 21 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even
boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or
a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public, who
presently distinguish him with
a most amusing respect;...
PI 8.3 22 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person
never makes with
impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle
his oven
with water...
PI 8.4 17 Faraday, the most exact of natural
philosophers, taught that when
we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we
should...find...spherules
of force.
PI 8.6 3 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show
their well-known
virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually
transferred from
the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense
side
of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on
the
clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world,
considered as final.
PI 8.7 11 One of these vortices or self-directions of
thought is the impulse
to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects, and
hence our
science, from its rudest to its most refined theories.
PI 8.10 4 The poet who plays with [the law of
correspondence] with most
boldness...is most profound and most devout.
PI 8.20 6 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense],
when he said, There is
nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most
mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and
sensuous
image.
PI 8.72 15 The problem of the poet is...to give the
pleasure of color, and be
not less the most powerful of sculptors.
SA 8.81 12 In the most delicate natures, fine
temperament and culture build
this impassable wall [of manners].
SA 8.93 26 Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary
converser that
was known in her time...
SA 8.102 6 I often hear the business of a little town
(with which I am most
familiar) discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have
satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
Elo2 8.119 9 The most hard-fisted...companion sometimes
turns out in a
public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
Elo2 8.124 20 The orator must command the whole scale
of the language, from the most elegant to the most low and vile.
Elo2 8.124 21 The orator must command the whole scale
of the language, from the most elegant to the most low and vile.
Elo2 8.128 22 In England they send the most delicate
and protected child
from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public
schools.
Elo2 8.130 13 ...such practical chemistry as the
conversion of a truth
written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one
of
the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of
the
Divine Artificer.
Res 8.142 14 ...we have seen the most healthful
revolution in the politics of
the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new
spirit.
Res 8.151 14 Natural history is, in the country, most
attractive;...
Comc 8.161 26 We feel the absence of [a perception of
the Comic] as a
defect in the noblest and most oracular soul.
Comc 8.164 7 ...the religious sentiment is the most
vital and sublime of all
our sentiments...
Comc 8.164 9 ...the religious sentiment is...capable of
the most prodigious
effects...
Comc 8.164 18 ...the religious sentiment is the most
real and earnest thing
in nature...
Comc 8.167 24 ...I was hastening to visit an old and
honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his
physician, who accosted me...with
joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I
inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I
have
ever seen;...
QO 8.177 19 Of a large and powerful class we might ask
with confidence, What is the event they most desire?...
QO 8.178 14 ...they prize [books] most who are
themselves wise.
QO 8.194 23 The passages of Shakspeare that we most
prize were never
quoted until within this century;...
QO 8.202 2 ...if the thinker feels that the thought
most strictly his own is
not his own...the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he
speaks
them.
QO 8.203 12 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the
most civilized
countries...healthily receive and report what they saw...
PC 8.209 16 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this
country and this age
belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
PC 8.209 21 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good
sense in now in power, and that resting...on perceptions less and less
dim of laws the most sublime.
PC 8.234 9 ...when I...consider the sound material of
which the cultivated
class here is made up...and that the most distinguished by genius and
culture are in this class of benefactors,-I cannot distrust this great
knighthood of virtue...
PPo 8.248 14 [The mind] indicates this respect to
absolute truth by the use
it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
PPo 8.250 11 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low
rioter, he turns short on
you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of
heroic
sentiment and contempt for the world.
PPo 8.252 2 The Persians had a mode of establishing
copyright the most
secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
PPo 8.252 17 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the
opportunity of the
most playful self-assertion...
Insp 8.296 22 'T is the most difficult of tasks to
keep/ Heights which the
soul is competent to gain./
Grts 8.312 4 With this respect to the bias of the
individual mind add...the
most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
Grts 8.318 22 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most
remarkable example of
this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen...
Imtl 8.325 9 The chief end of man being to be buried
well, the arts most in
request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
Imtl 8.327 2 The most remarkable step in the religious
history of recent
ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg...
Imtl 8.342 21 [The mind's] goodness is the most
generous extension of our
private interests to the dignity and generosity of ideas.
Imtl 8.344 23 My idea of heaven is that there is no
melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real. Here is the emphasis of
conscience and experience; this is no speculation, but the most
practical of doctrines.
Imtl 8.346 21 ...only by rare integrity...can the
vision of [immortality] be
clear to a use the most sublime.
Dem1 10.5 7 A painful imperfection almost always
attends [dreams]. The
fairest forms, the most noble and excellent persons, are deformed by
some
pitiful and insane circumstance.
Dem1 10.13 19 In times most credulous of these fancies
the sense was
always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason
and
humanity.
Dem1 10.18 11 ...this demonic element appears most
fruitful when it shows
itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.
Dem1 10.24 27 Men...who had thought it the most natural
thing in the
world that they should exist in this orderly and replenished world,
have
been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the
somnambulist.
Dem1 10.26 4 It is...a most dangerous superstition to
raise [Animal
Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions.
Aris 10.29 5 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/
Prive and apert, and
most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him
for
the greatest gentilman./
Aris 10.29 6 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/
Prive and apert, and
most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him
for
the greatest gentilman./
Aris 10.38 7 From the most accumulated culture we are
always running
back to the sound of any drum and fife.
Aris 10.38 16 ...we wish to see those to whom existence
is most adorned
and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...
Aris 10.42 11 In 1373, in writs of summons of members
of Parliament, the
sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights, or the most
worthy
esquires...to be returned.
Aris 10.42 12 In 1373, in writs of summons of members
of Parliament, the
sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights, or the most
worthy
esquires, the most expert in feats of arms...to be returned.
Aris 10.59 11 I know the feeling of the most ingenious
and excellent youth
in America;...
PerF 10.87 13 ...the most quiet and protected life is
at any moment exposed
to incidents which test your firmness.
Chr2 10.105 17 The establishment of Christianity in the
world does not rest
on any miracle but the miracle of being the broadest and most humane
doctrine.
Chr2 10.105 23 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia
in 1848, says: The
Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
Chr2 10.108 15 I suspect, that, when the theology was
most florid and
dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
Chr2 10.115 25 ...in [the Church's] most liberal forms,
when such [best
and freest] minds enter it, they are coldly received...
Edc1 10.125 13 We have already taken...the initial
step, which for its
importance might have been resisted as the most radical of
revolutions... this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his
hand into the pocket
of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Edc1 10.127 27 The necessities imposed by this most
irritable and all-related
texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...
Edc1 10.131 5 ...always the mind contains in its
transparent chambers the
means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
Edc1 10.142 18 ...the most genial and amiable of men
must alternate
society with solitude...
Supl 10.163 23 [Those with the superlative temperament]
use the
superlative of grammar: most perfect, most exquisite, most horrible.
Supl 10.163 24 [Those with the superlative temperament]
use the
superlative of grammar: most perfect, most exquisite, most horrible.
Supl 10.173 11 ...to the most expressive man that has
existed, namely, Shakspeare, [mankind] have awarded the highest place.
Supl 10.175 25 ...[Nature] brings the most heartless
trifler to determined
purpose presently.
SovE 10.207 26 The most daring heroism...never
exhausted the claim of
these lowly duties...
SovE 10.207 26 ...the most accomplished culture, or
rapt holiness, never
exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
SovE 10.214 2 ...it seems as if whatever is most
affecting and sublime in
our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily
to uplift
us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
Prch 10.218 2 I see in those classes and those persons
in whom I am
accustomed to look...for what is most positive and most rich in human
nature...character, but skepticism;...
Prch 10.218 3 I see in those classes and those persons
in whom I am
accustomed to look...for what is most positive and most rich in human
nature...character, but skepticism;...
Prch 10.219 5 We do not see that heroic resolutions
will save men from
those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral,
emotive
and intellectual nature.
Prch 10.223 12 ...this [movement of religious opinion]
of to-day has the
best omens as being of the most expansive humanity...
Prch 10.225 11 [The moral sentiment] is that, which
being...strongest in the
best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of
Men.
Prch 10.227 10 [The theologian] sees that what is most
effective in the
writer is what is dear to his, the reader's, mind.
Prch 10.236 18 The calmest and most protected life
cannot save us.
Prch 10.237 23 ...when we...come into the house of
thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that
life...is...a growth after immutable
laws under beneficent influences the most immense.
Schr 10.268 22 ...the scholar finds in [the practical
men] unlooked-for
acceptance of his most paradoxical experience.
Schr 10.271 9 There could always be traced, in the most
barbarous tribes... some vestiges of a faith in genius...
Schr 10.271 10 There could always be traced...in the
most character-destroying
civilization, some vestiges of a faith in genius...
Schr 10.273 9 In this country we are fond of results
and of short ways to
them; and most in this department [of the scholar].
Plu 10.295 4 In France, in the middle of the most
turbulent civil wars, Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened
general attention.
Plu 10.298 7 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the
illumination of the
intellect by the force of morals. Though the most amiable of boon
companions, this generous religion gives him apercus like Goethe's.
Plu 10.308 1 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of
his own is a bad
judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most
proper
judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.
Plu 10.311 8 La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius
the most naturally
moral that ever existed.
Plu 10.315 10 [Plutarch] is the most amiable of men.
LLNE 10.328 20 The most remarkable literary work of the
age has for its
hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
LLNE 10.331 13 If any of my readers were at that period
[1820] in Boston
or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of
person...a voice of...such precise and perfect utterance, that...it was
the most
mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
LLNE 10.331 22 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what
occasion soever, a fact
had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well
known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
LLNE 10.339 24 ...[Channing's] cold temperament made
him the most
unprofitable private companion;...
LLNE 10.343 10 ...perhaps those persons who were
mutually the best
friends were the most private...
LLNE 10.346 20 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held
conversations
wherever he found listeners; the most amiable, sanguine and candid of
men.
LLNE 10.348 18 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars,
atmospheres and
animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It was the
most entertaining of French romances...
LLNE 10.349 7 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that
it had not the
partiality and hint-and-fragment character of most popular schemes...
LLNE 10.353 18 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ]
the whole world
becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a
man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert
with all
others who followed their private light.
LLNE 10.357 13 [Thoreau said] I have never got over my
surprise that I
should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world...
LLNE 10.361 25 Theodore Parker, the near neighbor of
[Brook] farm and
the most intimate friend of Mr. Ripley, was a frequent visitor.
LLNE 10.364 10 All comers, even the most fastidious,
found [Brook Farm] the pleasantest of residences.
LLNE 10.364 19 There is agreement in the testimony that
[Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...
LLNE 10.366 4 ...the most punctilious in some
particulars are
latitudinarian in others.
LLNE 10.368 10 People cannot live together in any but
necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be
those who have
tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed; and
none others will barter for the most comfortable equality the chance of
superiority.
CSC 10.374 27 The most daring innovators and the
champions-until-death
of the old cause sat side by side [at the Chardon Street Convention].
CSC 10.375 10 The assembly [at the Chardon Street
Convention] was
characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength
and
earnestness, whilst many of the most intellectual and cultivated
persons
attended its councils.
EzRy 10.391 11 ...it is no reflection on others to say
that [Ezra Ripley] was
the most public-spirited man in the town.
EzRy 10.393 11 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra
Ripley] studied them
all, and sympathized so well in these that he was excellent company and
counsel to all, even the most humble and ignorant.
EzRy 10.395 18 ...in his old age, when all the antique
Hebraism and its
customs are passing away, it is...most fit that in the fall of laws a
loyal man
should die.
MMEm 10.398 9 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to
choose are such
as are of the most eminent condition...
MMEm 10.398 16 [Lucy Percy] converses with those who
are most
distinguished for their conversational powers.
MMEm 10.413 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday
five or more
miles...just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most
commonplace virtue.
MMEm 10.415 13 'T was I [Nature] who soothed your
thorny childhood, though you knew me not, and you were placed in my
most leafless waste.
MMEm 10.415 24 This morning rich in existence; the
remembrance of past
destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt, and
her most unhappy temper;...
MMEm 10.417 16 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her
farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that
foolish place, which I most bitterly lament...
MMEm 10.429 20 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure
time take
down this tedious tabernacle, most valuable companions...
Thor 10.459 24 What [Thoreau] sought was the most
energetic nature;...
Thor 10.461 9 ...Mr. Thoreau was equipped with a most
adapted and
serviceable body.
Thor 10.467 20 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was
a whim which
grew on him by indulgence...namely, of extolling his own town and
neighborhood as the most favored centre for natural observation.
Thor 10.472 12 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to
his most prized
botanical swamp...
Thor 10.478 5 A truth-speaker [Thoreau], capable of the
most deep and
strict conversation;...
Thor 10.483 9 Fire is the most tolerable third party.
Thor 10.484 10 There is a flower known to
botanists...which grows on the
most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
GSt 10.505 5 ...[George Stearns] became, in the most
natural manner, an
indispensable power in the state.
GSt 10.506 17 For a year or two, the most affectionate
and domestic of
men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
GSt 10.507 13 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George
Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there
is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day
from their
preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed...
LS 11.18 22 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive
the light he gives most
thankfully;...
HDC 11.40 14 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we
look to number, we
are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all
the people
of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal
other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and
holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
HDC 11.42 13 ...this first recorded political act of
our fathers, this tax
assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in
their
civil history...
HDC 11.53 14 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the
twenty tribes of
Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with
which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the
new
hope they had conceived...
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 11.111 14 ...[West Indian slaves] were done to
death with the most
shocking levity between the master and manager...
EWI 11.116 7 The [West Indian] planters informed us
that [the day after
emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were
assembled...and exchanged the most hearty good wishes.
EWI 11.120 9 The accounts [of emancipation] which we
have from all
parties [in the West Indies], both from the planters (and those too who
were
originally most opposed to the measure), and from the new freemen, are
of
the most satisfactory kind.
EWI 11.120 11 The accounts [of emancipation] which we
have from all
parties [in the West Indies], both from the planters...and from the new
freemen, are of the most satisfactory kind.
EWI 11.124 19 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen,
man is born with
intellect...
EWI 11.129 12 ...in the last few days that my attention
has been occupied
with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been
able
to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
EWI 11.129 18 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary
walks on the
magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit
of
the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West
Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
EWI 11.134 16 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious
class of young men and
political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and
without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take
up [the
negroes'] cause on this very ground...
EWI 11.138 11 It is notorious that the political,
religious and social
schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been
matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of
these
assemblies [on emancipation].
EWI 11.141 17 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the
House of
Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these
poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human
nature, which for a time was most shamefully denied them.
War 11.153 14 Plutarch...considers the invasion and
conquest of the East
by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in
history;...
War 11.154 13 ...[war] has been the principal
employment of the most
conspicuous men;...
War 11.160 23 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This
thought is...the rising
of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first
made
visible, in the most simple and pure souls...
War 11.166 9 ...the least change in the man will change
his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every
man
was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works
with
right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the
most
striking changes of external things...
FSLC 11.184 1 I cannot think the most judicious tubing
a compensation for
metaphysical debility.
FSLC 11.184 17 The levity of the public mind has been
shown in the past
year by the most extravagant actions.
FSLC 11.186 12 ...America, the most prosperous country
in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro
slavery.
FSLC 11.203 18 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union,
on the 7th
March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all
his own
most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line,
and
became the head of the slavery party in this country.
FSLN 11.224 12 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster,
most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
FSLN 11.229 21 The theory of personal liberty must
always appeal to the
most refined communities...
FSLN 11.230 5 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree
matter of
concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the
incompatibility
and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the
most
cultivated.
AsSu 11.251 9 ...when I think of these most small
faults as the worst which
party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the language which
Bishop
Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the
whitest soul I ever knew.
AKan 11.255 10 ...it is impossible for the most recluse
to extricate himself
from the questions of the times.
JBB 11.269 22 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must
drag official
gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...
TPar 11.287 14 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when,
to the irresistible
march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects
showed loose and lifeless...
TPar 11.289 16 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the
most unmeasured
eulogies on those he esteemed...
TPar 11.290 17 Two days...the days of the rendition of
Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most
remarkable discourses.
EPro 11.317 19 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most
indulgent
construction.
ALin 11.330 1 [Lincoln] was the most active and hopeful
of men;...
SMC 11.355 20 ...the common people [in the South], rich
or poor, were the
narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
SMC 11.356 15 ...when the Border raids were let loose
on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with
rage, that they
became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined
avengers.
SMC 11.358 26 The older among us can well remember
[George Prescott]... the most amiable, sensible, unpretending of
men;...
SMC 11.359 17 [George Prescott] was...the most modest
and amiable of
men...
EdAd 11.393 8 ...a few friends of good letters have
thought fit to associate
themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom
and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a
mould
into which all metal most easily runs.
Wom 11.416 2 ...another important step [for Woman] was
made by the
doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of
sex to run through nature and through thought. Of all Christian sects
this is
at this moment the most vital and aggressive.
SHC 11.433 14 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish
that most
agreeable of all museums...
Shak1 11.448 26 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous
prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be
most excellent in comedy...
Shak1 11.448 27 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous
prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be
most excellent in comedy...
Shak1 11.449 17 ...we have already seen the most
fantastic theories
plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of
[Shakespeare'
s] plays.
Shak1 11.450 18 ...[Shakespeare] is the most robust and
potent thinker that
ever was.
Shak1 11.453 16 Had [Shakespeare's plays] been
published earlier, our
forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home
to
read them.
FRO2 11.489 11 Let [the lesson of the New Testament]
stand, beautiful
and wholesome, with whatever is most like it in the teaching and
practice of
men;...
CPL 11.498 15 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to
number, we are the
fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people
of God
through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other
people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too,
we
are the most despicable people under heaven.
CPL 11.500 11 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a
man...known to our
farmers as the most skilful of surveyors...
CPL 11.501 3 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of
Shakspeare would
only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events.
CPL 11.502 12 Thought is the most volatile of all
things.
CPL 11.506 4 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen
months since I got the
first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun, most
admirable
to gaze on, burst upon me.
FRep 11.522 23 When we are most disturbed by [the
American people's] rash and immoral voting, it is not malignity, but
recklessness.
FRep 11.524 12 [The election of a rogue and a brawler]
was done by the
very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people.
PLT 12.20 22 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours,
reappears to us in our
study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we
can well understand, and all the parts, to the most remote, allied or
explicable...
PLT 12.39 6 A man of talent has only to name any form
or fact with which
we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it
enhances it
to all eyes.
PLT 12.43 12 That mind is best which is most
impressionable.
PLT 12.63 24 ...at last [the Intellect] will be
justified, though for the
moment it seem hostile to what is most reveres.
II 12.73 15 But how, cries my reformer, is this to be
done? How could I do
it, who have wife and family to keep? The question is most reasonable,-
yet proves that you are not the man to do the feat.
II 12.76 7 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his
experiments at crossing and
refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the
native
power.
II 12.78 7 [Truth] is a gun with a recoil which will
knock down the most
nimble artillerists...
II 12.87 6 The virtue of the Intellect is its own...and
at last, it will be
justified, though for the time it seem hostile to that which it most
reveres.
Mem 12.90 14 ...most of all we like a great memory.
Mem 12.104 18 Of the most romantic fact the memory is
more romantic;...
CInt 12.113 4 The brute noise of cannon has...a most
poetic echo in these
days when it is an intrument of freedom...
CInt 12.114 21 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is
besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other
times
wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to
be
reformed...
CInt 12.115 24 [The college] is essentially the most
radiating and public of
agencies...
CInt 12.119 2 The emigration into America of
British...people is the eulogy
of America by the most competent and sincere arbiters.
CInt 12.127 1 ...here [in the college] Imagination
should be greeted with
the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse
proposed
and the most cordial and honoring rewards;...
CL 12.142 27 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are
not under any
circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's
toil in
walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and
spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
Bost 12.191 26 John Smith was stung near to death by
the most poisonous
tail of a fish, called a sting-ray.
Bost 12.193 19 [The Massachusetts colonists] were
precisely the idealists
of England; the most religious in a religious era.
Bost 12.198 8 It is the property of the religious
sentiment to be the most
refining of all influences.
Bost 12.200 23 The American idea, Emancipation...has,
of course, its
sinister side, which is most felt by the drilled and scholastic...
Bost 12.205 3 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that
the most noble
motto was that of the Prince of Wales,-I serve...
MAng1 12.216 23 It is a happiness to find...a soul at
intervals born to
behold and create only Beauty. So shall not...the great spectacle of
morn
and evening which shut and open the most disastrous day, want
observers.
MAng1 12.217 2 ...in proportion as man rises above the
servitude to wealth
and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is
most
beautiful...
MAng1 12.217 3 ...in proportion as man rises above the
servitude to wealth
and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is
most
beautiful...
MAng1 12.222 7 ...not the most swinish compost of mud
and blood that
was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing
involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty
in
human clay.
MAng1 12.227 23 ...[Michelangelo] was one of the most
industrious men
that ever lived.
MAng1 12.230 21 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most
celebrated is the
cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming
themselves;...
MAng1 12.240 4 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of
the most
accomplished lady of the time...
Milt1 12.251 6 The other piece is [Milton's]
Areopagitica...the most
splendid of his prose works.
Milt1 12.251 13 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica] is
far the best known
and the most read of all...
Milt1 12.273 9 The most devout man of his time,
[Milton] frequented no
church;...
Milt1 12.275 17 The most affecting passages in Paradise
Lost are personal
allusions;...
Milt1 12.275 21 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the
most distinct marks of
the progress of the poet's mind...
ACri 12.283 11 Writing is the greatest of arts, the
subtilest, and of most
miraculous effect;...
ACri 12.294 4 ...in the conduct of the play, and the
speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the
tone of high and low alike, and most widely understood.
MLit 12.314 7 Every form under the whole heaven [the
narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense
selfishness...
MLit 12.318 26 This new love of the vast, always native
in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
MLit 12.319 12 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this
[subjective] taste in
the people more than the circulation of the poems-one would say most
incongruously united by some bookseller-of Coleridge, Shelley and
Keats.
MLit 12.322 11 ...of all men he who has united in
himself, and that in the
most extraordinary degree, the tendencies of the era, is the German
poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.
MLit 12.325 26 [Says Wieland] The piece [Goethe's
journal] is one of the
most masterly productions...
MLit 12.326 5 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in
[Goethe's
journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and
Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...
WSL 12.341 6 In these busy days...when there is so
little disposition...to
any but the most superficial intellectual entertainments, a faithful
scholar... is a friend and consoler of mankind.
WSL 12.341 24 A charm attaches to the most inferior
names which have in
any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of
Fame...
WSL 12.343 3 Whatever can make for itself...the most
profound and
permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must
have a
reason for its being.
WSL 12.345 12 What is the nature of that subtle and
majestic principle
which attaches us to a few persons, not so much by personal as by the
most
spiritual ties?
WSL 12.346 1 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme
delicacy of this
element [character], evanescing before any but the most sympathetic
vision, that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.
WSL 12.347 2 ...it is not from the highest Alps or
Andes but from less
elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...
WSL 12.347 4 ...as it is not from the highest Alps or
Andes but from less
elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded, so is
Mr. Landor the most useful and agreeable of critics.
EurB 12.372 16 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by
its wit and
ingenuity, is beautiful, and the most poetic of the volume.
EurB 12.373 13 ...we can easily believe that the
behavior of the ball-room
and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and
grace
from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has
filled the
heads of the most imitative class.
EurB 12.375 3 ...the obvious division of modern romance
is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance,
which is...vastly the most
numerous.
EurB 12.377 12 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far
the most agreeable
and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.
EurB 12.378 8 [The English fashionist's] highest
triumph is to appear with
the most wooden manners...
PPr 12.383 8 ...the poet knows well that a little time
will do more than the
most puissant genius.
PPr 12.383 17 The most elaborate history of to-day will
have the oddest
dislocated look in the next generation.
PPr 12.384 2 It is a costly proof of character that the
most renowned
scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and
should descend into the [political] ring;...
Let 12.396 14 It is not for nothing...that sincere
persons of all parties are
demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How
fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let
us
not lose the warning of that most significant dream.
Trag 12.409 19 ...it is...imperfect characters from
which somewhat is
hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
Trag 12.411 11 The most exposed classes, soldiers,
sailors, paupers, are
nowise destitute of animal spirits.
Trag 12.416 3 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to
visit certain wards of
the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint
which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain
and
certain death.
Most High, n. (1)
F 6.29 5 Each pulse from that heart [the moral
sentiment] is an oath from
the Most High.
most, n. (30)
Nat 1.26 1 Most of the process by which this
transformation [from thing to
word] is made, is hidden from us...
MN 1.218 26 When thought is best, there is most of it.
MN 1.220 4 What a debt is ours to that old religion,
which, in the
childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the
country of
New England...
Tran 1.339 24 It is well known to most of my audience
that the Idealism of
the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of
that
term by Immanuel Kant...
Fdsp 2.203 20 ...to most of us society shows not its
face and eye...
Int 2.345 19 I shall not presume to interfere in the
old politics of the skies;-- The cherubim know most; the seraphim love
most.
Pt1 3.39 15 Most of the things [the poet] says are
conventional, no doubt;...
Exp 3.69 14 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes
and bounds...and
allow the most to the will of man;...
Exp 3.73 24 Most of life seems to be mere advertisement
of faculty;...
Mrs1 3.153 1 For the present distress...of those who
are predisposed to
suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy
remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four,
will
commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
Nat2 3.173 23 He who knows the most; he who knows what
sweets and
virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how
to
come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
PPh 4.60 15 ...[Plato] plays with the doubt, and makes
the most of it...
MoS 4.165 9 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with
a most uncanonical
levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the
offence is superficial. He parades it: he makes the most of it...
MoS 4.165 11 [Montaigne] pretends to most of the
vices;...
ET9 5.148 11 [This little superfluity of self-regard in
the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing, so that
each man makes the most of
himself...
Pow 6.64 24 Those who have most of this coarse
[political] energy...have
their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
Wsp 6.225 27 In every variety of human
employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own
sake; and the state and the world is happy
that has the most of such finishers.
CbW 6.256 14 ...most of the great results of history
are brought about by
discreditable means.
Ill 6.311 15 The same interference from our
organization creates the most
of our pleasure and pain.
SS 7.4 5 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don
terrible de la familiarite, believing that he whose sympathy goes
lowest is the man from whom kings
have the most to fear.
Elo1 7.85 13 In any knot of men conversing on any
subject, the person who
knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
Clbs 7.233 8 The greatest sufferers are often those who
have the most to
say...
PI 8.63 9 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the
heavenly bread! The
most they have done is to intoxicate us once and again with its taste.
Elo2 8.114 20 ...you may find [the orator] in some
lowly Bethel, by the
seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the
assembly who has the most to say...
Aris 10.43 13 ...the origin of most of the perversities
and absurdities that
disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.
Carl 10.489 4 [Carlyle] is not mainly a scholar, like
the most of my
acquaintances...
HDC 11.75 24 [The minute-men] never dreamed their
children would
contend who had done the most.
FRO2 11.490 26 I am glad to believe society contains a
class of humble
souls...who think it the highest worship to expect of Heaven the most
and
the best;...
CPL 11.506 20 With [books] many of us spend the most of
our life...
FRep 11.528 23 We have eight or ten religions in every
large town, and the
most that comes of it is a degree or two on the thermometer of
fashion;...
mot, n. (1)
QO 8.185 7 A pleasantry which ran through all the
newspapers a few years
since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a
hundred
years ago...
mote, n. (4)
DSA 1.124 20 In so far as [a man] roves from these
[good] ends...he
becomes less and less, a mote...
Civ 7.29 26 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from
their foreordained
paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon, nor a bubble of air, nor a mote
of dust.
PC 8.221 17 The first quality we know in matter is
centrality,-we call it
gravity...which remains pure and indestructible in each mote as in
masses
and planets...
SovE 10.193 9 Settles for evermore the ponderous
equator [of Divine
justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with
it...
motes, n. (5)
Prd1 2.235 16 ...every thing in nature, even motes and
feathers, go by law
and not by luck...
Wth 6.84 20 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and
masses, draw/ Electric
thrills and ties of Law/...
LVB 11.94 1 ...to us the questions upon which the
government and the
people have been agitated during the past year...seem but motes in
comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
ACri 12.300 14 To make of motes mountains, and of
mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office.
ACri 12.300 15 To make of motes mountains, and of
mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office.
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