Ovid to Oysters

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

Ovid, n. (4)

    SwM 4.124 22 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks, collected in Ovid...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    ShP 4.197 26 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.
    Dem1 10.6 27 It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses;...
    WSL 12.341 11 When we pronounce the names of...Horace, Ovid and Plutarch;...we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.

oviparous, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.18 7 There are viviparous and oviparous minds;...

owe, v. (45)

    Nat 1.12 8 Under the general name of commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature.
    LE 1.161 4 Still more do we owe to biography the fortification of our hope.
    LE 1.182 18 ...to the [crowd], [the man of genius] must owe his aim.
    Con 1.323 22 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    Fdsp 2.194 24 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers...
    Fdsp 2.215 26 ...I will owe to my friends this evanescent intercourse.
    Hsm1 2.248 16 To [Plutarch] we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminondas, the Scipio of old...
    OS 2.278 8 We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound...
    Cir 2.316 23 Does [a man] owe no debt but money?
    Int 2.337 15 We may owe to dreams some light on the fountain of this skill [of drawing];...
    Pt1 3.28 26 That is not an inspiration, which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury.
    Exp 3.51 22 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt;...
    Mrs1 3.119 17 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
    Mrs1 3.142 8 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor;...
    UGM 4.19 26 When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
    ShP 4.195 7 ...it appears that Shakspeare did owe debts in all directions...
    ShP 4.201 11 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
    ET11 5.190 3 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...some glimpses at the interiors of noble houses, which we owe to Pepys and Evelyn;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    Wsp 6.221 11 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.
    Art2 7.44 21 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    DL 7.115 6 We owe to man higher succors than food and fire.
    DL 7.115 7 We owe to man man.
    DL 7.130 13 Why should we owe our power of attracting our friends to pictures and vases...
    WD 7.176 17 We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    Boks 7.190 23 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action.
    Boks 7.190 25 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action. Thus...we often owe to them the perception of immortality.
    Clbs 7.244 1 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith...
    SA 8.79 21 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force...
    Res 8.140 7 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!
    PPo 8.237 2 To Baron von Hammer Purgstall...we owe our best knowledge of the Persians.
    Insp 8.296 20 ...I can never remember the circumstances to which I owe [a generalization]...
    Dem1 10.7 26 ...we...owe to dreams a kind of divination and wisdom.
    Chr2 10.111 24 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors...
    Plu 10.295 16 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother, to whom I owe all...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    Plu 10.312 7 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims;...
    Plu 10.312 16 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]...
    Plu 10.321 20 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
    HDC 11.42 20 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    EWI 11.112 13 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
    EWI 11.139 23 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of things allowed them, to deceive and defraud men, shudder at the change...
    FSLC 11.182 14 One intellectual benefit we owe to the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.235 10 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    FSLN 11.235 26 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...
    PLT 12.43 4 I owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    MAng1 12.222 14 Our knowledge of [the human form's] highest expression we owe to the Fine Arts.

owed, v. (17)

    DSA 1.126 17 Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses.
    Chr1 3.114 7 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth who owed nothing to fortune...
    ShP 4.194 10 ...the poet owes to his legend what sculpture owed to the temple.
    NMW 4.240 9 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the millions whom he directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
    ET2 5.31 19 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
    Ctr 6.146 22 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.
    Ctr 6.161 14 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty. Plato says Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
    Ill 6.316 10 ...the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us, as if she felt that she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
    Boks 7.202 7 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery, owed first to Wolff and later to Boeckh, that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Insp 8.296 14 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.
    LLNE 10.369 1 ...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    LLNE 10.369 24 If I have owed much to the special influences I have indicated, I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    Thor 10.459 4 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the one benefit he owed to the College was its library...
    Shak1 11.450 24 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
    Scot 11.463 13 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...by the exceptional debt which all English-speaking men have gladly owed to his character and genius.
    Bost 12.194 7 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    MLit 12.322 15 [Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the victories of the Understanding, all their spoils.

Owen, Richard, n. (7)

    ET14 5.253 22 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...of Richard Owen, who has imported into Britain the German homologies...
    ET17 5.292 27 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science, Robert Brown, Owen, Sedgwick...
    ET17 5.293 22 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which Mr. [Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself through the Hunterian Museum.
    PI 8.7 18 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories...of Agassiz and Owen and Darwin in zoology and botany, are the fruits...
    PI 8.50 21 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    PC 8.219 21 Agassiz and Owen and Huxley...are really writing to each other.
    Mem 12.97 26 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception, like...Webster or Richard Owen, and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

Owen, Robert, n. (9)

    NER 3.264 1 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
    ET14 5.260 3 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich, nor is it...the Celt and the Goth. These are each always becoming the other; for Robert Owen does not exaggerate the power of circumstance.
    Ctr 6.140 2 Robert Owen said, Give me a tiger, and I will educate him.
    LLNE 10.346 18 Robert Owen of Lanark came hither from England in 1845...
    LLNE 10.346 25 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
    LLNE 10.347 2 Robert Owen knew Fourier in his old age.
    LLNE 10.347 6 Owen made the best impression by his rare benevolence.
    LLNE 10.347 22 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward, with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
    EdAd 11.390 22 Can [a journal] front this matter of Socialism, to which the names of Owen and Fourier have attached, and dispose of that question?

Owen's, Richard, n. (1)

    PLT 12.3 4 ...in listening to Richard Owen's masterly enumeration of the parts and laws of the human body...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...

Owenson, Sydney [Lady Morg (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.

ower, adv. (2)

    QO 8.186 4 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    QO 8.186 5 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

owes, v. (19)

    DSA 1.141 3 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    LE 1.184 14 When [the scholar] sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    SR 2.62 17 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man...
    Mrs1 3.143 3 Life owes much of its spirit to these sharp contrasts.
    Gts 3.159 2 It is said...that the world owes the world more than the world can pay...
    Nat2 3.167 10 Self-kindled every atom glows,/ And hints the future which it owes./
    ShP 4.194 9 ...the poet owes to his legend what sculpture owed to the temple.
    NMW 4.223 3 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
    ET14 5.244 26 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...
    Suc 7.298 22 All this happiness [the city boy in the October woods] owes only to his finer perception.
    QO 8.194 4 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour; and the reader sometimes giving more to the citation than he owes to it.
    Supl 10.168 10 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets...than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    SovE 10.185 9 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe.
    Plu 10.301 25 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
    Plu 10.309 17 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that he who ran in debt yesterday owes nothing to-day, as being another man;...
    Bost 12.209 17 ...[Boston] owes its existence and its power to principles not of yesterday...
    MAng1 12.222 17 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...

Owhyhees, n. (1)

    Art2 7.38 27 ...from the tattooing of the Owhyhees to the Vatican Gallery;... Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

owing, adj. (1)

    Let 12.403 14 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result not so much owing to the natural increase of population as to the hard times...

owing, v. (10)

    Nat 1.15 9 [The beauty of nature] seems partly owing to the eye itself.
    SwM 4.103 15 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
    NMW 4.231 21 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...it was owing to the peculiarity of the times and to my reputation of having fought well against the enemies of my country.
    ET18 5.303 3 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class...
    Art2 7.46 3 ...the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple.
    Art2 7.46 7 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it...
    QO 8.197 21 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson...
    FSLN 11.218 11 Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take in all classes.
    SMC 11.365 12 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    Mem 12.100 5 [Defect of memory] is sometimes owing to excellence of genius.

owl, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.155 21 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl...to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
    ACri 12.301 20 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank. And the town? There are still the sixty houses, but when I passed it, one owl was the only inhabitant.

owls, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.177 4 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Bhr 6.179 20 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs...
    PI 8.55 18 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Midnight walks, when all the fowls/ Are warmly housed, save bats and owls;/...

Own Book, Pirate's, n. (1)

    WD 7.165 17 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.

own, v. (32)

    Nat 1.59 3 ...I own there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.
    Nat 1.70 26 We own and disown our relation to [nature]...
    DSA 1.131 17 You shall not own the world;...
    LT 1.280 18 ...I own our virtue makes me ashamed;...
    LT 1.285 10 ...I own I like the speculators best.
    Tran 1.343 8 ...[Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...
    Fdsp 2.200 18 [A delicate organization] would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to know and own it.
    Prd1 2.221 24 ...it would be hardly honest in me...whilst my debt to my senses is real and constant, not to own it in passing.
    OS 2.291 17 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood...
    Cir 2.317 26 I own I am gladdened by seeing the predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...
    Pt1 3.42 13 ...the woods and the rivers thou shalt own [O poet]...
    Chr1 3.104 20 I own it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    Chr1 3.115 28 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it is to own it.
    SwM 4.110 23 I own with some regret that [Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...
    ET13 5.221 14 [The English Church] is the church of the gentry, but it is not the church of the poor. The operatives do not own it...
    ET14 5.246 2 ...[Hallam] lifts himself to own better than almost any the greatness of Shakspeare...
    Wth 6.97 7 Some men are born to own...
    Wth 6.97 11 They should own who can administer...
    Wth 6.97 27 There are many articles good for occasional use, which few men are able to own.
    Wth 6.115 23 If a man own land, the land owns him.
    Ill 6.310 25 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick.
    Ill 6.315 12 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game...
    PI 8.63 15 There is something--our brothers on this or that side of the sea do not know it or own it;...which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    PerF 10.69 10 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence, but all...in the presence of each other...own the balance of power.
    Schr 10.276 23 ...I own I love talents and accomplishments;...
    EWI 11.101 20 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
    EWI 11.129 9 Forgive me, fellow citizens, if I own to you, that 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.
    FSLC 11.208 22 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy,-never conceding the right of the planter to own, but that we may acknowledge the calamity of his position...
    FSLN 11.241 1 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...
    AKan 11.258 13 I own I have little esteem for governments.
    CL 12.140 2 I own I prefer the solar to the polar climates.
    ACri 12.288 15 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with humps of a picturesque peak...

owned, v. (20)

    Comp 2.104 24 This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted. Up to this day it must be owned no projector has had the smallest success.
    Pol1 3.215 27 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual;...of whom the existing government is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.
    MoS 4.178 14 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    ShP 4.205 4 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...
    NMW 4.224 2 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks, or in land and buildings owned by idle capitalists,--and the interests of living labor...
    ET4 5.55 14 [The Celts] had no violent feudal tenure, but the husbandman owned the land.
    ET5 5.88 4 Whilst they are thus instinct with a spirit of order and of calculation, it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views;...
    ET11 5.183 3 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    Wth 6.99 4 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer.
    Ill 6.323 2 I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent...
    PI 8.67 20 We are a little civil, it must be owned, to Homer and Aeschylus...
    MoL 10.249 12 Only the duties of Intellect must be owned.
    Thor 10.468 9 [Thoreau]...owned to a preference of the weeds to the imported plants...
    EWI 11.107 17 [The Quakers] were rich: they owned, for debt or by inheritance, [West Indian] island property;...
    EWI 11.126 26 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England...
    War 11.153 16 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history; and it must be owned he gives sound reason for his opinion.
    ACiv 11.301 6 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.
    ACiv 11.301 15 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.
    II 12.75 1 It must be owned that what we call Inspiration is coy and capricious;...
    CL 12.139 19 ...Massachusetts, it must be owned, is on the northern slope...

owner, n. (21)

    MR 1.238 5 Consider further the difference between the first and second owner of property.
    MR 1.239 9 ...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels.
    Hist 2.2 1 I am owner of the sphere/...
    Comp 2.98 19 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature...swells the estate, but kills the owner.
    Pol1 3.206 13 The law may do what it will with the owner of property;...
    ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners.
    ET10 5.164 24 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.
    Wth 6.101 19 Money...follows the nature and fortunes of the owner.
    Wth 6.107 17 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...
    Wth 6.109 21 Of course the loss [of an American ship] was serious to the owner, but the country was indemnified;...
    Bty 6.284 13 The formulas of science are...of no value to any but the owner.
    Bty 6.298 21 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner;...
    Farm 7.147 6 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years they mature for the owner their delicate fruit.
    Suc 7.298 23 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees...
    HDC 11.48 4 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.
    EWI 11.122 17 The owner of a New York manor imitates the mansion and equipage of the London nobleman;
    EWI 11.126 27 ...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...
    ACiv 11.301 10 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners.
    EPro 11.314 5 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./
    EPro 11.314 7 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./
    CL 12.147 10 ...the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....when the owner sleeps or travels...

owners, n. (14)

    Con 1.306 14 ...[the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners...
    Comp 2.107 23 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    Pol1 3.202 10 ...property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.
    Pol1 3.203 3 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    Pol1 3.206 16 The law may in a mad freak say that all shall have power except the owners of property;...
    Pol1 3.206 21 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do...
    ET10 5.163 23 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners.
    Supl 10.167 22 The people of English stock...are a solid people...owners of land whose title-deeds are properly recorded.
    Supl 10.172 4 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...
    Plu 10.302 8 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners...
    EWI 11.113 19 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of slaves by commissioners...
    EWI 11.140 18 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    ACiv 11.301 11 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners.
    CL 12.163 5 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to survey his possessions, and passed onward and left them, before the second owners, as he called them, were awake.

owner's, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.203 9 Gift...makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor made it the first owner's...
    Pol1 3.203 10 Gift...makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor made it the first owner's...
    LLNE 10.356 9 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    CL 12.148 10 ...a cow does not need so much land as the owner's eyes require between him and his neighbor.

ownership, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.203 11 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.

owning, v. (7)

    Pol1 3.202 10 ...property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.
    Wth 6.97 8 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful;...
    Bhr 6.170 24 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them...
    DL 7.131 1 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].
    DL 7.131 14 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets], which I can find in the shops of the engravers; but I do not wish the vexation of owning them.
    Schr 10.267 1 ...[the cant of the time] believes that ideas do not lead to the owning of stocks;...
    FSLC 11.189 9 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life...

owns, v. (14)

    Nat 1.8 16 Miller owns this field...
    Nat 1.8 18 Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape.
    Tran 1.339 4 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him...
    Pol1 3.202 1 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county.
    Pol1 3.202 2 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county.
    Pol1 3.206 27 Every man owns something...
    ET5 5.98 20 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
    ET11 5.182 13 The Duke of Sutherland owns the County of Sutherland...
    ET11 5.182 16 The Duke of Devonshire, besides his other estates, owns 96, 000 acres in the County of Derby.
    Wth 6.115 23 If a man own land, the land owns him.
    Bty 6.305 23 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns.
    WD 7.168 7 He only is rich who owns the day.
    ACiv 11.301 11 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners. One man owns land and slaves; another owns slaves only.
    ACiv 11.301 12 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners. One man owns land and slaves; another owns slaves only.

ox, n. (14)

    Nat 1.71 2 We are like Nebuchadnezzar...eating grass like an ox.
    NER 3.252 25 The ox must be taken from the plough...
    PNR 4.80 18 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    MoS 4.155 11 Am I an ox, or a dray?--you are both in extremes, [the skeptic] says.
    ET5 5.95 6 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin.
    Pow 6.59 7 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Wth 6.119 6 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
    Bty 6.300 19 Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, With the physiognomy of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.
    Res 8.148 16 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill, with a stop-cock by his chair from which he could discharge a stream that would knock down an ox...
    FSLC 11.211 2 Europe is little compared with Asia and Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
    Wom 11.410 18 The horse and ox use no delays;...
    Mem 12.105 23 One of my neighbors, a grazier, told me that he should know again every cow, ox, or steer that he ever saw.
    CInt 12.118 12 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    CInt 12.118 15 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.

ox-cart, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 22 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...

oxen, n. (13)

    Prd1 2.222 4 [Prudence] is God taking thought for oxen.
    Pt1 3.36 18 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    Pt1 3.36 20 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    MoS 4.173 26 'T is of no importance what bats and oxen think.
    ET1 5.8 24 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes...
    ET11 5.176 12 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...
    Wth 6.119 1 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid; each gave a day's work...or lent his yoke of oxen, or his horse...
    Wth 6.120 7 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work;...
    Wth 6.120 9 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen?
    Wth 6.120 14 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures...be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?
    Civ 7.22 16 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up... and put him and his plough and his oxen into her apron...
    AgMs 12.358 5 [The Farmer] was holding the plough, and his son driving the oxen.
    AgMs 12.361 21 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November;...

Oxenford, John, n. (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...

ox-eye, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.22 21 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers, which, he said, especially the ox-eye daisy, are very abundant on the top of the rock.

Oxford, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.236 13 Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind,--full of English limitations, English politics...Oxford philosophy;...

Oxford, Earl [Aubrey de Ve (2)

    eT8 5.139 18 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit..
    ET11 5.178 22 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.

Oxford, England, n. (5)

    Hsm1 2.248 12 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.
    ET7 5.123 8 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.
    ET17 5.293 27 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England]; in Birmingham, in Oxford...
    DL 7.121 27 [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...
    LLNE 10.361 23 George W. Curtis of New York, and his brother, of English Oxford, were members of the family [at Brook Farm] from the first.

Oxford Fellow, n. (1)

    SovE 10.186 10 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).

Oxford, Tom Brown at [Thom (1)

    Edc1 10.143 6 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford...

Oxford University, adj. (4)

    ET8 5.133 14 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET12 5.209 11 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
    ET15 5.263 1 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.
    Carl 10.496 3 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...

Oxford University, n. (28)

    Hist 2.20 24 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    MoS 4.154 10 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter.
    ET10 5.154 13 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET12 5.199 4 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
    ET12 5.199 10 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford...
    ET12 5.200 20 Oxford is old, even in England...
    ET12 5.201 18 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, or calendar of the writers of Oxford for two hundred years, is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    ET12 5.201 22 On every side, Oxford is redolent of age...
    ET12 5.202 21 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.203 21 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase...
    ET12 5.204 4 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford.
    ET12 5.204 12 Oxford is a Greek factory...
    ET12 5.205 1 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    ET12 5.205 18 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540...
    ET12 5.206 14 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.209 18 Oxford...shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET12 5.210 2 ...no doubt their learning is grown obsolete;--but Oxford also has its merits...
    ET12 5.210 21 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men...
    ET12 5.212 20 Oxford is a library, and the professors must be librarians.
    ET12 5.213 11 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
    ET13 5.224 3 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge. The Platonists of Oxford are as bitter against this heresy, as Thomas Taylor.
    ET16 5.290 20 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.
    DL 7.122 2 [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...
    Chr2 10.113 13 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...
    Carl 10.496 3 [Carlyle] prefers Cambridge to Oxford...
    Wom 11.416 9 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar. He was a terrible metaphysician. He was a jurist, a poet, a divine. Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such students.
    CInt 12.124 15 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by the pedants of his time, and only the other day, of Arago; in Oxford, the recent rejection of Max Muller.

oxide, n. (2)

    NER 3.258 7 ...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
    Ill 6.311 19 Life is sweet as nitrous oxide;...

Oxonian, n. (3)

    ET14 5.258 9 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us be crowned with roses, let us drink wine...
    ET14 5.258 13 A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for...
    ET15 5.269 24 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.

Oxonienses, Athenae [Anthon (2)

    ET10 5.154 11 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...
    ET12 5.201 17 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is a lively record of English manners and merits...

oxygen, n. (11)

    LT 1.284 27 Is there less oxygen in the atmosphere?
    Prd1 2.241 2 I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element, as oxygen or hydrogen...
    PNR 4.85 2 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical; the proportions are constant of oxygen, azote and lime;...
    Wsp 6.204 6 Nature has self-poise in all her works; certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine...
    Farm 7.143 8 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.
    Farm 7.143 25 The eternal rocks...have held their oxygen or lime undiminished...
    Farm 7.143 26 No particle of oxygen can rust or wear...
    Clbs 7.225 5 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen...
    PI 8.16 26 ...the chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to yield a new product, which is not these, but water;...
    PerF 10.70 11 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    Bost 12.184 17 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe...that carbon, oxygen, alum and iron, each has its origin in spiritual nature?

oyster, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.340 27 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...

oyster, n. (3)

    Con 1.296 9 Saturn...created an oyster.
    Comp 2.117 19 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to...acquire habits of self-help; and thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.
    Nat2 3.180 12 It is a long way from granite to the oyster;...

oyster-bank, n. (1)

    PLT 12.22 10 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man]...designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

oysters, n. (3)

    Con 1.296 11 Saturn...created an oyster. Then he would act again, but he... went on creating the race of oysters.
    Con 1.296 23 Thy oysters are barnacles and cockles...
    Con 1.297 6 ...Saturn...went on making oysters for a thousand years.

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