People to Peremtory
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
people, adj. (1)
HDC 11.29 3 ...the people of New England, for a few
years past, as the
second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived,
have
seen fit to observe the day.
People, Chosen, n. (1)
MMEm 10.423 8 [War] was the glory of the Chosen People,
nay, it is said
there was war in Heaven.
People, English, Defence... (2)
Milt1 12.248 21 [Milton's] prose writings, especially
the Defence of the
English People, seem to have been read with avidity.
Milt1 12.250 1 The Defence of the People of England, on
which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is...the worst of his
works.
people, n. (746)
AmS 1.81 11 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly
sign of the survival
of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any
more.
AmS 1.103 26 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his
privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally
true. The
people delight in it;...
DSA 1.138 16 The true preacher can be known by this,
that he deals out to
the people his life...
DSA 1.138 23 It seemed strange that the people should
come to church.
DSA 1.139 24 The prayers and even the dogmas of our
church are...wholly
insulated from anything now extant in the life and business of the
people.
DSA 1.140 14 Would [the poor preacher] urge people to a
godly way of
living;...
LE 1.170 22 The moment a man of genius pronounces the
name...of the
Roman people, we see their state under a new aspect.
MN 1.191 6 Where there is no vision, the people perish.
MR 1.246 7 Society is full of infirm people...
MR 1.252 23 We do not greet [the laborers']
talents...nor in the assembly
of the people vote for what is dear to them.
MR 1.253 9 We complain that the politics of masses of
the people are
controlled by designing men...
MR 1.253 12 ...the people do not wish to be represented
or ruled by the
ignorant and base.
LT 1.260 2 Everything that is popular...deserves the
attention of the
philosopher, and this for the obvious reason, that...it characterizes
the
people.
LT 1.261 21 If you speak of the age, you mean your own
platoon of
people...
LT 1.263 16 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of
order here in
Boston, who supposed that our people were identified with their
religious
denominations, by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at
once in one of our metropolitan churches.
LT 1.265 2 ...let us set up our Camera also, and let
the sun paint the people.
LT 1.269 18 ...[modern reform movements] educate the
conscience and the
intellect of the people.
LT 1.270 24 ...each of these aspirations and attempts
of the people for the
Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates...
LT 1.281 1 The exaggeration which our young people make
of [the slave's] wrongs, characterizes themselves.
LT 1.284 9 ...we must pay for being too intellectual,
as they call it. People
are not as light-hearted for it.
LT 1.290 3 ...I read [the Moral Sentiment] in the pride
and in the humility
of people;...
Con 1.320 18 ...the people have the power...
Tran 1.347 9 With this passion for what is great and
extraordinary, it
cannot be wondered at that [Transcendentalists] are repelled by
vulgarity
and frivolity in people.
YA 1.363 1 ...our people have their intellectual
culture from one country
and their duties from another.
YA 1.364 11 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad
is the increased
acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless
resources
of their own soil.
YA 1.364 14 ...this invention [the railroad] has
reduced England to a third
of its size, by bringing people so much nearer...
YA 1.367 2 ...with cheap land, and the pacific
disposition of the people, everything invites to the arts of
agriculture...
YA 1.369 22 The vast majority of the people of this
country live by the
land...
YA 1.370 5 How much better when the whole land is a
garden, and the
people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
YA 1.376 24 ...this club of noblemen...combine to brave
the sovereign, and
call in the aid of the people.
YA 1.377 21 ...as they say of dying people, all
[Feudalism's] faults came
out.
YA 1.380 8 ...the swelling cry of voices for the
education of the people
indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and
executioner.
YA 1.385 4 ...many people have a native skill for
carving out business for
many hands;...
YA 1.388 1 The people, and the world, are now suffering
from the want of
religion and honor in its public mind.
YA 1.390 25 ...the terror of old people and of vicious
people is lest the
Union of these states be destroyed;...
YA 1.393 7 The English, the most conservative people
this side of India, are not sensible of the restraint [of
aristocracy]...
Hist 2.14 18 We have the civil history of [the Greek]
people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given
it;...
Hist 2.15 9 ...of the genius of one remarkable people
we have a fourfold
representation...
Hist 2.19 15 By surrounding ourselves with the original
circumstances we
invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture, as we see how
each people merely decorated its primitive abodes.
Hist 2.27 26 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual
people.
SR 2.49 2 ...looking out from his corner on such people
and facts as pass
by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
SR 2.53 21 What I must do is all that concerns me, not
what the people
think.
SR 2.56 17 ...when to [the cultivated classes']
feminine rage the indignation
of the people is added...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion
to
treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
SR 2.65 13 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the
statement of
perceptions as of opinions...
SR 2.72 23 Live no longer to the expectation of these
deceived and
deceiving people with whom we converse.
SR 2.83 1 ...if the American artist will study...the
precise thing to be done
by him, considering...the wants of the people...he will create a house
in
which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves
fitted...
Comp 2.93 4 ...it seemed to me when very young that on
this subject [Compensation]...the people knew more than the preachers
taught.
SL 2.132 10 Our young people are diseased with the
theological problems
of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
SL 2.133 14 People represent virtue as a struggle...
SL 2.136 21 Do not shut up the young people against
their will in a pew...
SL 2.147 19 People are not the better for the sun and
moon, the horizon and
the trees;...
SL 2.153 25 ...when the empty book has gathered all its
praise, and half the
people say, What poetry! what genius! it still needs fuel to make fire.
SL 2.166 7 Let the great soul incarnated in some
woman's form...sweep
chambers and scour floors, and...all people will get mops and
brooms;...
Fdsp 2.199 15 Almost all people descend to meet.
Prd1 2.221 10 ...I...hate...people without perception.
Prd1 2.239 3 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical
people an argument on
religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!
Prd1 2.240 3 We refuse sympathy and intimacy with
people, as if we
waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.
Hsm1 2.260 11 ...we have the weakness to expect the
sympathy of people
in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
Hsm1 2.260 16 If you would serve your brother, because
it is fit for you to
serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent
people
do not commend you.
OS 2.278 9 We owe many valuable observations to people
who are not very
acute or profound...
OS 2.279 19 Foolish people ask you, when you have
spoken what they do
not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your
own?
Cir 2.320 5 People wish to be settled;...
Cir 2.321 13 People say sometimes, See what I have
overcome;...
Art1 2.364 6 [Sculpture] was originally a useful
art...and among a people
possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was
refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
Art1 2.364 9 ...[sculpture] is the game of a rude and
youthful people...
Pt1 3.16 27 The people fancy they hate poetry...
Pt1 3.37 22 ...Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and
dull to dull people...
Pt1 3.39 6 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain
conditions, as...the
orator into the assembly of the people...and each presently feels the
new
desire.
Exp 3.46 5 We are like millers on the lower levels of a
stream, when the
factories above them have exhausted the water. We too fancy that the
upper
people must have raised their dams.
Exp 3.48 8 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it
is not half so bad
with them as they say.
Exp 3.58 12 Our young people have thought and written
much on labor and
reform...
Exp 3.59 18 [Life's] chief good is for well-mixed
people who can enjoy
what they find, without question.
Exp 3.61 17 The fine young people despise life...
Exp 3.67 22 It is ridiculous that we are diplomatists,
and doctors, and
considerate people;...
Exp 3.68 14 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful
obliquely...
Exp 3.76 18 People forget that it is the eye which
makes the horizon...
Exp 3.76 23 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which
makes this or that man
a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint.
Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these
optical laws
shall take effect.
Exp 3.82 9 A preoccupied attention is the only answer
to the importunate
frivolity of other people;...
Exp 3.84 15 People disparage knowing and the
intellectual life...
Chr1 3.91 8 The people know that they need in their
representative much
more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
Chr1 3.91 13 [The people] cannot come at their ends by
sending to
Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who,
before
he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by
Almighty God to stand for a fact...
Chr1 3.103 13 People always recognize this difference.
We know who is
benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to
soup-societies.
Mrs1 3.119 18 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to
whom we owe this
account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
Mrs1 3.125 25 ...if the man of the people cannot speak
on equal terms with
the gentleman...he is not to be feared.
Mrs1 3.129 14 ...if the people should destroy class
after class, until two
men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be
involuntarily served and copied by the other.
Mrs1 3.135 11 ...by luxuries and ornaments we amuse the
young people...
Mrs1 3.137 26 Must we have a good understanding with
one another's
palates? as foolish people who have lived long together know when each
wants salt or sugar.
Mrs1 3.139 26 [Society]...hates quarrelsome,
egotistical, solitary and
gloomy people;...
Gts 3.164 25 ...rectitude...receives with wonder the
thanks of all people.
Nat2 3.178 13 It is when...the house is filled with
grooms and gazers, that
we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are
suggested
by the pictures and the architecture.
Nat2 3.188 7 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem
his hat and shoes
sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it
helps
them with the people...
Pol1 3.200 5 Republics abound in young civilians who
believe...that any
measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you
can get sufficient voices to make it a law.
Pol1 3.207 13 In this country we are very vain of our
political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung,
within the memory of living
men, from the character and condition of the people...
Pol1 3.213 16 The wise man [the community] cannot find
in nature, and it
makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by
contrivance; as by causing the entire people to give their voices on
every
measure;...
NR 3.228 9 Young people admire talents or particular
excellences;...
NR 3.231 1 In any controversy concerning morals, an
appeal may be made
with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people
expresses.
NER 3.268 7 We believe that the defects of so many
perverse and so many
frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
NER 3.279 1 I remember standing at the polls one day
when the anger of
the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the
independent
electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I
am
satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to
vote right.
UGM 4.4 5 ...I do not travel to find comfortable, rich
and hospitable
people...
UGM 4.5 14 We must not...deny the substantial existence
of other people.
UGM 4.8 16 Mind thy affair, says the spirit:--coxcomb,
would you meddle
with the skies, or with other people?
UGM 4.15 14 The people cannot see [the hero] enough.
UGM 4.19 14 When nature removes a great man, people
explore the
horizon for a successor;...
UGM 4.23 19 ...I find [a master] greater when he can
abolish himself and
all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts,
destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is
nothing. Then he is a monarch who gives a constitution to his
people;...
UGM 4.24 8 The worthless and offensive members of
society...invariably
think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
UGM 4.25 15 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our
eyes from egotism
and enable us to see other people and their works.
PPh 4.58 4 ...the anecdotes that have come down from
the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his
master's behalf...
PPh 4.58 12 [Plato] has...a humanity which makes him
tender for the
superstitions of the people.
PNR 4.89 26 Plato plays Providence a little with the
baser sort, as people
allow themselves with their dogs and cats.
SwM 4.100 24 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical
skill, and the
added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to
him
queens...and people about the ports through which he was wont to
pass...
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 4.132 12 The wise people of the Greek race were
accustomed to lead
the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian
mysteries...
ShP 4.190 24 ...[every master's] power lay in his
sympathy with his
people...
ShP 4.191 16 Shakspeare's youth fell in a time when the
English people
were importunate for dramatic entertainments.
ShP 4.191 21 ...the religious among the Anglican
church, would suppress [dramatic entertainments]. But the people wanted
them.
ShP 4.191 25 The [English] people had tasted this new
joy [the theatre];...
ShP 4.194 5 [Popular tradition] holds [the poet] to the
people...
ShP 4.195 2 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor
found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found
in the accumulated dramatic
materials to which the people were already wonted...
ShP 4.196 21 A great poet who appears in illiterate
times, absorbs into his
sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual
jewel... it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
ShP 4.202 17 There is somewhat touching in the madness
with which the
passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and
lets pass
without a single valuable note...the man...on whose thoughts the
foremost
people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished...
ShP 4.202 23 A popular player;--nobody suspected
[Shakespeare] was the
poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from
poets and
intellectual men as from courtiers and frivolous people.
ShP 4.212 11 [Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his
legend with form
and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
NMW 4.223 16 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if
Napoleon is
Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
NMW 4.225 1 God has granted, says the Koran, to every
people a prophet
in its own tongue.
NMW 4.231 16 ...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as
the people, when
he styled himself the Child of Destiny.
NMW 4.240 27 The market-place, [Napoleon] said, is the
Louvre of the
common people.
NMW 4.241 19 ...there is in particulars this identity
between Napoleon and
the mass of the people...
NMW 4.242 2 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that
no longer the
throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...
NMW 4.242 24 ...even when the majority of the people
had begun to ask
whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of
men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the
country...took his part...
GoW 4.266 1 ...there is a certain ridicule, among
superficial people, thrown
on the scholars or clerisy...
GoW 4.266 7 Our people are of Bonaparte's opinion
concerning ideologists.
GoW 4.286 22 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that
came to nothing, as
people say, have the strangest importance...
ET1 5.3 5 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed
in London at the
Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning; there were few people in
the
streets...
ET1 5.4 18 The young scholar fancies it happiness
enough to live with
people who can give an inside to the world;...
ET1 5.18 1 [Carlyle] still returned to English
pauperism...the selfish
abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come
wandering over these moors. ... They burned the stacks and so found a
way
to force the rich people to attend to them.
ET1 5.21 1 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political
aspects, for he wished
to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the
physical strength of the people...
ET2 5.32 21 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic
ship the right avenue to
the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
ET3 5.37 24 The innumerable details [in England]...the
multitudes of rich
and of remarkable people...hide all boundaries by the impression of
magnificence and endless wealth.
ET3 5.39 11 ...at one season, the country people [of
England] say, the lakes
contain one part water and two parts fish.
ET3 5.42 3 ...to make these [commercial] advantages
avail, the river
Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the
kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful
and
sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters
required.
ET3 5.43 8 The sea shall disjoin the people from
others, and knit them to a
fierce nationality.
ET3 5.43 13 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large,
the people [of
England] not so many as to glut the great markets...
ET3 5.43 21 It is a singular coincidence to this
geographic centrality [of
England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to
the people.
ET4 5.45 1 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... So far have the British people
predominated.
ET4 5.45 5 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions
are of
British stock. Add the United States of America, which
reckon...20,000,000
of people...and you have a population of English descent and language
of
60,000,000...
ET4 5.48 6 The French in Canada, cut off from all
intercourse with the
parent people, have held their national traits.
ET4 5.49 10 'T is said that the views of nature held by
any people
determine all their institutions.
ET4 5.51 3 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are
counter...a
people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole
earth, and homesick to a man;...
ET4 5.51 10 Neither do this people [the English] appear
to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which
they are derived.
ET4 5.53 25 Only a hardy and wise people could have
made this small
territory [England] great.
ET4 5.55 24 The English come mainly from the
Germans...a people about
whom in the old empire the rumor ran there was never any that meddled
with them that repented it not.
ET4 5.57 26 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people
considerably
advanced in rural arts...
ET4 5.63 17 The [English] public schools are charged
with being bear-gardens
of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause.
ET4 5.64 19 As soon as this land [England]...got a
hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and
factors of the globe.
ET4 5.65 23 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the
American's] nursery
were pictures of these [English] people.
ET4 5.70 6 [The English] have more constitutional
energy than any other
people.
ET4 5.70 22 [The English] are the most voracious people
of prey that ever
existed.
ET4 5.71 5 The people at home [in England] are addicted
to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.
ET4 5.73 1 ...[the English] boast that they understand
horses better than
any other people in the world...
ET5 5.74 5 ...from the residence of a portion of these
[Scandinavian] people in France...the Norman has come popularly to
represent in England
the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
ET5 5.74 19 The Roman came [to England], but in the
very day when his
fortune culminated. He looked in the eyes of a new people that was to
supplant his own.
ET5 5.75 24 The power of the Saxon-Danes...stood on the
strong
personality of these people.
ET5 5.78 4 The people [of England] have that nervous
bilious temperament
which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make
its
possessor subservient to the will of others.
ET5 5.79 24 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth
nothing
else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth,
nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the
cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it. There spoke the genius
of the
English people.
ET5 5.82 14 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my
opinion, among all the
sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is
best
attended to, and the least violence exercised on the people, is that of
England.
ET5 5.82 26 Montesquieu said, No people have true
common-sense but
those who are born in England.
ET5 5.88 26 I know not from which of the tribes and
temperaments that
went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was
supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
ET5 5.89 22 [The Englishman] would rather not do
anything at all than not
do it well. I suppose no people have such thoroughness;...
ET5 5.93 26 A proof of the energy of the British people
is the highly
artificial construction of the whole fabric.
ET5 5.99 6 Not only good minds are born among [the
English], but all the
people have good minds.
ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in
England], when the
speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;
the
people in the street best understand the best words.
ET6 5.103 18 The mechanical might and organization [in
England] requires
in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
ET6 5.103 23 ...[England] is no country for
fainthearted people;...
ET6 5.104 2 It requires, men say, a good constitution
to travel in Spain. I
say as much of England, for other cause, simply on account of the vigor
and
brawn of the people.
ET6 5.106 19 These people [the English] have sat here a
thousand years, and here they will continue to sit.
ET7 5.116 15 When any breach of promise occurred [in
English
government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the
people
as an intolerable grievance.
ET7 5.118 9 The phrase of the lowest of the [English]
people is honor-bright...
ET8 5.128 8 As compared with the Americans, I think
[the English] cheerful and contented. Young people in this country are
much more prone
to melancholy.
ET8 5.128 13 [The English] are...not so easily amused
as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among
children...
ET8 5.130 24 ...you shall find in the common [English]
people a surly
indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
ET8 5.138 24 Our swifter Americans, when they first
deal with English, pronounce them stupid; but, later, do them justice
as people who wear
well...
ET8 5.139 8 Even the scale of expense on which people
live...proves the
tension of [English] muscle...
ET8 5.140 11 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was
obstinate and hard: and this could not please the king, who had many
clever people about him...
ET8 5.141 10 The conservative, money-loving,
lord-loving English are yet
liberty-loving; and so freedom is safe: for they have more personal
force
than any other people.
ET10 5.155 26 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the
English were
growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
ET10 5.156 15 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not
buy; for they have
no presumption of better fortunes next year, as our people have;...
ET10 5.160 18 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that
the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in
railways, in the last four years.
ET10 5.166 7 I much prefer the condition of an English
gentleman of the
better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for
travel...or for
mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home.
ET10 5.166 11 The cause and spring of [England's
wealth] is the wealth of
temperament in the people.
ET11 5.172 18 The frame of [English] society is
aristocratic, the taste of
the people is loyal.
ET11 5.172 20 The estates, names and manners of the
[English] nobles
flatter the fancy of the people...
ET11 5.173 4 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal
England, and King
Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a
heartless
trifler he is, and what a crew of Godforsaken robbers they are. The
people
of England knew as much.
ET11 5.173 23 The taste of the [English] people is
conservative.
ET11 5.186 5 These people [English nobility] seem to
gain as much as they
lose by their position.
ET11 5.186 16 The upper classes have only birth, say
the people here [in
England], and not thoughts.
ET11 5.187 20 Every one who has tasted the delight of
friendship will
respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to
secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people.
ET11 5.189 13 Against the cry of the old tenantry and
the sympathetic cry
of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and
planted
anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same
land
that fed three millions.
ET11 5.196 17 English history, wisely read, is the
vindication of the brain
of that people.
ET11 5.198 11 It is computed that, with titles and
without, there are
seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make
up what is called high society.
ET13 5.214 1 No people at the present day can be
explained by their
national religion.
ET13 5.216 10 [Christianity] lived by the love of the
people.
ET13 5.216 17 The priest came out of the people and
sympathized with his
class.
ET13 5.216 24 The Catholic Church, thrown on this
toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a
massive system...
ET13 5.217 20 The English Church has many certificates
to show of
humble effective service in humanizing the people...
ET13 5.218 8 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a
[religious] service in
the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.
ET13 5.226 8 If in any manner [the wise legislator] can
leave the election
and paying of the priest to the people, he will do well.
ET13 5.226 18 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a
bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course,
money...will
steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was
bequeathed.
ET14 5.236 17 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the
common style of the [English] people...
ET14 5.237 22 The unique fact in literary history, the
unsurprised reception
of Shakspeare;...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the
people.
ET14 5.257 25 ...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs
no mount of
vision to bring its secrets to the people.
ET15 5.261 15 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]
drags every secret
to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy,
since
the whole people are already forewarned.
ET15 5.261 21 No antique privilege, no comfortable
monopoly, but sees
surely that its days are counted; the people are familiarized with the
reason
of reform...
ET15 5.271 23 [The London Times's] existence honors the
people who
dare to print all they know...
ET16 5.275 14 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...
ET16 5.289 12 Just before entering Winchester we
stopped at the Church
of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of
beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be
given to
every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old
couple
who take care of the church. Some twenty people every day, they said,
make the same demand.
ET18 5.303 2 [the English] is a people of myriad
personalities.
ET18 5.304 8 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of
India by benefits;... in the instruction of the people...
ET18 5.306 16 The feudal system survives [in
England]...in the social
barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste, and still
more in
the submissive ideas pervading these people.
ET18 5.307 15 ...the American people do not yield
better or more able
men...than the English.
F 6.9 14 People seem sheathed in their tough
organization.
F 6.12 15 People are born with the moral or with the
material bias;...
F 6.24 4 'T is weak and vicious people who cast the
blame on Fate.
F 6.29 21 As Voltaire said, 't is the misfortune of
worthy people that they
are cowards;...
F 6.46 12 Some people are made up of rhyme,
coincidence, omen, periodicity, and presage...
Pow 6.62 12 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to
a people of
sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.
Pow 6.62 15 As long as our people quote English
standards they dwarf their
own proportions.
Pow 6.62 27 As long as our people quote English
standards they will miss
the sovereignty of power;...
Pow 6.63 13 The instinct of the people is right.
Pow 6.65 15 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against
the unanimous
declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
Pow 6.65 16 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against
the unanimous
declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
Pow 6.67 14 [Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off
the horses' tails of the
temperance people, in the night.
Pow 6.70 1 The people lean on this [aboriginal
source]...
Pow 6.70 4 March without the people...and you march
into night...
Wth 6.96 4 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be
rich, the moralists
would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people,
lest
civilization should be undone.
Wth 6.97 16 ...he is the rich man in whom the people
are rich...
Wth 6.97 17 ...he is the poor man in whom the people
are poor;...
Wth 6.105 6 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept
bills, the people at
Manchester...are forced into the highway...
Wth 6.110 8 Britain, France and Germany...send out,
attracted by the fame
of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor
people, to share the crop.
Wth 6.110 27 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant]
people...
Wth 6.114 14 ...proud people are intolerably selfish...
Wth 6.117 17 In England...I was assured...that great
lords and ladies had no
more guineas to give away than other people;...
Ctr 6.133 11 ...we have seen children who finding
themselves of no
account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw
attention.
Ctr 6.140 10 There are people who can never understand
a trope...
Ctr 6.142 7 I like people who like Plato.
Ctr 6.145 10 I think there is a restlessness in our
people which argues want
of character.
Ctr 6.149 14 Boys and girls who have been brought up
with well-informed
and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
Ctr 6.150 9 The best bribe which London offers to-day
to the imagination
is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe
there
is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
Ctr 6.152 1 It is odd that our people should have--not
water on the brain, but a little gas there.
Ctr 6.154 3 What is odious but...people who scream and
bewail?...
Ctr 6.154 4 What is odious but...people whose vane
points always east...
Ctr 6.158 14 I must have children...I must have a
social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or
basis. But to give these
accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions,
which
pass for more to the people than to me.
Ctr 6.159 16 I suffer every day from the want of
perception of beauty in
people.
Ctr 6.160 11 I have heard that stiff people lose
something of their
awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
Bhr 6.171 11 Every day bears witness to [manners']
gentle rule. People
who would obtrude, now do not obtrude.
Bhr 6.172 2 When we reflect on...how [manners]
recommend, prepare, and
draw people together...we see what range the subject has...
Bhr 6.172 17 We prize [manners] for their
rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped
state;...
Bhr 6.173 21 ...these [bad manners] are social
inflictions...which must be
entrusted to the restraining force of...familiar rules of behavior
impressed
on young people in their school-days.
Bhr 6.175 9 There are always exceptional people and
modes.
Bhr 6.183 3 There are people who come in ever like a
child with a piece of
good news.
Bhr 6.186 9 Society...if you do not belong to it,
resists and sneers at you, or
quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the
second... is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not
easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and
never suspect the
truth...
Bhr 6.188 10 People masquerade before us in their
fortunes...
Bhr 6.192 18 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they
teach you the secret
that...the greatest success is...perfect understanding between sincere
people.
Bhr 6.193 5 In all the superior people I have met I
notice directness...
Bhr 6.195 19 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and
gravity, defended
himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus
Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There
is no
witness. Which do you believe, Romans? Utri creditis, Quirites? When he
had said these words he was absolved by the assembly of the people.
Wsp 6.208 10 How is it people manage to live on,--so
aimless as they are?
Wsp 6.212 6 Even well-disposed, good sort of people are
touched with the
same infidelity...
Wsp 6.224 10 People seem not to see that their opinion
of the world is also
a confession of character.
Wsp 6.227 11 Young people admire talents and particular
excellences.
Wsp 6.228 21 We need not much mind what people please
to say, but what
they must say;...
Wsp 6.234 21 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal
people to whom I
have no skill to reply.
CbW 6.253 21 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles,
and as much as he
could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter,
swifter
ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
CbW 6.255 17 I do not think very respectfully of the
designs or the doings
of the people who went to California in 1849.
CbW 6.263 27 ...if people were sick and dying to any
purpose, we would
leave all and go to them...
CbW 6.265 14 ...I find the gayest castles in the air
that were ever piled, far
better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are
daily dug
and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
CbW 6.266 12 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the
fashion of thy
people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art
happy
and content in none.
CbW 6.267 25 The young people do not like the town, do
not like the sea-shore...
CbW 6.268 10 [The young people] explore a farm, but the
house is small, old, thin; discontented people lived there and are
gone;...
CbW 6.269 25 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the
reason of a
household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people
unhinged
and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.
CbW 6.272 5 Ask what is best in our experience, and we
shall say, a few
pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
CbW 6.274 14 ...it is who lives near us of equal social
degree,--a few
people at convenient distance...these, and these only, shall be your
life's
companions;...
CbW 6.274 22 ...one may take a good deal of pains to
bring people
together...and yet no result come of it.
CbW 6.274 27 ...a habit of union and competition brings
people up and
keeps them up to their highest point;...
CbW 6.275 6 ...we live with people on other
platforms;...
CbW 6.275 27 Few people discern that it rests with the
master or the
mistress what service comes from the man or the maid;...
CbW 6.276 4 All sensible people are selfish...
CbW 6.277 10 ...your theories and plans of life are
fair and commendable:-- but will you stick? Not one, I fear, in that
Common full of people...
CbW 6.277 19 The main difference between people seems
to be that one
man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable;
and
another is not.
Bty 6.288 3 ...everybody knows people who appear
beridden...
Bty 6.297 12 Walpole says...people go early to get
places at the theatres, when it is known [the Gunning sisters] will be
there.
Bty 6.297 16 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 6.300 3 ...petulant old gentlemen, who have chanced
to suffer some
intolerable weariness from pretty people...affirm that the secret of
ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ill 6.312 17 [The dreariest alderman] imitates the air
and actions of people
whom he admires...
SS 7.3 20 ...[my new friend] had one defect,--he could
not speak in the tone
of the people.
SS 7.9 16 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are
all the people we
know!
SS 7.11 2 The people, not the college, is the writer's
home.
SS 7.11 15 Concert fires people to a certain fury of
performance they can
rarely reach alone.
SS 7.13 12 ...the people are to be taken in very small
doses.
SS 7.13 19 So many men whom I know are degraded by
their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their
relation all too tender to the
gross people about them.
SS 7.14 10 Put any company of people together with
freedom for
conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and
pairs.
SS 7.14 15 ...[people in conversation] separate...as
children from old
people...
SS 7.15 27 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or
fewer people, but
the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...
Civ 7.22 21 There was once a giantess who had a
daughter, and the child
saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried
them
to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I
found
wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we
must
begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
Civ 7.32 19 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom
all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent
people...I see
what cubic values America has...
Civ 7.32 21 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom
all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people
who
are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons
these
people his superiors in virtue...I see what cubic values America has...
Art2 7.54 3 ...[all the known orders of architecture]
were the idealizing of
the primitive abodes of each people.
Art2 7.56 6 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the
builder and the
priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
Elo1 7.65 11 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the
people furious, shall
soften and compose them...
Elo1 7.68 26 Our Southern people are almost all
speakers...
Elo1 7.69 1 Our Southern people are almost all
speakers, and have every
advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't
is
said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
Elo1 7.70 1 The right eloquence needs no bell to call
the people together...
Elo1 7.70 10 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in
semi-barbarous ages, when it has some advantages in the simpler habit
of the people, show what
it aims at.
Elo1 7.76 27 You are safe...in the city...under the
eyes of a hundred
thousand people.
Elo1 7.80 12 ...among our cool and calculating
people...there is a good deal
of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
Elo1 7.84 20 If [the orator] should attempt to instruct
the people in that
which they already know, he would fail;...
Elo1 7.85 18 ...in any public assembly, him who has the
facts and can and
will state them, people will listen to...
Elo1 7.91 10 ...people always perceive whether you
drive or whether the
horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
Elo1 7.93 15 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a
whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the
orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
Elo1 7.94 5 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry
people a few times to
hear a speaker;...
Elo1 7.97 15 It is not the people that are in fault for
not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them.
DL 7.123 19 ...every man is provided in his thought
with a measure of man
which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many
thousands
comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the
measurer himself; neither do the people in the street;...
DL 7.130 6 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be
collected with care in
galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
Farm 7.152 26 This crust of soil which ages have
refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and
instructed people.
WD 7.162 16 ...ships were built capacious enough to
carry the people of a
county.
WD 7.174 11 ...every man in moments of deeper thought
is apprised that he
is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or
Byzantium.
WD 7.183 26 There are people who do not need much
experimenting;...
Boks 7.190 27 Go with mean people and you think life is
mean.
Boks 7.215 10 ...when one observes how ill and ugly
people make their
loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little
more...
Clbs 7.226 21 Opinions are accidental in people...
Clbs 7.226 26 Neither do we by any means always go to
people for
conversation.
Clbs 7.227 11 The clergyman walks from house to house
all day all the
year to give people the comfort of good talk.
Clbs 7.229 2 We remember the time...on a long journey
in the old stage-coach, where...people became rapidly acquainted...
Clbs 7.232 15 Some men love only to talk where they are
masters. They
like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an
ear to
any one.
Clbs 7.233 10 Able people, if they do not know how to
make allowance for [men of a delicate sympathy], paralyze them.
Clbs 7.236 4 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with
humble people on life
and duty...
Clbs 7.239 24 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress
against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If
this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of
one of
the contending parties.
Clbs 7.242 10 ...we perhaps live with people too
superior to be seen...
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.
Clbs 7.244 17 It was a pathetic experience when a
genial and accomplished
person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New
England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a
chair
for me.
Clbs 7.245 6 There are people who cannot well be
cultivated;...
Clbs 7.245 15 [A club] requires people who are not
surprised and shocked...
Cour 7.256 1 I need not show how much [courage] is
esteemed, for the
people give it the first rank.
Cour 7.256 13 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the
thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and
passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
Suc 7.283 1 Our American people cannot be taxed with
slowness in
performance or in praising their performance.
Suc 7.286 23 For success, to be sure we esteem it a
test in other people, since we do first in ourselves.
Suc 7.288 4 The Arabian sheiks, the most dignified
people in the planet, do
not want [American arts];...
Suc 7.288 24 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is
victory, without
regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people,
whose
watches go faster than their neighbors'...
Suc 7.309 27 I have seen scores of people who can
silence me...
OA 7.318 13 ...if we did not find the reflection of
ourselves in the eyes of
the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck
seventy instead of twenty.
OA 7.322 3 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of
seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely
old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their
houses to gaze at and obey them...
OA 7.326 10 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark
with impunity, and
people will say, O, he had headache...
PI 8.1 4 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor
thanks God his daily
praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
PI 8.25 5 When people tell me they do not relish poetry,
and bring me
Shelley...I am quite of their mind.
PI 8.47 3 Young people like rhyme, drum-beat, tune...
PI 8.48 20 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp
tune.
PI 8.53 24 Outside of the nursery the beginning of
literature is the prayers
of a people...
SA 8.84 25 ...just in proportion to the morality of a
people will be the
expansion of the credit system.
SA 8.87 23 [The young European emigrant's] good and
becoming clothes
put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so
dressed;...
SA 8.87 27 ...quite another class of our own youth I
should remind, of dress
in general, that some people need it and others need it not.
SA 8.91 9 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman
should be at liberty to
exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a
civilization
still rude.
SA 8.92 22 Virtues speak to virtues, vices to
vices,--each to their own kind
in the people with whom we deal.
SA 8.96 15 When people come to see us, we foolishly
prattle, lest we be
inhospitable.
SA 8.97 4 ...there are people who cannot be
cultivated...
SA 8.97 5 ...there are...people on whom speech makes no
impression;...
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;...
SA 8.98 14 Never worry people with your contritions...
SA 8.103 20 ...I said to myself, How little this man
[an American to be
proud of] suspects, with...his respect for lettered and scientific
people, that
he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
SA 8.103 27 That is the point which decides the welfare
of a people; which
way does it look?
SA 8.104 1 That is the point which decides the welfare
of a people; which
way does it look? If to any other people, it is not well with them.
SA 8.104 4 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs
and thoughts and
men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other
people... they are sublime;...
SA 8.104 16 We have come...to know...the good will that
is in the people...
SA 8.106 22 ...those people, and no others, interest
us, who believe in their
thought...
Elo2 8.111 2 I do not know any kind of history, except
the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than
to any anecdote of
eloquence;...
Elo2 8.112 5 It is an old proverb that Every people has
its prophet;...
Elo2 8.112 6 It is an old proverb that Every people has
its prophet; and
every class of the people has.
Elo2 8.116 3 You go to a town-meeting where the people
are called to
some disagreeable duty...
Elo2 8.116 20 When a good man rises in the cold and
malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to
be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your
talent and power, but...we are
tired of being pushed into patriotism by people who stay at home.
Elo2 8.120 17 Many people have no ear for music...
Elo2 8.127 13 ...when once going to preach the Thursday
lecture in Boston (which in those days people walked from Salem to
hear), 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...
Elo2 8.132 27 ...here [in the United States] are the
service of science, the
demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the
instant
practice of thirty millions of people.
Res 8.141 10 Here in America are all the wealth of
soil, of timber, of mines
and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these
wonderful machines...
Res 8.143 18 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has
sent home to China
American food and tools and luxuries, until he has taught his people to
use
them...
Res 8.144 2 The whole history of our civil war is rich
in a thousand
anecdotes attesting...the skilled labor of our people.
Res 8.148 20 See the dexterity of the good aunt in
keeping the young
people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
QO 8.187 7 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends,
laughingly compared his
writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they
were
pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by
the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
QO 8.188 8 People go out to look at sunrises and
sunsets who do not
recognize their own...
QO 8.193 26 ...people quote so differently...
QO 8.196 24 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy
drawings with
admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
PC 8.208 2 The temper of our people delights in this
whirl of life.
PC 8.210 26 People have in all countries been burned
and stoned for saying
things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.
PC 8.218 17 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are
very sharp with their
censorships and inquisitions, but it is on dull people.
PC 8.219 22 Agassiz and Owen and Huxley affect to
address the American
and English people...
PC 8.232 21 We are a complaisant, forgiving people...
PC 8.233 12 ...I draw new hope...from the healthy
sentiment of the
American people...
PPo 8.238 22 My father's empire, said Cyrus to
Xenophon, is so large that
people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated
with
heat at the other.
PPo 8.238 24 The temperament of the people [in the
East] agrees with this
life in extremes.
PPo 8.239 10 The favor of the climate...allows to the
Eastern nations a
highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the
genius
of the Hindoos...whom no people have surpassed in the grandeur of their
ethical statement.
PPo 8.241 22 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost
the seal of Solomon, which one of the Dews or evil spirits found, and,
governing in the name of
Solomon, deceived the people.
PPo 8.254 9 [Hafiz] asserts his dignity as bard and
inspired man of his
people.
PPo 8.262 5 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be
all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/
But thee the people
prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
Insp 8.281 12 Some people will tell you there is a
great deal of poetry and
fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
Grts 8.308 9 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of
Nature which he
knows, [the commander]...works after her laws and at her own pace, so
that
his doing, which is perfectly natural, appears miraculous to dull
people.
Grts 8.308 24 Set ten men to write their journal for
one day, and nine of
them will...lose themselves in misreporting the supposed experience of
other people.
Grts 8.316 8 We like the natural greatness of health
and wild power. I
confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes in people not normal,
nor
educated, nor presentable, nor church-members...as in more orderly
examples.
Grts 8.316 18 We must have some charity for the sense
of the people, which admires natural power...
Grts 8.320 3 ...people are as those with whom they
converse?
Imtl 8.324 4 The Egyptian people furnish us the
earliest details of an
established civilization...
Imtl 8.328 11 The emphasis of all the good books given
to young people [sixty years ago] was on death.
Imtl 8.342 17 Ignorant people confound reverence for
the intuitions with
egotism.
Imtl 8.347 23 Jesus explained nothing, but the
influence of him took people
out of time, and they felt eternal.
Imtl 8.348 8 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed
themselves to overstep
the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that
picture [of
personal immortality].
Imtl 8.348 13 Here are people who cannot dispose of a
day;...
Dem1 10.16 2 I have a lucky hand, sir, said
Napoleon...those on whom I lay
it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that
children and
young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved
dangerous to wiser people.
Dem1 10.23 4 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who,
though not gifted
to speak when the people listen...relies on his instincts...
Dem1 10.27 18 ...I think the numberless forms in which
this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every
people indicates the
inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
Aris 10.33 10 The terrible aristocracy that is in
Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people
dwelling in a
relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal
man...
Aris 10.33 11 The terrible aristocracy that is in
Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people
dwelling in a
relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal
man...
Aris 10.36 8 The English government and people, or the
French
government, may easily make mistakes [in bestowing titles];...
Aris 10.37 11 We like cool people...
Aris 10.45 26 Dull people think it Fortune that makes
one rich and another
poor.
Aris 10.52 8 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman,
who serves the
people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who
shall
blame them if they burn his barns...
Aris 10.54 17 In the fine arts, I find none in the
present age...who have
achieved any nobility by ennobling the people.
Aris 10.57 22 ...amid the levity and giddiness of
people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind...
Aris 10.61 5 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy
for each member to
carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues
and in
the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of
towns.
Aris 10.61 12 Give up, once for all, the hope of
approbation from the
people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
Aris 10.64 10 No great man has existed who did not rely
on the sense and
heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
PerF 10.82 10 Every one knows what are the effects of
music to put people
in gay or mournful or martial mood.
Chr2 10.104 25 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment]
is the source, in
natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who
feel
that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
Chr2 10.108 11 ...the rally on the principle must
arrive as people become
intellectual.
Chr2 10.108 16 I suspect, that, when the theology was
most florid and
dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
Chr2 10.118 19 How many people are there in Boston?
Some two hundred
thousand. Well, then so many sects.
Chr2 10.120 19 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir,
in carrying on
your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced
desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
Edc1 10.138 1 Cannot we let people be themselves...
Edc1 10.143 1 Do not spare to put novels into the hands
of young people as
an occasional holiday and experiment;...
Edc1 10.157 23 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the
rules of the
school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of
the
young people says a wise thing, greet it...
Supl 10.163 18 We talk, sometimes, with people whose
conversation would
lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
Supl 10.163 21 We talk, sometimes, with people whose
conversation would
lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum, where all the
objects
were monsters and extremes. Their good people are phoenixes; their
naughty are like the prophet's figs.
Supl 10.165 7 Horace Walpole relates that in the
expectation, current in
London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided
themselves with dresses for the occasion.
Supl 10.165 14 Thousands of people live and die who
were never...hungry
or thirsty...
Supl 10.167 20 The people of English stock...are a
solid people...
Supl 10.167 21 The people of English stock...are a
solid people...
Supl 10.169 13 I am daily struck with the forcible
understatement of people
who have no literary habit.
Supl 10.169 24 The common people diminish...
Supl 10.174 6 Children and thoughtless people like
exaggerated event and
activity;...
Supl 10.176 6 The firmest and noblest ground on which
people can live is
truth;...
SovE 10.203 4 Our religion...respects and mythologizes
some one time and
place and person and people.
SovE 10.204 7 The religion of seventy years ago was an
iron belt to the
mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept
respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world.
SovE 10.206 19 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on
their heel to avoid
famine, plague or the sword of the enemy. That is great, and gives a
great
air to the people.
SovE 10.211 11 Governments stand by [men's
credence],-by the faith that
the people share...
SovE 10.211 16 ...if the instinct of the people was to
resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in
order to be secure...
Prch 10.216 2 The true preacher can be known by this,
that he deals out to
the people his life...
Prch 10.220 13 ...the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against the
nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and
burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take
tacit part with
them...
Prch 10.230 15 The simple fact...that all over this
country the people are
waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is
inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large
liberties.
Prch 10.231 1 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting
peremptorily instruction;...
MoL 10.244 16 Dramatic mysteries were the entertainment
of the people [in the Middle Ages].
MoL 10.247 9 A scholar defending the cause...of the
oppressor, is a traitor
to his profession. He has ceased to be a scholar. He is not company for
clean people.
MoL 10.252 2 Where there is no vision, the people
perish.
MoL 10.255 12 Our people have this levity and
complaisance...
MoL 10.258 5 ...on each new threat of faction, the
ballot of the people has
been unexpectedly right.
Schr 10.266 24 ...practical people in America give
themselves wonderful
airs.
Schr 10.267 7 Young men, I warn you...against
chattering, meddlesome, rich and official people.
Schr 10.278 2 I think there is no more intellectual
people than ours.
Schr 10.278 11 ...when one observes how eagerly our
people entertain and
discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their
intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
Plu 10.294 2 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been
in Rome but on two
occasions, and then on business of the people of his native city,
Chaeronea;...
Plu 10.322 15 ...as it was the desire of these old
patriots to fill with their
majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the
American
people.
LLNE 10.325 3 There grew a certain tenderness on the
people...
LLNE 10.326 26 People grow philosophical about native
land and parents
and relations.
LLNE 10.330 27 There was an influence on the young
people from the
genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in
Athens.
LLNE 10.338 2 ...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was
greeted was an
instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit
by.
LLNE 10.339 5 ...the tendency even of Punch's
caricature, was all on the
side of the people.
LLNE 10.340 13 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with
George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring
cultivated, thoughtful people
together...
LLNE 10.343 15 From that time meetings were held for
conversation...of
people engaged in studies...
LLNE 10.344 10 Theodore Parker was...the tribune of the
people...
LLNE 10.345 4 Society always values...inoffensive
people...
LLNE 10.355 4 As soon as our people got wind of the
doctrine of Marriage
held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of
a
lawless crew...
LLNE 10.355 8 ...like the dreams of poetic people on
the first outbreak of
the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would
disappear
in a slime of mire and blood.
LLNE 10.361 1 There was no doubt great variety of
character and purpose
in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main
of
young people...
LLNE 10.361 14 ...there was immense hope in these young
people [at
Brook Farm].
LLNE 10.361 17 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a
great deal in a
short time...
LLNE 10.364 8 The Founders of Brook Farm should have
this praise, that
they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
LLNE 10.366 2 Good people are as bad as rogues if
steady performance is
claimed;...
LLNE 10.366 6 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm]
that people on
whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not
responsible.
LLNE 10.368 5 People cannot live together in any but
necessary ways.
LLNE 10.368 12 Few people can live together on their
merits.
LLNE 10.369 13 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at
Brook Farm] saw
the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted
them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own
theory of life.
LLNE 10.369 24 I please myself with the thought that
our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from
wide and abundant sources, proper to a Continent and to an educated
people.
EzRy 10.392 19 The society will meet after the Lyceum,
as it is difficult to
bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
EzRy 10.392 22 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear
of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their
wives in this cold weather.
MMEm 10.400 25 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire
solitude with
these old people...
MMEm 10.402 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young
people
who pleased her was almost passionate...
MMEm 10.402 18 Nobody can...recall the conversation of
old-school
people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority
in
their mind...
MMEm 10.413 13 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear
heavenly meekness
attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would
sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
Thor 10.454 25 A fine house, dress, the manners and
talk of highly
cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
Thor 10.456 20 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily
and childlike into the
company of young people whom he loved...
Thor 10.460 20 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses
in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John
Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come.
Thor 10.460 26 The hall was filled at an early hour by
people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John
Brown] was heard by all
respectfully...
Thor 10.466 8 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with
such entire love to
the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them
known and
interesting to all reading Americans, and to people over the sea.
Carl 10.489 20 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious
tinge you sometimes
find in burly people.
Carl 10.490 6 [Carlyle] is obviously greatly respected
by all sorts of
people...
Carl 10.491 18 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they will eat
vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of
people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window...
Carl 10.492 8 [Young men] go for free
institutions...and only giving
opportunity and motive to every man; [Carlyle] for stringent
government, that shows people what they must do, and makes them do it.
Carl 10.492 12 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament
gathers up six millions
of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
Carl 10.497 21 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...
GSt 10.502 2 [George Stearns] was an early laborer in
the resistance to
slavery. This brought him into sympathy with the people of Kansas.
GSt 10.504 27 A man of the people, in strictly private
life, girt with family
ties;...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an
indispensable power in the state.
GSt 10.505 26 These interests, which [George Stearns]
passionately
adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic
persons holding the same views,-with two Presidents...and with leading
people everywhere.
LS 11.7 11 In years to come [says Jesus to his
disciples], as long as your
people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover],
the
connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in
your
eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
LS 11.10 16 The reason why St. John does not repeat
[Jesus's] words on
this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a
similar
discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
LS 11.19 1 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's
Supper], however
suitable to the people and modes of thought in the East...is foreign
and
unsuited to affect us.
LS 11.24 14 I have no hostility to this institution
[the Lord's Supper]; I am
only stating my want of sympathy with it. Neither should I ever have
obtruded this opinion upon other people, had I not been called by my
office
to administer it.
HDC 11.35 7 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler
[Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the
Lord was pleased to feed his
people until their corn and cattle were increased.
HDC 11.35 12 The great cost of cattle...the sufferings
of the people [pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon
following;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.40 5 There is no people, said [the settlers of
Concord's] pastor to
his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What
can we
excel in, if not in holiness?
HDC 11.40 10 [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.
HDC 11.40 12 [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;...
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 11.40 17 The sermon [to the settlers of Concord]
fell into good and
tender hearts; the people conspired with their teacher.
HDC 11.49 12 ...the people [of Concord] truly feel that
they are lords of the
soil.
HDC 11.54 23 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that
the new
plantations of Dedham and Concord...will contain abundance of people.
HDC 11.55 22 ...the Concord people became uneasy, and
looked around for
new seats.
HDC 11.55 27 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of
the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr.
Jones, and settled
Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from
a
part of their rates...
HDC 11.56 2 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from
removing...
HDC 11.56 7 Even this check which befell [the people of
Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth, for the good
man [Peter
Bulkeley], in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
HDC 11.56 14 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley]
excess and...pride
in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past,
would
have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the
people.
HDC 11.56 18 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay
built ships...
HDC 11.56 21 The people on the [Massachusetts]
bay...found the way to
the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply
themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
HDC 11.58 12 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to
Brookfield, in
season to save the people whose houses had been burned...
HDC 11.61 22 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a
feeling as the wild
beast inspires in the people near his den.
HDC 11.63 18 ...the country people came armed into
Boston, on the
afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
HDC 11.66 12 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest
sympathy with [George
Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his
people.
HDC 11.66 25 The ninth allegation [against Daniel
Bliss] is That in
praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust,
that was
allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
HDC 11.67 6 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was
filled with wonder, that
such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent
Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and
thank-offerings of the people
unto God...
HDC 11.67 7 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was
filled with wonder, that
such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent
Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and
thank-offerings of the people
unto God, and God's will and truths to the people;...
HDC 11.67 17 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.
HDC 11.68 22 ...it gives life and strength to every
attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of
this, but the neighboring
provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting
opposition...
HDC 11.69 7 ...the purchasing commodities subject to
such illegal taxation
is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the
liberties of
this free and happy people.
HDC 11.72 11 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in
Concord] for the
enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the
people.
HDC 11.72 20 It is said that all the services of that
day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of
Concord]...
HDC 11.75 14 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April
19, 1775] events we
may discern the natural action of the people.
HDC 11.77 12 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord],
had a hereditary
claim to the affection of the people...
HDC 11.77 18 ...[William Emerson]...is said to have
deeply inspired many
of his people with his own enthusiasm [for the Revolution].
HDC 11.79 25 The great expense of the [Revolutionary]
war was borne
with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years
passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger
and injury
ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and
their
debts.
HDC 11.81 4 In 1786, when the general sufferings drove
the people in
parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large
party of
armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
HDC 11.81 10 In 1786...a large party of armed
insurgents arrived in this
town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas.
But
they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in
a
County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion...
HDC 11.86 22 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being
exalts the
history of this people [of Concord].
LVB 11.89 21 ...my communication respects the sinister
rumors that fill
this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
LVB 11.90 10 In common with the great body of the
American people, we
have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the
Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal
inferiority...
LVB 11.92 6 We have inquired if this [rumored
relocation of the
Cherokees] be a gross misrepresentation from the party opposed to the
government and anxious to blacken it with the people.
LVB 11.92 22 Sir [Van Buren], does this government
think that the people
of the United States are become savage and mad?
LVB 11.93 26 ...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].
LVB 11.94 10 ...[the question of currency and trade] is
the chirping of
grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether all the attributes
of
reason, of civility, of justice, and even of mercy, shall be put off by
the
American people...
LVB 11.94 19 ...there exists in a great part of the
Northern people a gloomy
diffidence in the moral character of the government.
LVB 11.95 21 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how
plain and humane
people...regard the policy of the government...
LVB 11.96 5 The potentate and the people perish before
[the moral
sentiment];...
EWI 11.114 12 It was feared that the interest of the
master and servant [in
the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In
the island of Antigua, containing 37,000 people, 30,000 being negroes,
these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the
apprenticeship system...
EWI 11.115 16 ...I must be indulged in quoting a few
sentences...narrating
the behavior of the emancipated people [of the West Indies] on the next
day.
EWI 11.115 24 The clergy and missionaries throughout
the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to
enlighten the
people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...
EWI 11.116 6 The [West Indian] planters informed us
that [the day after
emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were
assembled...
EWI 11.116 12 At Grace Bay, [the day following
emancipation in the West
Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession...
EWI 11.120 23 Though joy beamed on every countenance,
[emancipation
day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to
God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these
happy
people in humble offering of praise.
EWI 11.123 7 Our civility, England determines the style
of, inasmuch...as
we are the expansion of that people.
EWI 11.127 16 ...the whole transaction [emancipation in
the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament
of England.
EWI 11.127 21 It was a stately spectacle, to see the
cause of human rights
argued...before that powerful people [the English].
EWI 11.131 27 If the State has no power to defend its
own people in its
own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal
Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
EWI 11.138 2 This moral force perpetually reinforces
and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that
superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all
countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive to the people...
EWI 11.139 6 [The statesmen's] vocation is a
presumption against them
among well-meaning people.
War 11.153 3 The [early] leaders, picked men of a
courage and vigor tried
and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves
above
each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living.
The
people imitate the chiefs.
War 11.157 2 Wherever there is no property, the people
will put on the
knapsack for bread;...
FSLC 11.180 12 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent
people in England
told me they could always distinguish by their culture among
Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLC 11.182 13 Just now a friend came into my house and
said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad
that I have lived; if not
I shall be sorry that I was born. What kind of law is that which
extorts
language like this from the heart of a free and civilized people?
FSLC 11.184 23 Here are humane people who have tears
for misery, an
open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor
man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
FSLC 11.187 21 If our resistance to this law [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is
not right, there is no right. This is not meddling with other people's
affairs: this is hindering other people from meddling with us.
FSLC 11.196 6 To serve [the Fugitive Slave Law], low
and mean people
are found by the groping of the government.
FSLC 11.196 22 I wonder that our acute people who have
learned that the
cheapest police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral
law
costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
FSLC 11.197 11 Philadelphia...in this auction of the
rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And
the Boston Advertiser, and
the Courier...urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.
FSLC 11.199 24 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has been like a
university to the
entire people.
FSLC 11.200 21 The words of John Randolph, wiser than
he knew, have
been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in
the
heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North
by
our black slaves, but by their own white slaves.
FSLC 11.203 9 [Webster] indulged occasionally in
excellent expression of
the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]...
FSLC 11.205 12 The people are loyal, law-loving,
law-abiding.
FSLC 11.205 19 The union of this people is a real
thing...
FSLC 11.205 23 The people cleave to the Union, because
they see their
advantage in it...
FSLC 11.209 26 The genius of this people, it is found,
can do anything
which can be done by men.
FSLC 11.213 13 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was
foully lost, that the well-known
sentiment of her people was not expressed.
FSLN 11.220 4 ...when a great man comes who knots up
into himself the
opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him
as an
exponent of this.
FSLN 11.221 10 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was
an event which
drew crowds of people...
FSLN 11.223 9 ...what [Webster] saw so well he
compelled other people to
see also.
FSLN 11.227 19 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for
the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a
totally
different course from Mr. Webster.
FSLN 11.228 6 [Webster] told the people at Boston they
must conquer
their prejudices;...
FSLN 11.230 16 We [in Massachusetts] have more money
and value of
every kind than other people...
AsSu 11.247 18 In [the slave state]...man is an
animal...spending his days
in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against
his
slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and
dangerous way. Such people live for the moment...
AsSu 11.250 19 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing
his opinion of the
Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
AKan 11.256 21 In these calamities under which they
suffer...the people of
Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
AKan 11.257 8 I know people who are making haste to
reduce their
expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the
benefit
of the Kansas emigrants.
AKan 11.258 10 I think there never was a people so
choked and stultified
by forms.
AKan 11.259 12 I do not know any story so gloomy as the
politics of this
country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly
round
one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a
false
position to...put the best people always at a disadvantage;...
AKan 11.260 7 ...our poor people, led by the nose by
these fine words [Union and Democracy], dance and sing...with every new
link of the chain
which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
AKan 11.260 25 Are there no women in that [Southern]
country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?
AKan 11.261 13 The President told the Kansas Committee
that the whole
difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
AKan 11.262 5 California, a few years ago, by the
testimony of all people
at that time in the country, had the best government that ever existed.
AKan 11.263 1 I think the American Revolution bought
its glory cheap. If
the problem was new, it was simple. If there were few people, they were
united...
JBB 11.270 19 ...a common feeling joins the people of
Massachusetts with [John Brown].
JBS 11.276 9 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss
outweighs the profit
far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
JBS 11.277 7 Everything that is said of [John Brown]
leaves people a little
dissatisfied;...
JBS 11.280 18 ...all people, in proportion to their
sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
JBS 11.280 25 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John
Brown's] side. I do
not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed
handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...
TPar 11.287 10 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore
Parker's] treatment
both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity, and sympathized with the pain of
many good people in his auditory...
TPar 11.290 13 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on
the years when
Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern
people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...
ACiv 11.297 14 ...standing on this doleful experience
[slavery], these
people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind,
and
to pronounce labor disgraceful...
ACiv 11.300 2 ...a literal, slavish following of
precedents...is not for those
who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.
ACiv 11.300 7 If the American people hesitate, it is
not for want of
warning or advices.
ACiv 11.300 20 There are already mountains of facts [on
slavery], if any
one wants them. But people do not want them.
ACiv 11.301 2 You wish to satisfy people that slavery
is bad economy.
ACiv 11.302 2 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a
direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them
pay twice as
much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
ACiv 11.302 27 I wish I saw in the people that
inspiration which, if
government would not obey the same, would leave the government
behind...
ACiv 11.303 7 Better the war...should...punish us with
burned capitals and
slaughtered regiments, and so exasperate the people to energy...
ACiv 11.304 6 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy,
puts the whole
people in healthy, productive, amiable position...
ACiv 11.306 15 There does exist, perhaps, a popular
will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole
breadth of the continent, and
from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will
of the
people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats,
or
impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
ACiv 11.307 14 ...[Emancipation] alters the atomic
social constitution of
the Southern people.
EPro 11.314 3 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are
ye unbound;/ Lift
up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/
EPro 11.318 25 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem
vastly more potent
than the acts of bad governors, which are ever tempered by the good
nature
in the people...
EPro 11.324 15 If you could add, say [foreign critics],
to your strength the
whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce
eight millions of people to come under this government against their
will.
EPro 11.324 24 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of
the historical
aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in
the
Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery,
give the
social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
EPro 11.325 26 [The Emancipation Proclamation] will be
an insurance to
the ship as it goes plunging through the sea with glad tidings to all
people.
ALin 11.328 13 How beautiful to see/ Once more a
shepherd of mankind
indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek
flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by
his
clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
ALin 11.330 8 The President [Lincoln] stood before us
as a man of the
people.
ALin 11.331 7 The profound good opinion which the
people of Illinois and
of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
ALin 11.331 14 A plain man of the people, an
extraordinary fortune
attended [Lincoln].
ALin 11.334 21 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought
incessantly...laboring to find
what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
ALin 11.335 14 [Lincoln] is the true history of the
American people in his
time.
HCom 11.341 23 The War has lifted many other people
besides Grant and
Sherman into their true places.
SMC 11.352 2 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to
signalize the first
Revolution, where the people resisted offensive usurpations, offensive
taxes
of the British Parliament...
SMC 11.355 19 ...the common people [in the South], rich
or poor, were the
narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
SMC 11.356 2 This [Civil War] will be a slow business,
writes our
Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and
civilize
people as we go along.
SMC 11.356 10 ...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 9 None of us can have forgotten how sharp a
test to try our
peaceful people with, was the first call for troops [in the Civil War].
SMC 11.368 4 How would Concord people, [George
Prescott] asks, like to
pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help,
and not be
able to go to them.
SMC 11.370 6 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: it always was a good regiment, and people are
just
beginning to find it out; Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity
they
have not found it out before it was all gone.
SMC 11.375 21 There are people who can hardly read the
names on yonder
bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes.
EdAd 11.383 1 The American people are fast opening
their own destiny.
EdAd 11.385 22 What more serious calamity can befall a
people than a
constitutional dulness and limitation?
EdAd 11.389 24 ...the laws and governors cannot possess
a commanding
interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
EdAd 11.392 19 In the rapid decay of what was called
religion, timid and
unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
Koss 11.397 4 The people of this town [Concord] share
with their
countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...
Koss 11.397 10 ...it is the privilege of the people of
this town [Concord] to
keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...
Koss 11.398 17 ...I may say of the people of this
country at large, that their
sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
Wom 11.417 24 There are plenty of people who believe
women to be
incapable of anything but to cook...
Wom 11.417 27 There are plenty of people who believe
that the world is
governed by men of dark complexions...
Wom 11.418 26 The answer that lies, silent or spoken,
in the minds of well-meaning
persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this: that...they
are asked for by people who intellectually seek them, but who have not
the
support or sympathy of the truest women;...
Wom 11.419 8 ...perhaps it is because these people
[advocates of women's
rights] have been deprived of education...that they have been stung to
say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole
race of women
shall not suffer as we have suffered.
Wom 11.420 25 If new power is here, of a
character...which...opens new
careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well
leave voting to the old dead people.
Wom 11.421 20 ...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.
Wom 11.423 6 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are
allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the
aspirations should be allowed a full
vote, as an offset, through the purest part of the people.
SHC 11.430 24 Our people accepting this lesson from
science, yet touched
by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the
consecration of gardens.
SHC 11.432 19 I suppose all of us will readily admit
the value of parks and
cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
RBur 11.441 7 The people who care nothing for
literature and poetry care
for Burns.
Scot 11.466 3 ...[Scott's] eminent humanity delighted
in the sense and
virtue and wit of the common people.
ChiE 11.471 16 [China's] people had such elemental
conservatism that by
some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and
revolutions that occur in her annals have proved but momentary swells
or
surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
FRO1 11.478 7 We are all very sensible...of the
feeling...that a technical
theology no longer suits us. It is not the ill will of people...
FRO2 11.487 3 When I find in people narrow religion, I
find also in them
narrow reading.
CPL 11.495 1 The people of Massachusetts prize the
simple political
arrangement of towns...
CPL 11.495 16 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens
who cannot wait for
the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to
the
desires of the people...
CPL 11.498 6 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley]
to his little flock of
exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if
not in
holiness?
CPL 11.498 11 [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.
CPL 11.498 13 [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...
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.
FRep 11.517 5 The lodging the power in the people...has
the effect of
holding things closer to common sense;...
FRep 11.517 16 One hundred years ago the American
people attempted to
carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
FRep 11.518 11 ...liberal congresses and legislatures
ordain, to the surprise
of the people, equivocal, interested and vicious measures.
FRep 11.518 15 No [legislative] measure is attempted
for itself, but the
opinion of the people is courted in the first place...
FRep 11.518 23 The people are feared and flattered.
FRep 11.521 5 ...we do as other people do...
FRep 11.522 21 I think this levity is a reaction on the
[American] people
from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
FRep 11.523 17 The people are right-minded enough on
ethical questions...
FRep 11.524 7 The record of the election now and then
alarms people by
the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
FRep 11.524 13 [The election of a rogue and a brawler]
was done by the
very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people.
FRep 11.525 7 After every practical mistake out of
which any disaster
grows, the [American] people wake and correct it with energy.
FRep 11.526 23 ...instead of the doleful experience of
the European
economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the
great
body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has
arrived at a sloven plenty...
FRep 11.528 7 All this [American] forwardness and
self-reliance...proceed
on the belief that as the people have made a government they can make
another;...
FRep 11.528 15 The [American] people are loyal,
law-abiding.
FRep 11.528 19 America was opened after the feudal
mischief was spent, and so the people made a good start.
FRep 11.529 8 As the globe keeps its identity by
perpetual change, so our
civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
FRep 11.529 23 The men, the women, all over this land
shrill their
exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or
is
unbecoming in the government...not on the class-feeling which narrows
the
perception of English, French, German people at home.
FRep 11.532 4 Our people are too slight and vain.
FRep 11.532 11 Our people act on the moment...
FRep 11.534 26 ...the land and sea educate the
people...
FRep 11.535 1 ...the land and sea educate the people,
and bring out
presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are
the
people for an emergency.
FRep 11.538 9 It is not a question whether we shall be
a multitude of
people.
PLT 12.8 22 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a
message to his
people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his
own
mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
PLT 12.22 19 Is it not a little startling to see with
what genius some people
take to hunting...
PLT 12.22 20 Is it not a little startling to see...with
what genius some
people fish...
PLT 12.31 11 The temptation is to patronize Providence,
to fall into the
accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.
PLT 12.39 8 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. People wonder they never saw it before.
PLT 12.47 25 We like people who can do things.
PLT 12.57 4 If a man show cleverness...people clap
their hands without
asking more.
PLT 12.58 1 ...there are quick limits to our interest
in the personality of
people.
Mem 12.94 18 'T is because of the believed
incompatibility of the
affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of
recollection that people are often reproached with living in their
memory.
Mem 12.98 11 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider
he sees; he seems
to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us that he is in the
habit of
seeing better than other people;...
CInt 12.114 19 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 12.118 24 The English newspapers and some writers
of reputation
disparage America. Meantime I note that the British people are
emigrating
hither by thousands...
CInt 12.119 1 The emigration into America of British,
as well as of
Continental people, is the eulogy of America...
CInt 12.119 9 I delight in people who can do things.
CInt 12.119 21 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows
how to seize the
heart-strings of the people...
CInt 12.121 18 ...a larger angle of vision, commands
centuries of facts and
millions of thoughtless people.
CInt 12.122 9 ...it happens often that the wellbred and
refined...are more
vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
CL 12.135 8 The land, the care of land, seems to be the
calling of the
people of this new country...
CL 12.137 15 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people
suffering every
spring from the loss of their cattle...
CL 12.147 19 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to
people who are
growing old, against their will.
CL 12.147 22 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to
people who are
growing old, against their will. A man in that predicament, if |