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 he stands... among young people, is made quite too sensible of the fact;...
    CL 12.149 10 The Hindoos called fire Agni...protector of people in villages;...
    CL 12.153 21 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the industry of the people.
    CW 12.172 15 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.
    CW 12.173 12 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist, disclosing Himself by proofs of every kind, and show them to others. Our people are learning that lesson year by year.
    CW 12.174 13 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see.
    Bost 12.183 7 ...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and addicted to change...
    Bost 12.185 7 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    Bost 12.185 21 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.190 1 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along...great troops of well-proportioned people.
    Bost 12.193 21 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    Bost 12.195 8 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England;...
    Bost 12.203 26 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...
    Bost 12.204 19 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on our Founders and people;...
    Bost 12.204 25 The seed of prosperity was planted [in Massachusetts]. The people did not gather where they had not sown.
    Bost 12.205 13 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
    Bost 12.206 4 When men saw that these people [of Boston], besides their industry and thrift, had a heart and soul...they desired to come and live here.
    Bost 12.206 9 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...
    MAng1 12.229 24 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being kissed away.
    Milt1 12.265 22 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of sight.
    ACri 12.285 17 ...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key to every country was command of the language of the common people.
    ACri 12.288 3 The short Saxon words with which the people help themselves are better than Latin.
    ACri 12.298 12 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for...
    ACri 12.304 8 The democratic, when the power proceeds organically from the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.
    ACri 12.304 25 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.
    MLit 12.319 11 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    AgMs 12.361 8 ...our [New England] people are not stationary...
    PPr 12.380 18 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down into every pew.
    PPr 12.381 2 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people...
    PPr 12.387 5 Each age has its own follies, as its majority is made up of foolish young people;...
    Let 12.393 25 The sea and the iron road are safer toys for such ungrown people;...
    Let 12.394 19 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association, but simply a concentration of chosen people.
    Let 12.396 7 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves, that our people are busied with these projects of a better social state...
    Let 12.399 25 I cannot conceive of a people more disjoined than the Germans.
    Let 12.400 14 There is nothing holy...which is not degraded to a mean end among this people [the Germans].
    Let 12.401 15 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...
    Let 12.401 20 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to heroes. The home of all men is with such a people...
    Let 12.402 18 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.
    Trag 12.409 22 There are people who have an appetite for grief...
    Trag 12.412 10 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...verifying the primeval sentence of history on the permanency of that people, Their strength is to sit still.

people, v. (2)

    Tran 1.347 18 ...a favorite spot in the hills or the woods which they can people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    Pt1 3.40 23 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world.

peopled, v. (7)

    Con 1.326 14 ...amidst a planet peopled with conservatives, one Reformer may yet be born.
    ET4 5.56 25 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    CbW 6.255 26 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way...
    Ill 6.309 14 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River, whose waters are peopled with the blind fish;...
    WD 7.161 24 When Europe is over-populated, America and Australia crave to be peopled;...
    Boks 7.191 2 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place, peopled with men of positive quality...
    Dem1 10.3 19 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./

peoples, n. (4)

    ET2 5.32 24 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years...exacted toll and the striking sail from the ships of all other peoples.
    ET4 5.55 2 Some peoples are deciduous or transitory.
    Wth 6.93 19 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out.
    SovE 10.187 13 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...

people's, n. [peoples',] (14)

    SL 2.157 19 Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us...
    Exp 3.81 18 ...I cannot dispose of other people's facts;...
    Chr1 3.106 1 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity; I never listened to your people's law...
    MoS 4.182 7 the people's questions are not [the spiritualist's];...
    NMW 4.248 5 Bonaparte relied on his own sense, and did not care a bean for other people's.
    ET13 5.218 5 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
    SA 8.99 5 Don't recite other people's opinions.
    QO 8.197 9 We...could express ourselves in other people's phrases to finer purpose than they knew.
    PerF 10.78 13 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...the art of making peoples' hearts dance to his pipe!
    HDC 11.61 8 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
    FSLC 11.187 20 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.
    FSLN 11.217 11 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.
    FRep 11.521 21 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power, very heedless of his own liberty or of other peoples'...
    ACri 12.294 23 Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed, cranked and pedalled than other people's...

peopling, v. (1)

    OS 2.292 22 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place...

Pepa [Borrow, The Zincali] (1)

    ET13 5.229 26 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted; the genteel Pepa, the good-humored Chicharona...

pepper, n. (4)

    MoS 4.153 9 [The men of the senses] believe...that pepper is hot...
    ET10 5.168 2 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish...nor pepper bite the tongue...
    EWI 11.111 12 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long; capsicum pepper was rubbed in the eyes of the females;...
    PLT 12.13 15 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return. 'T is a Manila full of pepper, and I want only a teaspoonful in a year.

pepper-corn, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.32 9 ...how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
    Wsp 6.208 12 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...

Pepperell, William, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.78 6 It was said of Sir William Pepperell...that, put him where you might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.

pepper-pot, n. (1)

    Bty 6.304 16 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom?

Pepys, Samuel, n. (7)

    ET11 5.178 21 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
    ET11 5.190 3 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...some glimpses at the interiors of noble houses, which we owe to Pepys and Evelyn;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.191 8 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the kennels to which the king and court went in quest of pleasure.
    ET11 5.191 18 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
    ET13 5.224 19 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    ET14 5.234 2 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne... Taylor, Evelyn, Pepys...wrote it.
    Elo1 7.84 2 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...

Pepys's, Samuel, n. (1)

    ET6 5.108 26 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.

Pequot Indians, n. (4)

    HDC 11.35 14 The great cost of cattle...and the fear of the Pequots; are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.44 9 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
    HDC 11.54 18 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer, were exterminated in 1637.
    CL 12.147 4 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees, for the possession of the ground, of the whites against the Pequots...

per cent, n. (8)

    ET5 5.75 26 ...the banker, with his seven per cent., drives the earl out of his castle.
    Wth 6.108 11 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
    Wth 6.108 12 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
    Suc 7.293 22 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of eight per cent....they cry, It is the voice of God.
    Suc 7.293 23 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of...ten per cent., a hundred per cent., they cry, It is the voice of God.
    CL 12.147 8 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
    CL 12.159 25 ...the speculators who rush for investment, at ten per cent., twenty per cent....are all more or less mad...
    CL 12.159 26 ...the speculators who rush for investment, at ten per cent., twenty per cent, cent. per cent., are all more or less mad...

per cents, n. (1)

    ET8 5.143 7 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable; as wise merchants prefer investments in the three per cents.

per cents, six, n. (1)

    Pow 6.61 23 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times, and government six per cents have not declined a quarter of a mill, he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.

perambulated, v. (1)

    Farm 7.149 27 The selectmen [of Concord] have once in every five years perambulated the boundaries...

Perceforest, n. (1)

    Hist 2.34 25 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful...

perceivable, adj. (1)

    DL 7.124 17 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises. It is scarcely less perceivable in educated men, so called, than in the uneducated.

perceive, v. (32)

    Nat 1.66 18 [The best read naturalist] will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility;...
    MR 1.242 4 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and it is requisite that the pair which are beneath should be closed, when the pair that are above them perceive...
    MR 1.246 25 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform, nor do they once perceive the cruel joke of their lives...
    MR 1.250 13 ...the reason of the distrust of the practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work.
    Tran 1.329 18 ...the second class [Idealists] perceive that the senses are not final...
    Tran 1.331 10 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    Tran 1.332 20 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    SR 2.80 13 [Unbalanced minds] do not yet perceive that light...will break into any cabin...
    SL 2.141 21 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals...
    SL 2.142 24 We...do not perceive that any thing man can do may be divinely done.
    Fdsp 2.212 15 Late,--very late,--we perceive that no arrangements...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
    Int 2.329 14 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    Mrs1 3.125 26 ...if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.
    UGM 4.13 22 If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
    Ctr 6.142 5 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
    Bhr 6.186 27 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    Wsp 6.229 12 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    CbW 6.268 15 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he sought. Ah! now I perceive, he says, it must be deep with persons;...
    Civ 7.23 22 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying...the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    Elo1 7.91 11 ...people always perceive whether you drive or whether the horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
    Cour 7.265 26 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we, like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive how short is the longest arm of malice...
    PI 8.71 14 ...you must have the vivacity of the poet to perceive in the thought its futurities.
    Dem1 10.6 23 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood. What! somewhat of me down there? Does he know it? Can he too, as I...perceive relations?
    Chr2 10.100 1 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth...
    Edc1 10.130 16 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Prch 10.237 13 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and it is requisite that the pair which are beneath should be closed when the pair that are above them perceive;...
    MMEm 10.429 15 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him.
    EWI 11.145 7 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    PLT 12.21 17 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...
    Mem 12.105 14 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so, but in such a manner that none could perceive it.
    Bost 12.186 5 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession; whereby all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not remain in the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like themselves...
    ACri 12.300 18 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience...

perceived, v. (13)

    PPh 4.63 12 The soul which has never perceived the truth, cannot pass into the human form [said Plato].
    PPh 4.65 24 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes, since truth is perceived by this alone.
    MoS 4.166 1 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture; but faint and remote and only to be perceived by himself.
    Clbs 7.242 1 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    OA 7.319 18 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign, alleging that he perceived a certain decay in his faculties;...
    Comc 8.173 7 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is perceived to end in the very intelligible maxims of trade...the intellect feels again the half-man.
    QO 8.177 14 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Like Plato's disciple who has perceived a truth, he is preserved from harm until another period.
    Imtl 8.329 3 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung, and perceived that it reaches up and down...
    Chr2 10.109 3 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put obstacles in the way of schools...it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    SovE 10.200 25 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust wonder...
    LS 11.8 27 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the...manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a... purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the...Jews have kept the Passover. It is then perceived that the leading circumstances in the Gospels are only a faithful account of that ceremony.
    PLT 12.41 2 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held...because we have perceived it is a fact in the nature of things...is of inestimable value.
    Mem 12.96 5 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end. Boileau, astonished, was much distressed, until he perceived that it was only a feat of memory.

perceiver, n. (2)

    OS 2.279 16 The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth.
    PC 8.220 18 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher, the perceiver and obeyer of truth,-than the foolish and sensual millions around them!

perceivers, n. (1)

    F 6.5 6 Great men, great nations, have...been...perceivers of the terror of life...

perceives, v. (12)

    Nat 1.72 4 [Man] perceives that if his law is still paramount...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    DSA 1.121 14 [The sentiment of virtue] perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
    SR 2.69 6 The soul raised over passion...perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right...
    Pt1 3.20 15 [The poet] perceives the independence of the thought on the symbol...
    Pt1 3.20 24 ...[the poet]...perceives that thought is multiform;...
    Exp 3.66 23 ...if one remembers how innocently he began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
    PNR 4.82 5 The mind does not create what it perceives...
    Bhr 6.184 5 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives that he has the key of the situation...
    DL 7.126 13 [One] perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building...
    DL 7.132 20 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond.
    Prch 10.229 12 The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
    MAng1 12.217 2 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful...

perceiving, adj. (3)

    PI 8.38 18 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded.
    Chr2 10.92 5 ...will, pure and perceiving, is not wilfulness.
    Edc1 10.126 11 ...when one and the same man passes out of the torpid into the perceiving state...all limits disappear.

perceiving, n. (1)

    NER 3.281 6 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear...that a perfect understanding, a like receiving, a like perceiving, abolished differences;...

perceiving, v. (10)

    Nat 1.36 16 ...Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought, by perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind.
    AmS 1.85 27 ...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic...
    SR 2.89 12 He who knows that power is inborn...and, so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself...
    Pt1 3.12 21 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet] does not know the way into the heavens...
    PPh 4.48 1 We unite all things by perceiving the law which pervades them;...
    PPh 4.48 2 We unite all things...by perceiving the superficial differences and the profound resemblances.
    F 6.18 6 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not new men...
    Bty 6.304 20 ...there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic character of a fact...
    Comc 8.160 17 The activity of our sympathies may for a time hinder our perceiving the fact intellectually...
    Supl 10.164 3 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want,-not perceiving that superlatives are diminutives, and weaken;...

perception, n. (199)

    Nat 1.16 13 ...the simple perception of natural forms is a delight.
    Nat 1.38 8 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding; for example, in the perception of differences.
    Nat 1.54 22 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
    Nat 1.57 22 ...we learn...that with a perception of truth...[time and space] have no affinity.
    Nat 1.68 14 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert...
    Nat 1.69 22 The perception of this class of [spiritual] truths makes the attraction which draws men to science...
    Nat 1.74 5 Love is as much [the spirit's] demand as perception.
    AmS 1.112 14 This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries.
    DSA 1.121 5 ...when by intellectual perception [man] attains to say, - I love the Right...then...God is well pleased.
    DSA 1.124 22 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment...
    MN 1.203 3 ...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    MN 1.222 20 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...
    LT 1.283 8 The inadequacy of the work to the faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still.
    LT 1.286 19 [The spiritualists'] fault is that they have stopped at the intellectual perception;...
    LT 1.288 24 ...we...do not know that the law and the perception of the law are at last one;...
    Con 1.301 22 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession...
    Tran 1.350 10 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    Hist 2.27 3 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I measure degrees of latitude...
    Hist 2.31 23 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    SR 2.47 18 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart...
    SR 2.65 16 ...[thoughtless people] do not distinguish between perception and notion.
    SR 2.65 18 ...perception is not whimsical, but fatal.
    SR 2.65 22 ...my perception of [a trait] is as much a fact as the sun.
    SR 2.68 11 When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
    SL 2.138 1 ...the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
    Prd1 2.221 10 ...I...hate...people without perception.
    Prd1 2.223 2 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    Prd1 2.228 11 It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect perception.
    Prd1 2.228 15 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception...
    Prd1 2.238 20 ...kindness is necessary to perception;...
    Hsm1 2.255 15 The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    OS 2.279 26 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception,--It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    OS 2.281 15 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience, and the obedience proceeds from a joyful perception.
    Int 2.325 20 ...[the mind] melts will into perception...
    Int 2.340 22 ...an index or mercury of intellectual proficiency is the perception of identity.
    Art1 2.354 4 ...historically viewed, it has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty.
    Art1 2.364 7 [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.
    Pt1 3.3 17 ...men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Pt1 3.13 25 ...a perception of beauty should be sympathetic, or proper only to the good.
    Pt1 3.20 12 The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives [things] a power which makes their old use forgotten...
    Pt1 3.20 22 ...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step nearer to things...
    Pt1 3.36 8 There was this perception in [Swedenborg] which makes the poet or seer an object of awe and terror...
    Exp 3.45 15 Our life is not so much threatened as our perception.
    Chr1 3.99 4 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
    Mrs1 3.138 20 We imperatively require a perception of, and a homage to beauty in our companions.
    Mrs1 3.139 14 This perception [of measure] comes in to polish and perfect the parts of the social instrument.
    Mrs1 3.140 25 ...besides personal force and so much perception as constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class another element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Pol1 3.215 5 If I put myself in the place of my child, and we stand in one thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law for him and me.
    UGM 4.18 1 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us, so that they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
    UGM 4.18 2 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us, so that they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
    UGM 4.18 4 The perception of these laws [of identity and of reaction] is a kind of metre of the mind.
    UGM 4.24 19 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
    PPh 4.48 4 ...every mental act,--this very perception of identity, or oneness, recognizes the difference of things.
    PPh 4.60 14 Such as his perception, was [Plato's] speech...
    PNR 4.82 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death...
    SwM 4.106 9 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology, because of that native perception of identity which made mere size of no account to him.
    SwM 4.119 3 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    SwM 4.121 1 [Swedenborg's] perception of nature is not human and universal...
    SwM 4.121 4 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding; a tree, perception;...
    SwM 4.128 9 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness: but presently one of us passes into the perception of new truth;--we are divorced, and no tension in nature can hold us to each other.
    SwM 4.143 18 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    SwM 4.143 21 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression, which that perception creates.
    MoS 4.150 4 One class [predisposed to Sensation] has the perception of difference...
    MoS 4.150 8 Another class [predisposed to Morals] have the perception of identity...
    MoS 4.172 9 ...the interrogation of custom at all points...is the evidence of [the superior mind's] perception of the flowing power which remains itself in all changes.
    ShP 4.213 10 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.
    NMW 4.231 4 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...of a perception which did not suffer itself to be baulked or misled by any pretences of others...
    GoW 4.264 26 There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the perception of a primary truth...
    ET4 5.67 7 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect. Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine perception and poetic construction.
    ET5 5.83 1 This [English] common-sense is a perception of all the conditions of our earthly existence;...
    ET6 5.111 13 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
    ET8 5.138 21 A saving stupidity masks and protects [Englishmen's] perception...
    ET14 5.250 16 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a catholic perception of relations, equal to the highest attempts...
    F 6.27 25 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
    F 6.28 15 ...we can see that with the perception of truth is joined the desire that it shall prevail;...
    F 6.29 19 Perception is cold...
    F 6.30 1 ...no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
    F 6.36 2 ...every generosity, every new perception...are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    F 6.49 20 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception that there are no contingencies;...
    Ctr 6.159 15 I suffer every day from the want of perception of beauty in people.
    Bhr 6.188 1 Strong will and keen perception overpower old manners and create new;...
    Bhr 6.195 25 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception...
    Bty 6.290 2 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
    Bty 6.306 20 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Bty 6.306 22 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Elo1 7.62 10 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...an alarming loss of perception of the passage of time...
    Elo1 7.62 12 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of perception of the sufferings of the audience.
    Boks 7.190 25 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action. Thus...we often owe to them the perception of immortality.
    Clbs 7.227 22 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure...
    Cour 7.264 21 The general must stimulate the mind of his soldiers to the perception that they are men, and the enemy is no more.
    Suc 7.298 23 All this happiness [the city boy in the October woods] owes only to his finer perception.
    Suc 7.301 10 Our perception far outruns our talent.
    Suc 7.309 23 As much love, so much perception.
    Suc 7.311 17 [The inner life] is a quiet, wise perception.
    PI 8.3 1 The perception of matter is made the common sense, and for cause.
    PI 8.8 10 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis...
    PI 8.17 12 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind, shown...in preternatural quickness or perception of relations.
    PI 8.20 19 All that is wondrous in Swedenborg is not his invention, but his extraordinary perception;...
    PI 8.27 4 As a power [poetry] is the perception of the symbolic character of things...
    PI 8.29 3 ...imagination [is] a perception and affirming of a real relation between a thought and some material fact.
    PI 8.30 10 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight: and the perception creates the strong expression of it...
    PI 8.38 20 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded. And this perception has at once its moral sequence.
    PI 8.40 14 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and materials...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    PI 8.42 17 ...as...every perception is a destiny, there is no limit to [the poet' s] hope.
    Res 8.141 3 By his machines man...can...divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
    Comc 8.157 4 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence.
    Comc 8.158 16 ...man, through his access to Reason, is capable of the perception of a whole and a part.
    Comc 8.160 7 ...[The man of the world's] perception of disparity...makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Comc 8.160 22 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous. The comedy is in the intellect's perception of discrepancy.
    Comc 8.161 21 ...a perception of the Comic seems to be a balance-wheel in our metaphysical structure.
    Comc 8.161 27 The perception of the Comic is a tie of sympathy with other men...
    Comc 8.162 9 Men celebrate their perception of halfness and a latent lie by the peculiar explosions of laughter.
    QO 8.199 19 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who, with more health or better perception, gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?
    PC 8.219 1 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne... even by other eminent talents, since they too proceed from a certain deep innate perception of fit and fair.
    PC 8.222 18 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    PC 8.228 14 Science...sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms...
    PPo 8.247 19 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    PPo 8.250 6 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence. These are the natural topics and language of his wit and perception.
    Insp 8.269 11 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will.
    Insp 8.274 21 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...
    Insp 8.276 13 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could... wake the fancy and the clear perception.
    Insp 8.277 5 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
    Insp 8.279 6 There are...certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive perception...
    Grts 8.309 16 If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems. It is our practical perception of the Deity in man.
    Imtl 8.340 12 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth...
    Imtl 8.341 23 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this continent, which his thoughts inhabit. It is a perception that comes by the activity of the intellect;...
    Imtl 8.342 20 The health of the mind consists in the perception of law.
    Aris 10.62 5 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    PerF 10.73 2 ...[the force of intellect] is perception...
    PerF 10.79 24 In each talent is the perception of an order and series in the department he deals with...
    Chr2 10.97 24 ...in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...
    Edc1 10.144 19 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child, the new perception he has of nature.
    SovE 10.185 6 ...presently...a new perception opens, and [the man down in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
    SovE 10.209 25 [The religious feeling] prepares to rise out of all forms to an absolute justice and healthy perception.
    SovE 10.213 3 ...to [innocence] come grandeur of situation and poetic perception...
    Prch 10.218 6 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...
    MoL 10.249 17 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...who...penetrate [the churches of the world] through and through with original perception.
    Schr 10.270 8 ...such is the gulf between our perception and our painting... that all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Plu 10.307 7 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception of these high oracles;...
    LLNE 10.326 16 This perception [that the individual is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before.
    LLNE 10.334 24 ...[Everett's power] lay...in a new perception of Grecian beauty, to which he had opened our eyes.
    LLNE 10.341 24 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...with rare simplicity and grandeur of perception...
    MMEm 10.431 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...
    SlHr 10.439 8 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a clear perception of justice...
    Thor 10.474 11 The depth of [Thoreau's] perception found likeness of law throughout Nature...
    Thor 10.474 24 ...[Thoreau] had the source of poetry in his spiritual perception.
    Thor 10.479 21 The tendency to magnify the moment...is of course comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    Carl 10.495 23 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is...his perception of the sole importance of truth and justice;...
    War 11.165 5 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance, a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea...it will build ships;...
    War 11.174 19 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    FSLC 11.205 1 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment...
    FSLN 11.229 22 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal...to the men of the rarest perception...
    FSLN 11.238 5 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception.
    ACiv 11.302 14 We want men of original perception and original action...
    Wom 11.410 15 The spiritual force of man is as much shown in taste...as in his perception of truth.
    ChiE 11.473 2 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN...
    CPL 11.501 26 Everything that gives [a man] a new perception of beauty multiplies his pure enjoyments.
    FRep 11.525 14 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...
    FRep 11.525 16 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right...a perception that passes through thousands as readily as through one.
    FRep 11.529 22 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 11.536 4 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life; America has no illusions, no romance. They have no perception of its destiny.
    FRep 11.537 1 We want men of original perception and original action...
    PLT 12.16 3 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    PLT 12.28 13 Wherever there is health, that is, consent to the cause and constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
    PLT 12.29 13 [Man] has his own defences and his own fangs; his perception and his own mode of reply to sophistries.
    PLT 12.38 21 ...the perception [of spiritual facts] thus satisfied reacts on the senses, to clarify them...
    PLT 12.39 1 A man is intellectual in proportion as he can make an object of every sensation, perception and intuition;...
    PLT 12.40 3 A perception is always a generalization.
    PLT 12.40 19 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition;...
    PLT 12.41 9 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.
    PLT 12.41 15 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than the sun and moon...
    PLT 12.41 21 [A perception] is impatient to put on its sandals and be gone on its errand, which is to lead to a larger perception...
    PLT 12.44 8 This slight discontinuity which perception effects between the mind and the object paralyzes the will.
    PLT 12.44 20 ...the fact of intellectual perception severs once for all the man from the things with which he converses.
    PLT 12.46 1 A blending of these two-the intellectual perception of truth and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
    II 12.81 20 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists and only differ in the amount and clearness of their perception.
    II 12.87 13 ...perception that the tendency of the whole is to the benefit of the individual is the universal of faith.
    II 12.89 4 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere to...the heart of trust which every perception fortifies,-renew life for [a man].
    Mem 12.91 4 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed. Perception... was not sufficient.
    Mem 12.92 6 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight...
    Mem 12.97 24 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    CL 12.164 6 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
    CW 12.176 8 ...the perception of beauty always exhilarates...
    MAng1 12.232 14 A man of such habits and such deeds [as Michelangelo] made good his pretensions to a perception and to delineation of external beauty.
    Milt1 12.252 26 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...
    Milt1 12.252 27 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the perception and enjoyment of all his varied rhythm...
    Milt1 12.255 22 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
    Milt1 12.267 6 ...the following passage...indicates [Milton's] own perception of the doctrine of humility.
    Milt1 12.268 21 Thus chosen...for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
    Milt1 12.274 20 The perception we have attributed to Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
    Milt1 12.276 22 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion-by an equal perception, that is, of the past and the future-to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    ACri 12.285 15 ...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key to every country was command of the language of the common people.
    MLit 12.316 20 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,- that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all...literature is far the best expression.
    MLit 12.331 27 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance...
    WSL 12.344 3 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    WSL 12.346 5 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].
    EurB 12.365 11 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception...
    EurB 12.376 23 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister]...
    Let 12.402 11 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...

Perception, n. (2)

    PLT 12.37 16 ...Perception is the armed eye.
    PLT 12.37 20 Perception differs from Instinct by adding the Will.

perceptions, n. (44)

    Nat 1.63 6 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions...
    AmS 1.98 7 Years are well spent...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    MR 1.234 8 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint, with keen perceptions...and he is to get his living in the world;...
    SR 2.65 5 Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions...
    SR 2.65 6 Every man...knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due.
    SR 2.65 14 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions...
    Lov1 2.177 14 The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
    Lov1 2.177 27 [The lover] is a new man, with new perceptions...
    Prd1 2.226 24 Let [a man] have accurate perceptions.
    OS 2.282 21 The nature of these revelations is the same; they are perceptions of the absolute law.
    Pt1 3.14 24 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
    Chr1 3.92 17 In the new objects we recognize the old game, the habit of fronting the fact, and not dealing with it...through the perceptions of somebody else.
    Mrs1 3.138 16 Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions.
    Mrs1 3.140 10 Accuracy is essential to beauty, and quick perceptions to politeness...
    Mrs1 3.140 11 Accuracy is essential to beauty, and quick perceptions to politeness, but not too quick perceptions.
    PPh 4.45 25 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...
    ET14 5.233 3 ...the Englishman has accurate perceptions;...
    Ctr 6.136 25 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias, and only when he was now gray and nerveless was it relaxing its claws and he awaking to sober perceptions.
    Wsp 6.214 24 ...obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
    Art2 7.51 13 ...a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
    DL 7.118 15 [The great] call into activity the higher perceptions...
    DL 7.118 17 ...the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere;...
    SA 8.83 23 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
    Elo2 8.117 12 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    PC 8.209 20 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power, and that resting...on perceptions less and less dim of laws the most sublime.
    Insp 8.292 23 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul;...
    Insp 8.296 16 The day is good in which we have had the most perceptions.
    Imtl 8.325 12 The Greek, with his perfect senses and perceptions, had quite another philosophy [of immortality].
    Chr2 10.100 18 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth.
    Chr2 10.116 14 ...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted...the advanced perceptions of the mind;...
    Edc1 10.129 4 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts.
    Edc1 10.147 5 Give a boy accurate perceptions.
    Edc1 10.151 23 ...you see [the young man's] want of those tastes and perceptions which make the power and safety of your character.
    Plu 10.314 18 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to his stern delight in heroism;...
    Plu 10.321 20 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
    Thor 10.464 7 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    FSLC 11.202 27 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
    PLT 12.18 16 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous progeny, are born by the conversation, the marriage of souls;...
    PLT 12.41 25 Do not trifle with your perceptions...
    Mem 12.96 20 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought; and still another deals with laws and perceptions that are the theory of the world.
    CL 12.152 26 Its power on the mind in sharpening the perceptions has made the sea the famous educator of our race.
    MAng1 12.222 15 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    Milt1 12.257 24 With these keen perceptions, [Milton] naturally received a love of Nature...
    Trag 12.409 17 ...it is natures...not of quick and steady perceptions, but imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

perceptive, adj. (4)

    PPh 4.46 24 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
    PPh 4.54 9 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base. In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of the two elements.
    ET14 5.260 5 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise...
    Let 12.402 12 ...the smallest new activity given to the perceptive power, is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...

Perceval, Spencer, n. (1)

    ET6 5.109 17 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval, prime minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...

perch, n. (2)

    PPo 8.256 9 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./
    HDC 11.36 17 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...

perch, v. (1)

    PPo 8.255 17 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.

perchance, adv. (9)

    Nat 1.20 17 When a noble act is done, - perchance in a scene of great natural beauty...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    AmS 1.93 10 ...as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perhance, the least part of his volume.
    Con 1.303 14 Reform converses with possibilities, perchance with impossibilities;...
    Hsm1 2.259 15 [A woman] has a new and unattempted problem to solve, perchance that of the happiest nature that ever bloomed.
    Pt1 3.36 21 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men;...
    Mrs1 3.135 12 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    Nat2 3.192 24 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields...
    NR 3.246 21 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...
    Thor 10.482 15 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.

perched, v. (1)

    F 6.20 17 ...the ring of necessity is always perched at the top.

perching, v. (1)

    RBur 11.443 5 The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].

percipiency, n. (2)

    PLT 12.37 21 Simple percipiency is the virtue of space, not of man.
    PLT 12.41 14 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.

percussion-caps, n. (1)

    Civ 7.33 11 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which... elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes...

Percy, Algernon [Duke of N (1)

    ET15 5.262 2 So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...

Percy, Kate [Shakespeare, (1)

    ET6 5.108 22 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature; and not less...the Kate Percy and the Desdemona.

Percy, Lucy, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.398 20 ...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep interest for persons of celebrity.

Percy, Thomas, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.244 3 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson...Beauclerk and Percy.

perdition, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.96 20 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./

perdu, adj. (3)

    ET11 5.177 10 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet...
    SA 8.81 3 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and gardens, in all which he hopes to lie perdu...
    PLT 12.50 22 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea, or, as the French say, enfant perdu d'une conviction isolee...

perdus, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.63 18 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by their fate...

Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Pa (1)

    MoS 4.162 25 It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...

peregrinations, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.4 12 ...[in dreams] we seem busied for hours and days in peregrinations over seas and lands...

Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Pa (1)

    Comc 8.171 24 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise...

peremptorily, adv. (7)

    SwM 4.112 13 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the synthetic method;...
    ET18 5.302 2 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war, or when they shall be of any nation at war with us. It is a statute and obliged hospitality and peremptorily maintained.
    Wth 6.88 13 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then, less peremptorily but still with sting enough, she urges him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
    Bhr 6.196 17 ...there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
    Clbs 7.245 21 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
    Chr2 10.114 11 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...
    Prch 10.231 2 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction;...

peremptory, adj. (11)

    Fdsp 2.206 26 ...I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation...
    GoW 4.284 24 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand, but with peremptory heed that he should not be for a moment prejudiced by his instruments.
    Wth 6.90 25 ...it is a peremptory point of virtue that a man's independence be secured.
    SS 7.9 26 We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
    Civ 7.29 20 It is a peremptory rule with [the heavenly powers] that they never go out of their road.
    Res 8.152 1 ...the uses of the woods are many, and some of them for the scholar high and peremptory.
    Carl 10.497 23 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties.
    FSLN 11.226 2 In the final hour, when he was forced by the peremptory necessity of the closing armies to take a side,-did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    TPar 11.289 8 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...to speak tart truth, when that was peremptory and when there were few to say it.
    SMC 11.370 17 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied , I don't want to retire;...
    Milt1 12.249 8 ...peremptory and impassioned, [Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice.

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