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ET1 5.17 18 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.

ET1 5.17 19 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.

ET4 5.53 3 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses...are distinctive English...

ET4 5.63 15 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength...

ET4 5.68 10 ...[Admiral Rodney] declared himself very sensible to fear, which he surmounted only by considerations of honor and public duty.

ET5 5.82 13 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...is that of England.

ET5 5.90 21 [The English] have a wonderful heat in the pursuit of a public aim.

ET5 5.99 25 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...

ET6 5.109 14 Wellington...could not stir abroad for fear of public creditors.

ET6 5.110 15 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.

ET6 5.113 7 [The English] value themselves on the absence of every thing theatrical in the public business...

ET7 5.117 6 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning...but it has provoked the malice of all others, as if avengers of public wrong.

ET7 5.118 12 ...the cause is damaged in the [English] public opinion, on which any paltering can be fixed.

ET7 5.119 11 [The English] build of stone: public and private buildings are massive and durable.

ET7 5.119 13 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.

ET7 5.121 26 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men.

ET8 5.127 23 The police [in England] does not interfere with public diversions.

ET8 5.128 26 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons...

ET8 5.130 2 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner, who meets them...at every public house...

ET8 5.133 17 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind, not only among his companions, but in public coffee-houses...

ET8 5.133 27 No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room...

ET8 5.142 11 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton shrinks from public life as charlatanism...

ET9 5.144 3 Individual right is pushed [in England] to the uttermost bound compatible with public order.

ET9 5.146 5 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.

ET9 5.150 25 The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst yet trade, mills, public education and Chartism are doing what they can to create in England the same social condition.

ET10 5.154 9 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied...in biography and in the votes of public assemblies...

ET10 5.170 1 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.

ET11 5.184 20 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].

ET11 5.185 6 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to preside at public meetings...

ET11 5.193 13 Even peers who are men of worth and public spirit [in England] are overtaken and embarrassed by their vast expense.

ET11 5.195 20 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...

ET12 5.208 6 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...

ET12 5.208 23 A gentleman [in England] must possess...an independent and public position...

ET12 5.209 1 [An English gentleman] should...have bodily activity and strength, unattainable by our sedentary life in public offices.

ET12 5.209 14 The definition of a public school [in England] is a school which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.

ET12 5.209 20 Oxford...shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...

ET13 5.219 21 ...the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to [the Church's] support, from its inextricable connection with the cause of public order, with politics and with the funds.

ET14 5.236 18 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it in the citation of wills, letters and public documents;...

ET15 5.261 8 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his attention.

ET15 5.268 3 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.

ET15 5.271 10 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.

ET15 5.271 26 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who...do not wish to be flattered by hiding the extent of the public disaster.

ET15 5.272 2 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields, by guidance of the public sentiment to the right.

ET17 5.291 13 ...my impression of the island [England] is bright with agreeable memories both of public societies and of households...

ET18 5.299 14 England is not so public in its bias;...

ET18 5.299 16 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men [the English].

ET18 5.301 14 Some public regards [the English] have.

ET18 5.305 19 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag, under the formula that it is the excellence of the British constitution that no law can anticipate the public opinion.

F 6.47 10 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature...

Pow 6.63 8 ...the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.

Pow 6.66 23 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that public spirit and the ready hand are as well found among the malignants.

Pow 6.66 26 'T is not very rare, the coincidence of sharp private and political practice with public spirit and good neighborhood.

Wth 6.98 10 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess, such as cyclopedias, dictionaries, tables, charts, maps and other public documents;...

Ctr 6.153 12 [The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe...servile to public opinion.

Ctr 6.157 11 The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal...

Ctr 6.157 13 ...it is the secret of culture to interest the man more in his public than in his private quality.

Bhr 6.173 1 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach...

Bhr 6.173 3 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables...

Bhr 6.173 25 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...

Wsp 6.204 13 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...

Wsp 6.204 13 ...the public and the private element...adhere to every soul...

Wsp 6.208 19 There is faith...in public opinion, but not in divine causes.

Wsp 6.210 26 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.

Wsp 6.211 19 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...

Wsp 6.212 1 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of sincerity.

Wsp 6.217 9 ...not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.

Wsp 6.233 6 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...

CbW 6.251 22 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.

CbW 6.259 8 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness; none but such capable of meriting the public gratitude.

CbW 6.260 12 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.

CbW 6.268 12 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small... there's too much sky, too much outdoors; too public.

CbW 6.269 16 When [a blockhead] comes into the office or public room, the society dissolves;...

CbW 6.278 6 The man,--it is his attitude...not on set days and public occasions, but at all hours...

SS 7.11 1 Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square.

Civ 7.34 1 ...if there be...a country...where public debts and private debts outside of the State are repudiated;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...

Civ 7.34 22 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

Art2 7.54 7 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.

Elo1 7.61 10 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... Another requires the additional caloric of a multitude and a public debate;...

Elo1 7.66 8 There are many audiences in every public assembly...

Elo1 7.75 8 These kinds of public and private speaking have their use and convenience to the practitioners;...

Elo1 7.75 17 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen, with large experience of public affairs, when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.

Elo1 7.75 19 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.

Elo1 7.76 5 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men...

Elo1 7.85 16 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...

Elo1 7.92 7 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.

DL 7.107 11 What are called public events may or may not be ours.

DL 7.108 26 Let us come then out of the public square and enter the domestic precinct.

DL 7.130 26 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].

DL 7.131 22 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a private property.

Clbs 7.241 4 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself,--and, of course, the inspirations of powerful and public men, with the rest.

Clbs 7.247 22 ...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.

Clbs 7.249 5 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an understanding on these points, and so that their united opinion shall have its just influence on public questions of education and politics.

Cour 7.259 16 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with...counterfeiters in public offices...that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...

Cour 7.267 27 There is...a courage of manners in private assemblies, and another in public assemblies;...

Suc 7.284 11 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...

Suc 7.290 24 We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement and manufacture of public opinion;...

Suc 7.308 9 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...

OA 7.319 20 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...he was dissuaded by his friends, on account of the public convenience at that time.

PI 8.34 23 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe; but to point out where the same creative force is now working in our own houses and public assemblies;...requires a subtile and commanding thought.

SA 8.91 16 To trespass on a public servant is to trespass on a nation's time.

SA 8.101 4 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men...

SA 8.101 27 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories. These needs gave their character to the public debates in every village and state.

SA 8.102 15 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools, of public grounds...

SA 8.107 9 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...

Elo2 8.112 12 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private...

Elo2 8.119 11 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.

Elo2 8.128 24 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.

QO 8.182 13 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is public and tunable.

PC 8.207 6 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...

PC 8.210 11 Consider...what variety...of enterprises public and private...the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...

PC 8.226 5 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.

Grts 8.309 2 ...in all public speaking, the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,-when these shine and burn in his address;...

Imtl 8.331 20 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and, though attentive enough to the routine of public duty, they daily returned to each other...

Imtl 8.348 23 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul.

Dem1 10.19 27 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...that fortunate men, fortunate youths exist, whose good is not virtue or the public good, but a private good...

Aris 10.36 27 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...

Aris 10.51 5 ...if [Will] is not in you, you had better not put yourself in places where not to have it is to be a public enemy.

Aris 10.53 7 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...

Aris 10.65 3 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need to administer public offices...

PerF 10.77 20 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it...the reform of some public abuse, or some effort of patriotism,-what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...

PerF 10.85 15 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation in the dark hours of private or public fortune.

Chr2 10.92 23 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.

Chr2 10.108 3 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated...as helpful, as having public and universal regards, or otherwise;...

Edc1 10.125 24 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...

Edc1 10.143 27 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...

SovE 10.199 7 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is something by itself;...

SovE 10.209 26 Here is now a new feeling of humanity infused into public action.

SovE 10.210 1 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...

SovE 10.212 1 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from London or Washington law, of public opinion, to the self-revealing idea;...

Prch 10.229 2 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?

Prch 10.231 25 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to the public opinion of the times...

Prch 10.238 6 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.

MoL 10.254 11 [Scholars]...should stand for freedom, justice, and public good.

Schr 10.268 24 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.

Plu 10.298 13 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew how to better a good education...by devotion to affairs private and public;...

Plu 10.308 18 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius...

LLNE 10.326 21 The public speaker disclaims speaking for any other;...

LLNE 10.335 5 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...

LLNE 10.340 4 ...there was no great public interest...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.

CSC 10.373 6 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers... inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath, the Church and the Ministry.

CSC 10.374 5 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention] attracted a great deal of public attention...

EzRy 10.382 4 [Ezra Ripley]...could not be satisfied without a public education.

SlHr 10.437 1 Here is a day on which more public good or evil is to be done than was ever done on any day.

SlHr 10.440 14 [Samuel Hoar] was open-handed to...every public claim that had any show of reason in it.

SlHr 10.440 25 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...after dealing all his life with weighty private and public interests, left an infantile innocence...

SlHr 10.441 8 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...

SlHr 10.442 10 ...[Samuel Hoar's] influence was...sometimes complained of as a bar to public justice.

SlHr 10.444 6 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man of public life...

Thor 10.456 26 Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad.

Thor 10.458 8 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.

Thor 10.460 18 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...

Thor 10.462 23 [Thoreau]...could give judicious counsel in the gravest private or public affairs.

GSt 10.501 17 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.

GSt 10.504 6 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion, in January, 1860, as reported in the public documents, is a chapter well worth reading...

GSt 10.504 25 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.

GSt 10.505 3 ...enlightened enough to see a citizen's interest in the public affairs, and virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.

GSt 10.506 16 ...these public benefits were purchased [by George Stearns] at a severe cost.

HDC 11.31 7 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...

HDC 11.41 13 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges...

HDC 11.46 22 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the care of public worship, the school and the poor;...

HDC 11.47 18 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings], the public weal; the call of interest, duty, religion, were heard;...

HDC 11.47 25 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every man...might introduce any business into a public meeting.

HDC 11.49 7 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house, a public pew...hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.

HDC 11.49 19 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...

HDC 11.49 21 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England.

HDC 11.57 11 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns...

HDC 11.64 10 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord].

HDC 11.70 11 ...we think it our duty, at this critical time of our public affairs, to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...

HDC 11.70 16 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope, should the state of our public affairs require it, that they will still remain watchful and persevering;...

HDC 11.71 6 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...

HDC 11.72 7 All the military movements in this town [Concord] were solemnized by acts of public worship.

HDC 11.80 4 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...

HDC 11.80 5 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of...the excess of public expenditure.

HDC 11.80 27 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury. This was securing the prudence of the

HDC 11.81 2 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.

HDC 11.82 7 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole series of important public events in which this town played a part.

HDC 11.82 14 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...

HDC 11.82 19 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...

HDC 11.85 15 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].

LVB 11.89 9 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature...

EWI 11.107 11 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.

War 11.153 19 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece, and infusing a new and more enlarged public spirit into the councils of their statesmen.

War 11.167 14 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.

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

War 11.170 15 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...

War 11.170 18 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings, of one, two, or three public meetings;...

War 11.170 27 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion...

FSLC 11.179 24 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation and of the same state of public feeling, as the barometer is of the weight of the air...

FSLC 11.183 1 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on record of public men, will not bind them.

FSLC 11.183 2 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on record of public men, will not bind them.

FSLC 11.183 21 I question the value of our civilization, when I see that the public mind had never less hold of the strongest of all truths.

FSLC 11.184 15 The levity of the public mind has been shown in the past year by the most extravagant actions.

FSLC 11.188 18 I thought it a point on which all sane men were agreed, that the law must respect the public morality.

FSLC 11.196 1 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace.

FSLC 11.197 18 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our lifetime another moment when public men were personally lowered by their political action.

FSLC 11.197 22 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who, by the fear of public opinion, or through the dangerous ascendency of Southern manners, have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].

FSLC 11.201 19 [Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization... disown him...

FSLC 11.208 7 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].

FSLC 11.208 26 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...because it is the only practicable course, and is innocent. Here is a right social or public function...which all men must do.

FSLN 11.217 1 I do not often speak to public questions;...

FSLN 11.217 23 My own habitual view is to the well-being of students or scholars. And it is only when the public event affects them, that it very seriously touches me.

FSLN 11.220 2 ...it is always a little difficult to decipher what this public sense is;...

FSLN 11.220 14 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed...to carry parties with him.

FSLN 11.223 7 [Webster]...took very naturally a leading part in large private and in public affairs;...

FSLN 11.232 26 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings, platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.

JBB 11.270 6 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].

JBB 11.270 17 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man...who sees what a tiger's thirst threatens him in the malignity of public sentiment in the slave states.

TPar 11.290 19 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he denounced the public crime...

ACiv 11.299 8 ...the rude and early state of society...has poisoned politics, public morals and social intercourse in the Republic, now for many years.

EPro 11.317 3 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

EPro 11.321 21 In the light of this event [the Emancipation Proclamation] the public distress begins to be removed.

ALin 11.334 11 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph...of the public conscience.

ALin 11.335 18 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...an entirely public man;...

ALin 11.336 15 [Lincoln] had conquered the public opinion of Canada, England and France.

EdAd 11.383 9 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap postage and a cheap press...

EdAd 11.387 26 Lovers of our country, but not always approvers of the public counsels, we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.

EdAd 11.388 3 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.

EdAd 11.389 10 Public affairs are chained in the same law with private;...

Koss 11.397 1 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits... forbid us to detain you long.

Wom 11.405 2 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.

Wom 11.416 16 ...[antagonism to Slavery] has, among its other effects, given Woman a feeling of public duty...

Wom 11.422 13 ...one [man] wishes schools, another armies, one gunboats, another public gardens.

Wom 11.424 1 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs.

Wom 11.424 5 Let the public donations for education be equally shared by [women]...

Wom 11.425 3 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion...

SHC 11.429 12 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites...

SHC 11.432 13 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground...

Scot 11.465 17 [Scott's] power on the public mind rests on the singular union of two influences.

ChiE 11.473 19 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.

CPL 11.495 13 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...if it avail itself of the Act of the Legislature authorizing towns to tax themselves for the establishment of a public library.

FRep 11.511 10 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.

FRep 11.514 14 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...

FRep 11.521 9 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought...

FRep 11.521 10 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought without waiting...for public opinion...

FRep 11.521 12 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do.

FRep 11.527 7 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.

FRep 11.538 25 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.

FRep 11.540 3 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work...for justice, genius and the public good.

PLT 12.8 24 ...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 12.15 23 [Intellect] is as the light, public and entire to each...

PLT 12.30 24 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.

II 12.66 10 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes; public in all its regards...

II 12.70 20 [Inspiration] is...a public or universal light...

CInt 12.115 25 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies...

CInt 12.120 3 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind.

CW 12.172 25 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...

CW 12.178 10 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.

Bost 12.208 24 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...

Milt1 12.248 10 ...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste, and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.

Milt1 12.253 5 ...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages... despotically fashioning the public ear.

Milt1 12.256 7 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Milt1 12.266 25 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.

MLit 12.328 10 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student...in every public enclosure.

WSL 12.340 24 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...a scourge like that of Furies for every oppressor, whether public or private...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

WSL 12.345 14 What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men, or literary men...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...

EurB 12.366 23 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff.

PPr 12.382 19 ...[a man's] speech is a perpetual and public instrument;...

Trag 12.408 15 After reason and faith have introduced a better public and private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.

public, n. (53)

DSA 1.144 26 ...[men] love to be blind in public.

LE 1.174 12 Do not go into solitude only that you may presently come into public.

LE 1.174 13 The public can get public experience...

SL 2.153 18 He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

SL 2.154 7 ...a public not to be bribed...decides upon every man's title to fame.

Pt1 3.26 23 ...beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw...

Pt1 3.32 12 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought, to that degree that he forgets the authors and the public...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.

Chr1 3.100 18 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate infirm faith...

MoS 4.157 4 [The skeptic says] Why so talkative in public, when each of my neighbors can pin me to my seat by arguments I cannot refute?

MoS 4.173 16 We must do with [doubts and negations] as the police do with old rogues, who are shown up to the public at the marshal's office.

GoW 4.269 21 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public;...

GoW 4.279 14 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public...were disgusted.

GoW 4.280 24 In England and in America there is a respect for talent; if it is exerted in support of any ascertained or intelligible interest or party...the public is satisfied.

GoW 4.281 9 A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

ET1 5.23 16 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public...

ET14 5.257 19 Through all his refinements...[Tennyson] has reached the public...

ET15 5.261 13 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of this solar microscope on every malfaisance, so as to make the public a more terrible spy than any foreigner;...

ET17 5.291 7 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.

Wth 6.94 8 This speculative genius is the madness of a few for the gain of the world. The projectors are sacrificed, but the public is the gainer.

Wth 6.99 11 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.

Wth 6.99 13 ...in America...the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.

SS 7.15 24 ...most men...say good things to you in private, but will not stand to them in public.

Cour 7.253 24 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Washington, giving his service to the public without salary or reward.

Suc 7.288 12 ...the public values the invention more than the inventor does.

Suc 7.288 15 The public sees in [an invention] a lucrative secret.

OA 7.316 20 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public...

Elo2 8.118 3 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.

Elo2 8.122 17 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams] speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.

QO 8.190 8 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that will bless the friends.

QO 8.198 13 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public...

PC 8.215 21 It is always hard to go beyond your public.

PC 8.232 23 ...it is not by easy virtue, where the public is concerned, that heroic results are obtained.

Aris 10.50 12 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives.

LLNE 10.339 23 [Channing] was made for the public;...

LLNE 10.339 27 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public...

LLNE 10.364 4 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].

MMEm 10.421 21 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...

SlHr 10.438 1 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...

GSt 10.503 25 [George Stearns] gave to each [patriotic measure] his strong support, but uniformly shunned to appear in public.

HDC 11.41 5 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public...

War 11.170 10 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to the civility of the newspapers.

FSLC 11.213 20 Let us know that not by the public, but by ourselves, our safety must be bought.

TPar 11.289 18 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed, especially if he had any jealousy that they did not stand with the Boston public as highly as they ought.

ACiv 11.301 25 Banknotes rob the public...

ACiv 11.306 9 ...we have too much experience of the futility of an easy reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public.

EPro 11.316 12 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know. At such times it appears as if a new public were created to greet the new event.

Scot 11.465 3 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...

FRep 11.525 1 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...with the deepest sympathy in all that concerns the public...

FRep 11.527 27 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...

Milt1 12.247 9 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided...

EurB 12.367 10 ...Wordsworth...though...taking the public to task for not admiring his poetry, is really a master of the English language...

EurB 12.371 1 ...[modern painters]...paint for their predecessors' public.

Let 12.393 16 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

publication, n. (10)

Nat 1.45 3 An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Int 2.335 5 To genius must always go two gifts, the thought and the publication.

PNR 4.80 1 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...

SwM 4.99 25 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.

SwM 4.100 6 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works...

SwM 4.100 27 The clergy interfered a little with the importation and publication of [Swedenborg's] religious works...

ShP 4.206 4 We tell the chronicle of parentage...publication of books...

Wth 6.103 19 The Bank-Note Detector is a useful publication.

Art2 7.37 16 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends, by an equal necessity, to the publication and embodiment of its thought...

MLit 12.321 10 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself.

public-house, n. (1)

Pow 6.67 1 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.

publicity, n. (2)

Nat2 3.188 8 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, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words.

Wsp 6.224 17 ...the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

publicly, adv. (3)

ET12 5.202 5 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in 1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be publicly burnt.

Bty 6.296 27 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...

Bost 12.206 26 From...the Quaker women who for a testimony walked naked into the streets, and as the record tells us were arrested and publicly whipped,-the baggages that they were;...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

publicness, n. (1)

YA 1.389 20 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease, or, shall I say, the publicness of opinion...

public-spirited, adj. (4)

Pow 6.67 18 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and precisely the most public-spirited citizen.

SA 8.102 13 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...

EzRy 10.390 16 [Ezra Ripley] was...courtly, hospitable, manly and public-spirited;...

EzRy 10.391 11 ...it is no reflection on others to say that [Ezra Ripley] was the most public-spirited man in the town.

publish, v. (11)

UGM 4.11 24 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc. Their quality makes [man's] career; and he can variously publish their virtues, because they compose him.

SwM 4.100 4 [Swedenborg] ceased to publish any more scientific books...

ET1 5.5 9 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.

ET1 5.23 11 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish;...

ET15 5.265 6 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will; I shall publish The New Times next Monday morning.

Bhr 6.177 4 If [the human body] were made of glass...it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.

WD 7.165 16 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.

Insp 8.292 1 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...

Aris 10.50 9 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.

Plu 10.322 3 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...

CL 12.158 26 ...I have sometimes thought it would be well to publish an Art of Walking...

published, v. (26)

SL 2.146 25 ...Aristotle said of his works, They are published and not published.

SL 2.146 26 ...Aristotle said of his works, They are published and not published.

Pt1 3.5 19 Notwithstanding this necessity to be published, adequate expression is rare.

Chr1 3.105 9 ...character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.

SwM 4.99 22 [Swedenborg] published in 1716 his Daedalus Hyperboreus...

SwM 4.104 16 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.

SwM 4.145 22 By the science of experiment and use, [Swedenborg] made his first steps: he observed and published the laws of nature;...

MoS 4.163 12 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's, published in the Westminster Review, Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].

ET1 5.6 11 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture...

ET17 5.295 20 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...

Bhr 6.169 2 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure...of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.

Wsp 6.234 23 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals;...

Boks 7.209 21 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...

QO 8.185 18 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.

Supl 10.167 9 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published...

Plu 10.310 5 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor, who laid them aside as memoranda for future revision, which he never gave, and they were posthumously published.

HDC 11.71 6 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs, and published an admirable report.

EWI 11.106 7 [Granville Sharpe] published his book in 1769...

Shak1 11.453 14 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakspeare were not published until three years later.

Shak1 11.453 15 Had [Shakespeare's plays] been published earlier, our forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home to read them.

CPL 11.500 7 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.

PLT 12.8 8 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject: Does the gentleman speak of anatomy? Who peeped into a box at the Custom House and then published a drawing of my rat?

PLT 12.38 14 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published in set propositions...

Mem 12.102 19 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.

MAng1 12.241 12 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo, contained in the volume of his poems published by Biagioli...

Milt1 12.247 7 ...new editions of [Milton's] works, and new compilations of his life, were published.

publisher, n. (2)

Suc 7.293 15 ...the mob uniformly cheers the publisher, and not the inventor.

PLT 12.31 24 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who...delights to unfold and work it, as if he were the born publisher and demonstrator of it.

publishers, n. (1)

Elo1 7.97 21 ...[the eloquent man] is to convert [the people] into fiery apostles and publishers of the same wisdom.

publishes, v. (9)

DSA 1.134 19 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...

LE 1.187 8 Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe.

SL 2.146 9 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

SL 2.156 1 Human character evermore publishes itself.

Exp 3.81 2 ...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.

Nat2 3.179 15 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures...

UGM 4.33 11 A new quality of mind...publishes itself by unknown methods...

QO 8.194 22 The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

War 11.151 6 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...its expansion and general reception, until it publishes itself to the world by destroying the existing laws and institutions...

publishing, v. (5)

PI 8.67 4 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it the wise and generous souls...and, through their sympathy, really publishing itself.

LLNE 10.343 11 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends...had no ambition of publishing their letters, diaries or conversation.

AsSu 11.250 17 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...

Humb 11.458 25 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.

PLT 12.16 9 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.

pudding, n. (1)

LLNE 10.367 18 See how much more joy [children] find in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.

puddles, n. (1)

Nat 1.9 18 Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.

pudency, n. (3)

Exp 3.69 4 The art of life has a pudency...

CbW 6.273 13 There is a pudency about friendship as about love...

Boks 7.209 8 ...tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.

puerile, adj. (3)

NMW 4.246 21 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring;...

Suc 7.290 4 The passion for sudden success is rude and puerile...

Plu 10.309 27 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...

puerilities, n. (2)

ET17 5.298 2 ...[Wordsworth] had egotistic puerilities in the choice and treatment of his subjects;...

FRO1 11.479 13 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship, but only through favor of his Son. These mortifying puerilities abound in religious history.

puerility, n. (1)

NER 3.260 10 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements, through all the petulance and all the puerility...

puff, v. (1)

Wth 6.86 19 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan. Then he cunningly screws on the steam-pipe to the wheat-crop. Puff now, O Steam!

puffing, adj. (1)

Imtl 8.334 14 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky, these puffing elements...

puffing, v. (2)

ET1 5.17 14 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.

Suc 7.290 23 We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement and manufacture of public opinion;...

puffs, v. (1)

Wth 6.86 19 The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England.

pugilistic, adj. (1)

Suc 7.283 22 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of...ciphering or pugilistic or musical or literary craft, enriches the community with a new art;...

Pugin, Augustus, n. (1)

ET13 5.223 18 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money...in buying Pugin and architectural literature.

pugnacity, n. (1)

War 11.156 7 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity.

pug-nose, n. (1)

F 6.9 13 ...a squint, a pug-nose...betray character.

puissance, n. (1)

Plu 10.315 12 To erect a trophy in the soul against anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able to achieve.

puissant, adj. (5)

Mrs1 3.127 15 Thus grows up Fashion...the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous...

ET18 5.302 10 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts...no check on that puissant nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not English.

Bhr 6.176 4 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was a puissant will...

Suc 7.303 18 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India...

PPr 12.383 8 ...the poet knows well that a little time will do more than the most puissant genius.

pulcherrima, orchis, n. (1)

CL 12.162 7 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea...or orchis pulcherrima...

pules, v. (1)

SR 2.51 24 The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines.

pull, v. (9)

F 6.35 1 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down...

F 6.49 1 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.

Wth 6.115 7 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...

WD 7.165 12 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy...to pull up the handles...

Edc1 10.139 3 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house.

JBS 11.277 24 [John Brown] said that he...could not see a seedy hat without wishing to pull it off.

PLT 12.57 9 ...society seems to be in conspiracy to...pull down genius to lucrative talent.

MAng1 12.232 3 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.

Let 12.393 23 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

pulled, v. (4)

ET15 5.264 2 When Lord Brougham was in power, [the London Times] decided against him, and pulled him down.

Wth 6.115 21 In an evil hour [a man] pulled down his wall and added a field to his homestead.

Thor 10.472 7 ...[Thoreau] pulled the woodchuck out of its hole by the tail...

HDC 11.49 8 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.

pulley, n. (3)

ET5 5.83 12 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever, the screw and pulley...

Pow 6.57 21 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees, with...heads full of steam-hammer, pulley, crank and toothed wheel,--and everything begins to shine with values.

Clbs 7.228 8 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw.

pulling, v. (4)

NMW 4.255 25 [Napoleon] had the habit of pulling [women's] ears and pinching their cheeks when he was in good humor...

NMW 4.255 26 [Napoleon] had the habit...pulling the ears and whiskers of men...

Grts 8.303 7 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.

SMC 11.354 17 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.

pulls, v. (5)

Hsm1 2.254 11 ...hospitality must be for service...or it pulls down the host.

MoS 4.170 26 We...dislike what scatters or pulls down.

F 6.30 22 ...when the boy grows to man...he pulls down that wall...

F 6.47 25 To offset the drag of temperament and race, which pulls down, learn this lesson...

DL 7.105 1 On the strongest shoulders [the child] rides, and pulls the hair of laurelled heads.

pulpit, adj. (1)

ShP 4.196 3 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the verse has even a trace of pulpit eloquence.

pulpit, n. (20)

DSA 1.137 13 Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded...

DSA 1.140 5 Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life.

DSA 1.142 2 The pulpit in losing sight of this Law, loses its reason...

YA 1.388 26 ...who announces to us in journal, or in pulpit...the secret of heroism?

Comp 2.109 8 ...this law of laws [Compensation], which the pulpit, the senate and the college deny, is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...

Wth 6.95 26 The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth;...

Wth 6.104 10 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the pulpit will betray it...

Elo1 7.83 23 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...

Elo2 8.115 14 We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism and the pulpit, peaceful professions;...

Chr2 10.107 2 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon died,-still a sermon: Nature was a pulpit;...

Chr2 10.113 21 The pulpit may shake, but this platform [of ethical studies] will not.

Prch 10.230 14 The simple fact that the pulpit exists...assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.

Prch 10.230 19 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.

Prch 10.233 17 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.

LLNE 10.332 26 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.

LLNE 10.335 20 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.

LLNE 10.339 19 ...we then thought, if we do not still think, that [Channing] left no successor in the pulpit.

EzRy 10.383 24 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house, with its four iron-gray deacons in their little box under the pulpit...

MMEm 10.411 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths, when Nature looked like a pulpit.

FSLC 11.185 20 The learning of the universities...the eloquence of the Christian pulpit...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].

pulpiting, v. (1)

Shak1 11.451 14 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...

pulpits, n. (6)

DSA 1.150 27 What hinders that now...in pulpits...you speak the very truth...

Comp 2.96 3 That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence.

ET5 5.100 9 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;...

TPar 11.289 21 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted beyond all men in pulpits... that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...

Milt1 12.273 11 ...[Milton] frequented no church; probably from a disgust at the fierce spirit of the pulpits.

EurB 12.376 5 ...there is but one standard English novel, like the one orthodox sermon, which with slight variation is repeated every Sunday from so many pulpits.

pulpit-stairs, n. (1)

Elo2 8.127 14 ...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...

pulsates, v. (1)

Elo1 7.59 14 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./

pulsation, n. (7)

DSA 1.150 14 A whole popedom of forms one pulsation of virtue can uplift and vivify.

LE 1.168 26 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the...hour, that takes down the narrow walls of my soul, and extends its life and pulsation to the very horizon.

MR 1.248 15 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which...every hour repairs herself, yielding us...with every pulsation a new life?

Con 1.313 12 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which, from the first pulsation in the first animal life...has advanced thus far.

OS 2.275 1 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works, passing, at each pulsation, classes, populations, of men.

Art2 7.43 23 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound...

LLNE 10.352 20 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes and New Harmonies with each pulsation.

pulsations, n. (1)

MMEm 10.421 22 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means; a few pulsations of created beings...

pulse, n. (12)

LT 1.285 3 What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?

Prd1 2.237 26 ...[the drover's, the sailor's] health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.

ET19 5.313 17 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct...that in storm of battle and calamity she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

F 6.29 4 Each pulse from that heart [the moral sentiment] is an oath from the Most High.

Pow 6.56 21 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any labor, art or concert.

Farm 7.135 10 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain/...

PI 8.46 24 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse...

Res 8.141 16 Life is always rapid here [in America], but what acceleration to its pulse in ten years...

PC 8.207 6 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...

Dem1 10.21 27 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing...each exclusive and local connection, to beat with the pulse and breathe with the lungs of nations.

ALin 11.335 19 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart...

RBur 11.438 2 He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./

pulse-beat, n. (3)

MN 1.196 23 ...we do not take up a new book or meet a new man without a pulse-beat of expectation.

Pow 6.54 10 A belief in causality, or strict connection between every pulse-beat and the principle of being...characterizes all valuable minds...

PI 8.46 16 Metre begins with pulse-beat...

pulses, n. (6)

Cir 2.304 18 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends outward with a vast force...

Exp 3.68 8 Man lives by pulses;...

Civ 7.24 23 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./

DL 7.133 2 ...the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

MoL 10.250 21 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.

SMC 11.350 3 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted,-no matter how frivolous or unphilosophical its pulses...

pulsing, v. (1)

Edc1 10.159 10 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of society...

pulverize, v. (2)

UGM 4.12 3 Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs and Beaumonts...

FSLC 11.210 7 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.

pulverized, v. (2)

Wsp 6.203 25 The stern old faiths have all pulverized.

SovE 10.193 10 Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it, or be pulverized by the recoil.

pulverizes, v. (1)

CL 12.154 8 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;...

pump, n. (6)

ET4 5.56 12 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.

Pow 6.60 16 We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Wth 6.87 17 Wealth begins...in a good pump that yields you plenty of sweet water;...

Farm 7.142 18 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks;...

Res 8.139 10 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;...and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings. This pump never sucks;...

Aris 10.45 3 If we see tools in a magazine, as...a pump, a paint-brush...we can predict well enough their destination;...

pump, v. (5)

MoS 4.167 15 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...plain topics where I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.

ET5 5.96 1 ...now [Steam] must pump, grind, dig and plough for the farmer.

Civ 7.28 21 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...to grind, and wind, and pump, and saw...

SA 8.99 13 When men consult you, it is not that they wish you to stand tiptoe and pump your brains...

PLT 12.33 23 It does not need to pump your brains and force thought to think rightly.

pumped, v. (2)

Suc 7.297 10 When the scholar or the writer has pumped his brain for thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into Nature, has he never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle...than in all his literary results?

Supl 10.172 5 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...

pumping, v. (1)

Clbs 7.246 16 A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains;...

pumpkin, adj. (1)

NR 3.246 7 ...every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

pumpkin, n. (1)

NR 3.246 6 ...every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

pumpkins, n. (2)

NR 3.246 6 We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins;...

HDC 11.35 6 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins...

pumps, n. (2)

EdAd 11.384 10 [The traveller] reflects on...what levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit of masses of men.

II 12.66 27 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct)...

pumps, v. (1)

CL 12.151 16 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest through his arteries;...

pun, v. (2)

MoS 4.168 21 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence, and...will pun, and refine too much...

Clbs 7.231 27 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...pun...

Punch, n. (10)

ShP 4.192 3 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.

ET8 5.135 12 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...resembling in countenance the portrait of Punch with the laugh left out;...

ET13 5.229 12 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. Punch finds an inexhaustible material.

ET15 5.271 5 Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the London Times.

ET15 5.271 16 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England--as in Punch, so in the humorists...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.

ET19 5.309 16 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech. He was followed by Mr. Cobden...and others, among whom was Mr. Cruikshank, one of the contributors to Punch.

ET19 5.310 6 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.

F 6.18 25 Punch makes exactly one capital joke a week;...

Bty 6.293 15 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind, and make it triumphant over Punch himself, by interposing the just gradations.

FRep 11.517 3 The wilder the paradox, the more sure is Punch to put it in the pillory.

punch-bowls, n. (1)

ET6 5.108 1 ...though [the Englishman] have no gallery of portraits of his ancestors, he has of their punch-bowls and porringers.

Punch's, n. (2)

ET4 5.53 2 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses...are distinctive English...

LLNE 10.339 4 ...the tendency even of Punch's caricature, was all on the side of the people.

punctilious, adj. (1)

LLNE 10.366 4 ...the most punctilious in some particulars are latitudinarian in others.

punctual, adj. (10)

Nat 1.18 26 The tribes of birds and insects, like the plants punctual to their time, follow each other...

LE 1.178 10 Let [the scholar] endeavor...to solve the problem of that life which is set before him. And this by punctual action...

Mrs1 3.140 12 One may be too punctual and too precise.

NR 3.230 2 England, strong, punctual, practical, well-spoken England I should not find if I should go to the island to seek it.

NMW 4.238 1 ...the stars were not more punctual than [Napoleon's] arithmetic.

ET6 5.103 7 ...the machines [in England] require punctual service...

DL 7.112 17 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... If the hours of meals are punctual, the apartments are slovenly.

EzRy 10.385 19 [Ezra Ripley] was a perfectly sincere man, punctual, severe...

CL 12.141 24 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...

CW 12.170 11 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/ Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;/...

punctuality, n. (8)

Fdsp 2.205 16 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he...does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity.

Art1 2.368 26 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat... arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

SwM 4.103 23 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...his faculties work with astronomic punctuality...

NMW 4.237 7 [Napoleon's] vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality.

NMW 4.247 5 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees; namely, by punctuality, by personal attention, by courage and thoroughness.

ET7 5.116 8 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.

DL 7.112 11 See, in families where there is both substance and taste, at what expense any favorite punctuality is maintained.

SovE 10.205 12 ...we have punctuality for faith, and good taste for character.

punctually, adv. (7)

Exp 3.64 11 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not come out of the Sunday School......nor punctually keep the commandments.

SwM 4.109 3 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next, each series punctually repeating every organ and process of the last.

F 6.18 24 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.

Insp 8.277 19 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here, nor was there any time to consider how to set it punctually down...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...

Supl 10.175 8 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32 degrees, boils punctually at 212 degrees;...

LLNE 10.332 20 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.

LLNE 10.366 25 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes; which they punctually did.

punctum, n. (1)

Bost 12.188 10 Linnaeus...called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.

pungency, n. (3)

Nat2 3.188 8 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, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words.

Nat2 3.196 14 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought. Hence the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind of natural objects...

Bty 6.305 12 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency...

pungent, adj. (6)

LT 1.262 17 [Persons] are the pungent instructors who thrill the heart of each of us...

Pt1 3.17 24 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is...

ET6 5.104 12 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...and loud and pungent in his expressions of impatience at any neglect.

ET15 5.262 15 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...

F 6.16 18 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...a rash and unsatisfactory writer, but charged with pungent and unforgetable truths.

Elo1 7.91 26 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it...

Punic, adj. (1)

Cir 2.312 7 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Punic...houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.

punish, v. (6)

Comp 2.107 20 ...if the sun in heaven should transgress his path [the Furies] would punish him.

Exp 3.81 2 ...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.

War 11.162 13 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there, ready to punish any disturber of it.

FSLC 11.192 4 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised; and the court did not dare to punish them, at least openly.

ACiv 11.303 6 Better the war...should...punish us with burned capitals and slaughtered regiments, and so...exasperate our nationality.

Mem 12.92 16 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain. Well, that is as it should be. That is the police of the Universe: the angels are set to punish you...

punishable, adj. (3)

FSLC 11.195 7 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.

FSLC 11.195 10 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.

PPr 12.385 3 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...and yet not a word is punishable by statute.

punished, v. (13)

Comp 2.102 18 Every secret is told, every crime is punished...in silence and certainty.

Comp 2.111 7 All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear.

SL 2.151 12 Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...

Hsm1 2.249 5 The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also.

Pt1 3.28 18 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.

Gts 3.163 19 ...the expectation of gratitude...is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person.

Ctr 6.133 19 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished...

Civ 7.23 23 We see...the crimes of a single individual marked and punished at the distance of half the earth.

QO 8.188 22 The mischief [of quotation] is quickly punished in general and in particular.

PerF 10.85 11 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with instant loss of true wisdom and real power.

LLNE 10.338 27 Every immorality...is punished by natural loss and deformity.

HDC 11.31 11 Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent, and were punished with imprisonment or mutilation.

PLT 12.12 20 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see; and the belief of men is that the attempt...is punished by loss of faculty.

punishes, v. (5)

Prd1 2.228 5 ...nature punishes any neglect of prudence.

NR 3.237 3 [Nature] punishes abstractionists...

ET18 5.300 10 The Church [in England] punishes dissent, punishes education.

Wth 6.106 10 ...artifice or legislation punishes itself by reactions, gluts and bankruptcies.

HCom 11.342 3 Every nation punishes the General who is not victorious.

punishing, v. (2)

Gts 3.161 1 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience. If it be a fantastic desire, it is better to leave to others the office of punishing him.

ET3 5.42 6 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.

punishment, n. (12)

Con 1.325 24 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society...

Comp 2.103 11 Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Comp 2.103 12 Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Pol1 3.209 14 Parties of principle, as...the party...of abolition of capital punishment,--degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.

PPh 4.74 18 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment;...

PNR 4.84 3 Plato affirms...that the sinner ought to covet punishment;...

PNR 4.84 15 [Plato affirms that] The right punishment of one out of tune is to make him play in tune;...

Elo1 7.62 14 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...

PC 8.208 26 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science; the abolition of capital punishment and of imprisonment for debt;...

Edc1 10.152 24 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...corporal punishment...

Edc1 10.154 20 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.

Carl 10.491 21 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.

punishments, n. (1)

ET4 5.73 5 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.

punk, n. (2)

Ctr 6.143 23 Provided always the boy is teachable (for we are not proposing to make a statue out of punk), football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...

CL 12.161 27 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...or punk for slow-match;...

puns, n. (2)

Mem 12.96 9 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end; one man by puns and one by cause and effect...

CL 12.161 15 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion. The scholars made puns. the skipper saw instructive facts on every side...

puny, adj. (12)

LE 1.163 10 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;-behold Charles the Fifth's day;...

MN 1.191 16 We are a puny and a fickle folk.

MR 1.239 19 ...we have now a puny, protected person...

Exp 3.65 17 Thy sickness, they say, and thy puny habit require that thou do this or avoid that...

Wth 6.83 7 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/

Civ 7.30 4 A puny creature, walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!/...

DL 7.103 11 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...

DL 7.108 21 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...puny and precarious healths...

Aris 10.43 19 ...the manners betray the like puny constitution.

MoL 10.247 25 Nature...mocks at the puny forces of destruction.

LLNE 10.363 6 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius, puny in body and habit as a girl...

MMEm 10.404 2 [Mary Moody Emerson] calls herself the puny pilgrim...

pupil, n. (20)

Nat 1.47 3 Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man, the immortal pupil, in every object of sense.

Hist 2.38 17 Thus in all ways does the soul concentrate and reproduce its treasures for each pupil.

SR 2.79 18 In proportion...to the number of objects [a thought]...brings within reach of the pupil, is his complacency.

SR 2.79 24 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.

SR 2.80 1 It will happen for a time that the pupil will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his master's mind.

SL 2.152 6 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...

Art1 2.364 26 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil how deep is the secret of form...

NER 3.259 6 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin...

SwM 4.111 7 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...

SwM 4.111 16 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg, after a hundred years, in his pupil, is not the least remarkable fact in his history.

ET14 5.260 10 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...

Elo1 7.74 27 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.

Elo1 7.82 13 The audience [if there be personality in the orator] is thrown into the attitude of pupil...

Elo1 7.96 26 ...if the pupil be of a texture to bear it, the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.

WD 7.173 3 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls and the pupil is permitted to see that all is one stuff...

Edc1 10.138 4 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity...

Edc1 10.143 15 ...our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

Edc1 10.146 26 Always genius...desires nothing so much as to be a pupil...

Edc1 10.154 1 ...the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil.

Schr 10.264 11 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity and be its pupil and apprentice by tracing everything home to a cause;...

pupilage, n. (1)

CbW 6.251 26 The mass are animal, in pupilage...

pupils, n. (8)

LT 1.267 12 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants are now society...

SL 2.146 8 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

UGM 4.31 7 Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?

Elo2 8.118 13 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric; and if the pupils got what they paid for, the lessons were cheap.

Edc1 10.152 21 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils.

LLNE 10.360 7 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm], and so received pupils for their education.

Shak1 11.451 4 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are...clumsy pupils of [Shakespeare's] instruction.

ACri 12.304 21 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation. Nor can we promise that our School of Design will secure a lucrative post to the pupils.

puppet, n. (1)

F 6.40 23 At the conjuror's, we detect the hair by which he moves his puppet...

puppets, n. (2)

PI 8.29 2 ...fancy [is] a play as with dolls and puppets...

II 12.80 2 ...[the secret Power] frowns on moths and puppets...

puppet-show, n. (1)

Nat 1.50 23 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.

puppies, n. (2)

PPh 4.55 8 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies;...

ET8 5.131 16 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...

puppy, n. (1)

ACri 12.287 22 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments; as... lubber, puppy, peacock...

Purana, Vishnu, n. (3)

PPh 4.49 13 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana.

Boks 7.218 18 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Upanishads, the Vishnu Purana, the Bhagvat Geeta, of the Hindoos;...

Chr2 10.120 7 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.

Puranas, n. (1)

PC 8.214 12 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of...the Puranas...

purchasable, adj. (3)

ET13 5.217 24 [The English Church] has the seal of...a ritual marked by the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.

Wth 6.103 1 ...there are many goods appertaining to a capital city which are not yet purchasable here [in Boston]...

Wth 6.104 25 Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.

purchase, n. (8)

SL 2.149 25 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...to live with him were life indeed, and no purchase is too great;...

Cir 2.312 4 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.

UGM 4.5 17 Our affection towards others creates a sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.

ET5 5.97 14 Purity in the elective Parliament [of England] is secured by the purchase of seats.

ET12 5.203 19 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...

ET12 5.203 22 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase...

ET12 5.204 9 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.

Boks 7.189 16 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.

purchase, v. (2)

HDC 11.69 18 ...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of this country.

HDC 11.71 22 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition, that those who are unable to purchase them themselves, may have the advantage of them...

Purchase, Willard's, Concor (1)

HDC 11.48 5 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.

purchased, v. (7)

SwM 4.98 4 ...the men of God purchased their science by folly or pain.

SwM 4.137 2 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of a Swedish polemic, and his vast enlargements purchased by adamantine limitations.

MoS 4.163 21 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.

Ctr 6.163 14 There is none of the social goods that may not be purchased too dear...

EzRy 10.381 9 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England...

GSt 10.506 16 ...these public benefits were purchased [by George Stearns] at a severe cost.

Let 12.404 21 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold,-every trait of beauty purchased by hecatombs of private tragedy.

purchaser, n. (1)

Mrs1 3.120 7 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...

purchasers, n. (1)

Tran 1.349 10 Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes, and retailed in small quantities to suit purchasers.

purchasing, v. (1)

HDC 11.69 4 ...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.

Purchas's, Samuel, n. (1)

ET12 5.201 21 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is...as much a national monument as Purchas's Pilgrims or Hansard's Register.

pure, adj. (192)

Nat 1.60 19 ...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity]... as the pure and awful form of religion in the world.

Nat 1.76 4 ...to pure spirit [nature] is fluid...

Nat 1.76 18 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.

AmS 1.86 4 The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion.

AmS 1.88 13 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought...

AmS 1.90 20 Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;...

LE 1.182 13 The man of genius should occupy the whole space between God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.

MN 1.197 4 That which once existed in intellect as pure law, has now taken body as Nature.

MN 1.213 25 ...if you incline your mind, you will apprehend [the Intelligible]: not too earnestly, but bringing a pure and inquiring eye.

MN 1.221 15 Be the lowly ministers of that pure omniscience [the intellect]...

Con 1.314 12 ...we have already shown that there is no pure reformer...

Con 1.314 13 ...it is to be considered that there is no pure conservative...

Tran 1.338 3 ...there is no pure Transcendentalist;...

Tran 1.340 16 ...there is no pure Transcendentalist...

YA 1.387 8 That were [the noble's] duty and stint,-to keep himself pure and purifying...

SR 2.57 8 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory...

SR 2.58 2 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

SR 2.65 25 The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Comp 2.114 23 These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives.

SL 2.165 17 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought, emotion as pure...these all are his...

Lov1 2.182 8 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.

Lov1 2.182 16 ...so is the one beautiful soul only the door through which [the lover] enters to the society of all true and pure souls.

Lov1 2.184 23 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks.../

Fdsp 2.195 6 ...my relation to [my friends] is so pure that we hold by simple affinity...

Fdsp 2.204 20 Can another be so blessed and we so pure that we can offer him tenderness?

Fdsp 2.210 13 Should not the society of my friend be to me...pure...

Fdsp 2.216 5 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them. But they shall not hold me by any relations less subtile and pure.

Prd1 2.231 16 Genius should be the child of genius and every child should be inspired; but now it is not to be predicted of any child, and nowhere is it pure.

Prd1 2.239 4 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!

OS 2.271 18 Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible.

OS 2.295 8 ...when I burn with pure love, what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?

OS 2.296 10 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure...

Cir 2.318 6 ...no evil is pure...

Int 2.345 24 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering... the high-priesthood of the pure reason...

Art1 2.358 13 ...what skill is...shown [in works of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul, a jet of pure light...

Pt1 3.14 3 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./

Pt1 3.28 24 The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.

Exp 3.62 18 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science...

Chr1 3.91 24 The men who carry their points...are themselves the country which they represent; nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

Chr1 3.106 5 ...I never listened to your people's law...and wasted my time. I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own; hence this sweetness; my work never reminds you of that, is pure of that.

Chr1 3.114 9 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death...

Mrs1 3.121 23 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though far from pure...it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.

Mrs1 3.127 6 Manners aim to...bring the man pure to energize.

Mrs1 3.127 10 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by...leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

Mrs1 3.146 19 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio...and Washington, and every pure and valiant heart who worshipped Beauty by word and by deed.

Nat2 3.169 14 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.

Pol1 3.220 12 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...can be answered.

NR 3.225 7 Could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he pretends to be!

NR 3.226 17 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man;...

NR 3.242 9 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...

NER 3.252 19 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment.

NER 3.275 25 Is [a man's] ambition pure? then will his laurels and his possessions seem worthless...

NER 3.278 15 There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.

NER 3.278 16 There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.

UGM 4.5 26 Let us have the quality pure.

UGM 4.15 10 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage, very pure as I think, which all ranks pay to the hero of the day...

PPh 4.49 15 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea, and they rise to pure and sublime strains in celebrating it.

PPh 4.51 27 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization,--pure science; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...

PNR 4.88 15 Hamlet is a pure Platonist...

SwM 4.98 6 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...

SwM 4.103 24 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...and this admirable writing is pure from all pertness or egotism.

SwM 4.138 11 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief.

SwM 4.143 16 ...[Swedenborg] did not rise to the platform of pure genius.

GoW 4.277 8 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...

GoW 4.284 9 [Goethe's] is not even the devotion to pure truth;...

ET4 5.49 27 ...we flatter the self-love of men and nations by the legend of pure races...

ET4 5.50 13 We are piqued with pure descent...

ET4 5.55 10 [The Celts] planted Britain, and gave to the seas and mountains names which...imitate the pure voices of nature.

ET4 5.72 22 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood...

ET8 5.138 4 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they like with their own. With education and intercourse, these asperities wear off and leave the good-will pure.

ET10 5.153 5 ...the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth...

ET11 5.186 21 [The English upper classes] have...a pure tone of thought and feeling...

ET14 5.234 21 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton. When it reaches the pure element, it treads the clouds as securely as the adamant.

ET14 5.255 16 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...

F 6.28 27 ...the pure sympathy with universal ends is an infinite force...

F 6.49 25 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...solicits the pure in heart to draw on all its omnipotence.

Ctr 6.134 23 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is...to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

CbW 6.262 21 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

SS 7.5 27 Few substances are found pure in nature.

SS 7.6 6 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha.

SS 7.6 21 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...

Art2 7.51 1 The mind that made the world is not one mind, but the mind. And every work of art is a more or less pure manifestation of the same.

DL 7.107 20 Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get pure fact.

Boks 7.217 11 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...

Clbs 7.225 5 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen...

Clbs 7.225 7 ...thought is the native air of the mind, yet pure it is a poison to our mixed constitution...

Clbs 7.234 22 ...I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...

Cour 7.255 10 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies, nay, needs these to awake and fan its reserved energies into a pure flame...

Cour 7.255 23 ...the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct... is the endowment of elevated characters.

Cour 7.267 9 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts, for he never tasted any liquid but pure water.

Cour 7.277 17 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...

Suc 7.286 15 We have seen a woman who by pure song could melt the souls of whole populations.

PI 8.18 22 The act of imagination is ever attended by pure delight.

PI 8.25 2 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure.

PI 8.50 19 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.

PI 8.52 26 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.

PI 8.66 3 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us...

SA 8.90 13 The delight...in pure, brilliant, social atmosphere;...doubles the value of life.

SA 8.93 23 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of pure German speech of his wife.

Elo2 8.111 5 [An anecdote of eloquence] is a triumph of pure power...

Comc 8.160 1 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...

QO 8.178 20 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that, in a large sense, one would say there is no pure originality.

PC 8.221 16 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...which remains pure and indestructible in each mote as in masses and planets...

PPo 8.257 8 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./

Insp 8.278 9 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature...might teach us what strangers and novices we are, vagabond in this universe of pure power...

Grts 8.315 11 It is difficult to find greatness pure.

Imtl 8.324 13 ...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...

Aris 10.36 6 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed, whether on pure blood, or on the largest holder in the three-per-cents.

Aris 10.36 24 ...instead of this impure, a pure reverence for character...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...

Chr2 10.92 5 ...will, pure and perceiving, is not wilfulness.

Chr2 10.100 11 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each;...

Chr2 10.103 6 The [moral] sentiment never stops in pure vision...

Chr2 10.104 5 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism; whilst in Nature is none at all, God...known only as pure law...

Chr2 10.104 24 ...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 10.114 11 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...

Chr2 10.117 4 ...Calvinism rushes to be Unitarianism, as Unitarianism rushes to be pure Theism.

Chr2 10.119 23 There is a fear that pure truth, pure morals, will not make a religion for the affections.

Chr2 10.119 24 There is a fear that pure truth, pure morals, will not make a religion for the affections.

Chr2 10.121 18 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...

Edc1 10.130 8 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...

Edc1 10.140 20 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man...

Supl 10.174 19 We are...distrustful of health, of soundness, of pure innocence.

Supl 10.178 15 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established...in having water cheap and pure...

SovE 10.191 10 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...with beauty and pure love...

SovE 10.209 5 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus. It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus...

SovE 10.212 13 America shall introduce a pure religion.

Prch 10.228 2 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul...

Prch 10.228 14 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine, and cannot spare the benefit of so pure a servant of truth and love.

MoL 10.248 22 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Kant, with pure reason;...

Schr 10.266 1 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.

Schr 10.276 19 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons; a little pure, and not too much, to every head.

Schr 10.277 23 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy;...

Schr 10.280 9 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours...to the pure intellect.

Schr 10.288 5 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold. The fire retreats and concentrates within into a pure flame, pure as the stars to which it mounts.

Plu 10.300 3 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure.

Plu 10.318 20 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.

LLNE 10.341 19 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 pure idealist...

LLNE 10.348 9 A man is entitled to pure air...

CSC 10.376 3 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved by signal passages of pure eloquence...

MMEm 10.408 20 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.

SlHr 10.444 9 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...

Thor 10.456 14 ...no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].

Thor 10.475 18 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude and defective. The gold does not yet run pure...

Thor 10.481 13 [Thoreau] liked the pure fragrance of melilot.

Thor 10.483 10 Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line.

Carl 10.491 16 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...

Carl 10.496 16 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...

GSt 10.501 19 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man...of pure life;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics... engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.

GSt 10.502 22 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.

LS 11.20 8 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought...an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].

EWI 11.107 9 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe...

EWI 11.135 22 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves. The end was noble and the means were pure.

War 11.160 24 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls...

FSLC 11.186 6 ...of the corrupt society that exists we have never been able to combine any pure prosperity.

FSLC 11.187 17 Pains seem to have been taken to give us in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture of right.

FSLN 11.222 16 ...in his argument [Webster] was intellectual,-stated his fact pure of all personality...

AsSu 11.248 26 The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the more shocking from the singularly pure character of its victim.

JBB 11.268 10 [John Brown] is...the rarest of heroes, a pure idealist...

Shak1 11.451 19 How good and sound and inviolable [Shakespeare's] innocency, that...speaks the pure sense of humanity on each occasion.

FRO1 11.480 4 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church, the pure worship.

FRO1 11.480 4 Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.

FRO1 11.480 5 Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.

FRO2 11.484 4 ...Thou seek'st in globe and galaxy,/ He hides in pure transparency;/...

FRO2 11.488 27 We cannot spare the vision nor the virtue of the saints; but let it be by pure sympathy...

CPL 11.501 26 Everything that gives [a man] a new perception of beauty multiplies his pure enjoyments.

FRep 11.536 12 A man for success must not be pure idealist, then he will practically fail;...

PLT 12.13 23 The adepts value only the pure geometry...

PLT 12.13 25 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason.

PLT 12.17 8 I dare not deal with this element [Intellect] in its pure essence.

PLT 12.17 23 It is a steep stair down from the essence of Intellect pure to thoughts and intellections.

PLT 12.63 19 The superiority of the man is...that he has no obstruction, but looks straight at the pure fact...

II 12.89 3 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere to pure eyes...renew life for [a man].

CInt 12.118 2 Never was pure valor...shown in a bad cause.

CInt 12.118 3 Never was pure valor-and almost I might say, never pure ability-shown in a bad cause.

CInt 12.123 24 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought]...

Bost 12.193 2 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise; its pure truth not to be guessed from the rude vizard under which it goes masquerading.

Bost 12.193 6 The common eye cannot tell...the pure truth from the grotesque tenet which sheathes it.

Bost 12.197 23 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...nourishes itself...on whatever is pure and sublime in art...

Bost 12.201 12 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...

MAng1 12.234 18 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.

Milt1 12.250 2 The Defence of the People of England, on which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is, when divested of its pure Latinity, the worst of [Milton's] works.

Milt1 12.262 25 Among so many contrivances as the world has seen to make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.

Milt1 12.263 14 [Milton] is innocent and exact, because his taste was so pure and delicate.

Milt1 12.267 16 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../

MLit 12.317 11 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.

WSL 12.341 3 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.

EurB 12.366 12 The poet must not only converse with pure thought, but he must demonstrate it almost to the senses.

EurB 12.366 17 [The poet's] fable must be a good story, and its meaning must hold as pure truth.

EurB 12.371 11 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We must not make our bread of pure sugar.

Let 12.401 5 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave nothing pure, which they do not pollute...

pure, n. (3)

Chr1 3.95 17 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures...

Chr1 3.115 26 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...

MLit 12.328 23 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?

Pure, n. (1)

OS 2.296 10 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure...

purely, adv. (26)

AmS 1.112 25 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.

Tran 1.338 9 ...of a purely spiritual life, history has afforded no example.

YA 1.365 5 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.

Art1 2.364 27 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil...how purely the spirit can translate its meanings into that eloquent dialect [of form].

Pol1 3.219 14 ...the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters; for this is a purely moral force.

UGM 4.16 3 Shakspeare's name suggests other and purely intellectual benefits.

SwM 4.116 6 ...one would swear [says Swedenborg] that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...

ShP 4.210 11 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...

NMW 4.233 11 Napoleon had been the first man of the world, if his ends had been purely public.

ET8 5.136 17 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession, and on more purely metaphysical grounds.

ET14 5.251 13 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...

Civ 7.32 10 ...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are,--knots of men in purely natural societies...I see what cubic values America has...

Art2 7.44 5 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure...

Art2 7.48 7 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely spiritual part of a work of art.

Boks 7.192 27 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.

Suc 7.282 11 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...

Imtl 8.340 25 ...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.

Imtl 8.343 21 ...wherever man ripens, this audacious belief [in immortality] presently appears,-in the savage, savagely; in the good, purely.

Plu 10.311 26 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets, and the virtues suggested by them, so to find himself at some time purely contented?

LLNE 10.335 17 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.

MMEm 10.399 10 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life] is purely original and hardly admits of a duplicate.

ALin 11.331 3 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...

Wom 11.421 13 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.

PLT 12.40 8 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself.

Milt1 12.254 7 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who...by an influence purely spiritual makes us jealous for his fame as for that of a near friend.

EurB 12.377 10 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume, because the aim is purely external success.

purer, adj. (19)

MR 1.235 22 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...

MR 1.256 20 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice.

Con 1.324 20 ...the north wind shall be purer...that I have lived.

Tran 1.358 14 ...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...

Lov1 2.180 14 Concerning [poetry] Landor inquires whether it is not to be referred to some purer state of sensation and existence.

Fdsp 2.201 8 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common, so much is this purer...

Hsm1 2.259 7 ...a better valor and a purer truth shall one day organize [many extraordinary young men's] belief.

NER 3.275 24 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself, because they have somewhat fairer, somewhat grander, somewhat purer, which extorts homage of him.

GoW 4.284 7 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer...

SS 7.16 3 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight, with ever a purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right...

Civ 7.33 16 ...a purer morality, which kindles genius, civilizes civilization...

Elo1 7.96 16 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...so that he stands in the New England assembly a purer bit of New England than any...

DL 7.122 10 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air;...

SA 8.94 26 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air...

Imtl 8.340 4 ...all our intellectual action...bestows a feeling of absolute existence. We are taken out of time and breathe a purer air.

Schr 10.287 15 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities, and to retreat, and wait. So shall you find in this penury and absence of thought a purer splendor than ever clothed the exhibitions of wit.

EdAd 11.387 20 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...even in the reckless and sinister politics, not less than in purer expressions.

Milt1 12.256 1 ...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him... inspired every act and every writing of John Milton.

Milt1 12.274 21 The perception we have attributed to Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.

purer, adv. (1)

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.

purest, adj. (24)

DSA 1.126 15 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine, where it reached its purest expression...

LE 1.155 19 [The scholar's] successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men.

MN 1.214 12 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest souls? It is that.

Comp 2.122 11 There can be no excess to love...none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.

Lov1 2.175 19 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends, though the best and purest, can give him;...

Exp 3.68 2 We would look about us, but with grand politeness [God] draws down before us an inpenetrable screen of purest sky, and another behind us of purest sky.

Chr1 3.90 7 The purest literary talent appears at one time great, and another time small...

Mrs1 3.147 24 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...

NER 3.281 16 I believe it is the conviction of the purest men that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.

MoS 4.165 25 ...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;...

GoW 4.285 6 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to highest culture.

ET16 5.287 3 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... I thought only of the simplest and purest minds;...

Art2 7.52 8 ...[the ancient sculptures in Naples and Rome] surprise you with a moral admonition, as they...remind you of the fragrant thoughts and the purest resolutions of your youth.

DL 7.123 3 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.

LLNE 10.356 15 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics.

HDC 11.85 22 ...[Concord] has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.

JBS 11.277 4 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame,- and I need not go out of this house to find the purest eloquence in the country,-have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.

EPro 11.322 3 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery] which the purest winds and strongest sunshine could not penetrate and purge.

Wom 11.423 5 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.

Wom 11.425 9 The loneliest thought, the purest prayer, is rushing to be the history of a thousand years.

Scot 11.465 15 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate-leaving on every reader the impression of the highest and purest tragedy.

FRep 11.544 17 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection, the purest religion will find their home in our institutions...

CL 12.163 24 [The principle of levity] is related to the purest of the world...

WSL 12.341 15 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.

purest, n. (1)

Bost 12.192 27 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.

purgation, n. (1)

Bty 6.294 13 [Beauty] is the purgation of superfluities, said Michael Angelo.

purgative, adj. (1)

Plu 10.309 13 ...Plutarch thought, with Ariston, that neither a bath nor a lecture served any purpose, unless they were purgative.

purgatorial, adj. (1)

ShP 4.219 9 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us;...

purgatory, n. (1)

Imtl 8.328 9 [Sixty years ago] All were under the shadow of Calvinism and of the Roman Catholic purgatory...

Purgatory, n. (2)

Chr1 3.98 8 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Catholic Purgatory...

Chr2 10.104 14 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the Purgatory, the Indulgences, and the Inquisition of Popery...are examples of this perversion.

purge, v. (2)

Nat 1.35 15 ...the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand [Nature's] text.

EPro 11.322 5 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery] which the purest winds and strongest sunshine could not penetrate and purge.

purged, v. (4)

Edc1 10.140 23 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man, purged of its uproar and rudeness...

MoL 10.258 12 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed; perhaps it will; that this continent be purged...

MMEm 10.408 5 ...by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.

Wom 11.424 3 Let the laws be purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.

purges, v. (2)

Pt1 3.17 19 The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness.

ET12 5.208 13 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice, purges their nonsense out of both...

purging, v. (2)

PI 8.1 3 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/...

SovE 10.212 22 ...innocence is a wonderful electuary for purging the eyes to search the nature of those souls that pass before it.

purification, n. (5)

Nat 1.64 24 This [spiritual] view...animates me to create my own world through the purification of my soul.

Lov1 2.187 19 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage...

UGM 4.5 3 Our theism is the purification of the human mind.

SA 8.87 6 It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control.

Mem 12.91 22 The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind, through the incessant purification and better method of its memory.

purifications, n. (1)

Pow 6.60 24 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it has its own checks and purifications, and will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.

purified, adj. (1)

Scot 11.464 21 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their purified songs...his were vers de societe.

purified, n. (1)

SwM 4.125 10 [To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to himself a man;...to the purified, a heap of carrion.

purified, v. (7)

PPh 4.65 21 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...

NMW 4.245 21 ...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.

OA 7.335 26 ...the central wisdom...dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

Grts 8.319 9 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day when the air of the world shall be purified by nobler society...

EPro 11.326 3 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career. Happy the old, who see Nature purified before they depart.

Scot 11.464 22 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their purified songs, purified of all ephemeral color or material, his were vers de societe.

MAng1 12.234 17 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.

purifies, v. (3)

F 6.20 16 The limitations refine as the soul purifies...

DL 7.129 24 ...whatever purifies and enlarges [the dweller], may well find place [in the household].

SovE 10.200 14 ...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and rises, it leaves crowds.

purify, v. (3)

Chr1 3.103 11 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house...

MMEm 10.430 9 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne. His coldest beam will purify and render me forever holy.

MAng1 12.240 18 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world...not to provoke but to purify the sensual into an intellectual and divine love.

purifying, adj. (1)

YA 1.387 9 That were [the noble's] duty and stint,-to keep himself pure and purifying...

purism, n. (1)

Aris 10.62 25 In America [the gentleman] shall find deprecation of purism on all questions touching the morals of trade and of social customs...

purists, n. (2)

LT 1.274 19 ...now the purists are looking into all these matters.

Supl 10.171 25 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned. We don't wish to sin on the other side, and to be purists...

Puritan, adj. (2)

Comc 8.165 23 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment, as in the sketch of our Puritan politics in Hudibras...

JBB 11.268 15 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.

puritan, n. (2)

ShP 4.192 1 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.

ShP 4.192 4 Probably king, prelate and puritan, all found their own account in [the Elizabethan theatre].

Puritan, n. (3)

Cour 7.274 19 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...

SMC 11.359 26 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army...

Milt1 12.255 5 Lord Bacon...shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].

puritanism, n. (1)

ET16 5.280 5 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God and in the immortality of the soul, as their abbeys and cathedrals testify: now, even the puritanism is all gone.

Puritanism, n. (2)

MoL 10.244 19 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.

Bost 12.186 10 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...not less ambition in our blood, which Puritanism has not sufficiently chastised;...

Puritans, English, n. (1)

Milt1 12.268 25 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.

puritans, n. (1)

NER 3.253 17 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.

Puritans, n. (14)

DSA 1.142 18 The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...

MN 1.219 16 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade. But if the Puritans could rise from the dust they could not answer.

Tran 1.339 21 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on prelatical times, made Puritans and Quakers;...

ShP 4.191 19 The Puritans...would supress [dramatic entertainments].

LLNE 10.346 12 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...

EzRy 10.383 15 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans...

HDC 11.38 11 The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another...named their forest settlement CONCORD.

HDC 11.50 18 The interest of the Puritans in the natives was heightened by a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes of Israel.

EWI 11.131 22 The great-hearted Puritans have left no posterity.

Bost 12.201 4 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy;...

Bost 12.201 9 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...

Bost 12.201 23 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung in every tone of the psalmody of the Puritans;...

Bost 12.210 8 We praised the Puritans because we did not find in ourselves the spirit to do the like.

Milt1 12.269 11 Milton...was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.

Puritans, Neal-on-the-, adj. (1)

ACri 12.298 4 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise. No book can any longer be tolerable in the old husky Neal-on-the-Puritans model.

purity, n. (25)

AmS 1.88 8 In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.

DSA 1.122 16 He who puts off impurity, thereby puts on purity.

DSA 1.126 8 ...all the expressions of this [moral] sentiment are...permanent in proportion to their purity.

DSA 1.141 1 I know and honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy.

DSA 1.151 21 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart;...

MN 1.221 9 The lovers of goodness have been one class, the students of wisdom another; as if either could exist in any purity without the other.

LT 1.277 8 The Reforms...do not retain the purity of an idea.

OS 2.275 14 The soul requires purity, but purity is not it;...

Art1 2.359 8 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature, of purity, love, and hope, breathes from them all.

Chr1 3.95 16 All individual natures stand in a scale, according to the purity of this element [truth] in them.

Mrs1 3.131 5 The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris by the purity of their tournure.

NR 3.231 3 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.

ET5 5.97 13 Purity in the elective Parliament [of England] is secured by the purchase of seats.

Pow 6.72 27 [Michel Angelo] surpassed his successors in rough vigor, as much as in purity of intellect and refinement.

Art2 7.51 26 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.

DL 7.115 16 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no...mean offer of money as the utmost benefit, but by your heroism, your purity and your faith.

PPo 8.237 16 Many qualities go to make a good telescope,-as the... achromatic purity of lenses...

Chr2 10.100 8 Men appear from time to time who receive with more purity and fulness these high communications.

SlHr 10.446 27 [Samuel Hoar]...spent all his energy in creating purity of manners and careful education.

HDC 11.67 13 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council...bore witness to his purity and fidelity in his office.

MAng1 12.215 21 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel...

MAng1 12.242 20 Amidst all these witnesses to [Michelangelo's] independence, his generosity, his purity and his devotion, are we not authorized to say that this man was penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...

Milt1 12.279 5 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the purity...of this man [Milton]...

Trag 12.417 3 ...higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are not distinguished from each other...

Purity, Noble, n. (1)

Thor 10.484 19 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains... It is called by botanists the Gnaphalium leontopodium, but by the Swiss Edelweisse, which signifies Noble Purity.

purlieus, n. (1)

SovE 10.188 8 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds...

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