Ransack to Reacts

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

ransack, v. (2)

    Int 2.333 3 ...[men] have myriads of facts just as good [as the writer's], would they only get a lamp to ransack their attics withal.
    ShP 4.190 5 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...I will ransack botany and find a new food for man...

ransacked, v. (2)

    ET5 5.96 27 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find new forms, to add a grace to the products of their looms, their potteries and their foundries.
    EWI 11.102 11 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.

ransom, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.185 14 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    EPro 11.314 5 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./

ransom, v. (1)

    MR 1.242 24 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.

rant, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 25 ...a tempest is a rough ode, without falsehood or rant;...

rapaciousness, n. (1)

    Exp 3.76 3 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us.

rapacity, n. (5)

    LT 1.285 23 The revolutions that impend over society are not now from ambition and rapacity...
    OS 2.278 27 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty, to escape the rapacity of the Pacha...
    ET15 5.269 10 One bishop fares badly [in the London Times] for his rapacity...
    OA 7.324 22 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
    AsSu 11.250 13 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness... nor rapacity...

rape-culture, n. (2)

    ET5 5.95 17 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass.
    ET11 5.189 6 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...

rapes, n. (1)

    CbW 6.256 4 ...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes and their heroisms come in fulness of time.

Raphael, n. (5)

    MAng1 12.232 7 Raphael said, I bless God I live in the times of Michael Angelo.
    Milt1 12.259 14 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld...the rival works of Raphael, Michael Angelo and Correggio;...
    MLit 12.335 11 In the gay saloon [man] laments that these figures are not what Raphael and Guercino painted.
    WSL 12.343 13 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments.
    PPr 12.382 23 [A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing, so that no Phidias or Raphael shall have taught anything better in canvas or stone;...

Raphael Sanzio [Raffaelle], (15)

    LE 1.174 27 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be...
    MN 1.206 18 Raphael must be born...
    Prd1 2.229 24 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    Art1 2.361 20 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome and to the paintings of Raphael...
    Art1 2.362 8 The Transfiguration, by Raphael, is an eminent example of this peculiar merit [simplicity].
    Pt1 3.41 1 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    PPh 4.41 14 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works. Thus Homer, Plato, Raffaelle, Shakspeare.
    ET1 5.7 27 [Landor] prefers John of Bologna to Michael Angelo; in painting, Raffaelle...
    ET12 5.202 19 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
    Art2 7.52 13 Raphael paints wisdom...
    Art2 7.56 8 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped.
    DL 7.130 9 ...we are...competitors, each one, with Phidias and Raphael in the production of what is graceful or grand.
    DL 7.131 4 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
    OA 7.321 19 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as...in Raffaelle, Shakspeare...
    PC 8.219 18 Michel Angelo is thinking of Da Vinci, and Raffaelle is thinking of Michel Angelo.

Raphael Sanzio's [Raffaelle (1)

    Comc 8.170 23 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...

Raphael's, n. (2)

    MAng1 12.232 6 Every stroke of [Michelangelo's] pencil moved the pencil in Raphael's hand.
    WSL 12.343 12 Do not brag of your actions, as if they were better than Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.

rapid, adj. (38)

    Nat 1.17 8 I seem to partake [the sky's] rapid transformations;...
    Nat 1.51 4 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
    DSA 1.122 26 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere...
    MN 1.191 17 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade...enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    MN 1.203 10 ...total nature...is in rapid metamorphosis.
    Hist 2.22 24 A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication...
    Cir 2.310 2 ...all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
    Chr1 3.104 21 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    UGM 4.25 11 There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion.
    PPh 4.52 7 A too rapid unification, and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars, are the twin dangers of speculation.
    PPh 4.67 6 Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency...
    ShP 4.204 9 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    ET4 5.53 12 In Scotland there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners;...
    ET5 5.98 19 The rapid doubling of the population [in England] dates from Watt's steam-engine.
    ET7 5.123 26 A slow temperament makes [the English] less rapid and ready than other countrymen...
    ET11 5.197 6 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
    Wth 6.118 11 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny...
    Bhr 6.190 10 How do [men] get this rapid knowledge...of each other's power and disposition?
    SS 7.14 11 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    Elo1 7.90 23 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds;...
    Res 8.141 15 Life is always rapid here [in America]...
    PC 8.210 22 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true nobles...
    Insp 8.280 12 ...we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies.
    Insp 8.290 16 Certain localities, as...the shores of rivers and rapid brooks... are excitants of the muse.
    PerF 10.72 10 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements, the sources of them, and much more rapid and strong;...
    SovE 10.202 14 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
    Plu 10.301 4 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style...
    Plu 10.322 16 Plutarch's popularity will return in rapid cycles.
    MMEm 10.406 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] surprised, attracted, chided and denounced her companion by turns, and pretty rapid turns.
    HDC 11.56 15 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people. Better evidence could not be desired of the rapid growth of the settlement [Concord].
    EWI 11.141 25 It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization.
    TPar 11.286 11 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition of knowledge, a rapid wit...
    TPar 11.286 21 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts, a rapid eye for their historic relations...
    EdAd 11.392 17 In the rapid decay of what was called religion, timid and unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
    CW 12.178 17 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!
    Bost 12.205 25 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    EurB 12.373 17 ...we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to see that the story is rapid and interesting;...
    PPr 12.389 7 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape...

Rapidan River, Virginia, n. (3)

    SMC 11.371 5 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan...
    SMC 11.371 15 On the third of May, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the Rapidan for the fifth time.
    SMC 11.372 7 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.

rapidity, n. (2)

    PPo 8.245 3 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us...
    HDC 11.56 5 Even this check which befell [the people of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth...

rapidly, adv. (23)

    LT 1.272 9 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the inner boundaries of thought...
    Hsm1 2.263 14 We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can follow us...
    Chr1 3.108 19 [Character] may not, probably does not, form relations rapidly;...
    MoS 4.175 23 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he...will rapidly alternate all opinions in his own life.
    NMW 4.230 6 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    GoW 4.287 4 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest. In the last, he rapidly notices Kepler, Roger Bacon...
    ET4 5.45 7 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...in which the foreign element, however considerable, is rapidly assimilated, and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET10 5.157 23 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    F 6.12 9 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...
    Bty 6.302 20 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing...in most, rapidly declines.
    Civ 7.23 9 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers; and they, creating demand by the very temptation of their productions, are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale...
    Clbs 7.229 2 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...people became rapidly acquainted...
    Clbs 7.239 11 The attention of the English chemist was instantly arrested, and [he and the American chemist] became rapidly acquainted.
    Clbs 7.247 15 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
    PI 8.39 7 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual.
    Comc 8.174 9 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy, which was rapidly consuming his life.
    PC 8.215 3 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    PPo 8.238 7 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple...rapidly reaching the best and the worst.
    TPar 11.286 7 Theodore Parker was...a man of study...rapidly pushing his studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
    PLT 12.57 6 We like faculty that can rapidly be coined into money...
    Mem 12.108 9 We forget rapidly what should be forgotten.
    Let 12.392 11 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion. We shall be compelled to dispose very rapidly of quite miscellaneous topics.
    Let 12.399 5 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing...

rapids, n. (1)

    Thor 10.473 22 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark canoe, as well as of trying his hand in its management on the rapids.

rapier, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.257 18 ...[Milton] was accounted an excellent master of his rapier.

rapine, n. (1)

    EWI 11.101 5 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

Rappahannock Station, Virgi (1)

    SMC 11.371 2 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service at Rappahannock Station;...

rapping, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.12 16 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...of intercourse, by writing or by rapping or by painting, with departed spirits, need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.

rappings, n. (3)

    ET7 5.124 19 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    Wsp 6.209 2 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the deliration of rappings...
    Dem1 10.26 21 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with.

raps, n. (1)

    Suc 7.290 10 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables...

rapt, adj. (6)

    MN 1.194 26 When all is said and done, the rapt saint is found the only logician.
    Wth 6.116 23 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Comc 8.169 7 The poverty...of the rapt philosopher...is not comic.
    PerF 10.81 17 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is the rapt attention...
    SovE 10.207 27 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    MMEm 10.430 12 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...

rapt, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.238 8 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute.

rapt, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.172 4 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven... the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.

rapture, n. (9)

    SL 2.143 2 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut...
    Lov1 2.174 10 ...the celestial rapture falling out of heaven seizes only upon those of tender age...
    OS 2.282 12 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    Int 2.329 4 [Ideas]...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture...
    Nat2 3.178 9 If there were good men, there would never be this rapture in nature.
    Comc 8.164 19 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature, being a mere rapture...
    MMEm 10.412 9 The rapture of feeling I [Mary Moody Emerson] would part from, for days more devoted to higher discipline.
    MMEm 10.415 21 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
    MMEm 10.418 24 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor?

raptured, adj. (1)

    HCom 11.340 10 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...

raptures, n. (5)

    PPh 4.49 8 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being.
    PPh 4.61 19 [Plato] never...catches us up into poetic raptures.
    Insp 8.275 13 The raptures of goodness are as old as history and new with this morning's sun.
    Supl 10.173 25 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which indeed cleanse pedantry out of conversation...would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    MMEm 10.401 23 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...her joys and raptures of religion and Nature, interest like a romance...

rare, adj. (138)

    AmS 1.93 9 ...the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months...
    LE 1.160 22 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the rare...fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    LE 1.164 14 ...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved.
    MR 1.227 9 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
    MR 1.242 26 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax.
    Tran 1.358 25 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men...
    Hist 2.27 19 Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals...
    SL 2.132 23 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom. This requires rare gifts.
    Fdsp 2.206 13 Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly... that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Fdsp 2.208 12 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    Fdsp 2.213 22 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims whereof only one or two wander in nature at once...
    Prd1 2.231 12 Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman...but it is rare.
    Hsm1 2.255 22 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    Int 2.338 25 ...some of the conditions of intellectual construction are of rare occurrence.
    Int 2.341 13 ...the constructive powers are rare...
    Pt1 3.5 20 ...adequate expression is rare.
    Exp 3.67 14 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...common-sense is as rare as genius...
    Mrs1 3.148 10 High behavior is as rare in fiction as it is in fact.
    NR 3.237 5 [Nature]...will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.
    UGM 4.24 12 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature...
    PPh 4.54 14 In actual life, [admirable souls] are so rare as to be incredible;...
    PPh 4.75 5 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of the droll and the martyr...had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    PPh 4.75 13 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet...
    SwM 4.100 20 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.118 15 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    NMW 4.243 16 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are!
    GoW 4.275 2 [Goethe] has contributed a key to many parts of nature, through the rare turn for unity and simplicity in his mind.
    ET1 5.24 23 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity.
    ET1 5.24 25 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET6 5.107 21 Hither [to his house the Englishman] brings all that is rare and costly...
    ET8 5.128 1 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
    ET8 5.129 9 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together...
    ET10 5.168 25 It is rare to find a merchant who knows why a crisis occurs in trade...
    ET12 5.213 7 Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precarious, eccentric and darkling.
    ET14 5.237 6 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
    Pow 6.66 25 'T is not very rare, the coincidence of sharp private and political practice with public spirit and good neighborhood.
    Wth 6.98 20 ...the use which any man can make of [pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare...
    Wth 6.117 18 In England...I was assured...that liberality with money is as rare and as immediately famous a virtue as it is here.
    Ctr 6.141 14 ...all success is hazardous and rare;...
    Ctr 6.142 4 Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
    Ctr 6.162 25 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium...
    Bhr 6.195 2 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners!
    Wsp 6.227 25 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
    SS 7.12 7 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves...
    Elo1 7.76 14 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare...
    Farm 7.146 24 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared...
    Boks 7.209 13 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when the legitimate delight in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to a manuscript.
    Clbs 7.230 4 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    Clbs 7.230 17 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare.
    Clbs 7.230 21 ...serious, happy discourse, avoiding personalities, dealing with results, is rare...
    Clbs 7.236 24 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company],--so rare is depth of feeling...among the light-minded men and women who make up society;...
    Clbs 7.241 19 ...the best conversation is rare.
    Clbs 7.242 4 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men...
    Cour 7.255 21 ...the immense esteem in which [courage] is held proves it to be rare.
    Cour 7.275 20 We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce on these rare heights of character;...
    Suc 7.291 27 ...it is rare to find a man who believes his own thought...
    Suc 7.292 4 ...nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own.
    Suc 7.298 2 Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to overcome the common and mean.
    OA 7.321 20 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as...in...Pascal, Burns and Byron; but these are rare exceptions.
    PI 8.26 8 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
    PI 8.33 19 Great design belongs to a poem, and is better than any skill of execution,--but how rare!
    PI 8.40 24 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...
    PI 8.70 25 The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred.
    Elo2 8.117 18 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    Elo2 8.120 13 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...and indicates a rare sensibility...
    QO 8.178 4 If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.
    QO 8.178 17 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.196 23 ...it is not rare to find great powers of recitation, without the least original eloquence...
    PC 8.227 17 ...the recurrence to high sources is rare.
    PPo 8.244 8 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    PPo 8.258 25 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./
    Insp 8.270 26 In the best races [thought] is rare and imperfect.
    Insp 8.277 8 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves...
    Insp 8.296 7 Neither are these all the sources [of inspiration], nor can I name all. The receptivity is rare.
    Grts 8.304 5 Sensible men are very rare.
    Grts 8.315 9 ...the English judge in old times, when learning was rare, forgave a culprit who could read and write.
    Imtl 8.346 17 ...only by rare integrity...can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    Dem1 10.22 10 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success evinces the presence of rare agents;...
    Aris 10.59 7 ...these [grand interests] are rare and difficult examples...
    PerF 10.84 25 A man has a rare mathematical talent...and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
    Chr2 10.102 8 Lucifer's wager in the old drama was, There is no steadfast man on earth. He is very rare.
    Edc1 10.151 20 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires, no doubt, a rare patience...
    Supl 10.173 7 ...fit expression is so rare that mankind have a superstitious value for it...
    SovE 10.192 7 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery, to a rare child;...
    Prch 10.229 14 Nothing is more rare, in any man, than an act of his own.
    Prch 10.237 25 ...how rare and lofty, how unattainable, are the aims [the Church] labors to set before men!
    MoL 10.241 8 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers; perhaps the rare gift of poetry already sparkles...
    Plu 10.294 14 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to us.
    Plu 10.297 26 ...if [Plutarch] had not the highest powers, he was yet a man of rare gifts.
    LLNE 10.341 23 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...with rare simplicity and grandeur of perception...
    LLNE 10.347 6 Owen made the best impression by his rare benevolence.
    LLNE 10.369 6 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters, with men and women of rare opportunities and delicate culture...
    MMEm 10.428 2 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence;-but how rare, how dependent on the organs through which the soul operates!
    SlHr 10.441 6 [Samuel Hoar] was a man in whom so rare a spirit of justice visibly dwelt, that if one had met him in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...
    Thor 10.452 15 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths...
    Thor 10.463 21 [Thoreau] noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
    Thor 10.464 11 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau], proper to a rare class of men...
    Thor 10.473 3 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill...
    Thor 10.474 16 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music. He found these, not in rare conditions, but wheresoever he went.
    Thor 10.477 17 ...[Thoreau] was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    Thor 10.480 17 ...I so much regret the loss of [Thoreau's] rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.
    GSt 10.502 11 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who... had a rare magnetism for men of character...
    EWI 11.128 16 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists; the planters are not, excepting in rare examples, members of the legislature.
    EWI 11.129 1 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies. From these reasons, the question [of slavery] was discussed with a rare independence and magnanimity.
    FSLC 11.187 3 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law.
    FSLC 11.188 20 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see how man is man...
    TPar 11.286 10 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution.
    ACiv 11.302 7 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle...
    EPro 11.315 14 [Liberty] comes, like religion...in rare conditions...
    ALin 11.332 1 A good worker is so rare;...
    SMC 11.349 17 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...
    Scot 11.463 6 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...
    Scot 11.467 15 Under what rare conjunction of stars was this man [Scott] born, that, wherever he lived, he found superior men...
    ChiE 11.473 2 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN...
    CPL 11.503 25 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    FRep 11.521 4 How rare are acts of will!
    FRep 11.527 10 It is rare to find a born American who cannot read and write.
    PLT 12.17 9 I dare not deal with this element [Intellect] in its pure essence. It is too rare for the wings of words.
    PLT 12.32 14 White huckleberries are so rare that in miles of pasture you shall not find a dozen.
    PLT 12.37 6 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men, and the want of which the rare and brilliant sallies of irregular genius cannot excuse.
    PLT 12.43 18 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.
    PLT 12.46 25 All men know the truth, but what of that? It is rare to find one who knows how to speak it.
    PLT 12.60 5 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child...
    II 12.75 21 Our teaching is indeed hazardous and rare.
    CInt 12.117 11 This Integrity over all partial knowledge and skill, homage to truth-how rare!
    CInt 12.124 17 ...thought is as rare in colleges as in cities.
    CInt 12.125 1 ...unless, by rare good fortune, the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CL 12.158 22 [Taking a walk] is a fine art, requiring rare gifts and much experience.
    CL 12.159 5 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and nuts, where the rare plants are;...these we call professors.
    CL 12.162 23 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...
    Bost 12.184 25 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...as the habitat of rare plants and minerals...were preferred before others.
    MAng1 12.233 6 Grace in living forms, except in very rare instances, did not satisfy [Michelangelo].
    Milt1 12.257 25 With these keen perceptions, [Milton] naturally received... a rare susceptibility to impressions from external beauty.
    Milt1 12.262 13 ...as basis or fountain of his rare physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
    MLit 12.331 13 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...on a rare holiday, to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...
    WSL 12.344 3 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    EurB 12.371 16 Jonson is rude, and only on rare occasions gay.
    PPr 12.380 10 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history, a very rare success...

rarely, adv. (37)

    Gts 3.164 19 We can rarely strike a direct stroke...
    Pol1 3.210 6 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberalities.
    MoS 4.169 5 [Montaigne] keeps the plain; he rarely mounts or sinks;...
    NMW 4.237 16 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind...
    ET4 5.60 1 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...
    ET14 5.244 21 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET15 5.262 18 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance. Valuable or not, it is a skill that is rarely found, out of the English journals.
    ET16 5.286 1 I know not why in real architecture the hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
    Pow 6.71 17 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times...
    Pow 6.71 24 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    Pow 6.74 16 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
    Bty 6.299 2 Faces are rarely true to any ideal type...
    SS 7.7 22 The ministers of beauty are rarely beautiful in coaches and saloons.
    SS 7.11 16 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    Elo1 7.66 3 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man, such as Nature rarely organizes;...
    Boks 7.204 9 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian...book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    Clbs 7.232 20 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals...
    PI 8.63 8 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the heavenly bread!
    PI 8.65 26 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself, or which it rarely reaches;...
    Insp 8.282 7 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    Insp 8.291 3 Allston rarely left his studio by day.
    Dem1 10.13 1 Nature never works like a conjuror, to surprise, rarely by shocks...
    Aris 10.32 21 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so rarely convened...that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    Chr2 10.102 27 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...because those who can understand and uphold such appear rarely...
    Schr 10.278 8 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to...draw the eager service of thousands, rarely appear [in America].
    MMEm 10.400 11 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister, in whose house she grew up, rarely seeing her brothers and sisters in Concord.
    MMEm 10.400 25 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people, very rarely cheered by short visits from her brothers and sisters.
    Thor 10.455 27 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature...rarely tender...
    ALin 11.334 17 [Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day; and as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it. Rarely was man so fitted to the event.
    RBur 11.440 2 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together...by the fact that Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    II 12.76 13 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
    Mem 12.96 26 ...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an intellectual man.
    Mem 12.104 15 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.
    MAng1 12.237 10 [Michelangelo]...never or very rarely took his meals with any person.
    ACri 12.296 24 Herrick's merit is the simplicity and manliness of his utterance, and, rarely, the weight of his sentence.
    MLit 12.320 19 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been...that of the idea which he shared with his coevals, and which he has rarely succeeded in adequately expressing.
    Trag 12.411 22 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands, rarely giving way to extreme emotion of joy or grief.

rarely-found, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.417 12 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] could hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any but a rarely-found partner.

rarer, adj. (3)

    Hsm1 2.261 25 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    OS 2.281 23 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...which is its rarer appearance,--to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion...
    Shak1 11.447 7 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...

rarest, adj. (7)

    ET14 5.249 1 Coleridge...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    Elo1 7.88 8 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift...
    Boks 7.196 15 Now and then, by rarest luck, is some foolish Grub Street is the gem we want.
    FSLN 11.229 22 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal...to the men of the rarest perception...
    JBB 11.268 10 [John Brown] is...the rarest of heroes...
    MLit 12.326 25 Dramatic power, the rarest talent in literature, [Goethe] has very little.
    PPr 12.383 21 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts.

Rarey, John Soloman, n. (1)

    Insp 8.272 8 Rarey can tame a wild horse;...

Rarey's, John Solomon, n. (1)

    CInt 12.118 7 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus, at Mr. Rarey's mode of taming a horse by kindness...

rarities, n. (1)

    ET12 5.201 14 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum, whither Elias Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.

rarity, n. (1)

    CInt 12.114 23 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration, things not before discoursed or written...

rascal, n. (2)

    MoS 4.154 22 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    CbW 6.263 17 Dr. Johnson said severely, Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.

rascaldom, n. (1)

    Comc 8.161 6 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason,--in other words, the rank rascaldom he is calling by its name.

rash, adj. (17)

    LT 1.285 12 [Speculators] have some piety which looks with faith to a fair Future, unprofaned by rash and unequal attempts to realize it.
    Fdsp 2.210 3 Why insist on rash personal relations with your friend?
    Fdsp 2.213 16 Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances...
    Prd1 2.228 23 If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
    Exp 3.83 16 This is a fruit,--that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
    Chr1 3.108 20 ...we should not require rash explanation, either on the popular ethics, or on our own, of [character's] action.
    ET15 5.269 3 [The London Times] has the national courage, not rash and petulant, but considerate and determined.
    F 6.16 17 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...a rash and unsatisfactory writer...
    Bty 6.282 10 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true...
    DL 7.108 14 The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and mechanical systems enough...
    Farm 7.145 20 Intellect is a fire: rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man.
    Thor 10.470 16 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks, whose brilliant scarlet makes the rash gazer wipe his eye...
    FSLN 11.217 11 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.
    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;...
    ALin 11.331 11 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
    Wom 11.422 11 One man is timid, and another rash;...
    FRep 11.522 24 When we are most disturbed by [the American people's] rash and immoral voting, it is not malignity, but recklessness.

rash-leaping, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.161 2 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./

rashly, adv. (6)

    Nat2 3.193 27 To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise, and will not be rashly explained.
    GoW 4.263 11 By acting rashly, [the writer] buys the power of talking wisely.
    ET17 5.296 1 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    Boks 7.216 16 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures...
    PI 8.12 20 Imaginative minds...do not wish [their images] rashly rendered into prose reality...
    PPo 8.254 11 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.

rashness, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.200 23 The good spirit of our life has no heaven which is the price of rashness.
    LLNE 10.361 16 ...there was immense hope in these young people [at Brook Farm]. There was nobleness; there were self-sacrificing victims who compensated for the levity and rashness of their companions.

rasp, v. (1)

    PPo 8.258 9 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./

Raspe, Rudolph Eric [Baron (1)

    QQ 8.186 26 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.

rasping, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.48 3 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction...

rasps, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.227 14 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand...the rasps... and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

rat, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 2 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the rat and mouse revelation...

rat, n. (4)

    Hist 2.40 14 What does Rome know of rat and lizard?
    Bhr 6.185 12 Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has seen a cat.
    Dem1 10.7 16 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen, but also in other faces the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl.
    PLT 12.8 9 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?

ratable, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.50 7 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them...that in Concord are five hundred ratable polls, and every one has an equal vote.

rate, n. (25)

    Tran 1.332 3 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it at a rate of thousands of miles the hour...
    YA 1.383 13 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of paying talent and labor at one rate...
    YA 1.383 14 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate...
    Comp 2.119 12 ...compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
    SL 2.151 16 [A man] may set his own rate.
    SL 2.151 21 [The world] leaves every man, with profound unconcern, to set his own rate.
    Hsm1 2.255 23 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    OS 2.274 17 After its own law...is the rate of [the soul's] progress to be computed.
    Pt1 3.15 24 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talk with him he holds these at as slight a rate as you.
    Chr1 3.91 7 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Mrs1 3.125 14 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages. They...were too excellent themselves, to value any condition at a high rate.
    Mrs1 3.133 21 [Fops] pass also at their just rate;...
    Pol1 3.197 8 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
    SwM 4.130 18 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination, as when gases will combine in certain fixed rates, but not at any rate.
    GoW 4.269 25 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write without thought...
    GoW 4.278 27 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    Wsp 6.210 8 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
    Clbs 7.227 4 ...one thing is certain,--at some rate, intercourse we must have.
    Edc1 10.130 18 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.130 20 If Newton come and...perceive...that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.155 16 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his.
    HDC 11.41 10 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals, at the rate of sixpence or a shilling an acre.
    HDC 11.54 26 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.
    Wom 11.407 20 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
    PLT 12.23 8 The momentum, which increases by exact laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual action.

rate, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.163 21 ...the youth must rate at its true mark the inconceivable levity of local opinion.
    Elo1 7.68 7 I do not rate this animal eloquence very highly;...

rated, v. (2)

    YA 1.393 23 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy...
    Wth 6.103 5 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy...

rates, n. (5)

    SwM 4.130 17 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination, as when gases will combine in certain fixed rates, but not at any rate.
    Wth 6.104 3 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    HDC 11.56 1 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates...
    HDC 11.62 25 In the great growth of the country, Concord participated, as is manifest from its increasing polls and increased rates.
    Pray 12.350 2 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...

rates, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.254 12 The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies.

rather, adv. (140)

    Nat 1.71 24 Say, rather, [the structure] once fitted [man]...
    AmS 1.88 16 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age.
    AmS 1.88 17 Each age...must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
    DSA 1.131 11 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right...
    DSA 1.140 3 We are struck with pity, rather, at the swift retribution of [the negligent servant's] sloth.
    DSA 1.150 8 Rather let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
    LE 1.167 9 Say rather all literature is yet to be written.
    LE 1.181 17 ...rather, is it not, that, by this discipline, the usurpation of the senses is overcome...
    MN 1.211 7 We rather envied [a poet's] circumstance than his talent.
    MR 1.232 25 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight...
    MR 1.244 23 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...
    LT 1.264 7 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the last age.
    LT 1.266 10 Now and then comes a bolder spirit, I should rather say, a more surrendered soul...
    LT 1.289 20 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface, and forms the grand men, who are the leaders...rather than the companions of the race.
    Con 1.301 17 ...men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children...
    Tran 1.342 15 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to live in the country rather than in the town...
    Tran 1.343 5 Like the young Mozart, [Transcendentalists] are rather ready to cry ten times a day, But are you sure you love me?
    YA 1.376 15 ...this patriarchal or family management gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...
    Hist 2.6 19 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home.
    SR 2.52 22 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.
    SR 2.65 14 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions, or rather much more readily;...
    SR 2.70 1 Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is.
    Comp 2.110 13 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag. Or rather it is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
    SL 2.164 25 Rather let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    Lov1 2.170 10 ...this passion of which we speak [love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old, or rather suffers no one who is its servant to grow old...
    Fdsp 2.194 19 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character...
    Fdsp 2.208 16 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
    Fdsp 2.210 21 ...that scornful beauty of [your friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
    Prd1 2.230 24 We must...ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?
    OS 2.273 2 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life.
    OS 2.274 20 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...but rather by ascension of state...
    OS 2.288 8 Among the multitude of scholars and authors...we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than inspiration;...
    OS 2.291 16 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty...
    Chr1 3.99 23 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette; rather he shall stand stoutly in his place...
    Gts 3.163 16 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    Nat2 3.178 3 [Nature] is loved as the city of God, although, or rather because there is no citizen.
    NR 3.242 5 ...whilst I fancied I was criticising [a man], I was censuring or rather terminating my own soul.
    NER 3.264 21 ...it may easily be questioned...whether such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed, rather than a field to the strong;...
    UGM 4.19 11 We are tendencies, or rather, symptoms...
    PPh 4.71 3 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others:--the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally...
    SwM 4.117 17 [Correspondence] required an insight that could rank things in order and series; or rather it required such rightness of position that the poles of the eye should coincide with the axis of the world.
    MoS 4.167 3 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...
    MoS 4.171 22 Every superior mind...I should rather say, will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature...
    MoS 4.180 22 Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company.
    MoS 4.182 16 [The spiritualist] had rather stand charged with the imbecility of skepticism, than with untruth.
    NMW 4.240 21 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.
    ET1 5.12 5 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...
    ET1 5.14 17 As I might have foreseen, the visit [with Coleridge] was rather a spectacle than a conversation...
    ET4 5.67 15 [The English] are rather manly than warlike.
    ET5 5.79 13 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
    ET5 5.89 21 [The Englishman] would rather not do anything at all than not do it well.
    ET8 5.139 16 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
    ET11 5.178 13 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years, rather without obscurity, than with any great lustre.
    ET16 5.280 27 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
    ET19 5.310 23 I am...here...rather to speak of that which I am sure interests these gentlemen more than their own praises;...
    F 6.14 8 On the whole, [weighing] would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote...
    F 6.45 8 I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive;...
    Pow 6.68 16 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
    Ctr 6.133 24 Let us rather be insulted, whilst we are insultable.
    Ctr 6.151 10 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred...worse rather than better clothes...
    Ctr 6.158 13 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent and rather showy possessions...
    Wsp 6.205 8 In all ages, souls...are born, who are rather related to the system of the world than to their particular age and locality.
    Wsp 6.237 26 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not.
    CbW 6.245 2 ...life is rather a subject of wonder than of didactics.
    CbW 6.246 19 What we have...to say of life, is rather description...than available rules.
    Bty 6.289 8 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities.
    Civ 7.20 4 ...in mankind to-day the savage tribes are gradually extinguished rather than civilized.
    Civ 7.30 20 Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote...
    Art2 7.50 4 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
    Elo1 7.83 17 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
    DL 7.130 2 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum. Rather let the noble practice of the Greeks find place in our society...
    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.
    WD 7.181 21 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    WD 7.182 20 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I had rather have none.
    Clbs 7.232 25 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them; rather, as soon as their own speech is done, they take their hats.
    Cour 7.279 26 What thoughts were in [the bear's] mind/ It would be hard to spell:/ What thoughts were in George Nidiver/ I rather guess than tell./
    OA 7.316 2 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our broader modern life.
    PI 8.13 15 I had rather have a good symbol of my thought...than the suffrage of Kant or Plato.
    PI 8.36 13 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    PI 8.62 7 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly that you cannot...make yourself visible to me; how can this happen, seeing that you are the wisest man in the world? Rather, said Merlin, the greatest fool;...
    PI 8.66 11 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry; or rather, I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all.
    SA 8.79 3 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend.
    Elo2 8.132 6 ...I should rather say that when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    Insp 8.270 2 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...he is everywhere near his game. But the favorable conditions are rather the exception than the rule.
    Insp 8.284 1 Had I not lived with Mirabeau, says Dumont, I never should have known all that can be done in one day, or, rather, in an interval of twelve hours.
    Insp 8.289 9 ...our enlarged powers in the presence, or rather at the approach and at the departure of a friend...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Grts 8.313 5 [Fame] is that sympathy, rather that fine element by which the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
    Imtl 8.339 5 Franklin said, Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life.
    Dem1 10.3 3 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...
    Aris 10.56 18 Rather let us be alone whilst we live, than encounter these lean kine.
    Aris 10.58 14 I have heard that in horsemanship he is not the good rider who never was thrown, but rather that a man never will be a good rider until he is thrown;...
    Edc1 10.138 8 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art which the Greeks left on their temple walls. Rather let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
    Edc1 10.150 15 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    Edc1 10.153 27 ...say rather, the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil.
    Supl 10.168 22 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received; and rather repeat it several times, word for word, than vary it ever so little.
    Schr 10.263 11 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others; for if they knew, his hearers would rather demand of him than give him a reward.
    Schr 10.268 3 ...I rather wish you to experiment boldly...
    Plu 10.305 8 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    LLNE 10.343 27 ...[The Dial] was rather a work of friendship among the narrow circle of students than the organ of any party.
    LLNE 10.364 1 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook Farm], not happily, as I think; I should rather say, quite unworthy of his genius.
    EzRy 10.394 11 [Ezra Ripley]...seemed to address each person rather as the representative of his house and name, than as an individual.
    MMEm 10.407 13 This seems a world rather of trying each others' dispositions than of enjoying each others' virtues.
    MMEm 10.409 20 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...
    MMEm 10.410 19 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth. The man rather declined this service, as he did not know Miss Hoar.
    MMEm 10.414 4 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.424 21 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    SlHr 10.438 8 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that...he had rather the boys should troll his old head like a football in their streets, than that he should hide it.
    SlHr 10.439 12 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    SlHr 10.445 27 [Samuel Hoar] had an affinity for mathematics, but it was a taste rather than a pursuit...
    Thor 10.468 26 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was rather a playful expression of his conviction of the indifferency of all places...
    LS 11.19 6 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
    EWI 11.99 17 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you; which ought rather to be done by a strict cooperation of many well-advised persons;...
    War 11.173 27 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
    FSLN 11.242 22 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
    SMC 11.352 21 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle,-say, rather, at its new acknowledgment...
    SMC 11.357 25 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...
    SMC 11.363 10 [The West Point officer] looked rather ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath.
    Koss 11.399 22 Far be from [the people of Concord], Sir [Kossuth], any tone of patronage; we ought rather to ask yours.
    Wom 11.405 4 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...rather than the single inspiration of one mind, is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    SHC 11.428 19 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    RBur 11.440 2 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together, but rather after their watchword, Each for himself,-by the fact that Robert Burns... represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    ChiE 11.472 2 China is old...in wisdom, which is gray hair to a nation,- or, rather, truly seen, is eternal youth.
    PLT 12.35 26 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form, blocked rather...
    PLT 12.36 22 The action of the Instinct is for the most part...regulative, rather than initiative or impulsive.
    II 12.74 10 When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied, What can I know of this? I ought rather to ask you, who are young, and can enter much better into that feeling.
    Mem 12.102 16 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    CW 12.173 4 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden; here is my Vale of Tempe, say rather my Elysium.
    Bost 12.185 16 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather...
    Bost 12.189 21 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
    Bost 12.191 20 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men, rather, comfortable citizens...
    Bost 12.197 5 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which...goes rather to pinch the features and degrade the character.
    MAng1 12.215 11 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.221 5 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years; we ought to say, rather, as long as he lived.
    MAng1 12.238 21 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from their contemporaries to their race.
    Milt1 12.262 22 ...[Milton's] virtues are so graceful that they seem rather talents than labors.
    Milt1 12.266 24 [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.
    ACri 12.297 8 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality...
    MLit 12.316 18 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency, or rather the direction of that same on the question of resources, is the Feeling of the Infinite.
    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.
    MLit 12.322 3 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them, and the rather that his name does not readily associate itself with any school of writers.

ratio, n. (8)

    Pol1 3.202 8 Personal rights...demand a government framed on the ratio of the census;...
    Pol1 3.202 10 ...property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.
    F 6.38 19 Life is freedom,-life in the direct ratio of its amount.
    Farm 7.150 25 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical;...
    Farm 7.152 18 Population increases in the ratio of morality;...
    Farm 7.152 19 ...credit exists in the ratio of morality.
    AsSu 11.248 22 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit, but oftener in the inverse ratio...
    EPro 11.319 1 The acts of good governors work a geometrical ratio...

ratiocination, n. (1)

    DL 7.122 5 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland], so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...

ration, n. (2)

    SS 7.11 7 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    EWI 11.111 7 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen hours, and his ration by law, in some islands, was a pint of flour and one salt herring a day.

rational, adj. (19)

    Nat 1.20 4 Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate.
    MN 1.212 25 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls...
    MR 1.227 5 ...the aim of each young man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
    MR 1.247 17 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    Con 1.308 26 ...I feel called upon in behalf of rational nature...to declare to you my opinion that if the Earth is yours so also is it mine.
    NR 3.237 14 ...once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
    NR 3.246 2 ...the least of [our earth's] rational children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
    PPh 4.63 11 The essence or peculiarity of man [said Plato] is to comprehend...that which in the diversity of sensations can be comprised under a rational unity.
    PNR 4.86 26 All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as many circles in the rational soul.
    SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a rational agent;...
    Bhr 6.196 18 ...there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
    Wsp 6.219 27 Those [natural] laws...push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life...
    Aris 10.60 17 That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances.
    Plu 10.307 19 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.
    HDC 11.70 12 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties infringed upon;...
    FSLC 11.188 23 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certaan experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see...what makes the essence of rational beings...
    II 12.87 25 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    Milt1 12.273 22 ...it would not be matter of rational wonder [Milton said], if the wethers of our country should be born with horns that could batter down cities and towns.
    Trag 12.408 10 Destiny properly is...an immense whim; and this the only ground of terror and despair in the rational mind...

rations, n. (1)

    SMC 11.367 23 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots, and with short rations;...

ratios, n. (3)

    SwM 4.109 23 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    SwM 4.130 15 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination...
    ET5 5.97 7 [English] social classes are made by statute. Their ratios of power and representation are historical and legal.

rats, n. (7)

    Hist 2.39 21 Hear the rats in the wall...
    NR 3.248 15 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I loved man, if men seemed to me mice and rats;...
    MoS 4.150 16 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions: other men are rats and mice.
    CbW 6.255 13 ...evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of... magnificence and rats.
    Elo1 7.65 25 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music...drew...rats and mice;...
    MoL 10.246 4 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. ... I suppose posterity will ask how many rats and mice it will feed.
    CL 12.135 22 ...Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses to emigrate, as upon lemmings, rats and birds.

ratted, v. (1)

    ET7 5.123 10 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.

rattle, n. (3)

    Ill 6.314 24 I knew a humorist who in a good deal of rattle had a grain or two of sense.
    DL 7.104 17 With an acoustic apparatus of whistle and rattle [the child] explores the laws of sound.
    WD 7.172 25 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps,--a rattle, a doll, an apple, for a child;...

rattle, v. (3)

    MoS 4.156 27 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    Prch 10.217 14 The old [religious] forms rattle...
    ACri 12.305 12 Don't rattle your rules in our ears;...

rattle-brain, n. (1)

    ShP 4.189 12 A poet is no rattle-brain...

rattled, v. (1)

    HDC 11.85 4 [Concord's sons'] wagons have rattled down the remote western hills.

rattles, n. (2)

    F 6.40 17 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men are made willing to have their heads broke...the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    PI 8.49 3 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...

rattles, v. (2)

    Cir 2.311 17 All that we reckoned settled shakes and rattles;...
    Mrs1 3.123 12 ...every man's name that emerged at all from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.

rattle-snake, n. [rattlesnake,] (3)

    NMW 4.235 21 We like to see every thing do its office after its kind, whether it be a milch-cow or a rattle-snake;...
    Civ 7.17 15 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    PerF 10.73 16 ...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity. We call it temperament, and it seems to be the remains of wolf, ape, and rattlesnake in him.

rattling, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.288 9 ...I confess to some titillation of my ears from a rattling oath.

rattling, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.407 11 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert selfishness.

Raud [Longfellow, Tales of (1)

    Wsp 6.205 27 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.

ravage, n. (1)

    MoL 10.248 1 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage...is insignificant in the vast exuberance of the summer.

ravaged, v. (1)

    Suc 7.286 1 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...

ravages, n. (1)

    EWI 11.143 22 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies and mites but their spawning numbers, which no ravages can overcome.

ravaging, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.422 22 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.

rave, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.263 16 ...Let them rave:/ Thou art quiet in thy grave./

raven, adj. (1)

    ET9 5.148 1 If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...

ravenously, adv. (1)

    Thor 10.466 23 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year, and which are snapped at by the fishes so ravenously that many of these die of repletion;...were all known by [Thoreau]...

Ravenswood Castle [Scott, . (1)

    Hist 2.35 13 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...

Ravine, Tuckerman's, New H (1)

    Thor 10.464 2 At Mount Washington, in Tuckerman's Ravine, Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot.

ravish, v. (2)

    PPh 4.69 21 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...which, could it be seen, would ravish us with its perfect reality.
    Trag 12.417 5 ...the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity... both ravish us into a region whereunto these passionate clouds of sorrow cannot rise.

ravished, v. (3)

    DSA 1.128 22 ...ravished by [the soul's] beauty, [Jesus Christ] lived in it...
    DSA 1.151 8 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...shall speak in the West also.
    LT 1.283 15 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation. This could well be borne...if the men were ravished by their thought...

ravishing, adj. (4)

    MN 1.209 25 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...the sound swells to a ravishing music...
    Schr 10.266 7 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous.
    CInt 12.126 13 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
    Bost 12.184 26 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...through the ravishing beauties of Nature, were preferred before others.

ravishment, n. (2)

    OS 2.282 9 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    Pt1 3.28 4 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar, which is the ravishment of the intellect by coming nearer to the fact.

raw, adj. (8)

    Nat 1.40 7 [Nature] offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful.
    AmS 1.95 26 [Action] is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products.
    UGM 4.8 23 ...each man converts some raw material in nature to human use.
    Boks 7.211 11 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories.
    PI 8.24 24 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents...which make the raw material of knowledge.
    QO 8.204 16 This vast memory [the Past] is only raw material.
    Insp 8.295 18 ...read...fact-books, which all geniuses prize as raw material...
    ACri 12.285 21 ...much of the raw material of the street-talk is absolutely untranslatable into print...

Rawdon, England, n. (1)

    Carl 10.490 24 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...

ray, n. (32)

    Nat 1.27 25 ...a ray of relation passes from every other being to [man].
    Nat 1.28 25 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
    Nat 1.67 18 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray upon the metaphysics of conchology...to the mind...
    AmS 1.91 18 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    AmS 1.93 22 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls...
    DSA 1.124 1 ...one mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star...
    LE 1.164 17 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray...
    Con 1.297 9 ...the word of Uranus came into [Saturn's] mind like a ray of the sun...
    SR 2.46 26 The eye was placed where one ray should fall...
    SR 2.46 27 The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.
    SR 2.64 2 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions...
    Comp 2.93 14 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation] might be shown men a ray of divinity...
    SL 2.162 3 Now [man] is not homogeneous, but heterogeneous, and the ray does not traverse;...
    Lov1 2.167 2 I was as a gem concealed;/ Me my burning ray revealed./ Koran.
    Lov1 2.185 24 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for it transmutes every thread throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray...is yet a temporary state.
    Fdsp 2.197 11 ...the planet has a faint, moonlike ray.
    Int 2.335 22 The ray of light passes invisible through space...
    Pt1 3.1 4 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ Which chose, like meteors, their way,/ And rived the dark with private ray/...
    Gts 3.159 16 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
    NR 3.238 2 ...our economical mother...plants an eye wherever a new ray of light can fall...
    UGM 4.32 2 Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere...
    UGM 4.34 17 Happy, if a few names remain so high that...age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray.
    ShP 4.206 6 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip, no ray of relation appears between it and the goddess-born;...
    GoW 4.284 26 [Goethe] lays a ray of light under every fact...
    ET15 5.263 2 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.
    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, as if a more interior ray had been emitted...
    Boks 7.217 8 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...but we close the book and not a ray remains in the memory of evening.
    Cour 7.276 6 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...men in whom every ray of humanity was extinguished...
    PerF 10.68 1 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    SovE 10.197 5 I have not discovered, until this blessed ray flashed just now through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would relieve me of my load.
    Scot 11.462 4 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...
    Mem 12.101 23 With every new fact a ray of light shoots up from the long buried years.

rays, n. (18)

    Nat 1.7 6 The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between [a man] and what he touches.
    AmS 1.85 12 Far too as her splendors shine, system on system shooting like rays...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    DSA 1.119 9 Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays.
    LT 1.267 17 We...stand in the light of Ideas, whose rays stream through us to those younger and more in the dark.
    LT 1.275 18 See how daring is the reading, the speculation, the experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall arise who could unite these scattered rays!
    Hist 2.13 9 Genius...sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite diameters.
    Hist 2.38 19 [Each man] shall collect into a focus the rays of nature.
    Lov1 2.183 23 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...
    Fdsp 2.216 12 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space...
    Pt1 3.6 9 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...
    Chr1 3.115 2 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial land, then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    Nat2 3.179 2 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire, and not with reflex rays of sun and moon.
    UGM 4.32 9 Some rays escape the common observer...
    F 6.38 26 The smallest candle fills a mile with its rays...
    Art2 7.37 4 [All the departments of life] are rays of one sun;...
    Suc 7.307 7 The edge of every surface is tinged with prismatic rays.
    Chr2 10.96 4 Before [the moral sentiment] what are persons, prophets, or seraphim but...momentary rays of its light?
    MMEm 10.409 15 ...from the rays which burst forth when the crowd are entering these noble saloons, whilst I [Mary Moody Emerson] stand in the doors, I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.

rays, v. (1)

    PC 8.221 18 ...from each atom rays out illimitable influence.

razed, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.200 11 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./

razor, n. (2)

    ET5 5.89 6 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield, where I was shown the process of making a razor and a penknife, I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    Wsp 6.201 21 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.

reach, n. (25)

    Hist 2.15 22 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk, although the resemblance...is occult and out of the reach of the understanding.
    SR 2.79 18 In proportion...to the number of objects [a thought]...brings within reach of the pupil, is his complacency.
    Fdsp 2.213 20 [By persisting in your path] You demonstrate yourself, so as to put yourself out of the reach of false relations...
    PPh 4.60 13 [Plato] could well afford to be generous,--who from the sunlike centrality and reach of his vision, had a faith without cloud.
    PNR 4.89 16 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards.
    ShP 4.212 5 [Shakespeare] was the farthest reach of subtlety compatible with an individual self...
    NMW 4.241 12 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire.
    NMW 4.245 24 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...
    ET5 5.96 22 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
    ET14 5.236 11 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries. I find not only the great masters out of all rivalry and reach, but the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    F 6.44 2 Wood...gums, were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain. Here they are, within reach of every man's day-labor...
    Pow 6.81 2 If these forces [of spirit] and this husbandry are within reach of our will, and the laws of them can be read, we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Pow 6.81 5 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    CbW 6.277 4 [The happy conditions of life's] attraction for you is the pledge that they are within your reach.
    DL 7.119 20 There was never a country in the world...where intellectual entertainment is so within reach of youthful ambition.
    PI 8.27 14 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach...
    PC 8.221 11 [The devotion to natural science] taught [the scholar] anew the reach of the human mind...
    PerF 10.77 27 In proportion to the depth of the insight is the power and reach of the kingdom [a man] controls.
    SovE 10.194 3 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them, and somehow knits and coordinates the issues of them in all that is beyond the reach of private faculty.
    SovE 10.214 1 A man who has accustomed himself...to pierce to the principle and moral law, and everywhere to find that,-has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Shak1 11.450 1 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    Mem 12.110 3 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that...since the Universe opens to us, the reach of the memory must be as large.
    CL 12.156 19 There is somewhat finer in the sky than we have senses to appreciate. It escapes us, yet is only just beyond our reach.
    Bost 12.202 12 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state out of reach of anything but squirrels and wild pigeons.
    Pray 12.353 21 ...let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end; namely, that I must become near and dear to thee [My Father]; that now I am beyond the reach of all but thee.

reach, v. (56)

    DSA 1.139 5 The good hearer...is sure there is somewhat to be reached, and some word that can reach it.
    Hist 2.11 3 ...we aim to master intellectually the steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
    SR 2.70 13 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not. This is the ultimate fact, which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic...
    SL 2.153 14 The argument which has not power to reach my own practice, I may well doubt will fail to reach yours.
    SL 2.153 15 The argument which has not power to reach my own practice, I may well doubt will fail to reach yours.
    Pt1 3.6 11 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to reach the quick...
    Chr1 3.96 8 With what quality is in him [a man] infuses all nature that he can reach;...
    Nat2 3.174 2 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.
    Pol1 3.216 4 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of Nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king.
    PPh 4.46 24 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
    PPh 4.69 20 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom, which our wonderful organ of sight cannot reach unto...
    PPh 4.72 8 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    ET4 5.69 25 The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England.
    ET5 5.77 16 A hard temperament had been formed by Saxon and Saxon-Dane, and such of these French or Normans as could reach it were naturalized in every sense.
    ET5 5.83 9 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.
    ET10 5.163 3 Some English private fortunes reach, and some exceed a million of dollars a year.
    ET14 5.245 13 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...
    F 6.27 24 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
    Pow 6.55 19 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.55 24 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...reach Labrador and New England.
    Bhr 6.172 25 Bad behavior the laws cannot reach.
    Bhr 6.173 3 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach...
    Wsp 6.232 1 ...when flowers reach their ripeness, incense exhales from them...
    CbW 6.243 22 The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is cordial speech/...
    CbW 6.267 16 In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
    CbW 6.268 3 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home: they reach Berkshire; they reach Vermont;...
    Bty 6.292 5 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded, but only...what is in act or endeavor to reach somewhat beyond.
    Ill 6.320 14 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also...
    SS 7.7 10 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    SS 7.10 2 [The ends of thought] reach down to that depth where society itself originates and disappears;...
    SS 7.11 16 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    Elo1 7.65 4 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in telling a story...
    WD 7.163 25 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits; thinks he shall reach it yet;...
    Suc 7.289 25 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing...
    Suc 7.294 8 ...I gain all points, if I can reach my companion with any statement which teaches him his own worth.
    PI 8.70 11 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    SA 8.98 9 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.
    PC 8.226 25 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is sympathy...effort to reach them...
    Insp 8.277 12 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times;...
    Imtl 8.335 17 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it does not help the matter adding numbers, if we see that it has an end, which it will reach just as surely as the shortest.
    PerF 10.88 10 ...[wrath and petulance] quickly reach their brief date and decompose...
    Chr2 10.120 15 That which I hate and fear is really in myself, and no knife is long enough to reach to its heart.
    Edc1 10.156 27 No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee... can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...
    Schr 10.286 11 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...
    Plu 10.312 24 Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom...to reach in mirth the same ends which the most serious are proposing.
    GSt 10.503 17 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach...
    EWI 11.132 13 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied. If ordinary legislation cannot reach it, then extraordinary must be applied.
    FSLC 11.178 7 ...[Eternal Rights] reach no term, they never sleep,/ In equal strength through space abide;/...
    EdAd 11.384 9 [The traveller] reflects on...how far these chains of intercourse and travel [in America] reach, interlock and ramify;...
    FRep 11.529 15 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class. The President comes near enough to these; if he does not, the caucus does... and what is important does reach him.
    PLT 12.32 20 The air rings with sounds, but only a few vibrations can reach our tympanum.
    II 12.77 18 ...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.
    CInt 12.130 8 If I had young men to reach, I should say to them, Keep the intellect sacred.
    MAng1 12.233 25 [Michelangelo] sought, through the eye, to reach the soul.
    EurB 12.366 8 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
    PPr 12.387 22 ...the sun and stars affect us only grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say, Is that all?

reached, v. (45)

    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...
    DSA 1.139 5 The good hearer...is sure there is somewhat to be reached...
    LE 1.155 8 I have reached the middle age of man;...
    SL 2.147 27 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl. These are like the stars whose light has not yet reached us.
    NER 3.267 3 ...this union [of men] must be inward...and is to be reached by a reverse of the methods they use.
    PPh 4.39 14 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities. We have reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.
    PPh 4.73 19 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached;...
    ShP 4.194 20 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ShP 4.218 14 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    ET2 5.26 26 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...
    ET3 5.37 9 ...some signs portend that [London] has reached its highest point.
    ET4 5.45 16 [The English] are free forcible men, in a country where life... has reached the greatest value.
    ET5 5.95 20 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET10 5.164 8 With this power of creation and this passion of independence, property [in England] has reached an ideal perfection.
    ET11 5.196 4 The revolution in society has reached this class [the English nobility].
    ET12 5.207 4 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height...
    ET14 5.256 22 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law, and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new and out of the limits of prose, until this condition is reached.
    ET14 5.257 19 Through all his refinements...[Tennyson] has reached the public...
    ET17 5.298 8 The Ode on Immortality is the high-water mark which the intellect has reached in this age.
    DL 7.101 1 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which the incarnate soul must climb/...
    Boks 7.198 13 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher, with loftier strains of musical wisdom than Homer reached;...
    Boks 7.209 14 This mania [for rare editions of books] reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
    Suc 7.285 14 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua.
    PI 8.56 22 ...[Newton] only predicts, one would say, a grander poetry: he only shows that he is not yet reached;...
    SA 8.91 6 'T is a defect in our manners that they have not yet reached the prescribing a limit to visits.
    Res 8.141 21 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    QO 8.199 14 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits...
    Grts 8.301 18 ...we ought not to be and shall not be contented with any goal we have reached.
    Aris 10.53 17 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience; the mediocre and the dull are reached as well as the intelligent.
    SovE 10.205 18 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
    SovE 10.205 19 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
    LLNE 10.360 14 I think the numbers of this mixed community [at Brook Farm] soon reached eighty or ninety souls.
    Thor 10.457 7 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course, and vaunted the better lectures which reached only a few persons.
    Thor 10.459 17 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
    Thor 10.466 16 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...
    HDC 11.32 17 The green meadows of Musketaquid...were...not to be reached without a painful and dangerous journey through an uninterrupted wilderness.
    HDC 11.47 4 In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached.
    EWI 11.145 10 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that [the black race's] more moral genius is becoming indispensable...
    FSLC 11.185 13 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy, whom the fame of Boston had reached in the recesses of a vile swamp...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
    FSLN 11.244 23 ...I hope we have reached the end of our unbelief...
    EPro 11.322 1 The cause of disunion and war has been reached and begun to be removed [by the Emancipation Proclamation].
    ALin 11.336 19 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...
    EdAd 11.387 18 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...in the direct roads by which grievances are reached and redressed...
    Wom 11.413 11 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning.
    CPL 11.503 13 ...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached.

reaches, n. (2)

    Insp 8.275 6 There are thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls;...
    CW 12.171 6 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying,-what reaches of landscape...

reaches, v. (36)

    Nat 1.17 9 ...the active enchantment [of the sky] reaches my dust...
    MR 1.233 21 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man.
    MR 1.234 3 ...the evil custom [of trade] reaches into the whole institution of property...
    SL 2.161 21 This revisal or correction is a constant force, which, as a tendency, reaches through our lifetime.
    Exp 3.63 21 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird. But the exclusion reaches them also;...
    Exp 3.63 21 ...the exclusion...reaches the climbing, flying, gliding, feathered and four-footed man.
    Chr1 3.106 27 ...wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity.
    Nat2 3.169 3 There are days which occur in this climate...wherein the world reaches its perfection;...
    NR 3.239 6 The rotation which whirls every leaf and pebble to the meridian, reaches to every gift of man...
    MoS 4.168 8 The sincerity and marrow of the man [Montaigne] reaches to his sentences.
    ET4 5.47 2 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
    ET6 5.114 7 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection...
    ET13 5.228 2 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
    ET14 5.234 20 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.
    Wth 6.115 10 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the last is a third; he reaches out his hand to a fourth...
    CbW 6.249 19 When [the population] reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    Bty 6.294 18 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
    Bty 6.296 5 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    Bty 6.296 8 [The human form] reaches its height in woman.
    Cour 7.264 27 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
    Cour 7.277 11 ...if your skepticism reaches to the last verge...then be brave...
    PI 8.65 27 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself, or which it rarely reaches;...
    Elo2 8.118 4 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions...
    Comc 8.165 20 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
    Insp 8.270 23 The Hunterian law of arrested development...reaches the human intellect also.
    Imtl 8.329 4 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung, and perceived that it reaches up and down...
    Aris 10.65 25 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles; but the fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man, a beauty which reaches through and through, from the manners to the soul;...
    Chr2 10.110 6 There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in civil countries, reaches everybody.
    SovE 10.184 22 The animal who is wholly kept down in Nature has no anxieties. By yielding, as he must do, to it, he is enlarged and reaches his highest point.
    MoL 10.249 23 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...until it reaches the masses...
    Plu 10.300 11 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch.
    Humb 11.457 19 How [Humboldt] reaches from science to science...
    II 12.70 5 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith;...
    PPr 12.390 2 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains. Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fulness, though deficient in depth.

reaching, adj. (1)

    F 6.38 25 Do you suppose [the new-born man]...is contained in his skin,- this reaching, radiating, jaculating fellow?

reaching, v. (14)

    Nat2 3.179 16 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spiculae through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries...
    Pol1 3.217 27 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative. That we do, as an apology to others and to ourselves for not reaching the mark of a good and equal life.
    NER 3.260 21 I conceive...that [the recent philosophy]...is reaching forward at this very hour to the happiest conclusions.
    ET3 5.41 16 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off an island...with an irregular breadth reaching to three hundred miles;...
    SA 8.98 11 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Again, on their turning back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against them...
    Elo2 8.132 21 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future...
    PC 8.234 3 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...reaching millions instead of hundreds.
    PPo 8.238 7 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple...rapidly reaching the best and the worst.
    EWI 11.129 17 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
    War 11.154 26 What does all this war, beginning from the lowest races and reaching up to man, signify?
    Scot 11.466 18 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and beggar's dog...
    FRep 11.522 7 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be no famine in a country reaching through so many latitudes...
    MAng1 12.216 15 Beauty...comprehending grandeur as a part, and reaching to goodness as its soul,-this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.
    MLit 12.330 7 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...

react, v. (2)

    MoS 4.179 4 A method in the world we do not see, but this parallelism of great and little, which never react on each other...
    Prch 10.219 23 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon.

reacted, v. (3)

    ET14 5.251 20 The bias of Englishmen to practical skill has reacted on the national mind.
    F 6.30 2 ...no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
    Shak1 11.449 10 [Shakespeare's] genius has reacted on himself

reacting, v. (1)

    MLit 12.312 11 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with great energy on England and America.

reaction, n. (37)

    Nat 1.33 5 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus... reaction is equal to action;...
    LE 1.181 13 Let [the scholar] know...by mutual reaction of thought and life, to make thought solid, and life wise;...
    Con 1.299 20 ...[reform] runs...to unnatural refining and elevation which ends in hypocrisy and sensual reaction.
    Tran 1.356 24 [The Transcendentalist] cannot help the reaction of this injustice in his own mind.
    YA 1.363 7 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree. This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal improvements and to the politics of the country.
    Comp 2.96 16 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...
    Comp 2.97 15 The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries.
    Comp 2.115 14 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than...in the all the action and reaction of nature.
    SL 2.129 9 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    Pol1 3.212 3 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
    NR 3.245 3 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...
    UGM 4.18 2 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us, so that they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
    PNR 4.83 15 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction...
    GoW 4.286 1 The reaction of things on the man is the only noteworthy result.
    GoW 4.289 17 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions...
    ET10 5.168 4 In true England all is false and forged. This too is the reaction of machinery, but of the larger machinery of commerce.
    F 6.9 5 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.25 1 We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but for the reaction of the air within the body.
    F 6.43 5 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought;...
    Wsp 6.215 12 I find the omnipresence and the almightiness in the reaction of every atom in nature.
    Wsp 6.220 2 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    Wsp 6.222 19 ...reaction...is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
    Wsp 6.223 6 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men; and the reaction of his fault on himself...
    Wsp 6.226 21 This reaction, this sincerity is the property of all things.
    Bty 6.294 2 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as...the action and reaction of nature;...
    Farm 7.138 1 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman...all men acknowledge.
    Clbs 7.225 4 We need tonics, but must have those that cost little or no reaction.
    PI 8.49 3 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...action and reaction,--they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    PC 8.232 2 Periodicity, reaction, are laws of mind as well as of matter.
    SovE 10.192 17 The idea of right...lays itself out...in the level of the seas, in the action and reaction of forces.
    SovE 10.204 20 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
    Schr 10.266 15 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority. If this were only the reaction from excessive expectations from literature, now disappointed, it were a just censure.
    LLNE 10.337 4 ...whether by a reaction of the general mind against the too formal science, religion and social life of the earlier period,-there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    EWI 11.118 20 We sometimes observe that spoiled children...seem to measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause.
    SHC 11.432 25 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living.
    FRep 11.522 21 I think this levity is a reaction on the [American] people from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
    FRep 11.532 7 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade,-not at all considering the remote reaction and bankruptcy...

reactionary, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.535 9 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... we should feel this reactionary, and absurdly out of place.

reactions, n. (6)

    MR 1.256 4 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies, full of danger and followed by reactions.
    ET13 5.217 26 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed;...
    Wth 6.106 10 ...artifice or legislation punishes itself by reactions, gluts and bankruptcies.
    Wsp 6.215 13 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...
    Bty 6.286 1 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have they...the equality to any event which we demand in man, or only the reactions of the mill, of the wares, of the chicane?
    PC 8.223 9 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...the grand reactions.

reactive, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.5 25 The stronger the nature, the more it is reactive.

reacts, v. (8)

    Con 1.303 8 We have all a certain intellection...of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction...reacts suicidally on the actor himself.
    Con 1.313 26 ...see you not how every personal character reacts on the form, and makes it new?
    Comp 2.110 10 Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
    SwM 4.134 14 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his virtues;--sinks into entire sympathy with his society. This want reacts to the centre of the system.
    Wsp 6.232 21 A high aim reacts on the means, on the days, on the organs of the body.
    Cour 7.273 9 The aim reacts back on the means.
    Edc1 10.153 2 ...the devotion to details reacts injuriously on the teacher.
    PLT 12.38 21 ...the perception [of spiritual facts] thus satisfied reacts on the senses, to clarify them...

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