Relatively to Remedial

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

relatively, adv. (6)

    Pol1 3.207 26 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right.
    UGM 4.32 5 The heroes of the hour are relatively great;...
    Art2 7.39 6 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art;...
    Art2 7.39 8 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have.
    Art2 7.39 10 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
    Art2 7.39 11 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.

relatives, n. (3)

    SS 7.14 7 I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone.
    DL 7.114 6 ...we desire at least to put no stint or limit on our parents, relatives, guests or dependents;...
    Let 12.395 4 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

relax, v. (2)

    Nat 1.49 20 The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
    Wth 6.117 12 ...the eating quality of debt does not relax its voracity.

relaxation, n. (3)

    MR 1.242 18 ...for ends so sacred and dear some relaxation must be had...
    GoW 4.289 25 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest... worked on for eighty years...
    MAng1 12.230 25 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this drawing, which contrasts the extremes of relaxation and vigor, is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.

relaxed, v. (2)

    Con 1.325 21 To the intemperate and covetous person...mankind would pay no rent, no dividend, if force were once relaxed;...
    SwM 4.138 21 ...the divine effort is never relaxed;...

relaxing, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.136 25 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias, and only when he was now gray and nerveless was it relaxing its claws...

relays, n. (1)

    ET1 5.6 3 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work; and so by relays...

release, n. (3)

    EzRy 10.388 17 When Put Merriam, after his release from the state prison, had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    MMEm 10.432 11 ...when at last her release arrived, the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    EWI 11.115 19 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.

release, v. (3)

    LT 1.283 17 [If poets were ravished by their thought] Society could then manage to release their shoulder from its wheel...
    DL 7.115 21 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.
    EWI 11.132 17 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...

released, v. (13)

    Pt1 3.27 6 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...with the intellect released from all service...
    Nat2 3.189 18 As soon as [a man] is released from the instinctive and particular and sees [his speech's] partiality, he shuts his mouth in disgust.
    Wsp 6.240 8 You must do your work, before you shall be released.
    Civ 7.25 20 In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play.
    Elo1 7.94 18 ...whilst [the preacher] deals in words we are released from attention.
    PI 8.28 10 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul is released a little from its passion...we call its action Fancy.
    PI 8.35 20 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
    PerF 10.80 11 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court who was told he might be released if he would pay his fine.
    Thor 10.458 10 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released.
    HDC 11.55 27 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates...
    PLT 12.27 24 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.
    PLT 12.28 3 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up and minister in petty niches and localities, and then, being released, return to the unbounded soul of the world.
    CL 12.136 13 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.

releases, v. (2)

    UGM 4.23 20 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a...pontiff who...releases his servants from their barbarous homages;...
    PLT 12.42 25 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he releases himself from the traditions in which he grew...

releasing, v. (1)

    Wth 6.121 18 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...

relegate, v. (1)

    FRep 11.521 1 The very glaciers are viscous, or relegate into conformity...

relent, v. (1)

    Int 2.347 3 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever relent so much as to insert a popular or explaining sentence...

relenting, adj. (2)

    Con 1.314 19 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    Pray 12.354 17 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./

relenting, n. (1)

    SwM 4.133 27 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;...

relentingly, adv. (1)

    Let 12.395 1 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me?...

relentings, n. (1)

    Res 8.152 17 ...in the first relentings of March [the willow] hasten...

relentless, adj. (1)

    ET15 5.261 10 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...

relevancy, n. (1)

    QO 8.194 9 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before...

reliable, adj. (2)

    ET15 5.268 22 A statement of fact in The [London] Times is as reliable as a citation from Hansard.
    Wsp 6.217 13 Given the equality of two intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?

reliance, n. (28)

    LT 1.276 23 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are needed,-but...reliance on the sentiment of man...
    LT 1.276 25 I think that the soul of reform;...not reliance on numbers, but, contrariwise, distrust of numbers...
    Con 1.321 18 Instead of that reliance which the soul suggests, on the eternity of truth and duty, men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    Con 1.321 20 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    Tran 1.337 16 ...if there is...any reliance on the vast, the unknown;...the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    SR 2.63 25 What is the aboriginal Self, on which a universal reliance may be grounded?
    SR 2.69 26 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking.
    SR 2.87 18 ...the reliance on Property...is the want of self-reliance.
    SR 2.87 19 ...the reliance on Property, including the reliance on the governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
    OS 2.293 10 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    OS 2.295 12 The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion...
    Pol1 3.220 22 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
    NER 3.255 8 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England]...a steady tendency of the thoughtful and virtuous to a deeper belief and reliance on spiritual facts.
    NER 3.263 17 If partiality was one fault of the movement party, the other defect was their reliance on Association.
    MoS 4.175 14 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy, and lifts himself to a more absolute reliance.
    MoS 4.181 9 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...an instinctive reliance on the seers and believers of realities.
    ET8 5.141 6 If the English race were as mutable as the French, what reliance?
    Wth 6.90 14 No reliance for bread and games on the government;...suits [the Saxons];...
    Bty 6.284 24 Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
    MoL 10.256 5 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
    LLNE 10.366 7 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible.
    CSC 10.376 12 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in the lofty reliance on principles...
    FSLN 11.234 5 I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of covenant...
    FSLN 11.236 13 ...our education is...to know...that self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
    JBB 11.272 27 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself...
    ACiv 11.306 8 ...we have too much experience of the futility of an easy reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public.
    II 12.67 3 [Instinct's] property is absolute science and an implicit reliance is due to it.
    II 12.80 4 All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas.

relics, n. (3)

    Cir 2.319 3 Why should we import rags and relics into the new hour?
    Plu 10.303 12 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
    Thor 10.473 12 Indian relics abound in Concord...

relied, v. (15)

    NER 3.263 25 ...to do battle...against concert [individuals] relied on new concert.
    NMW 4.248 4 Bonaparte relied on his own sense...
    ET12 5.205 4 ...the principal teaching relied on [at Oxford] is private tuition.
    Pow 6.80 16 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Wth 6.91 4 ...Wall Street thinks...that in failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
    Art2 7.48 1 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce. He relied on their aid...
    EWI 11.106 4 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
    FSLC 11.183 13 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch...
    FSLN 11.233 5 You relied on the constitution.
    FSLN 11.233 12 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right...
    FSLN 11.233 17 You relied on the Missouri Compromise. That is ridden over.
    FSLN 11.233 18 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens.
    FSLN 11.233 23 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.
    Let 12.397 18 ...though the recuperative force in every man may be relied on infinitely, it must be relied on before it will exert itself.
    Let 12.397 19 ...though the recuperative force in every man may be relied on infinitely, it must be relied on before it will exert itself.

relief, adj. (1)

    YA 1.374 6 We devise sumptuary and relief laws...

relief, n. (27)

    Hist 2.33 26 ...[Goethe's Helena] operates a wonderful relief to the mind from the routine of customary images...
    Exp 3.83 7 I can very confidently announce one or another law, which throws itself into relief and form...
    Chr1 3.106 11 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment;...
    Nat2 3.178 13 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
    SwM 4.144 7 ...[Swedenborg's] books have...no relief to the dead prosaic level.
    MoS 4.174 22 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief to the suspected and reviled Intellect....
    ShP 4.194 13 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments...
    ShP 4.194 14 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall;...
    ET8 5.127 17 The Englishman finds no relief from reflection, except in reflection.
    Clbs 7.228 12 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder...is a wonderful relief.
    OA 7.323 15 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.
    Res 8.147 19 Against the terrors of the mob...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    Res 8.153 7 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    PPo 8.248 3 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb actor, is not pent in the poet, but passes over into new form, at once relief and creation.
    Aris 10.47 1 The only relief that I know against the invidiousness of superior position is, that you exert your faculty;...
    EzRy 10.394 3 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...and whatever relief to the conscience of both parties plain speech could effect was sure to be procured.
    GSt 10.502 19 For the relief of Kansas...[George Stearns's] own contributions were the largest and the first.
    HDC 11.78 22 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...
    HDC 11.81 3 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    EWI 11.107 25 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    AKan 11.257 17 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.
    JBB 11.270 7 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown.
    JBB 11.270 9 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief.
    JBB 11.273 5 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...
    CPL 11.500 27 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
    CPL 11.503 16 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.
    CInt 12.125 4 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, 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.

Relief Societies, n. (1)

    SR 2.52 17 ...alms to sots, and the thousand-fold Relief Societies;- though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...

reliefs, n. (4)

    Hist 2.23 24 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in...the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas.
    Edc1 10.146 12 ...[Fellowes]...brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    MAng1 12.243 18 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery, with their high reliefs, cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    Trag 12.414 10 Particular reliefs...fit themselves to human calamities;...

relies, v. (6)

    SR 2.70 2 Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is.
    Mrs1 3.124 12 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons.
    Bhr 6.173 14 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus, who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist;...
    Bhr 6.180 3 When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.
    Res 8.149 2 [The good aunt] relies on the same principle that makes the strength of Newton,--alternation of employment.
    Dem1 10.23 7 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who, in actions of a low or common pitch, relies on his instincts...

relieve, v. (12)

    SL 2.139 1 Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
    Mrs1 3.153 1 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four, will commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
    NR 3.237 1 Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful, coarser or finer according to its stuff. They relieve and recommend each other...
    MoS 4.172 14 The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society and with the projects that are offered to relieve them.
    Wth 6.113 20 Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague squandering on objects not his.
    DL 7.130 27 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].
    PC 8.209 5 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve local famine...
    Insp 8.286 15 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning...and...to relieve it from any jangle of affairs...
    SovE 10.197 7 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.
    MoL 10.247 10 The worst times...only relieve and bring out the splendor of [the scholar's] privilege.
    EzRy 10.386 18 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer;...
    Mem 12.107 25 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then we relieve ourselves of all task in the matter...

relieved, v. (18)

    Tran 1.352 25 ...When shall I die and be relieved of the responsibility of seeing an Universe which I do not use?
    SR 2.47 5 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best;...
    SL 2.150 23 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come; we are utterly relieved and refreshed;...
    Fdsp 2.199 27 ...both parties are relieved by solitude.
    NR 3.232 21 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action, and relieved some by others from time to time;...
    NER 3.256 14 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
    ET12 5.201 4 Albericus Gentilis, in 1580, was relieved and maintained by the university [Oxford].
    F 6.10 5 ...sometimes...the family vice is drawn off in a separate individual and the others are proportionally relieved.
    Wth 6.113 11 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries...
    CbW 6.245 21 The lawyer...is as gay and as much relieved as the client if it turns out that he has a verdict.
    Civ 7.31 3 What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
    SA 8.91 21 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...until the gossip's immeasurable legs are tired of sitting; then he strides out and the nation is relieved.
    CSC 10.376 3 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved by signal passages of pure eloquence...
    FSLC 11.209 22 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused; the sinews of man being relieved by sinews of steam.
    FSLC 11.210 16 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    EPro 11.322 3 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery]...
    CL 12.155 6 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden.
    MLit 12.332 19 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...

relieves, v. (6)

    PI 8.45 14 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...
    PC 8.228 7 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events, has...a private despatch, which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    Grts 8.315 4 Depth of intellect relieves even the ink of crime with a fringe of light.
    MoL 10.242 10 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events. He has...a private despatch which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    EPro 11.320 5 [The Emancipation Proclamation] does not promise the redemption of the black race;...but it relieves it of our opposition.
    EPro 11.320 7 ...[the Emancipation Proclamation] relieves our race once for all of its crime and false position.

relieving, v. (3)

    ET7 5.122 5 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was an ill-judged concession of the government, relieving Irish property from the burdens charged on English.
    FSLC 11.208 24 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...that we may...bear a countryman's share in relieving [the planter];...
    ACri 12.287 3 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...

Religion, Analogy of [Josep (1)

    MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] as so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read Butler's Analogy;...

religion, n. (327)

    Nat 1.3 8 Why should not we have...a religion by revelation to us...
    Nat 1.43 24 A Gothic church, said Coleridge, is a petrified religion.
    Nat 1.57 24 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    Nat 1.58 2 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
    Nat 1.58 4 Religion includes the personality of God;...
    Nat 1.58 7 The first and last lesson of religion is, The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal.
    Nat 1.58 16 ...seek the realities of religion.
    Nat 1.59 1 It appears that motion...and religion, all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    Nat 1.60 6 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle...of country and religion...
    Nat 1.60 20 ...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity]... as the pure and awful form of religion in the world.
    AmS 1.101 13 For the ease and pleasure of...accepting...the religion of society, [the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    DSA 1.122 3 ...as this sentiment [of virtue] is the essence of all religion, let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment...
    DSA 1.128 6 These general views...find abundant illustration in the history of religion...
    DSA 1.130 12 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.
    DSA 1.143 3 It is already beginning to indicate character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
    DSA 1.144 12 The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
    LE 1.170 25 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the breast of man;...
    MN 1.220 3 What a debt is ours to that old religion...teaching privation, self-denial and sorrow!
    MR 1.248 3 We are to revise the whole of our social structure...religion, marriage...
    LT 1.261 10 The reason and influence of wealth, the aspect of philosophy and religion...these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    LT 1.267 15 We are the representatives of religion and intellect...
    LT 1.273 4 Milton...describes a relation between religion and the daily occupations...
    LT 1.273 8 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    LT 1.273 20 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion...into his custody;...
    LT 1.273 22 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion;...
    LT 1.273 25 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion is now no more within himself...
    LT 1.274 2 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night...
    LT 1.274 9 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his religion walks abroad at eight...
    LT 1.274 11 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop, trading all day without his religion.
    LT 1.274 12 Religion was not invited to eat or drink or sleep with us...
    LT 1.290 16 I wish to speak of the...religion around us without ceremony or false deference.
    Con 1.320 3 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...
    Con 1.320 25 Religion is taught in the same spirit.
    Con 1.321 17 ...religion in such hands loses its essence.
    Con 1.321 23 Religion among the low becomes low.
    Tran 1.340 22 ...the history of genius and of religion in these times...will be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.
    Tran 1.347 13 ...it is really...the wish to find society for their hope and religion,-which prompts [Transcendentalists] to shun what is called society.
    YA 1.388 2 The people, and the world, are now suffering from the want of religion and honor in its public mind.
    Hist 2.30 19 ...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    SR 2.56 21 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    SR 2.75 21 ...our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen...
    SR 2.77 5 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion;...
    SR 2.86 3 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    Comp 2.110 23 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut others out.
    SL 2.140 1 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now...
    Lov1 2.185 3 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    Fdsp 2.203 27 Almost every man we meet...has...some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head...which spoils all conversation with him.
    Fdsp 2.206 5 [Friendship] keeps company with...the trances of religion.
    Prd1 2.239 3 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!
    Hsm1 2.250 26 ...a different breeding, different religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action...
    Hsm1 2.258 20 ...when we hear [many extraordinary young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their superiority;...
    Hsm1 2.263 2 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again; and very easily in a republic, if there appear any signs of a decay of religion.
    OS 2.282 11 Everywhere the history of religion betrays a tendency to enthusiasm.
    OS 2.285 22 The intercourse of society...its religion...is one wide judicial investigation of character.
    OS 2.294 27 Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers.
    OS 2.295 3 Whenever the appeal is made...to numbers, proclamation is then and there made that religion is not.
    OS 2.295 13 The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion...
    Cir 2.309 1 The very hopes of man...the religion of nations...are...at the mercy of a new generalization.
    Cir 2.312 12 ...we see literature best...from a high religion.
    Cir 2.313 6 We have the same need to command a view of the religion of the world.
    Cir 2.322 3 The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion.
    Int 2.346 3 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords who have walked in the world,-- these of the old religion...
    Art1 2.353 3 No man can...produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time shall have no share.
    Art1 2.366 23 As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Pt1 3.15 1 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics;...
    Pt1 3.33 6 ...dream delivers us to dream, and while the drunkenness lasts we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our religion, in our opulence.
    Pt1 3.37 11 Time and nature yield us many gifts, but not yet the timely man, the new religion...whom all things await.
    Exp 3.52 15 ...temper...is inconsumable in the flames of religion.
    Exp 3.53 15 What notions do [physicians] attach to love! what to religion!
    Exp 3.71 2 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope. Life is hereby melted into an expectation or a religion.
    Exp 3.73 4 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol...and the metaphor of each has become a national religion.
    Exp 3.81 1 ...all the muses and love and religion hate these [intellectual] developments...
    Chr1 3.115 8 This is confusion, this the right insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.
    Chr1 3.115 9 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
    Mrs1 3.137 12 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.
    Nat2 3.172 23 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.176 27 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess. It is as easy to broach in mixed companies what is called the subject of religion.
    Nat2 3.177 25 The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
    Nat2 3.196 3 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    Pol1 3.200 3 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out;...
    Pol1 3.207 19 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form, but to other states of society, in which religion consecrated the monarchical, that and not this was expedient.
    Pol1 3.210 21 ...[the conservative party] does not...foster religion...
    NR 3.245 21 ...nature secures [every man] as an instrument by self-conceit, preventing the tendencies to religion and science;...
    NR 3.246 27 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
    UGM 4.4 18 Our religion is the love and cherishing of these patrons [great men].
    UGM 4.18 14 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...in religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the sects which have taken the name of each founder, are in point.
    PPh 4.52 5 By religion, [each student] tends to unity;...
    PPh 4.54 7 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base.
    PPh 4.74 15 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to be either insane, or at least, under cover of this play, enthusiastic in his religion.
    SwM 4.101 22 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    SwM 4.122 10 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper...is surprised to find himself a party to the whole of his religion.
    SwM 4.122 11 [Swedenborg's] religion thinks for him and is of universal application.
    SwM 4.122 14 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    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?
    MoS 4.159 26 [Unbelief and universal doubting] are no more [the skeptic' s] moods than are those of religion and philosophy.
    ShP 4.209 25 What point...of religion...has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    NMW 4.249 27 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
    NMW 4.250 8 [Napoleon] was very fond of talking of religion.
    NMW 4.250 17 To the philosophers [Napoleon] readily yielded all that was proved against religion as the work of men and time...
    GoW 4.276 6 ...what [Goethe] says of religion...refuses to be forgotten.
    ET3 5.36 6 ...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET4 5.62 16 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat. There will be time enough to mellow this strength into civility and religion.
    ET6 5.107 2 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal... loving truth and religion, to be sure, but inexorable on points of form.
    ET8 5.127 20 Religion, the theatre and the reading the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
    ET10 5.153 14 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses. There is a mixture of religion in it.
    ET11 5.173 8 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...with the Hebrew religion and the oldest traditions of the world, was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET13 5.214 2 No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion.
    ET13 5.214 8 It is with religion as with marriage.
    ET13 5.220 23 The religion of England is part of good-breeding.
    ET13 5.221 2 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.
    ET13 5.221 18 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
    ET13 5.221 21 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...
    ET13 5.224 6 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the religion of England.
    ET13 5.224 27 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as tending extremely to the dishonor of the Christian religion...
    ET13 5.225 19 No chemist has prospered in the attempt to crystallize a religion.
    ET13 5.225 24 It is the condition of a religion to require religion for its expositor.
    ET13 5.228 26 The English, abhorring change in all things, abhorring it most in matters of religion...are dreadfully given to cant.
    ET13 5.229 9 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai...
    ET13 5.230 15 But the religion of England,--is it the Established Church? no;...
    ET13 5.230 21 Where dwells the religion [of England]?
    ET13 5.231 3 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...
    ET14 5.247 24 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    ET14 5.252 11 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
    ET14 5.254 16 ...satire at the names of philosophy and religion...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    ET14 5.254 21 ...[the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
    ET14 5.256 27 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose...
    ET14 5.259 11 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all appeals to our revealed tenets of religion and moral duty.
    ET16 5.281 21 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    F 6.5 8 The Spartan, embodying his religion in his country, dies before its majesty without a question.
    F 6.31 6 [Men] are under one dominion...in religion;...
    Pow 6.56 19 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Pow 6.66 15 ...in representations of the Deity, painting, poetry, and popular religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.
    Ctr 6.139 8 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy, art and religion;...
    Wsp 6.204 12 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...
    Wsp 6.204 25 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible...
    Wsp 6.205 2 ...the religion cannot rise above the state of the votary.
    Wsp 6.206 27 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
    Wsp 6.207 23 The fatal trait is the divorce between religion and morality.
    Wsp 6.208 3 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    Wsp 6.209 19 ...there is a feeling that religion is gone.
    Wsp 6.212 25 In spite of...universal decay of religion...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    Wsp 6.213 2 You say there is no religion now.
    Wsp 6.213 5 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
    Wsp 6.213 7 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
    Wsp 6.214 10 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training,--religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
    Wsp 6.214 11 Religion must always be a crab fruit;...
    Wsp 6.214 18 We say the old forms of religion decay...
    Wsp 6.219 17 Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see this unity, intimacy and sincerity [in nature];...
    Wsp 6.229 9 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions, whether touching natural facts, or religion, or persons.
    Wsp 6.238 1 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice...of religion which churches stop their discords to burn and exterminate;...
    Wsp 6.239 20 What is called religion effeminates and demoralizes.
    Wsp 6.240 24 The religion which is to guide and fulfil the present and coming ages...must be intellectual.
    Wsp 6.241 7 There is surely enough for the heart and imagination in the religion itself.
    CbW 6.271 16 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...what access to poetry, religion...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    CbW 6.273 12 [Friendship] is a serious and majestic affair, like...a religion...
    Ill 6.323 6 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry and art.
    SS 7.7 13 ...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.
    Civ 7.19 12 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment, as in practical power, religion, liberty, sense of honor and taste.
    Civ 7.23 17 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings, as the lines of race, language, religion and territory, yet require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    Art2 7.56 2 These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm, as love, patriotism or religion.
    Art2 7.56 22 In this country, at this time, other interests than religion and patriotism are predominant...
    DL 7.122 26 The vice of government, the vice of education, the vice of religion, is one with that of private life.
    DL 7.132 22 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond. Whilst he sees it, every thought and act is raised, and becomes an act of religion.
    DL 7.133 1 Let religion cease to be occasional;...
    Boks 7.194 13 ...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe;...
    Clbs 7.236 22 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company]...
    Clbs 7.240 26 Every variety of gift--science, religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Cour 7.253 16 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. This has made the power of the saints of the East and West, who have led the religion of great nations.
    Suc 7.292 10 ...we import the religion of other nations;...
    Suc 7.301 12 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
    PI 8.6 1 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature...
    PI 8.7 4 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to; what country, tradition or religion;...
    PI 8.14 25 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
    PI 8.18 5 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    PI 8.26 24 ...all men know the portrait [of the true poet] when it is drawn, and it is part of religion to believe its possible incarnation.
    PI 8.66 23 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
    PI 8.73 25 In the mire of the sensual life, [poets'] religion, their poets...are hosts of ideals...
    PI 8.74 18 O yes, poets we shall have, mythology, symbols, religion, of our own.
    SA 8.88 26 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    SA 8.90 4 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...poetry, religion...
    Elo2 8.132 7 ...when a great sentiment, as religion or liberty, makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    Elo2 8.132 26 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
    Comc 8.164 23 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion.
    Comc 8.164 24 In religion, the sentiment is all;...
    Comc 8.166 26 In science the jest at pedantry is analogous to that in religion which lies against superstition.
    QO 8.178 26 We quote...arts, sciences, religion, customs and laws;...
    QO 8.185 2 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
    QO 8.200 12 ...our language, our science, our religion, our opinions, our fancies we inherited.
    PPo 8.238 25 The temperament of the people [in the East] agrees with this life in extremes. Religion and poetry are all their civilization.
    PPo 8.238 26 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny.
    PPo 8.248 11 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see... that the mind suffers no religion and no empire but its own.
    Grts 8.309 18 [Self-respect] has its deep foundations in religion.
    Imtl 8.324 18 ...the history of religion may be read in the forms of sepulture.
    Imtl 8.347 13 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest mythology dies for him;...
    Imtl 8.348 10 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population!
    Dem1 10.17 3 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Chr2 10.103 21 ...the private or social practices we establish in [the moral sentiment's] honor we call religion.
    Chr2 10.105 1 The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
    Chr2 10.106 1 ...before [Christianity] was yet a national religion it was alloyed...
    Chr2 10.108 1 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor? So far the religion is now where it should be.
    Chr2 10.111 5 When the highest conceptions, the lessons of religion, are imported, the nation is not culminating...
    Chr2 10.111 8 A completed nation will not import its religion.
    Chr2 10.111 11 I am not sure that the English religion is not all quoted.
    Chr2 10.112 17 Our religion has got on as far as Unitarianism.
    Chr2 10.113 22 All the victories of religion belong to the moral sentiment.
    Chr2 10.117 13 Religion is as inexpugnable as the use of lamps...
    Chr2 10.119 22 If there is any tendency in national expansion to form character, religion will not be a loser.
    Chr2 10.119 24 There is a fear that pure truth, pure morals, will not make a religion for the affections.
    Edc1 10.132 25 We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy;...
    Supl 10.167 1 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
    Supl 10.177 3 Religion and poetry are all the civilization of the Arab.
    Supl 10.177 6 Religion and poetry: the religion [of the Arab] teaches an inexorable destiny;...
    Supl 10.177 9 The religion [of the Arab] runs into asceticism and fate.
    SovE 10.187 1 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation...
    SovE 10.190 16 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
    SovE 10.198 25 ...it is...our negligence...of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
    SovE 10.199 6 Wise on all other, [many men] lose their head the moment they talk of religion.
    SovE 10.199 8 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is something by itself;...
    SovE 10.199 13 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
    SovE 10.203 1 Our religion is geographical...
    SovE 10.203 9 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence...
    SovE 10.204 5 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind...
    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.
    SovE 10.207 2 In religion too we want objects above;...
    SovE 10.208 12 ...natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    SovE 10.208 15 The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
    SovE 10.211 12 Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were bred, or from an original conscience in themselves...
    SovE 10.211 14 Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were bred, or from an original conscience in themselves, which the popular religion echoes.
    SovE 10.212 13 America shall introduce a pure religion.
    SovE 10.212 15 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person;...
    Prch 10.220 11 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion...
    Prch 10.222 16 ...religion has an object.
    Prch 10.223 19 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed...
    Prch 10.223 22 I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion...
    Prch 10.223 23 I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion,-the religion of well-doing and daring...
    Prch 10.223 26 ...there is a statement of religion possible which makes all skepticism absurd.
    Prch 10.224 7 All that we call religion, all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent surface-action...
    Prch 10.226 21 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization...
    Prch 10.226 25 In matters of religion, men eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...
    Prch 10.228 19 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
    MoL 10.243 18 The subtle Hindoo, who carried religion to ecstasy and philosophy to idealism, produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    MoL 10.244 24 Now it is agreed...that with universal cheap education we have stringent theology, but religion is low.
    MoL 10.254 14 The scholar is bound to stand for...liberty of trade, liberty of the press, liberty of religion...
    Schr 10.281 26 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    Schr 10.282 25 We have many revivals of religion.
    Schr 10.283 2 ...[men's] religion should go with their thought and hallow it.
    Plu 10.297 4 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
    Plu 10.298 8 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus like Goethe's.
    Plu 10.299 25 Plutarch had a religion which Montaigne wanted...
    Plu 10.301 26 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to...the religion and history of antique heroes.
    Plu 10.308 20 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    LLNE 10.329 27 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...
    LLNE 10.337 5 ...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...
    LLNE 10.342 17 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion...
    LLNE 10.362 4 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man...of a very democratic religion, came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    CSC 10.375 25 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
    EzRy 10.382 8 ...now that he had become a professor of religion [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    EzRy 10.388 27 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us. With the Doctor's views it was a matter of religion to say thus much.
    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...
    SlHr 10.446 26 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town, where the old religion existed in strictness...
    Thor 10.477 18 ...[Thoreau] was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    Thor 10.478 12 [Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished...
    Carl 10.495 26 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England.
    LS 11.6 17 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution, to be continued to the end of time by all mankind, as they should come... within the influence of the Christian religion, would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.15 11 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was...the dominion of his religion in the hearts of men...
    LS 11.22 16 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    LS 11.22 19 The Jewish was a religion of forms;...
    HDC 11.40 18 [The settlers of Concord's] religion was sweetness and peace amidst toil and tears.
    HDC 11.47 19 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings], the public weal; the call of interest, duty, religion, were heard;...
    LVB 11.93 16 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees]; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.
    EWI 11.102 23 The prizes of society...the privileges...of culture, of religion...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EWI 11.137 21 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion...
    War 11.157 9 ...learning and art, and especially religion weave ties that make war look like fratricide, as it is.
    War 11.173 15 ...another age comes, a truer religion and ethics open...
    FSLC 11.183 16 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
    FSLC 11.189 10 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law, be it called morals, religion, or godhead, or what you will, constituted the explanation of life...
    FSLC 11.205 21 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas.
    FSLN 11.218 19 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses. With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics, finance, philosophy, and religion.
    FSLN 11.229 9 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection...of educated men, nay, of some preachers of religion,-was the darkest passage in the history.
    FSLN 11.229 12 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed that the old religion and the sense of the right had faded and gone out;...
    FSLN 11.230 7 ...it is...the essence...of religion...to prefer another...
    FSLN 11.239 4 The delay of the Divine Justice-this was the meaning and soul of the Greek Tragedy; this the soul of their religion.
    FSLN 11.244 4 ...Liberty is...the Epic Poetry, the new religion, the chivalry of all gentlemen.
    EPro 11.315 13 [Liberty] comes, like religion, for short periods...
    EdAd 11.392 7 Mankind for the moment seem to be in search of a religion.
    EdAd 11.392 14 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...
    EdAd 11.392 18 In the rapid decay of what was called religion, timid and unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
    Wom 11.411 1 [Man] invented marriage; and surrounded by religion...the union of the sexes.
    Wom 11.420 23 If new power is here, of a character...which...tries and condemns our religion, customs, laws...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    SHC 11.432 4 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park? It dignifies life. It is a seat for friendship, counsel, taste and religion.
    FRO1 11.478 2 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...to unite in a movement of benefit to men, under the sanction of religion.
    FRO1 11.479 22 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRO2 11.486 17 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...
    FRO2 11.486 20 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion which already existed began to be called Christianity.
    FRO2 11.487 2 The religious find religion wherever they associate.
    FRO2 11.487 4 When I find in people narrow religion, I find also in them narrow reading.
    FRO2 11.487 13 We are all believers in natural religion;...
    FRO2 11.487 21 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
    FRO2 11.488 7 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code, that is, to natural religion, of somewhat positive and historical.
    FRO2 11.489 15 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion...
    FRO2 11.490 24 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    FRep 11.521 24 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race, bought with battles and revolutions and religion...
    FRep 11.539 18 ...liberty, like religion, is a short and hasty fruit...
    FRep 11.544 17 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection, the purest religion will find their home in our institutions...
    PLT 12.15 13 Thirdly...I...attempt to show the relation of men of thought to the existing religion and civility of the present time.
    PLT 12.16 27 I am of the oldest religion.
    PLT 12.18 26 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...the pomps of religion...
    PLT 12.42 27 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
    PLT 12.56 16 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust, religion...
    PLT 12.64 3 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. Our poetry, our religion are its skirts and penumbrae.
    II 12.66 4 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field... of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be.
    II 12.75 27 ...in spite of Boston and London, and universal decay of religion, etc., etc., the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    II 12.85 4 The source of thought evolves its own rules, its own virtues, its own religion.
    II 12.88 19 ...there is a religion which survives immutably all persons and fashions...
    II 12.88 25 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men...have run mad for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.
    II 12.88 27 ...there is surely enough for the heart and the imagination in the [universal] religion itself.
    CInt 12.129 1 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you expose your atheism.
    MAng1 12.222 2 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...
    Milt1 12.265 6 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country' s liberty...
    Milt1 12.271 25 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to prove that no power on earth can compel in matters of religion.
    Milt1 12.274 5 ...by great knowledge, and by religion, [Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.
    Milt1 12.275 13 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.
    Milt1 12.276 22 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    MLit 12.318 5 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent...with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy.
    MLit 12.331 7 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet...of this world, and not of religion and hope;...
    MLit 12.336 1 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...
    EurB 12.368 26 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest.

Religion, n. (13)

    Nat 1.41 3 Therefore is Nature ever the ally of Religion...
    LT 1.282 8 Our Religion assumes the negative form of rejection.
    LT 1.282 10 ...the Religion is an abolishing criticism.
    SR 2.84 8 As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society.
    Int 2.340 1 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art...
    Wsp 6.204 24 ...the whole state of man is a state of culture; and its flowering and completion may be described as Religion...
    Art2 7.37 3 All departments of life at the present day--Trade, Politics, Letters, Science, or Religion--seem to feel...the identity of their law.
    SovE 10.198 3 ...Religion is the accompanying emotion, the emotion of reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever excites in the individual.
    FSLC 11.183 12 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch...
    FRep 11.516 18 ...the nature and habits of the American, may well occupy us, and more the question of Religion.
    II 12.88 2 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.
    Bost 12.204 20 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion, the Emancipator;...
    Bost 12.204 21 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion, the Emancipator; Religion which teaches equality of all men in view of the spirit which created man.

Religion, Revival of, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.181 23 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs...Art Union, Revival of Religion, what bitter mockeries!

religions, n. (35)

    DSA 1.144 8 When a man comes...all religions are forms.
    Cir 2.311 18 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations...
    Pt1 3.34 5 The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
    Exp 3.76 6 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
    Nat2 3.170 1 Here [in the forest] is sanctity which shames our religions...
    UGM 4.7 4 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated. The past and passing religions and philosophies answer some other question.
    SwM 4.117 21 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies...
    GoW 4.272 26 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages, and their religions, politics and modes of thinking, are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    GoW 4.286 24 ...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET16 5.279 21 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle]...the succession of religions.
    F 6.30 7 ...the world wants saviours and religions.
    Wsp 6.203 27 'T is a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions.
    Wsp 6.204 19 God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
    Wsp 6.207 20 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them...
    Wsp 6.207 24 Here are know-nothing religions...
    Wsp 6.207 26 Here are...scortatory religions;...
    Wsp 6.207 26 Here are...slave-holding and slave-trading religions;...
    WD 7.169 13 The old Sabbath...white with the religions of unknown thousands of years, when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    PI 8.38 19 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded.
    PI 8.64 18 Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould itself into religions and mythologies...
    PC 8.207 15 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?-the fusion of races and religions;...
    PPo 8.248 7 We accept the religions and politics into which we fall...
    Imtl 8.342 13 ...the one doctrine in which all religions agree is that new light is added to the mind in proportion as it uses that which it has.
    Dem1 10.18 7 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this riddle...
    Chr2 10.103 26 The religions we call false were once true.
    Chr2 10.112 7 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions. Now that their religions are outgrown, the empires lack strength.
    Chr2 10.114 17 Men will learn...to make morals the absolute test, and so uncover and drive out the false religions.
    SovE 10.203 25 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.
    Prch 10.227 2 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of men.
    Carl 10.496 18 ...in the decay and downfall of all religions, Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    TPar 11.287 4 The old religions have a charm for most minds which it is a little uncanny to disturb.
    FRO1 11.480 8 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes...
    FRO2 11.490 18 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements, the identities, in all the religions of men.
    FRep 11.528 22 We have eight or ten religions in every large town...
    Pray 12.350 24 Let us...have the prayers...of men in all ages and religions who have prayed well.

religious, adj. (227)

    Nat 1.4 14 ...religious teachers dispute and hate each other...
    Nat 1.41 4 ...Nature...lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
    Nat 1.73 4 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the achievements of a principle, as in religious and political revolutions...
    DSA 1.124 23 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment...
    DSA 1.140 1 In a large portion of the community, the religious service gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.
    DSA 1.143 4 It is already beginning to indicate character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
    DSA 1.144 9 [Man] is religious.
    LT 1.263 17 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston, who supposed that our people were identified with their religious denominations, by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    LT 1.273 13 Fain [the wealthy man] would have the name to be religious;...
    LT 1.273 17 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs;...
    LT 1.279 21 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well, and they fill the land with clamor to correct it. Hence the missionary, and other religious efforts.
    LT 1.280 23 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is no slave;...
    Con 1.321 9 If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions, give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
    Tran 1.340 26 ...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Tran 1.344 2 ...[Transcendentalists] do not wish, as they are sincere and religious, to gratify any mere curiosity which you may entertain.
    Tran 1.348 1 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share in the public charities, in the public religious rites...
    Tran 1.354 23 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head. Something of the same taste is observable in all the moral movements of the time, in the religious and benevolent enterprises.
    YA 1.367 16 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have become effete...
    YA 1.394 1 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    Hist 2.15 6 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods...
    Hist 2.21 26 Agriculture [in Asia and Africa]...was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
    Hist 2.22 15 Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined...were the check on the old rovers;...
    SR 2.87 22 Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
    Comp 2.95 18 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day...
    SL 2.151 8 The scholar...follows some giddy girl, not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene, oracular and beautiful in her soul.
    SL 2.162 1 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character, whether it be his diet...his religious forms...
    Lov1 2.178 1 [The lover] is a new man, with...a religious solemnity of character and aims.
    Fdsp 2.203 5 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery...
    Fdsp 2.209 12 Friendship demands a religious treatment.
    Hsm1 2.248 21 Each of [Plutarch's] Lives is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.
    OS 2.282 1 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
    OS 2.288 16 ...genius is religious.
    OS 2.296 14 [The soul] is not called religious, but it is innocent.
    Cir 2.304 10 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance...a religious rite,--to heap itself on that ridge...
    Cir 2.319 13 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring, with religious eye looking upward, counts itself nothing...
    Int 2.339 12 How wearisome...the political or religious fanatic...whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    Art1 2.358 11 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...that they restore to us the simplest states of mind, and are religious.
    Art1 2.368 14 Proceeding from a religious heart [genius] will raise to a divine use the railroad...
    Pt1 3.15 8 No wonder then, if these waters be so deep, that we hover over them with a religious regard.
    Pt1 3.35 13 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    Exp 3.51 12 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
    Exp 3.70 22 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    Mrs1 3.129 26 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence, as a patriotic, a literary, a religious movement, and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Mrs1 3.130 11 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a political, a religious convention;...
    Pol1 3.205 26 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes, as...the religious sentiment, the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    Pol1 3.207 22 Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment of the present time accords better with it.
    Pol1 3.209 12 Parties of principle, as, religious sects...degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    Pol1 3.209 27 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
    Pol1 3.220 20 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
    Pol1 3.220 21 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
    NER 3.251 9 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from the Church nominal...
    NER 3.279 24 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession: a religious church would not complain.
    NER 3.279 25 A religious man...is not irritated by wanting the sanction of the Church...
    PPh 4.49 11 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East...
    SwM 4.97 4 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
    SwM 4.97 19 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled...
    SwM 4.100 22 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.100 27 The clergy interfered a little with the importation and publication of [Swedenborg's] religious works...
    SwM 4.118 25 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion, too frequent in religious history, that he was an abnormal person...
    SwM 4.124 11 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must be excessive also...
    ET1 5.12 19 I took advantage of a pause to say that [Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
    ET4 5.48 18 Each religious sect has its physiognomy.
    ET4 5.69 22 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water, unless at certain times on a religious score and by way of penance.
    ET4 5.72 13 The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.
    ET5 5.87 13 It is not usually a point of honor, nor a religious sentiment... that [the English] will shed their blood for;...
    ET5 5.92 27 [The English] have made...London...a sanctuary to refugees of every political and religious opinion;...
    ET13 5.215 2 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    ET13 5.215 19 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
    ET13 5.215 23 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...
    ET13 5.222 15 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET13 5.225 27 The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail...
    ET13 5.226 20 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious...
    ET13 5.228 20 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects...
    ET14 5.235 24 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic.
    ET16 5.273 8 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET16 5.286 9 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
    F 6.34 13 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and burst the hoops...
    Pow 6.65 26 Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
    Ctr 6.133 25 Religious literature has eminent examples [of egotism]...
    Ctr 6.164 17 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Wsp 6.208 21 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects...
    Wsp 6.209 17 ...in the momentary absence of any religious genius that could offset the immense material activity, there is a feeling that religion is gone.
    Wsp 6.214 10 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training...
    Civ 7.22 24 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy... guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind;...
    Civ 7.26 21 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the enthusiasm of some religious sect which imputes its virtue to its dogma;...
    Art2 7.51 17 ...the contemplation of a work of great art draws us into a state of mind which may be called religious.
    Art2 7.54 7 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    WD 7.177 15 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face.
    Boks 7.199 2 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see...the supremacy of truth and the religious sentiment, he shall be contented also.
    Boks 7.217 21 Every good fable...every biography from a religious age... when they proceed from an intellectual integrity...have the imaginative element.
    Clbs 7.241 23 ...the simple lover of truth, especially on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
    Cour 7.273 25 ...whenever the religious sentiment is adequately affirmed, it must be with dazzling courage.
    Suc 7.299 14 Is the old church which gave you the first lessons of religious life...only boards or brick and mortar?
    OA 7.327 14 ...[man] has religious wants...
    SA 8.104 18 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious culture...
    Comc 8.164 7 ...the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...
    Comc 8.164 18 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...
    Comc 8.165 22 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
    QO 8.182 5 Religious literature, the psalms and liturgies of churches, are... of this slow growth...
    PC 8.211 11 Steffens said, The religious opinions of men rest on their views of Nature.
    PPo 8.259 20 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token of his mistress.
    PPo 8.261 5 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] love rises to a religious sentiment...
    PPo 8.262 13 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Insp 8.272 22 Neither miracle nor magic nor any religious tradition...is incredible, after we have experienced an insight...
    Insp 8.272 26 I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life, sometimes a religious impulse...
    Insp 8.277 12 ...a religious poet once told me that he valued his poems, not because they were his, but because they were not.
    Imtl 8.327 3 The most remarkable step in the religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg...
    Imtl 8.328 6 Sixty years ago...the habits and thought of religious persons, were all directed on death.
    Imtl 8.329 8 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system...
    Dem1 10.26 3 It is wholly a false view to couple these things [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] in any manner with the religious nature and sentiment...
    Chr2 10.105 7 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    Chr2 10.106 19 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold.
    Chr2 10.110 19 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...without offence: since, at bottom, those men mean honestly, their polemics proceed out of a religious striving...
    Chr2 10.112 6 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions.
    Chr2 10.112 23 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition...
    Chr2 10.113 9 The lines of the religious sects are very shifting;...
    Chr2 10.113 15 No man can tell what religious revolutions await us in the next years;...
    Chr2 10.118 18 In the present tendency of our society...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    SovE 10.204 26 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, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
    SovE 10.205 26 We delight in children because of that religious eye which belongs to them;...
    SovE 10.209 22 It does not yet appear what forms the religious feeling will take.
    Prch 10.217 10 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition;...
    Prch 10.217 17 ...the mind, haughty with its sciences, disdains the religious forms as childish.
    Prch 10.217 22 ...it appears...as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    Prch 10.218 7 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...
    Prch 10.218 18 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being...it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
    Prch 10.223 9 Every movement of religious opinion is of profound importance to politics and social life;...
    MoL 10.243 25 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us into the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.
    MoL 10.244 4 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius...
    Schr 10.279 13 ...the young...looking around them...at religious and literary teachers and teaching,-finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    Plu 10.306 18 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain, to be received with religious awe...
    LLNE 10.335 27 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science;...
    LLNE 10.336 22 ...the religious nature in man was not affected by these errors in his understanding.
    LLNE 10.336 24 The religious sentiment made nothing of bulk or size, or far or near;...
    LLNE 10.342 1 ...the men of talent complained of the want of point and precision in this abstract and religious thinker [Alcott].
    LLNE 10.361 12 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.
    LLNE 10.363 13 [Charles Newcomb] was the Abbe or spiritual father [of Brook Farm], from his religious bias.
    LLNE 10.366 10 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible. They saw the necessity that the work must be done, and did it not, and it of course fell to be done by the few religious workers.
    CSC 10.375 25 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
    EzRy 10.389 15 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    MMEm 10.402 20 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind...
    MMEm 10.417 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds: but a few allusions to it in her diary suggest that it was a religious act...
    MMEm 10.417 11 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] could hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any but a rarely-found partner.
    MMEm 10.421 20 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...
    Thor 10.472 21 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed; none in a more large and religious synthesis.
    Thor 10.477 8 [Thoreau's] thought makes all his poetry a hymn to...the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own:-I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./ And still more in these religious lines...
    Thor 10.477 22 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
    Carl 10.489 19 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people.
    Carl 10.496 19 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    LS 11.12 16 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    LS 11.13 3 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also. In this way religious feasts grew up among the early Christians.
    LS 11.13 6 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts, who were familiar with religious feasts...
    LS 11.14 8 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...
    LS 11.18 4 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    LS 11.20 2 ...I choose that my remembrances of [Jesus] should be pleasing, affecting, religious.
    LS 11.22 23 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that only that life was religious which was thoroughly good;...
    LS 11.24 22 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    HDC 11.45 9 ...[the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as religious men.
    HDC 11.66 19 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements.
    HDC 11.67 20 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle.
    HDC 11.72 5 A deep religious sentiment sanctified the thirst for liberty.
    HDC 11.82 23 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding...
    EWI 11.107 18 ...[the Quakers] were religious, tender-hearted men and women;...
    EWI 11.138 10 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
    War 11.152 8 ...in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions...
    War 11.152 11 Not only every tribe has war-gods, religious festivals in victory, but religious wars.
    War 11.157 19 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees...
    War 11.174 26 ...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.208 6 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].
    FSLN 11.236 14 The insight of the religious sentiment will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.
    FSLN 11.243 26 ...I put it...to every poetic, every heroic, every religious heart, that not so is our learning...to be declared.
    JBS 11.279 3 [John Brown] grew up a religious and manly person...
    TPar 11.285 23 ...[Theodore Parker's experiences] were part of the history of the civil and religious liberty of his times.
    TPar 11.290 6 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...the truth is not in you; and no love of religious music...can save you from the Satan which you are.
    EPro 11.320 18 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...every religious heart, every man of honor...all rally to its support.
    HCom 11.343 26 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    SMC 11.357 9 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools. But perhaps in every one of these classes were idealists, men who went from a religious duty.
    EdAd 11.392 14 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...
    EdAd 11.392 16 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know...that he must rest on the moral and religious sentiments...
    EdAd 11.392 20 ...the moral and religious sentiments meet us everywhere...
    Wom 11.414 6 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain.
    Wom 11.414 9 ...in every remarkable religious development in the world, women have taken a leading part.
    Wom 11.414 18 This [prophetic] power, this religious character, is everywhere to be remarked in [women].
    Wom 11.415 10 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century,-when her religious nature gave her, of course, new importance,-the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Wom 11.422 26 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    Wom 11.425 12 Let us have the true woman...the hospitable, the religious heart...
    SHC 11.429 13 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites...
    SHC 11.433 13 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to private, social, literary or religious fraternities.
    FRO1 11.477 20 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    FRO1 11.479 13 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship, but only through favor of his Son. These mortifying puerilities abound in religious history.
    FRO2 11.486 25 ...every sentiment and precept of Christianity can be paralleled in other religious writings...
    FRO2 11.486 26 ...a man of religious susceptibility...can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
    FRO2 11.489 25 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for friendship...
    CPL 11.497 25 A deep religious sentiment is...an inspirer of the intellect...
    CPL 11.498 18 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
    FRep 11.515 10 When the cannon is aimed by ideas, when men with religious convictions are behind it...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.519 3 The partisan on moral, even on religious questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...
    FRep 11.538 21 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    FRep 11.539 17 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this...requires docility, sympathy, and religious receiving from higher principles;...
    II 12.79 3 The whole ethics of thought...is a sort of religious office.
    II 12.80 3 ...[the secret Power] frowns on moths and puppets, passes by us, and seeks a solitary and religious heart.
    CInt 12.114 26 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...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    CInt 12.125 10 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein. 'T is precisely analogous to what befalls in religious societies.
    CL 12.160 5 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them; the religious man, going abroad, affirms them;...
    CL 12.163 10 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    Bost 12.183 8 ...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and addicted to change, both in religious and secular affairs.
    Bost 12.193 17 [The Massachusetts colonists] read Milton, Thomas a Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and delight...
    Bost 12.193 20 [The Massachusetts colonists] were precisely the idealists of England; the most religious in a religious era.
    Bost 12.195 6 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England;...
    Bost 12.197 8 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
    Bost 12.198 7 It is the property of the religious sentiment to be the most refining of all influences.
    Bost 12.198 12 ...no depth of affection that does not rise to a religious sentiment, can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    Bost 12.198 22 The religious sentiment gave the iron purpose and arm.
    Bost 12.206 20 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other; a new religious sect...
    Bost 12.209 11 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious freedom...
    MAng1 12.235 18 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward, because he undertook it as a religious act;...
    MAng1 12.240 8 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to letters, and to the writing of religious poetry.
    Milt1 12.268 7 ...the religious sentiment warmed [Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.
    Milt1 12.269 2 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
    Milt1 12.269 7 Questions that involve all social and personal rights...were searched by eyes to which the love of freedom, civil and religious, lent new illumination.
    Milt1 12.275 23 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind, in the revision and enlargement of his religious opinions.
    MLit 12.312 9 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which, spreading from the poetic into the scientific, religious and philosophical domains, has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
    WSL 12.342 18 ...a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master's freedom a slavery.
    WSL 12.345 16 What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men...or (in the popular sense) religious men, have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    EurB 12.370 21 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition...to equal the masters in their exquisite finish, instead of their religious purpose.
    Let 12.404 5 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are confessedly effete and offensive.
    Trag 12.407 15 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons on whom too the religious sentiment exerts little force, we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

Religious Ages, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.392 2 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has distinguished the Religious Ages?

religious, n. (4)

    ShP 4.191 20 ...the religious among the Anglican church, would suppress [dramatic entertainments].
    Wsp 6.214 4 ...the religious appear isolated.
    PC 8.216 26 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...superior souls, the religious of that day...
    FRO2 11.487 2 The religious find religion wherever they associate.

religiously, adv. (2)

    MoS 4.165 20 When I the most strictly and religiously confess myself, [says Montaigne,] I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...
    Let 12.395 24 But to be prudent in all the particulars of life, and in this one thing alone religiously forbearing;...and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

relinquish, v. (5)

    AmS 1.101 4 ...[the scholar]...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    NER 3.276 17 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
    ET13 5.229 5 ...the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations. The French relinquish all that industry to them.
    Schr 10.288 1 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] must relinquish orchards and gardens...
    FRO2 11.485 12 I think we might now relinquish our theological controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.

relinquished, v. (1)

    YA 1.384 11 ...one may say that aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these attempts fail...

relish, n. (4)

    Lov1 2.176 3 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness...must be drugged with the relish of pain and fear;...
    ET1 5.15 14 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed...clinging to his northern accent with evident relish;...
    Plu 10.304 1 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter; but...he leaves the reader with a relish and a necessity for completing his studies.
    Bost 12.187 3 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...

relish, v. (9)

    Nat 1.29 21 It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a...backwoodsman, which all men relish.
    MR 1.243 3 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn...to relish the taste of fair water and black bread.
    Exp 3.50 16 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism.
    Exp 3.61 23 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour...
    PI 8.25 6 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.25 11 ...[people] relish Aesop...
    SA 8.97 11 ...there are...swainish, morose people...and though their odd wit may have some salt for you, your friends would not relish it.
    Insp 8.282 21 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/ I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing/...
    MMEm 10.430 4 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would relish their meal...

relished, v. (4)

    UGM 4.10 16 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good. We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more, after a little experience of the pretending races.
    Clbs 7.248 13 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
    Plu 10.318 5 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of Arthur, Saxon Alfred...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    CPL 11.504 1 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.

relishes, v. (1)

    ET14 5.233 19 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes...

reluctance, n. (1)

    LVB 11.94 13 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact...

reluctant, adj. (8)

    Exp 3.51 20 Very mortifying is the reluctant experience that some unfriendly excess or imbecility neutralizes the promise of genius.
    PPh 4.39 18 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    F 6.34 1 [Steam] could be used to...chain and compel other devils far more reluctant...
    F 6.43 23 The granite was reluctant, but [man's] hands were stronger...
    Wsp 6.205 26 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.
    GSt 10.504 10 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker... extorts at last a reluctant homage from the bitterest adversaries.
    FRO2 11.485 19 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind...
    PPr 12.389 9 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.

reluctantly, adv. (3)

    Ill 6.315 13 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly...
    HDC 11.57 19 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts.
    MAng1 12.235 13 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.

rely, v. (41)

    Nat 1.56 5 The astronomer, the geometer, rely on their irrefragable analysis...
    MR 1.249 25 [The Americans] rely on the power of a dollar;...
    LT 1.276 12 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...
    YA 1.376 11 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council...rely on me, gentlemen, I shall oppose an iron will to the progress of liberal opinions.
    YA 1.390 22 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power, and not to rely on our money...
    SR 2.57 6 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone...
    Comp 2.126 4 We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new;...
    Fdsp 2.197 7 I cannot choose but rely on my own poverty more than on your wealth.
    NER 3.283 8 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and beautiful...
    NER 3.284 3 [A man] can already rely on the laws of gravity...
    SwM 4.145 5 Do not rely on heavenly favor...
    ShP 4.199 16 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that?
    NMW 4.243 3 In 1814, when advised to rely on the higher classes, Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen...my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    ET4 5.71 15 Men of animal nature rely, like animals, on their instincts.
    ET5 5.86 27 ...[the English] rely most on the simplest means...
    ET7 5.118 20 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.
    ET9 5.151 12 ...whenever an abatement of their power is felt, [the English] have not conciliated the affection on which to rely.
    Wth 6.121 20 On this art of nature all our arts rely.
    Bhr 6.193 3 It is sublime to feel and say of another...I rely on him as on myself;...
    CbW 6.258 23 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers, and especially generals and leaders of colonies, mainly rely on this stuff...
    CbW 6.277 20 The main difference between people seems to be that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and another is not.
    Boks 7.220 21 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club...
    Cour 7.271 8 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards. Why do they rely on it, but because they know how potent it is with themselves?
    Aris 10.64 8 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
    Chr2 10.102 10 A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely on him.
    Chr2 10.119 26 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.
    MoL 10.247 3 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force. I wish him to rely on the spiritual arm;...
    MoL 10.254 24 Rely on yourself.
    EWI 11.138 17 Men have become aware, through the emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked. Virtuous men will not again rely on political agents.
    War 11.175 1 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.183 4 ...you cannot rely on any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.
    JBB 11.271 5 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe. Why? Because the judges rely on the forms...
    HCom 11.343 2 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. I do not know that I can make a soldier. I may be very clumsy. Perhaps I shall be timid; but you can rely on me.
    EdAd 11.389 1 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but for questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
    EdAd 11.393 19 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us...
    EdAd 11.393 23 We rely on the truth for and against ourselves.
    FRep 11.511 11 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...
    FRep 11.523 20 ...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
    II 12.75 14 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
    Mem 12.100 8 ...men of great presence of mind...do not need to rely on what they have stored for use...
    CInt 12.128 16 I would have you rely on Nature ever...

relying, v. (4)

    LT 1.268 14 ...this [conservative] class...relying not on the intellect but on the instinct, blends itself with the brute forces of nature...
    Elo1 7.99 2 All the chief orators of the world have been grave men, relying on this [moral] reality.
    Cour 7.270 11 Each is strong, relying on his own [courage]...
    Aris 10.43 5 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which...generates the habit of relying on a supply of power for all extraordinary exertions.

re-made, v. (1)

    LT 1.281 12 By new infusions alone of the spirit by which he is made and directed, can [man] be re-made and reinforced.

remain, v. (72)

    Nat 1.23 2 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
    LE 1.171 13 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain, and the gold and diamonds would remain in the last colander.
    YA 1.367 22 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts and yet remain in strict intercourse with the centres of trade and population.
    YA 1.369 2 In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it is to remain half the year on their estates...
    YA 1.383 15 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten cents the hour. They have paid it so; but not an instant would a dime remain a dime.
    Hist 2.17 17 ...the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
    SR 2.70 25 Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
    SL 2.144 12 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
    Prd1 2.235 12 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    Int 2.329 25 In every man's mind, some...facts remain...which others forget...
    Exp 3.70 10 The miracle of life which will not be expounded but will remain a miracle, introduces a new element.
    Exp 3.77 23 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and whilst they remain in contact all other points of each of the spheres are inert;...
    Chr1 3.100 2 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. That non-conformity will remain a goad and remembrancer...
    Nat2 3.172 7 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.
    NR 3.236 18 [Nature] will not remain orbed in a thought,...
    NER 3.261 20 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment...than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
    UGM 4.28 17 ...the law of individuality collects its secret strength: you are you, and I am I, and so we remain.
    UGM 4.28 18 ...nature wishes every thing to remain itself;...
    UGM 4.34 1 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow.
    UGM 4.34 14 Happy, if a few names remain so high that we have not been able to read them nearer...
    PPh 4.76 15 The qualities of sugar remain with sugar...
    SwM 4.110 5 Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value, and not remain there in globes and spaces.
    GoW 4.274 25 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us;...
    GoW 4.277 12 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages, and which will remain as long as the Prometheus.
    ET5 5.89 14 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
    ET6 5.114 4 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen remain over their wine an hour longer...
    ET12 5.206 6 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford], and a thousand dollars a year, as long as he chose to remain a bachelor, he would dance for joy.
    ET19 5.314 7 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere.
    F 6.35 27 The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of higher.
    F 6.43 17 If the wall remain adamant, it accuses the want of thought.
    Pow 6.56 1 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others have cold hands and remain bystanders;...
    Wth 6.119 24 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching...
    Ctr 6.140 13 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
    Ctr 6.144 10 There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts. Their chief use to the youth is...to be known for what they are, and not to remain to him occasions of heart-burn.
    Bhr 6.178 14 When a thought strikes us, the eyes fix and remain gazing at a distance;...
    Bty 6.289 4 The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
    Bty 6.302 21 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing...in most, rapidly declines. But we remain lovers of it...
    Elo1 7.97 27 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity, when [the hearer] feels himself addressed on grounds which will remain when everything else is taken...
    Farm 7.139 22 In the town where I live, farms remain in the same families for seven and eight generations;...
    Boks 7.212 20 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals... are addressed. But though orator and poet be of this hunger party, the capacities remain.
    Clbs 7.250 18 Discourse...when it lifts us into that mood out of which thoughts come that remain as stars in our firmament, is between two.
    SA 8.86 20 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind...
    Elo2 8.126 1 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    Res 8.140 20 By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark;...
    QO 8.200 18 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius?
    Insp 8.283 8 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert]...consoles himself that his own faith and the divine life in him remain to him unchanged, unharmed.
    Imtl 8.321 9 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/ Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain;/ Heart's love will meet thee again./
    Imtl 8.340 20 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death;...
    Imtl 8.350 25 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants...
    Dem1 10.14 24 ...this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of [the multitude's] halting. The augur showed him a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain;...
    Aris 10.48 5 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that it must end one way or another, it must not remain as it was; for I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    PerF 10.72 26 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    SovE 10.207 26 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct. These remain.
    LLNE 10.346 27 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
    MMEm 10.419 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned, and one hundred dollars remain...
    LS 11.16 20 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...the undoubted occasion of much good; is it not better it should remain?
    LS 11.23 13 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter.
    HDC 11.53 19 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in their request to remain near the English...
    HDC 11.70 17 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering;...
    HDC 11.83 11 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown.
    EWI 11.101 18 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    AKan 11.263 19 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    II 12.74 26 ...[Inspiration's] arts and methods of working remain a mystery...
    Bost 12.186 4 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession; whereby all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not remain in the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like themselves...
    Bost 12.210 3 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
    Milt1 12.271 18 [Milton] proposed to establish a republic, of which...the substantial power should remain with primary assemblies.
    ACri 12.284 8 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    MLit 12.331 10 [Goethe]...gleans what straggling joys may yet remain out of [Fate's] ban.
    PPr 12.387 11 ...after a short time, down go [the age's] follies and weakness and the memory of them; its virtues alone remain...
    Let 12.396 22 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...
    Let 12.404 4 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...
    Trag 12.408 17 There must always remain...the hindrance of our private satisfaction by the laws of the world.

remainder, n. (7)

    NR 3.246 11 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism, and unless he can resist the sun, he must be conservative the remainder of his days.
    ET5 5.78 19 ...when [the English] have pounded each other to a poultice, they will shake hands and be friends for the remainder of their lives.
    ET12 5.203 1 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds. They told him they should now very easily raise the remainder.
    HDC 11.58 22 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton, but before he had executed the remainder of his threat he was hanged...
    Wom 11.424 3 Let the laws be purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
    PLT 12.13 18 I admire the Dutch, who burned half the harvest to enhance the price of the remainder.
    ACri 12.292 27 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...balance for remainder-spent the balance of his life;...

remained, v. (22)

    LE 1.180 18 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...
    Comp 2.126 26 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    OS 2.268 1 In [philosophy's] experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.
    PPh 4.44 1 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates...remained for ten years his scholar...
    SwM 4.111 4 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744, and they remained from that time neglected;...
    SwM 4.143 20 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg]...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    MoS 4.162 16 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
    NMW 4.234 23 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses; they must be engulfed: fire upon the ice! The order remained unexecuted for ten minutes.
    GoW 4.280 16 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remained [Novalis's] favorite reading to the end of his life.
    ET8 5.140 12 Haldor remained a short time with the king...
    ET11 5.178 19 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house...
    ET11 5.178 23 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
    ET17 5.292 1 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions which never rested whilst I remained in the country.
    Bhr 6.194 12 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him; for that in whatever condition, Basle remained incorrigibly Basle.
    Elo1 7.87 27 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real...
    PPo 8.264 23 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    Dem1 10.14 23 ...this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of [the multitude's] halting. The augur showed him a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain;...
    LLNE 10.338 4 ...while society remained in doubt between the indignation of the old school and the audacity of the new, a higher note sounded.
    MMEm 10.400 9 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother...
    Carl 10.497 4 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    EWI 11.130 9 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port...
    ALin 11.336 22 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that...what remained to be done required new and uncommitted hands...

remaining, adj. (5)

    SwM 4.120 4 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    MoS 4.162 19 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It remained long neglected, until, after many years...I read the book, and procured the remaining volumes.
    CSC 10.373 18 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
    EWI 11.109 2 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
    EWI 11.119 27 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved to throw up the two remaining years of apprenticeship, and to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.

remaining, v. (11)

    Nat 1.47 21 The relations of parts and the end of the whole remaining the same, what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    SL 2.157 20 Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
    Cir 2.302 11 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining...
    Pt1 3.3 10 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.
    Imtl 8.331 25 When my friend at last left Congress, [the two men] parted, his colleague remaining there;...
    SlHr 10.447 16 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is always a few more of the class remaining...
    Carl 10.489 13 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin, remaining Hugh Whelan all the time, should talk scornfully of all this nonsense of books...
    HDC 11.41 25 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of a reservation of land for the minister...
    SMC 11.367 5 Enlisting for three years, and remaining to the end of the war, these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    FRO2 11.488 9 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical. I think that to be...the one difference remaining.
    CPL 11.499 19 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.

remains, n. (26)

    AmS 1.82 2 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
    Hist 2.14 2 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
    Hist 2.16 8 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    Art1 2.359 20 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...
    NER 3.258 14 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius...
    PPh 4.78 22 A chief structure of human wit, like...the Etrurian remains, it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
    ET5 5.91 15 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains...
    ET16 5.290 8 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city...
    Pow 6.70 25 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.
    Ctr 6.165 16 We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.
    Boks 7.202 26 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    Boks 7.218 26 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus, pretending to be Egyptian remains; the Sentences of Epictetus;...
    Clbs 7.237 11 ...the Table-Talk of Coleridge is one of the best remains of his genius.
    OA 7.316 16 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
    PI 8.57 6 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
    Res 8.152 23 Among fossil remains, the willow and the pine appear with the ferns.
    PC 8.212 14 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia.
    PC 8.214 6 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...
    PerF 10.73 15 ...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.
    LLNE 10.332 15 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical discourses...on the Orphic and Ante-Homeric remains,-yet this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    Thor 10.473 5 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge...of trees, of birds, of Indian remains and the like...
    ChiE 11.472 14 ...I must remember that [China] has respectable remains of astronomic science...
    CW 12.177 4 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Wyman wishes to find new anatomic structures or fossil remains;...
    MAng1 12.222 17 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    MAng1 12.243 24 In the church of Santa Croce are [Michelangelo's] mortal remains.
    Pray 12.351 6 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men...

remains, v. (82)

    Nat 1.49 6 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    Nat 1.66 12 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...
    AmS 1.96 14 The new deed...remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life.
    AmS 1.100 15 It remains to say somewhat of [the scholar's] duties.
    MN 1.217 21 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it. But the love remains in his mind...
    MR 1.236 25 The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them...
    LT 1.288 19 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
    YA 1.384 6 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.392 3 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Hist 2.33 9 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    SR 2.68 17 ...the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid;...
    Comp 2.100 23 Under all governments the influence of character remains the same...
    Comp 2.110 12 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag.
    Comp 2.112 25 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor;...
    SL 2.131 20 All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.
    Prd1 2.231 1 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same; but this remains the dream of poets.
    Prd1 2.238 23 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...
    Cir 2.317 13 [When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year;...
    Int 2.328 1 ...this native law remains over [the mind] after it has come to reflection or conscious thought.
    Int 2.338 7 ...a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    Pt1 3.15 4 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
    Pt1 3.19 14 The spiritual fact remains unalterable...
    Mrs1 3.130 16 Each [member of an assembly] returns to his degree in the scale of good society, porcelain remains porcelain, and earthen earthen.
    UGM 4.8 10 The aid we have from others is mechanical compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.
    PPh 4.75 24 It remains to say that the defect of Plato in power is only that which results inevitably from his quality.
    PPh 4.78 12 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
    PPh 4.78 19 How many ages have gone by, and [Plato] remains unapproached!
    SwM 4.102 16 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries...and we are to judge, by what he can spare, of what remains.
    SwM 4.110 27 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.
    SwM 4.136 26 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    SwM 4.137 20 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    MoS 4.157 22 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable...
    MoS 4.172 10 ...the interrogation of custom at all points...is the evidence of [the superior mind's] perception of the flowing power which remains itself in all changes.
    ShP 4.215 13 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic.
    GoW 4.279 20 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its way...
    ET2 5.29 9 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to these annoyances at last [at sea], but the dread of the sea remains longer.
    ET4 5.45 27 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain...
    ET4 5.64 2 Flogging, banished from the armies of Western Europe, remains here [in England] by the sanction of the Duke of Wellington.
    ET11 5.181 26 Chesterfield House remains in Audley Street.
    ET14 5.242 19 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind, which remains a superior evidence to empirical demonstrations.
    ET14 5.255 8 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims, and the smallest fraction of power remains for heroism and poetry.
    F 6.12 10 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...
    Wth 6.106 17 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot...
    Wsp 6.230 20 Why should I give up my thought, because I cannot answer an objection to it? Consider only whether it remains in my life the same it was.
    CbW 6.264 24 ...so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
    Bty 6.302 25 ...the sovereign attribute [of beauty] remains to be noted.
    SS 7.10 12 A man is born by the side of his father, and there he remains.
    Elo1 7.95 9 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains.
    DL 7.128 21 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains...
    WD 7.180 14 One more view remains.
    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.
    OA 7.330 4 ...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren.
    PI 8.39 26 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men. How much of the original craft remains in him, and he a mortal man!
    QO 8.200 27 ...there remains the indefeasible persistency of the individual to be himself.
    PC 8.221 16 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...which remains pure and indestructible in each mote as in masses and planets...
    Dem1 10.3 22 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream;...
    Edc1 10.155 20 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon.
    Supl 10.174 21 ...Nature measures her greatness...by what remains when all superfluity and accessories are shorn off.
    SovE 10.195 11 We perish, and perish gladly, if the law remains.
    Prch 10.222 18 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary. The object of adoration remains forever unhurt and identical.
    Prch 10.237 3 The old heart remains as ever with its old human duties.
    MoL 10.253 17 Bonaparte himself deserted [the Egpytian campaign], and the army got home as it could, all fruitless; not a trace of it remains.
    MoL 10.254 9 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of the city are utterly gone; whilst the ode of Pindar, in praise of Pytheas, remains entire.
    Schr 10.262 5 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that the face of Nature remains irresistibly alluring.
    Schr 10.285 26 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true, which attack and wound any who opposes them, whether he who brought them here remains here or not;...
    EWI 11.100 21 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded.
    EWI 11.145 17 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens...
    War 11.155 21 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of way, only in the childhood and imbecility of the other instincts, and remains in that form only until their development.
    War 11.159 27 All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation: the doctrine of the right of war still remains.
    FSLC 11.197 12 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.
    FSLN 11.215 2 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save power remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
    FSLN 11.223 1 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
    ACiv 11.297 21 ...a man coins himself into his labor; turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
    ACiv 11.306 5 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    EPro 11.322 19 Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.
    FRO2 11.488 5 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    II 12.74 25 ...this wonderful source of knowledge [Inspiration] remains a mystery;...
    CL 12.165 27 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half, and-enlarge it by astronomy never so far-remains a half.
    CL 12.167 2 Matter, how immensely soever enlarged by the telescope, remains the lesser half.
    Milt1 12.259 12 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld the remains of ancient art...
    EurB 12.376 11 Everything good in such a story [novel of character] remains with the reader when the book is closed.
    Trag 12.405 13 How slender the possession that yet remains to us;...

Remaker, n. (1)

    MR 1.248 9 What is a man born for but to be...a Remaker of what man has made;...

remand, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.198 9 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?

remark, n. (40)

    Nat 1.14 16 ...I shall leave [examples of the useful arts] to the reader's reflection, with the general remark, that this mercenary benefit is one which has respect to a farther good.
    Nat 1.56 7 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
    Comp 2.94 15 ...when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon.
    Lov1 2.180 9 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not. Then first it ceases to be a stone. The same remark holds of painting.
    Exp 3.56 5 I have had good lessons from pictures which I have since seen without emotion or remark.
    NR 3.237 7 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape, just as we value a general remark in conversation.
    NER 3.268 13 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark is too honest...
    NER 3.280 26 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    SwM 4.136 14 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. Swedenborg's history points the remark.
    ShP 4.200 11 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    ET6 5.105 12 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made.
    ET7 5.120 1 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty. She was not aware how wide an application her foreign readers would give to the remark.
    ET14 5.243 2 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
    ET17 5.297 15 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company, but no one making the expected remark, he put back his own in silence.
    Pow 6.62 8 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than they are;...
    Bhr 6.180 16 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him...
    Civ 7.23 12 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.
    Civ 7.34 19 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free; and the remark holds not less but more true of the culture of men than of the tillage of land.
    Clbs 7.236 20 ...Dr. Johnson impresses his company, not only by the point of the remark, but also...because he makes it.
    Comc 8.167 16 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard...
    Comc 8.169 25 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat when his companions threw off theirs, but sweltered on; which exciting remark, his comrades playfully forced off his coat...
    QO 8.189 26 Our very abstaining to repeat and credit the fine remark of our friend is thievish.
    QO 8.191 25 ...we must thank Karl Otfried Muller for the just remark, Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    PC 8.216 13 ...every one has heard the remark...that the philosopher was above his audience.
    Grts 8.319 20 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town. You may hear this every day; but it is a shallow remark.
    Dem1 10.9 17 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us.
    Prch 10.235 14 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
    LLNE 10.325 6 I recall the remark of a witty physician who remembered the hardships of his own youth;...
    EzRy 10.390 18 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    EzRy 10.392 8 We remember the remark of a gentleman...that a man who could tell a story so well [as Ezra Ripley] was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    Thor 10.467 27 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
    Thor 10.477 16 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    LS 11.16 1 One general remark before quitting this branch of this subject [the Lord's Supper].
    EWI 11.100 26 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded. ... Let us withhold...if we can, every indignant remark.
    EWI 11.117 27 I may here express a general remark, which the history of slavery seems to justify...
    FSLN 11.224 3 ...there is not a single general remark...that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
    FSLN 11.238 18 ...when the Southerner points to the anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.
    Wom 11.409 6 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
    PLT 12.23 13 ...it is the common remark of the student, Could I only have begun with the same fire which I had on the last day, I should have done something.
    PLT 12.25 17 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius;...

remark, v. (7)

    LE 1.180 13 ...it is curious to remark, Bonaparte's army partook of this double strength of the captain;...
    MN 1.222 5 ...I shall only remark that the solicitations of this spirit...are never forborne.
    YA 1.372 22 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at somewhat better than the actual creatures...
    ET1 5.8 21 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...and did not even omit to remark the similar termination of their names.
    Bhr 6.188 5 In persons of character we do not remark manners...
    Wom 11.406 11 Men remark figure...
    Milt1 12.247 21 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...

remarkable, adj. (56)

    Nat 1.75 20 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...especially at remarkable crises in life, our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    AmS 1.91 23 It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.
    MN 1.213 17 It is remarkable that we have, out of the deeps of antiquity...a statement of this fact...
    YA 1.363 1 It is remarkable that our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another.
    Hist 2.6 12 It is remarkable that involuntarily we always read as superior beings.
    Hist 2.15 9 ...of the genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold representation...
    OS 2.282 8 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    Art1 2.355 3 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object,--so remarkable in Burke...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Nat2 3.187 20 Not less remarkable is the overfaith of each man in the importance of what he has to do or say.
    NER 3.251 19 In these [reform] movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers.
    PPh 4.71 2 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others...
    SwM 4.98 10 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg...
    SwM 4.111 16 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history.
    SwM 4.112 12 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the synthetic method;...
    SwM 4.115 25 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world? In the first volume of the Animal Kingdom, he broaches the subject in a remarkable note...
    SwM 4.143 17 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg]...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    GoW 4.276 10 Take the most remarkable example that could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
    GoW 4.286 26 ...especially his relations to remarkable minds and to critical epochs of thought:--these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET3 5.37 24 The innumerable details [in England]...the multitudes of rich and of remarkable people...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET16 5.278 22 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
    ET16 5.283 17 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable.
    F 6.3 7 ...the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season.
    Bhr 6.179 22 'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.
    Wsp 6.213 19 'T is remarkable that our faith in ecstasy consists with total inexperience of it.
    Wsp 6.234 12 I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
    Elo1 7.89 7 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its law is method, which constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
    Boks 7.205 6 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him...down--with notice of all remarkable objects on the way--through fourteen hundred years of time.
    Comc 8.170 25 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;...
    Grts 8.318 23 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen...
    Imtl 8.327 2 The most remarkable step in the religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg...
    Dem1 10.18 2 ...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal, yes, in beasts too in a remarkable manner...
    Dem1 10.24 24 ...this is not the least remarkable fact which the adepts have developed.
    Plu 10.293 1 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.296 16 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch...
    LLNE 10.328 20 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    LLNE 10.362 13 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons...
    CSC 10.377 1 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    Carl 10.490 12 ...[Carlyle] is also as remarkable in England as the Tower of London...
    HDC 11.53 23 It was remarkable that the preaching was not wholly new to [the Indians].
    HDC 11.77 25 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest events of the present age.
    War 11.159 7 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...
    FSLC 11.187 3 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law.
    AKan 11.261 15 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about. A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens...
    TPar 11.290 17 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.
    Wom 11.406 20 ...any remarkable opinion or movement shared by woman will be the first sign of revolution.
    Wom 11.414 9 ...in every remarkable religious development in the world, women have taken a leading part.
    ChiE 11.471 2 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one opinion on this remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire in the world to the youngest Republic.
    Mem 12.95 20 This power [of memory] will alone make a man remarkable;...
    CL 12.158 13 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable...
    Bost 12.204 2 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;-not any remarkable book of wisdom;...
    Milt1 12.248 22 These tracts [by Milton] are remarkable compositions.
    ACri 12.296 8 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style.
    WSL 12.344 4 [Landor's appreciation of character] is the more remarkable considered with his intense nationality...
    PPr 12.385 18 We are at some loss how to state what strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
    PPr 12.389 25 One word more respecting [Carlyle's] remarkable style.
    Trag 12.416 5 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death. Yet these wards are not the least remarkable for the composure and cheerfulness of their inmates.

remarkably, adv. (3)

    ET8 5.139 27 Haldor was very stout and strong and remarkably handsome in appearances.
    HDC 11.68 23 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...
    MLit 12.326 6 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...

remarked, v. (33)

    Nat 1.22 10 ...whosoever has seen a person of...happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    Con 1.316 19 ...I have remarked that what holds in particular, holds in general...
    Prd1 2.229 10 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Mrs1 3.135 20 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles. Napoleon remarked them, and speedily managed to rally them off...
    NER 3.279 1 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.
    NMW 4.237 15 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 5.53 15 In Scotland...the poverty of the country makes itself remarked...
    ET4 5.65 2 As early as the [Norman] conquest it is remarked...that [England's] merchants trade to all countries.
    ET4 5.65 15 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool;...
    ET11 5.184 1 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
    ET16 5.286 8 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
    Pow 6.79 23 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Ill 6.310 4 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...
    Art2 7.54 12 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds...
    OA 7.333 13 ...[John Adams]...remarked that all the Presidents were of the same age...
    QO 8.177 4 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...
    MoL 10.245 19 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion; and nobody remarked the defect.
    LLNE 10.325 3 There grew a certain tenderness on the people, not before remarked.
    LLNE 10.325 18 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following.
    LLNE 10.331 23 It was remarked that for a man who threw out so many facts [Everett] was seldom convicted of a blunder.
    EzRy 10.389 10 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing;...and, as a lady thus favored remarked to me, seemed as if he was going to make a meal of you.
    SlHr 10.447 25 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    Thor 10.456 27 Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad.
    Thor 10.467 21 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...
    Thor 10.481 11 ...[Thoreau] remarked that by night every dwelling-house gives out bad air...
    FSLN 11.224 16 It is remarked of the Americans that they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...
    Wom 11.414 19 This [prophetic] power, this religious character, is everywhere to be remarked in [women].
    Wom 11.415 3 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...she is incapable of evil or of good. And something like that position, in all low society, is the position of woman; because, as before remarked, she is herself its civilizer.
    Mem 12.100 12 ...it is remarked that inventive men have bad memories.
    CL 12.158 7 My companion and I remarked from the hilltop the prevailing sobriety of color...
    Bost 12.183 6 ...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and addicted to change...
    MAng1 12.242 4 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
    ACri 12.289 2 We were educated in horror of Satan, but Goethe remarked that all men like to hear him named.

remarking, v. (2)

    LS 11.11 4 ...I cannot help remarking that it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
    CW 12.175 5 ...'t is worth remarking...that a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...

remarks, n. (8)

    LE 1.172 14 I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
    NMW 4.239 23 [Bonaparte's] remarks and estimates discover the information and justness of measurement of the middle class.
    ET19 5.309 7 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it...
    SS 7.3 15 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one? He added many lively remarks...
    CSC 10.374 4 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention], and the remarks of the principal speakers.
    EzRy 10.385 1 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence, to make suitable remarks on it...
    JBS 11.277 13 ...I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to...let [John Brown] speak for himself.
    FRO2 11.485 8 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...

remarks, v. (6)

    Tran 1.336 23 Jacobi...remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    SwM 4.133 27 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;...
    NMW 4.248 10 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.
    Wsp 6.229 16 An anatomical observer remarks that the sympathies of the chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face...
    ALin 11.335 22 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    SMC 11.369 27 After Gettysburg, Colonel Prescott remarks that our [Thirty-second] regiment is highly complimented.

remede, v. (1)

    Imtl 8.322 3 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.

remedial, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.71 3 ...who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit?
    Comp 2.126 13 ...the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
    Cir 2.312 21 In my daily work I...do not believe in remedial force...
    Edc1 10.151 21 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...a patience that nothing but faith in the remedial forces of the soul can give.

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