Talent to Taurida

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

talent, n. (274)

    AmS 1.89 8 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent...
    MN 1.211 8 We rather envied [a poet's] circumstance than his talent.
    MN 1.211 19 [This ecstatic state] respects genius and not talent;...
    MR 1.236 8 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...a man may select the fittest employment for his peculiar talent again, without compromise.
    MR 1.256 9 There is a sublime prudence...which...postpones talent to genius, and special results to character.
    Con 1.310 17 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
    Tran 1.339 12 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances, united with every trait and talent of beauty and power.
    YA 1.378 17 This is the good and this the evil of trade, that it would put everything into market; talent, beauty, virtue, and man himself.
    YA 1.379 1 ...the aristocracy of trade...was the result of toil and talent...
    YA 1.383 12 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of paying talent and labor at one rate...
    YA 1.385 3 None should be a governor who has not a talent for governing.
    YA 1.386 2 If any man has a talent for righting wrong...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    SR 2.83 9 ...of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    SL 2.140 23 Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call.
    SL 2.141 4 This talent and this call depend on [a man's] organization...
    Fdsp 2.203 26 Almost every man we meet...has...some talent...in his head... which spoils all conversation with him.
    Fdsp 2.208 2 We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals.
    Prd1 2.231 17 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius; talent which converts itself to money;...
    Prd1 2.231 18 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius;...talent which glitters to-day that it may dine and sleep well to-morrow;...
    Prd1 2.232 2 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...
    OS 2.276 4 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden...
    OS 2.288 10 ...[scholars' and authors'] talent is some exaggerated faculty...
    OS 2.293 23 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you...
    Art1 2.353 15 ...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give...
    Art1 2.366 12 ...the artist and the connoisseur now seek in art the exhibition of their talent...
    Art1 2.367 5 Art must not be a superficial talent...
    Pt1 3.11 15 Talent may frolic and juggle;...
    Exp 3.50 20 Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature?
    Exp 3.57 8 ...each [man] has his special talent...
    Chr1 3.90 7 The purest literary talent appears at one time great, and another time small...
    Chr1 3.90 10 What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism.
    Chr1 3.91 9 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
    Chr1 3.91 10 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
    Mrs1 3.121 27 [Good society] is made of the spirit, more than of the talent of men...
    Mrs1 3.128 19 ...fashion is funded talent;...
    Gts 3.161 23 ...it is a cold lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
    Pol1 3.217 21 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    Pol1 3.217 24 ...each of us has some talent...
    Pol1 3.218 7 Our talent is a sort of expiation...
    Pol1 3.221 16 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable...men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt.
    NR 3.238 25 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance, it seems the only talent;...
    NER 3.259 16 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?
    NER 3.264 6 [The new communities] aim...to give an equal reward to labor and to talent...
    NER 3.281 14 ...[lovers of truth] know the tax of talent...
    UGM 4.18 19 It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to blind the beholder.
    UGM 4.31 25 ...true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere.
    UGM 4.32 3 Each is uneasy until he has...beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation.
    UGM 4.33 17 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    PPh 4.51 20 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...genius; the other, talent...
    PPh 4.52 22 European civility is the triumph of talent...
    PPh 4.64 26 What a price [Plato] sets on the feats of talent...
    SwM 4.131 5 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied, as much as when a bitterness in men of talent leads to satire...
    MoS 4.150 7 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with... cities and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;--the men of talent and actio
    MoS 4.170 20 Talent makes counterfeit ties; genius finds the real ones.
    MoS 4.174 24 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief...to the Understanding, the Mephistopheles, to the gymnastics of talent.
    ShP 4.195 1 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ShP 4.218 1 As long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show.
    NMW 4.230 2 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution...
    NMW 4.242 17 ...brilliant prizes glittered in the eyes of [French] youth and talent.
    NMW 4.242 27 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    NMW 4.243 9 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent...
    NMW 4.245 17 ...there is something in the success of grand talent which enlists an universal sympathy.
    NMW 4.257 8 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...
    GoW 4.280 22 In England and in America there is a respect for talent;...
    GoW 4.280 27 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent.
    GoW 4.281 1 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent.
    GoW 4.281 13 Talent alone can not make a writer.
    GoW 4.283 5 This earnestness enables [the Germans] to outsee men of much more talent.
    GoW 4.283 14 ...Goethe...does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    GoW 4.283 16 ...[Goethe] is very wise, though his talent often veils his wisdom.
    GoW 4.284 7 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer...
    GoW 4.289 11 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET1 5.16 5 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
    ET2 5.31 26 Among the passengers [on the Washington Irving] there was some variety of talent and profession;...
    ET4 5.49 1 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...high bribes to talent and skill;...
    ET4 5.49 3 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...the million opportunities and outlets for expanding and misplaced talent;...
    ET4 5.52 14 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.
    ET6 5.114 6 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection...
    ET7 5.125 23 What influence the English have [in Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power; that of the French by affinity and talent.
    ET8 5.142 4 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered...
    ET10 5.157 4 The headlong bias to utility [in England] will let no talent lie in a napkin...
    ET10 5.163 6 ...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the intelligent middle class...is in open market [in England].
    ET10 5.167 23 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of...the application of their talent to new labor.
    ET10 5.170 15 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
    ET11 5.176 20 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars. Comity, social talent and fine manners, no doubt, have had their part also.
    ET11 5.186 3 ...beneficent power, le talent de bien faire, gives a majesty which cannot be concealed or resisted.
    ET11 5.186 18 ...it is wonderful how much talent runs into manners...
    ET11 5.196 23 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that industry and administrative talent should administer;...
    ET14 5.238 24 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy, or any one who had a talent for experiment, was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    ET14 5.252 17 [The English] exert every variety of talent on a lower ground...
    ET14 5.258 2 There are all degrees in poetry, and we must be thankful for every beautiful talent.
    ET14 5.259 22 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone...
    ET15 5.262 14 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    ET15 5.263 7 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper.
    ET18 5.302 19 What variety of power and talent;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    F 6.11 26 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain...some stray taste or talent for flowers...
    F 6.12 8 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...
    F 6.17 25 This kind of talent so abounds...as if it adhered to the chemic atoms;...
    F 6.35 10 A transcendent talent draws so largely on [a man's] forces as to lame him;...
    Pow 6.58 6 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies neither more or less of talent...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Pow 6.80 1 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were by no means men of the largest literary talent...
    Pow 6.80 3 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of mercantile activity and working talent.
    Pow 6.80 9 ...there are sublime considerations which limit the value of talent and superficial success.
    Wth 6.104 25 Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
    Wth 6.104 26 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched;...
    Wth 6.105 27 Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice...
    Wth 6.112 9 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent.
    Wth 6.113 8 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man, in the discovery of his proper talent, has sunk the necessity for false expenses.
    Ctr 6.131 6 A topical memory makes [a man] an almanac; a talent for debate, a disputant;...
    Ctr 6.131 10 A topical memoray makes [a man] an almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent...
    Ctr 6.133 1 The [egotistical] man runs round a ring formed by his own talent...
    Ctr 6.133 13 This distemper [egotism] is the scourge of talent...
    Ctr 6.148 11 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
    Bhr 6.183 23 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
    Bhr 6.196 13 Special precepts are not to be thought of; the talent of well-doing contains them all.
    Wsp 6.217 23 ...talent uniformly sinks with character.
    Wsp 6.217 26 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    Wsp 6.231 8 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward? 'T is the difference...of talent and genius...
    Wsp 6.238 5 Talent and success interest me but moderately.
    CbW 6.257 20 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social rank. Then all talent sinks with character.
    CbW 6.264 8 [Health] is more essential than talent, even in the works of talent.
    CbW 6.277 27 ...all rests at last on that integrity which dwarfs talent...
    CbW 6.278 2 Fancy prices are paid for position and for the culture of talent...
    Bty 6.283 19 A deep man believes...that love can exalt talent;...
    Elo1 7.66 5 ...in our experience we are forced to gather up the figure [of the orator] in fragments, here one talent and there another.
    Elo1 7.70 24 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Elo1 7.71 17 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
    Elo1 7.74 13 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive to him who is devoid of that talent...
    Elo1 7.75 22 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    Elo1 7.76 1 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...has a talent for speaking.
    Elo1 7.81 21 Personal ascendency may exist with or without adequate talent for its expression.
    Elo1 7.82 10 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    Elo1 7.99 26 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent...to appear for show;...
    Elo1 7.100 2 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who preferred their integrity to their talent...
    DL 7.119 23 There is many a humble house...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    Farm 7.146 12 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little...
    WD 7.184 13 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of which talent seems only a tool...
    WD 7.184 21 It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
    Clbs 7.231 9 ...who can resist the charm of talent?
    Clbs 7.231 24 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent.
    Clbs 7.237 4 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet...habitual reverence for principles over talent or learning, is felt by the frivolous.
    Cour 7.267 19 Each has his own courage, as his own talent;...
    Cour 7.273 8 ...it is not the means on which we draw, as...practical skill or dexterous talent..that count, but the aims only.
    Suc 7.286 17 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent.
    Suc 7.295 9 ...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack...is the central intelligence...
    Suc 7.295 10 ...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack, and a million times better than any talent, is the central intelligence...
    Suc 7.295 12 ...it is only as a door into this [central intelligence], that any talent or the knowledge it gives is of value.
    Suc 7.295 18 ...in the scale of powers it is not talent but sensibility which is best...
    Suc 7.295 18 ...talent confines, but the central life puts us in relation to all.
    Suc 7.301 11 Our perception far outruns our talent.
    Suc 7.305 16 An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    OA 7.319 15 ...we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
    PI 8.27 6 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image...
    PI 8.31 14 Talent amuses...
    PI 8.36 9 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
    PI 8.56 6 ...the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man...
    PI 8.57 8 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    SA 8.79 24 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force,--behavior, and not performance, or talent...
    SA 8.88 6 If a man have manners and talent he may dress roughly and carelessly.
    SA 8.94 5 ...[Madame de Stael] said...Conversation, like talent, exists only in France.
    Elo2 8.116 18 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power...
    Elo2 8.117 27 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...delighted with the talent shown by Dr. Hugh Blair, went to him and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Elo2 8.118 17 ...this power [of eloquence] which so fascinates and astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is universal.
    Elo2 8.120 2 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private company...
    Elo2 8.127 24 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond. Now this is not want of talent or learning, but of manliness.
    Res 8.138 11 A Schopenhauer...teaching pessimism...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    QO 8.196 22 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London, who forges good thunder for the Times, but never works as well under his own name. This is a sort of dramatizing talent;...
    QO 8.203 3 He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural talent.
    PC 8.229 9 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!
    PC 8.230 2 Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show.
    PC 8.230 3 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    Grts 8.308 1 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent;...
    Imtl 8.331 4 ...what is called great and powerful life...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
    Imtl 8.331 9 There is a profound melancholy at the base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
    Imtl 8.337 21 I have known admirable persons, without feeling that they exhaust the possibilities of virtue and talent.
    Dem1 10.18 16 [Demonic individuals] are not always superior persons, either in mind or in talent.
    Dem1 10.19 3 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue, without shining talent, yet makes them prevailing.
    Dem1 10.20 19 All that frees talent without increasing self-command is noxious.
    Aris 10.40 3 I enumerate the claims by which men enter the superior class. 1. A commanding talent.
    Aris 10.40 18 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.
    Aris 10.42 1 In the heroic ages, as we call them, the hero uniformly has some real talent.
    Aris 10.46 24 ...the constitution of things has distributed a new quality or talent to each mind...
    Aris 10.49 25 ...the town-meeting, the Congress, will not fail to find out legislative talent.
    Aris 10.50 15 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes.
    Aris 10.50 27 More than taste and talent must go to the Will.
    Aris 10.53 15 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience;...
    PerF 10.79 24 In each talent is the perception of an order and series in the department he deals with...
    PerF 10.84 26 A man has a rare mathematical talent...and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
    Chr2 10.95 26 ...no talent gives the impression of sanity, if wanting this [moral sentiment];...
    Supl 10.173 22 The talent sucks the substance of the man.
    SovE 10.212 2 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from all that talent executes to the sentiment that fills the heart and dictates the future of nations.
    Prch 10.230 5 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force, like his own;...
    Prch 10.230 22 Let [the young preacher] value his talent as a door into Nature.
    Prch 10.233 14 ...power is not so much shown in talent as in tone.
    MoL 10.253 27 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent...
    MoL 10.254 1 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    Schr 10.263 6 ...a true talent delights the possessor first.
    Schr 10.276 22 How many young geniuses we have known, and none but ourselves will ever hear of them for want in them of a little talent!
    Schr 10.278 4 I think there is no more intellectual people than ours. They are very apprehensive and curious. But there is a sterility of talent.
    Schr 10.279 5 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character...
    Schr 10.279 8 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius...
    Schr 10.284 27 These questions [of life] speak to Genius, to that power which is underneath and greater than all talent...
    Schr 10.285 4 Men of talent fill the eye with their pretension.
    LLNE 10.331 17 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts...
    LLNE 10.335 1 There was that finish about this person [Everett]...which distinguishes every piece of genius from the works of talent...
    LLNE 10.341 21 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a pure idealist, not at all a man...of any practical talent...
    LLNE 10.341 27 ...the men of talent complained of the want of point and precision in this abstract and religious thinker [Alcott].
    LLNE 10.348 26 Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.
    LLNE 10.358 22 Why could not the like partnership be formed between the inventor and the man of executive talent everywhere?
    LLNE 10.360 19 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive, not allowing each to do what he had a talent for...
    LLNE 10.364 13 It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety of character and talent...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    EzRy 10.385 23 Trained in this [New England] church, and very well qualified by his natural talent to work in it, it was never out of [Ezra Ripley' s] mind.
    MMEm 10.402 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
    MMEm 10.404 1 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was happy, but... unattainable by talent...
    MMEm 10.404 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] calls herself the puny pilgrim, whose sole talent is sympathy.
    SlHr 10.445 13 [Samuel Hoar] was neither spiritualist nor man of genius nor of a literary nor an executive talent.
    SlHr 10.446 9 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    Thor 10.454 14 [Thoreau] had no talent for wealth...
    Thor 10.475 23 ...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never lacks the causal thought, showing that his genius was better than his talent.
    EWI 11.136 26 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...so that this cause has had the power to draw to it every particle of talent and of worth in England...
    FSLN 11.217 16 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these...with the natural movement and total strength of their nature and talent...
    FSLN 11.219 19 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent...all count for nothing.
    FSLN 11.220 27 There are those...who have power and inspiration only to do ill. Their talent or their faculty deserts them when they undertake anything right.
    AsSu 11.249 9 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends. He was elected. It was a homage to character and talent.
    JBB 11.271 2 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
    EPro 11.326 16 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness...
    ALin 11.338 2 [Providence] has given every race its own talent...
    EdAd 11.385 20 We have taste, critical talent, good professors, good commentators, but a lack of male energy.
    EdAd 11.386 7 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by little men with some saucy village talent...
    Shak1 11.453 3 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent...
    FRep 11.512 8 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.
    FRep 11.516 16 ...the direction of talent, of character...may well occupy us...
    FRep 11.531 21 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity...
    PLT 12.9 18 We must have a special talent, and bring something to pass.
    PLT 12.31 8 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
    PLT 12.39 5 A man of talent has only to name any form or fact with which we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it enhances it to all eyes.
    PLT 12.47 24 Talent is habitual facility of execution.
    PLT 12.48 8 ...in the last results, the man with the talent is the need of mankind;...
    PLT 12.49 3 As a talent Dante's imagination is the nearest to hands and feet that we have seen.
    PLT 12.56 9 There are two theories of life; one for the demonstration of our talent, the other for the education of the man.
    PLT 12.56 11 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have...
    PLT 12.56 20 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular. They are in perpetual balance and strife. One is talent, the other genius.
    PLT 12.56 23 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...
    PLT 12.57 2 It is the levity of this country to forgive everything to talent.
    PLT 12.57 9 ...society seems to be in conspiracy to...pull down genius to lucrative talent.
    PLT 12.57 13 Wide is the gulf between genius and talent.
    PLT 12.57 20 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    PLT 12.58 15 The condition of sanity is...to keep down talent in its place...
    PLT 12.58 18 Each talent is ambitious and self-asserting;...
    PLT 12.61 10 Intellect...runs down into talent...
    PLT 12.63 21 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
    II 12.82 3 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.
    Mem 12.103 2 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    CInt 12.119 8 ...I too am an American, and value practical talent.
    CInt 12.119 10 I value talent,-perhaps no man more.
    CInt 12.119 27 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is in true order...
    CInt 12.123 12 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is...to keep down the talent...
    CInt 12.123 14 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...
    CInt 12.123 21 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading, so that presently all is wrong, talent is mistaken for genius...
    CInt 12.130 23 He that draws on his own talent cannot be overshadowed or supplanted.
    CL 12.135 12 The capable and generous, let them spend their talent on the land.
    CL 12.135 14 ...[the land] will develop in the cultivator the talent it requires.
    Bost 12.186 3 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...
    MAng1 12.226 18 Versatility of talent in men of undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...
    ACri 12.288 12 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.
    MLit 12.316 5 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent which only shines whilst you praise it;...
    MLit 12.326 25 Dramatic power, the rarest talent in literature, [Goethe] has very little.
    MLit 12.330 20 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...taught to look for great talent and culture under a gray coat.
    MLit 12.332 15 [Goethe] has written better than other poets only as his talent was subtler...
    EurB 12.365 9 Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it needed in order to make its mark and supply the want of talent.
    EurB 12.375 27 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...
    PPr 12.385 19 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.
    Let 12.399 17 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of...such undeniable apprehension without talent...as our young men pretend to.
    Let 12.400 23 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans;...

Talent, n. (3)

    MN 1.218 5 ...Talent goes from without inward.
    MN 1.218 5 Talent finds its models, methods, and ends, in society...
    PLT 12.49 18 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's.

talents, n. (93)

    AmS 1.90 19 Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;...
    LE 1.164 13 ...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved.
    LE 1.177 22 [The scholar's]...talents...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
    MN 1.220 13 How all that is called talents and success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness!
    MR 1.252 21 We do not greet [the laborers'] talents...
    MR 1.256 13 ...the great man [is] very willing to lose particular powers and talents, so that he gain in the elevation of his life.
    MR 1.256 16 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave their signal talents...
    LT 1.283 10 ...talents bring their usual temptations...
    SR 2.68 1 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents...they chance to see...
    Comp 2.113 9 A wise man will...know that it is the part of prudence to... pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart.
    Comp 2.117 13 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
    SL 2.150 7 The most wonderful talents...really avail very little with us;...
    Lov1 2.185 2 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    OS 2.269 1 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents...
    OS 2.286 20 Neither his age...nor talents...can hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
    OS 2.288 15 In these instances [the scholar and author]...we feel that a man' s talents stand in the way of his advancement in truth.
    OS 2.288 21 There is in all great poets a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
    Cir 2.308 4 As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he enterprise? has he knowledge? it boots not.
    Cir 2.320 27 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
    Art1 2.355 24 ...it is the right and property...of all genuine talents...to be for their moment the top of the world.
    Pt1 3.9 1 ...we do not speak now of men of poetical talents...
    Pt1 3.9 22 Our poets are men of talents who sing...
    Mrs1 3.121 21 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class who have most vigor...
    NR 3.226 24 ...the power which drew my respect is not supported by the total symphony of [a man's] talents.
    NR 3.228 9 Young people admire talents or particular excellences;...
    NR 3.239 4 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new place...other talents take place, and rule the hour.
    NER 3.264 13 These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
    NER 3.275 7 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart, to strike a good stroke...
    NER 3.276 5 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification, until he shall know why... his brilliant talents are paralyzed in this presence.
    UGM 4.23 11 Sword and staff, or talents sword-like or staff-like, carry on the work of the world.
    PPh 4.57 7 The synthesis which makes the character of [Plato's] mind appears in all his talents.
    PPh 4.65 1 What a price [Plato] sets on the feats of talent, on the powers of Pericles, of Isocrates, of Parmenides! What price above price on the talents themselves!
    ShP 4.212 14 ...[Shakespeare's] talents never seduced him into an ostentation...
    ShP 4.212 18 Give a man of talents a story to tell, and his partiality will presently appear.
    ET13 5.220 8 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which...great virtues and talents appear...
    ET14 5.240 1 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
    F 6.9 5 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.35 10 A man must...stand in some terror of his talents.
    Pow 6.74 7 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
    Ctr 6.136 19 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey...
    Bhr 6.176 17 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Bhr 6.193 12 ...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than the talents and skills they may chance to possess...
    Bhr 6.193 14 ...it is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.
    Bhr 6.193 15 ...it is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.
    Wsp 6.227 11 Young people admire talents and particular excellences.
    CbW 6.259 24 The wise workman will not regret the poverty or the solitude which brought out his working talents.
    Bty 6.302 23 ...[the human form] is not only admirable in singular and salient talents, but also in the world of manners.
    SS 7.6 7 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...
    Elo1 7.82 4 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
    Elo1 7.85 1 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.91 7 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Elo1 7.91 9 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator. His talents are too much for him...
    Elo1 7.91 13 ...these talents [of oratory] are quite something else when they are subordinated and serve [the man];...
    WD 7.184 11 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them...
    Suc 7.291 24 ...[every man] is to dare...not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be. To do otherwise is to neutralize all those extraordinary special talents distributed among men.
    Suc 7.295 11 ...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack...is the central intelligence which subordinates and uses all talents;...
    Suc 7.311 13 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to...unfold his talents, shine, conquer and possess.
    Elo2 8.126 25 ...we have all of us known men who lose their talents...at any sudden call.
    PC 8.218 27 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne...even by other eminent talents...
    PerF 10.74 6 ...[man] seems to have as many talents as there are qualities in Nature.
    PerF 10.81 21 See how rich life is; rich in private talents...
    Chr2 10.93 12 Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each individual;...
    Supl 10.174 18 We are fond of dress, of ornament, of accomplishments, of talents...
    Prch 10.224 4 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...
    Prch 10.224 6 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...
    Prch 10.224 13 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously active...
    Schr 10.275 24 The descent of genius into talents is part of the natural order and history of the world.
    Schr 10.276 23 ...I own I love talents and accomplishments;...
    Schr 10.278 27 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But...if his talents assume an independence...they cannot serve him.
    Schr 10.279 3 It was said of an eminent Frenchman, that he was drowned in his talents.
    Schr 10.283 27 [The scholar] ought to have as many talents as he can;...
    Schr 10.285 8 [Men of talent] have talents for contention...
    LLNE 10.358 25 Talents supplement each other.
    EzRy 10.390 26 [Ezra Ripley's] friends were his study, and to see them loosened his talents and his tongue.
    MMEm 10.408 26 To be singular of choice, without singular talents and virtues, is as ridiculous as ungrateful.
    MMEm 10.409 11 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.
    MMEm 10.417 4 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man of talents, education and good social position...
    FSLN 11.222 27 After all [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...
    SMC 11.366 23 ...a very good account has been heard, not only of the [Fortieth] regiment, but of the talents and virtues of these men.
    EdAd 11.393 19 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us...
    Humb 11.457 7 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time...a universal man, not only possessed of great particular talents, but they were symmetrical...
    PLT 12.47 26 The various talents are organic...
    PLT 12.48 6 Each of these talents is born to be unfolded and set at work for the use and delight of men...
    PLT 12.53 24 Characters and talents are complemental and suppletory.
    CInt 12.116 12 If the colleges...really...had the power of imparting... thoughts which become talents...we should all rush to their gates;...
    CInt 12.127 20 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius...
    MAng1 12.238 24 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others...
    Milt1 12.262 22 ...[Milton's] virtues are so graceful that they seem rather talents than labors.
    ACri 12.288 10 In the infinite variety of talents, 't is certain that some men swear with genius.
    ACri 12.305 18 Criticism is an art when it...looks at...the essential quality of [the poet's] mind. Then the critic is poet. 'T is a question not of talents but of tone;...
    MLit 12.315 25 Would you know the genius of the writer? Do not enumerate his talents or his feats, but ask thyself, What spirit is he of?
    MLit 12.320 14 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered...with what limited poetic talents his great and steadily growing dominion has been established.
    MLit 12.321 16 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.

talent's, n. (1)

    PC 8.230 2 Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show.

tales, n. (19)

    Exp 3.45 10 ...the Genius which...gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Exp 3.47 20 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas and of very few original tales;...
    Chr1 3.94 10 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic!
    UGM 4.9 23 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited, like the enchanted princess in fairy tales, for a destined human deliverer.
    ShP 4.193 5 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.
    ShP 4.197 11 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world...
    GoW 4.288 7 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture.
    ET11 5.187 12 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry.
    PI 8.72 23 A little more or less skill in whistling is of no account. See those weary pentameter tales of Dryden and others.
    QO 8.181 19 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.
    PPo 8.243 5 The Persians have epics and tales...
    Dem1 10.7 4 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years?
    Dem1 10.11 21 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Edc1 10.126 5 All the fairy tales of Aladdin or the invisible Gyges...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    II 12.67 18 ...Haydon found Voltaire's tales left him melancholy.
    MLit 12.328 24 The spirit of [Goethe's] biography, of his poems, of his tales, is identical...
    EurB 12.374 12 For this reason, children delight in fairy tales. Nature is described in them as the servant of man, which they feel ought to be true.
    EurB 12.375 14 It is curious how sleepy and foolish we are, that these tales [novels of costume or of circumstance] will so take us.
    EurB 12.377 11 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.

Taliessin, n. (1)

    PI 8.57 22 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.

Taliessin's, n. (1)

    PI 8.58 3 A favorable specimen is Taliessin's Invocation of the Wind at the door of Castle Teganwy...

talisman, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.126 6 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the talisman that opens kings' palaces...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    EWI 11.144 18 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman...

talismans, n. (3)

    Wth 6.89 26 ...the talismans of the machine-shop;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    PPo 8.240 13 Solomon had three talismans...
    Dem1 10.21 8 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on...the bank-messenger in the country, can well be spared. Men are not fit to be trusted with these talismans.

talk, n. (21)

    ET1 5.15 16 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...
    ET17 5.294 18 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He...soon became full of talk on the French news.
    Ctr 6.142 26 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk;...
    Ill 6.323 13 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter;...
    Elo1 7.88 4 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his trifling talk nowise affected...
    Clbs 7.227 12 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk.
    Clbs 7.227 13 The physician helps [people] mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind.
    SA 8.99 21 Manners first, then conversation. Later, we see that as life was not in manners, so it is not in talk.
    SA 8.99 21 ...talk is occasional;...
    Comc 8.164 1 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible...
    Supl 10.164 24 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk...
    MoL 10.246 19 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and in his glib talk said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    EzRy 10.392 7 ...[Ezra Ripley's] talk in the parlor was chiefly narrative.
    Thor 10.454 24 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
    Carl 10.489 16 ...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 that he had been bothered with, and you shall have just the tone and talk and laughter of Carlyle.
    Carl 10.493 26 [Carlyle's] talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson: If his pistol missed fire, he would knock you down with the butt-end.
    War 11.156 18 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting. It is like the talk of one of those monomaniacs whom we sometimes meet in society, who converse on horses;...
    ALin 11.332 25 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor, running easily into jocular talk...was a rich gift to this wise man.
    SMC 11.362 19 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to such talk.
    II 12.80 1 ...the secret Power will not impart himself to us for tea-table talk;...
    ACri 12.287 4 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...

talk, v. (92)

    LE 1.172 9 Go and talk with a man of genius...
    LE 1.176 5 We...talk of muse and prophet...
    MR 1.249 27 [The Americans] think you may talk the north wind down as easily as raise society;...
    MR 1.250 3 Now if I talk with a sincere wise man...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    LT 1.261 19 We talk of the world, but we mean a few men and women.
    Con 1.307 26 Young man, I have no skill to talk with you...
    Con 1.319 2 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    Tran 1.342 8 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    Tran 1.342 24 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen both from temperament and from principle;...
    Tran 1.345 8 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to life in his profession and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors?
    Tran 1.357 11 Grave seniors talk to the deaf...
    SR 2.69 26 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking.
    Lov1 2.173 8 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops...and talk half an hour about nothing with the broad-faced, good-natured shop-boy.
    Fdsp 2.192 22 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont.
    Fdsp 2.207 7 Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    Fdsp 2.208 2 We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals.
    Fdsp 2.209 13 We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
    Fdsp 2.215 11 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.
    OS 2.290 4 From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a changed tone. He does not talk with men with an eye to their opinion.
    Cir 2.319 19 ...the man and woman of seventy...talk down to the young.
    Int 2.340 23 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature.
    Pt1 3.4 3 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
    Pt1 3.15 23 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talk with him he holds these at as slight a rate as you.
    Mrs1 3.119 18 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
    Mrs1 3.155 2 ...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
    Nat2 3.182 18 We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life were not also natural.
    NR 3.234 9 In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
    UGM 4.13 15 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking at things in the same light...
    PPh 4.45 26 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...
    PPh 4.73 10 Nobody can refuse to talk with [Socrates], he is so honest and really curious to know;...
    MoS 4.166 7 ...[Montaigne] will talk with sailors and gipsies...
    ShP 4.210 15 [Shakespeare] was a full man, who liked to talk;...
    NMW 4.250 21 ...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    ET2 5.32 1 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea...
    ET4 5.52 23 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
    ET13 5.222 17 [The English] talk with courage and logic, and show you magnificent results...
    ET13 5.222 23 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church. After that, you talk with a box-turtle.
    ET13 5.223 5 They say here [in England], that if you talk with a clergyman, you are sure to find him well-bred, informed and candid...
    ET16 5.274 13 As soon as men begin to talk of art, architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to Carlyle].
    F 6.23 23 They who talk much of destiny...are in a lower dangerous plane...
    Pow 6.56 18 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Wth 6.93 26 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey,--the monomaniacs who talk up their project in marts and offices...
    Wth 6.100 9 Men talk as if there were some magic about [making money]...
    Wth 6.114 9 Pride...can talk with poor men...
    Ctr 6.135 9 Though [men] talk of the object before them, they are thinking of themselves...
    Bhr 6.171 18 We talk much of utilities, but 't is our manners that associate us.
    Wsp 6.215 8 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
    Wsp 6.226 6 Men talk as if victory were something fortunate.
    Bty 6.281 7 ...poets and romancers talk of herbs of grace and healing...
    Bty 6.284 7 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him.
    Bty 6.298 6 We talk to [women] and wish to be listened to;...
    SS 7.9 1 'T is fine for us to talk;...
    SS 7.12 3 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
    SS 7.14 20 I know that my friend can talk eloquently;...
    Elo1 7.80 16 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
    Clbs 7.227 7 The experience of retired men is positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of some person to talk with.
    Clbs 7.232 12 Some men love only to talk where they are masters.
    Clbs 7.241 26 It is possible that the best conversation is between two persons who can talk only to each other.
    Clbs 7.245 12 There are those who go only to talk, and those who go only to hear: both are bad.
    PI 8.25 21 ...[people] like to talk and hear of Jove, Apollo, Minerva, Venus and the Nine.
    PI 8.52 11 ...we talk of our work...in prose;...
    SA 8.86 16 Why need you, who are not a gossip, talk as a gossip...
    SA 8.94 15 ...[Madame de Stael] said...I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
    SA 8.95 7 Madame de Tesse said, If I were Queen, I should command Madame de Stael to talk to me every day.
    SA 8.97 15 Must we always talk for victory...
    SA 8.98 27 ...we never talk shop before company.
    Imtl 8.339 11 Every really able man...if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Dem1 10.19 15 ...I find...some play at blindman's-buff, when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
    Aris 10.60 11 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them; they talk to him, they comfort him...
    Edc1 10.139 23 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other;...
    Edc1 10.156 11 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.
    Edc1 10.157 23 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk;...
    Supl 10.163 17 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
    Supl 10.174 8 Children and thoughtless people...like to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime.
    SovE 10.199 6 Wise on all other, [many men] lose their head the moment they talk of religion.
    SovE 10.199 12 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.
    Schr 10.264 22 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study...talk hard and worldly...
    Schr 10.265 5 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the mischief of books...
    Schr 10.268 27 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn that you have little to tell them;...
    Plu 10.301 1 [Plutarch] believes...in demons and ghosts,-but prefers...to talk of these in the morning.
    MMEm 10.398 13 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends...
    MMEm 10.421 25 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time...
    Carl 10.489 14 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...
    Carl 10.490 11 ...no mortal in America could pretend to talk with Carlyle...
    Carl 10.491 1 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls...in a manner that frightened the whole company.
    FSLC 11.189 5 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...
    HCom 11.339 7 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
    SMC 11.372 11 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days, and fighting every day but two; whilst your newspapers talk of the inactivity of the Army of the Potomac.
    PLT 12.9 12 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused...
    II 12.78 4 Truth indeed! We talk as if we had it...
    Mem 12.106 3 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...
    Pray 12.352 19 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them. I am tired to stay long, because...they sometimes talk gossip with me.

talkative, adj. (6)

    MoS 4.157 3 [The skeptic says] Why so talkative in public, when each of my neighbors can pin me to my seat by arguments I cannot refute?
    Bhr 6.184 20 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly. A well-dressed talkative company where each is bent to amuse the other...
    Elo1 7.72 16 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly,--few but very sweet words, since he was not talkative nor superfluous in speech...
    Farm 7.154 4 Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining...
    ACiv 11.301 18 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change, and they are fretful and talkative...
    CW 12.178 23 Cities force the growth and make [the man] talkative and entertaining...

talked, v. (31)

    DSA 1.138 9 This man had ploughed and planted and talked and bought and sold;...
    Con 1.315 10 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts...
    NR 3.248 10 I talked yesterday with a pair of philosophers;...
    PPh 4.71 10 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man, be he who he might whom he talked with...
    PPh 4.72 3 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from... grooms and farriers and unnamable offices,--especially if he talked with any superfine person.
    SwM 4.133 26 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
    ET1 5.7 15 ...[Landor]...talked of Wordsworth, Byron, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    ET1 5.12 7 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more...
    ET1 5.16 25 We [Emerson and Carlyle] talked of books.
    ET1 5.18 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel...and down into Wordsworth's country. There we sat down and talked of the immortality of the soul.
    ET1 5.18 7 It was not Carlyle's fault that we talked on that topic [the immortality of the soul]...
    ET1 5.19 8 [Wordsworth] sat down, and talked with great simplicity.
    ET1 5.20 24 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....
    ET17 5.295 15 We [Emerson and Wordsworth] talked of English national character.
    F 6.5 24 Wise men feel that there is something which cannot be talked or voted away...
    Ctr 6.135 23 Have you talked with Messieurs Turbinewheel, Summitlevel, and Lacofruppees? Then you may as well die.
    Wsp 6.211 25 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer,--the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons;...
    Ill 6.315 21 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
    SS 7.1 24 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked/...
    Boks 7.210 3 Now [the bidders for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] talked apart, now ate a biscuit, now made a bet...
    OA 7.334 4 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield...
    SA 8.103 17 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...in the temperance with which he...opened the eyes of the person he talked with without contradicting him.
    Aris 10.38 23 These distinctions [in men] exist, and...not to be talked or voted away.
    SovE 10.199 16 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
    LLNE 10.340 15 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together, and make society that deserved the name. He had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose...
    SlHr 10.440 15 When I talked with [Samuel Hoar] one day of some inequality of taxes in the town, he said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded;...
    Thor 10.465 6 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with...
    ALin 11.328 27 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    ALin 11.331 5 ...men naturally talked of [Lincoln's] chances in politics as incalculable.
    Bost 12.198 19 ...these [religious] thoughts are as if angels had talked with the child.
    AgMs 12.360 1 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked.

talker, n. (15)

    PPh 4.72 10 Plain old uncle as [Socrates] was...an immense talker,--the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, he had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    Bhr 6.173 11 I have seen...the persevering talker, who gives you his society in large saturating doses;...
    DL 7.105 13 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.
    Clbs 7.232 18 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms...the talker is at his ease and jolly...
    Cour 7.271 1 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    SA 8.103 10 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...
    QO 8.181 24 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it...the same growth befalls mythology...
    Supl 10.164 6 If the talker [with the superlative temperament] lose a tooth, he thinks the universal thaw and dissolution of things has come.
    Supl 10.172 2 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    MoL 10.256 20 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge.
    Carl 10.489 2 Thomas Carlyle is an immense talker...
    PLT 12.34 14 [Instinct] is...no talker.
    II 12.65 17 ...[Instinct] is no newsmonger, no disputant, no talker.
    CInt 12.123 8 ...[the Understanding] is apt to be a talker, a boaster, a busy-body.
    CL 12.142 18 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest...

talkers, n. (10)

    Tran 1.342 7 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    OS 2.287 11 The great distinction...between men of the world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Mrs1 3.123 22 In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
    NMW 4.232 5 [Bonaparte] is...terrific to all talkers and confused truth-obscuring persons.
    Bhr 6.184 23 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air;...
    Elo1 7.74 24 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
    Clbs 7.226 11 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts...
    SA 8.105 12 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists,--Talkers who mistake the description for the thing...
    QO 8.196 5 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers, and not the less of witty talkers, the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
    SovE 10.207 22 [The mystic or theist] knows the laws of gravitation and of repulsion are deaf to French talkers...

talking, adj. (4)

    Exp 3.82 3 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides.
    Supl 10.175 5 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw...a talking fish...
    MMEm 10.426 10 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism.
    CL 12.150 9 All [the Indian's] knowledge is for use...whilst white men have theirs also for talking purposes.

talking, n. (1)

    NR 3.236 10 [Generalizing] is all idle talking...

Talking Oak, The [Alfred, (1)

    EurB 12.372 15 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful...

talking, v. (24)

    Nat 1.50 24 The men, the women, - talking, running, bartering, fighting... are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    Pt1 3.39 19 In our way of talking we say That is yours, this is mine;...
    Mrs1 3.137 11 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus.
    Mrs1 3.155 10 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth;...
    PPh 4.72 27 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    NMW 4.250 8 [Napoleon] was very fond of talking of religion.
    NMW 4.250 26 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking...
    GoW 4.263 11 By acting rashly, [the writer] buys the power of talking wisely.
    ET1 5.14 7 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...
    ET1 5.24 13 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile, talking and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse...
    ET9 5.146 11 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    Ctr 6.164 14 In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Bty 6.281 18 We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn council, talking together in the trees.
    Clbs 7.237 2 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet the existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.
    OA 7.335 7 [John Adams] likes to have...company talking in his room...
    PI 8.16 4 Walking, working or talking, the sole question is...how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    QO 8.199 11 ...does it not look as if we men were thinking and talking out of an enormous antiquity...
    Insp 8.291 25 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.
    LLNE 10.362 18 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    Thor 10.456 26 Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad.
    SMC 11.350 7 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;...
    SMC 11.357 13 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves.
    SMC 11.363 8 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to. He looked at me as much as to say, Do you know whom you are talking to?...
    PLT 12.31 10 The temptation is to patronize Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.

talking-power, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.76 8 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation to find one who has no tact or skill and knows he has none, put over them by means of this talking-power which they despise.

talks, v. (10)

    Lov1 2.177 13 ...[the lover] talks with the brook that wets his foot.
    Exp 3.53 20 I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with!
    MoS 4.168 23 Montaigne talks with shrewdness...
    PI 8.44 5 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he...talks to them as if they were bodily there;...
    PC 8.229 13 ...when [a man] talks to men with the unrestrained frankness which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not his vanity.
    Carl 10.489 9 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...
    Carl 10.489 24 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...
    FSLN 11.238 17 ...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.
    CL 12.165 7 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.
    ACri 12.297 16 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...

tall, adj. (9)

    Comp 2.91 3 Mountain tall and ocean deep/ Trembling balance duly keep./
    Exp 3.43 15 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/...
    ET1 5.15 10 [Carlyle] was tall and gaunt...
    ET4 5.65 27 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky... few tall, slender figures of flowing shape...
    ET4 5.73 7 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game. The Saxon Chronicle says he loved the tall deer as if he were their father.
    Suc 7.287 12 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/...
    Comc 8.171 21 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
    SlHr 10.443 22 [Samuel Hoar] retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form...
    CL 12.134 3 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./

taller, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.42 20 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe.

Talleyrand-Perigord, Charle (2)

    ET16 5.287 27 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.
    FSLC 11.204 25 [Webster] can celebrate [liberty], but it means as much from him as from Metternich or Talleyrand.

Talleyrand-Perigord, Charle (4)

    GoW 4.268 21 [A man] must be good of his kind. That is all that Talleyrand...all that the common-sense of mankind asks.
    CbW 6.269 22 ...Talleyrand said, I find nonsense singularly refreshing;...
    Clbs 7.240 23 Who can stop the mouth...of Talleyrand?
    SA 8.85 21 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.

Talleyrand-Perigord's, Char (1)

    GoW 4.268 15 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one;...Is he anybody? does he stand for something?

Talleyrands, n. (1)

    Suc 7.288 23 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people, whose watches go faster than their neighbors'...

tallies, v. (1)

    SwM 4.117 15 [Correspondence] was involved...in the doctrine of identity and iteration, because the mental series exactly tallies with the material series.

tallow, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.238 2 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats.

tallow-man, n. (1)

    Bty 6.295 8 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit;...

tally, n. (1)

    MoL 10.250 4 [Nature says to the American] I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.

tally, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.25 19 ...herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.
    SwM 4.141 1 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul. But it is certain that it must tally with what is best in nature.
    Wth 6.106 24 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...

Talma, Francois Joseph, n. (2)

    ShP 4.210 3 What king has [Shakespeare] not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon?
    Bhr 6.170 6 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon the arts of behavior.

Talmudists, n. (1)

    LS 11.9 12 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this formula, which the Talmudists have preserved to us, Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...

Tam O'Shanter [Robert Bur (1)

    PI 8.25 19 Give [people]...Chevy Chase, or Tam O'Shanter, and they like these well enough.

tamarind, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.119 7 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters; they shall not be whipped with tamarind rods if they do not comply with their master's will;...

tambourines, n. (1)

    Exp 3.80 19 How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting...

tame, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.114 12 The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...tame.
    YA 1.368 4 If the landscape is pleasing, the garden shows it,-if tame, it excludes it.
    Int 2.334 14 Our history, we are sure, is quite tame...

tame, v. (4)

    UGM 4.35 8 It is for man to tame the chaos;...
    ET10 5.168 16 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam].
    CbW 6.249 9 I wish not to concede anything to [masses], but to tame, drill, divide and break them up...
    Insp 8.272 8 Rarey can tame a wild horse;...

tamed, v. (2)

    MMEm 10.408 14 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson]...could always be tamed by large and sincere conversation.
    PLT 12.37 17 ...Perception is the armed eye. A civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit...

tameness, n. (5)

    ET1 5.24 23 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity.
    ET6 5.114 24 ...our prevailing equality makes a prairie tameness...
    EWI 11.133 8 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    FSLC 11.180 9 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts, and at the behavior of Boston. The tameness was indeed shocking.
    FSLC 11.180 27 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here; at least we can brag thus until to-morrow, when the farmers also may be corrupted. The tameness is indeed complete.

Tamerlane, n. (2)

    SL 2.165 10 The poet uses the names of Caesar, of Tamerlane...
    Comc 8.172 1 The Persians have a pleasant story of Tamerlane...

taming, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.58 7 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.

taming, v. (2)

    Bty 6.296 11 A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate...
    CInt 12.118 8 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus, at Mr. Rarey's mode of taming a horse by kindness...

Tammany Hall, n. (1)

    FRep 11.538 2 Ours is the age...of Tammany Hall.

tamper, v. (1)

    QO 8.204 10 We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

tampered, v. (2)

    OS 2.265 8 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/...
    Civ 7.34 1 ...if there be...a country...where the post-office is violated, mail-bags opened and letters tampered with;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...

tampering, v. (2)

    PerF 10.72 26 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself, the impossibility of tampering with it or warping it,-the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    Edc1 10.143 18 By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing [the pupil] may be hindered from his end...

tanager, n. (2)

    Thor 10.470 17 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness.
    Thor 10.483 2 The tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves.

tangible, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.113 4 [Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world.

tangle, n. (1)

    Cour 7.268 26 The judge puts his mind to the tangle of contradictions in the case...and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.

tangled, adj. (2)

    OA 7.331 18 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...reducing tangled interests to order...
    PPo 8.260 28 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./

tangling, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.101 17 ...[the scholar] takes...the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the...tangling vines in the way of the self-relying...

tanks, n. (1)

    CbW 6.271 23 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...

tanners, n. (1)

    ET5 5.83 24 [The English] are...the best iron-masters, colliers, wool-combers and tanners in Europe.

tanning, v. (2)

    ET5 5.89 4 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return. Their leather lies tanning seven years in the vat.
    Schr 10.273 15 Other men are...baking and tanning...

tantalizes, v. (1)

    Insp 8.273 15 ...this quick ebb of power,-as if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand,-tantalizes us.

Tantalus, n. (4)

    Hist 2.32 4 Tantalus is but a name for you and me.
    Hist 2.32 5 Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.
    WD 7.163 20 Tantalus...has been seen again lately.
    WD 7.164 8 Tantalus begins to think steam a delusion...

tantamount, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.197 9 I cannot make your consciousness tantamount to mine.

tantum, n. (1)

    Mem 12.95 26 Quintilian reckoned [memory] the measure of genius. Tantum ingenii quantum memoriae.

tantus, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.61 25 Quantus amor tantus animus.

tan-yard, n. (1)

    CInt 12.115 6 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of...a tan-yard or some other undoubted conveniency for the surrounding population.

tap, n. (2)

    Boks 7.210 22 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice.
    FRep 11.511 3 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap.

tap, v. (2)

    QO 8.188 26 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat,-an excellent sucking-pipe to tap another animal...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...
    Aris 10.42 27 ...the body is the pipe through which we tap all the succors and virtues of the material world...

tape, n. (3)

    Ill 6.321 11 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    Ill 6.321 13 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    WD 7.157 18 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.

taper, n. (4)

    LE 1.183 16 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would...
    PLT 12.34 14 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the great night.
    II 12.65 18 Consciousness is but a taper in the great night;...
    II 12.65 19 Consciousness is...the taper at which all the illumination of human arts and sciences was kindled.

taper-light, n. (1)

    Let 12.393 6 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...

tapestry, n. (5)

    Tran 1.330 26 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things as the reverse side of the tapestry...
    Pt1 3.33 3 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear like threads in tapestry of large figure and many colors;...
    PPo 8.263 9 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry?
    Thor 10.462 11 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.
    CW 12.179 9 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...

tape-worm, n. (2)

    GoW 4.275 15 ...the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes from knot to knot and closes with the head [wrote Goethe].
    Ctr 6.145 17 Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?

tapped, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.134 2 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism], which we ought to have tapped.

tapping, v. (2)

    Bty 6.302 13 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...tapping a mountain for his water-jet;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    PerF 10.74 16 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...

taproot, n. [tap-root,] (4)

    ET6 5.109 3 Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation [England] to branch wide and high.
    ET10 5.166 19 The English...seem to have established a tap-root in the bowels of the planet, because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    II 12.72 14 [Inspiration] is a tap-root that sucks all the juices of the earth.
    CW 12.178 9 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.

taps, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.165 27 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
    PI 8.4 11 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...

taps, v. (1)

    PerF 10.84 5 Obedience alone gives the right to command. It is like the village operator who taps the telegraph-wire and surprises the secrets of empires as they pass to the capital.

tar, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.263 3 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...

tar, v. (1)

    Comp 2.119 24 ...[the mob] would tar and feather justice...

tardier, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.264 27 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...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier...

tardily, adv. (1)

    MN 1.195 23 How tardily men arrive at any result! how tardily they pass from it to another!

tardy, adj. (3)

    YA 1.389 13 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Hsm1 2.260 13 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they...appeal to a tardy justice.
    ET4 5.61 27 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound...

target, n. (3)

    Tran 1.350 13 When [the great man] has hit the white, the rest may shatter the target.
    ET16 5.274 8 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit.
    AsSu 11.251 15 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.

target-shootings, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.138 17 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all...town-meetings, caucuses, mobs, target-shootings, as flies have;...

tariff, n. (6)

    UGM 4.21 14 ...I am plagued, in all my living, with a perpetual tariff of prices.
    GoW 4.265 12 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas...and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    SA 8.98 26 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never intrudes...a tariff of expenses...
    FSLC 11.196 19 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    FSLC 11.196 21 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    ACiv 11.301 23 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...

Tariff, n. (3)

    LT 1.270 11 The political questions touching...the Tariff;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Ctr 6.136 16 The causes to which we have sacrificed, Tariff or Democracy...would show like roots of bitterness...
    LLNE 10.340 5 ...there was no great public interest, political, literary or even economical (for he wrote on the Tariff), on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.

tariffs, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.37 20 Banks and tariffs...are flat and dull to dull people...
    ET14 5.255 13 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    Wsp 6.225 4 Here is a low political economy...by cunning tariffs giving preference to worse wares of ours.
    Thor 10.460 8 ...idealist as he was, standing for abolition of slavery, abolition of tariffs, almost for abolition of government, it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.

tarnish, n. (1)

    QO 8.175 5 All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present, and a tarnish of time.

tarnish, v. (1)

    LT 1.267 3 The reputations that were great and inaccessible change and tarnish.

tarnished, v. (1)

    PerF 10.82 27 These [mental powers] are means and stairs for new ascensions of the mind. But they are nowise impoverished for any other mind, not tarnished, not breathed upon;...

tarry, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.253 25 ...the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their animals, and is never happier than when they tarry for some time.
    Hsm1 2.257 20 ...here we are; and, if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
    Plu 10.291 5 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./

tart, adj. (2)

    Hsm1 2.248 25 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue...
    TPar 11.289 8 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...to speak tart truth...

Tartar. (1)

    ET4 5.50 4 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix...

Tartar, adj. (3)

    Hist 2.19 18 The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent.
    ET4 5.72 8 [The English] come honestly by their horsemanship, with Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders. The other branch of their race had been Tartar nomads.
    SovE 10.190 8 Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...

Tartar, n. (1)

    SL 2.137 5 [Our society] is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over.

Tartaric, adj. (1)

    CL 12.146 24 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...

Tartars, n. (1)

    FRO2 11.487 12 Every proverb...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.

Tartarus, n. (1)

    PPh 4.51 5 That which the soul seeks is resolution into being above form, out of Tartarus and out of heaven...

Tartary, n. (1)

    ET4 5.72 11 The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.

tartly, adv. (1)

    Suc 7.305 1 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated; and the professor tartly replies, No, he defeated the Romans.

tar-wood, n. (1)

    ET4 5.59 22 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.

task, n. (65)

    AmS 1.100 21 [The scholar] plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.
    LE 1.166 21 I pass now to consider the task offered to the intellect of this country.
    YA 1.365 1 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    Int 2.331 11 What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
    Exp 3.65 3 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task...
    NER 3.284 9 ...our own orbit is all our task...
    UGM 4.15 2 There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and, by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task.
    GoW 4.283 23 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...
    Wth 6.83 10 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wth 6.106 20 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot, but what is gone out of these is not wasted, but well spent, if it nourish [a man's] body and enable him to finish his task;...
    Ctr 6.145 7 Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
    Wsp 6.225 21 In every variety of human employment...there are, among the numbers who do their task perfunctorily...the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    Wsp 6.225 26 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake;...
    Wsp 6.232 15 Life is hardly respectable...if it has no generous, guaranteeing task...
    Wsp 6.232 17 Every man's task is his life-preserver.
    Wsp 6.240 6 The weight of the universe is pressed down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
    CbW 6.243 14 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear,/ To falter ere thou thy task fulfil/...
    CbW 6.276 17 Life brings to each his task...
    Ill 6.321 6 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal. Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.
    Art2 7.42 9 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers...
    Elo1 7.87 26 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation...
    Farm 7.146 18 Whilst these grand energies [of Nature] have wrought for him and made his task possible, [the farmer] is habitually engaged in small economies...
    WD 7.164 19 A man builds a fine house; and now he has...a task for life...
    WD 7.173 17 Who is he that does not always find himself doing something less than his best task?
    WD 7.174 8 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to draw him from his task.
    Boks 7.207 17 The [scholar's] task is aided by the strong mutual light which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
    Cour 7.266 15 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.
    Suc 7.293 1 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution...
    OA 7.315 20 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home--an easy task--Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    OA 7.330 22 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge... possessed by this hope of completing a task...
    OA 7.331 8 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
    PI 8.1 18 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    Res 8.149 11 ...when the mind has exhausted its energies for one employment, it is still fresh and capable of a different task.
    Res 8.152 2 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    Insp 8.271 15 ...[the man] can see and do this or that cheap task, at will, but it steads him not beyond.
    Insp 8.272 3 ...every earnest workman...knows some favorable conditions for his task.
    Insp 8.286 16 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning...and...to relieve it from any jangle of affairs-even from the question, Which task?
    Insp 8.288 12 I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home.
    Insp 8.291 27 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.
    Imtl 8.341 13 The demands of [the thinker's] task are such that it becomes omnipresent.
    PerF 10.69 16 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature.
    Edc1 10.146 19 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had achieved an excellent education...
    Edc1 10.153 22 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...
    Thor 10.484 27 It seems an injury that [Thoreau] should leave in the midst his broken task...
    GSt 10.504 14 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
    FSLC 11.208 18 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
    FSLN 11.217 9 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is, not to know their own task...
    AKan 11.262 23 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    ALin 11.330 3 ...acclamations of praise for the task [Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph...
    ALin 11.338 1 [Providence]...creates the man for the time, trains him in poverty, inspires his genius, and arms him for his task.
    HCom 11.339 4 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a nobler task than ours/...
    Koss 11.399 6 ...you [Kossuth] are elected by God and your genius to the task.
    PLT 12.23 10 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task...
    PLT 12.51 13 The horse goes better with blinders, and the man for dedication to his task.
    Mem 12.107 26 ...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...
    CInt 12.111 2 By Sybarites beguiled,/ He shall no task decline;/...
    CInt 12.121 3 ...I wish this were a needless task, to urge upon you scholars the claims of thought and learning.
    CInt 12.131 21 ...it were a good rule to read some lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or task...
    Bost 12.191 21 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men, rather, comfortable citizens, not at all accustomed to the rough task of discoverers;...
    Milt1 12.267 27 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task...
    MLit 12.324 21 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed.
    MLit 12.331 19 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature, In that which should be his own place, he feels like a truant, and is scourged back presently to his task and his cell.
    WSL 12.343 17 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments. They could act too, if the stake was worthy of them: but now all that is good in the universe urges them to their task.
    EurB 12.367 10 ...Wordsworth...though...taking the public to task for not admiring his poetry, is really a master of the English language...
    PPr 12.383 6 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of...the waste of strength in gathering unripe fruits. The task is superhuman;...

task, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.230 14 ...what man shall dare task another with imprudence?
    II 12.75 6 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must...not too exactly task and harness it.

tasked, v. (3)

    Nat2 3.186 8 [Nature] has tasked every faculty [of the child]...
    GoW 4.289 24 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    Milt1 12.277 11 Milton...tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.

taskmaster, n. (1)

    SR 2.75 2 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

tasks, n. (16)

    LE 1.177 6 Extricating themselves from the tasks of the world, the world revenges itself by exposing...the folly of these...pedantic...creatures.
    LE 1.185 9 ...I thought that standing...girt and ready to go and assume tasks...in your country, you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    Tran 1.342 16 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to find their tasks and amusements in solitude.
    Comp 2.112 11 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
    ET12 5.210 15 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...containing the tasks which many competitors had victoriously performed...
    Wsp 6.203 10 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    WD 7.181 13 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem to measure my tasks...
    Insp 8.296 22 'T is the most difficult of tasks to keep/ Heights which the soul is competent to gain./
    Edc1 10.140 4 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    Edc1 10.152 18 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case...shows...the strict conditions of the hours, on one side, and the number of tasks, on the other.
    Schr 10.262 14 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...
    MMEm 10.400 18 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff...
    War 11.167 8 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome tasks of denial and charity;...
    CInt 12.127 1 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed...
    CW 12.177 18 ...physicians or naturalists are the only professional men who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...
    Milt1 12.270 12 ...a history of England was one of the three main tasks which [Milton] proposed to himself.

tasks, v. (1)

    Imtl 8.334 5 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!

tasselled, adj. (1)

    Int 2.334 3 If you...make hay...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the tasselled grass...

Tasso [Goethe, Torquato Ta (2)

    Prd1 2.232 13 Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historic portrait, and that is true tragedy.
    Prd1 2.232 18 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.

Tasso, Torquato, n. (2)

    ShP 4.218 16 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors, of Bacon, Milton, Tasso, Cervantes, we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    QO 8.180 10 Read Tasso, and you think of Virgil;...

Tasso's [Goethe, Torquato (1)

    Prd1 2.232 24 Tasso's is no unfrequent case in modern biography.

taste, n. (148)

    MN 1.216 27 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life; Love...and Poetry, whose taste is like the immortal juice of Vishnu.
    MR 1.235 22 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    MR 1.243 3 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn...to relish the taste of fair water and black bread.
    MR 1.243 12 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned and forearmed against that frequent misfortune of men of genius,-the taste for luxury.
    Con 1.320 21 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class; inspired with a taste for the same competitions and prizes, they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    Tran 1.354 22 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...
    YA 1.381 10 The farmer, after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
    Hist 2.26 4 [The Greeks] made vases, tragedies and statues, such as healthy senses should,--that is, in good taste.
    SR 2.82 14 Our houses are built with foreign taste;...
    SR 2.83 4 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which...taste and sentiment will be satisfied also.
    Comp 2.101 21 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    SL 2.141 24 By doing his work [a man]...creates the taste by which he is enjoyed.
    Lov1 2.186 25 The person love does to us fit,/ Like manna, has the taste of all in it./
    Prd1 2.223 1 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    Hsm1 2.248 1 Thomas Carlyle, with his natural taste for what is manly and daring in character, has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    OS 2.293 23 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you...
    Art1 2.354 8 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to assist and lead the dormant taste.
    Pt1 3.3 1 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...
    Pt1 3.29 22 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor and hungry, and such as are of simple taste.
    Chr1 3.92 3 Our frank countrymen of the west and south have a taste for character...
    Mrs1 3.126 16 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste.
    Mrs1 3.134 13 I may easily go into a great household where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    Mrs1 3.138 23 ...a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
    Mrs1 3.140 25 ...besides personal force and so much perception as constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class another element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Mrs1 3.153 12 The worth of the thing signified must vindicate our taste for the emblem.
    Nat2 3.173 10 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
    NER 3.258 7 ...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
    PPh 4.39 8 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    PPh 4.55 21 ...the taste of two metals in contact;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.71 4 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others:--the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally...
    ShP 4.209 26 What point...of taste...has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    GoW 4.281 2 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated...
    GoW 4.282 21 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.
    ET1 5.8 1 [Landor]...shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early masters.
    ET1 5.24 10 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man to whom he had given this slip of ground, which was laid out, or its natural capabilities shown, with much taste.
    ET2 5.28 26 I find the sea-life an acquired taste...
    ET5 5.76 9 [These Saxons] have the taste for toil...
    ET5 5.84 19 [The English] have diffused the taste for plain substantial hats, shoes and coats through Europe.
    ET5 5.87 17 [The English] have no Indian taste for a tomahawk-dance...
    ET5 5.87 18 [The English] have...no French taste for a badge or a proclamation.
    ET6 5.109 14 This [English] taste for house and parish merits has of course its doting and foolish side.
    ET6 5.111 24 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
    ET10 5.163 10 ...all that can aid science, gratify taste, or soothe comfort, is in open market [in England].
    ET10 5.163 14 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET10 5.163 19 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.172 17 The frame of [English] society is aristocratic, the taste of the people is loyal.
    ET11 5.173 23 The taste of the [English] people is conservative.
    ET11 5.185 3 For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead...in questions of taste, in social usages...
    ET12 5.206 21 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of...the solidity and taste of English criticism.
    ET12 5.207 9 The English nature takes culture kindly. So Milton thought. It refines the Norseman. Access to the Greek mind lifts his standard of taste.
    ET12 5.207 13 [The Englishman]...is indisposed from writing or speaking, by the fulness of his mind and the new severity of his taste.
    ET13 5.219 18 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
    ET13 5.223 16 The gospel [the Anglican Church] preaches is By taste are ye saved.
    ET13 5.226 26 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.
    ET14 5.233 24 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English.
    ET14 5.258 17 By the law of contraries, I look for an irresistible taste for Orientalism in Britain.
    ET14 5.259 13 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...
    ET15 5.271 14 [Punch's] sketches are...the delight of every class, because uniformly guided by that taste which is tyrannical in England.
    ET17 5.297 21 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was...self-assured that he should create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.
    F 6.11 26 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain...some stray taste or talent for flowers...
    Wth 6.92 3 ...wise men...will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ctr 6.152 24 The English have a plain taste.
    Ctr 6.158 25 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;...
    Bhr 6.171 21 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way.
    Wsp 6.207 13 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum.
    Bty 6.291 2 ...our taste in building rejects paint, and all shifts...
    Bty 6.292 27 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
    Civ 7.19 13 [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.
    DL 7.112 10 See, in families where there is both substance and taste, at what expense any favorite punctuality is maintained.
    DL 7.113 22 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not annoy your taste...
    DL 7.119 23 There is many a humble house...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.130 6 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
    Cour 7.276 2 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...
    PI 8.46 3 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
    PI 8.48 24 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man; hence the taste for signs, sortilege, prophecy and fulfilment, anniversaries...
    PI 8.56 5 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day, any more than a right Gothic cathedral. It belonged to a time and taste which is not in the world.
    PI 8.56 19 Newton may be permitted...to wonder at the frivolous taste for rhymers...
    PI 8.63 10 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the heavenly bread! The most they have done is to intoxicate us once and again with its taste.
    SA 8.101 15 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured...a certain external culture and good taste;...
    SA 8.102 16 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools, of public grounds, works of taste and refinement.
    Elo2 8.114 24 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade,--philosophy speculating on its own breath, taste, learning and all...
    Res 8.151 5 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice would interest much more.
    Comc 8.157 1 A taste for fun is all but universal in our species...
    PC 8.224 23 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand, its laws to his science, not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    PPo 8.244 7 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    Insp 8.289 7 The seashore and the taste of two metals in contact...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Grts 8.305 3 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology, sinewy, out-of-doors men, with a taste for mountains and rocks...
    Grts 8.305 16 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea...
    Imtl 8.325 15 [The Greek] set his wit and taste, like elastic gas, under these mountains of stone [the pyramids], and lifted them.
    Imtl 8.331 6 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth...does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Aris 10.33 11 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Aris 10.50 27 More than taste and talent must go to the Will.
    Aris 10.63 6 The man of honor is a man of taste and humanity.
    PerF 10.81 5 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
    Edc1 10.140 26 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base: I wish to add a taste for good company through his impatience of bad.
    Edc1 10.149 17 ...in literature,the young man who has taste for poetry...is insatiable for this nourishment...
    Edc1 10.157 18 If you have a taste which you have suppressed because it is not shared by those about you, tell [your pupils] that.
    SovE 10.205 12 ...we have punctuality for faith, and good taste for character.
    Prch 10.218 15 ...elegance of taste and of manners and pursuit, a boundless ambition of intellect...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Schr 10.285 14 ...Genius has no taste for weaving sand...
    Plu 10.296 17 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch...
    Plu 10.298 25 ...a good son, husband, father and friend,-[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
    Plu 10.317 20 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch; but the matter...is so agreeable to his taste and genius, that if he had found it, he would have adopted it.
    LLNE 10.345 7 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste...
    MMEm 10.404 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please.
    SlHr 10.445 27 [Samuel Hoar] had an affinity for mathematics, but it was a taste rather than a pursuit...
    Thor 10.454 23 [Thoreau] had...no appetites, no passions, no taste for elegant trifles.
    Thor 10.455 10 [Thoreau] did not like the taste of wine...
    EWI 11.124 22 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born...with a sense of justice, as well as a taste for strong drink.
    FSLC 11.205 14 [The people] prefer order, and have no taste for misrule and uproar.
    EdAd 11.385 20 We have taste, critical talent, good professors, good commentators, but a lack of male energy.
    Wom 11.405 21 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste...
    Wom 11.408 17 ...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
    Wom 11.410 13 The spiritual force of man is as much shown in taste...as in his perception of truth.
    Wom 11.411 10 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
    Wom 11.417 21 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape. That they have not, is an eulogy on their taste and self-respect.
    Wom 11.419 27 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    SHC 11.431 20 Modern taste has shown that there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
    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.
    SHC 11.433 17 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted, by the taste of every citizen, one tree, with its name recorded in a book;...
    Scot 11.465 19 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class...
    FRO1 11.479 21 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the perfection of taste...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    CPL 11.499 15 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder, and would stay until she had looked over all his volumes which were to her taste.
    FRep 11.511 23 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...
    FRep 11.512 3 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world.
    FRep 11.512 9 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.
    FRep 11.524 4 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table; and presently because they have got the taste...
    FRep 11.528 17 [The America people]...have no taste for misrule and uproar.
    CL 12.147 27 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood;...
    CW 12.175 21 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;...
    CW 12.177 15 ...there is a manifest increase in the taste for [walking].
    Bost 12.198 10 ...no culture of the taste...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    MAng1 12.223 1 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
    MAng1 12.223 2 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo, against the taste and against the admonition of his patrons, to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
    Milt1 12.248 10 ...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste, and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.
    Milt1 12.253 8 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art]...at last ends; and a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work...
    Milt1 12.263 14 [Milton] is innocent and exact, because his taste was so pure and delicate.
    ACri 12.286 27 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.
    MLit 12.319 10 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    MLit 12.319 19 A good English scholar [Shelley] is, with ear, taste and memory;...
    MLit 12.320 14 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered how hostile his genius at first seemed to the reigning taste...
    MLit 12.323 5 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and taste...
    WSL 12.343 22 Wherever genius or taste has existed...[Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
    WSL 12.344 24 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical selection of his heads proves this taste.
    AgMs 12.359 24 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man of a strongly intellectual taste...
    EurB 12.369 19 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places, resisting the popular taste...
    EurB 12.370 6 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his taste for the costly and gorgeous, discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
    Let 12.402 27 As if any taste or imagination could take the place of fidelity!

Taste, n. (2)

    Nat 1.23 11 This love of beauty is Taste.
    MAng1 12.218 23 ...all men have...a power of deriving pleasure from Beauty. This is Taste.

Taste, Physiology of [Brill (1)

    Res 8.150 27 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.

taste, v. (8)

    Chr1 3.99 4 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
    MoS 4.154 7 Our meat will taste to-morrow as it did yesterday...
    NMW 4.258 25 Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open...
    ET8 5.132 18 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...taste every poison;...
    CbW 6.247 20 Now we reckon [days]...by...some pleasure we are to taste.
    Ill 6.323 25 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence;...
    Ill 6.324 2 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence; as...in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice-creams.
    LVB 11.90 23 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.

tasted, v. (10)

    Pt1 3.39 24 Once having tasted this immortal ichor, [the poet] cannot have enough of it...
    Nat2 3.181 26 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated...
    ShP 4.191 25 The [English] people had tasted this new joy [the theatre];...
    ET10 5.164 19 Whatever surly sweetness possession can give, is tasted in England to the dregs.
    ET11 5.187 17 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish...
    Cour 7.267 9 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts, for he never tasted any liquid but pure water.
    Imtl 8.340 27 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
    EWI 11.124 12 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
    EdAd 11.390 10 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
    PLT 12.10 2 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled, tasted by them in different degrees...

tasteful, adj. (1)

    EurB 12.371 7 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings.

tasteless, adj. (2)

    Art1 2.367 9 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible...
    ET14 5.255 20 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural; tasteless expense, arts of comfort...

taster, n. (1)

    FRep 11.512 14 The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster...

tastes, n. (27)

    MR 1.245 22 Economy is...a sacrament...when it is the prudence of simple tastes...
    SR 2.73 12 I will not hide my tastes or aversions.
    SR 2.82 16 ...our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past...
    Int 2.343 22 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living.
    Art1 2.358 18 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Nat2 3.177 1 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity...
    PPh 4.43 15 If you would know [great geniuses'] tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
    PPh 4.65 27 [Plato's] patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions of birth.
    PPh 4.71 21 [Socrates] affected a good many citizen-like tastes...
    NMW 4.225 19 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    ET3 5.36 26 England has inoculated all nations with her civilization, intelligence and tastes;...
    ET4 5.67 17 [The English] are rather manly than warlike. When the war is over, the mask falls from the affectionate and domestic tastes...
    ET11 5.177 16 The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the life of the courtier...
    ET14 5.251 14 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers.
    Wth 6.113 5 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Civ 7.22 1 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    Elo1 7.81 11 A man who has tastes like mine, but in greater power, will rule me any day...
    DL 7.104 13 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race. First it appears in no great harm, in architectural tastes.
    DL 7.107 27 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain...your habits of thought, your tastes, and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    Edc1 10.151 23 ...you see [the young man's] want of those tastes and perceptions which make the power and safety of your character.
    MoL 10.256 15 I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.
    Plu 10.318 20 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.
    SlHr 10.439 7 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man of simple tastes...
    SlHr 10.448 3 There was no elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] reading or tastes beyond the crystal clearness of his mind.
    Thor 10.459 17 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
    GSt 10.505 27 [George Stearns] had been always a man of simple tastes...
    Mem 12.93 13 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by colors, tastes, smells, shapes...

tastes, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.227 20 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes an old joy of youth and childhood...
    MoS 4.169 2 Montaigne...tastes every moment of the day;...
    PI 8.64 20 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it...
    Thor 10.482 12 The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper salted.
    Shak1 11.449 5 ...[Shakespeare] is...the fountain of joy which honors him who tastes it;...

tasting, n. (1)

    Exp 3.58 15 Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

tasting, v. (3)

    LE 1.163 15 I am tasting the self-same life...which I so admire in other men.
    PI 8.22 12 Charles James Fox thought...that men first found out they had minds, by making and tasting poetry.
    HCom 11.340 10 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...

tat, n. (1)

    Comp 2.109 14 Tit for tat;...

tattered, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.193 9 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts.

tatters, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.225 18 Time...is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.

Tattersall's, n. (1)

    Carl 10.495 26 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them;...

tattle, n. (1)

    WD 7.175 15 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns.

tattoo, n. (2)

    PPh 4.47 18 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...
    ET11 5.198 1 [Titles of lordship...may be advantageously consigned, with paint and tattoo, to the dignitaries of Australia and Polynesia.

tattooing, v. (1)

    Art2 7.38 27 ...from the tattooing of the Owhyhees to the Vatican Gallery;... Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

taught, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.278 7 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature is out of all proportion to our taught and ascertained faculty...

taught, v. (112)

    Nat 1.20 2 We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
    Nat 1.39 24 ...the lesson of power, is taught in every event.
    Nat 1.42 21 Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman?...
    AmS 1.95 12 I...take my place in the ring...taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.
    AmS 1.114 16 The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.
    DSA 1.129 8 There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
    LE 1.178 16 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the life of the great actor of this age...
    MN 1.209 25 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater wisdom is taught him;...
    MN 1.210 3 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught... then the voice grows faint...
    MR 1.241 22 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    Con 1.313 15 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has taught you a better wisdom than her own...
    Con 1.320 25 Religion is taught in the same spirit.
    Hist 2.31 1 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    SR 2.63 11 [The world] has been taught by this colossal symbol [of kings] the mutual reverence that is due from man to man.
    SR 2.83 14 Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare?
    Comp 2.93 5 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation]...the people knew more than the preachers taught.
    SL 2.135 5 The lesson is forcibly taught by these observations that our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it;...
    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.
    Lov1 2.183 6 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
    Fdsp 2.189 17 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ Me too thy nobleness has taught/ To master my despair;/...
    Prd1 2.232 5 [The man of talent's] art never taught him lewdness...
    OS 2.284 5 The moment the doctrine of the immortality [of the soul] is separately taught, man is already fallen.
    Pt1 3.24 5 So far the bard taught me, using his freer speech.
    Exp 3.48 14 The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
    Chr1 3.110 16 He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
    Nat2 3.173 14 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... I am taught the poorness of our invention...
    Nat2 3.179 26 Geology has...taught us to disuse our dame-school measures...
    NER 3.285 22 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has...taught it so much...
    UGM 4.17 6 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
    PPh 4.56 27 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.
    PPh 4.66 14 Of the five orders of things [said Plato], only four can be taught to the generality of men.
    PPh 4.70 13 ...[Plato] constantly affirms that virtue cannot be taught;...
    SwM 4.104 12 ...Descartes, taught by Gilbert's magnet, with its vortex, spiral and polarity, had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    SwM 4.132 17 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein...the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
    SwM 4.134 24 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
    ShP 4.210 3 What king has [Shakespeare] not taught state...
    ShP 4.210 4 What king has [Shakespeare] not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon?
    GoW 4.289 13 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country... taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET10 5.158 11 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam.
    ET11 5.189 1 George Loudon, Quintinye, Evelyn, had taught [British dukes] to make gardens.
    ET13 5.222 25 The action of the university, both in what is taught and in the spirit of the place, is directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
    ET14 5.237 13 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson...were received with favor.
    ET14 5.256 4 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed!
    F 6.33 6 The mischievous torrent is taught to drudge for man;...
    F 6.45 4 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
    Pow 6.55 2 Courage, the old physicians taught...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    Bhr 6.170 6 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon the arts of behavior.
    Wsp 6.219 4 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Bty 6.290 14 The lesson taught by the study of Greek...art...was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...
    Civ 7.25 7 The skill that pervades complex details;...the chimney taught to burn its own smoke;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    Farm 7.146 20 ...[the farmer]...is taught the power that lurks in petty things.
    WD 7.159 19 ...taught by Mr. Babbage, [steam] must calculate interest and logarithms.
    Boks 7.215 3 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Suc 7.287 7 The Saxon is taught from his infancy to wish to be first.
    Suc 7.311 9 There is an external life, which is...taught to read, write, cipher and trade;...
    Suc 7.311 10 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get...
    PI 8.4 18 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.25 26 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster...what great hearts they have...
    PI 8.59 23 Odin taught these arts in runes or songs...
    PI 8.62 10 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free.
    PI 8.68 14 The poet should rejoice if he has taught us to despise his song;...
    SA 8.85 16 ...youth in America is wont to be...not in society where high behavior could be taught.
    Elo2 8.114 4 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    Elo2 8.124 17 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him...who taught us to remember injuries only to forgive them.
    Res 8.143 18 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries, until he has taught his people to use them...
    QO 8.180 16 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
    PC 8.211 19 We have been taught to tread familiarly on giddy heights of thought...
    PC 8.221 11 [The devotion to natural science] taught [the scholar] anew the reach of the human mind...
    PC 8.226 21 ...the tongue is always learning to say what the ear has taught it...
    PPo 8.240 24 By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds...
    Insp 8.290 21 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...
    Imtl 8.328 11 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die;...
    Edc1 10.125 24 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
    Edc1 10.126 24 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement, but they cannot communicate the skill to their race. Each individual must be taught anew.
    Edc1 10.128 1 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...
    Supl 10.163 2 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform...
    SovE 10.197 14 I am taught by [the moral sentiment] that what touches any thread in the vast web of being touches me.
    SovE 10.213 17 [The man of this age] should be taught all skepticisms and unbeliefs...
    Prch 10.228 5 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
    Prch 10.228 7 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love him was happiness...
    MoL 10.257 17 We do not often have a moment of grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the young men [in the war] has taught us much.
    Plu 10.304 24 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    LLNE 10.329 4 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas.
    LLNE 10.336 13 Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature;
    LLNE 10.337 1 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    MMEm 10.414 12 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself, who had a warm heart; but for me would have prevented those early lessons of fortitude, which her caprices taught me to practise.
    MMEm 10.415 20 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
    Thor 10.450 2 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Carl 10.498 5 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has...taught scholars their lofty duty.
    LS 11.4 8 The doctrine of the Consubstantiation taught by Luther was denied by Calvin.
    LS 11.9 26 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols.
    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...
    AsSu 11.247 4 The events of the last few years and months and days have taught us the lessons of centuries.
    JBS 11.277 12 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented,-such is the singleness of purpose which justifies him to the head and the heart of all. Taught by this experience, I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to...let him speak for himself.
    SMC 11.357 6 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.
    Wom 11.411 12 There is no grace that is taught by the dancing-master...but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
    Shak1 11.448 11 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
    FRO2 11.489 9 It is the praise of our New Testament...that no better lesson has been taught or incarnated.
    FRep 11.525 18 The gracious lesson taught by science to this country is that the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    FRep 11.539 25 ...if we have taught the river to make shoes and nails and carpets...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    PLT 12.14 21 [Philosophy] will one day be taught by poets.
    II 12.73 7 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us how the young may be taught without degrading the old;...
    II 12.75 23 That virtue which was never taught us, we cannot teach others.
    II 12.75 24 That virtue which was never taught us, we cannot teach others. They must be taught by the same schoolmaster.
    CL 12.137 14 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots, and he taught [the people of Oland] to plant it for the protection of their shores.
    MAng1 12.217 4 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful, and that, by the contemplation of such objects, he is taught and exalted.
    Milt1 12.264 15 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that though Christianity had been but slightly taught him, yet a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    Milt1 12.271 22 [Milton] taught the doctrine of unlimited toleration.
    Milt1 12.277 19 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse:- In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt,/ What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so./
    MLit 12.330 20 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...taught to look for great talent and culture under a gray coat.
    EurB 12.369 8 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...
    PPr 12.382 23 [A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing, so that no Phidias or Raphael shall have taught anything better in canvas or stone;...

taunt, n. (1)

    UGM 4.29 21 Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism...

taunt, v. (4)

    ET15 5.270 23 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement, year by year; watching them only to taunt and obstruct them...
    SS 7.9 19 We have a fine right...to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!
    Wom 11.418 14 Men taunt [women] that, whatever they do, say, read or write, they are thinking of themselves...
    Bost 12.205 12 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...

Taunton Meeting-house, Mass (1)

    HDC 11.58 3 Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in Taunton Meeting-house...

taunts, v. (3)

    Wth 6.88 10 ...[nature] starves, taunts and torments [a man]...until he has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Wsp 6.206 18 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him.
    Milt1 12.267 21 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with great promise and small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.

Taurida, Persia, n. (2)

    Res 8.141 27 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha...obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.142 6 ...we have found the Taurida in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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