Times to Told

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

times, adv. (1)

    Thor 10.449 8 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./

Times, London, adj. (2)

    ET15 5.265 13 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office...
    ET15 5.270 1 One would think the world was on its knees to The [London] 4Times office for its daily breakfast.

Times, London, n. (21)

    ET3 5.35 4 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper...
    ET6 5.102 15 ...the Times newspaper they say is the pluckiest thing in England...
    ET9 5.150 9 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England], from the Times newspaper through politicians and poets...
    ET13 5.218 16 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York Minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience, just fresh from the Times newspaper and their wine...
    ET13 5.218 24 Here in England every day a chapter of Genesis, and a leader in the Times.
    ET15 5.263 8 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper.
    ET15 5.264 21 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...
    ET15 5.265 1 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times...
    ET15 5.265 5 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    ET15 5.266 11 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men.
    ET15 5.267 10 What would The [London] Times say? is a terror in Paris, in Berlin, in Vienna, in Copenhagen and in Nepaul.
    ET15 5.268 6 The [London] Times never disapproves of what itself has said...
    ET15 5.268 21 A statement of fact in The [London] Times is as reliable as a citation from Hansard.
    ET15 5.269 27 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
    ET15 5.270 6 The morality and patriotism of The [London] Times claim only to be representative...
    ET15 5.271 2 ...the aspirants see that The [London] Times is one of the goods of fortune...
    ET15 5.271 6 Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the London Times.
    ET15 5.271 20 The [London] Times, like every important institution, shows the way to a better.
    ET15 5.272 8 The [London] Times shares all the limitations of the governing classes...
    WD 7.165 19 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers, namely the New York Tribune and the London Times, have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    QO 8.196 21 ...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...

times, n. (332)

    Nat 1.34 5 When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf;...
    AmS 1.91 12 Books are for the scholar's idle times.
    AmS 1.93 14 The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle; - all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's.
    AmS 1.104 9 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity, amid dangerous times, arise from the presumption that...his is a protected class;...
    AmS 1.110 12 This time, like all times, is a very good one...
    AmS 1.113 11 Another sign of our times...is the new importance given to the single person.
    LE 1.158 1 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.
    LE 1.186 12 ...the vice of the times and the country is an excessive pretension...
    MN 1.192 15 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step...taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.
    MR 1.236 11 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.
    LT 1.264 16 In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy... is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.264 24 ...why not draw for these times a portrait gallery?
    LT 1.266 21 ...we are not permitted to stand as spectators of the pageant which the times exhibit;...
    LT 1.267 26 Let us not inhabit times of wonderful and various promise without divining their tendency.
    LT 1.274 12 [Milton's] picture would serve for our times.
    LT 1.281 25 Other times have had war...as their antagonism.
    LT 1.287 20 ...as we ponder this meaning of the times, every new thought drives us to the deep fact that the Time is the child of the Eternity.
    LT 1.290 14 Only as far as [the Moral Sentiment] shines through them are these times or any times worth consideration.
    LT 1.291 10 ...you who hold...not of the times, but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it...
    Con 1.295 11 The battle...of the rich and the poor, reappears in all countries and times.
    Con 1.301 19 ...men are...very foolish children, who...are the victims at all times of the nearest object.
    Con 1.301 21 There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times.
    Con 1.304 6 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
    Con 1.315 23 These are stories of...romantic sacrifices made in old or in recent times...
    Con 1.315 26 ...our husbands and brothers discoursed sadly on what we could save and give in the hard times.
    Tran 1.329 5 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that they are...the very oldest of thoughts cast into the mould of these new times.
    Tran 1.339 14 This [Transcendental] way of thinking, falling on Roman times, made Stoic philosophers;...
    Tran 1.339 16 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on despotic times, made patriot Catos and Brutuses;...
    Tran 1.339 17 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on superstitious times, made prophets and apostles;...
    Tran 1.339 18 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on popish times, made protestants and ascetic monks...
    Tran 1.339 20 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on prelatical times, made Puritans and Quakers;...
    Tran 1.339 22 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on Unitarian and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we know.
    Tran 1.340 22 ...the history of genius and of religion in these times...will be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.
    Tran 1.340 25 It is a sign of our times...that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Tran 1.343 6 Like the young Mozart, [Transcendentalists] are rather ready to cry ten times a day, But are you sure you love me?
    YA 1.380 2 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.
    YA 1.384 11 ...one may say that aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these attempts fail...
    Hist 2.29 11 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Hist 2.29 16 How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
    Hist 2.40 12 How many times we must say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople!
    SR 2.60 20 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
    SR 2.72 4 At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
    SR 2.72 20 ...let us...wake...courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done in our smooth times by speaking the truth.
    Comp 2.121 5 Being is the vast affirmative...swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself.
    SL 2.134 13 According to the faith of their times [men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny...
    SL 2.156 8 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Fdsp 2.194 11 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times...
    Fdsp 2.207 4 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men...
    Prd1 2.224 15 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
    Hsm1 2.257 12 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...
    Hsm1 2.262 3 Times of heroism are generally times of terror...
    OS 2.270 9 If we consider what happens...in times of passion...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Cir 2.315 16 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
    Int 2.327 19 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times...of that spontaneity.
    Art1 2.353 12 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times...
    Pt1 3.1 9 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times/ Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes./
    Pt1 3.33 2 ...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...
    Pt1 3.37 7 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life, nor dare we chaunt our own times and social circumstance.
    Pt1 3.37 17 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...
    Pt1 3.41 11 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men...
    Exp 3.46 10 In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished...
    Exp 3.58 10 We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
    Exp 3.59 7 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
    Mrs1 3.123 8 In times of violence, every eminent person must fall in with many opportunities to approve his stoutness and worth;...
    Mrs1 3.150 18 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions...
    Gts 3.159 8 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
    Nat2 3.167 2 The rounded world is fair to see,/ Nine times folded in mystery/...
    Pol1 3.203 26 That principle [of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal just] no longer looks so self-evident as it appeared in former times...
    Pol1 3.207 18 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form...
    Pol1 3.219 5 The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government...
    NR 3.244 12 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all...
    NER 3.254 11 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This has been several times repeated...
    UGM 4.7 7 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times...
    UGM 4.17 12 When [the imagination] wakes, a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force.
    PPh 4.41 24 Plato...like every great man, consumed his own times.
    PPh 4.42 15 Plato absorbed the learning of his times...
    PPh 4.43 25 [Plato]...was of patrician connection in his times and city...
    PPh 4.44 5 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily, and went thither three times...
    PPh 4.58 4 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf...
    PPh 4.74 3 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue...
    SwM 4.98 10 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg...
    SwM 4.101 6 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to England...
    SwM 4.102 18 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg] lies vast abroad on his times...
    SwM 4.109 12 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times reverberated...
    SwM 4.122 15 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    MoS 4.163 26 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    MoS 4.164 22 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    MoS 4.164 27 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only...
    MoS 4.165 14 There is no man, in [Montaigne's] opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times;...
    MoS 4.176 26 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places?
    ShP 4.189 20 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
    ShP 4.196 17 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.
    ShP 4.202 25 Bacon, who took the inventory of the human understanding for his times, never mentioned [Shakespeare's] name.
    ShP 4.205 16 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    NMW 4.230 10 The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and his early circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.
    NMW 4.231 22 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...it was owing to the peculiarity of the times and to my reputation of having fought well against the enemies of my country.
    NMW 4.236 16 [Napoleon] came, several times, within an inch of ruin;...
    NMW 4.247 24 ...it is at all times the belief of society that the world is used up.
    GoW 4.265 7 Society has, at all times, the same want...
    GoW 4.269 8 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person...
    GoW 4.276 13 The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all times.
    GoW 4.290 9 Goethe teaches...the equivalence of all times;...
    ET4 5.57 22 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are substantial farmers whom the rough times have forced to defend their properties.
    ET4 5.64 5 The right of the husband to sell the wife has been retained [in England] down to our times.
    ET4 5.69 22 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water, unless at certain times on a religious score and by way of penance.
    ET6 5.108 5 ...the poorest [Englishmen] have some spoon or saucepan... saved out of better times.
    ET6 5.111 9 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;... Canning, to advance with the times;...
    ET6 5.111 10 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...and Wellington, that habit was ten times nature.
    ET7 5.116 16 ...in modern times, any slipperiness in the [English] government...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET8 5.133 21 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in; for which he was...several times threatened to be kicked and beaten.
    ET10 5.157 8 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    ET10 5.162 20 Scandinavian Thor...in England has advanced with the times...
    ET11 5.189 17 The English barons, in every period, have been brave and great, after the estimate and opinion of their times.
    ET11 5.191 4 In later times, when the baron, educated only for war, with his brains paralyzed by his stomach, found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET11 5.194 10 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen], as if the noble were slow to receive the lessons of the times...
    ET13 5.216 22 ...George Fox, Penn, Bunyan are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
    ET14 5.259 19 ...there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating every soaring of intellect...
    ET16 5.279 22 The old times of England impress Carlyle much...
    ET16 5.280 2 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God...
    ET18 5.299 5 London is the epitome of our times...
    ET18 5.300 16 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous.
    F 6.3 10 ...the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life.
    F 6.3 12 We are incompetent to solve the times.
    F 6.4 19 We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty...my polarity with the spirit of the times.
    F 6.17 15 [Particular inventions] have all been invented over and over fifty times.
    F 6.25 11 We rightly say of ourselves, we were born and afterward we were born again, and many times.
    F 6.39 19 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
    F 6.39 21 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
    Pow 6.54 23 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...
    Pow 6.61 22 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times...he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Pow 6.71 18 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times...
    Pow 6.75 24 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild], and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
    Pow 6.77 21 [Colonel Buford] fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst.
    Pow 6.78 11 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times...
    Wth 6.89 10 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors...of men in distant countries and in past times.
    Wth 6.92 3 ...wise men...will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ctr 6.144 27 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    Ctr 6.146 26 California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut], as Virginia was in old times.
    Ctr 6.147 5 As many languages as [a man] has...so many times is he a man.
    Wsp 6.201 5 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave too much line to the evil spirit of the times;...
    Wsp 6.214 3 The energetic action of the times develops individualism...
    Wsp 6.241 3 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions. Our times are impatient of both...
    CbW 6.252 27 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times, like Socrates, with his famous irony;...
    CbW 6.262 1 Bad times have a scientific value.
    CbW 6.265 1 You may rub the same chip of pine to the point of kindling a hundred times;...
    CbW 6.275 2 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    Bty 6.302 3 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Elo1 7.94 5 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...
    Farm 7.142 10 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...rotating its constellations, times and tides...the farmer is the minder.
    WD 7.163 2 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we ride four times as fast as our fathers did;...
    WD 7.163 20 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    WD 7.164 4 Can anybody remember when the times were not hard...
    WD 7.176 10 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts; it was the maxim of Aristotle and Lucretius; and, in modern times, of Swedenborg and of Hahnemann.
    Boks 7.199 10 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners, by the first master, in the best times;...
    Boks 7.208 5 Walton, Chapman, Herrick and Sir Henry Wotton write also to the times.
    Boks 7.209 2 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Burke, shedding floods of light on his times;...
    Boks 7.214 4 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    Boks 7.217 17 If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men...
    Boks 7.220 11 These are a few of the books which the old and the later times have yielded us...
    Cour 7.259 3 ...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    Cour 7.261 1 ...with this pacific education we have no readiness for bad times.
    Cour 7.268 10 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Cour 7.275 19 We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce on these rare heights of character;...
    Suc 7.295 9 ...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack, and a million times better than any talent, is the central intelligence...
    Suc 7.305 10 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy. Odoacer, if there was a particle of the gentleman in him, would have said, Let me be defeated a thousand times.
    PI 8.19 13 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times...
    PI 8.25 3 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis.
    PI 8.32 8 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.
    PI 8.32 10 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.
    PI 8.61 15 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin, and he answered, Sir, certes I ought to know you well, for many times I have heard your words.
    PI 8.69 16 ...[Goethe's Faust]...accuses the author as well as the times.
    SA 8.89 20 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    SA 8.104 6 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people,--as... the French, the English, at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...
    Res 8.139 5 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides.
    Res 8.148 27 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect...that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times...
    Comc 8.166 6 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
    QO 8.179 6 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost...
    QO 8.194 10 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before...
    PC 8.211 9 A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and successful study of Natural Science.
    PC 8.218 2 Eloquence a hundred times has turned the scale of war and peace at will.
    PC 8.231 26 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times...
    PC 8.233 15 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...
    PC 8.234 15 I read the promise of better times and of greater men.
    PPo 8.251 3 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets, whether he write, as sometimes, with a parrot's, or, as at other times, with an eagle's quill.
    Insp 8.269 15 There are times when the intellect is so active that everything seems to run to meet it.
    Insp 8.277 12 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times;...
    Insp 8.291 9 The times of force must be well husbanded...
    Grts 8.315 9 ...the English judge in old times...forgave a culprit who could read and write.
    Grts 8.318 26 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest.
    Imtl 8.337 18 All the comfort I have found teaches me to confide that I shall not have less in times and places that I do not yet know.
    Dem1 10.5 19 In our dreams the same scenes and fancies are many times associated...
    Dem1 10.5 23 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar, and has dreamed that ride a dozen times;...
    Dem1 10.8 13 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this phantasmagoria.
    Dem1 10.13 19 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.
    Dem1 10.15 8 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance to whimsical pictures of sleep...
    Aris 10.39 22 We are fallen on times so acquiescent and traditionary that we are in danger of forgetting so simple a fact as that the basis of all aristocracy must be truth...
    Aris 10.53 7 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...
    PerF 10.71 2 The winds and the rains come back a thousand and a thousand times.
    Chr2 10.104 2 [The religions we call false]...were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.
    Chr2 10.115 3 ...I find in the eminent experiences in all times a substantial agreement.
    Chr2 10.117 6 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born...
    Chr2 10.118 3 The power that in other times inspired crusades...flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...
    Edc1 10.134 19 Our culture has truckled to the times...
    Supl 10.168 16 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?
    Supl 10.168 22 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received; and rather repeat it several times, word for word, than vary it ever so little.
    Supl 10.172 5 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...
    Supl 10.172 12 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    SovE 10.205 22 If I miss the inspiration of the saints of Calvinism, or of Platonism, or Buddhism, our times are not up to theirs...
    Prch 10.227 16 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims. They too were real churches. They answered to their times the same need as your rejection of them does to ours.
    Prch 10.231 26 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to the public opinion of the times...
    Prch 10.234 18 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists, since it is not armed with prisons or fagots as in ruder times...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    MoL 10.241 11 ...before the shadows of these times darken over your youthful sensibility and candor, let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    MoL 10.241 17 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters...its high office in evil times.
    MoL 10.242 7 Are men perplexed with evil times?
    MoL 10.247 9 The worst times only show [the scholar] how independent he is of times;...
    MoL 10.247 10 The worst times only show [the scholar] how independent he is of times;...
    MoL 10.247 23 Bad times,-what are bad times?
    MoL 10.247 24 Bad times,-what are bad times?
    MoL 10.248 9 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over...
    MoL 10.256 2 Sincerity is, in dangerous times, discovered to be an immeasurable advantage.
    MoL 10.257 10 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom stifles this discussion as sentimental...
    MoL 10.258 1 The times are dark, but heroic.
    MoL 10.258 2 The times develop the strength they need.
    Schr 10.266 13 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
    Schr 10.277 11 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.
    Plu 10.303 5 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...
    Plu 10.312 9 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of Nero had the natural effect of driving virtue to its loftiest antagonisms.
    LLNE 10.325 13 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated...
    LLNE 10.330 1 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...
    LLNE 10.338 25 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times.
    LLNE 10.340 3 ...[Channing's] printed writings are almost a history of the times;...
    LLNE 10.351 11 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
    LLNE 10.356 18 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
    LLNE 10.357 10 [Thoreau said] I love best to have each thing in its season only, and enjoy doing without it at all other times.
    LLNE 10.369 19 I recall these few selected facts, none of them of much independent interest, but symptomatic of the times and country.
    EzRy 10.385 14 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh. The beast frighted several times.
    MMEm 10.418 7 Weary at times of objects so tedious to hear and see.
    MMEm 10.418 12 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] at times be regaled with music, it would remind me that there are sounds.
    MMEm 10.425 20 ...there is a sombre music in the whirl of times so long gone by.
    MMEm 10.426 9 ...the hold on [external objects] is so slight, that duty is lost sight of perhaps, at times.
    Thor 10.483 17 Hard are the times when the infant's shoes are second-foot.
    Carl 10.497 7 [Carlyle] was very serious about the bad times;...
    GSt 10.502 7 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men, at times of the greatest need.
    LS 11.4 1 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year...
    LS 11.8 10 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...and yet have been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times and all countries.
    LS 11.16 11 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
    HDC 11.34 27 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for venison and raccoons.
    HDC 11.41 4 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public...
    HDC 11.43 18 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?
    HDC 11.56 13 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread.
    HDC 11.86 15 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...
    LVB 11.92 19 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice...were never heard of in times of peace...
    LVB 11.94 2 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    EWI 11.109 11 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.109 13 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce, and ten times defeated by the planters.
    War 11.158 3 ...we read with astonishment of the beastly fighting of the old times.
    War 11.158 9 The celebrated Cavendish, who was thought in his times a good Christian man, wrote thus to Lord Hunsdon...It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    War 11.159 5 ...our American annals have preserved the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
    War 11.162 7 You mistake the times;...
    War 11.173 2 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried...
    FSLC 11.198 26 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment. These were his words at different times: there was to be no parleying more; it was irrepealable.
    FSLN 11.229 2 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery was no longer mendicant...
    FSLN 11.239 17 These delays [of Retribution], you see them now in the temper of the times.
    FSLN 11.240 1 To faint hearts the times offer no invitation...
    AsSu 11.251 5 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.
    AKan 11.255 12 ...it is impossible for the most recluse to extricate himself from the questions of the times.
    AKan 11.263 7 ...in these times full of the fate of the Republic, I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
    TPar 11.285 15 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere...to those who speak with authority to their own times and therefore to ours.
    TPar 11.285 24 ...[Theodore Parker's experiences] were part of the history of the civil and religious liberty of his times.
    TPar 11.289 5 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame. It is so difficult, in evil times, to escape this charge!...
    TPar 11.292 9 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
    ACiv 11.298 18 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day, and when will there be better times?
    ACiv 11.299 10 The times put this question, Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country...
    ACiv 11.302 25 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar. But the times will not allow us to indulge in compliment.
    EPro 11.316 11 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know. At such times it appears as if a new public were created to greet the new event.
    EPro 11.321 7 In times like these...what man can, without shame, receive good news from day to day without giving good news of himself?
    ALin 11.331 4 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...
    ALin 11.334 26 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...
    SMC 11.355 23 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River; and...it looks as if the editors of the Southern press were in all times selected from this class.
    SMC 11.372 14 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.
    Wom 11.407 27 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
    Wom 11.408 3 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.
    Wom 11.415 7 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light. In modern times, three or four conspicuous instrumentalities may be marked.
    Wom 11.416 20 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman;...
    SHC 11.430 7 In these times we see the defects of our old theology;...
    SHC 11.433 16 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums, and agreeable to the temper of our times,-an Arboretum...
    Scot 11.464 13 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
    CPL 11.497 26 A deep religious sentiment is, in all times, an inspirer of the intellect...
    CPL 11.503 19 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man...
    CPL 11.505 27 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun, that the squares of the times vary as the cubes of the distances.
    FRep 11.513 19 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
    FRep 11.514 17 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate itself to it. Our times easily afford you very good examples.
    FRep 11.537 17 The new times need a new man...
    PLT 12.34 24 [Instinct] is that source of thought and feeling which acts on masses of men, on all men at certain times with resistless power.
    PLT 12.41 3 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held...because we have perceived it is a fact in the nature of things, and in all times and places will and must be the same thing,-is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.43 12 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.
    PLT 12.45 6 Goethe, the surpassing intellect of modern times, apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.
    PLT 12.54 18 [The tree or the brook]...makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.
    II 12.88 2 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.
    Mem 12.97 13 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...
    Mem 12.103 15 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. Then a thousand times over it lives and acts again...
    Mem 12.108 5 I have several times forgotten the name of Flamsteed, never that of Newton;...
    CInt 12.114 20 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CInt 12.116 18 These are giddy times...
    CInt 12.116 20 ...those were the giddy times which went before these...
    CInt 12.116 21 ...the new times are the times of arraignment...
    CInt 12.116 22 ...the new times are the times of arraignment, times of trial...
    CInt 12.116 23 ...the new times are the times of arraignment...times of judgment.
    CInt 12.128 24 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...you expose your atheism.
    CInt 12.129 27 You find the times and places mean.
    CInt 12.130 3 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    MAng1 12.221 7 The depth of [Michelangelo's] knowledge in anatomy has no parallel among the artists of modern times.
    MAng1 12.232 8 Raphael said, I bless God I live in the times of Michael Angelo.
    Milt1 12.250 10 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...
    Milt1 12.268 23 Thus chosen...for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
    Milt1 12.269 14 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.
    Milt1 12.270 20 ...drawn into the great controversies of the times, [Milton] is never lost in a party.
    ACri 12.299 13 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times.
    ACri 12.303 6 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?
    MLit 12.312 17 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times.
    Pray 12.356 1 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported, and be a sign of the times.
    EurB 12.370 23 ...[modern painters] will not paint for their times...
    PPr 12.380 27 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...
    PPr 12.387 24 ...the gravity of the times, the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...
    PPr 12.390 7 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and shown a vigor and wealth of resource which has no rival in the tourney-play of these times;...
    Let 12.398 15 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it.
    Let 12.402 23 It may easily happen...that the times must be worse before they are better.
    Let 12.403 15 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result not so much owing to the natural increase of population as to the hard times...
    Trag 12.413 20 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored;...

Times, n. (6)

    LT 1.259 1 The Times...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    LT 1.259 11 The Times are the masquerade of the Eternities;...
    LT 1.259 16 The Times...are to be studied as omens...
    LT 1.261 18 ...the subject of the Times is not an abstract question.
    LT 1.287 23 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is the great spirit which gazes through them...
    F 6.3 6 ...four or five noted men were each reading a discourse...on the Spirit of the Times.

time's, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.161 26 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./

Time's, n. (1)

    SMC 11.348 21 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky/...

Times, New, n. (1)

    ET15 5.265 7 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will; I shall publish The New Times next Monday morning.

times, v. (2)

    ET5 5.101 13 ...the [English] sailor times his oars to God save the King!
    Farm 7.139 10 The farmer times himself to Nature...

time-saver, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.154 3 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious, it is such a time-saver...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.

timeservers, n. (1)

    ET7 5.123 12 [The English] have given the parliamentary nickname of Trimmers to the timeservers...

time-worn, adj. [timeworn,] (2)

    Ctr 6.156 4 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended... from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of [other men's] opinions.
    PI 8.21 22 Pindar, Dante, yes, and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster, may all be parsed...

timid, adj. (33)

    AmS 1.114 12 The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid...
    DSA 1.146 16 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their timid aspirations find in you a friend;...
    LT 1.281 7 ...in its management and details, [the reforming movement is] timid and profane.
    Con 1.320 14 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...a timid cobbler and patcher, it degrades whatever it touches.
    SR 2.56 15 ...[the cultivated classes] are timid...
    SR 2.67 1 Man is timid and apologetic;...
    Comp 2.111 27 Our property is timid, our laws are timid...
    Comp 2.112 1 ...our cultivated classes are timid.
    Prd1 2.238 12 ...the sturdiest offender of your peace and of the neighborhood, if you rip up his claims, is as thin and timid as any...
    Chr1 3.103 20 ...when [your friends] stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike...you may begin to hope.
    Mrs1 3.124 20 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland...
    Pol1 3.210 17 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...
    Pol1 3.220 6 ...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
    NMW 4.224 6 The first [conservative] class is timid, selfish, illiberal...
    Pow 6.61 12 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Bhr 6.170 26 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding-school...or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
    Bhr 6.186 19 ...[some men]...walk through life with a timid step.
    CbW 6.245 8 All the professions are timid and expectant agencies.
    CbW 6.246 4 The judge...hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community; but is only an advocate after all. And so is all life a timid and unskilful spectator.
    Cour 7.274 17 ...the timid woman is not scared by fagots;...
    SA 8.82 21 Intellectual men...are timid and heavy with the elegant.
    Edc1 10.131 23 Instead of the timid stripling he was, [man] is to be the stalwart Archimedes...of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
    Edc1 10.151 10 Is it not manifest...that [our academic institutions] should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation...
    LLNE 10.361 6 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of the routine...of society around them, which was so timid and skeptical of any progress.
    MMEm 10.431 24 What a timid, ungrateful creature!
    EWI 11.138 25 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled by underlings, ignorant, timid and selfish...
    EWI 11.139 21 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...shudder at the change...
    JBB 11.269 5 The governor of Virginia has pronounced [John Brown's] eulogy in a manner that discredits the moderation of our timid parties.
    HCom 11.343 1 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. I do not know that I can make a soldier. I may be very clumsy. Perhaps I shall be timid;...
    EdAd 11.385 26 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...cheering timid good men...
    EdAd 11.392 18 In the rapid decay of what was called religion, timid and unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
    Wom 11.422 10 One man is timid, and another rash;...
    FRO2 11.487 18 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...exert the timid faculties until they are robust...

timid, n. (2)

    Prch 10.235 5 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same,-insulting the timid, and not taken by storm...
    War 11.174 9 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham...

timidities, n. (2)

    MR 1.228 4 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all...timidities...
    EWI 11.123 10 The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

timidity, n. (6)

    YA 1.389 19 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease...
    ET14 5.244 6 The absence of the faculty [of generalization] in England is shown by the timidity which accumulates mountains of facts...
    Cour 7.258 2 ...the high price of courage indicates the general timidity.
    PerF 10.87 17 The illusion that strikes me as the masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
    SMC 11.354 25 The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the [Civil] war discovered;...
    PLT 12.55 13 There is in all students a distrust of truth, a timidity about affirming it;...

timidly, adv. (2)

    Nat 1.71 26 [Man] adores timidly his own work.
    Int 2.345 5 Say then, instead of too timidly poring into his obscure sense, that [the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.

timing, n. (1)

    WD 7.180 15 ...life is good only when it is...a perfect timing and consent...

timing, v. (1)

    SA 8.83 8 The circumstance of circumstance is timing and placing.

Timoleon, n. (2)

    Tran 1.337 4 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would assassinate like Timoleon;...
    ET1 5.8 18 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...

Timoleon's, n. (2)

    SL 2.133 24 Timoleon's victories are the best victories...
    Milt1 12.263 4 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.

Timon, n. (1)

    Gts 3.163 18 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.

Timon [Shakespeare, Timon o (1)

    ShP 4.209 20 Let Timon...answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.

Timons, n. (1)

    Gts 3.163 14 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.

timorous, adj. (10)

    YA 1.390 10 That is [the hero's] nobility...always to throw himself...on the liberal, on the expansive side, never on the defensive, the conserving, the timorous, the lock-and-bolt system.
    SR 2.75 11 ...we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.
    ET8 5.137 23 ...the English press [is] never timorous about French opinion...
    Pow 6.64 21 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
    Wsp 6.208 5 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe in nothing.
    OA 7.321 27 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...
    Prch 10.234 16 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    EPro 11.318 11 Against all timorous counsels [Lincoln] had the courage to seize the moment;...
    CInt 12.117 25 I presently know...whether [my companion] stands for ideal justice, or for a timorous expediency.
    Bost 12.206 9 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...

Timour, n. (2)

    PPo 8.251 21 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
    PPo 8.251 22 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities...

Timoxena, Letter to his Wif (1)

    Plu 10.314 11 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...

Timur, n. (7)

    Comc 8.172 2 ...Timur was an ugly man;...
    Comc 8.172 4 One day when Chodscha was with him, Timur scratched his head...
    Comc 8.172 9 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly.
    Comc 8.172 13 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers began to comfort Timur...
    Comc 8.172 15 Timur ceased weeping...
    Comc 8.172 18 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly.
    Comc 8.173 2 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If we weep not, who should weep? Therefore have I wept. Timur almost split his sides with laughing.

tin, adj. (4)

    Bty 6.291 22 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    DL 7.105 15 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the furniture of the house, the red tin horse...
    PI 8.68 10 What we once admired as poetry has long since come to be a sound of tin pans;...
    PI 8.68 13 Perhaps Homer and Milton will be tin pans yet.

tin, n. (1)

    Wth 6.89 21 ...ledges of rock, mines of iron, lead, quicksilver, tin and gold;...are [man's] natural playmates...

tincture, n. (2)

    MoS 4.165 22 ...[says Montaigne,] I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...
    HDC 11.51 3 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility...

tinfoil, n. (1)

    SL 2.166 13 We are the photometers, we the irritable gold-leaf and tinfoil that measure the accumulations of the subtle element.

tinge, n. (4)

    PPh 4.77 8 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge;...
    MMEm 10.432 13 ...the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    Carl 10.489 19 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people.
    PLT 12.50 23 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...which give such a comic tinge to all society.

tinged, v. (7)

    Hist 2.27 4 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue...why should I measure degrees of latitude...
    Chr1 3.96 5 All things exist in the man tinged with the manners of his soul.
    PPh 4.40 13 ...the thinkers of all civilized nations are...tinged with [Plato's] mind.
    Suc 7.307 7 The edge of every surface is tinged with prismatic rays.
    PI 8.37 20 All [others'] pleasures are tinged with pain. All [the poet's] pains are edged with pleasure.
    Schr 10.285 3 These questions [of life] speak...to Genius...whose private counsels are not tinged with selfishness, but are laws.
    SMC 11.376 1 A gloom gathers on this assembly...for, in many houses, the dearet and noblest is gone from their hearth-stone. Yet it is tinged with light from heaven.

tinges, v. (2)

    ET14 5.238 7 The influence of Plato tinges the British genius.
    WSL 12.342 8 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects...

tingle, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.16 26 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...

tingle, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.257 14 Why should these words, Athenian, Roman, Asia and England, so tingle in the ear?

tingled, v. (1)

    War 11.174 3 I regard no longer those names that so tingled in my ear. [The man of principle] is a baron of a better nobility and a stouter stomach.

tingles, v. (3)

    F 6.6 27 The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood...
    F 6.32 9 The cold...tingles your blood...
    PI 8.73 17 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins has not yet refined their blood...

tingling, v. (1)

    UGM 4.14 15 We cannot read Plutarch without a tingling of the blood;...

tin-peddler, n. (1)

    SL 2.138 13 [Every man] hears and feels what you say of the seraphim, and of the tin-peddler.

tin-peddlers, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.205 20 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...

tinsel, n. (3)

    Nat 1.19 15 Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel;...
    Ctr 6.152 19 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out,--the love...of beads and tinsel?
    DL 7.106 7 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now!

tinsel-covered, adj. (1)

    QO 8.177 23 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come...that shall be to their mature eyes what many a tinsel-covered toy pamphlet was to their childhood...

tint, n. (8)

    DSA 1.119 4 ...the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers.
    DSA 1.139 1 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment, that can lend a faint tint of light to dulness...coming in its name...
    Hist 2.18 2 ...every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the secreting organs of the fish.
    ET1 5.9 22 [Landor] has a wonderful brain...in which there is not a style nor a tint not known to him...
    ET8 5.135 21 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...importing into their galleries every tint and trait of sunnier cities and skies;...
    Bty 6.290 27 The tint of the flower proceeds from its root...
    PerF 10.78 7 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky to catch every tint and gleam of romance;...
    Bost 12.184 3 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.

tints, n. (5)

    Nat 1.17 23 The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes modulated with tints of unspeakable softness...
    Nat 1.50 19 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore...through the tints of an unusual sky.
    Lov1 2.169 21 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    Int 2.338 3 ...the artist's copies from experience [are]...always touched and softened by tints from this ideal domain.
    ET14 5.246 20 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style, and local in his aims.

Tinturn Abbey [William Wor (1)

    ET1 5.23 15 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public...

tinware, n. (1)

    Wth 6.119 8 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.

tiny, adj. (1)

    DL 7.103 7 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...

tipping, v. (1)

    ET2 5.29 5 ...I waked every morning [at sea] with the belief that some one was tipping up my berth.

tips, n. (1)

    Schr 10.268 1 I do not wish to see you...taking hold of the world with the tips of your fingers...

tipsy, adj. (3)

    Hsm1 2.250 16 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
    Pt1 3.29 16 ...[the poet] should be tipsy with water.
    SA 8.97 8 ...there are...swainish, morose people, who must be kept down and quieted as you would those who are a little tipsy;...

tiptoe, adv. (1)

    SA 8.99 12 When men consult you, it is not that they wish you to stand tiptoe and pump your brains...

tiptoe, n. (4)

    SR 2.67 17 ...man...stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
    F 6.33 13 Man...stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
    Art2 7.55 1 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle, those behind stand on tiptoe...
    WD 7.183 12 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality,--no stilts, no tiptoe;...

Tiraboschi, Girolamo, n. (2)

    Exp 3.47 19 The history of literature--take the net result of Tiraboschi, Warton, or Schlegel--is a sum of very few ideas...
    QO 8.195 16 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other historian of literature.

tiralira, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 4 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him the Dorian mythology...

tire, v. (9)

    Nat 1.10 1 ...the guest sees not how he should tire of [these plantations of God] in a thousand years.
    SwM 4.94 10 If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
    MoS 4.149 9 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game...
    MoS 4.156 22 [The skeptic says] I tire of these hacks of routine...
    ShP 4.193 1 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...the Death of Julius Caesar, and other stories out of Plutarch, which [the audience] never tire of;...
    ET6 5.103 8 ...the machines [in England] require punctual service, and as they never tire, they prove too much for their tenders.
    Clbs 7.229 8 Later, when books tire, thought has a more languid flow;...
    MMEm 10.415 10 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself. But you are ingrate to tire of me...
    Bost 12.202 24 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...these men will...never tire in carrying their point.

tired, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.16 25 We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
    ET10 5.160 7 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...never tired...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    Elo2 8.116 19 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power, but...we are tired of being pushed into patriotism by people who stay at home.
    Insp 8.287 11 Are you poetical...tired of labor and affairs?
    Imtl 8.330 20 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end. What! will it never stop? the child said; what! never die? never, never? It makes me feel so tired.
    Aris 10.41 22 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...
    Koss 11.396 1 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    CL 12.155 18 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    WSL 12.339 16 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...
    Pray 12.352 18 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them. I am tired to stay long, because my mind is not free...

tired, v. (13)

    UGM 4.14 8 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious...of Falkland...
    Bhr 6.185 14 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
    SA 8.91 20 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...until the gossip's immeasurable legs are tired of sitting;...
    Insp 8.280 12 ...we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies.
    Insp 8.281 26 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects.
    Supl 10.165 25 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...is tired by sleep;...
    LLNE 10.333 18 All [Everett's] speech was music, and with such variety and invention that the ear was never tired.
    MMEm 10.406 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations...
    MMEm 10.406 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor. If the voice or the reading tired her, she would ask the friend if he or she would do an errand for her, and so dismiss them.
    MMEm 10.414 25 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter...
    MMEm 10.420 22 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious. And, at moments, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am tired out.
    TPar 11.286 3 Theodore Parker was...of a diligence that never tired...
    SMC 11.359 24 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a patience not to be tired out...

tires, n. (2)

    Farm 7.142 21 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks;...the vat and piston, wheels and tires, never wear out...
    Res 8.139 12 The vat, the piston, the wheels and tires [of the earth], never wear out...

tires, v. (3)

    ET8 5.127 10 [The English], too, believe...that your merry heart goes all the way, your sad one tires in a mile.
    Bty 6.299 23 Beauty, without expression, tires.
    Civ 7.27 22 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall; and the river never tires of turning his wheel;...

tiresome, adj. (4)

    ET14 5.258 11 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms.
    Insp 8.289 5 Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
    Plu 10.311 21 [Seneca] is tiresome through perpetual didactics.
    PLT 12.51 1 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it, so that conversation soon becomes a tiresome effort.

Tischbein, Johann Heinrich, (1)

    Chr1 3.104 2 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as, so many hundred thalers given to Stilling, to Hegel, to Tischbein;...

Tissenet, M., n. (1)

    Res 8.145 24 M. Tissenet had learned among the Indians to understand their language...

Tisso, n. (1)

    Bty 6.285 2 An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in the forest, saw a herd of elk sporting.

tissue, n. (2)

    MoS 4.175 16 There is the power of moods, each setting at nought all but its own tissue of facts and beliefs.
    F 6.14 17 In vegetable and animal tissue it is just alike...

tissues, n. (1)

    Suc 7.309 2 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She weaves her tissues and integuments of flesh and skin and hair and beautiful colors of the day over it...

tit, n. (1)

    Comp 2.109 14 Tit for tat;...

Titanian, adj. (1)

    PI 8.51 18 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid... making puzzles of Titanian erections...

Titanic, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.223 18 [Michelangelo's] Titanic handwriting in marble and travertine is to be found in every part of Rome and Florence;...

Titans, n. (2)

    LE 1.156 24 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    Ill 6.313 16 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion...is stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo.

tithe, n. (3)

    LE 1.182 1 Let [the scholar] pay his tithe and serve the world as a true and noble man;...
    NMW 4.239 8 There have been many working kings...but none who accomplished a tithe of this man's [Napoleon's] performance.
    EurB 12.377 15 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian, with no tithe of Byron's genius, rules longer.

tithes, n. (2)

    YA 1.392 23 Would [our youths and maidens] like tithes to the clergy...
    ET13 5.214 18 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built, tithes are paid...

tithing-man, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.107 2 ...the church-warden or tithing-man was a petty persecutor;...
    SlHr 10.447 6 In the time of the Sunday laws [Samuel Hoar] was a tithing-man;...

Tithonus, n. (2)

    Comp 2.106 27 Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
    OA 7.320 15 The vast inconvenience of animal immortality was told in the fable of Tithonus.

Titian [Tiziano Vecellio], (6)

    Art1 2.361 23 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome and to the paintings of...Titian...
    Art2 7.45 8 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 9 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...
    Art2 7.56 8 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped.
    MAng1 12.239 13 [Michelangelo] loved to express admiration of Titian...
    MLit 12.325 8 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese...

Titianesque, n. (1)

    ET1 5.10 19 [Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings when he knew him in Rome; what a master of the Titianesque he was, etc., etc.

Titian's [Tiziano Vecellio] (1)

    Bhr 6.174 23 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...

titillation, n. (1)

    ACri 12.288 8 ...I confess to some titillation of my ears from a rattling oath.

title, n. (23)

    Nat 1.8 22 [The landscape] is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.
    MR 1.234 17 ...whilst another man has no land, my title to mine...is at once vitiated.
    MR 1.234 18 ...whilst another man has no land...your title to yours, is at once vitiated.
    Con 1.325 18 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law, because I feel no title in myself to my advantages.
    YA 1.393 14 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop, who, by the magic of title, paralyzes his arm...is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    SL 2.154 9 ...a public...not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
    Prd1 2.221 11 ...I have the same title to write on prudence that I have to write on poetry or holiness.
    Pt1 3.32 2 The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, Those who are free throughout the world.
    GoW 4.285 21 [Goethe's] autobiography, under the title of Poetry and Truth out of my Life, is the expression of the idea...that a man exists for culture;...
    ET11 5.175 5 He shall have the book, said the mother of Alfred, who can read it; and Alfred won it by that title...
    ET11 5.176 1 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    ET11 5.192 8 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET15 5.269 20 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    Ctr 6.152 27 Mr. Pitt, like Mr. Pym, thought the title of Mister good against any king in Europe.
    Cour 7.260 22 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me...
    PI 8.43 11 I have heard that the Germans think...that Goldsmith's title to the name [of poet] is not from his Deserted Village...
    Aris 10.32 13 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them, under a gayer title, a chapter on Education.
    Aris 10.41 12 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    Plu 10.296 24 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy, under the title of A Physician of the Soul...
    MMEm 10.425 7 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.
    FSLC 11.182 23 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed what stuff reputations are made of, what straws we dignify by office and title...
    FRep 11.514 12 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...
    CL 12.162 20 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to prevent the sparrows or tortoises. It was their land before it was his, and their title was precedent.

titled, adj. (2)

    SL 2.137 7 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire...
    GoW 4.279 8 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name;...

title-deeds, n. (1)

    Supl 10.167 22 The people of English stock...are a solid people...owners of land whose title-deeds are properly recorded.

title-page, n. (4)

    SwM 4.121 27 Swedenborg styles himself in the title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...
    MoS 4.166 24 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
    MMEm 10.411 10 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page...[ Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    CInt 12.119 6 ...the book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

titles, n. (19)

    DSA 1.130 27 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which...are now petrified into official titles...
    Hist 2.18 6 A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
    Hist 2.38 23 You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read.
    Mrs1 3.148 23 ...[Shakspeare] adds to so many titles that of being the best-bred man in England and in Christendom.
    Mrs1 3.153 15 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before the...creator of titles and dignities, namely the heart of love.
    ET11 5.177 27 Some of [the English aristocracy] are too old and too proud to wear titles...
    ET11 5.192 12 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.197 23 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome.
    ET11 5.198 10 It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what is called high society.
    ET12 5.204 5 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    ET15 5.262 8 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    Bhr 6.188 11 People masquerade before us in their...titles...
    OA 7.331 17 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...clearing their titles...
    Grts 8.304 16 You shall not...tell me by their titles what books you have read.
    Aris 10.36 5 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed...
    Chr2 10.111 25 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors,-to writers who were not careful to set down name or date or titles or cities or postmarks in these illuminations!
    Plu 10.304 5 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion, that indicate a poet and an orator, though he is not ambitious of these titles...
    War 11.173 21 ...the man who, without any...titles of lordship or train of guards...takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    FSLC 11.181 21 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs...what bitter mockeries!

titmouse, n. (1)

    LE 1.168 5 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

Tittleton, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.92 26 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth...gave fame by his sense and energy to the name and affairs of the Tittleton snuff-box factory.

titular, adj. (5)

    YA 1.386 21 We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides such in every society,-only let us have the real instead of the titular.
    SR 2.51 2 A man is to carry himself...as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.
    NMW 4.245 10 When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
    PC 8.218 24 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed. Kings feel that this is that which they themselves represent; this is no red-kerchiefed, red-shirted rebel, but loyalty, kingship. This is real kingship, and their own only titular.
    FRep 11.520 1 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of...making a real government titular.

Tivoli, Italy, n. (3)

    YA 1.367 11 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the Villa d'Este in Tivoli...
    SL 2.147 15 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky.
    CW 12.173 16 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as...the Villa d'Este at Tivoli;...

Tivoli, Rosa di [Philip Pe (1)

    Hist 2.16 24 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude. So Roos entered into the inmost nature of a sheep.

toast, n. (5)

    ET6 5.104 10 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his chop and every species of convenience...
    Supl 10.171 8 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.
    Supl 10.171 11 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father.
    EWI 11.122 12 [Our] well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast...
    Mem 12.106 2 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.

toast, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.154 6 What is odious but...people...who toast their feet on the register...

tobacco, n. (12)

    Hsm1 2.254 22 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to...denounce with bitterness...the use of tobacco...
    Pt1 3.27 22 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love...the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco...
    Wth 6.109 23 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
    Ill 6.318 9 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
    Civ 7.31 11 Tobacco and opium have broad backs...
    OA 7.319 2 Tobacco, coffee...are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.
    MoL 10.250 26 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic...not flogging his youthful wit with tobacco and wine;...
    Thor 10.454 10 ...[Thoreau] ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco;...
    EWI 11.102 13 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are producers...of coffee, of tobacco...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.124 13 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant; the tobacco was incense;...
    FRep 11.535 26 [The class of which I speak] sit in decorated club-houses in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
    FRep 11.536 1 ...in the country [the class of which I speak] sit idle in stores and bar-rooms, and burn tobacco...

Toby, Uncle [Sterne, Trist (1)

    PI 8.43 9 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...

to-day, adv. [today,] (113)

    Nat 1.3 16 The sun shines to-day also.
    Nat 1.11 11 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume...is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    Nat 1.37 25 ...Property, which has been well compared to snow, - if it fall level to-day, it will be blown into drifts to-morrow, - is the surface action of internal machinery...
    DSA 1.150 6 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason, - to-day, pasteboard and filigree...
    LE 1.167 13 I give you the universe a virgin to-day.
    MN 1.193 21 The bigot must cease to be a bigot to-day.
    MN 1.223 14 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
    MR 1.245 25 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
    MR 1.247 6 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served; inelegant perhaps it may look to-day, and to a few...
    MR 1.247 21 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
    LT 1.268 7 The two omnipresent parties of History, the party of the Past and the party of the Future, divide society today as of old.
    Tran 1.351 18 All that is clearly due to-day is not to lie.
    Tran 1.359 16 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the sea-beach with a white colony to-day...
    YA 1.373 13 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy, working up all that is wasted to-day into to-morrow's creation;...
    Hist 2.8 10 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    Hist 2.33 19 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind. So far then are they...as real to-day as in the first Olympiad.
    Hist 2.38 7 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock, any more than he can draw to-day the face of a person whom he shall see to-morrow for the first time.
    SR 2.52 5 ...do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.
    SR 2.57 25 ...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
    SR 2.59 14 If I can be firm enough to-day to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now.
    SR 2.60 3 We worship [honor] to-day because it is not of to-day.
    SR 2.63 5 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    SR 2.67 7 These roses under my window...exist with God to-day.
    SR 2.73 23 Does this sound harsh to-day?
    SR 2.87 15 The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die...
    Lov1 2.172 22 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;...
    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 2.233 7 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, Caesar was not so great; to-day, the felon at the gallows' foot is not more miserable.
    Cir 2.306 19 To-day I am full of thoughts...
    Cir 2.320 9 We do not guess to-day the mood...of to-morrow...
    Exp 3.46 9 We do not know to-day whether we are busy or idle.
    Exp 3.60 16 Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, to-day.
    Mrs1 3.123 14 ...personal force never goes out of fashion. That is still paramount to-day...
    Mrs1 3.129 6 It is only country which came to town day before yesterday that is city and court to-day.
    Pol1 3.200 21 The statute stands there to say, Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day?
    Pol1 3.201 7 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    UGM 4.4 10 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it, and put myself on the road to-day.
    ShP 4.190 5 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...to-day I will square the circle...
    NMW 4.247 21 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...
    GoW 4.281 19 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow.
    ET1 5.23 24 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.
    ET2 5.28 17 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now, at night, seems to hear the steamer behind her, which left Boston to-day at two;...
    ET2 5.33 14 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day, instead of bubbles, we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.
    ET10 5.165 20 In the social world an Englishman to-day has the best lot.
    ET13 5.215 8 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.218 2 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
    ET17 5.295 21 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
    F 6.39 10 Dante and Columbus...would be Russians or Americans to-day.
    F 6.49 11 ...in geology, vast time but the same laws as to-day.
    Pow 6.64 9 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being to-day background;...
    Wth 6.99 27 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
    Wth 6.102 20 There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
    Ctr 6.150 8 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Ctr 6.153 27 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    Wsp 6.212 26 ...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    Ill 6.320 16 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?
    Ill 6.321 20 Instead of the firmament of yesterday, which our eyes require, it is to-day an egg-shell which coops us in;...
    Civ 7.20 3 ...in mankind to-day the savage tribes are gradually extinguished rather than civilized.
    Farm 7.139 24 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession.
    WD 7.170 14 Yesterday...the world was barren, peaked and pining: to-day ' t is inconceivably populous;...
    Boks 7.193 11 ...the number of printed books extant to-day may easily exceed a million.
    Cour 7.274 3 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish...to make it affirm some pragmatical tenet which our parish church receives to-day, it is not imparted...
    Suc 7.288 23 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...after the Napoleon rule, to be the strongest to-day...
    Suc 7.304 24 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
    OA 7.332 9 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with my brother, by invitation of Mr. [John] Adams's family.
    PI 8.56 3 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day...
    SA 8.95 12 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    SA 8.102 24 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation; but, though some of us have seen such, I doubt they are all gone. But Nature is not poorer to-day.
    QO 8.183 11 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    QO 8.183 15 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules...thirdly, never to pay any debt to-day.
    QO 8.200 8 ...every individual is only a momentary fixation of what was yesterday another's, is to-day his and will belong to a third to-morrow.
    PC 8.207 1 We meet to-day under happy omens to our ancient society...
    PC 8.207 14 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...
    PC 8.233 11 ...I draw new hope from the atmosphere we breathe to-day...
    Insp 8.273 10 ...[most men] say to-day what occurs to them, and something else to-morrow.
    Insp 8.273 21 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass;...
    Insp 8.276 23 I am not, says the man, at the top of my condition to-day...
    Imtl 8.348 18 Within every man's thought is a higher thought,-within the character he exhibits to-day, a higher character.
    Dem1 10.16 25 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Aris 10.38 7 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever...ended them. We give soldiers the same advantage to-day.
    Aris 10.46 3 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.
    PerF 10.71 3 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    Chr2 10.105 25 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day.
    Chr2 10.113 14 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors...of Princeton or Cambridge, to-day.
    Supl 10.168 18 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?
    Prch 10.231 10 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day;...
    MoL 10.241 2 Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: Some of your are to-day saying your farewells to each other...
    MoL 10.246 2 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. ... To-day we are come to count the number of sheep.
    Plu 10.309 18 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that he who ran in debt yesterday owes nothing to-day, as being another man;...
    Plu 10.319 19 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship...and has set them down with such candor and grace as to make them good reading to-day.
    LLNE 10.370 2 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    MMEm 10.412 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error...
    Thor 10.462 27 If [Thoreau] brought you yesterday a new proposition, he would bring you to-day another not less revolutionary.
    GSt 10.507 12 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed...
    FSLN 11.237 5 The terror which the Marseillaise struck into oppression, it thunders again to-day...
    ACiv 11.298 17 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
    EPro 11.314 1 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are ye unbound;/ Lift up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/
    EPro 11.322 6 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far;...
    Koss 11.397 24 ...[the people of Concord] think that the graves of our heroes around us throb to-day to a footstep that sounded like their own...
    RBur 11.440 5 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    RBur 11.442 8 ...the farm-work, the country holiday, the fishing-cobble are still [Burns's] debtors to-day.
    ChiE 11.473 1 [Confucius's] morals...we read with profit to-day.
    FRO1 11.479 26 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    FRO1 11.481 1 I wish...that within this little band that has gathered here to-day [Free Religious Association], should grow friendship.
    FRO2 11.485 5 ...it is not in my power to-day to meet the natural demands of the occasion [meeting of the Free Religious Association]...
    CPL 11.495 19 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library].
    Mem 12.91 15 Any piece of knowledge I acquire to-day...has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Bost 12.194 13 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?
    Bost 12.211 10 Here stands to-day, as of yore, our little city of the rocks [Boston];...
    Milt1 12.272 10 The tracts [Milton] wrote on these topics [divorce and freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent to-day as they were then.
    MLit 12.335 4 ...a love that fainteth at the sight of its object, is new to-day.
    Trag 12.406 2 The riches of body or of mind which we do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may arrive to-morrow.
    Trag 12.411 26 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day as they sat when the Greek came and saw them and departed...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

to-day, n. (51)

    AmS 1.98 12 Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.
    AmS 1.102 10 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason...pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.
    AmS 1.106 14 ...men in the world of to-day, are bugs...
    AmS 1.111 12 Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
    LT 1.259 15 The Times are...the quarry out of which the genius of to-day is building up the Future.
    LT 1.267 20 To-day is a king in disguise.
    LT 1.267 21 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless...
    LT 1.291 8 All the newspapers, all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame what is noble;...
    LT 1.291 10 ...you who hold not of to-day...but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it...
    SR 2.60 3 We worship [honor] to-day because it is not of to-day.
    Comp 2.125 9 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him... Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday.
    Comp 2.125 23 We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday.
    Lov1 2.171 27 ...grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.
    Prd1 2.240 6 To-morrow will be like to-day.
    OS 2.284 22 By this veil which curtains events [the soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
    Cir 2.305 6 The result of to-day...will presently be abridged into a word...
    Cir 2.315 18 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we...make the verge of to-day the new centre.
    Int 2.327 24 Out of darkness [the mind] came insensibly into the marvellous light of to-day.
    Exp 3.47 6 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade to-day;...
    Exp 3.60 14 Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.
    NR 3.232 27 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    GoW 4.267 15 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker] each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is anti-spiritual. But where are his new things of to-day?
    ET4 5.48 16 The Arabs of to-day are the Arabs of Pharaoh;...
    ET4 5.48 17 ...the Briton of to-day is a very different person from Cassibelaunus or Ossian.
    ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners.
    ET18 5.299 6 London is...the Rome of to-day.
    Wsp 6.212 13 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day...
    Civ 7.20 6 ...in Africa the negro of to-day is the negro of Herodotus.
    Elo1 7.98 24 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard...
    DL 7.105 21 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the new knowledge is taken up into the life of to-day and becomes the means of more.
    DL 7.108 14 The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and mechanical systems enough...
    WD 7.173 23 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    WD 7.175 12 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...
    PI 8.34 14 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs,--to fuse the circumstance of to-day;...
    Insp 8.273 7 With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
    Imtl 8.328 20 Sufficient to to-day are the duties of to-day.
    Imtl 8.328 21 Sufficient to to-day are the duties of to-day.
    PerF 10.71 1 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back, and Chaos moved from beneath, to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    SovE 10.194 23 Let [a man]...find...the height of lowliness, the immensity of to-day;...
    Prch 10.218 4 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.223 11 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity...
    Schr 10.277 22 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...
    MMEm 10.397 2 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
    ACiv 11.309 23 This is the consolation on which we rest in the darkness of the future and the afflictions of to-day, that the government of the world is moral...
    FRep 11.536 25 Of no use are the men...who can never understand that to-day is a new day.
    PLT 12.42 22 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
    II 12.81 24 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...
    Mem 12.110 8 With every new insight into the duty or fact of to-day we come into new possession of the past.
    Mem 12.110 14 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion...the light of to-day will shine backward and forward.
    PPr 12.383 17 The most elaborate history of to-day will have the oddest dislocated look in the next generation.
    PPr 12.383 19 The historian of to-day is yet three ages off.

to-days, n. (1)

    LT 1.267 24 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.

to-day's, n. (4)

    LE 1.181 15 Let [the scholar] know that...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned...
    PI 8.71 24 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms.
    Elo2 8.116 22 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things but only of the inspiration of his to-day's feeling, surprises [the people] with his tidings...
    Plu 10.322 19 If over-read in this decade, so that his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace, and to-day's novelties are sought for variety, [Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...

toes, n. (2)

    SwM 4.108 10 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth.
    Prch 10.224 13 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance; their fingers and toes, their members...are superfluously active...

together, adv. (125)

    Nat 1.5 12 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant...that... they do not vary the result.
    Nat 1.52 21 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together...
    AmS 1.85 21 ...tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, [the young mind] goes on tying things together...
    YA 1.368 24 The land,-travel a whole day together,-looks poverty-stricken...
    YA 1.382 9 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together!
    Lov1 2.187 15 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...was deciduous...
    Fdsp 2.207 5 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men, but let all three of you come together and you shall not have one new and hearty word.
    Hsm1 2.256 25 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...
    OS 2.286 20 Neither his age...nor actions, nor talents, nor all together can hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
    OS 2.293 21 ...there is a power, which, as it is in you, is in [your friend] also, and could therefore very well bring you together...
    Int 2.333 14 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new; I had the habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to exercise.
    Pt1 3.36 14 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
    Exp 3.47 3 ...my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    Mrs1 3.135 9 We call together many friends who keep each other in play...
    Mrs1 3.137 7 We should meet each morning as from foreign countries, and, spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign countries.
    Mrs1 3.137 26 Must we have a good understanding with one another's palates? as foolish people who have lived long together know when each wants salt or sugar.
    Mrs1 3.139 19 ...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.
    Nat2 3.191 6 ...wealth was good as it...brought friends together in a warm and quiet room...
    Nat2 3.192 9 There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery, together with a failure to yield a present satisfaction.
    Pol1 3.214 5 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often...work together for a time to one end.
    NER 3.262 2 All our things are right and wrong together.
    NER 3.265 11 I have failed, and you have failed, but perhaps together we shall not fail.
    NER 3.266 25 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    NER 3.273 13 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they...after some pause, rose up all together with earnestness, exclaiming, Let us set out with him immediately.
    SwM 4.95 22 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
    SwM 4.116 19 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    NMW 4.231 1 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable...of going many days together without rest or food except by snatches...
    ET1 5.18 12 ...[Carlyle] was...cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together...
    ET1 5.18 16 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together.
    ET5 5.101 16 In politics and in war [the English] hold together as by hooks of steel.
    ET8 5.129 9 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together...
    ET13 5.223 10 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the sympathy is at an end: two together are inaccessible to your thought...
    ET13 5.229 17 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.
    ET14 5.250 1 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated; the one comfort was, that they were all going speedily into the abyss together.
    ET16 5.273 3 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.273 7 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    F 6.22 13 Man is...a dragging together of the poles of the Universe.
    F 6.23 1 ...here they are, side by side, god and devil...riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.
    Ctr 6.136 11 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Ctr 6.143 21 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
    Bhr 6.172 2 When we reflect on...how [manners] recommend, prepare, and draw people together...we see what range the subject has...
    Wsp 6.203 7 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who, from long habit of thinking and feeling together, it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Wsp 6.208 13 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
    CbW 6.247 23 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out again? Porphyry's definition is better; Life is that which holds matter together.
    CbW 6.253 21 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
    CbW 6.274 22 ...one may take a good deal of pains to bring people together...and yet no result come of it.
    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.
    Bty 6.295 7 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
    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 7.13 20 Men cannot afford to live together on their merits...
    SS 7.14 10 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    Art2 7.54 26 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    Elo1 7.70 1 The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together...
    Elo1 7.86 3 ...the court and the county have really come together to arrive at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and meaning of somebody.
    DL 7.121 2 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    DL 7.128 19 It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.
    Boks 7.207 20 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together...
    Boks 7.210 14 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together...
    Clbs 7.229 25 If men are less when together than they are alone, they are also in some respects enlarged.
    Clbs 7.242 17 ...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
    Cour 7.264 5 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together; with pine boughs they can mop out the flame...
    SA 8.92 7 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other:--they were sure to be drawn together as by gravitation.
    Elo2 8.117 8 [The orator] is put together like a Waltham watch...
    Res 8.144 8 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track, put the disabled engine together and continued their journey.
    PC 8.221 16 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity,-which holds the universe together...
    PPo 8.263 17 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds, coming together to choose their king, resolve on a pilgrimage to Mount Kaf...
    Insp 8.273 7 With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
    Insp 8.275 25 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain...
    Insp 8.278 3 [Behmen said] In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an university.
    Insp 8.293 9 Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends before the other;...
    Imtl 8.336 11 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...
    Imtl 8.350 14 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth. if thou knowest a boon like this, choose it, together with wealth and far-extending life.
    Dem1 10.11 5 Secret analogies tie together the remotest parts of Nature...
    Dem1 10.23 15 Just as [the so-called fortunate man's] eye and hand work exactly together...so the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within his sphere will follow.
    Aris 10.35 11 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    PerF 10.83 23 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...
    PerF 10.86 2 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together is unity...
    Chr2 10.117 20 Men may well come together to kindle each other to virtuous living.
    Schr 10.280 3 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac...
    Plu 10.308 4 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to bring reason and things together...
    Plu 10.317 12 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss.
    LLNE 10.340 14 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...
    LLNE 10.341 11 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between [this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.
    LLNE 10.341 16 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...
    LLNE 10.362 19 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], perhaps as long as the colony held together;...
    LLNE 10.368 5 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways.
    LLNE 10.368 12 Few people can live together on their merits.
    CSC 10.374 11 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion...
    CSC 10.377 1 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    EzRy 10.385 13 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh.
    EzRy 10.392 19 The society will meet after the Lyceum, as it is difficult to bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
    Thor 10.482 14 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    LS 11.6 13 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.12 20 The disciples lived together;...
    LS 11.12 22 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ...
    HDC 11.52 10 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good;...
    HDC 11.82 24 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding...
    EWI 11.114 19 The negroes [of the West Indies] were called together by the missionaries and by the planters, and the news [of emancipation] explained to them.
    War 11.154 5 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together...
    JBB 11.267 2 Mr. Chairman, and fellow citizens: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together.
    JBB 11.267 5 This commanding event [John Brown's raid] which has brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long time in our history...
    ACiv 11.298 25 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization...
    ALin 11.329 11 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely together...
    ALin 11.332 2 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
    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.
    Wom 11.419 25 ...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?
    Wom 11.422 14 ...one [man] wishes schools, another armies, one gunboats, another public gardens. Bring all these biases together and something is done in favor of them all.
    SHC 11.429 8 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    SHC 11.432 13 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground...
    RBur 11.440 2 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together...by the fact that Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    Humb 11.457 8 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, his parts were well put together.
    FRO1 11.479 26 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    PLT 12.7 14 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other...that you shall have no academy.
    PLT 12.44 11 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    PLT 12.59 20 ...wit...puts together what belongs together...
    Mem 12.91 7 Memory...holds together past and present...
    Mem 12.97 6 ...this mysterious power [memory] that binds our life together has its own vagaries and interruptions.
    Mem 12.97 23 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Mem 12.106 16 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper...
    CInt 12.117 16 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
    MAng1 12.215 5 ...all things recorded of Michael Angelo Buonarotti agree together.
    MAng1 12.220 17 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    Milt1 12.255 14 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.
    ACri 12.286 7 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together...
    AgMs 12.358 13 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.

toil, n. (30)

    DSA 1.150 19 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil...
    LE 1.181 25 The good scholar will not refuse...to know...the uttermost secret of toil and endurance;...
    Con 1.324 20 If there be power...in toil, the north wind shall be purer...that I have lived.
    YA 1.379 1 ...the aristocracy of trade...was the result of toil and talent...
    YA 1.382 15 [The Associations] proposed...that all men should take a part in the manual toil...
    SR 2.46 17 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil...
    MoS 4.151 18 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.155 10 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...no loss of brains in toil.
    ET5 5.76 9 [These Saxons] have the taste for toil...
    ET5 5.88 21 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
    ET11 5.196 12 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart.
    Wth 6.84 9 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/ The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
    CbW 6.244 5 A day for toil, an hour for sport,/ But for a friend is life too short./
    Ill 6.307 10 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
    WD 7.165 5 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    OA 7.332 26 The world does not know, [John Adams] replied, how much toil, anxiety and sorrow I have suffered.
    Insp 8.271 23 Every real step is...by lyrical facility, and never by main strength and ignorance. Years of mechanic toil will only seem to do it; it will not so be done.
    GSt 10.506 20 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him, overtasked his strength...
    HDC 11.27 2 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.40 19 [The settlers of Concord's] religion was sweetness and peace amidst toil and tears.
    EWI 11.103 8 For the negro...toil, famine, insult and flogging;...
    ACiv 11.298 9 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil?
    HCom 11.340 3 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    EdAd 11.382 19 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/...
    Wom 11.407 1 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that the same mental height which [women's] husbands attain by toil, they attain by sympathy with their husbands.
    FRO1 11.476 10 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
    CL 12.142 25 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    Bost 12.186 13 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs, with as many and as tempting rewards to toil;...
    Milt1 12.279 6 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the toil... of this man [Milton]...
    AgMs 12.359 21 Toil has not broken [Edmund Hosmer's] spirit.

Toil, n. (1)

    DL 7.121 18 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys] and are weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want...

toil, v. (6)

    Art1 2.353 11 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times...
    Exp 3.65 15 ...stay there in thy closet and toil until the rest are agreed what to do about it.
    UGM 4.14 5 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch.
    Grts 8.311 10 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh.
    Bost 12.209 25 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...
    PPr 12.380 22 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.

toiled, v. (7)

    Con 1.308 1 I have...toiled honestly and painfully for very many years.
    Hist 2.34 13 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
    Fdsp 2.200 12 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Art1 2.359 24 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who toiled perhaps in ignorance of the existence of other sculpture...
    NMW 4.257 21 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward...they deserted [Napoleon].
    Elo1 7.100 3 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    MAng1 12.228 5 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding it over his head.

toilet, n. (2)

    Hsm1. 2.252 13 What shall [heroism] say then...to the toilet, compliments, quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of all society?
    Hsm1. 2.252 21 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray, arranging his toilet...

toiling, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.216 23 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...

toiling, v. (4)

    MN 1.203 1 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling to compute the length of [Nature's] line...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    LT 1.273 15 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve to give over toiling...
    Ill 6.323 17 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...always toiling...has any advantage of them.
    FRep 11.542 14 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...in the province assigned to them...

toils, n. (4)

    GoW 4.278 16 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius, and the just award of the laurel to its toils and denials, have also reason to complain.
    Edc1 10.129 3 ...what activity the desire of power inspires! What toils it sustains!
    Koss 11.397 3 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits, in such unbroken succession as may compare with the toils of a campaign, forbid us to detain you long.
    Pray 12.355 6 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth, amidst its toils and troubles and the follies of those around me, and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...

toilsome, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.220 12 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature.

token, n. (6)

    ShP 4.203 18 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated...
    ET11 5.180 4 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth...
    ET18 5.305 25 ...personality is the token of this race [the English].
    PPo 8.259 22 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token of his mistress.
    SlHr 10.442 2 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase, whose force had imprinted it on his memory, and, by the same token, his hearers were bound to remember his point.
    Mem 12.104 25 A souvenir is a token of love.

tokens, n. (9)

    LT 1.259 12 The Times are...tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise;...
    Art1 2.363 5 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...tokens of the everlasting effort to produce...
    Gts 3.161 8 ...our tokens of compliment and love are for the most part barbarous.
    GoW 4.261 21 The air is full of sounds; the sky, of tokens;...
    Bhr 6.172 8 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.193 2 It is sublime to feel and say of another...we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance;...
    Bty 6.306 16 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...signs and tokens of thought and character in manners...
    Imtl 8.334 22 ...the naturalist works...for the believing mind, which... receives [his discoveries] as private tokens of the grand good will of the Creator.
    SovE 10.210 7 If these [public actions] are tokens of the steady currents of thought and will in these directions, one might well anticipate a new nation.

Toland, John, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.270 25 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...

told, v. (169)

    DSA 1.134 19 Somehow [the seer's] dream is told;...
    DSA 1.136 1 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you...that the faith of Christ is preached.
    DSA 1.138 18 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
    DSA 1.147 5 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls...that told us what we knew;...
    LE 1.159 4 ...the epochs and heroes of chronology are pictorial images, in which [the scholar's] thoughts are told.
    LE 1.170 4 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds. Every man, when this is told, hearkens with joy...
    MR 1.227 16 ...the community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...
    Con 1.315 11 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts, who told him how much love they bore their children...
    Tran 1.356 4 ...as ridiculous stories will be to be told of [Transcendentalists] as of any.
    Hist 2.16 18 A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree;...
    Comp 2.102 18 Every secret is told, every crime is punished...in silence and certainty.
    Lov1 2.172 8 How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature!
    Lov1 2.173 27 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations.
    Lov1 2.183 3 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages.
    Fdsp 2.192 16 Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by others...
    Hsm1 2.253 19 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails. I asked the reason, and was told that the house had not been shut, night or day, for a hundred years.
    Hsm1 2.255 7 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
    Art1 2.367 26 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told...it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Pt1 3.10 17 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told;...
    Pt1 3.35 7 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
    Exp 3.56 12 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday?
    Chr1 3.89 6 It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they do not justify his estimate of his genius.
    Chr1 3.92 10 ...the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told.
    NER 3.273 4 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
    UGM 4.12 2 Unpublished nature will have its whole secret told.
    SwM 4.141 15 ...it is certain that [the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must tally with what is best in nature. ... In this mood we hear the rumor that the seer has arrived, and his tale is told.
    MoS 4.165 17 Five or six as ridiculous stories, too, [Montaigne] says, can be told of me, as of any man living.
    NMW 4.250 13 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church]...
    ET1 5.9 13 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books...
    ET1 5.12 26 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend]...
    ET1 5.14 3 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET1 5.17 9 ...it was now ten years since [Carlyle] had learned German, by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he wanted.
    ET1 5.20 11 I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows, are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
    ET1 5.23 8 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    ET3 5.38 4 ...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum, in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of England;...
    ET3 5.39 27 A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire in his parlor about one day in the year.
    ET4 5.65 11 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans. Yet, I am told, the skeleton is not larger.
    ET5 5.86 5 Lord Palmerston told the House of Commons that more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET5 5.89 7 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    ET5 5.89 13 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
    ET6 5.111 6 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...
    ET6 5.114 9 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection: the stories are so good that one is sure they must have been often told before...
    ET7 5.125 2 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel...
    ET8 5.129 4 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET8 5.140 9 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard...
    ET9 5.148 19 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    ET11 5.175 14 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...
    ET11 5.178 15 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    ET12 5.202 27 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds. They told him they should now very easily raise the remainder.
    ET15 5.265 2 It is told that when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    ET15 5.265 22 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies;...
    ET15 5.266 25 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself, on one occasion, where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    ET16 5.275 10 I told Carlyle that I was easily dazzled, and was accustomed to concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
    ET17 5.295 16 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor...
    ET17 5.296 23 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
    F 6.9 21 Read the description in medical books of the four temperaments and you will think you are reading your own thoughts which you had not yet told.
    Wth 6.117 24 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year;...
    Wth 6.121 12 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly...
    Wsp 6.201 21 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.
    Wsp 6.225 14 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    Wsp 6.227 22 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
    Wsp 6.228 8 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness...
    CbW 6.260 2 Marcus Antoninus says that Fronto told him that the so-called high-born are for the most part heartless;...
    Bty 6.292 26 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
    Ill 6.318 6 The red men told Columbus they had an herb which took away fatigue;...
    SS 7.10 1 [The ends of thought] are deeper than can be told...
    SS 7.12 1 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.
    Elo1 7.78 16 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then? He threw himself into their ship...told them stories...
    Elo1 7.78 24 What is told of [Caesar] is miraculous; it affects men so.
    WD 7.181 15 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them last. Not so, as I told you, was it in Belleisle.
    Clbs 7.230 14 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story. And that may be the reason why, when a gentleman has told a good thing, he immediately tells it again.
    Clbs 7.231 19 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.
    Clbs 7.237 18 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...is invited into the hall, and told that he cannot go out thence unless he can answer every question Wafthrudnir shall put.
    Cour 7.262 2 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
    Cour 7.267 12 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil...
    Suc 7.285 14 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua.
    Suc 7.299 6 ...I have just seen a man...who told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
    OA 7.320 14 The vast inconvenience of animal immortality was told in the fable of Tithonus.
    OA 7.325 18 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...
    OA 7.332 14 We...told [John Adams] he must let us join our congratulations to those of the nation on the happiness of his house.
    OA 7.335 12 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed...
    PI 8.44 18 Ben Jonson told Drummond that Sidney did not keep a decorum in making every one speak as well as himself.
    PI 8.53 8 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
    Elo2 8.128 2 I should add what is told of [Dr. Charles Chauncy]...
    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...
    Comc 8.169 20 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself. Such is the story told of the painter Astley...
    QO 8.183 16 ...[young men] are none the worse for being already told, in the last generation of Sheridan;...
    QO 8.183 20 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson; who, no doubt, if we could consult him, could tell of whom he first heard them told.
    QO 8.192 9 If De Quincey said, That is what I told you, [Wordsworth] replied, No: that is mine,-mine and not yours.
    QO 8.196 12 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...and which told admirably well.
    PC 8.222 8 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    PPo 8.236 11 ...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her cause./
    PPo 8.251 16 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
    PPo 8.256 7 Told I thee yester-morn how the Iris of heaven/ Brought to me in my cup a gospel of joy?/
    Insp 8.269 1 It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
    Insp 8.277 13 ...a religious poet once told me that he valued his poems, not because they were his, but because they were not.
    Insp 8.286 18 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Insp 8.295 20 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
    Imtl 8.330 16 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
    Dem1 10.13 22 When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./
    Dem1 10.14 22 ...this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of [the multitude's] halting. The augur showed him a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain;...
    Dem1 10.27 23 [Man] is sure no book, no man has told him all.
    Aris 10.48 3 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that it must end one way or another, it must not remain as it was; for I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    PerF 10.80 10 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court who was told he might be released if he would pay his fine.
    Chr2 10.113 26 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
    Edc1 10.128 19 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told...
    Schr 10.269 25 Why need [the poet] meddle with politics? His idlest thought, his yesternight's dream is told already in the Senate.
    Plu 10.318 10 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas, of Agesilaus...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    LLNE 10.366 13 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    EzRy 10.386 1 ...in passing each house [Ezra Ripley] told the story of the family that lived in it...
    EzRy 10.395 13 My classmate at Cambridge...told me...that in college [Ezra Ripley] was called Holy Ripley.
    MMEm 10.400 1 When introduced to Lafayette at Portland, [Mary Moody Emerson] told him that she was in arms at the Concord Fight.
    MMEm 10.400 7 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden and told her to keep the child until he returned.
    MMEm 10.411 3 When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual chance found themselves in her neighborhood and visited her, I told them that [Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...
    SlHr 10.442 11 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    Thor 10.468 6 [Thoreau]...told me that he expected to find yet the Victoria regia in Concord.
    Thor 10.470 25 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him.
    Thor 10.472 4 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
    Thor 10.472 5 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
    Carl 10.493 1 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these were mites.
    LS 11.2 2 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    LS 11.11 10 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, and told them that, as he had washed their feet, they ought to wash one another's feet;...
    HDC 11.36 22 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    HDC 11.38 5 ...in conclusion, the said Indians declared themselves satisfied, and told the Englishmen they were welcome.
    HDC 11.53 25 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
    HDC 11.59 3 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    HDC 11.64 27 ...in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively. Mr. Whiting, who was chosen, was, we are told in his epitaph, a universal lover of mankind.
    HDC 11.76 2 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    EWI 11.105 23 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.
    EWI 11.116 14 We were told that the dress of the negroes [in Antigua] on that occasion [of emancipation in the West Indies] was uncommonly simple and modest.
    FSLC 11.180 13 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent people in England told me they could always distinguish by their culture among Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.198 23 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final.
    FSLN 11.226 14 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...
    FSLN 11.228 6 [Webster] told the people at Boston they must conquer their prejudices;...
    AsSu 11.249 11 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest;...
    AKan 11.261 11 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
    TPar 11.285 13 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere to the best...
    TPar 11.285 14 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere to the best...
    SMC 11.359 11 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott]...as the colonel who got off his horse when he saw one of his men limp on the march, and told him to ride.
    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. I told the colonel this morning I should [march my men away], and shall...
    SMC 11.362 24 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday;...
    SMC 11.362 27 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday; told him I would not stand it anyway.
    SMC 11.362 27 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company...
    SMC 11.363 6 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to.
    SMC 11.364 10 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    SMC 11.364 23 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles...
    SMC 11.365 4 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;-I told him, perhaps he did not think I was smart.
    Koss 11.401 3 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.
    RBur 11.439 9 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival]. But I am told there is no appeal...
    CPL 11.497 22 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library...
    PLT 12.16 19 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass except by running beside them a little way along the bank. But whence they come or whither they go is not told me.
    Mem 12.94 4 On hearing a fact told I am aware that I knew it already.
    Mem 12.95 27 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
    Mem 12.96 3 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
    Mem 12.105 22 One of my neighbors, a grazier, told me that he should know again every cow, ox, or steer that he ever saw.
    Mem 12.109 8 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.
    CInt 12.118 13 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    CInt 12.124 17 If the truth must be told, thought is as rare in colleges as in cities.
    CInt 12.131 15 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
    MAng1 12.228 9 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.
    Milt1 12.252 24 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...
    Milt1 12.257 21 ...[Milton's] voice, we are told, was delicately sweet and harmonious.
    Milt1 12.258 22 ...foreigners came to England, we are told, to see the Lord Protector and Mr. Milton.
    Milt1 12.266 19 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    Milt1 12.270 3 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin;...
    MLit 12.335 6 The world does not run smoother than of old,/ There are sad haps that must be told./
    WSL 12.337 18 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years; nor will he remember the fact as many minutes after it has been told him...
    Pray 12.355 7 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...
    Let 12.392 18 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.

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