VI. 260; independence, VIII. 217; based on idea, II. 302; and individualism, VI. 134; instinct, XII. 37; life is for, IV. 285; XI. 236; manual labor as, I. 235; measure of, X. 56; its measure the number of things taken for granted, VII. 11; X. 56; moral sentiment its foundation, VIII. 228; its office to correct narrowness, VI. 131; Plato's word, IV. 64; politics, VIII. 217; power, VIII. 217; proof, VI. 294; religion its flower, VI. 206; XII. 198; results, I. 107; scale of, VI. 306; scientific, VI. 218; scope, VIII. 217; its secret to interest men more in their public than in their private character, VI. 157, 158; effect of society, I. 313; VII. 11; X. 32; can spare nothing, VI. 166; superficial, VI. 190; travel, VI. 146, 269; truckling, X. 134; inverts vulgar views, I. 59; war forwards, XI. 152; war and peace the mercury of, XI. 166.
Cup, of life, X. 43; of the earth, VII. 172, 319; of thought, III. 181.
Cupid, II. 366; VI. 289; IX. 10, 104, 256.
CUPIDO, IX. 257.
Curfew stock, VI. 157.
Curiosity, lies in wait, VIII. 226; English absence of, V. 104.
Curls, witchcraft of, VII. 104, 303.
Currents, of mind, II. 328; VIII. 6; X. 196.
Custom, English deference to, V. 109; nullified, I. 314; II. 76, 140; III. 170; IV. 172; opium of, X. 128; ruts of, I. 243, 244, 250; IX. 354; works for us, VI. 120 f. See, also, Conformity, Fashion.
Customers, VIII. 143; XI. 123.
Cynics, IV. 154; VII. 309, 321.
Cypresses, IV. 144; V. 279.
Daedalus, IX. 20, 170, 243.
DAEMONIC LOVE, IX. 109-113.
Daemons, III. 25, 39; IV. 66, 109; VI. 45; IX. 18, 110; X. 97.
Daguesseau, XII. 96.
Dalton, John, VII. 238.
Dana, Charles, X. 359.
Dance, in men's lives, VIII. 70; X. 39.
Dancing, VI. 142, 292.
Dandamis, quoted, III. 280.
Dandelion, duped by a, VI. 115.
Danger, VI. 24, 49; VII. 263.
Daniel, Samuel, quoted, VII. 30.
Dante, bad company, VII. 7; we are civil to, VIII. 67; like Euclid, VIII. 72; imagination and insight, III. 4; IV. 216; V. 233; VIII. 27, 72; lonely, VIII. 217; XII. 49, 365; muse of Italy, IX. 221; nationality, VI. 39; can be parsed, VIII. 21; purpose, X. 227; realism, III. 37; his noble low style, XII. 290; vindictive, IV. 137; Vita Nuova, VII. 205; contempt of the vulgar, XII. 237; writes proudly, XII. 329.
Dark Ages, VIII. 214.
Dartmouth College, Address at, I. 153-187.
Daughter, birth of, in China, XI. 414.
David, King, II. 255.
Davy, Sir Humphry, quoted, VIII. 306.
DAY, Days, IX. 228; Ancient of Days in morning dew, XII. 71; apprehension of, the measure of a man, VII. 179; bask in, VII. 298; be a, VII. 180; beams from eternity, X. 236; best, XII. 102; fill with bravery, III. 37; carnival of year, VII. 170; celestial, IV. 12; each a Creator, IX. 395; as centuries, VI. 247; of Charles V., I. 163; creeping, X. 132; cups of pearl, IX. 321; dancing, IX. 385; darkened, X. 51; day of, VI. 25; deformed and low, IX. 174; divine, VII. 168; every day is doomsday, VII. 175; dress, VII. 170; escort us to grave, IX. 348; fabric of, VI. 82; two faces, IX. 232;
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