Suez to Sung
Suez, Isthmus of, n. (1)
NMW 4.246 14
...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what
romantic pictures! what strange situations!...wading in the gulf of the
Isthmus of Suez.
suffer, v. (82)
Nat 1.21 10
When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting
on a sled, to suffer death as the champion of the English laws, one of the
multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
Nat 1.37 23
Debt...is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
AmS 1.95 11
I...take my place in the ring, to suffer and to work...
DSA 1.129 6
...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer
in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
DSA 1.130 4
Having seen that the law in us is commanding, [Jesus] would
not suffer it to be commanded.
DSA 1.135 18
[The office of priest] is of that reality that it cannot suffer the
deduction of any falsehood.
LE 1.166 18
...it needs not to do, but to suffer;...
LE 1.176 11
Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge...
MN 1.220 7
A [New England] man was born...to suffer for the benefit of
others...
MR 1.241 2
...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work
of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of his having a purse in his
pocket...to sever him from those duties;...
MR 1.255 9
Will you suffer me to add one trait more to this portrait of man
the reformer?
Con 1.301 26
...we must...suffer men to learn as they have done for six
millenniums, a word at time;...
Con 1.308 7
...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in
your own fidelity and labor, before I suffer you...to ride into my estate, and
claim to scatter it as your own.
Hist 2.8 19
[Each man] must...not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or
empires...
Comp 2.94 1
...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms
with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is
sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many...crooked passages in
our journey, that would not suffer us to lose our way.
Comp 2.109 7
That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to
say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without
contradiction.
Comp 2.110 26
Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as
well as they.
Comp 2.118 25
Men suffer all their life under the foolish superstition that
they can be cheated.
SL 2.161 24
The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his
whole being without obstruction...
Hsm1 2.250 12
[Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of
prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it
may suffer.
Hsm1 2.255 21
It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to
suffer and to dare with solemnity.
Hsm1 2.264 1
Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are
no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world...
Int 2.328 25
We do not determine what we will think. We only...clear away
as we can all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see.
Pt1 3.6 4
...there is some...excess of phlegm in our constitution which does
not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
Pt1 3.21 5
All the facts of the animal economy...are symbols of the passage
of the world into the soul of man, to suffer there a change and reappear a
new and higher fact.
Pt1 3.26 10
The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go
with them?
Pt1 3.26 12
A spy [things] will not suffer;...
Pt1 3.26 13
A spy [things] will not suffer; a lover, a poet, is the
transcendency of their own nature,--him they will suffer.
Exp 3.61 9
...however a thoughtful man may suffer from the defects and
absurdities of his company, he cannot without affectation deny to any set of
men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
Exp 3.67 1
How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might keep forever these
beautiful limits...
Mrs1 3.152 24
For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to
suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy
remedies.
Nat2 3.170 11
...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their
bosom. How willingly we would...suffer nature to intrance us.
PPh 4.40 1
Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from
the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer
[Plato].
PNR 4.84 2
Plato affirms...that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it;...
MoS 4.157 27
...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious
scruples to allegiance;...
NMW 4.231 5
Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was
born;...of a perception which did not suffer itself to be baulked or misled by
any pretences of others...
GoW 4.263 9
...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to
paint what I suffer.
GoW 4.290 18
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us;...
ET11 5.183 24
...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English
peers] afford to neglect them? O, replied my friend, why should they work
for themselves when every man in England...will suffer before they come to
harm?
ET12 5.203 25
On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase,
[Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in
perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and
placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for the Providence that
appears in bibliography also, to suffer the reunited parts to be re-bound.
ET18 5.306 21
...any forbearance from [an Englishman's] superiors
surprises him, and they suffer in his good opinion.
F 6.21 12
The doer must suffer, said the Greeks;...
Pow 6.62 3
We prosper with such vigor that...we do not suffer from the
profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
Ctr 6.154 9
Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the
enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished
tale.
Ctr 6.159 14
I suffer every day from the want of perception of beauty in
people.
Ctr 6.165 1
...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found...
to feel a habitual desire that the estate shall suffer no harm by his
administration...
Wsp 6.239 24
...[men] suffer from politics, or bad neighbors...and they
would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
Bty 6.300 2
...petulant old gentlemen, who have chanced to suffer some
intolerable weariness from pretty people...affirm that the secret of ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Elo1 7.62 15
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who
refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of
worse men;...
DL 7.112 15
If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the
parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
Cour 7.265 7
...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till
they feel pain, whilst others of more sensibility...suffer in the fear of the
pang more acutely than in the pang.
Cour 7.265 11
...'t is possible that the beholders suffer more keenly than
the victims.
OA 7.326 5
...[the old lawyer's] reputation does not gain or suffer from one
or a dozen new performances.
PerF 10.88 4
What we do and suffer is in moments...
Chr2 10.116 5
This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the
charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a
church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss...
Edc1 10.129 22
Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every pain I
suffer, leaves me a different being from that they found me?
Edc1 10.137 24
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or
senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young
soul...
Edc1 10.151 8
What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk
with meekness in private and obscure duties, to wait and to suffer?
SovE 10.189 8
...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart
that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end
themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
SovE 10.193 13
Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with
which earth is filled...
SovE 10.204 10
The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the
mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept
respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world. Now
men...suffer in character and intellect.
MMEm 10.430 6
If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,-
were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without
mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would...make no grimace of
affected sympathy, nor suffer any real compassion.
GSt 10.507 1
...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...was never called
to suffer under the decays and loss of his powers...I count him happy among
men.
HDC 11.40 15
...[The Concord settler's pastor said] if we come short in
grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
Strive we, therefore, herein to excel, and suffer not this crown to be taken
away from us.
HDC 11.69 17
...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any
of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea...neither will we suffer
any such tea to be used in our families.
EWI 11.134 1
...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man
[John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of Massachusetts rolls...
EWI 11.136 16
...It is better to suffer every evil, than to consent to any.
War 11.158 12
The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a
voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer
me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
FSLC 11.190 5
I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the
principles of Law to be discredited.
AKan 11.256 20
In these calamities under which they suffer...the people of
Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
JBB 11.269 21
...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official
gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...
ALin 11.329 22
...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the
dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in
Illinois, we might well be silent, and suffer the awful voices of the time to
thunder to us.
Koss 11.396 2
God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to
my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
Wom 11.419 15
...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women'
s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that
they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see
that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
CPL 11.498 16
[Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the
fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God
through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other
people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we
are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we therefore herein to
excel, and suffer not this crown to be taken away from us.
Mem 12.92 19
...in the history of character the day comes when you are
incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then you suffer
no more...
CInt 12.113 12
...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to
suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of
military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence
of Intellectual Law.
CW 12.173 27
If [a thoughtful man] suffer from accident or low spirits, his
spirits rise when he enters [his wood-lot].
Milt1 12.249 12
[Milton's tracts'] rhetorical excellence must also suffer
some deduction.
Let 12.402 19
In all the cases we have ever seen where people were
supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit
enough.
Trag 12.409 19
...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is
hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
Trag 12.410 16
If a man says, Lo! I suffer-it is apparent that he suffers
not, for grief is dumb.
sufferance, n. (4)
AmS 1.104 27
...what overgrown error you behold is there only by
sufferance, - by your sufferance.
AmS 1.105 1
...what overgrown error you behold is there only by
sufferance, - by your sufferance.
Chr1 3.87 5
...matched his sufferance sublime/ The taciturnity of time./
F 6.35 12
The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in
these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
suffered, v. (51)
AmS 1.83 15
The state of society is one in which the members have
suffered amputation from the trunk...
LT 1.286 9
The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle
should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
Tran 1.335 26
[The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle
should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
SR 2.63 14
The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered
the king...to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic
by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
Comp 2.117 13
...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances
or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of
the other over his own want of the same.
SL 2.132 1
...it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered;...
Hsm1 2.248 2
Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites
to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
Cir 2.311 26
If [the speaker and the hearer] were at a perfect understanding
in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no
words would be suffered.
Pt1 3.27 7
The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he
speaks...with the intellect...suffered to take its direction from its celestial
life;...
Exp 3.46 21
...all martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered.
Nat2 3.188 2
...James Naylor once suffered himself to be worshipped as the
Christ.
NR 3.237 19
[Nature] would never get anything done, if she suffered
Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.
SwM 4.146 5
...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the
more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam
and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered
to obscure;...
ShP 4.215 7
The finest poetry was first experience; but the thought has
suffered a transformation since it was an experience.
GoW 4.285 18
[Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much.
Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered...
ET5 5.78 23
...no breach of truth and plain dealing,--not so much as secret
ballot, is suffered in the island [England].
ET15 5.268 15
No writer is suffered to claim the authorship of any paper
[in the London Times];...
Ctr 6.143 19
Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than
from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
Bhr 6.186 22
...Godfrey acts ever as if he suffered from some mortifying
circumstance.
Bhr 6.186 26
The hero is suffered to be himself.
SS 7.4 18
...[[my new friend] suffered at being seen where he was...
DL 7.107 17
It is what is done and suffered in the house...that has the
profoundest interest for us.
WD 7.184 9
There are people...who are suffered to be themselves in
society;...
OA 7.332 26
The world does not know, [John Adams] replied, how much
toil, anxiety and sorrow I have suffered.
Res 8.147 17
Against the terrors of the mob, which...once suffered to gain
the ascendant, is diabolic...good sense has many arts of prevention and of
relief.
PC 8.232 24
We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game
of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
Grts 8.320 23
The man...who is suffered to be himself in society;...he it is
whom we seek...
Aris 10.50 4
...the powers...of a priest [are determined] by the act of
inspiring us with a sentiment which disperses the grief from which we
suffered.
Plu 10.317 26
If I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be
ascribed to him, I regret that he should have suffered such destruction of his
own.
MMEm 10.414 2
...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great
satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was
rather the order of things...
HDC 11.37 7
Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity were known to the
Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.
HDC 11.55 18
The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused
some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet
summer blighted the corn;...and the crops suffered much from mice.
HDC 11.61 1
Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war.
HDC 11.65 26
The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled
but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...
HDC 11.82 12
[Concord] has suffered neither from war, nor pestilence...
LVB 11.88 5
Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which
the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And
guard the way of life from all offence,/ Suffered or done./ Wordsworth.
EWI 11.111 9
[The West Indian slave] suffered insult, stripes, mutilation at
the humor of the master...
EWI 11.111 21
...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and
Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and
cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation, in a future world,
of the wrongs he suffered in this, these missionaries were persecuted by the
planters...
EWI 11.116 11
At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West
Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel
who could not get in. For once the house of God suffered violence...
EWI 11.131 9
...this kidnapping [of freeborn negroes] is suffered within
our own land and federation...
FSLC 11.212 16
We will never intermeddle with your slavery,-but you
can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and Berkshire.
FSLN 11.228 20
I said I had never in my life up to this time suffered from
the Slave Institution.
ALin 11.335 24
Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's
portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have
suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
SMC 11.364 23
At this time Captain Prescott was daily threatened with
sickness, and suffered the more from this heat.
SMC 11.366 12
The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of
veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered
extraordinary losses;...
SMC 11.368 17
At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of
which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part...suffered severely.
EdAd 11.393 9
...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate
themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom
and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a mould
into which all metal most easily runs. But the form shall not be suffered to
be an impediment.
Wom 11.419 16
...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women'
s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that
they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see
that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
Wom 11.423 24
...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined
pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I
think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
FRep 11.542 2
I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation
of servants, and not of the served. How can men have any other ambition
where the reason has not suffered a disastrous eclipse?
Bost 12.192 10
[The Massachusetts colonists'] crops suffered from pigeons
and mice.
sufferer, n. (13)
SR 2.78 11
Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer;...
Comp 2.123 15
...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never
am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
UGM 4.24 2
Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she
mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies
plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life...
DL 7.115 2
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off.
Farm 7.138 11
Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves:
Well, my children...shall go back to the land...
Cour 7.265 27
Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the
hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we, like him,
subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive...how serene is the
sufferer.
Edc1 10.158 8
...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to
check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some
helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it
on the instant to the brave rescuer.
SovE 10.195 2
The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the
obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his
agency.
LVB 11.95 27
However feeble the sufferer and however great the
oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the
aggressor.
CPL 11.503 12
...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal,
and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached.
CL 12.138 23
[Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which
sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an
animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other
uncovered part, burrows into it, multiplies and kills the sufferer.
Trag 12.410 12
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart
of the sufferer.
Trag 12.416 22
The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or
putting an interval between a man and his fortune, and so converts the
sufferer into a spectator and his pain into poetry.
sufferers, n. (6)
Mrs1 3.154 24
...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to
[Osman's] side.
Ctr 6.133 5
The sufferers [from egotism] parade their miseries...
Clbs 7.233 7
The greatest sufferers are often those who have the most to
say...
MoL 10.257 26
I learn with grief...that you have had your sufferers in the
battle...
GSt 10.503 6
...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire
preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his
heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas]...
JBB 11.270 10
...we are here to think of relief for the family of John
Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It
comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...
suffering, adj. (6)
LT 1.262 6
They indicate,-these...suffering...figures of the only race in
which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
Hsm1 2.261 21
...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes
of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would
appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a
brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men.
Art2 7.53 21
The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in
tears and smiles of suffering and loving men.
Farm 7.148 2
The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his
orchard at home, where every year...his forlorn trees pined like suffering
virtue.
PC 8.209 6
The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the
Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the
enlarged scale of charities to relieve...suffering Greeks...
Trag 12.408 4
[Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of
Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism, and therefore
the suffering individual finds his good consulted in the good of all, of
which he is a part.
suffering, n. (14)
YA 1.389 8
Men complain of their suffering, and not of the crime.
Hsm1 2.249 15
...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in
nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by
human suffering.
Exp 3.48 10
There are moods in which we court suffering...
Bhr 6.193 21
It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated
by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit
place of suffering in hell;...
Cour 7.265 20
The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt
by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last
suffering...
Cour 7.265 21
The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt
by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last
suffering...
Imtl 8.343 10
If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old
saints; and these by any man's suffering are enlarged and enthroned.
Aris 10.46 17
...it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed
amidst so much suffering.
MMEm 10.422 4
[Time] is a goodly name for our notions of breathing,
suffering, enjoying, acting.
FSLN 11.236 12
...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which
are always soliciting us...are an offset to a Universe of suffering and
crime;...
SMC 11.374 5
At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost
seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken
prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual suffering
from snow and hail and intense cold...
Milt1 12.267 13
...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures...
strength by suffering...
Trag 12.412 14
To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek
genius added an ideal beauty...permitting no violence of mirth, or wrath, or
suffering.
Trag 12.415 10
Most suffering is only apparent.
suffering, v. (16)
YA 1.388 1
The people, and the world, are now suffering from the want of
religion and honor in its public mind.
Comp 2.110 18
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
Pt1 3.26 25
...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man]
can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the
ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him;...
Mrs1 3.153 21
[Love] impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its
own.
ShP 4.191 13
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in...
suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.
ET13 5.231 4
...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the
suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days
of Alfred...
Pow 6.73 22
...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree
into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf
of twigs.
Wth 6.102 21
There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar]
would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
Bhr 6.184 23
...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle]
fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
HDC 11.48 1
Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of
Concord], of any inhabitant...suffering from any violence or usurpation of
any class.
EWI 11.129 5
...an honest tenderness for the poor negro, for man suffering
these wrongs, combined with the national pride, which refused to give the
support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these
disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
FSLN 11.219 1
I have lived all my life without suffering any known
inconvenience from American Slavery.
SMC 11.367 7
...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change
of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew
at last...to an excellent reputation...
SMC 11.371 5
After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard
service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few
days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run
in circles...
CL 12.137 16
In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every
spring from the loss of their cattle...
Milt1 12.278 21
...as many poems have been written upon unfit society...
yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom
of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul, suffering more
keenly than others from the unavoidable evils of human life, is entitled to.
sufferings, n. (5)
Elo1 7.62 12
Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar
symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of perception of
the sufferings of the audience.
HDC 11.35 12
The great cost of cattle...the sufferings of the people
[pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon following;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.81 4
In 1786, when the general sufferings drove the people in
parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large party of
armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
EWI 11.105 9
Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the
sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to
London...
Trag 12.415 18
...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the
obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old
sufferings.
suffers, v. (26)
Nat 1.53 8
No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/ It suffers not
in smiling pomp.../
DSA 1.127 17
...because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be
got rid of, the doctrine of it suffers this perversion...
DSA 1.138 12
...[this man] smiles and suffers;...
Hist 2.30 23
[Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal
Father and the race of mortals, and readily suffers all things on their
account.
SR 2.70 25
Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot
help itself.
Lov1 2.170 10
...this passion of which we speak [love]...suffers no one who
is its servant to grow old...
Prd1 2.235 11
Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few
swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in
his possession.
NR 3.242 24
[Nature] suffers no seat to be vacant in her college.
NER 3.277 5
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he
from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
SwM 4.133 11
The universe, in [Swedenborg's] poem, suffers under a
magnetic sleep...
ET6 5.104 26
Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers
without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion...
F 6.14 23
Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which
end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
F 6.29 12
...'T is written on the gate of Heaven, Woe unto him who suffers
himself to be betrayed by Fate!
F 6.47 21
Leaving the daemon who suffers, [man] is to take sides with the
Deity...
Art2 7.37 20
The child not only suffers, but cries;...
OA 7.326 21
The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from
powers untried...
PI 8.28 15
Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause
with his own.
PPo 8.248 11
...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see...
that the mind suffers no religion and no empire but its own.
Aris 10.63 26
...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a
vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of pitiless
selfishness...
PerF 10.86 27
...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New
York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be
fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
Plu 10.314 3
The soul, incapable of death, suffers in the same manner in
the body, as birds that are kept in a cage.
FSLC 11.182 7
...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of
industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave
Law]...
MLit 12.335 7
Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great
Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.
PPr 12.388 16
One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of Mammon and of
criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.
Trag 12.410 17
If a man says, Lo! I suffer-it is apparent that he suffers
not, for grief is dumb.
Trag 12.416 7
The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance
to that condition...
suffice, v. (14)
Hist 2.38 12
Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that
the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and
written.
SL 2.132 27
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
Pt1 3.29 15
...the air should suffice for [the poet's] inspiration...
Exp 3.73 19
Suffice it for the joy of the universe that we have not arrived at
a wall...
Exp 3.84 18
I am very content with knowing, if only I could know. That is
an august entertainment, and would suffice me a great while.
CbW 6.257 16
...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as
well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
Civ 7.17 18
...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce
enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/
This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
Boks 7.199 5
[Plato] would suffice for the tuition of the race;...
Imtl 8.341 13
A thousand years,-tenfold, a hundredfold [the thinker's]
faculties, would not suffice.
FSLN 11.220 7
...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the
opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an
exponent of this. He too is responsible; they will not be. It will always
suffice to say,-I followed him.
JBS 11.276 11
Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit
far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
II 12.86 10
His art shall suffice this artist...
CL 12.148 8
Some English reformers thought...that, if there were no cows
to pasture, less land would suffice.
EurB 12.378 9
[The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with
the most wooden manners, as little polished as will suffice to avoid
castigation...
sufficed, v. (7)
MN 1.207 19
...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to
do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have
sufficed to do.
Con 1.317 7
...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build
what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in
a sound body appeared.
Tran 1.355 1
In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice,
if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation.
ET4 5.45 26
The spawning force of the [English] race has sufficed to the
colonization of great parts of the world;...
LLNE 10.327 24
The structures of old faith in every department of society
a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
HDC 11.37 2
A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians]
on the march.
ACri 12.295 11
Shakspeare would have sufficed for the culture of a nation
for vast periods.
suffices, v. (5)
LE 1.157 11
It suffices me to say...that the diffidence of mankind in the
soul has crept over the American mind...
Fdsp 2.211 4
To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter.
That seems to you a little. It suffices me.
Pt1 3.29 17
That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor
and hungry...
Aris 10.65 10
...it suffices that [a man of generous spirit's] aims are high...
Supl 10.166 22
The more I am engaged with [the real world], the more it
suffices.
sufficiency, n. (7)
NER 3.254 2
...in each of these [reform] movements emerged...an assertion
of the sufficiency of the private man.
Suc 7.307 24
We know...the sufficiency of truth.
Chr2 10.121 26
There is no end to the sufficiency of character.
SovE 10.212 5
The commanding fact which I never do not see, is the
sufficiency of the moral sentiment.
Thor 10.479 3
I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive
him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.
EWI 11.122 12
[Our] well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee
and toast...
PLT 12.3 10
...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic
powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the
irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist; sure of
admiration for his facts, sure of their sufficiency.
sufficient, adj. (71)
Nat 1.47 9
It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World,
that God will teach a human mind...
Nat 1.68 5
Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist
overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the
world;...
DSA 1.144 15
The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the
character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate with sufficient
clearness the falsehood of our theology.
MN 1.216 17
Be you only whole and sufficient, and I shall feel you in
every part of my life and fortune...
MR 1.244 21
[Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not
sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the
house...
LT 1.273 23
To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and...esteems his
associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own
piety.
LT 1.279 4
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense
of the sacredness of private integrity.
Hist 2.12 12
When we have gone through this process, and added thereto
the Catholic Church...its Saints' days and image-worship, we have as it
were been the man that made the minster; we have seen how it could and
must be. We have the sufficient reason.
Hist 2.14 20
We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus,
Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a very sufficient
account of what manner of persons they were and what they did.
Hist 2.37 6
...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious,
lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
SR 2.59 7
See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens
itself to the average tendency.
Lov1 2.178 11
Beauty...seems sufficient to itself.
Prd1 2.222 19
There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the
world. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three.
Hsm1 2.263 8
Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the
youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix
his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next
newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his
opinions incendiary.
Pt1 3.6 10
...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to
arrive at the senses...
Pt1 3.37 5
We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness
address ourselves to life...
Exp 3.83 15
Let who will ask, Where is the fruit? I find a private fruit
sufficient.
Chr1 3.111 5
The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and
the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons,
which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
Mrs1 3.138 18
It is not quite sufficient to good-breeding, a union of
kindness and independence.
Pol1 3.200 6
Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that any
measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you
can get sufficient voices to make it a law.
Pol1 3.207 14
In this country we are very vain of our political institutions,
which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living
men, from the character and condition of the people, which they still
express with sufficient fidelity...
Pol1 3.213 27
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of
the character of his fellows.
Pol1 3.214 7
...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for
me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I overstep the truth...
Pol1 3.220 23
There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of
the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of
things...
Pol1 3.221 2
...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of
rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the
principle of right and love.
UGM 4.23 5
I applaud a sufficient man...
PPh 4.48 13
The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then
for the cause of that; and again the cause...self-assured that it shall arrive at
an absolute and sufficient one...
SwM 4.105 24
[Swedenborg's] writings would be a sufficient library to a
lonely and athletic student;...
MoS 4.161 27
...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy
this ground of speculation.
ET2 5.25 17
The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to
the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services. At all events it
was sufficient to cover any travelling expenses...
ET3 5.42 4
...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river
Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the
kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and
sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters
required.
ET3 5.42 19
In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe,
having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which
the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch
the imagination.
ET16 5.287 12
...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance...
and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have
never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth...
F 6.36 14
The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical
mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient
perspective.
Bhr 6.185 23
...the movements of Blanche are the sallies of a spirit which
is sufficient for the moment...
CbW 6.273 22
...we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient;...
SS 7.16 3
...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight, with ever a
purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right...
Civ 7.24 7
...a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good
women.
Elo1 7.95 21
...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to
slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and
mountains.
DL 7.113 17
It is a sufficient accusation of our ways of living...that our
idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
DL 7.128 7
...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence
of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in
joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
Suc 7.288 9
The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are
easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with
the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.
PI 8.72 16
Music seems to you sufficient...
Comc 8.160 19
...all falsehoods, all vices seen at sufficient distance...
become ludicrous.
QO 8.181 13
Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...whose books
made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante absorbed, and he survives
for us.
QO 8.201 13
To all that can be said of the preponderance of the Past, the
single word Genius is a sufficient reply.
PC 8.225 26
The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient
man.
PPo 8.241 1
When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of
green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand upon...
PPo 8.248 9
...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that
the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
Insp 8.294 14
I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that
it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
Imtl 8.328 20
Sufficient to to-day are the duties of to-day.
Imtl 8.340 24
...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient proof [of immortality]
purely from the action of the intellect.
Dem1 10.10 9
Every man goes through the world attended with
innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and
illumination were fastened on the sign.
Aris 10.50 25
It is not sufficient that your work follows your genius...
Aris 10.55 25
I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this
ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come.
PerF 10.83 16
The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a
manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are
sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
SovE 10.201 13
...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul,
which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by
your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient...
Schr 10.279 18
Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of
God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human
invention.
LS 11.19 16
Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no
aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of
this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to
the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance.
War 11.170 16
Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion
think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient
course of speeches and cheerings...
War 11.174 21
If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men
who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they
do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by
such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
FSLC 11.213 27
...there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for
the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
FSLN 11.240 11
...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be
no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale,
and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail
and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
EdAd 11.390 15
A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must
have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great
groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
Wom 11.417 12
In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with
Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual
force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
PLT 12.27 8
A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the
traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a
determinate heap of one size and form and not another. That is what he
knows and has to say of Spain; he cannot say it truly until a sufficient time
for the arrangement of the particles has elapsed.
Mem 12.91 5
The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it
should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed. Perception,
though it...could pierce through the universe, was not sufficient.
MAng1 12.224 22
...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to
demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung
mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a
bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable
space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was
sufficient...
MAng1 12.231 1
Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient
to say that he built Saint Peter's...
ACri 12.300 26
Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a
trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem...
WSL 12.345 27
It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this
element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and
in novels.
sufficiently, adv. (22)
AmS 1.91 5
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.
Con 1.307 13
[The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with
rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
Con 1.319 2
The conservative party in the universe concedes that the
radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden
of Eden;...
Tran 1.354 16
...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently
characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of
Beauty.
SR 2.48 18
...in the next room [the youth's] voice is sufficiently clear and
emphatic.
Pt1 3.9 7
I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent
writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not
sufficiently praise.
Pt1 3.25 13
The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations,
which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with
an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the
notes without diluting or depraving them.
Chr1 3.91 6
...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it
appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently
understand its incomparable rate.
UGM 4.31 20
...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to
stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently
long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
PNR 4.85 21
Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write
thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice
is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the
greatest good.
MoS 4.162 1
...some stark and sufficient man, who is...sufficiently related
to the world to do justice to Paris or London...is the fit person to occupy
this ground of speculation.
NMW 4.241 14
The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is
the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which
Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of
fire. This declaration...sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their
leader.
NMW 4.246 27
We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and
indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and
ready actor [Napoleon]...
NMW 4.251 22
I admire...[Bonaparte's] good-natured and sufficiently
respectful account of Marshal Wurmser and his other antagonists;...
ET4 5.49 17
These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest
others which threaten to undermine it, as not sufficiently based.
ET4 5.56 25
The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage,
sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm
them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are
sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and
courage are ready for the service of trade.
Elo1 7.74 12
There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently
impressive to him who is devoid of that talent...
Aris 10.65 19
I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a
sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
Plu 10.299 15
[Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of
his readers, now and then, at a long distance behind him...
EzRy 10.381 22
...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr.
Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and to have him labor during
the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
II 12.83 15
Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his
aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
Bost 12.186 11
What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might
be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...not
less ambition in our blood, which Puritanism has not sufficiently
chastised;...
sufficing, adj. (3)
Pt1 3.29 9
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner
of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and
sufficing objects of nature...which should be their toys.
Suc 7.302 1
Ah! if one could...live in the happy sufficing present...
Imtl 8.336 2
...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong,
but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing,
creative and self-sustaining life?
sufficing, v. (1)
PLT 12.51 27
Not sufficing to feed all the faculties synchronously,
[Nature] feeds one faculty and starves all the rest.
suffocate, v. (1)
PI 8.35 21
In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the
solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
suffocated, v. (4)
Hist 2.31 14
Antaeus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules...
ET2 5.29 7
Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated
with bilge...
PPo 8.238 23
My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that
people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with
heat at the other.
FSLC 11.188 1
...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on
our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...suffocated in a
wooden box, to get away from his driver...
suffocating, adj. (1)
ET18 5.307 19
France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not
recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.
suffocation, n. (1)
SS 7.14 18
...[people in conversation] separate...each seeking his like; and
any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and
suffocation.
suffrage, n. (11)
SR 2.50 13
Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the
world.
Pol1 3.209 13
Parties of principle, as...the party...of universal suffrage...
degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
Pol1 3.210 2
The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course
wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for wide suffrage...
ET7 5.118 17
Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a
gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction; and nothing ever
spoken by him would find so hearty a suffrage from his nation.
ET18 5.305 14
There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform
in every shape;...extension of suffrage, Jewish franchise, Catholic
emancipation...
Civ 7.34 10
...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or
equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
PI 8.13 17
I had rather have a good symbol of my thought...than the
suffrage of Kant or Plato.
PC 8.231 8
We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will
not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
Aris 10.35 2
We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the
extremes of practice in universal suffrage...
ACiv 11.298 27
We have attempted to hold together two states of
civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right
of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military
tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes
an oligarchy...
Wom 11.416 26
...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman;
urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education...to the exercise of
the professions and of suffrage.
suffrages, n. (2)
Elo1 7.97 15
Men are averse and hostile, to give value to their suffrages.
CInt 12.122 11
...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to
have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser
suffrages of poor farmers.
suffused, v. (1)
DSA 1.140 9
Instantly [the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame...
sugar, n. (31)
MR 1.232 7
In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the
plantations, and one dies in ten every year...to yield us sugar.
MR 1.237 7
Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by
simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my
faculties by that act which nature intended me...
MR 1.237 18
...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted the
sugar of the sugar...
Hsm1 2.243 2
...Sugar spends to fatten slaves/...
Mrs1 3.137 27
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.
UGM 4.6 6
It is easy to sugar to be sweet...
PPh 4.76 15
The qualities of sugar remain with sugar...
MoS 4.151 27
The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which
necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist: no, but sticks to cotton,
sugar, wool and salt.
MoS 4.162 1
...some stark and sufficient man, who is not salt or sugar...is
the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
ET10 5.168 1
England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the
adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish, nor sugar
sweeten...
Wth 6.119 8
Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth,
sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
CbW 6.262 21
Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new
creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory,
converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
Ill 6.311 27
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and
meat.
Ill 6.321 5
We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid
condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal.
Elo1 7.69 26
...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to
fascination, though it may have no lasting effect. Some portion of this sugar
must intermingle.
PPo 8.244 7
Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color,
taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the
eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/
If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
PPo 8.249 16
We do not wish to strew sugar on bottled spiders...
Insp 8.269 20
In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar...
Thor 10.482 22
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy
ear.
HDC 11.56 22
The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to
the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply
themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
HDC 11.59 21
A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the
Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture,
how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to
Englishmen.
EWI 11.102 14
These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are
producers...of cotton, of sugar, of rum and brandy;..I am heart-sick when I
read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
EWI 11.113 12
The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the
colonies in annual exports of sugar, rum and coffee, at 1,500,000 pounds
per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West
Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
EWI 11.124 11
The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted
blood in it.
EWI 11.124 21
...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born with
intellect, as well as with a love of sugar;...
FSLN 11.233 10
You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in
it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for
an object not named, and which could not be availed of to claim a barrel of
sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is
effected.
ACiv 11.297 13
...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted, and has yielded
a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.
ACiv 11.302 5
...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax,
governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as
much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
CL 12.149 23
[The Indian] can draw sugar from the maple...
AgMs 12.360 24
The account [in the Agricultural Survey] of the maple
sugar,-that is very good and entertaining...
EurB 12.371 11
[Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint
staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We
must not make our bread of pure sugar.
sugar-plums, n. (1)
Hsm1. 2.252 12
What shall [heroism] say then to the sugar-plums and cats'-cradles...
which rack the wit of all society?
suggest, v. (42)
Nat 1.31 12
These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life
possesses...
DSA 1.122 1
The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act
and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful
enumeration of many particulars.
MN 1.198 10
In treating a subject so large, in which we must...aim much
more to suggest than to describe, I know it is not easy to speak with the
precision attainable on topics of less scope.
MR 1.242 6
...I will suggest that no separation from labor can be without
some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself;...
Tran 1.345 16
...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last
generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to
ours?
YA 1.366 28
...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the
adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which...
affection for a man's home could suggest.
OS 2.289 12
Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent
activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
ET4 5.49 16
These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest
others which threaten to undermine it...
ET11 5.190 6
A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen
Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques...
record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
Ctr 6.145 14
All educated Americans...go to Europe; perhaps because it is
their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest.
Ctr 6.150 4
The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact
with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section, and one can
hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a more searching culture.
Bhr 6.182 2
The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and of Pitt, suggest the
terrors of the beak.
Wsp 6.221 20
...let me suggest to [the reader] by a few examples what kind
of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
Wsp 6.238 9
The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest
what they cannot execute.
Bty 6.303 19
The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power
to suggest relation to the whole world...
Civ 7.19 14
In the hesitation to define what [Civilization] is, we usually
suggest it by negations.
Elo1 7.68 19
Set a New Englander to describe any accident which
happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He...
though he cannot describe, hopes to suggest the whole scene.
DL 7.126 6
...Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so
cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good and
true teach us better,--nay, the men themselves suggest a better life.
DL 7.127 21
Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest a
true and lofty life...especially we learn the same lesson from those best
relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
Boks 7.214 10
...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as
we use in dreams...suggest new thoughts for to-morrow.
PI 8.68 27
By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the
first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this
simplicity, he uses circumlocution,--by many words hoping to suggest what
he cannot say.
QO 8.188 5
A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some
dislocation has befallen the race;...
Dem1 10.7 5
What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in
circulation for thousands of years? What but the wild fact to which they
suggest some approximation of theory?
Dem1 10.7 23
[Dreams] seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of
thought not familiar to the waking experience.
Chr2 10.96 27
Devout men...have used different images to suggest this
latent [moral] force;...
Edc1 10.154 27
...the familiar observation of the universal compensations
might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a
bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
Supl 10.164 22
Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough
to suggest it and magnify it.
Prch 10.232 15
...there is no good theory of disease which does not at once
suggest a cure.
Plu 10.294 16
...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman
writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news
was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to
us.
LLNE 10.348 19
[Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and
animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It...could not
but suggest vast possibilities of reform to the coldest and least sanguine.
MMEm 10.417 9
[Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered
marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but
after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds: but a few
allusions to it in her diary suggest that it was a religious act...
SlHr 10.441 10
...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of
John Bradshaw...
GSt 10.503 17
[George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation
with all men whom he could reach, to suggest and urge the measures
needed for the hour.
Wom 11.425 7
I need not repeat to you-your own solitude will suggest
it-that a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.
SHC 11.434 4
...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of
Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached, if it did not
suggest the design, as the fit place for their final repose.
FRep 11.525 5
Faults in the working appear in our system...but they
suggest their own remedies.
FRep 11.539 23
Power can be generous. The very grandeur of the means
which offer themselves to us should suggest grandeur in the direction of our
expenditure.
PLT 12.11 23
...I might suggest that he who who contents himself with
dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...
MAng1 12.218 2
All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature
are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this
entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
MAng1 12.243 1
...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or
road to fame, but the end of living, as it was the organ through which he
sought to suggest lessons of an unutterable wisdom;...
ACri 12.283 9
An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or
writer will at once suggest their value.
EurB 12.367 6
...Wordsworth, though satisfied if he can suggest to a
sympathetic mind his own mood...is really a master of the English
language...
suggested, v. (32)
Nat 1.35 21
A new interest surprises us, whilst, under the view now
suggested, we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...
Nat 1.39 17
...weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat...and
judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
Nat 1.51 3
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country
quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
Nat 1.51 14
In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the
difference between the observer and the spectacle...
AmS 1.86 16
...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is
suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...
DSA 1.123 24
These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed
that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...
DSA 1.127 26
...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life...when suggested, seem
ridiculous.
MR 1.246 15
Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm
people] want, they need, and whatever can be suggested more than these
they crave also...
Hist 2.16 5
I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at
once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit, and the furrows of the
brow suggested the strata of the rock.
SR 2.50 19
...my friend suggested,--But these impulses may be from
below...
Nat2 3.178 14
It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that
we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested
by the pictures and the architecture.
NMW 4.242 1
...when allusion was made to the precious blood of
centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
GoW 4.275 3
...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a
leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
ET13 5.225 16
The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking
emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when
you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it...suggested a
masquerade of old costumes.
ET16 5.279 20
The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude
order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
Art2 7.54 18
...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a
fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted
the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
Elo1 7.62 17
...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty
of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
Elo2 8.111 23
...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not
yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot by the
unexpected turn things may take...
QO 8.179 12
...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by
means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian
method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
Insp 8.276 12
[Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial
companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire
the train...
Insp 8.297 1
I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so
many scholars...of...what gymnastic, what social practices their experience
suggested and approved.
Imtl 8.324 3
In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and
cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would of course be suggested.
SovE 10.183 5
Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and
electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we
have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
Plu 10.311 25
Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he
meets, and the virtues suggested by them...
MMEm 10.414 19
[Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her
solitude...speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by the rich autumn
landscape around her...
Thor 10.472 2
[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.
LS 11.23 24
...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use
of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this
ordinance [the Lord's Supper], and have suggested a mode in which a
meeting for the same purpose might be held, free of objection.
HDC 11.49 1
...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and
private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town
Records], as proof that...if the good counsel prevailed, the sneaking counsel
did not fail to be suggested;...
EWI 11.106 16
Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield]
been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the
bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question
might be got rid of...
CL 12.158 14
The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is
remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine
suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...
MAng1 12.234 23
When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine]
chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold,
Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the
characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
Milt1 12.249 7
There is [in Milton's tracts]...no mediate, no preparatory
course suggested...
suggesting, v. (8)
Nat 1.58 1
...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower
culture, in degrading nature and suggesting its dependence on spirit.
ET11 5.180 5
...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that
gave them birth, suggesting that the tie is not cut...
ET11 5.180 13
[The English lords]...call themselves after their lands, as if
the man represented the country that bred him;... It has...the advantage of
suggesting responsibleness.
Cour 7.254 20
Men admire...the power of better combination and
foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin
draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that one day a wiser geology
shall make the earthquake harmless...
PI 8.4 12
First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given,
suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
Imtl 8.339 2
Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation
and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform,-
suggesting a design still to be carried out;...
Edc1 10.156 23
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular
reforms in our ways of teaching.
LVB 11.95 15
...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and
suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a
burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
suggestion, n. (31)
Nat 1.10 22
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the
suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.
Nat 1.70 5
...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth,
to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Tran 1.338 18
Only in the instinct of the lower animals we find the
suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life]...
Cir 2.305 15
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a
suggestion of that he should be.
Art1 2.351 9
In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a
fairer creation than we know.
SwM 4.105 9
What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go
over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? It is easy to see, in
these minds, the origin of Swedenborg's studies, and the suggestion of his
problems.
ET2 5.25 12
The request [to lecture in England] was urged with every kind
suggestion...
Ctr 6.136 27
Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities
through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a
droning preponderance in his scale...
Bhr 6.197 10
As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that
any other than negative rules can be laid down. For positive rules, for
suggestion, nature alone inspires it.
Wsp 6.210 24
How prompt the suggestion of a low motive!
Bty 6.304 4
[Chosen men and women] have a largeness of suggestion...
Boks 7.198 25
...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in
Plato].
Boks 7.211 10
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant
in it...and it is full of suggestion...
Boks 7.213 1
What private heavens can we not open, by yielding to all the
suggestion of rich music!
Clbs 7.230 1
[Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion
that each sprightly story calls out more;...
PI 8.21 14
I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords
of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
QO 8.180 7
There is imitation, model and suggestion, to the very
archangels, if we knew their history.
QO 8.202 3
...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the
Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he
speaks them.
Insp 8.276 21
We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of
heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling
abroad. Well, we have the same hint or suggestion, day by day.
Chr2 10.116 1
This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion...the New
Testament loses by its connection with a church.
Edc1 10.143 26
...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:-
Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...
Schr 10.269 18
...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in
proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in
right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily
give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.
Plu 10.301 24
A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch,
page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader
owes much to the foreign air...
Thor 10.474 19
...[Thoreau] found poetic suggestion in the humming of the
telegraph-wire.
HDC 11.47 20
In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every
local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and
ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.
PLT 12.16 8
...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source
publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
Mem 12.109 19
If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty
[memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old
knowledge...every relation and suggestion...we cannot fail to draw thence a
sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of
memory only through its use;...
CL 12.139 7
...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in
Massachusetts...and following what is usually the natural suggestion of
these pursuits, ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has
to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
MLit 12.310 9
[Poems' light] is not in their grammatical construction
which they give me. If I analyze the sentences, it eludes me, but is the
genius and suggestion of the whole.
WSL 12.339 14
A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and
gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images, not so much the suggestion of
merriment as of bitterness.
Pray 12.356 2
Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet
higher secret experiences which are ineffable!
suggestions, n. (21)
SR 2.82 4
I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions...
Lov1 2.181 26
...if, accepting the hint of these visions and suggestions
which beauty makes to [a man's] mind...the lovers contemplate one another
in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of
beauty...
Int 2.342 22
The suggestions are thousand-fold that I hear and see.
Nat2 3.190 14
Our music, our poetry, our language itself are not
satisfactions, but suggestions.
Pol1 3.221 19
Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth
with suggestions of this enthusiasm...
UGM 4.31 5
Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a
Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
CbW 6.271 18
...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they
have...his suggestions require new ways of living...
PI 8.6 16
...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of
matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind; its
strange suggestions and laws;...
PI 8.22 4
Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of
confounding its suggestions with external facts.
QO 8.191 1
...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and
quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
QO 8.199 6
...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately
sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing
and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;
waking, the like suggestions occurred for and against the proposition as his
own thoughts;...
Insp 8.271 1
In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude
suggestions to larger scope...
Insp 8.293 15
In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require
new ways of living...
Imtl 8.345 10
...whilst I find the signatures, the hints and suggestions,
noble and wholesome...yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the
immortality of the soul.
Chr2 10.115 18
Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the
manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan
philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are
better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only
suggestions...
SovE 10.201 25
The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and
youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but...
we hate to have them treated with contempt. There is so much that we do
not know, that we give these suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
Plu 10.295 21
[Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch]
into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It...has whispered in
my ear many good suggestions and maxims for my conduct and the
government of my affairs.
GSt 10.505 15
When one remembers...the useful suggestions;...I think this
single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary
partisans...
FRO1 11.480 2
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 12.35 21
The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works
for the necessities of the human being; then ascends step by step to
suggestions which are when expressed the intellectual and moral laws.
II 12.68 19
The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth...
and then ascends, step by step, to suggestions, which are, when expressed,
the intellectual and moral laws.
suggestive, adj. (3)
Pt1 3.18 1
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and
excited mind;...
Boks 7.212 1
...[sentences] are good only as strings of suggestive words.
PLT 12.43 15
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.
suggests, v. (30)
Nat 1.24 5
A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this
universal grace.
Nat 1.47 6
A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end
[Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...
Nat 1.61 13
[Nature] suggests the absolute.
DSA 1.150 20
Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first
the Sabbath...whose light...everywhere suggests, even to the vile, the
dignity of spiritual being.
Con 1.321 19
Instead of that reliance which the soul suggests, on the
eternity of truth and duty, men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
Comp 2.97 5
...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it
whole;...
Lov1 2.180 19
...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it
suggests gleams and visions and not earthly satisfactions;...
Lov1 2.181 18
...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female
sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form,
movement and intelligence of this person, because it suggests to him the
presence of that which indeed is within the beauty, and the cause of the
beauty.
NR 3.225 5
Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that
truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.
UGM 4.16 2
Shakspeare's name suggests other and purely intellectual
benefits.
SwM 4.102 19
A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain
vastness of learning...is possible.
SwM 4.130 8
[Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between
knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. ... But this
topic suggests a sad afterthought, that here we find the seat of his own pain.
MoS 4.176 21
As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of
mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger
periods.
ShP 4.216 11
[Shakespeare's] name suggests joy and emancipation to the
heart of men.
ET14 5.259 24
While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed
and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone and suggests the
presence of the invisible gods.
ET15 5.267 20
...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests
the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
Bty 6.293 4
The new mode is always only a step onward in the same
direction as the last mode... This fact suggests the reason of all mistakes
and offence in our own modes.
DL 7.126 25
Every face, every figure, suggests its own right and sound
estate.
Farm 7.147 9
Nature suggests every economical expedient somewhere on a
great scale.
Cour 7.263 20
To the sailor's experience every new circumstance suggests
what he must do.
Suc 7.304 27
To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates
Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't
remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated;...
PI 8.9 26
Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a
substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
PI 8.42 22
[Everything] suggests that there is higher poetry than we write
or read.
Elo2 8.115 4
...in contrast with the efficiency [the orator] suggests, our
actual life and society appears a dormitory.
Comc 8.159 10
...the human form...suggests to our imagination the
perfection of truth or goodness...
Chr2 10.103 11
...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the
homage we render to this sentiment...
Plu 10.299 22
[Plutarch] perpetually suggests Montaigne...
Thor 10.476 26
[Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides...
II 12.83 23
Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in finding their
vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the presumption
of continued life, of which the present is only one term.
Let 12.393 11
Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out
of the high air...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good
public by the repetition of these details.
suicidal, adj. (5)
YA 1.389 11
Stealing is a suicidal business;...
NMW 4.257 16
[Napoleon's] attempt was in principle suicidal.
Civ 7.34 13
...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or
equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages of soil,
climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
FSLC 11.206 16
...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it
ordains disunion. The law is suicidal, and cannot be obeyed.
CInt 12.117 6
...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors
to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the
contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college is
suicidal;...
suicidally, adv. (2)
Con 1.303 8
We have all a certain intellection...of reform existing in the
mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw
themselves blindly on this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that
direction...reacts suicidally on the actor himself.
Wth 6.106 27
...however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks
which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain
satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
suicide, n. (16)
MR 1.247 11
I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things
around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
Tran 1.337 6
I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition
to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like
Epaminondas and John de Witt; I would resolve on suicide like Cato;...
Tran 1.357 1
...it is well if [the Transcendentalist] can keep from lying,
injustice, and suicide.
SR 2.46 13
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the
conviction...that imitation is suicide;...
Prd1 2.236 27
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the
liar...
Exp 3.54 20
On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism,
and would soon come to suicide.
NER 3.278 20
Could [the proposition of depravity] be received into
common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
PPh 4.68 11
Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence. We
can define but a little way; but here is a fact...which to shut our eyes upon is
suicide.
F 6.19 3
Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be
reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
Suc 7.290 21
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn...
power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have
got...a crime which calls for another crime, and another devil behind that;
these are steps to suicide, infamy and the harming of mankind.
SA 8.90 3
...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no
vulgarity. All topics were broached...sex, hatred, suicide...
Res 8.138 2
...skepticism is slow suicide.
Dem1 10.7 18
In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see...the features of
the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl. You think, could the
man overlook his own condition, he could not be restrained from suicide.
Dem1 10.26 11
These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for
inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits really
such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
MoL 10.246 23
There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by
suicide.
WSL 12.345 23
...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet
resistance to it is a suicide.
suicides, n. (3)
AmS 1.114 26
Young men...die of disgust, some of them suicides.
UGM 4.27 6
[The great man's] attractions warp us from our place. We
have become underlings and intellectual suicides.
Wsp 6.201 20
I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when
suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.
suit, n. (5)
ET1 5.10 16
[Coleridge] took snuff freely, which presently soiled his cravat
and neat black suit.
ET5 5.84 5
A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of
clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
ET10 5.158 2
Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be
impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly
in the air in the manner of birds.
Ctr 6.151 3
How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Napoleon
affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee;...
HDC 11.38 2
Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit
of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...
suit, v. (12)
Nat 1.22 2
Only let [man's] thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will
suit the picture.
Tran 1.349 10
Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop,
where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes, and
retailed in small quantities to suit purchasers.
Nat2 3.187 18
...the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the
partisans...
NER 3.270 27
You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned
King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the
woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she
appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober. The text
will suit me very well.
ET4 5.52 6
Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...
ET4 5.52 8
Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...as, out
of a hundred pear-trees, eight or ten suit the soil of an orchard and thrive...
ET4 5.65 19
I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at
Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial,
respectable, grandfatherly figures, with costume and manners to suit.
ET7 5.121 8
[The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the
hour.
PI 8.30 19
...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit
the poverty or caprice of their expression...
ACiv 11.304 21
On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just
up to war, and has never appeared to such advantage as in the last
twelvemonth. It does not suit us.
Wom 11.412 6
The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies,
dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her
better than themselves./
Bost 12.205 24
The sailor and the merchant [in America] made the law to
suit themselves...
suitable, adj. (7)
MN 1.197 23
...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate
this hour by exploring the method of nature.
MoS 4.167 15
[I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...plain topics where
I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.
EzRy 10.385 1
[Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the
Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence, to make suitable
remarks on it...
LS 11.18 27
...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper], however
suitable to the people and modes of thought in the East...is foreign and
unsuited to affect us.
LS 11.19 18
This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is
not suitable to me.
HDC 11.49 23
The British government has recently presented to the several
public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the
Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but
think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national
munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and
presented to the governments of Europe;...
Wom 11.407 12
...there is usually no employment or career which [women]
will not with their own applause and that of society quit for a suitable
marriage.
suitableness, n. (1)
LS 11.21 25
That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed
should be as worthless in [Christianity's] eyes as the dead leaves that are
falling around us.
suitably, adv. (3)
EzRy 10.384 27
[Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the
Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
EzRy 10.385 2
[Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the
Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...and to be suitably
affected with it.
EurB 12.375 8
...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is
greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the
business of the piece is to provide him suitably.
suited, adj. (1)
PerF 10.79 17
[The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to
give up the work, which was not suited to the country.
suited, v. (1)
Pow 6.72 23
...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind
the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them
with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last
suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and
prophets.
suites, n. (1)
Clbs 7.243 5
It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the
horses out of and the scholars into the palaces, having constructed her
hotel...with superb suites of drawing-rooms on the same floor...
suitors, n. (4)
SR 2.62 7
To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book...
seem to say...Who are you, Sir? Yet they all are...suitors for his notice...
ET5 5.81 5
In the [English] courts the independence of the judges and the
loyalty of the suitors are equally excellent.
Pow 6.76 22
The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to
every allegation, but who...rules something intelligible for the guidance of
suitors.
PPo 8.256 18
...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded
girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
suits, n. (1)
Wth 6.87 18
Wealth begins...in two suits of clothes...
suits, v. (5)
F 6.40 26
Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes...
Wth 6.90 18
...no system of clientship suits [the Saxons];...
ACiv 11.304 17
The war is welcome to the Southerner;...and suits his semi-civilized
condition.
Wom 11.426 8
...there are always a certain number of passionately loving
fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor
to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
FRO1 11.478 6
We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical
theology no longer suits us.
sulkily, adv. (1)
PLT 12.28 18
Silent, passive, even sulkily, Nature offers every morning
her wealth to man.
sulkiness, n. (1)
EWI 11.117 25
The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with
the angry and bilious island legislature. Nothing can exceed the ill humor
and sulkiness of the addresses of this assembly.
sulking, v. (1)
ET8 5.135 13
Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner]...sulking in a lonely house;...
sulky, adj. (1)
Elo1 7.65 15
Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...sulky
or savage...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
sulky, n. (1)
SS 7.8 16
Like President Tyler...we must ride in a sulky at last.
sullenness, n. (1)
Milt1 12.258 9
[Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the
air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not
to go out and see her riches...
Sully's, Maximelien de Beth (1)
Boks 7.208 25
There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as
Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Sully's Memoirs;...
sulphur, adj. (1)
Suc 7.306 9
...the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than
salt or sulphur springs.
sulphuric, adj. (4)
F 6.20 26
Neither brandy...nor sulphuric ether...can get rid of this limp band
[of Fate].
WD 7.158 6
...we pity our fathers for dying before...sulphuric ether and
ocean telegraphs...
Clbs 7.239 8
... Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and
pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on
another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric
acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
Aris 10.40 12
...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power
for boat and carriage, the finder of sulphuric ether and the electric
telegraph...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind
serve them as gods?
Sultan, n. (2)
PPo 8.238 11
Favor of the Sultan, or his displeasure, is [in the East] a
question of Fate.
PPo 8.250 16
Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul's
independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...
sultriness, n. (1)
Thor 10.479 14
...in snow and ice [Thoreau] would find sultriness...
sultry, adj. (2)
OS 2.265 10
...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been
tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a power/
That works its will on age and hour./
Comc 8.170 2
...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was
thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow, very refreshing in so
sultry a day;...
sum, n. (13)
Nat 1.5 3
In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I
shall use the word in both senses;...
Con 1.302 4
For the present...to come at what sum is attainable to us, we
must even hear the parties plead as parties.
Exp 3.47 19
The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas...
ET11 5.186 10
...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as
to infer easily the sum and genius...
Wth 6.112 14
Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not
its acceptableness. This is so much economy that...it is the sum of economy.
Elo1 7.87 10
...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by
requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...like
a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum...
DL 7.115 21
You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding,
health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the
same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of
money to release him from his engagements.
Suc 7.294 9
The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is
devoted to work.
PI 8.2 11
...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web
that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there
magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/
Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./
PPo 8.245 14
Here is the sum, that, when one door opens, another shuts.
HDC 11.57 9
...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the
support of Harvard College.
ALin 11.331 23
...[Lincoln]...was excellent in working out the sum for
himself;...
FRep 11.513 7
...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can
give the sum of power...
sum total, n. (1)
SR 2.62 27
...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John
and Edward in a...common day's work; but...the sum total of both is the
same.
sum, v. (3)
MoS 4.154 21
I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed
briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a
damned rascal...
ET16 5.273 11
I was glad to sum up a little my experiences, and to
exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on
whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
PLT 12.64 1
We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect]
by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.
summarily, adv. (1)
ET13 5.229 15
...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai,
where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and
hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the
heathenism of the lower classes.
summary, adj. (4)
SR 2.49 4
...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass
by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...in the swift, summary way of boys...
ET14 5.240 21
[Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint
examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its
own illustration.
Edc1 10.155 1
...the familiar observation of the universal compensations
might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a
bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
FSLC 11.207 18
...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the
summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its
patron?
summary, n. (3)
Wth 6.125 1
It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in the
world which is not repeated in [a man's] body, his body being a sort of
miniature or summary of the world;...
Boks 7.201 15
Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek
history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote'
s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or
of Gillies will serve.
Imtl 8.343 24
...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality]
confirms itself. It is a kind of summary or completion of man.
summe, n. (1)
GSt 10.499 4
Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them;
but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being
brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George
Herbert.
summed, v. (3)
Nat 1.61 9
...all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one...
SwM 4.114 3
The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland;
and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...and which
Malpighi had summed in his maxim that nature exists entire in leasts,--is a
favorite thought of Swedenborg.
Wsp 6.240 11
...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the
government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a
word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
summer, adj. (23)
Nat 1.18 23
The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides,
which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will
make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
Hist 2.18 21
I remember one summer day in the fields my companion
pointed out to me a broad cloud...
Hist 2.19 5
I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at
once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the
thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
SL 2.143 22
The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves;...
Lov1 2.179 1
[The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her
mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no
resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings...
Pt1 3.42 9
...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet],
and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain...
Nat2 3.192 12
I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds
floating feathery overhead...
NR 3.223 7
Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they
wake/...
ET16 5.281 3
...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of
that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...
F 6.48 9
I do not wonder at...a summer landscape...
Ill 6.309 2
Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
Insp 8.287 6
Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!
Imtl 8.337 22
I have seen what glories...of summer mornings and
evenings...
Dem1 10.11 6
...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with
innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
SovE 10.184 27
The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to
Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form
with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day.
SovE 10.188 9
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus
we hear the song of summer birds...
MMEm 10.398 2
Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander
by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/
Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
Thor 10.466 12
[Thoreau] had made summer and winter observations on
[the Concord River] for many years...
Thor 10.484 8
There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus
with our summer plant called Life-Everlasting...which grows on the most
inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
HDC 11.36 14
Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines
for summer angling...
SHC 11.434 2
[Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its
immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat
on a Sabbath day, or a summer twilight...
PLT 12.25 6
In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the
first summer heat, and stop.
CL 12.152 10
The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived, and
that Nature has played out her summer score.
summer, n. (42)
Nat 1.9 10
Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season
yields its tribute of delight;...
Nat 1.18 12
I...believe that we are as much touched by [winter scenery] as
by the genial influences of summer.
Nat 1.75 1
What is summer?
Nat 1.76 27
As when the summer comes from the south the snow-banks
melt...so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
DSA 1.119 1
In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the
breath of life.
Con 1.298 21
We are reformers in spring and summer...
Con 1.300 23
The leaves and a shell of soft wood are all that the vegetation
of this summer has made;...
Hist 2.21 19
...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring
was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
Prd1 2.225 25
Do what we can, summer will have its flies;...
Pt1 3.25 25
...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic
song...
Nat2 3.169 15
These halcyons may be looked for with a little more
assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name
of the Indian summer.
NER 3.257 24
The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all
winter in the study.
PPh 4.72 24
[Socrates] wore no under garment; his upper garment was the
same for summer and winter...
ET16 5.273 22
The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local
knowledge of Hampshire, in which he is wont to spend a part of every
summer, made the way short.
F 6.7 27
The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes
as a frost to the crickets, which, having filled the summer with noise, are
silenced by the fall of the temperature of one night.
F 6.37 6
...it was found that whilst some animals became torpid in winter,
others were torpid in summer...
CbW 6.267 23
...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy
of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the
search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this
neighborhood...
Bty 6.298 1
...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form...with woods
and waters, and the pomp of summer.
Civ 7.28 1
We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses; bad
roads in spring, snowdrifts in winter, heats in summer;...
Res 8.150 18
Is not the seaside necessary in summer?
QO 8.187 6
Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his
writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were
pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by
the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
Insp 8.285 22
At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of
morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
Insp 8.288 4
Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian
harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods
in summer...
Insp 8.288 11
I have found my advantage in going in summer to a country
inn...with a task which would not prosper at home.
MoL 10.248 3
Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than
the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage...is insignificant in the
vast exuberance of the summer.
MMEm 10.397 22
...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now
the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's
funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid
in shrouds./
Thor 10.468 15
See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at
by a million farmers all spring and summer, and yet have prevailed...
Thor 10.474 2
Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit
Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank.
HDC 11.33 15
...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat
from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly
fainted.
HDC 11.55 16
The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused
some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet
summer blighted the corn;...
ACiv 11.305 9
Then comes the summer, and the fever will drive the
soldiers home;...
PLT 12.25 7
In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the
first summer heat, and stop. They look all summer as if they would
presently burst into bud again, but they do not.
CL 12.135 23
The Indians go in summer to the coast, for fishing;...
CL 12.136 7
...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always
stirring the wish to travel, and in the spring and summer, it commonly gets
the victory.
CL 12.140 8
In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...
CL 12.146 4
It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into
my ground, and keep him there overnight, all day, all summer, for an art he
has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens,
Bergamots, and Seckels...
CW 12.171 13
...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back
door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff,
or a dory, gives you, all summer, access to enchantments, new every day...
Bost 12.196 6
...the young farmers and mechanics, who work all summer in
the field or shop, in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the
district school arithmetic and grammar.
Milt1 12.264 26
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that
first rouses, or not much tardier...
MLit 12.331 15
[Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the
country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air and a
gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...
summer-fruit, n. (1)
Gts 3.160 11
If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit
him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think
there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
summer-house, n. (1)
ET16 5.285 7
We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall]
built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house...
summer-houses, n. (1)
CW 12.173 18
...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the
costly gardens...with their...fish-ponds, sculptured summer-houses and
grottoes;...
summer-rain, n. (1)
Exp 3.49 15
The dearest events are summer-rain...
summers, n. (4)
Fdsp 2.199 9
We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God,
which many summers and many winters must ripen.
PC 8.212 17
Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the
effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
MoL 10.248 11
Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been
trampled with armies and burned over: a few summers, and they smile with
plenty...
Mem 12.104 2
At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it
not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with
their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither. It flows for you, and
they grow for you, in the returning images of former summers.
summer's, n. (5)
Nat 1.34 8
Can such things be,/ And overcome us like a summer's cloud,/
Without our special wonder?/
SA 8.87 20
When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor,
puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
HDC 11.36 27
Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run
between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
CW 12.169 4
...unto me not morn's magnificence/ Nor the red rainbow of a
summer's eve,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such
resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in
such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the
black loam./
AgMs 12.358 22
As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the
midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.
Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil, conquering and to conquer,
after how many and many a hard-fought summer's day and winter's day;...
summersaults, n. (1)
UGM 4.17 9
Foremost among these activities [of the intellect] are the
summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination.
summer-time, n. (1)
PPo 8.236 7
As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream
and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And
pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/...
summing, v. (1)
Elo1 7.65 5
That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill
in...neatly summing up evidence...
summit, n. (5)
MN 1.214 4
...only the light-armed arrive at the summit.
Hist 2.16 4
I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at
once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
Chr1 3.95 14
Truth is the summit of being;...
PPo 8.240 21
[Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who
had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the
highest summit of Mount Kaf.
SovE 10.205 17
I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or
expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached
in any former age.
Summitlevel, Mr., n. (1)
Ctr 6.135 24
Have you talked with Messieurs Turbinewheel, Summitlevel,
and Lacofruppees? Then you may as well die.
summit-levels, n. (1)
Farm 7.135 12
[Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set
the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its
fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the
sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./
summits, n. (12)
UGM 4.33 5
The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental
region...wherein all touch by their summits.
SwM 4.145 24
...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits
and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
ET14 5.244 19
Milton, who was the stair or high table-land to let down the
English genius from the summits of Shakspeare, used this privilege [of
generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
Ill 6.322 2
A sudden rise in the road shows us...all the summits, which have
been just as near us all the year, but quite out of mind.
Supl 10.170 7
The farmers in the region do not call particular summits...
mountains, but only them 'ere rises...
Supl 10.172 23
Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or
summits of art...
SovE 10.187 2
'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of
religion...the summits of science...
Thor 10.453 19
A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit
of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him...
the height of mountains and the air-line distance of his favorite summits,-
this, and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made
[Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
HDC 11.39 4
The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering
in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
CL 12.157 4
Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and
the New Hampshire hills?...
MLit 12.326 24
...[Goethe's] thinking is...not a succession of summits, but
a high Asiatic table-land.
WSL 12.347 2
...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less
elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...
summon, v. (5)
Nat 1.35 9
...we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors
to make [the doctrine] plain.
MR 1.246 8
Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly summon
others to serve them.
SR 2.88 25
...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in
multitude.
Wsp 6.228 9
[St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness,
and begged her to summon the nun without delay.
MLit 12.313 22
...the single soul feels its right...to summon all facts and
parties before its tribunal.
summoned, v. (2)
FRO1 11.477 4
I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed
myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...
CL 12.136 24
...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on
excursions on foot into the country...
summoning, v. (1)
PPr 12.388 26
How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's]
one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven
opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his
men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or
Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.
summons, n. (4)
LE 1.155 4
A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so
alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my
ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
SL 2.141 17
The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by
name and personal election...is fanaticism...
Aris 10.42 9
In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the
sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
CSC 10.374 10
The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the
Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion...
summons, v. (1)
ET13 5.229 19
George Borrow summons the Gypsies to hear his discourse
on the Hebrews in Egypt...
Sumner, Charles, n. (6)
AsSu 11.248 17
If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man
than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and
certain.
AsSu 11.249 12
His friends, I remember, were told that they would find
Sumner a man of the world like the rest;...
AsSu 11.250 6
...if Mr. Sumner had any vices, we should be likely to hear
of them.
AsSu 11.251 13
...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet
applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest
soul I ever knew.
AsSu 11.251 20
...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be
expressed to Mr. Sumner;...
Shak1 11.447 22
We [The Saturday Club] regret also the absence of our
members Sumner and Motley.
Sumner's, Charles, n. (2)
AsSu 11.248 27
Mr. Sumner's position is exceptional in its honor.
AsSu 11.250 26
...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be
true in Sumner's case...
sumptuary, adj. (2)
YA 1.374 6
We devise sumptuary and relief laws...
Wth 6.105 24
The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only
safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not
legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.
sumptuous, adj. (6)
Nat2 3.177 13
...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians
should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms
of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
ET10 5.163 27
This comfort and splendor [in England]...sumptuous castle
and modern villa,--all consist with perfect order.
ET11 5.172 10
Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The
proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these
sumptuous piles...
ET11 5.190 25
...at this moment, almost every great house [in England] has
its sumptuous picture-gallery.
Wth 6.95 13
The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at
the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the
stormy Atlantic...
SHC 11.431 21
...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous
as well disposed woods and waters...
sumptuous-looking, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.223 19
If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking
house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear
house.
sumptuously, adv. (1)
LT 1.274 4
[The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his
religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep;...
sums, n. (5)
NMW 4.240 7
When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great
debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...and reduced
the claims by considerable sums.
ET1 5.17 13
[Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by
the great booksellers for puffing.
Elo2 8.118 11
It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great
sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
Aris 10.48 24
In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a
superior slave...
SlHr 10.442 22
...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to
undertake the defence of criminal persons.
Sumter, Fort, South Caroli (2)
EPro 11.323 3
The war existed long before the cannonade of Sumter...
HCom 11.343 18
Here...in this little nest of New England republics
[enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
sun, n. (219)
Nat 1.3 16
The sun shines to-day also.
Nat 1.8 24
Most persons do not see the sun.
Nat 1.8 26
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man...
Nat 1.9 10
Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season
yields its tribute of delight;...
Nat 1.13 11
...the sun evaporates the sea;...
Nat 1.20 15
The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of
the ablest navigators. So are the sun and moon...
Nat 1.20 19
...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one
day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once...are
not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the
deed?
Nat 1.21 22
...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself...the
sun as its candle.
Nat 1.28 18
The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun,
makes the day and the year.
Nat 1.33 19
...Make hay while the sun shines;...
Nat 1.42 6
...blight, rain, insects, sun, - [a farm] is a sacred emblem...
Nat 1.47 13
It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World,
that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain
number of congruent sensations, which we call sun and moon...
Nat 1.51 24
By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun...lifted from the
ground and afloat before the eye.
Nat 1.61 15
[Nature] is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us.
Nat 1.69 11
The stars have us to bed:/ Night draws the curtain; which the
sun withdraws./
Nat 1.71 16
Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon;...
Nat 1.71 17
Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon; from man the sun,
from woman the moon.
Nat 1.71 27
Now is man the follower of the sun...
Nat 1.76 25
The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up...
AmS 1.84 25
Every day, the sun;...
AmS 1.91 16
...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, -
we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn
is.
LE 1.167 16
By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an
oratorio of praises of nature,-flowers, birds, mountains, sun, and moon;...
LE 1.169 16
...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the
rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
LE 1.176 3
We live in the sun and on the surface...
LE 1.187 7
Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who...hides his
thoughts from the waiting world? Hides his thoughts! Hide the sun and
moon.
MN 1.197 20
...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes
cannot brook his direct splendors.
MN 1.218 18
Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks;...
MN 1.218 19
Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks; the old
sun, the old stones.
MN 1.219 4
[Genius] is sun and moon and wave and fire in music...
MR 1.239 7
...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all seize their
own...
MR 1.253 24
It is better to work on institutions by the sun than by the wind.
MR 1.256 27
...the time will come when we too...shall be willing to sow
the sun and the moon for seeds.
LT 1.265 1
...let us set up our Camera also, and let the sun paint the people.
Con 1.297 9
...the word of Uranus came into [Saturn's] mind like a ray of
the sun...
Con 1.309 18
Yonder sun in heaven you would pluck down from shining
on the universe, and make him a property and privacy, if you could;...
Con 1.311 14
Would you have...preferred...the range of a planet which had
no shed or boscage to cover you from sun and wind,-to this towered and
citied world?...
Tran 1.342 8
...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon
away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its
mark.
Hist 2.9 10
The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry
thenceforward to all nations.
Hist 2.26 22
The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart
precisely as they meet mine.
SR 2.65 23
...my perception of [a trait] is as much a fact as the sun.
SR 2.73 14
...I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly
rejoices me...
SR 2.85 9
...[the civilized man] fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.
Comp 2.107 19
...if the sun in heaven should transgress his path [the
Furies] would punish him.
Comp 2.124 2
...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities
vanish. Love reduces them as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea.
SL 2.137 18
...the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and
ever.
SL 2.140 5
If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences...
the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize
itself, as do now the rose and the air and the sun.
SL 2.147 19
People are not the better for the sun and moon, the horizon and
the trees;...
SL 2.155 25
...every shadow points to the sun.
SL 2.163 26
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
SL 2.164 4
...the least [action] admits of being inflated with the celestial air
until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Lov1 2.178 9
Beauty...welcome as the sun wherever it pleases to shine...
seems sufficient to itself.
Lov1 2.181 9
...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied
here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun...
Lov1 2.182 7
...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection, as
the sun puts out fire by shining on the hearth, [the lovers] become pure and
hallowed.
Fdsp 2.208 10
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot,
for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence
with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the
shade. In the sun it will mark the hour.
Fdsp 2.216 12
It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and
vain into ungrateful space...
Prd1 2.224 19
...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun
and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its
primary lessons out of these books.
Prd1 2.225 5
There revolve...the sun and moon...
Prd1 2.237 27
...[the drover's, the sailor's] health renews itself at as
vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.
Prd1 2.238 24
If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what
common ground remains,--if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for
both;...
Hsm1 2.246 11
...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold
before my Sophocles:/ Farewell;.../
Hsm1 2.259 3
...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many
extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.
OS 2.269 16
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the
animal, the tree;...
OS 2.296 21
[The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and
thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars...
Art1 2.365 12
The oratorio has already lost its relation...to the sun, and the
earth...
Pt1 3.5 27
There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in
the sun and stars...
Pt1 3.25 1
...in the sun, objects paint their images on the retina of the eye...
Pt1 3.29 10
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner
of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and
sufficing objects of nature, the sun and moon...which should be their toys.
Pt1 3.29 21
That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come
forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone on which the
dull March sun shines, comes forth to the poor and hungry...
Chr1 3.87 1
The sun set; but set not his hope:/...
Chr1 3.91 1
Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears...to be
an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun...
Chr1 3.96 18
...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent
object betwixt them and the sun...
Chr1 3.96 19
...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent
object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun,
journeys towards that person.
Nat2 3.179 2
The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire, and not with reflex
rays of sun and moon.
NR 3.246 1
...our earth, whilst it spins on its own axis, spins all the time
around the sun...
NR 3.246 10
The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has
ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism, and unless he can
resist the sun, he must be conservative the remainder of his days.
NER 3.257 20
...we cannot tell...the hour of the day by the sun.
PPh 4.48 14
In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is
truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
PPh 4.69 8
...every pool reflects the image of the sun...
SwM 4.102 8
It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the
nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of modern astronomy in regard
to the generation of earths by the sun;...
SwM 4.106 12
In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality
which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
SwM 4.138 21
...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and
flowers;...
SwM 4.141 12
Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once
the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat...
which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...
MoS 4.173 8
[The wise skeptic] does not wish to...blazon every doubt and
sneer that darkens the sun for him.
GoW 4.264 27
There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of
the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine.
GoW 4.269 15
There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred
person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky;
and the sun and stars were only letters of the same purport and of no more
necessity.
ET13 5.228 17
The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was
led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot
heads could breathe: in view of the educated class, generally, it was not a
fact to front the sun;...
ET14 5.235 15
When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it
lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
ET16 5.281 3
...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of
that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...
ET16 5.281 17
...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the
East Indian temples of the sun...
ET16 5.282 10
Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at the sun, and the
sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.
F 6.49 2
If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception
one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if
a child's hand could pull down the sun.
Pow 6.59 2
[The strong man's] eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds
clouds.
Pow 6.59 23
...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia,
it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has the
sun and wind...
Pow 6.64 13
The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so
much augmented.
Wth 6.95 22
...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his
power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
Wth 6.123 7
...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer
built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
Ctr 6.154 10
Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the
enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished
tale.
Bhr 6.177 21
Man cannot fix his eye on the sun...
Wsp 6.213 3
You say there is no religion now. 'T is like saying in rainy
weather, There is no sun...
Wsp 6.215 24
...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not
cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into
a chariot of the sun.
Wsp 6.218 22
We have learned the manners of the sun and of the moon...
Wsp 6.218 26
Man has learned to weigh the sun...
CbW 6.255 3
The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque.
CbW 6.267 17
In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should
reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
Bty 6.302 14
...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her
powers serve him;...causing the sun and moon to seem only the decorations
of his estate;--this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
Ill 6.318 23
What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground
of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself, and that the sun
borrows his beams?
SS 7.4 9
...the sun and moon put [my new friend] out.
Civ 7.29 25
...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained
paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon...
Art2 7.37 5
[All the departments of life] are rays of one sun;...
Art2 7.41 25
It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the
architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain...have more to say than he.
Art2 7.53 14
...every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as
the earth and the sun.
Elo1 7.74 1
...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun
and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
Elo1 7.79 19
...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful
principle, who are felt wherever they go, as sensibly as a July sun or a
December frost...
DL 7.101 7
Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair
mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with
childhood's psalms./
DL 7.117 16
[A house] stands there under the sun and moon to ends
analogous, and not less noble than theirs.
Farm 7.139 5
The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or
planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and
sun...
Farm 7.142 27
Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages
decomposed the rocks...
Farm 7.145 25
Whilst all thus burns,--the universe in a blaze kindled from
the torch of the sun,--it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of
the conflagration;...
Farm 7.147 19
[The tree]...defended itself from the sun by growing in
groves...
Farm 7.148 4
In September, when the pears hang heaviest and are taking
from the sun their gay colors, comes usually a gusty day which...throws
down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
Farm 7.152 17
...true political economy is...on the pattern of the sun and
sky.
Farm 7.153 23
[The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would
appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to sun and
moon...
WD 7.167 3
The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the
old names of God...names of the sun...
WD 7.179 9
He only can enrich me who can recommend to me the space
between sun and sun.
WD 7.182 9
Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut
eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
Boks 7.203 10
...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods
and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic
rhetoric, exalted a little under the African sun, sail before [the scholar's]
eyes.
Clbs 7.237 21
Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun...
Cour 7.273 15
The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn
hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail, or
as if one had eyes to see in chemistry the fuel that is rushing to feed the sun.
Suc 7.309 1
Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then
veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. The eye
shall not see it; the sun shall not shine on it.
Suc 7.312 1
...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun
and broods on the world.
PI 8.1 19
...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/
Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task
at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
PI 8.23 17
The staff in [man's] hand is the radius vector of the sun.
PI 8.23 27
How long it took to find out what a day was, or what this sun,
that makes days!
PI 8.24 5
Slowly, by comparing thousands of observations, there dawned
on some mind a theory of the sun...
PI 8.24 7
...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses affirm that the earth
stands still and the sun moves.
PI 8.39 18
[The poet] knows that he did not make his thought,--no, his
thought made him, and made the sun and the stars.
Res 8.140 23
By his machines man...can see the system of the universe like
Uriel, the angel of the sun;...
QO 8.187 7
Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his
writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were
pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by
the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
QO 8.201 7
[The individual] must draw the elements into him for food,
and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain,
by time and art, to his hand.
PC 8.222 17
...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the
fall of the earth to the sun...that perception was accompanied by the spasm
of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
PC 8.222 18
...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the
fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was
accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact
more immense still...
PC 8.224 19
State the sun, and you state the planets, and conversely.
PPo 8.238 14
The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his
heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].
PPo 8.241 8
...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet
and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of
birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them
from the sun.
PPo 8.243 16
The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall/...
PPo 8.262 19
A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never
hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did
run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
PPo 8.264 7
The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds']
soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./
They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
PPo 8.265 23
You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless,
confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out
my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye
blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
Insp 8.275 14
The raptures of goodness are as old as history and new with
this morning's sun.
Insp 8.280 22
Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new
begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/...
Insp 8.281 9
...I fancy that my logs, which have grown so long in sun and
wind by Walden, are a kind of muses.
Insp 8.285 21
...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night
before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/
Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/ And so the night
passed,/ And Aurora found me sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
Grts 8.303 21
If a man's centrality is incomprehensible to us, we may as
well snub the sun.
Grts 8.305 13
...the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the
same elements as the earth is.
Imtl 8.326 4
...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask that they may be
buried where the sun can see them...
Imtl 8.335 21
A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help
the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the
sun and the star...
Dem1 10.10 14
...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no
man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
Dem1 10.10 18
...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no
man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in
some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the
spots of light...correspond to the changed figure of the sun.
Dem1 10.11 9
...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with
innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction, revealed by the
beams of the rising sun!
Dem1 10.22 20
We may...say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck
presides over him!
Dem1 10.26 7
It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal
Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions. This is
to prefer halos and rainbows to the sun and moon.
Aris 10.44 12
It were to dispute against the sun, to deny this difference of
brain.
Aris 10.55 26
I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this
ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come. It is not important what they
say. The sun and the evening sky are not calmer.
PerF 10.71 12
...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of
oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine
its virtues; lets it lie in sun and rain...
PerF 10.71 21
The sun has lost no beams...
PerF 10.76 8
...[man] is warmed by the sun, and so of every element;...
Edc1 10.127 14
[Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to
overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun
and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.
Supl 10.165 24
...there is an inverted superlative...which shivers like
Demophoon, in the sun...
Supl 10.174 5
I will bask in the common sun a while longer.
SovE 10.193 9
Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine
justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it...
SovE 10.196 15
When the stars and sun appear...we may begin to put out
an oar and trim a sail.
SovE 10.202 5
[A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with
such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but...the sun warms
him.
Prch 10.215 4
Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/
As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
Prch 10.222 8
I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the
purpose that animates him.
Schr 10.260 1
The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like sowers' seeds into
his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./
Schr 10.265 14
...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves
hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a
bugle out of a grove...the sun shines...
Schr 10.283 21
...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and universal, its light
ubiquitous like the sun.
Schr 10.287 3
...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron, who
distributes sun and shade after immutable laws.
Plu 10.321 26
Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass
our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it.
LLNE 10.336 4
...the paramount source of the religious revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live
was not the centre of the Universe, around which the sun and stars revolved
every day...
LLNE 10.336 10
...the paramount source of the religious revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live
was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system...
LLNE 10.356 8
...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which
lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
LLNE 10.356 10
...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which
lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts, and which he can leave, when
the sun is warm, and defy the robber.
HDC 11.28 7
Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And
make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
HDC 11.33 15
...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat
from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly
fainted.
HDC 11.33 20
Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not
whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds;...
EWI 11.102 18
These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and
luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the
globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came
there, and how they are kept there.
EWI 11.104 10
...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum
poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle, rubbed in with a cornhusk, in
the scorching heat of the sun;...we too should wince.
EWI 11.142 2
The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the
islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a
thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
FSLC 11.209 23
The sun paints; presently we shall organize the echo, as
now we do the shadow.
FSLN 11.240 20
[The free man] is a finished man;...the sun does not see
anything nobler, and has nothing to teach him.
EdAd 11.387 14
...this country does not lie here in the sun causeless;...
Wom 11.404 2
Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and
moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its
dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else
decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work
succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
Wom 11.424 23
The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next.
It holds...of the same influences that make the sun and moon.
SHC 11.428 20
...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting
sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of
unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
CPL 11.502 7
It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests...
to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
CPL 11.505 26
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...
CPL 11.506 4
...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the
first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me.
PLT 12.17 24
...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling
out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...
PLT 12.32 23
The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more
light than your eye will hold.
PLT 12.36 3
[Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains, lying on the ground,
tooting like a cricket in the sun...
PLT 12.39 13
To us [a fact] had economic, but to the universe it has poetic
relations, and it is as good as sun and star now.
PLT 12.41 16
My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law,
as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than the sun
and moon...
PLT 12.61 27
Lovers of men are as safe as the sun.
II 12.86 16
The old Herschel must...draw on his night-cap when the sun
rises, and defend his eyes for nocturnal use.
CL 12.145 8
The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls
[apples]...
CL 12.145 15
[The farmer] makes every cloud in the sky, and every beam
of the sun, serve him.
CL 12.163 2
Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to
survey his possessions...
CW 12.176 22
A man...should know the hour of the day or night, and the
time of the year, by the sun and stars;...
Bost 12.190 20
In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its islands hospitably
shining in the sun...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time
to the State House...
Bost 12.192 5
In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company
through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful
odor of the stweefern in the sun;...
Bost 12.196 25
...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which
the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor
but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
Bost 12.211 18
Let every child that is born of her and every child of her
adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...
ACri 12.290 26
In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on
his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it
to an eighth,-more was inseparable.
MLit 12.315 11
The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident
with the sun and moon...
MLit 12.331 23
Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never
assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...
EurB 12.377 18
[The Vivian Greys] discuss sun and planets, liberty and
fate, love and death, over the soup.
PPr 12.387 21
...the sun and stars affect us only grandly, because we
cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say, Is that all?
Let 12.393 20
...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but
laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad
Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.
Sun, n. (2)
PI 8.51 4
St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the
books of the philosophers:--And these were the dishes in which they
brought to me, being hungry, the Sun and the Moon instead of Thee.
Plu 10.307 18
[Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to
say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense
withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.
sun, v. (3)
AmS 1.107 5
[The poor and the low] sun themselves in the great man's
light...
MoS 4.173 14
I wish to ferret [Montaigne's doubts and negations] out of
their holes and sun them a little.
Bty 6.279 19
In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros
struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve the curse,/ And beam to the
bounds of the universe./
sun-baked, adj. (1)
Art1 2.349 8
...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked
square./
sunbeam, n. (4)
Nat 1.23 23
A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous
impression on the mind.
Suc 7.282 3
But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And
invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee
should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...
ACri 12.294 10
...[Shakespeare's] impartiality is like a sunbeam.
MLit 12.312 19
The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a
certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of
earlier times. The poet is not content to see...What music a sunbeam awoke
in the groves...
sunbeams, n. (4)
Int 2.346 16
With a geometry of sunbeams the soul lays the foundations of
nature.
F 6.30 12
The glance of [the hero's] eye has the force of sunbeams.
Suc 7.298 17
[The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed
he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...
garlanded with vines, flowers and sunbeams...
Bost 12.183 18
There is the climate of the Sahara: a climate where the
sunbeams are vertical;...
sun-blind, adj. (1)
FRep 11.536 16
A man does not want to be sun-dazzled, sun-blind;...
sunbright, adj. (1)
Exp 3.72 1
I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first
opening to me of this august magnificence...the sunbright Mecca of the
desert.
sunbursts, n. (1)
PPr 12.389 6
That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a
somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned
persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of
lights and glooms over the landscape...
Sunday, adj. (11)
Mrs1 3.144 10
...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole
torrid zone in his Sunday school;...
MoS 4.173 20
I shall not take Sunday objections, made up on purpose to be
put down.
ET1 5.3 5
In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London at the
Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning;...
ET2 5.26 19
At last, on Sunday night...the storm came...
ET17 5.294 11
At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days
the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour.
On Sunday afternoon I accompanied her to Rydal Mount.
OA 7.335 11
[John Adams] received a premature report of his son's
election, on Sunday afternoon...
Elo2 8.120 25
I have heard an eminent preacher say that he learns from the
first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a
successful day.
SlHr 10.447 6
In the time of the Sunday laws [Samuel Hoar] was a tithing-man;...
Thor 10.460 19
...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown,
on Sunday evening...
HDC 11.67 15
In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on
Sunday afternoon;...
FSLN 11.228 11
[Webster] did as immoral men usually do...went through
all the Sunday decorums;...
Sunday, n. (14)
MR 1.245 26
Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my
dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
ET6 5.109 18
Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to
the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
ET13 5.216 16
The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the
boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his
boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited
him altogether.
ET16 5.286 22
On Sunday we had much discourse, on a very rainy day.
Civ 7.21 26
'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the
frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head
boys has written a hymn on Sunday.
DL 7.120 11
...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the
eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the youthful criticism, on Sunday,
of the sermons;...
DL 7.132 23
Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of
the entire week?
Chr2 10.107 8
Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the
Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen.
Chr2 10.117 15
The Sunday is the core of our civilization...
Prch 10.230 16
The simple fact...that all over this country the people are
waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is
inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
Prch 10.230 19
The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a
weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto
he wants.
LLNE 10.366 15
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.
SMC 11.360 20
The writing of letters made the Sunday in every [Civil
War] camp...
EurB 12.376 5
...there is but one standard English novel, like the one
orthodox sermon, which with slight variation is repeated every Sunday
from so many pulpits.
Sunday School, n. (2)
LT 1.279 23
...if every child was brought into the Sunday School, would
the wounds of the world heal...
Exp 3.64 10
[Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not
come out of the Sunday School...
Sunday Schools, n. (1)
SlHr 10.448 15
...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication...
to unpaid services of...the Sunday Schools...
Sundays, n. (3)
DSA 1.143 6
I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems
wicked to go to church.
Supl 10.174 14
I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church
where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he
would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
Prch 10.232 8
...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on
Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected
Saturday or Monday.
Sunday-school, n. (1)
SL 2.136 16
...why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the
whole of Christendom?
Sunday-schools, n. (1)
SL 2.136 3
Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are
yokes to the neck.
sun-dazzled, adj. (1)
FRep 11.536 15
A man does not want to be sun-dazzled, sun-blind;...
sunder, v. (1)
Comp 2.103 20
Whilst thus the world...refuses to be disparted, we seek...to
sunder...
sundered, adj. (2)
Nat 1.52 20
The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's
muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together...
OS 2.273 21
...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one
concave sphere.
sundered, v. (2)
Nat 1.38 11
Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may know
that things are...sundered and individual.
PPo 8.246 20
The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the earth,/ So that no
footway/ Leads out of it forth./
sundew, n. (1)
CL 12.162 8
Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea...or sundew...
sundown, n. (1)
ET2 5.27 4
...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks,
petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the
Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown...
sundry, adj. (3)
Con 1.323 25
Is there not something shameful that I should owe my
peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my
countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable
persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good
odor?
F 6.26 1
This insight [of truth] throws us on the party and interest of the
Universe, against all and sundry;...
EurB 12.371 4
Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as...
sketches after the styles of sundry old masters.
sunetois, n. (1)
PPo 8.250 27
In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds,-sunetois phonei, it speaks
to the intelligent;...
sung, v. (15)
AmS 1.82 4
Events, actions arise, that must be sung...
DSA 1.133 21
...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in
my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all
ages.
SL 2.134 12
Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments,
have always sung, Not unto us, not unto us.
Prd1 2.219 1
[Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul
to young;/...
Pt1 3.2 1
Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas below,/ Which always
find us young,/ And always keep us so./
CbW 6.243 1
Hear what British Merlin sung,/ Of keenest eye and truest
tongue./
Ill 6.310 19
...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed
to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet
flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a
pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
Cour 7.277 22
Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards have sung them
well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
PI 8.37 22
As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft have I heard, and
now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
PPo 8.253 19
Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The songs I sung, the pearls I
bored./
Thor 10.475 15
...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in
describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They
ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all
their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
LS 11.9 17
It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break
the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern
Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
HDC 11.54 7
Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a
psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
EWI 11.114 26
On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the
West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at
midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...they
cried, they sung, they prayed...
HCom 11.344 20
[Harvard men] might say, with their forefathers the old
Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.