Seat to Sedulously
seat, n. (33)
Nat 1.21 13
When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting
on a sled...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so
glorious a seat!
AmS 1.102 9
...whatsoever new verdict Reason from her inviolable seat
pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar]
shall hear and promulgate.
Con 1.295 20
Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between
Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in
the human constitution.
YA 1.367 19
We have twenty degrees of latitude wherein to choose a seat...
SL 2.129 12
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and
architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/
Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/ Forging, through swart arms of
Offence,/ The silver seat of Innocence./
Exp 3.54 2
Shall I preclude my future by taking a high seat...
Chr1 3.100 5
There is nothing real or useful that is not a seat of war.
Pol1 3.197 18
When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their
design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/
Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect
State is come,/ The republican at home./
NR 3.242 24
[Nature] suffers no seat to be vacant in her college.
PPh 4.52 12
...the seat of a philosophy delighting in abstractions...is Asia;...
PPh 4.72 15
...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates]
had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there,
evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh
ruined him.
SwM 4.95 1
[The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will, which is the seat
of personality, seems to convert the universe into a person;...
SwM 4.130 9
[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.
SwM 4.131 10
A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's
universe]...
MoS 4.157 5
[The skeptic says] Why so talkative in public, when each of
my neighbors can pin me to my seat by arguments I cannot refute?
GoW 4.278 22
We had an English romance here...in which the only reward
of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
ET1 5.14 1
[Coleridge said] There were only three things which the
government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch,
pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in
making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population
and plenty.
ET5 5.90 27
Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as
the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the
empire of Bonaparte, one after the other defeated, and still renewed, until
the sixth hurled him from his seat.
ET16 5.275 21
I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but
meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall
lapse at once into the feeling...that there and not here is the seat and centre
of the British race;...
ET16 5.284 4
We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton
Hall,--the renowned seat of the Earls of Pembroke...
Ctr 6.159 6
...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or
Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we should
wish to hug him.
Farm 7.141 9
He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside...
makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
OA 7.317 22
Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion...
Aris 10.45 12
...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence,
rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in
his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature.
That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate.
Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved.
Edc1 10.142 15
...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man]
and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he...make wry faces to
keep up a freshman's seat in the fine world?
HDC 11.37 18
...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already
secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
LVB 11.89 1
Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of
credit and nearness to every citizen.
FSLN 11.242 10
The [American] universities are...the seat of inertness.
EdAd 11.383 19
A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous
magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where
he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and
Havre...
SHC 11.432 3
What work of man will compare with the plantation of a
park? It dignifies life. It is a seat for friendship, counsel, taste and religion.
PLT 12.4 10
...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are
nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
PLT 12.50 16
When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a
degree lost. Reason does not keep her firm seat.
Bost 12.188 16
[Boston] is...a seat of humanity...
seat, v. (2)
Chr1 3.112 20
The gods must seat themselves without seneschal in our
Olympus...
SA 8.83 7
'T is a great point in a gallery, how you hang pictures; and not
less in society, how you seat your party.
seated, v. (6)
Nat 1.66 5
That which seems faintly possible...is often faint and dim
because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.
Hist 2.23 3
At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health
and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys. Or
perhaps his facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties
of observation...
SR 2.47 19
Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the
genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely
trustworthy was seated at their heart...
CbW 6.270 17
...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant,
the only safety is in amputation;...
Cour 7.265 12
Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the
extremities...
EWI 11.102 16
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.
seats, n. (17)
Con 1.308 25
...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well
enough die, since it appears...that I have been missent to this earth, where
all the seats were already taken...
Tran 1.359 13
Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be
superseded;...these cities...ruined...by new inventions, by new seats of
trade...
ET4 5.51 13
Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem,
but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived. Nor is it
easy to trace it home to its original seats.
ET5 5.97 14
Purity in the elective Parliament [of England] is secured by
the purchase of seats.
ET11 5.172 7
Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the
splendor of royal seats.
ET11 5.182 23
The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight
seats in Parliament.
CbW 6.243 4
Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/ Usurp the seats for which
all strive;/...
OA 7.335 17
[John Adams] received a premature report of his son's
election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time
for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house,
and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed
that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice.
Elo2 8.118 6
If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it
is paid in England with dignities in the professions, and in the state with
seats in the cabinet...
Res 8.141 19
...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of
Esquimaux, become lands of promise.
Aris 10.60 25
The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept
full;...
EzRy 10.383 27
I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra
Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house...
with long prayers...and not less with the report like musketry from
the movable seats.
HDC 11.55 23
...the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for
new seats.
EWI 11.138 24
The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of powers are
filled by underlings...
AKan 11.258 4
...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor
sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these
poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can.
EdAd 11.389 4
We are not well, we are not in our seats, when justice and
humanity are to be spoken for.
Bost 12.202 17
The soul of a political party is by no means usually the
officers and pets of the party, who...fill the high seats...
sea-view, n. (1)
ET3 5.42 15
In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe,
having...delicious landscape in Dovedale, delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...
sea-voyaging, n. (1)
ET2 5.27 19
There are many advantages, says Saadi, in sea-voyaging, but
security is not one of them.
sea-wall, n. (1)
ET3 5.41 14
It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of
the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to
France, and gave to this fragment of Europe [England] its impregnable sea-wall...
sea-war, n. (1)
Cour 7.254 8
Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out
the plans of a campaign, sea-war and land-war...
sea-ware, n. (1)
ET18 5.300 19
Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in
hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted.
Multitudes lived miserably by shell-fish and sea-ware.
seaweed, n. (1)
PLT 12.22 11
...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man]...designed for dingy
circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.
sea-wide, adj. (1)
ET16 5.288 22
There, in that great sloven continent [America]...in the sea-wide,
sky-skirted prairie, still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great
mother...
sea-wolf, n. (1)
F 6.8 7
...the forms of the shark...the jaw of the sea-wolf...are hints of
ferocity in the interiors of nature.
seceder, n. (2)
Con 1.305 22
...among the lovers of the new I observe...that the seceder
from the seceder is as damnable as the pope himself.
Con 1.305 23
...among the lovers of the new I observe...that the seceder
from the seceder is as damnable as the pope himself.
Secession, adj. (1)
EPro 11.325 17
The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free
states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to
[the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.
secession, n. (3)
EPro 11.318 2
...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated...the
secession of three states...
EPro 11.323 8
If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels,
the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession
impossible...
EPro 11.323 10
If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels,
the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession
impossible...
Seckels, n. (1)
CL 12.146 6
It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into
my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to
manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
seclude, v. (1)
ET8 5.130 4
...the [English] gentry avoid the taverns, or seclude themselves
whilst in them.
secluded, adj. (1)
Thor 10.453 23
[Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him
continually into new and secluded grounds...
secluded, v. (1)
NMW 4.242 5
The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the
throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates, secluded from all
community with the children of the soil...
seclusion, n. (4)
LE 1.176 13
Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the
grandeur and secret of our being...
CbW 6.268 5
[The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a
home...they look at the farms;--good farms, high mountain-sides; but where
is the seclusion?
Insp 8.288 14
I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city
hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home. I thus secured a more
absolute seclusion;...
SHC 11.433 26
[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...
second, adj. (121)
AmS 1.88 16
...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought,
that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or
rather to the second age.
AmS 1.109 16
...we are embarrassed with second thoughts;...
DSA 1.127 1
[The moral sentiment] cannot be received at second hand.
DSA 1.134 1
The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using
the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
DSA 1.150 12
The remedy to [the old forms'] deformity is first, soul, and
second, soul, and evermore, soul.
MR 1.238 5
Consider further the difference between the first and second
owner of property.
Tran 1.329 15
As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects,
Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second
on consciousness;...
Tran 1.329 17
...the second class [Idealists] perceive that the senses are not
final...
YA 1.367 17
...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture
have...passed into second childhood.
YA 1.370 15
In the second place, the uprise and culmination of the new and
anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to
the American at this hour.
Fdsp 2.202 19
[Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a
man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of
dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
Fdsp 2.202 26
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second
person, hypocrisy begins.
Prd1 2.223 1
The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the
third, spiritual perception.
Cir 2.301 2
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the
second;...
Cir 2.316 6
...that second man has his own way of looking at things;...
Int 2.329 17
If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us,
we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle
over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual
and latent.
Art1 2.356 13
...what astonished and fascinated me in the first work [of
art], astonished me in the second work also;...
Pt1 3.13 12
Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the
object...
Pt1 3.22 14
This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature...
Chr1 3.92 16
In the new objects we recognize the old game, the habit of
fronting the fact, and not dealing with it at second hand...
Mrs1 3.146 7
...there is still...some fanatic who plants shade-trees for the
second and third generation...
Mrs1 3.148 20
...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume, and does not please on
the second reading...
Nat2 3.170 11
...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their
bosom. How willingly we would...escape the sophistication and second
thought...
Nat2 3.180 17
Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second
secrets of nature...
UGM 4.29 7
How superior [are children] in their security...from vulgarity
and second thought!
PPh 4.51 10
...the second [diversity] is the power of nature.
PPh 4.52 4
Each student adheres, by temperament and by habit, to the first
or to the second of these gods of the mind [unity or diversity].
PPh 4.56 18
...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of
the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...
studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these, as second causes, to be
no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
PPh 4.58 26
One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of
Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and
evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not
too bold.
PPh 4.76 17
In the second place, [Plato] has not a system.
PPh 4.77 1
Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or
second thought;...
PNR 4.82 13
These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in
continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision,
and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in
every direction.
PNR 4.82 18
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses.
PNR 4.84 23
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. ... This second sight explains the stress laid on geometry.
SwM 4.100 21
[Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the
added fame of second sight...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
SwM 4.115 8
The second and next higher form is the circular...
SwM 4.146 6
...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; and he renders a second passive service to men...
MoS 4.160 20
We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first
and limber as the second.
MoS 4.176 18
[The power of moods] is the second negation;...
ShP 4.195 10
...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be
inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First,
Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
ShP 4.211 10
...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...their
second thought and wiles;...
ShP 4.217 3
Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had
another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and
roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
NMW 4.224 7
The second [democratic] class is selfish also...
GoW 4.262 19
...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are
born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
GoW 4.271 27
[Goethe's] Helena, or the second part of Faust, is a
philosophy of literature set in poetry;...
ET1 5.20 12
I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the
second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows,
are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
ET1 5.22 18
...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and
then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
ET1 5.22 22
[Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to
the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...
ET2 5.25 1
The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation
from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
ET2 5.30 12
...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little
boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
ET4 5.73 2
...[the English] boast...that their horses are become their second
selves.
ET5 5.95 23
In due course, all England will be drained and rise a second
time out of the waters.
ET8 5.141 2
...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English
civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles
and find...a second millennium of power in their colonies.
ET10 5.154 16
...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae
Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be
born poor, or come to poverty.
ET10 5.156 18
Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars
[in England], or in the second cabin.
ET13 5.223 8
...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your
project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the
sympathy is at an end...
ET14 5.236 16
There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the
second and third class of [English] writers;...
ET14 5.260 14
...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]...
are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius
and of animal force, though the first consist of only a dozen souls and the
second of twenty millions, forever by their discord and their accord yield
the power of the English State.
ET16 5.276 26
Stonehenge is a circular colonnade...enclosing a second and
a third colonnade within.
ET17 5.294 14
...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years
before, I must not forget this second interview.
F 6.5 18
On the first [the appointed day], neither balm nor physician can
save,/ Nor thee, on the second [the unappointed day], the Universe slay./
F 6.12 11
...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is
visibly deteriorated...
F 6.35 26
The second and imperfect races are dying out...
Pow 6.60 1
The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better;...
Pow 6.77 7
The second substitute for temperament is drill...
Wth 6.117 25
I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair
manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was
told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son of
the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide for
him.
Ctr 6.140 11
There are people who can never understand...any second or
expanded sense given to your words...
Ctr 6.163 2
If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not
come at the first or the second call...
Bhr 6.186 7
Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or
quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second
is still more effective...
CbW 6.248 17
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and
malefactors. The second class is vast...
Civ 7.29 14
...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a
star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating
his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between
his first observation and his second...
Art2 7.38 3
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second
form as thought is its first.
DL 7.125 5
In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is
made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;
in a second, the difficulties he combated in going to college;...
WD 7.180 11
...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit
at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such
landscape...the future no equal second opportunity.
PI 8.11 7
First the fact; second its impression...
PI 8.19 10
Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real
and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second
sight...
PI 8.21 20
A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs...all but itself. But
this second sight does not necessarily impair the primary or common sense.
PI 8.22 1
This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of
delight and of moral use.
PI 8.27 13
In some individuals this insight or second sight has an
extraordinary reach...
PI 8.66 4
In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us,
and this exists as a second nature...
SA 8.94 23
The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with
surprise;...
Elo2 8.116 10
[The people] have sent their best men; the young and ardent...
went at the first draft, or the second...
QO 8.180 9
The first book tyrannizes over the second.
QO 8.197 14
...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his
friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me
seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
QO 8.203 6
He that comes second must needs quote him that comes first.
PPo 8.240 15
Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he
saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
Insp 8.269 10
Our money is only a second best.
Grts 8.310 23
...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were
inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...
Imtl 8.324 5
...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable
sentence...
Imtl 8.349 19
For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which
heaven is gained be made known to him;...
MoL 10.254 4
On second thoughts, [Pytheas] returned and paid [Pindar]
for the poem.
CSC 10.373 12
The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the
consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the
following year [1841], for the discussion of the second topic.
SlHr 10.440 27
The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay
in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left an infantile
innocence, of which we have no second or third example...
SlHr 10.443 8
I am sorry to say [Samuel Hoar] could not be elected to
Congress a second time from Middlesex.
LS 11.15 2
...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the
primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ
would shortly occur...
LS 11.15 10
Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that
time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire...
so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his
second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
HDC 11.29 5
...the people of New England...as the second centennial
anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe
the day.
HDC 11.32 6
...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation
at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about
twelve families more.
HDC 11.65 10
...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott,
for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of
Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...
HDC 11.77 8
On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine
service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
War 11.169 19
In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the
extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme
cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just
man;...
FSLC 11.195 6
By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and
murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
FSLC 11.195 17
...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave
Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under
penalty of the gibbet.
FSLC 11.196 14
The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was
inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier;...
FSLN 11.218 23
[The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a
head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular
assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one
man to their second breakfast.
ACiv 11.307 27
Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for
the well-being of the human race...
SMC 11.363 25
When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were
prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or
weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting
at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...
SMC 11.368 19
On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to
cross the famous wheat-field...
SMC 11.372 6
On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second]
has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.
Wom 11.405 19
...according to the rule, take [women's] first advice, not
the second...
Wom 11.415 18
A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely
civil;...
Wom 11.421 13
Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first,
a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the
danger of contamination.
Humb 11.459 3
...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the
history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
CPL 11.500 8
...events so important have occurred in the forty years since
that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a
second volume.
PLT 12.25 22
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of
adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
PLT 12.58 4
[People] entertain us for a time, but at the second or third
encounter we have nothing more to learn.
PLT 12.61 21
If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the
good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
II 12.71 17
How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem...
or true work of literary genius! In five hundred years we shall not have a
second.
CL 12.163 5
Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to
survey his possessions, and passed onward and left them, before the second
owners, as he called them, were awake.
MAng1 12.218 24
In the second place, certain minds...possess the power of
abstracting Beauty from things...
Milt1 12.268 10
The memorable covenant, which in his youth, in the
second book of the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] makes with
God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
second, adv. (3)
Farm 7.151 4
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the
plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the
first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best;...
FRep 11.524 2
...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look
of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three
gentlemen at the table;...
CL 12.164 3
Nature speaks to the imagination;...second, because her visible
productions and changes are the nouns of language...
Second Chronicles xiii.12, n (1)
HDC 11.72 15
On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a
very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12...
second, n. (2)
DSA 1.127 5
...on [another soul's] word, or as his second, be he who he
may, I can accept nothing.
Wsp 6.219 1
...the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction
of a second.
second, v. (5)
Con 1.310 15
...[existing institutions] second the industrious and the kind;...
Con 1.324 4
[The hero's] greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto
the end, whether [the laws] second him or not.
NER 3.280 17
The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates,
Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way,
excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws,
which to second and authorize, true virtue must abate very much of its
original vigor.
WD 7.157 11
Machines can only second, not supply, [man's] unaided
senses.
SMC 11.363 17
[George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men]
cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching
quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights. The
best men heartily second him...
secondaries, n. (2)
MN 1.217 6
Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...whereof all [other
advantages] are only secondaries and indemnities...
Pt1 3.8 1
...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken,
reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to
him, secondaries and servants;...
secondarily, adv. (1)
Pol1 3.202 5
One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This
accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the parties, of which
there is every degree, and secondarily on patrimony, falls unequally, and its
rights...are unequal.
secondariness, n. (2)
Bhr 6.197 19
There must not be secondariness...
FRep 11.533 19
See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English
life, that runs through this country...
secondary, adj. (24)
Nat 1.30 2
When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence
of secondary desires...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is
in a degree lost;...
DSA 1.145 11
Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from
God with every year this secondary form lasts...
DSA 1.145 14
Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from
God with every year this secondary form lasts...
MN 1.197 2
In the divine order, intellect is primary; nature, secondary;...
SR 2.53 18
...I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the
assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
Art1 2.367 16
[Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the
ideal. Thus is art vilified; the name conveys to the mind its secondary and
bad senses;...
Pt1 3.9 23
The argument [in modern poetry] is secondary, the finish of the
verses is primary.
Pt1 3.22 9
...language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their
secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
NR 3.242 19
The universality being hindered in its primary form, comes in
the secondary form of all sides;...
ShP 4.210 14
Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare]
is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of
his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
ET9 5.148 9
[This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]
takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
ET9 5.150 21
In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William
Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea,
were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she
would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in
this secondary quality...
Boks 7.194 17
...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the
secondary writers were lost...
PI 8.11 5
...the secondary use [of a fact], as it is a figure or illustration of
my thought, it the real worth.
PI 8.16 10
Chemistry, geology, hydraulics, are secondary science.
SA 8.82 12
...thought disposes the limbs and the walk, and is masterly or
secondary.
Supl 10.177 13
...the diamond and the pearl, which are only accidental and
secondary in their use and value to us, are proper to the Oriental world.
FSLN 11.225 7
...though I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh
of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and
very open to criticism,-yet the secondary merits of a speech, namely, its
logic, its illustrations, its points, etc., are not here in question.
CPL 11.507 25
In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment
forget that they are secondary...
FRep 11.518 17
No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the
opinion of the people is courted in the first place, and the measures are
perfunctorily carried through as secondary.
PLT 12.32 5
...men are primary or secondary as their opinions and actions
are organic or not.
MAng1 12.230 15
Slighting the secondary arts of coloring, and all the aids
of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel
ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence
of his conceptions.
Milt1 12.261 21
...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a
secondary power...
ACri 12.283 4
The secondary services of literature may be classed under
the name of Rhetoric...
secondary, n. (1)
DSA 1.145 8
...each would be an easy secondary to some Christian
scheme...
second-best, adj. (1)
ShP 4.202 4
...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen
was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...and
why he left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife.
second-best, n. (1)
LLNE 10.356 13
...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists had a sense of duty
which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.
second-class, adj. (1)
ET10 5.156 17
Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars
[in England]...
seconded, v. (6)
Nat2 3.194 8
...it also appears that our actions are seconded and disposed to
greater conclusions than we designed.
ET10 5.165 24
[The Englishman]...is seconded by wealth;...
FSLC 11.209 18
Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set
itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed? Their
power of territory seconded by a genius equal to every work.
Koss 11.397 8
...[the people of Concord]...have been hungry to see the man
whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity of
his actions [Kossuth].
Milt1 12.259 8
[Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor,
introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek,
Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
MLit 12.323 10
...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room,
the new opportunities seem to have...seconded [Goethe's] sturdy
determination to see things for what they are.
second-foot, adj. (1)
Thor 10.483 18
Hard are the times when the infant's shoes are second-foot.
seconding, n. (1)
NMW 4.244 15
...[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving
from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the
grandeur of his enterprise.
secondly, adv. (12)
DSA 1.150 24
...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of
preaching...
Comp 2.103 1
Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner; first in the
thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent
nature.
UGM 4.8 21
Men are...representative; first, of things, and secondly, of
ideas.
PNR 4.89 15
It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as
the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts
of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are
out of reach of your rewards.
ET1 5.20 7
...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of
money [said Wordsworth]; and secondly, to politics;...
ET6 5.114 25
...[English table-talk reaches perfection because] the range of
nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition,
create the picturesque in society...and secondly, because the usage of a
dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to
advantage every thing good.
ET18 5.304 7
[The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;...
secondly, in the instruction of the people...
QO 8.183 12
Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster'
s three rules...secondly, never to do himself what he could make another do
for him;...
LS 11.15 24
We arrive, then, at this conclusion: first, that it does not appear
from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the
Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual; secondly, that it
does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion
derived from the Evangelists.
Shak1 11.450 18
...secondly, [Shakespeare] is the most robust and potent
thinker that ever was.
FRO1 11.480 17
The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the
mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded
soldiers...
CL 12.164 11
Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature
gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...secondly, because we have an
instinct that they express a grander law.
second-rate, adj. (1)
ET4 5.61 18
The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden
and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...and
these have been second-rate powers ever since.
seconds, n. (1)
FRep 11.511 7
The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or
three seconds in a year...
seconds, v. (1)
FRep 11.515 14
When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for
what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice
of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon...and the better code of laws at
last records the victory.
second-sight, n. (2)
Bty 6.305 10
...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color
or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency...
Dem1 10.21 13
Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a
certain terror; so...the alleged second-sight of the pseudo-spiritualists.
secret, adj. (76)
DSA 1.120 21
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to
man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
MR 1.229 17
The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart of every
lawmaker...
YA 1.373 5
This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest administration, though
rumors exist of its secret tenderness.
YA 1.375 6
/Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and
inviolable springs./
Hist 2.5 8
We, as we read, must...fasten these images to some reality in our
secret experience...
Hist 2.9 2
[Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts
yield their secret sense...
Hist 2.30 3
[The advancing man's] own secret biography he finds in lines
wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted down before he was born.
Hist 2.34 18
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of
the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of using the
secret virtues of minerals...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right
direction.
Comp 2.106 2
How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens...O
thou only great God...
Comp 2.117 22
The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does
not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed.
SL 2.146 22
Plato had a secret doctrine, had he?
SL 2.156 9
You think because you...have given no opinion on the times...on
secret societies...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a
reserved wisdom.
SL 2.160 23
...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches
that you have not assisted him...heretofore?
Hsm1 2.251 13
Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an
individual's character.
Int 2.328 9
I have been floated into hour...by secret currents of might and
mind...
Int 2.331 9
At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's
eye open...whilst we act, intent to learn the secret law of some class of facts.
Exp 3.70 26
Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will
one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret
cause, they nail our attention and hope.
Nat2 3.174 11
These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not
women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
Nat2 3.179 12
...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes...
NR 3.232 13
The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor;...
NER 3.267 11
...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place
the secret soul;...
NER 3.269 5
Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret
melancholy...
NER 3.276 10
...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness
and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no
longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
NER 3.283 12
Men are all secret believers in [the Law]...
UGM 4.9 3
Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of
nature...
PPh 4.67 19
Quite above us, beyond the will of you or me, is this secret
affinity or repulsion laid.
SwM 4.97 1
...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man
does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix;
and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is
difficult, secret and beset with terror.
SwM 4.112 8
[Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret
recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
ET5 5.78 23
...no breach of truth and plain dealing,--not so much as secret
ballot, is suffered in the island [England].
ET7 5.126 10
Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In
close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know,
they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity
without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That
English treasons never can succeed;/ For they 're so open-hearted, you may
know/ Their own most secret thoughts, and others' too./
ET9 5.146 3
I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or
Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
ET19 5.313 17
I see [England]...with a kind of instinct...that in storm of
battle and calamity she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.
Ctr 6.144 4
...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all
who use them, secret freemasonries.
Bhr 6.177 27
A cow can bid her calf, by secret signal...to run away...
Bhr 6.184 26
...here [in dress circles] are the secret biographies written and
read.
CbW 6.268 1
The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore,
they will...find a dear cottage deep in the mountains, secret as their
hearts.
Bty 6.283 20
From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to
draw great events.
Bty 6.288 21
Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of
nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
Bty 6.299 14
A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray
by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
Bty 6.305 9
Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies;...
DL 7.127 3
The secret power of form over the imagination and affections
transcends all our philosophy.
PI 8.5 21
...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known
virtue through every variety...
PI 8.67 3
A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable
men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it the
wise and generous souls, confirming their secret thoughts...
Elo2 8.112 25
There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain
occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...
PC 8.219 14
Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the
few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
Insp 8.271 13
...nothing great and lasting can be done except...by leaning
on the secret augury.
Imtl 8.334 4
After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a
healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently
skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the
delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all
forever hidden!
Imtl 8.344 16
Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but
inviolable springs./
Dem1 10.11 5
Secret analogies tie together the remotest parts of Nature...
Aris 10.36 19
...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the
Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
Aris 10.61 20
...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place
for himself in the world;...
Chr2 10.109 14
Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of
men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim,
with disappointment, Is that all?
Chr2 10.121 25
...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element
in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been
the secret inspiration of all past history.
SovE 10.193 3
Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when
disturbed, of Divine justice.
Schr 10.272 20
...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union
Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom
of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion; he is to
show...its secret history and issues.
MMEm 10.426 17
Number the waste places of the journey,-the secret
martyrdom of youth...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary
Moody Emerson] love.
MMEm 10.430 22
...one secret sentiment of virtue, disinterested (or
perhaps not), is worthy...
Thor 10.450 3
It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the
sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the
orchis grew./
Carl 10.492 1
In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great
Parliament, they sat secret and silent...
War 11.164 20
You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
War 11.171 5
...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching,
of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is
now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
JBS 11.279 24
A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown]...knew the secret
signals by which animals communicate.
TPar 11.285 10
In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the
secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
SMC 11.351 26
'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord
Monument]...becomes...an altar where the noble youth shall in all time
come to make his secret vows.
SMC 11.354 10
The secret architecture of things begins to disclose itself;...
CPL 11.503 12
...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal,
and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached.
FRep 11.527 24
Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are
educational... ... The result appears...in the antipathy to secret societies...
PLT 12.32 4
...individual men have secret senses, each some
incommunicable sagacity.
PLT 12.62 1
Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of
power...
II 12.79 27
...the secret Power will not impart himself to us for tea-table
talk;...
II 12.84 26
Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers,
afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their
private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they
also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy
forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...
CInt 12.112 4
I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now
I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of
genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/
From God's adoring lover./
CInt 12.124 20
The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not
to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed, not according to
the secret needs of each mind but by some available plan that will give
weekly and annual results;...
Bost 12.193 7
...by some secret tie [the divine will] holds the poor savage
to it...
ACri 12.299 18
...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of
[Carlyle's History of Frederick II]...
Pray 12.356 3
Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet
higher secret experiences which are ineffable!
secret, n. (179)
Nat 1.8 2
Neither does the wisest man extort [nature's] secret...
Nat 1.39 27
...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will
not only particular events but great classes...
Nat 1.67 1
...a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a
hundred concerted experiments.
DSA 1.138 5
The capital secret of his profession...to convert life into truth,
[the preacher] had not learned.
DSA 1.144 24
All men go in flocks...avoiding the God who seeth in secret.
DSA 1.144 25
[Men] cannot see in secret;...
LE 1.176 14
Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the
grandeur and secret of our being...
LE 1.181 16
Let [the scholar] know that...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's
opinions the secret of the world is to be learned...
LE 1.181 25
The good scholar will not refuse...to know...the uttermost
secret of toil and endurance;...
MR 1.229 22
That secret which you would fain keep,-as soon as you go
abroad, lo' there is one standing on the doorstep to tell you the same.
Tran 1.351 27
...to come a little closer to the secret of these persons, we
must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer
the objections of the man of the world...
YA 1.388 26
...who announces to us in journal, or in pulpit, or in the street,
the secret of heroism?
SR 2.78 18
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.
Comp 2.102 18
Every secret is told, every crime is punished...in silence
and certainty.
Comp 2.106 15
Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for;
Minerva another.
SL 2.135 2
Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to
others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it
would instantly lose its exaggerated value...
SL 2.145 11
It is vain to attempt to keep a secret from one who has a right
to know it.
SL 2.146 23
What secret can [Plato] conceal from the eyes of Bacon?...
Lov1 2.176 4
...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All
other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
Lov1 2.176 23
The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping
flowers have grown intelligent; and [the lover] almost fears to trust them
with the secret which they seem to invite.
OS 2.270 15
If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams,
wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints
that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
OS 2.284 26
The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of
the senses is to...accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret
of nature, work and live...
Cir 2.303 9
Everything looks permanent until its secret is known.
Int 2.330 13
...we cannot oversee each other's secret.
Art1 2.356 17
The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret.
Art1 2.364 19
Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its secret we
do not yet find.
Art1 2.364 27
Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil how deep is the secret
of form...
Pt1 3.5 17
In love...in games, we study to utter our painful secret.
Pt1 3.11 10
We know that the secret of the world is profound...
Pt1 3.14 13
We stand before the secret of the world...
Pt1 3.26 17
It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that
beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect he is capable of
a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...
Exp 3.55 4
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession
of moods or objects.
Mrs1 3.141 7
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and
sympathy.
Nat2 3.167 4
Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's]
laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear
from east to west./
Nat2 3.177 27
Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this
unfathomed secret [nature]...
Nat2 3.180 21
The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to
the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
Nat2 3.185 17
...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed
man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs
the secret;--how then?
Nat2 3.193 27
[Nature's] secret is untold.
NR 3.234 1
This preference of the genius to the parts is the secret of that
deification of art, which is found in all superior minds.
NR 3.242 25
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not
die...
NER 3.278 10
We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a
secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn...
UGM 4.12 2
Unpublished nature will have its whole secret told.
UGM 4.15 21
This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people'
s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the
reader's joy in literary genius.
UGM 4.20 24
With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires;...
UGM 4.28 16
...the law of individuality collects its secret strength: you are
you, and I am I, and so we remain.
UGM 4.32 15
Nature never sends a great man into the planet without
confiding the secret to another soul.
PNR 4.88 21
The secret of [Plato's] popular success is the moral aim which
endeared him to mankind.
SwM 4.104 15
...Descartes...had filled Europe with the leading thought of
vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
SwM 4.106 17
The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the
universality of each law in nature;...the fine secret that little explains large,
and large, little;...
SwM 4.114 18
This fruitful idea [that nature exists entire in leasts]
furnishes a key to every secret.
SwM 4.140 19
The secret of heaven is kept from age to age.
ShP 4.195 26
The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a
superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know
well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with
Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that
the thought constructs the tune...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
ShP 4.202 21
A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the
poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from poets and
intellectual men as from courtiers and frivolous people.
NMW 4.239 16
...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt for the born
kings...
GoW 4.285 8
...his penetration of every secret of the fine arts will make
Goethe still more statuesque.
GoW 4.285 11
[Goethe's] affections help him, like women employed by
Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
GoW 4.290 17
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us;...
ET5 5.93 4
There is no secret of war in which [the English] have not shown
mastery.
ET5 5.99 4
One secret of [the Englishmen's] power is their mutual good
understanding.
ET7 5.125 26
...tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the
confession of a secret.
ET8 5.132 18
[Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...buy every secret;...
ET10 5.158 4
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. But the secret slept with Bacon.
ET10 5.166 25
Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in
iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
ET11 5.185 22
The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men...
who...have seen every secret of art and nature...
ET13 5.231 2
Electricity cannot be made fast...it is a traveller, a newness, a
surprise, a secret...
ET13 5.231 6
...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the
suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days
of Alfred...
ET14 5.235 7
Mixture is a secret of the English island;...
ET14 5.256 8
How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle
through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the
miraculous;...the beauty of which Chaucer and Chapman had the secret.
ET15 5.261 11
A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret
to the day...
ET15 5.268 14
[The London Times] draws from any number of learned and
skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises,
corrects, and co-ordinates. Of this closet, the secret does not transpire.
ET16 5.282 17
...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their
compass a secret...
ET16 5.282 18
...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their
compass a secret...
F 6.39 17
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event.
Pow 6.57 7
[A broad, healthy, massive understanding] is in everybody's
secret;...
Pow 6.75 1
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics...
Wth 6.87 4
Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their
secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
Wth 6.117 3
The secret of success lies never in the amount of money...
Wth 6.120 25
The rule is...to learn practically the secret spoken from all
nature...
Ctr 6.157 12
...it is the secret of culture to interest the man more in his
public than in his private quality.
Bhr 6.169 8
Nature tells every secret once.
Bhr 6.171 8
The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and
repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and
behaviors not known to them; but when these have mastered her secret they
learn to confront her...
Bhr 6.175 17
...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole
secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
Bhr 6.184 3
[The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as
they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret;...
Bhr 6.192 16
The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret
that the best of life is conversation...
Wsp 6.217 5
...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the
secret of God than others;...
Wsp 6.223 9
You cannot hide any secret.
Wsp 6.223 22
No secret can be kept in the civilized world.
CbW 6.246 15
That by which a man conquers in any passage is a profound
secret to every other being in the world...
CbW 6.273 8
...few writers have said anything better to this point [of
friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest
friendship...
CbW 6.278 16
The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points
steadily reappear...
Bty 6.294 22
In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power...
Bty 6.300 8
...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ill 6.313 18
Few have overheard the gods or surprised their secret.
Ill 6.318 27
We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of
men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers
held and were framed upon.
SS 7.4 14
[My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge
here; set oaks there,--trees behind trees; above all, set evergreens, for they
will keep a secret all the year round.
SS 7.8 9
[Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are
still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on
all the rest.
Civ 7.20 13
In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress
that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by
tribes. It is the learning the secret of cumulative power...
Elo1 7.79 3
A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but
the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
Elo1 7.84 26
Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and
always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
Elo1 7.93 14
...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a
whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness, which...keeps
the secret of its means and method; and the orator stands before the people
as a demoniacal power...
Farm 7.149 11
As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread
and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like
best. If they have an appetite...even now and then for a dead hog, he will
indulge them. They keep the secret well...
Farm 7.153 6
[The farmer] knows every secret of labor;...
WD 7.175 22
'T is the old secret of the gods that they come in low
disguises.
WD 7.176 17
In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all, in the
form of the Madonna; and in life, this is the secret of the wise.
Boks 7.202 5
The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is
the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of
Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
Clbs 7.238 19
Omnis definitio periculosa est, and only wit has the secret.
Cour 7.254 18
Men admire...the power of better combination and
foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether, exploring the
chemical elements whereof we and the world are made, and seeing their
secret, Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
Suc 7.288 15
The public sees in [an invention] a lucrative secret.
Suc 7.292 25
Self-trust is the first secret of success...
Suc 7.303 4
[The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of
their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will, for the secret of
it is hard to detect...
Suc 7.306 7
Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. 'T is a secret, the
genesis of either;...
OA 7.316 22
Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains,
one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which...
does deceive his juniors and the public, who presently distinguish him with
a most amusing respect; and this lets us into the secret that the venerable
forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.
PI 8.18 25
Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of
imagination] reveals to us.
PI 8.26 26
[The true poet] is the healthy, the wise, the fundamental, the
manly man, seer of the secret;...
PI 8.30 6
When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that
now a secret of God is to be spoken.
Res 8.141 11
Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines
and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who...have the secret of
steam, of electricity;...
Res 8.154 4
The healthy, the civil, the industrious, the learned, the moral
race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to these.
Comc 8.170 10
The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance
of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates
concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
QO 8.185 16
Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle'
s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
PC 8.217 21
If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his
nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry...
PC 8.226 14
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
PPo 8.243 22
The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation
must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a
foe./
PPo 8.258 16
Hafiz says,-Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest
friendship...
PPo 8.264 27
So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in
deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed
they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
Grts 8.313 21
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar?
Imtl 8.345 16
...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the
soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels
cannot find the secret of their existence...
PerF 10.83 22
...the secret of the world is that its energies are solidaires;...
PerF 10.84 10
...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the
circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
Chr2 10.115 21
Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the
manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan
philosophers. ... This is the secret of the mischievous result that, in every
period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy
those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
Edc1 10.123 1
With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength
to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to
master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
Edc1 10.143 14
...our own experience instructs us that the secret of
Education lies in respecting the pupil.
Edc1 10.143 18
It is not for you to choose what [the pupil] shall know,
what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to
his own secret.
Edc1 10.149 3
Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and
learning the secret of algebra...
Edc1 10.155 6
Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her
secret is patience.
Edc1 10.155 13
[the naturalist's] secret is patience;...
Edc1 10.156 7
Can you not keep for [the child's] mind and ways, for his
secret, the same curiosity you give to the squirrel, snake, rabbit...
Edc1 10.156 9
[The child] has a secret; wonderful methods in him;...
SovE 10.193 23
To good men, as we call good men, this doctrine of Trust
is an unsounded secret.
Prch 10.236 2
...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in
our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
Prch 10.238 4
The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private
soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which
we live.
MoL 10.243 24
The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which
dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us into
the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.
MoL 10.248 16
You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of
Nature,-as Roger Bacon, with his secret of gunpowder...
MoL 10.248 16
You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of
Nature,-as Roger Bacon...with his secret of the balloon and of steam;...
MoL 10.248 18
You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of
Nature...as Copernicus, with his secret of the true astronomy;...
MoL 10.252 12
...I am here to commend to you your art and profession as
thinkers. It is real. It is the secret of power.
Schr 10.282 18
The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to
any accumulation of material force. There is no mass that can be a
counterweight for it. This makes one man good against mankind. This is the
secret of eloquence...
Schr 10.288 26
[The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius;...
Plu 10.322 8
It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force
ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of
Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few
chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they
would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
LLNE 10.337 14
Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred
secret to a street show.
LLNE 10.349 25
Society, concert, cooperation, is the secret of the coming
Paradise.
MMEm 10.405 18
...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the
minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his
fortune.
Thor 10.472 20
...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few
others [than Thoreau] possessed;...
Thor 10.478 7
A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend, knowing not only the
secret of friendship, but almost worshipped by those few persons who
resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
HDC 11.46 26
In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was
uncovered...
HDC 11.50 26
...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that
he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.
EWI 11.138 23
The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of powers are
filled by underlings...
FSLC 11.194 10
...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to
thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your
statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or
last every feeling of the heart. You can keep no secret, for whatever is true
some of them will unreasonably say.
FSLC 11.213 21
That is the secret of Southern power, that they rest not on
meetings, but on private heats and courages.
FSLN 11.229 2
...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new
times, that Slavery was no longer mendicant...
ALin 11.332 27
[Lincoln's good humor] enabled him to keep his secret;...
ALin 11.335 1
If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no
lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed
no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be
kept.
RBur 11.442 17
...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the
bottom of society the strength of its speech...
FRep 11.511 5
It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics
that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops...the
college and the church, have all found out this secret.
PLT 12.30 4
Let me whisper a secret; nobody ever forgives any admiration
in you of them...
PLT 12.36 11
[Pan] could terrify by earth-born fears called panics. Yet was
he in the secret of Nature...
PLT 12.51 6
The secret of power, intellectual or physical, is concentration...
II 12.82 24
The secret of power is delight in one's work.
Mem 12.99 23
The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely
adding units to its list of facts.
CL 12.138 16
[Linnaeus] learned the secret of making pearls in the river-pearl
mussel.
CL 12.166 14
I know that the imagination...does not impart its secret to
inquisitive persons.
Bost 12.205 6
[The people of Massachusetts] knew...that he is greatest who
serves best. There was no secret of labor which they disdained.
ACri 12.290 11
The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring
you is that of telling all...
ACri 12.290 12
The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring
you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire;...
ACri 12.296 18
[Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what
he spake of, and did not write up to it, but could write down (a main
secret)...
MLit 12.320 24
The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right
feeling. We saw stars shine...and knew again the ineffable secret of solitude.
MLit 12.324 17
This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about
among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what
they are.
Secretary, Foreign, n. (1)
PerF 10.85 10
...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I
will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me
Chancellor or Foreign Secretary.
secretary, n. (4)
NMW 4.238 17
[Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries
are worth remembering.
GoW 4.261 2
I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the
writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of
life that everywhere throbs and works.
Aris 10.48 26
In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a
superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager...
Thor 10.472 17
...no academy made [Thoreau] its corresponding secretary...
Secretary, n. (1)
LLNE 10.359 22
Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West
Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana (afterwards well
known as one of the editors of the New York Tribune) was the Secretary.
secrete, v. (1)
PLT 12.32 1
...each tree can secrete from the soil the elements that form a
peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its kind...
secreter, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.219 10
...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a
secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human
history...
secretest, adj. (2)
AmS 1.103 23
...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
Fdsp 2.192 27
For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful,
rich communications [with a commended stranger], drawn from the oldest,
secretest experience...
secreting, adj. (1)
Hist 2.18 2
...every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the secreting
organs of the fish.
secretive, adj. (1)
ET15 5.261 5
In England...[the power of the newspaper] is all the more
beneficent succor against the secretive tendencies of a monarchy.
secretly, adv. (7)
YA 1.387 16
I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society;
but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by making his life
secretly beautiful.
Exp 3.51 13
What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is
suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
ET8 5.135 25
Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever
existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the
Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and
blackened his own.
Wsp 6.227 2
What I am has been secretly conveyed from me to another,
whilst I was vainly making up my mind to tell him it.
MMEm 10.407 3
I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in
finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a
specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his
vanity...
FRep 11.542 15
A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the
universe. They are all toiling, however secretly or slowly, in the province
assigned to them...
PLT 12.11 5
The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance
with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all
who approach it. Gloves on the hands...are no defence against this virus,
which comes in as secretly as gravitation into and through all barriers.
secrets, n. (62)
AmS 1.103 8
[The scholar]...learns that in going down into the secrets of
his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
AmS 1.103 9
[The scholar]...learns that in going down into the secrets of
his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
LE 1.177 14
How shall [the scholar] know [human life's] secrets of
tenderness...
LE 1.184 6
...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn
higher secrets of your nature...
MR 1.241 8
...he only can become a master, who learns the secrets of
labor...
SL 2.145 15
That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion
over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right. All the secrets
of that state of mind he can compel.
SL 2.145 26
M. de Narbonne in less than a fortnight penetrated all the
secrets of the imperial cabinet.
SL 2.147 3
A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and
he shall be never the wiser...
SL 2.147 4
A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and
he shall be never the wiser,--the secrets he would not utter to a chemist for
an estate.
Pt1 3.40 4
What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up! and by
what accident it is that these are exposed, when so many secrets sleep in
nature!
Exp 3.63 10
...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect
secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
Exp 3.63 16
...we...run hither and thither for nooks and secrets.
Exp 3.81 3
...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish
the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.
Chr1 3.110 21
The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without
encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and...
the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be
yielded;...
Nat2 3.180 17
Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second
secrets of nature...
Nat2 3.183 18
Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain,
therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.
SwM 4.95 16
The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the
secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
SwM 4.136 25
The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are
opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the indisputable secrets of
moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
MoS 4.161 21
...the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and
likeness.
ShP 4.207 22
The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of
Othello's captivity,--where is the...private letter, that has kept one word of
those transcendent secrets?
ET2 5.31 11
...the sea is not slow in disclosing inestimable secrets to a
good naturalist.
ET9 5.148 6
...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is
one of the secrets of their power and history.
ET14 5.257 25
...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs no mount of
vision to bring its secrets to the people.
F 6.32 19
...the secrets of water and steam...are awaiting you.
Wth 6.85 19
Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature,
from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the last secrets of art.
Ctr 6.161 20
...there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the
apprentices but for proficients.
Bhr 6.172 7
...when we think what keys [manners] are, and to what
secrets;...we see what range the subject has...
Bhr 6.182 26
A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all
uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and
Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will
instruct you, if you wish, in those potent secrets.
Elo1 7.96 11
...[the sturdy countryman]...knows all the secrets of swamp
and snow-bank...
Clbs 7.241 15
We consider those...who think it the highest compliment
they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets
perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
SA 8.83 26
Manners are the revealers of secrets...
PPo 8.240 16
Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he
saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
PPo 8.240 25
By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds, so
that he heard secrets whenever he went into his gardens.
PPo 8.257 26
The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded tongue to the
smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./
Insp 8.273 27
Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window,
and again it...tells all the secrets of the world.
Insp 8.287 7
...[from Nature] are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never
uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October
woods! I confide that my reader knows these delicious secrets...
Dem1 10.21 16
Shun [animal magnetism, divination, second-sight] as you
would the secrets of the undertaker and the butcher.
Aris 10.40 13
If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity...
should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them
as gods?
PerF 10.84 6
Obedience alone gives the right to command. It is like the
village operator who taps the telegraph-wire and surprises the secrets of
empires as they pass to the capital.
PerF 10.84 27
A man has a rare mathematical talent, inviting him to the
beautiful secrets of geometry, and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
Edc1 10.128 19
...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told...
Edc1 10.130 27
...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact
touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess
for Humboldt?
Edc1 10.138 24
There are no secrets from [boys]...
Edc1 10.142 17
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great
secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
Edc1 10.155 7
Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the
forest...
Supl 10.165 11
...the secrets of death, judgment and eternity are tedious
when recurring as minute-guns.
SovE 10.190 27
These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious
elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the
proud man's scorn...
SovE 10.203 11
[Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and
ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But
that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence,
which lurks...in...the secrets of the heart...
Schr 10.269 19
...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.
Thor 10.472 10
Our naturalist [Thoreau] had perfect magnanimity; he had
no secrets...
Thor 10.476 2
[Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The
fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his
presence...always piqued the curiosity to know more deeply the secrets of
his mind.
EWI 11.102 9
...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that
cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.
War 11.153 10
New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests
call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And,
finally...all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.
ALin 11.334 26
If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was
no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have
allowed no state secrets;...
EdAd 11.391 21
Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of
that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of
mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
Shak1 11.448 7
Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they
are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the
liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first
poet of the world.
CL 12.139 8
...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in
Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes,
Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
CL 12.147 17
[A walk in the woods] is one of the secrets for dodging old
age.
CW 12.176 6
If you use a good and skilful companion [on a tramp], you
shall see through his eyes; if they be of great discernment, you will learn
wonderful secrets.
MAng1 12.222 6
No acquaintance with the secrets of its mechanism...can
avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of
majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
MAng1 12.223 25
Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or
confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough
acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture]...
MLit 12.309 21
We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few
sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and grandeur invite us
on every hand...
sect, n. (22)
LT 1.263 19
...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in
Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect
soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
SR 2.54 19
If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.
SR 2.86 11
He who is really of [Phocion's, Socrates's] class...will be...in
his turn the founder of a sect.
SL 2.158 25
The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always
instruct and command mankind.
UGM 4.25 27
The like assimilation goes on between men...of one sect...
ET4 5.48 19
Each religious sect has its physiognomy.
Wsp 6.222 6
In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost.
Civ 7.26 21
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it
may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the enthusiasm of
some religious sect which imputes its virtue to its dogma;...
Imtl 8.326 14
[The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body,
and narrowed again by the fury of sect;...
SovE 10.210 17
Such experiments as we recall are those in which some
sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle]...
Prch 10.229 13
The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives
that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
Plu 10.297 22
[Plutarch] is...not the founder of any sect or community, like
Pythagoras or Zeno;...
Plu 10.304 25
...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I
found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of
our sect...
LLNE 10.343 2
I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised
at this rumor of a school or sect...
LLNE 10.348 24
We had an opportunity of learning something of these
Socialists and their theory, from the indefatigable apostle of the sect in New
York, Albert Brisbane.
EzRy 10.389 16
...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his
weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex
Yeoman.
Wom 11.415 14
After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in
the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having
first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes. It is even more
perfect in the later sect of the Shakers...
FRO2 11.490 19
I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now
hold the opinions they are charged with.
PLT 12.47 7
The new sect stands for certain thoughts.
Bost 12.206 20
...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the
conservative class with some odious novelty or other; a new religious sect...
Milt1 12.251 27
We have lost all interest in Milton as the redoubted
disputant of a sect;...
Pray 12.350 23
Let us not have the prayers of one sect...
sectarian, adj. (2)
DSA 1.145 9
...each would be an easy secondary to some...sectarian
connection...
CSC 10.375 16
...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and
many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were
present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
sectarian, n. (4)
PC 8.211 21
The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity.
Thor 10.478 14
[Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of
some kind nothing great was ever accomplished: and he thought that the
bigoted sectarian had better bear this in mind.
FRep 11.519 7
The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven
rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble
gentleman; the partisan ceasing to be a man that he may be a sectarian.
PLT 12.6 25
...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how
impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian
may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to
meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
sectary, n. (1)
Prd1 2.238 21
If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize
the dividing lines...
section, n. (10)
AmS 1.115 15
Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in
the gross...of the section, to which we belong;...
NR 3.236 14
What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes
you into your class and section.
NR 3.240 12
A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us;
why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and
section in our old army-files?
PPh 4.68 27
You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world,
images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the
objects of these images...
PPh 4.69 3
You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world,
images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants,
animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world
in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the
other section of truths.
PPh 4.69 4
You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world,
images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants,
animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world
in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the
other section of truths.
Ctr 6.150 3
The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact
with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section...
Farm 7.146 26
At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has
been spared, and every such section has been long occupied.
EWI 11.112 21
With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for
emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds, in the twelfth section, in the
following terms...
ACiv 11.307 2
...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the
South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair
administration of the government...
sectional, adj. (3)
PPh 4.41 6
[Plato's] broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.
Pow 6.61 15
A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury
which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his
country have seen their best days...
LVB 11.93 19
You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting
this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any
sectional and party feeling.
sections, n. (8)
NER 3.251 4
Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in
New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those
leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character
and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of
thought and experimenting.
PPh 4.68 23
...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each
of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the
intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part
and the dark part of each of these worlds.
PPh 4.68 25
You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world,
images, that is, both shadows and reflections;...
PPh 4.69 5
To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the
four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith, understanding,
reason.
Boks 7.220 18
...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide
the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain
matters confided to it...
Clbs 7.249 6
...in the sections of the British Association more information
is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many
months of ordinary correspondence...
FSLC 11.213 7
...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic
sections of this country as of equal civilization.
EdAd 11.388 26
...we have seen the best understandings of New England...
clapped on the back by comfortable capitalists from all sections, and
persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England
sentiment any longer.
sects, n. (14)
Nat 1.58 13
The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the
most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
Tran 1.329 14
As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects,
Materialists and Idealists;...
SL 2.138 5
We pass in the world for sects and schools...
Pol1 3.209 12
Parties of principle, as, religious sects...degenerate into
personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
UGM 4.18 15
Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed
men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...in
religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the sects which have taken
the name of each founder, are in point.
ET13 5.228 22
Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church
into sects...
ET13 5.230 16
But the religion of England...is it the sects? no;...
Wsp 6.208 21
A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious
sects...
Chr2 10.113 9
The lines of the religious sects are very shifting;...
Chr2 10.118 20
How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred
thousand. Well, then so many sects.
Prch 10.234 16
...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not
worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
TPar 11.287 14
[Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible
march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects
showed loose and lifeless...
Wom 11.416 1
...another important step [for Woman] was made by the
doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of
sex to run through nature and through thought. Of all Christian sects this is
at this moment the most vital and aggressive.
FRO2 11.488 3
All our sects have refined the point of difference between
them.
secular, adj. (28)
LE 1.176 15
Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...bring up out of secular
darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
Cir 2.303 16
Nature looks provokingly stable and secular...
Exp 3.83 20
The effect is deep and secular as the cause.
PPh 4.39 1
Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical
compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is
in this book.
SwM 4.135 8
The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to
reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was retiring
from its prominence...
ShP 4.201 19
We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the
Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from
the Mysteries...and the completion of secular plays...down to the possession
of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and
finally made his own.
ET2 5.30 4
If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is
quite as ready at private and local damage;...
ET12 5.205 21
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and
secular promotion are to be had for study...
ET13 5.217 24
[The English Church] has the seal of...a ritual marked by
the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.
ET18 5.305 1
[English] culture...is thorough and secular in families and the
race.
Ctr 6.165 5
...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that
secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
Ctr 6.165 9
...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that
secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and
will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will
jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
WD 7.170 27
...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the
secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...are given immeasurably to all.
Cour 7.276 18
...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...foresee in
the secular melioration of the planet how these [beast-like men] will
become unnecessary and will die out.
OA 7.329 2
The best things are of secular growth.
OA 7.331 14
Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in
completing their secular affairs...
PI 8.40 11
The writer, like the priest, must be exempted from secular labor.
PPo 8.238 2
Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with...the
secular stability...of the Western nations.
Insp 8.282 6
...there is diurnal and secular rest.
Chr2 10.110 5
There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in
civil countries, reaches everybody.
ACiv 11.299 14
Is this secular progress we have described...only to give
[man] sensibility...
SMC 11.351 6
The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made
these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have...converted
these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
SHC 11.433 8
On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery],
towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the
village...it admits of being reserved for secular purposes;...
PLT 12.56 18
There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is
trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular.
CL 12.135 21
...Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular
impulses to emigrate...
Bost 12.183 8
...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and
addicted to change, both in religious and secular affairs.
PPr 12.384 8
To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and
his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here
[in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was
addressed cannot choose but hear.
Let 12.404 18
A literature is...a secular and generic result...
secularity, n. (1)
Nat2 3.179 26
Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature...
secularizes, v. (1)
CInt 12.130 15
...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister...is the
profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and
trades it.
secure, adj. (29)
MN 1.193 26
Nothing solid is secure;...
Tran 1.331 11
The materialist, secure in the certainty of sensation, mocks
at fine-spun theories...
SL 2.149 11
If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom
or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were
imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
Cir 2.320 1
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
NER 3.285 22
May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the
Soul...secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
PPh 4.59 6
In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following
Plato in his flights.
MoS 4.180 25
[Some minds] may well give themselves leave to speculate,
for they are secure of a return.
ShP 4.192 16
The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of
the first importance to the poet who works for it.
ET12 5.200 3
[The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways
reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men, though I imputed
to these English an advantage in their secure and polished manners.
ET14 5.254 9
No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student, no
secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law...
ET16 5.287 25
...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop
and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand,
Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.
ET18 5.301 23
In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall
have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
Wth 6.104 5
If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and
put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the
highways will be less secure;...
Wth 6.113 10
...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved
from a system of slaveries...
Wsp 6.226 10
You want but one verdict; if you have your own you are
secure of the rest.
Elo1 7.68 5
When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily
fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are
then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome,
compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which inundates the
assembly with a flood of animal spirits, and makes all safe and secure...
PPo 8.252 2
The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most
secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
Aris 10.44 9
...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I
will tell you if he shall be...of a secure hand, of a scientific memory, a right
classifier;...
Edc1 10.147 26
By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school
debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of
his thought in the popular assembly...
Supl 10.168 3
All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern...
SovE 10.211 18
...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government,
it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
MMEm 10.402 7
...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and
maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was
secure for any trait of talent or of character.
Thor 10.453 11
...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the
world. It would cost him less time to supply his wants than another. He was
therefore secure of his leisure.
HDC 11.63 23
...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the
governor must be bound in chains or cords, and put in a more secure place...
EWI 11.121 18
It may be asserted...that the former slaves of Jamaica are
now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.
FRep 11.521 27
[The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast
domain...
II 12.87 19
If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you
shall be immortal. If it is up to the dignity of that order of things you know,
it is secure.
MAng1 12.213 4
Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble
doth not hold/ In its white block; yet it therein shall find/ Only the hand
secure and bold/ Which still obeys the mind./ Michael Angelo's Sonnets.
WSL 12.339 27
Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his
fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of his hands and the
jewels of his ring. Afterward, he washes them in water, he washes them in
wine; but you are never secure from his freaks.
secure, v. (56)
DSA 1.137 18
We are fain to...secure...a solitude that hears not.
YA 1.388 18
...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel,
the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge
these is good;...
Cir 2.320 3
No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a
higher love.
Chr1 3.97 17
Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do
not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them a fact...and
they will ask no more.
Chr1 3.97 22
A given order of events has no power to secure to [the hero]
the satisfaction which the imagination attaches to it;...
Mrs1 3.128 13
Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and
virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain
health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to
work, yet high power to enjoy.
Mrs1 3.137 22
Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a
studious house with blast and running, to secure some paltry convenience.
Nat2 3.190 17
The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the
end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the
intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind.
Nat2 3.190 20
The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the
end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the
intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose
method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
Pol1 3.213 15
The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it
makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by
contrivance;...
Pol1 3.213 20
The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it
makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency
and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself
select his agents.
NER 3.257 27
...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to
hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events...
PNR 4.83 16
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction, which
secure instant justice throughout the universe...
MoS 4.159 4
...we ought to secure those advantages which we can
command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
GoW 4.266 17
It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the
practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their
votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
ET5 5.84 24
[The English] secure the essentials in their diet, in their arts
and manufactures.
ET11 5.177 18
The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the
life of the courtier, but to secure the comfort and independence of their
homes.
ET11 5.187 19
Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will
respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to
secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people.
ET12 5.210 25
The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain
amount of old Norse power.
Wth 6.99 8
In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of
wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things
[works of art] and lay them open to the public.
Wth 6.105 25
Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property,
and you need not give alms.
Ctr 6.154 7
What is odious but...people...who intrigue to secure a padded
chair and a corner out of the draught.
Ctr 6.155 6
...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that
he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.
Wsp 6.221 4
...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does
not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
CbW 6.258 7
Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire
which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
DL 7.128 4
Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then
shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and
honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
Clbs 7.243 15
...a history of clubs...tracing the efforts to secure liberal and
refined conversation...would be an important chapter in history.
OA 7.324 26
To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst...
SA 8.100 12
Every one must seek to secure his independence;...
SA 8.101 6
Every human society wants to be officered by a best class,
who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and
accomplishments. Every country wishes this, and each has taken its own
method to secure such service to the state.
SA 8.101 8
In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a
superior class by hereditary nobility...
Aris 10.34 15
...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a
result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind
to see that the steps were taken...
Edc1 10.148 8
You must not neglect the form [in education], but you must
secure the essentials.
MoL 10.251 20
...it is a primary duty of the man of letters to secure his
independence.
LLNE 10.351 23
The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and
his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory, its apparent directness of
proceeding to the end they would secure...commanded our attention and
respect.
LLNE 10.354 14
The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the
greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.
GSt 10.506 15
...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt
his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which
could secure their assent.
HDC 11.73 27
The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge,
posted two companies...to guard the bridge, and secure the return of the
plundering party.
FSLN 11.229 27
A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their
best heads, secure substantial liberty.
AsSu 11.249 4
...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was
pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
JBB 11.271 22
A good man will see that the use of a judge is to secure
good government...
JBB 11.271 25
...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and
where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use
that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government.
JBS 11.280 6
...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing
skill and conduct, which...should secure, one year with another, an honest
reward...
TPar 11.285 13
In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the
secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it
was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a
manner to secure its being told everywhere to the best...
ACiv 11.297 22
...a man coins himself into his labor;...to secure that to
him...is the object of all government.
ACiv 11.297 23
...a man coins himself into his labor;...to secure that to him,
to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government.
ALin 11.337 7
Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the
Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to
unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.
CPL 11.498 19
The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to
secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
FRep 11.527 9
The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities
and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary
education.
CW 12.177 7
This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr.
Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines; and you
secure the best company and the best teaching with every advantage.
Bost 12.210 3
As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and
to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will
teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her
farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate
the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
Milt1 12.264 11
His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and
gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor
needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to
secure and protect attempted innocence.
ACri 12.304 20
The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an
observatory founded for the benefit of navigation. Nor can we promise that
our School of Design will secure a lucrative post to the pupils.
WSL 12.348 24
Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own
immortality in English literature;...
Let 12.395 25
But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious
society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies;
and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides,
examples, lovers!
Let 12.399 9
...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by
the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure
to [their children] the same result.
secured, v. (32)
DSA 1.147 15
Society's praise can be cheaply secured...
Con 1.312 15
Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal
acknowledgment of your claims, when these substantial advantages have
been secured to you?
Con 1.312 17
Now can your children be educated, your labor turned to
their advantage, and its fruits secured to them after your death.
Nat2 3.186 8
[Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the
child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions...
Pol1 3.220 1
We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried,
and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
ET5 5.97 13
Purity in the elective Parliament [of England] is secured by
the purchase of seats.
ET13 5.217 15
...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that
a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the
link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual
advancement of the age.
ET13 5.218 6
...when the Saxon instinct had secured a [religious] service in
the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.
ET17 5.296 15
Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having
afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where
comfort and culture were secured without any display.
Pow 6.53 22
If [a man] have secured the elixir, he can spare the wide
gardens from which it was distilled.
Wth 6.90 26
...it is a peremptory point of virtue that a man's independence
be secured.
Ctr 6.132 18
...nature has secured individualism by giving the private
person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
Ctr 6.134 8
The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity
that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the
passion...
Ctr 6.155 4
Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having
afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where
comfort and culture were secured without display.
Bhr 6.187 1
A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an
immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is
native and proper to him...
Wsp 6.221 27
...the police and sincerity of the universe are secured by God'
s delegating his divinity to every particle;...
SS 7.9 27
We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they
were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
Civ 7.34 9
...if there be...a country...where the laborer is not secured in the
earnings of his own hands;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Clbs 7.227 17
See how Nature has secured the communication of
knowledge.
SA 8.101 13
That method [of hereditary nobility] secured permanence of
families...
PPo 8.255 9
My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's
cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
Insp 8.288 13
I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city
hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home. I thus secured a more
absolute seclusion;...
Edc1 10.147 17
[The boy] can learn anything which is important to him
now that the power to learn is secured...
Schr 10.266 14
...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning
and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank
and authority.
SlHr 10.443 17
...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained,
as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the
burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the
Legislature, where his presence and speech, of course, secured the
rebuilding;...
HDC 11.37 18
...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already
secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
FSLC 11.188 13
The resistance of all moral beings is secured to [the
Fugitive Slave Law].
EPro 11.320 9
The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves
right.
Wom 11.418 12
Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so
supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...
II 12.77 11
The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a
higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.
II 12.81 11
The men are all drugged with this liquor of thought, and
thereby secured to their several works.
ACri 12.301 10
After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads
to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...
securely, adv. (9)
NER 3.284 6
...the good globe is faithful, and carries us securely through
the celestial spaces...
ET11 5.185 5
In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is to sit
securely...
ET11 5.187 27
He who keeps the door of a mine...securely knows that the
world cannot do without him.
ET14 5.234 21
The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the
sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton. When
it reaches the pure element, it treads the clouds as securely as the adamant.
Wsp 6.226 3
He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the
occasion of making it felt and appreciated...
EzRy 10.395 11
All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and actions might be securely
predicted by a good observer on short acquaintance.
Carl 10.496 19
...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man
nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
Mem 12.106 17
[The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all
unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper, without method,
yet securely held, and ready to come at call;...
ACri 12.293 23
There is no such master of low style as [Shakespeare], and
therefore none can securely soar so high.
securer, adj. (1)
Mem 12.92 8
The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader
insight, at which we arrive later with securer conviction.
secures, v. (12)
Prd1 2.236 14
The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to
be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by
another...
Pol1 3.207 4
The same necessity which secures the rights of person and
property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the
form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
NR 3.245 20
...nature secures [every man] as an instrument by self-conceit...
PPh 4.64 12
[Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion
for reality;...
ET8 5.142 13
...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an
economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade, which
secures an independence through the creation of real values.
F 6.47 22
...[man] is to take sides with the Deity who secures universal
benefit by his pain.
F 6.49 6
Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that
all is made of one piece;...
Elo1 7.99 5
One thought the philosophers of Demosthenes's own time
found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue secures its
own success.
OA 7.324 19
[With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that
slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the
execution of her aim, drops off.
CPL 11.496 7
...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to
this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making
scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now; and whilst
it secures a new and needed culture to our citizens...
FRep 11.527 13
The facility with which clubs are formed by young men
for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the
notoriety of the questions.
FRep 11.543 17
...north and south, east and west will be present to our
minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our
vote secures the foundations of the state...
securest, adj. (1)
ET10 5.164 11
The laws [of England] are framed to give property the
securest possible basis...
securing, n. (1)
SR 2.50 2
Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree,
for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the
liberty and culture of the eater.
securing, v. (9)
YA 1.384 8
...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all
their members an equal and thorough education.
Prd1 2.240 26
...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues
range themselves on the side of prudence, or the art of securing a present
well-being.
Ctr 6.156 16
...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the
young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living,
periods and habits of solitude.
Civ 7.34 23
...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of
the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
Chr2 10.93 4
...love is delight in the preference of that benefit redounding
to another over the securing of our own share;...
Thor 10.452 20
...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary
freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family
and friends: all the more difficult that he...was exact in securing his own
independence...
HDC 11.80 27
......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should
be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day,
whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the
town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their
pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby
directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury. This was securing the
prudence of the
JBB 11.273 9
I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family,
we shall...not forget to aid him in the best way, by securing freedom and
independence in Massachusetts.
ALin 11.337 14
The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius...
which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...securing at
last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven.
securities, n. (2)
ET5 5.75 13
Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England],
and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it
came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil
liberty invented and confirmed.
Wth 6.108 11
If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for
money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
security, n. (42)
MR 1.229 13
It will afford no security from the new ideas, that the old
nations...are built on other foundations.
Con 1.311 24
...for thee...fleets of floating palaces with every security for
strength...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
YA 1.372 8
All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the
results shall indicate the same security and benefit;...
YA 1.391 4
...the wise and just man will always feel...that he imparts
strength to the State, not receives security from it;...
Pt1 3.24 7
...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals,
than security, namely ascension...
Pol1 3.211 18
Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely...
Pol1 3.219 20
[The movement toward self-government] promises a
recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom, or the security
of property.
NR 3.247 4
If we could have any security against moods!
UGM 4.24 17
Altogether independent of the intellectual force in each is...
the security that we are right.
UGM 4.29 6
How superior [are children] in their security from infusions of
evil persons...
ET2 5.27 19
There are many advantages, says Saadi, in sea-voyaging, but
security is not one of them.
ET4 5.64 8
Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother
the Earl of Cornwall, as security for money which he borrowed.
ET5 5.82 16
Life [in England] is safe, and personal rights; and what is
freedom without security?...
ET8 5.141 4
The stability of England is the security of the modern world.
ET14 5.233 11
[The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect
security and convenience in the eating of it...
Bhr 6.180 26
There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man
than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...require crowded
Broadways and the security of millions to protect individuals against them.
Bhr 6.186 25
The hero...should impart comfort by his own security and
good nature to all beholders.
Wsp 6.235 18
Wherever a squirrel or a bee can go with security, I can go
[said Benedict].
Civ 7.33 12
...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps
and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom
and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.
WD 7.167 15
Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days...
instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the sailor might
launch his boat in security from storms...
Boks 7.198 15
You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in
Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to
use it...
Cour 7.275 21
...there is no assurance of security.
SA 8.90 5
...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no
vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves, and
whatever else, with a security and vivacity which belonged to the nobility
of the parties...
Insp 8.291 17
What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in
the security of his easel or his desk!
Grts 8.314 14
Napoleon commands our respect...by the speed and security
of his action in the premises, always new.
Aris 10.55 6
He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in
objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any
cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air
presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
SovE 10.201 12
...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...
Plu 10.304 6
...[Plutarch]...cleaves to the security of prose narrative...
LLNE 10.333 16
[Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment
of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or
Rabbinical words;-feats which no man could better accomplish, such was
his self-command and the security of his manner.
EWI 11.103 6
For the negro...no security from the humors, none from the
crimes, none from the appetites of his master...
EWI 11.119 23
Parliament was compelled to pass additional laws for the
defence and security of the negro [in the West Indies]...
EWI 11.125 21
...like other robbers, [the planters] could not sleep in
security.
War 11.155 6
Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a
mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being;...
AKan 11.262 8
Pans of gold lay drying outside of every man's tent, in
perfect security [in California].
ACiv 11.299 22
There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much
better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
EPro 11.322 8
The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which
every European emigrant can discern from far; a sign of inmost security and
permanence.
FRep 11.522 6
[The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast
domain...and feels the security that there can be no famine in a country
reaching through so many latitudes...
FRep 11.543 19
...north and south, east and west will be present to our
minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our
vote secures...good will, liberty and security of traffic and of production...
PLT 12.3 8
...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;...
II 12.75 21
Our teaching is indeed hazardous and rare. Our only security is
in our rectitude...
CL 12.154 25
...[Samuel Johnson] loved the sweet security of streets.
Bost 12.200 1
What should hinder that this America...what should hinder
that this New Atlantis should have...its mountains of security...
sedate, adj. (2)
Elo1 7.81 1
Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him
who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for
example, good sedate citizen as he is, to make a fanatic of him...
War 11.156 15
To men of a sedate and mature spirit...the detail of battle
becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
sedative, adj. (1)
Ill 6.318 11
Is not our faith in the impenetrability of matter more sedative
than narcotics?
sedative, n. (1)
CbW 6.245 15
The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few
resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution
which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
sedentary, adj. (2)
ET12 5.209 1
[An English gentleman] should...have bodily activity and
strength, unattainable by our sedentary life in public offices.
PLT 12.8 26
...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary
men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...
sedge, n. (1)
CPL 11.497 11
The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than
cotton, or silver, or gold.
Sedgwick, Adam, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 27
Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting
men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of
science, Robert Brown, Owen, Sedgwick...
Sedgwick's, Adam, n. (1)
ET16 5.278 14
I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's
Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain
that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these
rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
sedgy, adj. (1)
CL 12.157 7
Can you bring home...the sedgy ripples of the old Colony
ponds?...
sediment, n. (3)
MN 1.197 7
[Pure law] existed already in the mind in solution; now, it has
been precipitated, and the bright sediment is the world.
CbW 6.248 13
The finest wits have their sediment.
SA 8.77 3
When the old world is sterile/ And the ages are effete,/ He will
from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world complete./
sedition, n. (1)
FSLC 11.185 7
I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would
back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see
nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but...sedition...
seditious, adj. (1)
FSLC 11.194 21
...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten
Commandments which are the root of our European and American
civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
seduced, v. (1)
ShP 4.212 15
...[Shakespeare's] talents never seduced him into an
ostentation...
seduction, n. (1)
FSLN 11.240 23
...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted, stern trials
met, wiles of seduction...before [man] dare say, I am free.
seductions, n. (2)
WD 7.177 10
How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working
committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
MAng1 12.241 20
So vehement was this desire [for death], that,
[Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted
seductions of painting and sculpture.
sedulous, adj. (1)
LE 1.181 8
Let [the scholar] know that...in the sedulous inquiry...to know
how the thing stands;...the secret of the world is to be learned...
sedulously, adv. (2)
Ctr 6.146 14
...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature,
framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which
gives currency, as sedulously as with that which gives worth.
Grts 8.311 1
Let the student...sedulously wait every morning for the news
concerning the structure of the world which the spirit will give him.