Spirits to Squid
spirits, n. (78)
Nat 1.50 6
If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision...causes and
spirits are seen through [outlines and surfaces].
DSA 1.123 13
...speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with
unexpected furtherance.
LE 1.175 23
Re-collect the spirits.
MN 1.222 14
Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that
the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their
knowledge.
LT 1.281 14
The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all ardent spirits the hope
of Europe on the outbreak of the French Revolution...recorded his
conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect
but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
LT 1.282 13
A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all
cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best spirits...
LT 1.285 2
What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to
our forefathers their bounding pulse?
Tran 1.330 21
The idealist, in speaking of events, sees them as spirits.
Tran 1.357 3
[The Transcendentalist's] strength and spirits are wasted in
rejection.
Tran 1.357 4
...the strong spirits overpower those around them without
effort.
Hist 2.22 24
A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of
rapid domestication...
Hist 2.27 19
Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals...
Hist 2.28 21
The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child,
in repressing his spirits and courage...is a familiar fact...
SR 2.70 5
Round him [who has more obedience] I must revolve by the
gravitation of spirits.
SR 2.90 1
...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event
raises your spirits...
Fdsp 2.199 25
After interviews have been compassed with long foresight
we must be tormented presently...by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits,
in the heydey of friendship and thought.
Fdsp 2.211 21
There can never be deep peace between two spirits...until in
their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
Hsm1 2.245 20
The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the
invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
Hsm1 2.258 6
A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of
men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits.
OS 2.285 20
We are all discerners of spirits.
Pt1 3.26 2
Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these
[aspects of nature], glide into our spirits...
Mrs1 3.124 3
In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to
the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.
UGM 4.20 27
These [great] men correct the delirium of the animal spirits...
SwM 4.114 26
Man is a kind of very minute heaven, corresponding to the
world of spirits and to heaven.
SwM 4.118 27
...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous
opinion...that he was an abnormal person, to whom was granted the
privilege of conversing with angels and spirits;...
SwM 4.131 18
[Swedenborg] was let down through a column that seemed
of brass, but it was formed of angelic spirits...
SwM 4.133 14
Every thought [in Swedenborg's system of the world]
comes into each mind by influence from a society of spirits that surround
it...
SwM 4.138 20
To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived,
that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
MoS 4.152 5
...to the animal strength and spirits...the man of ideas appears
out of his reason.
NMW 4.233 5
Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew
what to do next. It is an immense comfort and refreshment to the spirits, not
only of kings, but of citizens.
ET6 5.103 19
The mechanical might and organization [in England] requires
in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
ET8 5.140 5
King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all
his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up,
he was never in higher nor in lower spirits...
ET15 5.262 27
Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits
of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of
genius.
Wth 6.126 16
The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits;...
Ctr 6.164 5
Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the
poor, and low, and impolite? And who that dares do it can keep...his frolic
spirits?
Wsp 6.223 10
If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his
work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
CbW 6.265 3
...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in
individuals and nations.
SS 7.12 19
The capital defect of cold, arid natures is the want of animal
spirits.
SS 7.12 26
Animal spirits constitute the power of the present...
SS 7.13 8
...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product
of health and of a social habit.
Elo1 7.67 2
There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can
inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are
conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their own
native language for the first time...
Elo1 7.68 4
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...
DL 7.102 3
Spirits of a higher strain/ Who sought thee once shall seek
again./
WD 7.163 24
[Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...
Suc 7.292 23
...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of
Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence that
depression of spirits...said to mark every American brow.
Elo2 8.129 10
...having recovered his spirits and the command of his
faculties, [Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as
more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have
done.
Comc 8.167 21
...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who...
was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me in
great spirits...
Comc 8.174 10
The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient'
s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I
am Carlini.
QO 8.190 14
Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our
spirits and trust, in another mouth.
PPo 8.240 5
Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and
spirits of the Arab;...
PPo 8.240 14
Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which
he commanded the spirits...
PPo 8.241 3
When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of
green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand
upon,-men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his left.
PPo 8.241 21
Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon,
which one of the Dews or evil spirits found...
PPo 8.248 8
...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that
the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
Insp 8.277 6
Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that
The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
Imtl 8.326 2
[The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet
Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not
so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers
for immortal spirits.
Dem1 10.12 17
The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved
sciences...of intercourse, by writing or by rapping or by painting, with
departed spirits, need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow
to accept their statement.
Dem1 10.26 10
These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for
inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits really
such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
Aris 10.39 12
I wish...men...who...are not too learned to love...the power
and the spirits of Solitude;...
Aris 10.43 4
...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in
manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which yields a stock of
strength and spirits for all the needs of the day...
Edc1 10.136 26
I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I
find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed and that the best
spirits of this age, promise, in one word, in Hope.
SovE 10.204 23
I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by
which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in
which wit takes the place of faith in the leading spirits...
Prch 10.236 6
...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think,
who belong to the universe...
EzRy 10.386 8
[Ezra Ripley's] prayers for rain and against the lightning,
that it may not lick up our spirits;...are well remembered...
MMEm 10.418 15
Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm,
afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
MMEm 10.427 15
...Were it possible that the Creator was not virtually
present with the spirits and bodies which He has made...
MMEm 10.430 24
...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world
of spirits, of God's immediate presence...
HDC 11.75 17
In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we
may discern the natural action of the people. It...might have been calculated
on by any one acquainted with the spirits and habits of our community.
FSLN 11.217 4
I have my own spirits in prison;-spirits in deeper prisons,
whom no man visits if I do not.
Wom 11.426 16
The new movement [for women's rights] is only a tide
shared by the spirits of man and woman;...
FRep 11.522 19
[The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with
Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political
power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks.
This elevates his spirits...
PLT 12.45 19
...the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
CW 12.174 1
If [a thoughtful man] suffer from accident or low spirits, his
spirits rise when he enters [his wood-lot].
Bost 12.192 25
...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts] terrors of
witchcraft, terrors of evil spirits, and a certain degree of terror still clouded
the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
EurB 12.368 16
[Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the
dim spirits which these haunts harbored.
PPr 12.389 15
...in all this glad and needful venting of his redundant
spirits, [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one
wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...
Let 12.398 4
There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on
young men of this country...which...bereaves them of animal spirits;...
Trag 12.411 13
The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are
nowise destitute of animal spirits.
spirit's, n. (2)
MN 1.220 11
...the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought.
Art2 7.39 3
...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to
serve its end.
spirit-touch, n. (1)
Ctr 6.129 7
Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He
must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of
landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's
eye/...
spiritual, adj. (184)
Nat 1.19 22
The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is
essential to [nature's] perfection.
Nat 1.25 7
Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts.
Nat 1.26 1
...thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things,
and now appropriated to spiritual nature.
Nat 1.26 10
...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our
least debt to nature.
Nat 1.26 14
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Nat 1.28 16
...[The human corpse] is sown a natural body; it is raised a
spiritual body.
Nat 1.29 8
As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque,
until its infancy, when...all spiritual facts are represented by natural
symbols.
Nat 1.35 6
...visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.
Nat 1.40 19
All things...have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
Nat 1.52 21
The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's
muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by a subtile
spiritual connection.
Nat 1.55 19
It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles], that a spiritual life
has been imparted to nature;...
AmS 1.86 21
...when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more
earthly natures...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding
knowledge as to a becoming creator.
AmS 1.111 20
...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual
cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
AmS 1.113 3
[Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of
the visible, audible, tangible world.
DSA 1.119 9
Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost
spiritual rays.
DSA 1.135 1
...observe the condition, the spiritual limitation of the office
[of priest].
DSA 1.150 20
Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first
the Sabbath...whose light...everywhere suggests...the dignity of spiritual
being.
LE 1.159 14
The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish
of the dew...
LE 1.163 23
...the more quaintly you inspect...its spiritual causes...so much
the more you master the biography of this hero...
LE 1.175 19
...accept the hint...of spiritual emptiness and waste which true
nature gives you...
MN 1.191 10
...[the scholars] stand for the spiritual interest of the world...
MN 1.192 13
There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short
series of steps, taken; that act or step is the spiritual act;...
MN 1.193 3
The weaver should not be bereaved of...his knowledge that the
product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his spiritual
prerogatives.
MN 1.199 3
How can I hope for better hap in my attempts to enunciate
spiritual facts?
MR 1.227 19
...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine
illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with the spiritual
world.
MR 1.228 1
...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines
and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with
the spiritual nature.
MR 1.236 23
We must have an antagonism in the tough world for all the
variety of our spiritual faculties...
MR 1.255 11
The mediator between the spiritual and the actual world
should have a great prospective prudence.
MR 1.256 14
The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to
greater sacrifices...
LT 1.259 4
...the present aspects of our social state...have their root in an
invisible spiritual reality.
LT 1.265 14
Could we indicate the indicators...so that all witnesses should
recognize a spiritual law as each well-known form flitted for a moment
across the wall, we should have a series of sketches which would report to
the next ages the color and quality of ours.
LT 1.286 9
The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle
should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
Tran 1.330 27
[The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this
chair...but he looks at these things...as...each being a sequel or completion
of a spiritual fact which nearly concerns him.
Tran 1.335 22
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of
spiritual doctrine.
Tran 1.335 26
[The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle
should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
Tran 1.336 4
...the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the
thought...
Tran 1.338 6
...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual
side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
Tran 1.338 9
...of a purely spiritual life, history has afforded no example.
Tran 1.342 4
Our American literature and spiritual history are...in the
optative mood;...
Tran 1.358 26
...it may not be without its advantage that we should now
and then encounter rare and gifted men, to compare the points of our
spiritual compass...
Hist 2.6 4
Property...covers great spiritual facts...
Hist 2.24 7
The Grecian state is the era...of the spiritual nature unfolded in
strict unity with the body.
SR 2.52 11
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am
bought and sold;...
SR 2.72 3
...your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual...
SL 2.145 8
Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual
estate...
SL 2.157 13
It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he
described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to
articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
Fdsp 2.211 4
To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter.
That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift...
Fdsp 2.213 27
It is foolish to be afraid of making our ties too spiritual...
Fdsp 2.215 14
It would...give me a certain household joy to quit...this
spiritual astronomy...
Prd1 2.223 2
The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the
third, spiritual perception.
OS 2.271 22
We know that all spiritual being is in man.
OS 2.272 3
We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature...
OS 2.277 15
...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become
aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the
sayer.
Cir 2.303 21
Moons are no more bounds to spiritual power than bat-balls.
Int 2.335 24
When the spiritual energy is directed on something outward,
then it is a thought.
Int 2.346 2
...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek
philosophers], these great spiritual lords...
Art1 2.352 2
What is that abridgment and selection we observe in all
spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...
Art1 2.352 21
As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the
artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain
grandeur...
Art1 2.364 10
...[sculpture] is...not the manly labor of a wise and spiritual
nation.
Pt1 3.4 3
Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual
meaning of a ship or a cloud...
Pt1 3.19 14
The spiritual fact remains unalterable...
Exp 3.53 13
...the definition of spiritual should be, that which is its own
evidence.
Exp 3.62 11
In the morning I awake and find the old world...the dear old
spiritual world...not far off.
Exp 3.70 23
That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but
that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from
being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now
sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all
seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the
reception of spiritual law.
Exp 3.77 7
Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible...
Chr1 3.107 10
I remember the thought which occurred to me when some
ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been
victimized in being brought hither?...
Nat2 3.176 11
The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest
common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the
Campagna...
Nat2 3.190 26
...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the
waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
Nat2 3.194 11
We are escorted on every hand through life by spiritual
agents...
NER 3.255 6
There is observable throughout [the practical activities of
New England], the contest between mechanical and spiritual methods...
NER 3.255 8
There is observable throughout [the practical activities of
New England]...a steady tendency of the thoughtful and virtuous to a deeper
belief and reliance on spiritual facts.
UGM 4.11 9
Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity,
into the spiritual and necessary sphere...
PNR 4.82 11
These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in
continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
PNR 4.88 2
...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight
in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth...
are said to Platonize.
SwM 4.115 19
The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or
perpetual-spiral: next, the perpetual-vortical, or celestial: last, the perpetual-celestial,
or spiritual.
SwM 4.116 4
...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences
[says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur...
which correspond so entirely to supreme and spiritual things that one would
swear that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
SwM 4.116 6
...one would swear [says Swedenborg] that the physical
world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
SwM 4.116 10
...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and
definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only
into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth
or theological dogma...
SwM 4.116 11
...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and
definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only
into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth
or theological dogma...
SwM 4.116 20
[Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a
number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary
containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for
which they are to be substituted.
SwM 4.119 22
[Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus
of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is
attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his
mind, not as to the will part;...
SwM 4.125 7
[To Swedenborg] The marriages of the world are broken up.
Interiors associate all in the spiritual world.
SwM 4.127 19
...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not
momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total;...
SwM 4.129 11
In fact, in the spiritual world we change sexes every
moment.
SwM 4.141 18
[Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to
the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made
us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
SwM 4.146 8
...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 he renders a second passive service to men...
and, in the retributions of spiritual nature, not less glorious or less beautiful
to himself.
NMW 4.224 26
[Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their
vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material...
subordinating all intellectual and spiritual forces into means to a material
success.
GoW 4.264 27
There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of
the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine.
GoW 4.268 4
...great action must draw on the spiritual nature.
GoW 4.284 21
[Goethe] is the type of culture...spiritual, but not spiritualist.
ET3 5.43 19
It is a singular coincidence to this geographic centrality [of
England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to
the people.
ET3 5.43 24
For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all
Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears
conspicuously in the spiritual world.
ET14 5.256 19
The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to
speak the spiritual law...
F 6.20 8
If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
F 6.20 9
If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
F 6.28 13
The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
Wth 6.126 24
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to
invest and invest...that he may spend in spiritual creation...
Wsp 6.214 26
That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a
lasting essence...
Wsp 6.215 5
The true meaning of spiritual is real;...
Wsp 6.216 15
...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its
thoughts on spiritual verities...
Bty 6.284 27
The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate
of spiritual health.
Bty 6.304 2
...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech
and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
Art2 7.39 5
The Will distinguishes [Art] as spiritual action.
Art2 7.43 14
It will be seen that in each of these [fine] arts there is much
which is not spiritual.
Art2 7.44 6
Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization
of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much
deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure...
Art2 7.45 6
A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in
wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured, who do not ask a fine
spiritual delight, almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture
of Titian.
Art2 7.48 7
Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the
beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely spiritual part of a work of art.
WD 7.171 20
...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual
creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which
they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue
depth which weaves itself over me now...
WD 7.178 20
Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Clbs 7.235 11
However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and
spiritual power that are compared;...
PI 8.11 13
[Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear
their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.
PI 8.70 21
Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a
platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
PC 8.205 3
Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To
spiritual lessons pointed home/...
PC 8.229 4
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any
material force...
PC 8.233 22
...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the
moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer
within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like
spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
Insp 8.271 7
...[the poet] is made aware of a power to carry on and
complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.
Insp 8.288 6
Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian
harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods
in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still
water into fleets of ripples,-so sudden, so slight, so spiritual...
Grts 8.311 27
The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's,
though it grow out of spiritual nature, not out of brawn.
Imtl 8.332 23
...the practical faculties are faster developed than the spiritual.
Imtl 8.347 20
...when we are living in the sentiments we ask no questions
about time. The spiritual world takes place;-that which is always the same.
Dem1 10.26 2
[Mesmerism]...is separated by celestial diameters from the
love of spiritual truths.
Dem1 10.26 19
[Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces
seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the spiritual world,-preferring
snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
Aris 10.47 8
All spiritual or real power makes its own place.
PerF 10.72 11
...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements...a new
style and series, the spiritual.
PerF 10.77 17
Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital
if I removed to Spain or China...or to new spiritual societies.
PerF 10.83 16
The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a
manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are
sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
PerF 10.84 25
[Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel
darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents
to serve them like footmen. And they wish the same service from the
spiritual faculties.
Chr2 10.94 5
The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites
which...would enlist the entire spiritual faculty of the individual...
Chr2 10.112 3
The constitution and law in America must be written on
ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be
enlisted to hold the loyalty of the citizen...
Chr2 10.117 19
[The Sunday] invites...to whatever means and aids of
spiritual refreshment.
Chr2 10.121 14
Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one
wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
SovE 10.204 1
There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to
the spiritual world...
MoL 10.243 11
It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the
spiritual class...
MoL 10.247 2
[The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force.
MoL 10.247 3
[The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force. I wish
him to rely on the spiritual arm;...
MoL 10.247 22
...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives
bias and period to boundless Nature.
MoL 10.248 23
You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of
Nature...as...Swedenborg, with his spiritual world.
MoL 10.254 22
The clerisy, the spiritual guides...have been false to their
trust.
Schr 10.261 21
...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some
surprise...that the spiritual nature is too strong for us;...
Schr 10.263 20
The scholar is here...to keep men spiritual and sweet.
Schr 10.275 16
The ends I have hinted at made the scholar or spiritual man
indispensable to the Republic or Commonwealth of Man.
Schr 10.276 3
There is a great deal of spiritual energy in the universe...
Schr 10.278 16
...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and
discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their
intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
Schr 10.278 17
It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add
to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country
with them.
Schr 10.282 14
The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to
any accumulation of material force.
Plu 10.306 24
It is fatal to spiritual health to lose your admiration.
Plu 10.307 3
...we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power
from the philosopher in his closet...
LLNE 10.337 13
Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
LLNE 10.363 12
[Charles Newcomb] was the Abbe or spiritual father [of
Brook Farm], from his religious bias.
MMEm 10.428 6
The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain
disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual.
Thor 10.474 23
...[Thoreau] had the source of poetry in his spiritual
perception.
Thor 10.475 7
[Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he
held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
LS 11.13 18
It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans
and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to
comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
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...
LS 11.15 17
...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a
temporal Messiah, which kept its influence even over so spiritual a man as
St. Paul, would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's
Supper] when once established.
HDC 11.40 21
...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's]
appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of
wants, than afterwards.
FSLC 11.189 27
All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as
they foster and concur with this spiritual element...
EPro 11.326 6
Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until
you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual
societies...
SMC 11.351 7
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;...
SMC 11.351 17
...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the
largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing
this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
Wom 11.410 12
The spiritual force of man is as much shown in taste...as in
his perception of truth.
FRep 11.540 16
...the Constitution and the law in America must be written
on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall
hold the citizen loyal...
PLT 12.5 15
I believe in the existence of the material world as the
expression of the spiritual or the real...
PLT 12.37 25
At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we
become aware of spiritual facts...
PLT 12.45 7
Goethe...apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.
PLT 12.60 21
The spiritual power of man is twofold, mind and heart...
PLT 12.60 24
The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals;
one respecting truth, the other the will. One is the man, the other the woman
in spiritual nature.
PLT 12.62 25
...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly
say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be
able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego...rhetoric or offset to
his grand spiritual ego, without impertinence...
CL 12.142 27
[DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any
circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in
walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and
spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
CL 12.143 7
The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under
favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never
was on land or sea, a light radiating from some far spiritual world, than any
that can be named.
Bost 12.184 16
How can we not believe in influences of climate and air,
when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have
their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
Bost 12.184 18
How can we not believe in influences of climate and air,
when, as true philosophers, we must believe...that carbon, oxygen, alum
and iron, each has its origin in spiritual nature?
Bost 12.209 22
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.
MAng1 12.233 17
Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the
eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful
outlines...
MAng1 12.241 24
At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to
Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
Milt1 12.248 24
[Milton's tracts] are earnest, spiritual...
Milt1 12.254 8
There is something pleasing in the affection with which we
can regard a man [Milton]...who...by an influence purely spiritual makes us
jealous for his fame as for that of a near friend.
Milt1 12.266 9
Few men could be cited who have so well understood what
is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has
brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of
spiritual laws...
Milt1 12.273 14
And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is
[Milton] a consistent...believer in the omnipotence of spiritual laws.
Milt1 12.279 10
...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the
angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the
life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
MLit 12.309 7
When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we
truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
MLit 12.335 14
In [man's] heart he knows the ache of spiritual pain...
WSL 12.345 13
What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle
which attaches us to a few persons, not so much by personal as by the most
spiritual ties?
WSL 12.348 20
...what skill of transition [Landor] may possess is
superficial, not spiritual.
spiritual, n. (4)
Nat 1.56 4
Thus even in physics, the material is degraded before the
spiritual;...
Wsp 6.215 4
In our definitions we grope after the spiritual by describing it
as invisible.
Edc1 10.134 21
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted [in our culture], so
are the practical and the moral.
PLT 12.45 7
Goethe...apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.
spiritualism, n. (1)
LLNE 10.349 15
Mechanics were pushed so far [by Brisbane] as fairly to
meet spiritualism.
Spiritualism, n. (1)
MoL 10.245 7
We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to Pusey, to the
Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...
spiritualist, n. (6)
LT 1.286 8
The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle
should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
Tran 1.337 18
...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith,
the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
MoS 4.181 19
The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a
series of skepticisms.
GoW 4.284 21
[Goethe] is the type of culture...spiritual, but not spiritualist.
SlHr 10.445 12
[Samuel Hoar] was neither spiritualist nor man of genius...
Milt1 12.273 13
And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is
[Milton] a consistent spiritualist...
spiritualists, n. (1)
Ctr 6.133 15
Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their
act or word aloof from them...
spiritualize, v. (1)
LS 11.10 3
Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to
spiritualize every occurrence.
spiritually, adv. (3)
Nat 1.64 4
...[nature] does not act upon us from without...but spiritually...
Art2 7.51 9
...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from
our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation.
It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are organically
reproductive. This is not, but spiritually it is prolific by its powerful action
on the intellects of men.
Art2 7.53 8
We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we
do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
spit, n. (2)
SL 2.142 8
The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as
he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends
it as a dog turns a spit.
Dem1 10.12 1
...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and
pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water,
and turned a spit...
Spitalfields, London, Engla (1)
ET4 5.69 3
...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials
and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.
spite, n. (46)
Nat 1.9 7
In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man, in
spite of real sorrows.
Nat 1.26 21
...a snake is subtle spite;...
LE 1.161 20
In spite of all the rueful abortions that squeak and gibber in
the street...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
LE 1.161 22
...in spite of slumber and guilt...have been these glorious
manifestations of the mind;...
LE 1.161 22
...in spite of the army...have been these glorious
manifestations of the mind;...
MN 1.196 7
...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold
gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction, in spite of all
resistance...
SR 2.51 18
Thy love afar is spite at home.
Comp 2.120 2
The inviolate spirit turns [the mob's] spite against the
wrongdoers.
NER 3.279 6
...in spite of selfishness and frivolity, the general purpose in
the great number of persons is fidelity.
SwM 4.97 20
In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat
morbid has mingled, in spite of the unquestionable increase of mental
power.
NMW 4.237 19
In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon]
remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the-
morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen
events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
NMW 4.244 6
...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism
dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample
acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
ET5 5.86 5
...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every
man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the
force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual
soldiers, in spite of cannon.
ET5 5.91 16
Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek
remains, set up his scaffoldings, in spite of epigrams, and, after five years'
labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
ET8 5.131 1
...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly
indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more
power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour
that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
ET10 5.155 20
The British empire is solvent; for in spite of the huge
national debt, the valuation mounts.
ET11 5.172 21
In spite of broken faith...we take sides as we read for the
loyal England...
Pow 6.60 11
A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of
blight...
Pow 6.62 2
We prosper with such vigor that like thrifty trees, which grow
in spite of ice, lice, mice and borers, so we do not suffer from the profligate
swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
Ctr 6.162 20
[The finished man of the world] must...not remember spite.
Bhr 6.172 21
We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;...
to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...overawe their spite and
meanness;...
Wsp 6.212 24
In spite of our imbecility and terrors...the moral sense
reappears to-day...
Wsp 6.227 1
What I am and what I think is conveyed to you, in spite of my
efforts to hold it back.
Ill 6.323 9
At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which
still leads us to work and live for appearances; in spite of our conviction, in
all sane hours, that it is what we really are that avails with friends, with
strangers, and with fate or fortune.
WD 7.165 24
...Trade...that benefactor in spite of itself, ends in shameful
defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
Boks 7.197 10
Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we
cannot spare: 1. Homer, who in spite of Pope and all the learned uproar of
centuries, has really the true fire...
Clbs 7.234 1
One lesson we learn early,--that in spite of seeming
difference, men are all of one pattern.
PI 8.3 21
In spite of all the joys of poets and the joys of saints, the most
imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least
mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
PI 8.75 2
The grandeur of our life exists in spite of us...
Res 8.153 2
...in spite of accident and enemy, [the willows'] gentle
persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...
PC 8.218 12
If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding
carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in
spite of the Emperor;...
SovE 10.189 1
...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that,
in spite of appearances...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing
things right;...
SovE 10.189 2
...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart
that...in spite of malignity and blind self-interest...an eternal, beneficent
necessity is always bringing things right;...
Prch 10.226 15
...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland...
[Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may
disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring
in man's art/...
Prch 10.231 18
I do not love sensation preaching,-the personalities for
spite...
Plu 10.320 24
In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults...I yet confess
my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
LLNE 10.352 2
...in spite of the assurances of [Fourierism's] friends that it
was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration
of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so
many project for reform...
CSC 10.376 23
...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive
lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit, in spite of
the incredulity and derision with which he is at first received...
CSC 10.376 24
...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive
lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...in spite...of
his own failures.
MMEm 10.424 7
[Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which
frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts.
EWI 11.103 24
...the crude element of good in human affairs must work
and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest.
FSLC 11.213 9
Every nation and every man bows, in spite of himself, to a
higher mental and moral existence;...
JBS 11.278 21
...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off
five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...
JBS 11.280 5
...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing
skill and conduct, which, in spite of adverse accidents, should secure, one
year with another, an honest reward...
II 12.75 25
...in spite of our imbecility and terrors...the moral sense
reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old
the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
II 12.75 26
...in spite of Boston and London...the moral sense reappears
forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the
fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
spleen, n. (2)
ET8 5.138 5
If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I
suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
Farm 7.150 22
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...
splendid, adj. (32)
Nat 1.12 18
What angels invented these splendid ornaments...
Nat 1.63 6
[If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in
the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions...
AmS 1.95 27
[Action] is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds
her splendid products.
AmS 1.100 24
Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars...and the
results being splendid and useful, honor is sure.
DSA 1.131 9
...even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins, if they
did not wear the Christian name.
LE 1.177 4
...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to
enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
MN 1.192 17
...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of
handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result...
MN 1.192 19
That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men...is
the fruit of higher laws than their will...
Con 1.311 9
Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no
right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
Hist 2.14 10
...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the
imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove,
a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar
horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
Hist 2.32 25
In splendid variety these changes come...
SR 2.86 19
Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series
of celestial phenomena than any one since.
OS 2.289 13
...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has
created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing
traveller on the rock.
Nat2 3.193 1
What splendid distance...in the sunset!
Pol1 3.218 8
...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a
certain humiliation...
NR 3.230 12
It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual
quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its
promise and more slight in its performance.
UGM 4.6 17
It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on
our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit!
PPh 4.53 10
Art was in its splendid novelty [in Greece].
GoW 4.264 10
...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she
elects to a superior office;...
ET1 5.17 1
Gibbon [Carlyle] called the splendid bridge from the old world
to the new.
Elo1 7.85 2
...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment of
Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
Elo1 7.91 5
If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy,
sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have
an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
Schr 10.275 22
Nature could not leave herself without a seer and
expounder. But he could not see or teach without organs. The same
necessity then that would create him reappears in his splendid gifts.
LLNE 10.333 9
[Everett] abounded...in splendid allusion, in quotation
impossible to forget...
MMEm 10.398 1
Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander
by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/
Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
Thor 10.468 4
[Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the
coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day after six months, a
splendid fact, which Annursnuc had never afforded him.
HDC 11.49 20
The British government has recently presented to the several
public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the
Domesday Book...
FSLN 11.222 17
...[Webster's] splendid wrath...was the wrath of the fact
and the cause he stood for.
Mem 12.95 13
This command of old facts...is our splendid privilege.
Milt1 12.251 6
The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica...the most
splendid of his prose works.
MLit 12.332 10
[Goethe] was content to...spend on common aims his
splendid endowments...
EurB 12.375 11
...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is
greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the
business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be
solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels and
the more splendid examples of the Edgeworth and Scott romances.
splendor, n. (58)
AmS 1.98 9
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has
already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech.
AmS 1.107 22
The main enterprise of the world for splendor...is the
upbuilding of a man.
DSA 1.137 8
...now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature;...
DSA 1.150 23
Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple which new
love, new faith, new sight shall restore to more than its first splendor...
Hist 2.16 7
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor
as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the
remains of the earliest Greek art.
SR 2.77 1
...the moment [a man] acts from himself...that teacher shall
restore the life of man to splendor...
Prd1 2.223 8
Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol
solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of
nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the
splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.
Prd1 2.224 22
...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger
and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Hsm1 2.254 12
The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the
splendor of its table and draperies.
Hsm1 2.258 13
The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the
actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living,
should deck [our life] with more than regal or national splendor...
Art1 2.351 12
The details, the prose of nature [the painter] should omit and
give us only the spirit and splendor.
Art1 2.356 26
...painting teaches me the splendor of color...
Art1 2.364 8
[Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people
possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was
refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
Pt1 3.14 23
The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its
transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
Exp 3.59 7
Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few
months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
Chr1 3.114 10
The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by
the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his
death...
Mrs1 3.140 4
...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in
fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
Nat2 3.192 24
This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection
and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing
splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields...
ShP 4.214 15
The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost
in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they;...
ShP 4.216 25
Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of
meaning that plays over the visible world;...
NMW 4.233 17
[Napoleon] is firm, sure...not misled...by the splendor of
his own means.
NMW 4.256 5
...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power
and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at
last;...
ET3 5.37 23
The innumerable details [in England]...the military strength
and splendor...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and
endless wealth.
ET8 5.132 6
Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the
day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates...
splendor in ceremonies...
ET8 5.135 23
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.
ET10 5.163 26
This comfort and splendor [in England]...all consist with
perfect order.
ET10 5.170 14
[England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much
manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the
very argument of materialism.
ET11 5.172 6
Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the
splendor of royal seats.
ET11 5.184 23
In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the
high commissions, and give to these a tone of expense and splendor...
ET11 5.192 11
The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and
title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation;...make the
reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined
these vices to a handful of rich men.
ET14 5.237 22
Judge of the splendor of a nation by the insignificance of
great individuals in it.
ET17 5.292 21
Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting
men and women who give splendor to society.
F 6.48 18
...I cannot look without seeing splendor and grace.
Wth 6.100 26
Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles
banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the
splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the
counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young
to understand how masses are formed;...
Bty 6.306 6
...character gives splendor to youth...
Art2 7.54 10
The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the
first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes
immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and...is imitated with more
splendor in each succeeding generation.
DL 7.133 23
...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my
repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the
life of man to splendor...
WD 7.179 15
...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric
foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and
his arithmetic musical.
Clbs 7.231 12
Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters]
could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck,
splendor and speed;...
Clbs 7.241 5
...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their
accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition...
whom we now consider.
Suc 7.299 4
Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature:--For
never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the
flower./
Elo2 8.121 26
...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was
reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his
monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so
much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined,
For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you
will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
Res 8.149 24
...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and
there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof
[of the Mammoth Cave], disclosing its starry splendor...
PerF 10.67 2
What central flowing forces, say,/ Make up thy splendor,
matchless day?/
PerF 10.82 23
The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no
other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor
and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
MoL 10.247 11
The worst times...only relieve and bring out the splendor of
[the scholar's] privilege.
Schr 10.287 15
[The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering
opportunities, and to retreat, and wait. So shall you find in this penury and
absence of thought a purer splendor than ever clothed the exhibitions of wit.
LLNE 10.330 18
Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820,
when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results, which no one
was so fitted by natural grace and the splendor of his rhetoric to introduce
and recommend.
HDC 11.84 20
For splendor, there must be somewhere rigid economy.
War 11.153 3
The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried
and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above
each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living.
Koss 11.397 9
...[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].
PLT 12.7 11
Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots,
will they afford me satisfaction?
PLT 12.14 6
I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings...
that I may learn to...catch sight of its splendor...
CL 12.150 21
In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles.
CL 12.152 7
The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied
splendor through the softest haze.
Bost 12.185 12
...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger
range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of
extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a
touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the
temperature of the celestial spaces.
ACri 12.303 13
[Writing] discloses to [man] the variety and splendor of his
resources.
PPr 12.386 25
...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight...
splendors, n. (9)
AmS 1.85 11
Far too as her splendors shine...Nature hastens to render
account of herself to the mind.
MN 1.197 21
...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes
cannot brook his direct splendors.
SL 2.147 14
Earth fills her lap with splendors not her own.
Lov1 2.180 24
...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when...
[the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the
splendors of a sunset.
PPh 4.64 22
[Plato] delighted...above all in the splendors of genius and
intellectual achievement.
Elo1 7.61 14
One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of
conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than...the
splendors and shades of Heaven and Hell.
PI 8.70 1
It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that
imports, but...that the old forgotten splendors of the universe should glow
again for us;...
LLNE 10.351 12
Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade
can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the
material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
EurB 12.371 11
[Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint
staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We
must not make our bread of pure sugar. These delicacies and splendors are
then legitimate when they are the excess of substantial and necessary
expenditure.
splenetic, adj. (1)
ET8 5.129 15
[The English] are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic
and stubborn,--and as mild, sweet and sensible.
splinter, n. (1)
ET4 5.63 3
...one may say of England that this watch moves on a splinter of
adamant.
splinters, n. (2)
SL 2.144 10
[A man] is...like the loadstone amongst splinters of steel.
MoS 4.160 22
An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and
splinters in this storm of many elements.
split, v. (5)
Hist 2.25 8
...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an axe, began to split
wood;...
Civ 7.28 22
I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the
seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus
engages the assistance of the moon...to...split stone, and roll iron.
Comc 8.162 23
The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if
in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just
shipped a heavy sea; and though it does not split it, the poor bark is for the
moment critically staggered.
Comc 8.173 3
Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face
once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept,
what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If we weep
not, who should weep? Therefore have I wept. Timur almost split his sides
with laughing.
LLNE 10.325 21
It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any
precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the
twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split every
church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant;...
splits, v. (1)
Civ 7.27 18
...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under
him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the
axe; that is to say, the planet itself splits his stick.
splitting, v. (1)
SL 2.137 16
All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying,
splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of continual
falling...
spoil, n. (1)
Plu 10.300 6
...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his
moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received
than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words, dryly
adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to the spoil of those that are
conversant with him.
spoil, v. (7)
Tran 1.345 8
...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy
that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring
genius, and spoil the work.
Prd1 2.229 3
Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their
own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
ShP 4.207 10
These tricks of [Shakespeare's] magic spoil for us the
illusions of the green-room.
Wth 6.114 21
...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music,
architecture or philosophy, he...should not...fetter himself with duties which
will...spoil him for his proper work.
Ill 6.314 22
Pears and cakes are good for something; and because you
unluckily have an eye or nose too keen, why need you spoil the comfort
which the rest of us find in them?
Elo2 8.114 17
...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the
seaside...a man...whom praise cannot spoil...
EzRy 10.387 2
...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost
reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil
his hay.
spoiled, adj. (4)
ET12 5.208 11
It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton,
Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to
the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded
justice...
MoL 10.250 23
...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas...
imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.
So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic; no spoiled child,
no drone, no epicure...
EWI 11.118 16
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a
habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
EWI 11.119 1
The planter is the spoiled child of his unnatural habits...
spoiled, v. (13)
Chr1 3.106 26
...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise...
Chr1 3.112 22
Society is spoiled if pains are taken...
Nat2 3.194 3
[Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus
arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain. Alas! the same
sorcery has spoiled his skill;...
ET16 5.284 2
...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this
land [Salisbury Plain], which only yields one crop on being broken up, and
is then spoiled.
Bhr 6.184 25
...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle]
fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the
deoxygenated air; it spoiled the best persons;...
Wsp 6.218 1
The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous
courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent. Hence
the extraordinary blunders and final wrong-head into which men spoiled by
ambition usually fall.
Bty 6.300 26
Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man
in countenance, his face being spoiled with pimples...
SA 8.90 25
...the best society has often been spoiled to [the highly
organized person] by the intrusion of bad companions.
War 11.158 23
I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of
ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I
burned and spoiled.
FSLC 11.180 17
...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient
honor in the dust...
ALin 11.330 9
[Lincoln] was thoroughly American...had never been
spoiled by English insularity or French dissipation;...
FRep 11.535 19
They who find America insipid-they for whom London
and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those
cities.
AgMs 12.360 27
The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's
daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,-
that is good, too...
spoiling, v. (1)
Prd1 2.229 4
Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their
own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
spoils, n. (6)
AmS 1.107 14
Men...very naturally seek money or power;...the spoils, so
called, of office.
Bty 6.304 26
The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the
spoils of the landscape...
Aris 10.45 17
He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile
battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
War 11.158 20
I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain, where I made great spoils.
CW 12.173 5
I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden] all that I
desire of the spoils of the East and the West...
MLit 12.322 16
[Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the victories of the
Understanding, all their spoils.
spoils, v. (4)
Fdsp 2.204 1
Almost every man we meet...has...some whim of religion or
philanthropy in his head...which spoils all conversation with him.
Pow 6.81 25
In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web
through a piece of a hundred yards...
Suc 7.289 21
I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical]
humor, whom we could ill spare; any one of them would be a national loss.
But it spoils conversation.
War 11.156 22
...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said,
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
spoke, v. (57)
DSA 1.129 18
[Jesus] spoke of miracles;...
DSA 1.147 4
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we
have had...with souls...that spoke what we thought;...
DSA 1.151 10
I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which
ravished the souls of those Eastern men...and through their lips spoke
oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also.
MN 1.198 25
Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he
said, I am God;...
LT 1.281 21
...let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which
we spoke, namely, the students.
SR 2.45 17
...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is
that they...spoke not what men, but what they thought.
SR 2.68 3
We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors...
painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke;...
SL 2.156 7
You think because you have spoken nothing when others
spoke...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved
wisdom.
Lov1 2.184 24
Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks.../
Fdsp 2.203 7
I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to
the conscience of every person he encountered...
Chr1 3.87 7
He spoke, and words more soft than rain/ Brought the Age of
Gold again:/...
NER 3.267 14
...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place
the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member
[of a union], and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with
concert, though no man spoke.
NER 3.267 25
In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of
the deadness of its details.
MoS 4.162 23
It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book
[Montaigne's Essays], in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my
thought and experience.
ShP 4.212 13
...few real men have left such distinct characters as
[Shakespeare's] fictions. And they spoke in language as sweet as it was fit.
ET1 5.3 15
The shop-signs spoke our language;...
ET1 5.9 2
I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his
microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters; and I spoke
of the uses to which they were applied.
ET1 5.10 17
[Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings
when he knew him in Rome;...
ET1 5.10 20
[Coleridge] spoke of Dr. Channing.
ET5 5.78 12
King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he
planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or
there live, or there lie.
ET5 5.79 24
...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing
else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth,
nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause,
the rule, the bounds and the model of it. There spoke the genius of the
English people.
ET8 5.129 2
...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House
of Commons, as if they...thought they spoke well enough if they had the
tone of gentlemen.
ET14 5.248 25
Coleridge...who wrote and spoke the only high criticism in
his time, is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer
possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
Bhr 6.175 25
...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice
would not serve him;...
Wsp 6.227 5
[Another] has heard from me what I never spoke.
Wsp 6.230 10
The other party will forget the words that you spoke...
SS 7.3 22
There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that
when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...
Elo1 7.72 14
When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved
stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...
Elo1 7.84 7
Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed
excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with
it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
Cour 7.262 13
Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you
will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in
this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me.
Cour 7.269 27
...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind
engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
Suc 7.297 26
We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the
heavens glowed;...
Suc 7.299 6
...I have just seen a man, well knowing what he spoke of, who
told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
OA 7.315 17
[Josiah Quincy's] was a discourse full of dignity, honoring
him who spoke and those who heard.
OA 7.333 22
[John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere...
OA 7.335 3
[John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper...with praise...
PI 8.53 20
Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds
clapped their hands...the sky spoke.
PI 8.59 19
The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power, when
they describe it thus:--Odin spoke everything in rhyme.
PI 8.61 13
When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he
thought it was Merlin...
Elo2 8.109 6
He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great
forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears
the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/ Seemed, when at last
his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./
QO 8.202 16
A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring
emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument,
because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but
the words of some god.
PC 8.205 1
Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To
spiritual lessons pointed home/...
Insp 8.288 2
Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian
harp], which spoke to the eye...
Chr2 10.106 8
Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels
with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or
their late minister.
Supl 10.170 19
...the great official spoke and beat his breast...
Prch 10.223 18
I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good
anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country
makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke...
LLNE 10.331 15
The word that [Everett] spoke, in the manner in which he
spoke it, became current and classical in New England.
EzRy 10.394 26
[Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or
sermon, for he had no literature and no art; but he believed, and therefore
spoke.
MMEm 10.417 14
...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I
[Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...
SlHr 10.445 20
If [Samuel Hoar] spoke of the engagement of two lovers,
he called it a contract.
Thor 10.478 27
Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that
his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau, as if he spoke when silent,
and was still present when he had departed.
HDC 11.44 9
...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots,
that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of
Massachusetts Bay.
JBB 11.266 5
...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the
Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his
absence, in the night;/...
TPar 11.292 10
...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the
transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will
affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you
valiantly spoke;...
CL 12.134 2
Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In
the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./
Bost 12.199 21
What should hinder that this America...glimpses being
afforded which spoke to the imagination, yet the firm shore hid until
science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its
happy ports...
Let 12.396 17
How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures
which despised our aims and pursuits, conscious that a voice out of heaven
spoke to us in that scorn.
spoken, adj. (3)
Comp 2.116 8
[Commit a crime and] You cannot recall the spoken word...
so as to leave no inlet or clew.
Wom 11.418 21
The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning
persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that
though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women
do not wish these things;...
CPL 11.501 11
...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history
are known wherever the English language is spoken.
spoken, v. (89)
AmS 1.100 13
I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by
nature...
DSA 1.121 22
[These divine laws] will not be...spoken by the tongue.
DSA 1.139 16
There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of
prayer and of sermons, and though foolishly spoken, they may be wisely
heard;...
LE 1.173 13
Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the
scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.
MN 1.209 11
I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind...
LT 1.286 5
It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and
hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
LT 1.286 6
It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and
hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
Tran 1.330 16
...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first
appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts, degrading
these into a language by which the first are to be spoken;...
Tran 1.335 18
...if you ask me, Whence am I? I feel like other men my
relation to that Fact which cannot be spoken...
Tran 1.344 4
Like fairies, [Transcendentalists] do not wish to be spoken of.
Tran 1.355 26
There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be
spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class
[Transcendentalists]...
SR 2.49 11
As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a
committed person...
Comp 2.118 14
...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I
feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
SL 2.153 3
The sentence must also contain its own apology for being
spoken.
SL 2.156 6
You think because you have spoken nothing when others
spoke...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved
wisdom.
Fdsp 2.191 2
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
OS 2.275 6
With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity,
and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always
been spoken in the world...
OS 2.279 19
Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do
not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?
OS 2.294 1
...every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou
oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
Int 2.329 19
We want in every man a long logic; we cannot pardon the
absence of it, but it must not be spoken.
Int 2.347 8
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in
heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical
dialects of men...
Pt1 3.7 26
...as [the hero and the sage] act and think primarily, so [the poet]
writes primarily what will and must be spoken...
Pt1 3.11 20
Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding
themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak
announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken...
Pt1 3.17 17
What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes
illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.
Pt1 3.39 27
...as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections
[of the poet], it is of the last importance that these things get spoken.
Chr1 3.93 15
In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has
been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled
humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly...
how many valiant noes have this day been spoken, when others would have
uttered ruinous yeas.
Nat2 3.187 24
The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters
than any hearer, and therefore it gets spoken.
Nat2 3.189 13
...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our
peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the
flames of our zeal.
NR 3.231 18
Money...which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an
apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
MoS 4.170 4
Shall we say that Montaigne has spoken wisely...
ShP 4.197 4
Other men say wise things as well as [the poet]; only they say
a good many foolish things, and do not know when they have spoken
wisely.
NMW 4.226 8
...Mirabeau plagiarized every good thought, every good
word that was spoken in France.
NMW 4.227 17
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon...deserves reading, as
it is the sense of France.
GoW 4.264 2
Whatever can be thought can be spoken...
GoW 4.284 2
I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds
from which genius has spoken.
ET1 5.20 14
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.
ET7 5.118 16
Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a
gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction; and nothing ever
spoken by him would find so hearty a suffrage from his nation.
ET14 5.232 11
...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...and
though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob.
Wth 6.120 25
The rule is...to learn practically the secret spoken from all
nature...
Bhr 6.193 6
In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth
spoken more truly...
CbW 6.249 23
...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on
their honor and their conscience.
CbW 6.270 15
...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of
indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.
Art2 7.38 9
Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the
thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be
done.
Elo1 7.66 10
There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one
of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see
the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
Elo1 7.72 4
[Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise
Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her the prudent Antenor
replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.
Elo1 7.97 7
He who will train himself to mastery in this science of
persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
Let him see...that when he has spoken he has not done nothing...
Boks 7.192 5
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear
friends, but...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until
spoken to;...
Clbs 7.238 8
...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could
answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder
mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with
death on my mouth have I spoken the fate-words of the generation of the
Aesir;...
Suc 7.309 16
When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the
chatter and the criticism will stop.
Suc 7.309 17
When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the
chatter and the criticism will stop.
OA 7.328 8
...a man does not live long and actively without costly
additions of experience, which, though not spoken, are recorded in his mind.
OA 7.336 2
I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the
doctrine of immortality is announced;...
PI 8.30 6
When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that
now a secret of God is to be spoken.
PI 8.38 18
...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts
on which religions and states are founded.
PI 8.44 7
This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before
him that he...puts words in their mouth such as they should have spoken...
PI 8.61 4
...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which thus called him by
his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me?
PI 8.71 3
In good society...is not everything spoken in fine parable...
Elo2 8.131 7
[Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually
given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from
you than is spoken to in him.
QO 8.187 8
Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his
writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were
pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by
the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
Insp 8.279 13
Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some
mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of
common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.
Chr2 10.106 10
Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels
with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or
their late minister.
Supl 10.172 11
...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the
Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an
argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language
three times over in his speech.
Schr 10.263 16
The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments; to hear
them wherever spoken...
CSC 10.374 6
These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were
spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of
alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
MMEm 10.403 27
...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable
state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her
afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr. Ripley or
Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life. But they were
intensely true when first spoken.
SlHr 10.447 19
I have spoken of [Samuel Hoar's] modesty;...
Thor 10.460 16
Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain
John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
Thor 10.476 11
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and
am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning
them...
LS 11.2 1
The word unto the prophet spoken/ Was writ on tables yet
unbroken;/...
HDC 11.59 6
...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death,
he said he liked it well that he was to die before...he had spoken anything
unworthy of himself.
EWI 11.105 6
It became plain to all men, the more this business was
looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners
could not be overstated. The more it was searched, the more
shocking anecdotes came up,-things not to be spoken.
FSLC 11.200 20
The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have
been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the
heat of the Missouri debate.
FSLC 11.213 15
...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law]
is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known
sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error.
In this one fastness let truth be spoken and right done.
FSLN 11.243 6
You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and
the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict
clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert
Winthrop] its glad organ and champion. Abstractly, I should have preferred
that side. But you have not done it. You have not spoken out. You have
failed to arm me.
AsSu 11.250 25
...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken;...
ACiv 11.310 25
The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has
been received throughout the country...we doubt not, with more pleasure
than has been spoken.
ACiv 11.311 4
More and better than the President has spoken shall,
perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be...
EdAd 11.389 5
We are not well, we are not in our seats, when justice and
humanity are to be spoken for.
Wom 11.423 10
As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in
politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things not to
be spoken...
FRO1 11.477 10
I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which
we have heard. To many, to those last spoken, I have found so much in
accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.
FRep 11.521 15
John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious
independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what
he might do. None could predict his word, and a whole congress could not
gainsay it when it was spoken.
FRep 11.528 3
Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are
educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...because it is
thought to be, on the whole, the verdict, though badly spoken, of the
greatest number.
PLT 12.47 1
A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and
chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured.
PLT 12.49 11
I have spoken of Intellect constructive.
CL 12.144 23
...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken
in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the
New England states should have been first settled before the Western
country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
ACri 12.285 19
[George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies,
called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries where they
wander...
MLit 12.333 1
The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in
reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
WSL 12.340 6
...we have spoken all our discontent [with Landor].
EurB 12.375 18
Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by
[the novel of costume or of circumstance] the reader had been made a
participator of their triumph;...
spokesman, n. (1)
Elo2 8.117 21
As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the
great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
spokesmen, n. (1)
Elo2 8.118 9
...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country
must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
Spoleto, Italy, n. (1)
MAng1 12.237 14
...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme
pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...
spondees, n. (1)
PI 8.53 10
Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet
than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
sponge, n. (5)
Nat 1.40 27
...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall
hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
Aris 10.35 17
The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if
this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my
inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
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.
Mem 12.99 18
What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for
oblivion?...
Bost 12.183 22
There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a
fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the
year.
sponsor, n. (1)
CbW 6.251 1
I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every
able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him
for material aid,--to whom he is to be...for backer and sponsor...
sponsors, n. (1)
OA 7.326 15
All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who speak for
him when he is silent...
spontaneity, n. (3)
Int 2.327 20
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
The mind that grows could not predict...the mode of that spontaneity.
Exp 3.68 5
All good conversation, manners and action come from a
spontaneity which forgets usages...
SwM 4.133 2
Swedenborg's system of the world wants central
spontaneity;...
Spontaneity, n. (1)
SR 2.64 6
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius,
of virtue, of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
spontaneous, adj. (36)
Nat 1.31 8
This imagery is spontaneous.
AmS 1.90 25
...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and
creative words; manners, actions, words, that is...springing spontaneous
from the mind's own sense of good and fair.
AmS 1.94 15
I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation
of men [the clergy] do not hear...
AmS 1.103 14
The poet...remembering his spontaneous thoughts...is found
to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
DSA 1.130 20
[The soul]...will have no preferences but those of
spontaneous love.
LE 1.165 25
The vision of genius comes by...giving leave and amplest
privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.
LE 1.166 3
...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous
thought, then poetry, wit, hope...all flock to their aid.
SR 2.46 3
[Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous
impression...
SR 2.54 23
...not possibly can [the preacher] say a new and spontaneous
word?
SL 2.133 22
We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and
spontaneous.
SL 2.138 25
...only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong...
Int 2.327 17
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
Int 2.328 13
Our spontaneous action is always the best.
Int 2.328 15
You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
Int 2.329 15
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.
Int 2.336 16
The thought of genius is spontaneous;...
Int 2.336 19
...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain
control over the spontaneous states...
Int 2.336 24
...the imaginative vocabulary seems to be spontaneous also.
Exp 3.47 23
...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis
would find very few spontaneous actions.
Mrs1 3.121 20
Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good
society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of
precisely that class who have most vigor...
NR 3.227 9
All our poets, heroes and saints...fail to draw our spontaneous
interest...
Ctr 6.142 2
...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the
assimilating power.
Wsp 6.213 8
The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an
avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to
assume. But this avoidance will yield spontaneous forms in their due hour.
SS 7.13 8
...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product
of health and of a social habit.
WD 7.182 2
...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,--
cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of
the thought.
PI 8.29 1
Fancy is a wilful, imagination a spontaneous act;...
Comc 8.173 17
We do nothing that is not laughable whenever we quit our
spontaneous sentiment.
QO 8.178 7
...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the
assimilating power.
QO 8.202 22
All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
SovE 10.198 10
...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every
domestic circle...
MMEm 10.427 6
I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's]
writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of
Jesus, not at all spontaneous...
War 11.171 4
...[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;...
Wom 11.424 19
...whatever is popular...shows the spontaneous sense of the
hour.
Wom 11.425 5
All that is spontaneous is irresistible...
CPL 11.504 5
...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the
assimilating power.
II 12.69 26
Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and
men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set
aglow.
spontaneously, adv. (5)
SR 2.55 24
The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low
usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face...
Wsp 6.236 3
[Benedict said] if [the thought] come not spontaneously, it
comes not rightly at all.
Imtl 8.344 6
Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think
himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry
in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously.
PLT 12.33 20
Right thought comes spontaneously...
II 12.72 17
It is this employment of new means-of means spontaneously
appearing for the new need...that denotes the inspired man.
spontaneousness, n. (1)
MoS 4.158 25
...culture will instantly impair that chiefest beauty of
spontaneousness.
spontoons, n. (1)
Art1 2.361 2
...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be...
a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards
of the militia...
spoon, n. (4)
ET5 5.101 11
The chancellor carries England on his mace...the cook in the
bowl of his spoon;...
ET6 5.108 3
...the poorest [Englishmen] have some spoon or saucepan...
saved out of better times.
ET12 5.202 15
...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library,
down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
CbW 6.250 27
I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every
able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him
for material aid,--to whom he is to be for spoon and jug...
spoons, n. (6)
OS 2.290 10
The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons and brooches and
rings...
Nat2 3.179 6
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology,
mesmerism (with intent to show where our spoons are gone);...
ET1 5.20 20
My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of
the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are
atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons!
Wsp 6.211 26
We were not deceived by the professions of the private
adventurer,--the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our
spoons;...
Comc 8.170 19
...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort, from the
loss of life to the loss of spoons, the majesty of man is violated.
MMEm 10.400 20
One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was
to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to
confiscate the spoons...
sporadic, adj. (2)
SMC 11.349 18
We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date,
who made and kept America free and united, were...sporadic over vast
tracts of the Republic.
Wom 11.405 3
Among those movements which seem to be, now and then,
endemic in the public mind,-perhaps we should say sporadic...is that
which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a
benefit to the position of Woman.
spores, n. (3)
Pt1 3.23 1
...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless
spores...
Pt1 3.23 3
...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless
spores, and one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores
to-morrow or next day.
Bty 6.282 20
Bugs and stamens and spores...are not finalities;...
sport, n. (9)
Hsm1 2.256 13
Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
Nat2 3.194 16
If we measure our individual forces against [Nature's] we
may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.
UGM 4.6 6
[Man's] own affair, though impossible to others, he can open...
in sport.
UGM 4.7 8
Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to
themselves and to their times,--the sport perhaps of some instinct that rules
in the air;...
CbW 6.244 5
A day for toil, an hour for sport,/ But for a friend is life too
short./
CbW 6.264 15
Genius works in sport...
Ill 6.317 24
...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a
gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions,
and who shall say that he is not their sport?
Art2 7.53 20
The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made not
for sport but in grave earnest...
ACiv 11.304 16
The war is welcome to the Southerner; a chivalrous sport
to him...
sported, v. (1)
ET8 5.128 17
[The English] sported sadly;...
sporting, adj. (1)
ET10 5.162 2
A sporting duke [in England] may fancy that the state
depends on the House of Lords...
sporting, v. (1)
Bty 6.285 3
An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in the forest, saw a
herd of elk sporting.
sportive, adj. (3)
PPh 4.73 21
[Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...whose dreadful logic was
always leisurely and sportive;...
Grts 8.320 21
The man...sportive in manner, but inexorable in act;...he it is
whom we seek...
CL 12.148 21
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... I praise their
sportive resistless strength.
sportiveness, n. (1)
Carl 10.495 20
[Carlyle] feels that the perfection of health is sportiveness...
sports, v. (3)
OS 2.272 20
The spirit sports with time...
NR 3.242 1
...there is somewhat spheral and infinite in every man...which,
if you can come very near him, sports with all your limitations.
OA 7.316 17
Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains,
one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
sportsmen, n. (1)
PPh 4.63 1
The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey
offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
spot, n. (41)
Con 1.317 8
...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build
what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in
a sound body appeared.
Tran 1.347 17
...a favorite spot in the hills or the woods which they can
people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give
[Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem
real, and society the illusion.
Comp 2.107 6
...a leaf fell on [Siegfried's] back whilst he was bathing in
the dragon's blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal.
Lov1 2.182 17
In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a
clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from
this world...
Prd1 2.229 19
This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting]
is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean
the placing the figures firm upon their feet...and fastening the eyes on the
spot where they should look.
Pt1 3.3 9
[The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a
log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire...
SwM 4.125 13
[To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states: every thing
gravitates: like will to like: what we call poetic justice takes effect on the
spot.
SwM 4.144 20
[Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a
charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will
shun the spot.
ET6 5.107 22
...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for
many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of
time, a museum of heirlooms...
ET7 5.117 12
'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and
brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is
instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
ET11 5.178 26
This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving
through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
ET16 5.279 19
The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude
order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
ET16 5.283 21
After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we
[Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...
F 6.17 1
[The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to lie down
prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
Wth 6.86 8
...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but...in being
at the right spot.
Wth 6.122 24
[The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once...to fix the
spot for his corner-stone.
Wth 6.123 7
...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer
built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
Ctr 6.132 26
In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient
sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
Wsp 6.233 17
[A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the
operation of his gunners... In a few minutes a cannon-ball fell on the spot,
and the gentleman was killed.
Art2 7.54 16
...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into
parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in
Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by
setting up so conspicuous a stone.
SA 8.100 3
In every million of Europeans or of Americans there shall be
thousands who would be valuable on any spot on the globe.
Elo2 8.111 23
...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not
yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot by the
unexpected turn things may take...
Dem1 10.10 13
...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no
man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
Dem1 10.11 3
Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a
door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot
for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
Edc1 10.146 2
...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk
point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost
buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and
fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and
uncovered many blocks.
HDC 11.41 23
In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...
and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house
of Captain Humphrey Hunt.
HDC 11.73 8
In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in
Concord] may still be seen, about half a mile from this spot, the first
organized resistance was made to the British arms.
HDC 11.75 3
The British retreated immediately towards the village
[Concord], and were joined by two companies of grenadiers, whom the
noise of the firing had hastened to the spot.
EWI 11.128 14
...England has the advantage of trying the question [of
slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
SMC 11.361 21
[George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets
attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the
time. I know every man by heart. I know every man's weak spot...
SMC 11.367 26
At Fredericksburg we lay eleven hours in one spot without
moving...
SHC 11.430 21
We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense
marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations
of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our
children...
SHC 11.433 25
This spot for twenty years has borne the name of Sleepy
Hollow.
SHC 11.435 17
...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair, to this modest spot
of God's earth, every sweet and friendly influence;...
FRep 11.520 16
We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape
Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No,
this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
Mem 12.100 18
...if [Newton] was asked why things were so or so, he
could find the reason on the spot.
MAng1 12.234 6
There is no spot upon [Michelangelo's] fame.
MAng1 12.238 10
...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo],
before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright
in it very well, and there I will light them all.
MAng1 12.243 13
...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's]
opinions meets the traveller in every spot.
MAng1 12.243 26
Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he
might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome
of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the
church stood open.
Pray 12.354 2
If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's
heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The
spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./
spotless, adj. (3)
OS 2.295 22
Before the immense possibilities of man...all past biography,
however spotless and sainted, shrinks away.
SovE 10.195 23
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our
surrenders and concealments and partisanship...
HDC 11.76 21
If ever men in arms had a spotless cause, you [veterans of
the battle of Concord] had.
spots, n. (6)
WD 7.166 19
Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is
in veins and spots.
Insp 8.288 5
Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian
harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods
in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still
water into fleets of ripples...
Dem1 10.10 16
...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no
man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in
some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the
spots of light have become crescents...
Thor 10.473 15
...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes
mark spots which the savages frequented.
PLT 12.36 9
[Pan] wears a coat of leopard spots or stars.
Bost 12.184 20
Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough
to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers
attach...
spotted, adj. (4)
MN 1.202 24
None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the
cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and
defective person was at last procured.
OS 2.297 9
[Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and
patches...
Nat2 3.173 3
...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and
probation.
CL 12.148 18
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot;...
spotted, v. (1)
DSA 1.119 3
...the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of
flowers.
spotty, adj. (1)
LLNE 10.366 1
In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional,
spotty, and not linear or cubic.
spouting, adj. (1)
Art1 2.349 7
...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked
square./
Sprague, Charles, n. (1)
Shak1 11.447 18
...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful
disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age
as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
sprain, v. (2)
CPL 11.502 25
If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think
that Nature has sprained hers.
CPL 11.503 1
...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your
failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.
sprained, v. (3)
Thor 10.464 3
At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained
his foot.
CPL 11.502 26
If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think
that Nature has sprained hers.
PLT 12.49 16
The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to
strength...and not as now with this retardation-as if Nature had sprained
her foot...
sprang, v. (5)
Nat 1.71 16
Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon;...
YA 1.365 6
The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this
immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely
trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived
on the fringe of sea-coast.
Art2 7.53 25
...each work of art sprang irresistibly from necessity...
Art2 7.56 11
...all [the arts] sprang out of some genuine enthusiasm...
EPro 11.326 16
...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the
[Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection...
uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very
miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness...
sprats, n. (1)
ET3 5.39 9
The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with
fish; there are salmon for the rich and sprats and herrings for the poor.
sprawl, v. (1)
Mrs1 3.132 7
...good sense and character make their own forms every
moment, and...sit in a chair or sprawl with children on the floor...in a new
and aboriginal way;...
sprawling, v. (2)
Exp 3.60 11
It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the
shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a
duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
Farm 7.149 1
...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in
the fields outside...
spray, n. (2)
ET4 5.50 8
It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when
we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray
sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
FSLC 11.192 20
Against a principle like this [that immoral laws are void],
all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray of a child's squirt against a
granite wall.
spread, adj. (2)
ET16 5.280 14
We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in
the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little
showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to protect
their spread windrows.
FRep 11.530 23
The spread eagle must fold his foolish wings and be less of
a peacock;...
spread, v. (27)
MR 1.256 1
It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the
form of strength...
YA 1.389 11
I fear little from the bad effect of Repudiation; I do not fear
that it will spread.
SR 2.54 11
If you...spread your table like base housekeepers...I have
difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
Comp 2.103 7
The retribution in the circumstance...is often spread over a
long time...
Comp 2.114 11
It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to
accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself
throughout your estate.
Prd1 2.226 13
...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has...spread a
table for [the islander's] morning meal.
Exp 3.71 19
When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised
of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this
region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds
that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland
mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base...
NR 3.241 12
A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all
their room; they spread themselves at large.
PPh 4.45 7
I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and
spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well... ... It has spread
itself since into a hundred histories, but has added no new element.
SwM 4.98 18
...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and
Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to
spread himself into the minds of thousands.
GoW 4.270 16
[Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture has
spread itself...
ET4 5.59 21
King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he
can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their
weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread;...
ET11 5.179 4
The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an
atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land.
Pow 6.77 14
...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the
continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of force over much time,
instead of condensing it into a moment.
Bty 6.279 23
While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship,
scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving
Ambition and paltering Gain!/
DL 7.119 8
Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for
the traveller;...
WD 7.169 4
Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its
porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of
glittering hours...and not spread itself abroad an equable felicity?
Cour 7.264 8
...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors
run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to
a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
OA 7.331 13
Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in
completing their secular affairs...
PPo 8.255 22
If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/
How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/
Imtl 8.323 10
The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread
around...
HDC 11.29 20
The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice
over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
SHC 11.428 5
...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the
modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their
plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
CPL 11.502 3
A river of thought is always running out of the invisible
world into the mind of man. Shall not they who received the largest streams
spread abroad the healing waters?
FRep 11.530 6
...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the
obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if
we choose to spread this language;...
MAng1 12.231 22
Long after [St. Peter's dome] was completed, and often
since, to this day, rumors are occasionally spread that it is giving way...
MLit 12.312 14
[The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out
the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs
now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with
great energy on England and America. And thus...does an original genius
work and spread himself.
spreading, v. (1)
MLit 12.312 8
[The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out
the genius of the German nation into an activity which, spreading from the
poetic into the scientific, religious and philosophical domains, has made
theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
spreads, v. (4)
ET8 5.141 18
Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias,
which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce,
codes, arts, letters?
PI 8.29 16
I do not wish...to find that my poet is not partaker of the feast he
spreads...
PC 8.229 23
Hope never spreads her golden wings but on unfathomable
seas.
FSLN 11.241 4
...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I
think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the
mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
sprightliness, n. (2)
GoW 4.281 5
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness...
PI 8.49 20
A right ode...will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of
conventionality...
sprightly, adj. (6)
DL 7.128 23
A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in
translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious
meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual
treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the
shadow of a Friend./
Clbs 7.230 1
[Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion
that each sprightly story calls out more;...
PI 8.11 25
We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly conversation without a
similitude.
EWI 11.109 18
These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as
they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything
generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack.
TPar 11.286 23
[Theodore Parker] had a sprightly fancy...
CInt 12.129 27
...it was in a mean country inn that Burns found his fancy
so sprightly.
spring, adj. (4)
Wth 6.120 10
Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his
work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen?
The farmer fats his after the spring work is done, and kills them in the fall.
Insp 8.287 5
Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!
SHC 11.435 5
The morning, the moonlight, the spring day, are magical
painters...
Mem 12.104 12
The spring days when the bluebird arrives have usually
only few hours of fine temperature...
spring, n. (43)
Nat 1.42 7
...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to
the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
MN 1.200 2
The beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a
metaphysical and eternal spring.
MR 1.248 26
The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts
of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
LT 1.286 23
We have come to that which is the spring of all power...
Con 1.298 20
We are reformers in spring and summer...
Con 1.315 2
...[Friar Bernard]...drank of the spring...
Hist 2.21 18
...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring
was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
Nat2 3.171 23
There is the bucket of cold water from the spring...and there
is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
NMW 4.231 2
Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was
born; a man...with the speed and spring of a tiger in action;...
ET10 5.166 10
The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of
temperament in the people.
ET18 5.303 18
...who would see the uncoiling of that tremendous spring...
must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from
the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all
climates...
Pow 6.57 14
...one horse has the spring in him, and another in the whip.
Pow 6.60 7
Here is question, every spring, whether to graft with wax, or
whether with clay;...
Wth 6.89 12
The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach
and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of
nature.
Wth 6.123 7
...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer
built the house in the right spot for...the spring and water-drainage...
Ctr 6.138 1
In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's
spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
Ctr 6.138 12
Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin.
You restore to him his eyes which he left in pledge at Mimir's spring.
Wsp 6.204 8
Nature has...certain proportions in which oxygen and azote
combine, and not less a harmony in faculties, a fitness in the spring and the
regulator.
CbW 6.259 10
Passion...is a powerful spring.
Civ 7.27 27
We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses; bad
roads in spring, snowdrifts in winter, heats in summer;...
WD 7.158 15
Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus.
We had the compass, the printing-press, watches, the spiral spring, the
barometer, the telescope.
Suc 7.298 27
The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored
trees, and says...they should be cut and corded before spring.
Suc 7.299 8
...I have just seen a man...who told me...that every spring was
more beautiful to him than the last.
PI 8.12 2
Note our incessant use of the word like...like thunder, like a bee,
like a year without a spring.
Res 8.152 17
If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or
fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though
insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change
takes place in them between fall and spring;...
Insp 8.269 19
In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar...
Imtl 8.326 7
...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window
may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it
comes back in the spring.
Thor 10.468 15
See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at
by a million farmers all spring and summer, and yet have prevailed...
AKan 11.259 7
I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this
country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round
one spring, and that a vast crime...
FRep 11.520 14
We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape
Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the
spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good
pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want
a prayer, this land wants manure.
FRep 11.532 25
Young men at thirty and even earlier lose all spring and
vivacity...
II 12.66 25
I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the
immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full
in all the gardens...
II 12.84 1
We must suppose life to [men slow in finding their vocation] is a
kind of hibernation, and 't is to be hoped they will be very fat and energetic
in the spring.
Mem 12.97 19
A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately
meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick
and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
Mem 12.104 17
...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes
they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.
CL 12.136 7
...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always
stirring the wish to travel, and in the spring and summer, it commonly gets
the victory.
CL 12.137 16
In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every
spring from the loss of their cattle...
Milt1 12.258 6
...in his essay on Education, [Milton] doubts whether, in the
fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.
Milt1 12.261 23
...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a
secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its
spring;...
ACri 12.302 1
'T is very easy to call the gracious spring poor goody herb-wife...
AgMs 12.361 16
The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to
sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and buy again in the spring.
AgMs 12.361 24
Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they
will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my
cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should
have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.
Trag 12.406 13
Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier, have lost
all spring and vivacity...
Spring, n. (2)
PPo 8.258 6
This picture of the first days of Spring...seems to belong to
Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish
the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it
burns again on the tulips brave./
Insp 8.285 7
When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear
nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the
deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./
spring, v. (16)
Cir 2.319 2
...all things renew, germinate and spring.
Art1 2.368 8
[Beauty] will...spring up between the feet of brave and earnest
men.
Exp 3.78 24
Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair
from the actor's point of view...
Chr1 3.111 4
What is so excellent as strict relations of amity, when they
spring from this deep root?
PPh 4.43 2
[Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers
must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one
man, but its different parts generally spring up in different persons.
ShP 4.206 11
It is the essence of poetry to spring...from the invisible...
Bty 6.295 2
The fine arts...spring from the instincts of the nations that
created them.
Art2 7.57 10
...beauty, truth and goodness...spring eternal in the breast of
man;...
Farm 7.144 24
...the air is the receptacle from which all things spring...
Insp 8.286 1
Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses/...
Carl 10.494 18
Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring
from the intrinsic nature of the actor.
ALin 11.328 21
[The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could
not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering
skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring
again and thrust./
II 12.89 6
[A man] finds that events spring from the same root as persons;...
Pray 12.351 10
Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou
God of all! infuse light into the souls of men, whereby they may be enabled
to know what is the root whence all their evils spring, and by what means
they may avoid them.
Let 12.400 23
Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the
muse among the Germans;...
Trag 12.414 26
...new hopes spring, new affections twine, and the broken
is whole again.
Springfield, Massachusetts, (1)
PerF 10.70 3
...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the
resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how
many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.
Springfield, Massachusetts, (2)
Civ 7.32 4
...it is not New York streets...though stretching...northward until
they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester and Boston,--that
make the real estimation.
AKan 11.256 18
Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages
[in Kansas] have been overstated? ... Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr.
Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered? That
Mr. Robinson of Fitchburg has been imprisoned? Rev. Mr. Nute of
Springfield seized...
spring-flood, n. (1)
Farm 7.135 11
[Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set
the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its
fertile slime/...
spring-head, n. (2)
ET14 5.240 26
[Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning
[universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket
now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited.
ET14 5.244 15
...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the
First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
springing, adj. (1)
SovE 10.195 21
Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding
fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem;...
springing, v. (3)
AmS 1.90 25
...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and
creative words; manners, actions, words, that is...springing spontaneous
from the mind's own sense of good and fair.
ET7 5.119 21
[The English] confide in each other,--English believes in
English. The French feel the superiority of this probity. The Englishman is
not springing a trap for his admiration, but is honestly minding his business.
FRO1 11.480 22
I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are
springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the
sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
springs, n. (14)
Nat 1.48 20
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of
the permanence of nature.
YA 1.375 6
/Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and
inviolable springs./
Bhr 6.179 11
The mysterious communication established across a house
between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
Elo1 7.62 23
...this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy
of the engine, and the curiosity men feel to touch the springs.
Suc 7.306 8
...the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than
salt or sulphur springs.
Suc 7.306 9
...the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than
salt or sulphur springs.
Suc 7.311 1
...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes [the most sanguine's]
little hope less with satire and skepticism, and slackens the springs of
endeavor.
Res 8.142 1
It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida,
in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha...obtain, by merely
sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the
mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
PC 8.231 11
I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs.
Imtl 8.344 16
Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but
inviolable springs./
Thor 10.466 10
The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he
knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
HDC 11.62 16
Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out
from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough
is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The
pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
EdAd 11.392 5
We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to
fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any
of the grand springs of human action.
Bost 12.184 24
...it appears as if some localities of the earth, through
wholesome springs...were preferred before others.
springs, v. (9)
AmS 1.104 7
Fear always springs from ignorance.
LT 1.272 3
Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect.
YA 1.377 12
...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a
new order of things springs up;...
Pt1 3.31 9
...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree
of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
ET14 5.256 26
...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and
less considered the finish. It was their office to lead to the divine sources,
out of which all this, and much more readily springs;...
PI 8.6 17
...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of
matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a
certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts...
MoL 10.248 6
War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months
pass-a new harvest; trade springs up...
EdAd 11.387 6
...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs
from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of
humanity.
FRO1 11.478 27
...the Church should always be new and extemporized,
because it is eternal and springs from the sentiment of men, or it does not
exist.
Springs, Virginia, n. (1)
MoL 10.256 24
...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and
Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the
Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a
trunkful of classic authors.
springtime, n. [spring-time,] (3)
SwM 4.126 8
[Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with
singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence,
that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of
their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
Ill 6.307 8
House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man
and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, /
Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
HDC 11.34 24
...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store
of fish in the spring-time...
sprinkle, v. (2)
Tran 1.359 15
Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be
superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the
sea-beach with a white colony to-day...
Bhr 6.176 21
Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it
for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
sprinkled, v. (2)
ET16 5.276 18
Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the
[Salisbury] plain...
Imtl 8.326 15
[The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body,
and narrowed again by the fury of sect; so that grounds were sprinkled with
holy water to receive only orthodox dust;...
sprinkles, v. (1)
ET4 5.50 8
It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when
we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray
sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
sprinkling, n. (1)
FRep 11.526 14
...really, though you see wealth in the capitals, it is only a
sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...
sprinkling, v. (1)
Comp 2.106 4
How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in
silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence
certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
sprite, n. (1)
Trag 12.409 5
A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...
sprout, v. (1)
Farm 7.147 1
At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been
spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer
manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the
seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
sprouting, n. (1)
LE 1.169 27
Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the
prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
sprouting, v. (1)
ET18 5.305 20
These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they
feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders.
sprouts, v. (2)
MN 1.201 15
Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life,
which sprouts into forests...
FSLN 11.239 11
[The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its
close...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
spruce, adj. (2)
ET16 5.285 15
The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred
years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
Civ 7.17 17
...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce
enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/
This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
spruce, n. (2)
Hist 2.21 2
Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and
the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind
of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced...its
locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce.
CL 12.149 18
...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How
an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed...or root of spruce, black or
white, for strings;...
sprucely, adv. (1)
PI 8.49 26
Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of
a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes. A
small, well-worn, sprucely brushed vocabulary serves him.
sprung, v. (8)
LE 1.159 4
There is no event but sprung somewhere from the soul of man;...
YA 1.380 18
Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have
within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth...
Art1 2.353 23
[Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols]...were not fantastic, but
sprung from a necessity as deep as the world.
Art1 2.359 17
The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from
chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest
materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of
which they all sprung...
Exp 3.72 17
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which
identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body;
life above life, in infinite degrees. The sentiment from which it sprung
determines the dignity of any deed...
Pol1 3.207 12
In this country we are very vain of our political institutions,
which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living
men, from the character and condition of the people...
Wsp 6.199 2
This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung harmless up, refreshed
by blows/...
Bost 12.209 7
Greater cities there are that sprung from [Boston]...
spun, v. (4)
Nat 1.38 15
...wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun...
ET5 5.92 22
[The English] have tilled, builded, forged, spun and woven.
WD 7.169 1
Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its
porch...where you spun tops and snapped marbles;...
HDC 11.36 14
Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines
for summer angling...
spur, n. (3)
ET18 5.306 7
[The English]...are like a dull good horse which lets every
nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
F 6.36 7
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint;...
Milt1 12.264 9
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.
spur, v. (1)
Boks 7.205 16
...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of
civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Abstracts of
my Readings, which will spur the laziest scholar to emulation of his
prodigious performance.
spurious, adj. (5)
Prd1 2.224 8
The spurious prudence...is the god of sots and cowards...
Pt1 3.28 16
...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of
Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and
indulgence;...and, as it was a spurious mode of attaining freedom...they
were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and
deterioration.
PPh 4.41 10
This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed
question concerning his reputed works,--what are genuine, what are
spurious.
Cour 7.267 7
Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of
Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is
excited by inebriating draughts...
Aris 10.31 9
My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed
persons will feel, that there should be model men,-true instead of
spurious pictures of excellence...
spurn, v. (2)
LE 1.175 5
Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant
thought comes...they spurn personal relations;...
SovE 10.197 12
What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll...
able to spurn all outward advantages...
spurned, v. (2)
F 6.20 21
...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris
Wolf with steel or with the weight of mountains,-the one he snapped and
the other he spurned with his heel...
F 6.20 23
When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the
Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held
him; the more he spurned it the stiffer it drew.
spurred, v. (1)
Aris 10.45 21
Men are born to command, and...come into the world booted
and spurred to ride.
spurs, n. (1)
Nat 1.54 5
Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake, and by
the spurs plucked up/ The pine and cedar./
spurs, v. (1)
DL 7.104 4
All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler]...sputters
and spurs...
spurting, v. (2)
Nat2 3.172 19
The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and
spurting of hemlock in the flames...these are the music and pictures of the
most ancient religion.
Res 8.148 24
See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young
people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn,
and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire.
Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar, n (1)
F 6.9 15
Ask Spurzheim...if temperaments decide nothing?...
Spurzheim's, Johann Kaspar, (1)
LLNE 10.337 11
Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
sputters, v. (1)
DL 7.104 3
All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler]...sputters
and spurs...
spy, n. (4)
MR 1.228 7
...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I
address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to
slip along through the world like a footman or a spy...
Pt1 3.26 11
A spy [things] will not suffer;...
ET15 5.261 13
A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of
this solar microscope on every malfaisance, so as to make the public a more
terrible spy than any foreigner;...
CInt 12.125 22
Piety comes to be regarded as a spy and a rebel.
spy, v. (2)
Art1 2.349 14
So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/
Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
WD 7.182 7
Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut
eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
spy-glass, n. (2)
Thor 10.469 23
Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to
press plants; in his pocket...a spy-glass for birds...
CW 12.175 6
...a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...
spying, n. (1)
PI 8.64 3
The poetic gift we want...surely not cold spying and authorship.
spying, v. (2)
NMW 4.246 9
...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what
romantic pictures! what strange situations!--when spying the Alps, by a
sunset in the Sicilian sea;...
PLT 12.14 12
The analytic process is...somewhat mean, as spying.
squabble, n. (1)
ET15 5.270 18
Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the
hour, yet being apprised of...every Church squabble...[the editors of the
London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
squabbles, n. (1)
EdAd 11.390 9
...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of
the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.
squadron, n. (1)
NMW 4.236 6
On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated
squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...
squadrons, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.124 14
The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The
intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these
extemporaneous squadrons.
squalid, adj. (8)
Nat 1.41 17
...the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
SR 2.60 20
Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid
contentment of the times...
ET14 5.254 14
Squalid contentment with conventions...betray the ebb of
life and spirit [in English students].
F 6.10 25
...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by
overwork and squalid poverty...
CbW 6.271 4
Our habit of thought...is not satisfying; in the common
experience I fear it is poor and squalid.
Ill 6.321 3
We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid
condition...
LLNE 10.361 5
Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were...
persons impatient of...the uniformity, perhaps they would say the squalid
contentment of society around them...
HDC 11.53 11
We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of
Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with
which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new
hope they had conceived...
squall, n. (1)
ET2 5.27 24
...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers
we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of
miles every day, which have their own chances of squall, collision, sea-stroke,
piracy, cold and thunder.
squalor, n. (3)
MoS 4.155 24
The studious class are their own victims;...the night is
without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger and
egotism.
Wsp 6.209 1
In creeds never was such levity; witness...the squalor of
Mesmerism...
Thor 10.454 15
[Thoreau]...knew how to be poor without the least hint of
squalor or inelegance.
squander, v. (2)
Elo1 7.81 3
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...if he is penurious, to squander money for some purpose he now
least thinks of...
PPo 8.261 26
While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the
falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the
grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a
single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
squandered, adj. (1)
NMW 4.257 9
...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power,
of these...squandered treasures...
squandered, v. (3)
Tran 1.348 27
On the part of these children it is replied that life and their
faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you
propose to them.
Bhr 6.190 24
Self-reliance...is the guaranty that the powers are not
squandered in too much demonstration.
Mem 12.106 20
[The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all
unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a
memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be
squandered on such frippery.
squandering, n. (1)
Wth 6.113 21
Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who
have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague
squandering on objects not his.
squanders, v. (2)
ET11 5.193 27
Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with
idleness, which, because it squanders such vast power of benefit, has the
mischief of crime.
PI 8.17 16
The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would
more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
square, adj. (22)
Tran 1.331 22
The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on
blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or
Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
Comp 2.121 26
Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie
with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a
demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but, should we not
see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.
Exp 3.84 4
When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make
the account square...
Exp 3.84 5
When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make
the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square.
ET4 5.44 23
The British Empire is reckoned...to comprise a territory of 5,
000,000 square miles.
ET4 5.45 5
The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of
British stock. Add the United States of America, which reckon...20,000,000
of people, on a territory of 3,000,000 square miles...and you have a
population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
ET11 5.181 17
The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in
the heart of London...
Wth 6.116 6
[The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills.
But this pottering in a few square yards of garden is dispiriting and
drivelling.
Bhr 6.181 22
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the
traits of all his ancestors;...
Wsp 6.202 11
If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in
war...let us not be so nice that we cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement
as ponderous...which, being put, will make all square.
CbW 6.249 2
'T is pedantry to estimate nations...by square miles of land...
DL 7.108 8
It is easier to...compute the square extent of a territory...than to
come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
Farm 7.148 18
The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that
acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing in the garden square/ A dead
and standing pool of air/...
Farm 7.148 27
...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a
box of one or two rods square...
WD 7.163 7
...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every
square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
SA 8.104 20
We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people,
their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious
culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to hold fast
the country and penetrate every square mile of it with this American
civilization.
HDC 11.37 25
Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem,
Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
EWI 11.142 5
If before, [the negro] was taxed with such stupidity...that he
could not set a table square to the walls of an apartment, he is now the
principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...
CL 12.143 21
There is no good walk in that state [Illinois]. The reason is, a
square yard of it is as good as a hundred miles.
CW 12.173 21
...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the
square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
Bost 12.209 16
You cannot conquer [Boston]...by square miles...
WSL 12.348 8
There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the
dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square
space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
Square, Bedford, London, E (1)
ET11 5.181 20
The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land
occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
Square, Berkshire, London, (1)
ET11 5.181 13
In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English]
families, the traveller is shown...Lansdowne House in Berkshire Square...
Square, Bowdoin, Boston, M (1)
ET16 5.283 12
I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the
substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
Square, Dock, Boston, Mass [Square,] (2)
Wth 6.122 14
When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes
out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from
his windows;...
Wth 6.123 1
...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer
built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the
garden, the field and the road. So Dock Square yields the point, and things
have their own way.
square, n. (10)
Hist 2.14 27
...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in
their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square...
SL 2.155 4
Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue,
said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor; the light of the public square will
test its value.
SL 2.158 1
In every troop of boys that whoop and run in each yard and
square, a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a
few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a
formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
Art1 2.349 8
...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked
square./
NER 3.249 2
In the suburb, in the town,/ On the railway, in the square,/
Came a beam of goodness down/ Doubling daylight everywhere/...
SS 7.11 1
Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must
frequent the public square.
DL 7.108 26
Let us come then out of the public square and enter the
domestic precinct.
Clbs 7.242 25
There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility,
which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a
hollow square...were rebuilt with new purpose.
MoL 10.253 12
There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke
cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front,
and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
SMC 11.350 16
The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for
a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.
Square, Printing-House, Lo (1)
ET15 5.265 14
I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times
office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House
Square.
Square, Russell, London, E (2)
ET1 5.3 10
...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground...
to a house in Russell Square...
ET11 5.181 21
The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land
occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
Square, St. Michael's, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.144 24
Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass
through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square...
square, v. (1)
ShP 4.190 5
A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say,
I am full of life...to-day I will square the circle...
Square, Woburn, London, En (1)
ET11 5.181 20
The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land
occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
squarely, adv. (1)
Cour 7.268 27
The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being
afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common
methods apply to this affair.
square-pewed, adj. (1)
EzRy 10.383 22
I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra
Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold,
unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
squares, n. (3)
GoW 4.274 4
[Goethe] sought [Proteus] in public squares and main streets...
ET11 5.181 22
The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the
series of squares called Belgravia.
CPL 11.505 27
In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery
of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of
their revolution about the sun, that the squares of the times vary as the
cubes of the distances.
squat, adj. (1)
F 6.11 4
So [a man] has but one future, and that is already...described in
that little fatty face...and squat form.
squaw, n. (1)
HDC 11.60 24
...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw
being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian
deserter...
Squaw Sachem, n. (3)
HDC 11.37 24
Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem,
Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
HDC 11.38 2
Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit
of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...
HDC 11.51 10
In 1644, Squaw Sachem...with two sachems of Wachusett...
intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
squaws, n. (1)
HDC 11.52 3
At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife
of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my
husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
squeak, v. (2)
LE 1.161 21
In spite of all the rueful abortions that squeak and gibber in
the street...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
TPar 11.291 8
There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy
that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree
with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties
will not play them true, and they do not wish to squeak and gibber, and so
they shut their mouths.
squeaking, adj. (3)
ET9 5.148 1
If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he
has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
SA 8.87 1
It seems to require several generations of education to train a
squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
LLNE 10.342 9
...a sympathizing Englishman with a squeaking voice
interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire
whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
squeal, v. (2)
Elo1 7.69 11
...[the Sicilians] crow, squeal, hiss, cackle, bark, and scream
like mad...
EWI 11.118 22
It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding
them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech;...
squeals, n. (1)
SA 8.87 5
Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the
slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in
his contemptible squeals of joy.
squeamishness, n. (1)
EWI 11.144 14
...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint...
outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity. The anti-slavery
of the whole world is dust in the balance before this,-is a poor
squeamishness and nervousness...
squib, n. (1)
Prch 10.237 22
...when we...come into the house of thought and worship,
we come with the purpose...to see that life...is no hopping squib...
squid, n. (1)
CL 12.165 8
[Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means
John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.