S., Major to Saib

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

S., Major [Abel Moore], n. (2)

    AgMs 12.362 4 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth.
    AgMs 12.362 16 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.

S---, n. (1)

    SS 7.3 12 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one?

s of Atlantic brine bounded b (1)

    s of. latitude and longitude?

Saadi, n. (19)

    SwM 4.143 25 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...
    ShP 4.197 8 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer perhaps; of Chaucer, of Saadi.
    ShP 4.199 6 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...
    ShP 4.216 6 ...Saadi says, It was rumored abroad that I was penitent; but what had I to do with repentance?
    ET2 5.27 19 There are many advantages, says Saadi, in sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them.
    ET9 5.151 20 Aesop and Montaigne, Cervantes and Saadi are men of the world;...
    Wth 6.95 6 The rich man, says Saadi, is everywhere expected and at home.
    CbW 6.261 25 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know the realities of human life.
    Bty 6.298 26 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.
    Boks 7.219 1 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Gulistan of Saadi;...
    Clbs 7.223 1 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/...
    Clbs 7.223 7 But [Saadi] has no companion;/ Come ten, or come a million,/ Good Saadi dwells alone./
    OA 7.317 25 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years...
    PI 8.64 12 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...
    Elo2 8.121 17 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    PPo 8.236 1 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he ate, and drank the wind./
    PPo 8.237 9 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus-Firdusi, Enweri, Nisami, Jelaleddin, Saadi, Hafiz and Jami-have ceased to be empty names;...
    FSLN 11.236 16 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.
    CW 12.172 14 Little joy has he who has no garden, said Saadi.

Saadi's, n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 16 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan; Luther's Table-Talk;...

sabbath, adj. (1)

    MN 1.220 4 What a debt is ours to that old religion, which, in the childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the country of New England...

Sabbath, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.140 15 ...can [the poor preacher] ask a fellow-creature to come to Sabbath meetings...
    SHC 11.434 1 [Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat on a Sabbath day...

Sabbath Conventions, n. (1)

    NER 3.251 14 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing... in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...

sabbath, n. (2)

    LT 1.283 19 [If poets were ravished by their thought] Society could then manage to release their shoulder from its wheel and grant them for a time this privilege of sabbath.
    Chr1 3.115 14 Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I will keep sabbath or holy time...

Sabbath, n. (15)

    DSA 1.137 8 ...now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature;...
    DSA 1.143 6 I have heard a devout person, who prized the Sabbath, say... On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    DSA 1.150 16 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...
    Con 1.321 8 If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions, give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
    Tran 1.337 8 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David; yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I was fainting for lack of food.
    NER 3.251 17 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...meeting to call in question the authority of the Sabbath...
    ET13 5.216 13 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
    WD 7.169 12 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    Prch 10.236 21 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to check this headlong racing...
    Prch 10.236 25 The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age...
    CSC 10.373 6 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers... inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath, the Church and the Ministry.
    CSC 10.373 10 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath...
    MMEm 10.412 21 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden].
    EWI 11.116 2 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath.
    Wom 11.404 8 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.

sabbaths, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.107 5 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.

Sabbaths, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.411 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths...
    Bost 12.194 14 Who shall restore to us the odoriferous Sabbaths which made the earth and the humble roof a sanctity?

Sabine, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.256 4 ...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes and their heroisms come in fulness of time.

sable, adj. (4)

    PI 8.48 4 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PI 8.48 6 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    SovE 10.191 6 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...
    MMEm 10.397 21 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./

Sable, Cape, Nova Scotia, (1)

    ET2 5.26 26 [The good ship] has passed Cape Sable;...

sables, n. (1)

    Suc 7.309 10 ...do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation.

sabre, n. (1)

    F 6.5 12 The Turk...rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.

saccharine, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.227 26 One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
    Cir 2.318 1 I own I am gladdened by seeing the predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...
    NER 3.252 17 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain...

Sacchi, Andrea, n. (1)

    Art1 2.361 23 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome and to the paintings of...Sacchi...

sacerdotal, adj. (3)

    Hist 2.6 15 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures,--in the sacerdotal, the imperial palaces...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Aris 10.49 22 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating...any class to sacerdotal education and power.
    Chr2 10.107 21 [The clergy] have dropped, with the sacerdotal garb and manners of the last century, many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.

sachem, n. (5)

    Hist 2.16 2 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Dem1 10.22 1 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
    HDC 11.52 1 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language? If a man be wise, and his sachem weak, must he obey him?
    HDC 11.52 9 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good;...
    HDC 11.53 4 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...

Sachem, n. (3)

    HDC 11.36 6 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck...
    HDC 11.51 12 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet, the great Sachem of Concord and Mystic, with two sachems of Wachusett... intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.57 16 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...

Sachem, Squaw, 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 11 In 1644, Squaw Sachem...with two sachems of Wachusett... intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...

sachems, n. (2)

    HDC 11.51 12 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.52 14 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you?

Sachems, n. (1)

    HDC 11.37 9 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms.

sack, n. (5)

    F 6.22 11 Man is not order of nature, sack and sack...
    Cour 7.270 9 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram, heedless of the siege and sack of the city;...
    PI 8.8 3 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...
    War 11.171 22 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the sack of towns...
    CInt 12.114 7 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...

Sack, Walpurgis, n. (1)

    ACri 12.289 26 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his Walpurgis Sack...in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...

sackbut, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.241 14 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut;...

sacks, n. (2)

    MR 1.251 26 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of water and two sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
    UGM 4.13 9 We must not be sacks and stomachs.

sacrament, n. (2)

    MR 1.245 20 Economy is...a sacrament, when its aim is grand;...
    GoW 4.267 7 The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Sacrament, n. (1)

    LS 11.4 1 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year...

sacramented, v. (1)

    CbW 6.274 18 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.

Sacramento River, Californi (1)

    UGM 4.4 3 You say...in the hills of the Sacramento there is gold for the gathering.

sacraments, n. (1)

    ET6 5.106 1 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons; so that a presentation is a circumstance as valid as a contract. Introductions are sacraments.

sacred, adj. (107)

    Nat 1.42 6 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem...
    AmS 1.99 22 Herein [the great soul] unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct...
    DSA 1.126 7 ...all the expressions of this [moral] sentiment are sacred...
    DSA 1.145 20 ...refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men...
    LE 1.156 9 ...the intellect hath somewhat so sacred in its possessions that the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    LE 1.174 25 Think alone, and all places are friendly and sacred.
    MN 1.215 27 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim, so sacred or so large, that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
    MN 1.220 23 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it, and with it the power to communicate again with these sharers of a more sacred idea?
    MR 1.234 15 ...to [the saint] the present hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour.
    MR 1.242 17 ...for ends so sacred and dear some relaxation must be had...
    MR 1.243 21 Is our housekeeping sacred and honorable?
    MR 1.253 21 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    LT 1.259 18 The Times...are to be studied...as sacred leaves...
    LT 1.281 6 ...the reforming movement is sacred in its origin;...
    Con 1.303 15 ...here [in the existing world] is sacred fact.
    Con 1.304 6 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
    Con 1.304 20 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans...passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
    Con 1.317 22 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head, which shall be a sacred history to some future ages.
    Con 1.320 23 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself...
    Hist 2.12 21 ...to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred...
    Hist 2.22 14 Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined...were the check on the old rovers;...
    Hist 2.27 12 The student interprets...the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own. To the sacred history of the world he has the same key.
    SR 2.50 11 Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
    SR 2.50 23 No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
    SR 2.66 9 All things are made sacred by relation to [divine wisdom]...
    Comp 2.107 2 Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him.
    Comp 2.109 3 Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
    Lov1 2.169 16 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes...
    Lov1 2.172 27 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she...was a sacred precinct.
    Lov1 2.187 15 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together,--those once sacred features...was deciduous...
    Fdsp 2.201 6 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation which is a kind of absolute...
    Prd1 2.223 6 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...
    OS 2.270 4 ...I desire, even by profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity...
    OS 2.287 5 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.297 6 ...[man] will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred;...
    Cir 2.316 14 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred;...
    Cir 2.318 14 No facts are to me sacred;...
    Cir 2.319 27 In nature...the coming only is sacred.
    Pt1 3.11 23 All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
    Pt1 3.18 16 ...we use defects and deformities to a sacred purpose...
    Mrs1 3.137 4 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures...
    Nat2 3.188 5 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred.
    Nat2 3.188 16 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...they are sacred;...
    NER 3.269 16 In [scholars'] experience the scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt...
    UGM 4.30 26 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death sacred;...
    UGM 4.34 5 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery;...
    UGM 4.34 7 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery; but the sense of the pictures is sacred...
    SwM 4.135 1 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations. The mode, as well as the essence, was sacred.
    ShP 4.200 9 The Liturgy...is...a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,--these collected...from the prayers and meditations of every saint and sacred writer all over the world.
    GoW 4.267 23 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.
    GoW 4.269 8 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person...
    ET6 5.108 26 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    ET13 5.220 18 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return, or find a place in their once sacred stalls.
    Wth 6.126 12 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations...
    Ctr 6.132 21 There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists.
    Ctr 6.156 27 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
    CbW 6.247 16 I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.
    Ill 6.324 9 ...the Hindoos, in their sacred writings, express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    Civ 7.33 18 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane...
    Art2 7.54 8 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...
    DL 7.108 17 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks...
    DL 7.110 11 How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
    DL 7.122 25 ...the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred.
    Farm 7.144 2 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it.
    Boks 7.192 21 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into the heart of sacred cities...
    Boks 7.200 19 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.
    Boks 7.218 11 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean...the sacred books of each nation...
    Boks 7.218 14 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, which constitute the sacred books of Christendom, [the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
    Cour 7.273 3 ...the sacred courage is connected with the heart.
    Cour 7.273 13 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
    Cour 7.274 22 Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world;...
    Suc 7.308 19 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    SA 8.90 27 [The highly organized person] of all men would keep the right of choice sacred...
    PPo 8.259 9 [Hafiz] has run through the whole gamut of passion,-from the sacred to the borders, and over the borders, of the profane.
    PPo 8.259 21 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token of his mistress.
    Insp 8.287 20 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear; if you have sensibility, it admits you to sacred interiors;...
    Insp 8.294 4 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is not at last a few individuals, or any scared heroes...
    Dem1 10.14 5 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as sacred...
    Dem1 10.14 6 ...says Plutarch...we cannot believe that men are sacred and favorites of Heaven.
    Dem1 10.23 25 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds.
    Aris 10.31 5 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is...inevitable, sacred...
    Edc1 10.128 15 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round. In that routine are the sacred relations, the passions that bind and sever.
    SovE 10.194 8 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...
    Prch 10.219 3 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters...on all sides; but the sacred affirmative it hides in the deepest abyss.
    Prch 10.222 25 We are in transition...to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...its equal energy in what is called brute nature as in what is called sacred.
    Prch 10.229 7 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma; as if it was the liturgy, or the chapel that was sacred...
    Plu 10.303 4 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...
    LLNE 10.336 14 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws...
    LLNE 10.337 13 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show.
    CSC 10.375 7 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit, emerging...and lighting a clownish face with sacred fire.
    Thor 10.476 4 [Thoreau] had...an unwillingness to exhibit to profane eyes what was still sacred in his own...
    LS 11.13 8 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals...
    HDC 11.86 6 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided. But even more sacred influences than these have mingled here with the stream of human life.
    EWI 11.131 2 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand. It should be as sacred as the temple of God.
    FSLN 11.234 6 I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of covenant, no, not on sacred forms...
    AsSu 11.247 12 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education...with sacred family ties...
    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;...
    FRO1 11.480 8 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes...
    FRO1 11.480 20 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers,-and this by the sacred bands of the Sanitary Commission.
    CPL 11.502 8 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation.
    CPL 11.506 6 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me. Nothing holds me. I will indulge in my sacred fury.
    II 12.79 16 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance.
    CInt 12.130 9 If I had young men to reach, I should say to them, Keep the intellect sacred.
    CL 12.151 1 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
    MLit 12.328 9 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...
    WSL 12.343 19 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class;...
    Pray 12.352 27 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a solitude as strict and sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...

Sacred Band, n. (2)

    YA 1.382 19 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
    LLNE 10.327 17 Anciently, society was in the course of things. There was a Sacred Band...

Sacred Bands, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.480 9 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands...

Sacred Book of China, n. (1)

    Wom 11.414 25 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...

sacredly, adv. (4)

    Nat 1.48 19 Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man. Their permanence is sacredly respected...
    Fdsp 2.199 10 We seek our friend not sacredly...
    Imtl 8.326 17 ...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
    Imtl 8.346 15 [Immortality] must be sacredly treated.

sacredness, n. (9)

    AmS 1.88 20 The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...is transferred to the record.
    LT 1.279 5 I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
    SR 2.50 18 ...What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?...
    ET18 5.308 3 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
    DL 7.106 10 The street is old as Nature; the persons all have their sacredness.
    Aris 10.36 25 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Supl 10.170 27 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience.
    War 11.154 1 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life. It introduced the sacredness of marriage among them.
    FRep 11.519 14 The spirit of our political action, for the most part, considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.

sacrifice, n. (28)

    DSA 1.149 10 There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding...the readiness of sacrifice, - comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    MR 1.256 21 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice.
    SL 2.131 17 If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice.
    Hsm1 2.253 13 ...the soul of a better quality...says, I will obey the God, and the sacrifice and the fire he will provide.
    Nat2 3.192 4 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations. Were the ends of nature so great and cogent as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
    Boks 7.200 19 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.
    SA 8.106 19 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before me.
    Imtl 8.343 12 The moral sentiment measures itself by sacrifice.
    PerF 10.88 8 ...the cause of right for which we labor...will know how to compensate our extremest sacrifice.
    Chr2 10.92 23 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.
    Chr2 10.96 6 There is no labor or sacrifice to which [the moral sentiment] will not bring a man...
    Chr2 10.104 13 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome, the human sacrifice of the Druids...are examples of this perversion.
    MMEm 10.412 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice...
    MMEm 10.431 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;-I who never made a sacrifice to record...
    LS 11.4 11 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...
    LS 11.4 13 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God; Cudworth and Warburton, that this was not a sacrifice but a sacrificial feast;...
    LS 11.4 14 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...and Bishop Hoadley, that it was neither a sacrifice nor a feast after sacrifice...
    LS 11.4 15 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...and Bishop Hoadley, that it was neither a sacrifice nor a feast after sacrifice...
    LS 11.22 24 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows.
    War 11.173 8 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    EPro 11.321 13 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice...
    ALin 11.337 24 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
    SMC 11.360 10 Consider what sacrifice and havoc in business arrangements this war-blast made.
    SMC 11.376 3 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good, lifting private sacrifice to the sublime, that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    Wom 11.418 12 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events, even to the sacrifice of the highest beauty.
    FRep 11.525 3 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...quite capable of any sacrifice except of their honor.
    PLT 12.9 10 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars to be courtiers and diners-out...
    PLT 12.30 23 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.

sacrifice, v. (11)

    AmS 1.100 10 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
    MR 1.231 6 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce], he must sacrifice all the brilliant dreams of boyhood and youth as dreams;...
    Int 2.344 23 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity.
    Civ 7.17 5 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment/...
    Edc1 10.138 4 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity...
    Prch 10.218 16 ...a boundless ambition of intellect, willingness to sacrifice personal interests for the integrity of the character,-all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Schr 10.287 25 He that would sacrifice at [the Muse's] altar must not leave a few flowers...
    HDC 11.84 17 [Our fathers] economize, that they may sacrifice.
    SMC 11.357 14 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves.
    PLT 12.56 22 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...
    Milt1 12.270 24 That which drew [Milton] to the party was his love of liberty, ideal liberty; this therefore he could not sacrifice to any party.

sacrificed, v. (16)

    MN 1.192 23 I would not have the laborer sacrificed to the result...
    MN 1.192 24 ...I would not have the laborer sacrificed to my convenience and pride...
    NMW 4.234 12 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
    ET5 5.95 5 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin.
    ET10 5.167 13 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed...
    ET10 5.168 16 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam].
    Wth 6.94 7 This speculative genius is the madness of a few for the gain of the world. The projectors are sacrificed, but the public is the gainer.
    Ctr 6.136 16 The causes to which we have sacrificed...would show like roots of bitterness...
    DL 7.114 20 ...in getting wealth the man is generally sacrificed, and often is sacrificed without acquiring wealth at last.
    Insp 8.275 1 The artists must be sacrificed to their art.
    MoL 10.258 11 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed;...
    LLNE 10.326 9 The former generations...sacrificed uniformly the citizen to the State.
    EPro 11.319 26 This act [the Emancipation Proclamation] makes that the lives of our heroes have not been sacrificed in vain.
    FRep 11.543 9 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in, no weak party or nationality sacrificed...
    II 12.86 11 The artist must be sacrificed.
    Milt1 12.249 16 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for...the subtility and pomp of the language; but the whole is sacrificed to the particular.

sacrificer, n. (1)

    CL 12.149 10 The Hindoos called fire Agni...the sacrificer visible to all...

sacrifices, n. (15)

    MR 1.256 15 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to greater sacrifices...
    LT 1.277 26 I cannot feel any pleasure in sacrifices which display to me such partiality of character.
    Con 1.315 22 These are stories of...romantic sacrifices...
    SL 2.136 1 We must needs intermeddle and have things in our own way, until the sacrifices and virtues of society are odious.
    GoW 4.279 11 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear. I am only man, he says; I breathe and work for man; and this in poverty and extreme sacrifices.
    ET1 5.8 23 A great man, [Landor] said, should make great sacrifices...
    ET11 5.185 1 ...there are few noble families [in England] which have not paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the sacrifices of the Russian war.
    ET12 5.199 21 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford], some of them in the mood of making sacrifices for peace of mind...
    ET13 5.215 20 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
    ET18 5.301 16 [The English] have...put an end to human sacrifices in the East.
    Cour 7.253 12 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
    SA 8.106 16 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
    SA 8.106 17 Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
    HDC 11.86 12 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    CInt 12.121 2 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office, and well deserving and well paying the last sacrifices and the highest ability.

sacrifices, v. (7)

    Con 1.318 20 ...[the conservative party] sacrifices to despair;...
    YA 1.374 22 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
    Cir 2.315 1 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it;...
    ET8 5.136 16 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession...
    Ctr 6.131 13 For performance, nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done;...
    War 11.167 7 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...he sacrifices himself...
    FRep 11.519 14 Party sacrifices man to the measure.

sacrificial, adj. (4)

    ET16 5.278 5 The sacrificial stone, as it is called, is the only one in all these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the action of fire...
    ET16 5.280 25 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...and show us what he knew of the astronomical and sacrificial stones.
    LS 11.4 13 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God; Cudworth and Warburton, that this was not a sacrifice but a sacrificial feast;...
    FRep 11.511 20 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds.

sacrificing, v. (4)

    YA 1.381 9 The farmer, after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
    NMW 4.233 14 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing every thing...to his aim;...
    Ctr 6.131 22 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias, sacrificing his symmetry to his working power.
    Dem1 10.21 23 Great men feel that they are so by sacrificing their selfishness...

sacrilege, n. (1)

    Tran 1.337 7 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David;...

sacristan, n. (1)

    ShP 2.07 15 Did Shakspeare confide to any...sacristan, or surrogate in Stratford, the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Nights' Dream]?

sad, adj. (43)

    DSA 1.135 22 ...you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay... of faith in society.
    DSA 1.137 25 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at [the preacher], and then...into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
    LT 1.281 13 The sad Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    SR 2.56 6 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    SR 2.82 1 I...at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is...the sad self...that I fled from.
    Comp 2.123 23 Look at those who have less faculty, and one feels sad...
    SL 2.166 1 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form, poor and sad and single...go out to service...
    Fdsp 2.216 24 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad...
    Prd1 2.228 27 ...what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?
    Cir 2.307 22 Rich, noble and great [persons called high and worthy] are by the liberality of our speech, but truth is sad.
    Exp 3.59 5 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.
    Exp 3.79 12 Saints are sad, because they behold sin...from the point of view of the conscience...
    Chr1 3.94 13 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him, a torrent of strong sad light...
    Nat2 3.185 14 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
    SwM 4.97 6 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints--a beatitude...earnest, solitary, even sad;...
    SwM 4.130 8 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. ... But this topic suggests a sad afterthought, that here we find the seat of his own pain.
    SwM 4.141 16 The sad muse [Swedenborg] loves night and death and the pit.
    ShP 4.189 17 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...
    ET8 5.127 4 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations...
    ET8 5.127 10 [The English], too, believe...that your merry heart goes all the way, your sad one tires in a mile.
    Bhr 6.188 17 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance...
    Wsp 6.240 13 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    CbW 6.273 2 An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth:-- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    Bty 6.288 7 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency. They know it too, and peep with their eyes to see if you detect their sad plight.
    SS 7.7 21 Michel Angelo had a sad, sour time of it.
    DL 7.125 13 We are too easily pleased. I think this sad result appears in the manners.
    Elo2 8.127 17 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion.
    Insp 8.270 13 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Insp 8.284 10 My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
    Imtl 8.327 26 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable, though always clothed in somewhat sad and Stygian colors.
    Imtl 8.329 15 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Edc1 10.138 12 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies.
    SovE 10.206 10 It is very sad to see men who think their goodness made of themselves;...
    MMEm 10.414 21 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...
    MMEm 10.424 14 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour...
    Thor 10.481 26 [Thoreau]...became very jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling.
    GSt 10.506 23 It is sad that such a life [as George Stearns's] should end prematurely;...
    EWI 11.103 14 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
    HCom 11.340 5 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    MLit 12.311 2 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them, and give him to the midnight a sad, solitary, diseased man;...
    MLit 12.333 6 It is true, though somewhat sad, that every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself.
    MLit 12.335 6 The world does not run smoother than of old,/ There are sad haps that must be told./
    AgMs 12.362 26 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I [Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes.

sad-colored, adj. (1)

    ET2 5.29 15 Is this sad-colored circle [of the sea] an eternal cemetery?

sadden, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.189 13 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it.

saddens, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.98 18 The covetousness or the malignity which saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.
    MLit 12.333 25 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts. And this is the insatiable craving which alternately saddens and gladdens men at this day.

sadder, adj. (3)

    ET8 5.127 2 I do not know that [the English] have sadder brows than their neighbors of northern climates.
    ET8 5.127 5 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations: not sadder, but slow and staid...
    MMEm 10.400 23 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days. More and sadder work for this young girl.

saddest, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.104 21 ...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is familiar.

saddle, n. (10)

    MR 1.251 25 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel, with a wooden platter hanging at his saddle...
    Mrs1 3.144 15 ...here is...Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.
    MoS 4.166 14 [Montaigne] likes his saddle.
    ET6 5.105 12 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made.
    ET12 5.211 9 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...with a saddle and gallop of twenty miles a day... the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    Res 8.150 15 In England everybody rides in the saddle;...
    HDC 11.60 10 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she plucked a saddle from under the head of one of them, took a horse...and rode through the forest to her home.
    HDC 11.60 12 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and having girt the saddle on, she...rode through the forest to her home.
    SMC 11.361 3 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written...in the saddle...
    CL 12.141 26 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs, or a long gallop of many miles in the saddle...

saddle, v. (1)

    Con 1.298 7 ...[conservatism] must saddle itself with the mountainous load of the violence and vice of society...

Saddle-back Mountain, Maine (1)

    Supl 10.170 8 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits, as... Saddle-back, etc., mountains, but only them 'ere rises...

saddler's, n. (1)

    Carl 10.489 6 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman, such as you would find in any saddler's or iron-dealer's shop...

sad-eyed, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.314 4 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...

sadly, adv. (10)

    Con 1.315 25 ...our husbands and brothers discoursed sadly on what we could save and give in the hard times.
    ET8 5.128 17 [The English] sported sadly;...
    SS 7.8 17 Dear heart! take it sadly home to thee,--there is no cooperation.
    PI 8.51 14 Time sadly overcometh all things...
    Comc 8.173 14 ...when the men appear who ask our votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance.
    MMEm 10.414 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by the rich autumn landscape around her...
    EWI 11.135 8 There are other comparisons and other imperative duties which come sadly to mind...
    ALin 11.331 2 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly.
    SMC 11.353 1 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had got sadly out of gear...
    II 12.86 12 Take it sadly home to thy heart,-the artist must pay for his learning and doing with his life.

sadness, n. (8)

    Nat 1.11 14 To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
    SR 2.81 25 At home I dream that...at Rome, I can...lose my sadness.
    ShP 4.219 5 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...an obligation, a sadness...fell on them...
    Insp 8.287 20 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...it has the sadness of Nature...
    Schr 10.262 15 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing.
    Schr 10.263 4 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper, infinitely removed from sadness, which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
    MMEm 10.426 9 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism.
    MLit 12.317 14 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life. What then? We concede in sadness the fact.

safe, adj. (55)

    DSA 1.125 3 By [the religious sentiment] is the universe made safe and habitable...
    LE 1.170 17 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe...
    MN 1.194 1 Even the scholar is not safe;...
    MN 1.213 9 By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
    SR 2.73 26 ...if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
    Comp 2.100 11 If the government is cruel, the governor's life is not safe.
    SL 2.149 17 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose; he is not their fellow. Every society protects itself. The company is perfectly safe...
    Prd1 2.236 1 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Hsm1 2.263 24 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud, and for ever safe;...
    Cir 2.308 23 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe...
    Pt1 3.4 9 ...even the poets are contented...to write poems from the fancy, at a safe distance from their own experience.
    Pt1 3.23 11 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age...she detaches from him a new self, that the kind may be safe from accidents to which the individual is exposed.
    Exp 3.78 14 ...every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another.
    Exp 3.84 22 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.
    MoS 4.158 17 The generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all;...nothing else is safe.
    GoW 4.273 5 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far; and one step farther he hazarded, and brought himself safe back.
    ET4 5.45 15 [The English] are free forcible men, in a country where life is safe...
    ET5 5.82 15 Life [in England] is safe, and personal rights;...
    ET6 5.105 16 ...every one of these islanders [the English] is an island himself, safe, tranquil, incommunicable.
    ET8 5.141 9 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving; and so freedom is safe...
    ET15 5.269 9 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty. The Bench of Bishops is still less safe.
    ET18 5.301 23 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
    F 6.17 8 It would not be safe to say when a captain like Bonaparte...would be born in Boston;...
    Wth 6.84 2 ...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
    Wth 6.105 21 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply.
    Wth 6.112 3 As long as your genius buys, the investment is safe...
    Wth 6.117 3 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic family from ruin, nor will bigger incomes make free spending safe.
    Wsp 6.202 14 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe;...
    Civ 7.21 17 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost...
    Elo1 7.68 5 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal spirits, and makes all safe and secure...
    Elo1 7.76 25 You are safe in your rural district...
    Elo1 7.77 3 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
    Elo1 7.77 8 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
    DL 7.121 7 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    Boks 7.205 18 Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses;...
    Cour 7.257 25 A large majority of men...beginning early to be occupied day by day with some routine of safe industry, never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    Cour 7.269 9 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.
    Suc 7.285 25 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
    PI 8.16 17 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist...
    PC 8.234 13 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe.
    Imtl 8.326 17 ...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
    Dem1 10.15 27 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people.
    Dem1 10.16 7 The young man takes a leap in the dark and alights safe.
    Aris 10.47 14 As long as I am in my place, I am safe.
    Chr2 10.96 20 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./
    Chr2 10.100 11 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each;...
    Edc1 10.138 6 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity...
    SovE 10.211 19 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure, and then it would not be safe from desperate individuals.
    EzRy 10.384 16 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York.
    SlHr 10.438 1 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    FSLN 11.232 7 I too think the musts are a safe company to follow...
    AsSu 11.248 24 ...it will only do to send foolish persons to Washington, if you wish them to be safe.
    JBB 11.271 4 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe.
    PLT 12.61 26 Lovers of men are as safe as the sun.
    II 12.85 27 What you have learned and done, is safe and fruitful.

safe, n. (1)

    Tran 1.332 14 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...if I put a gold eagle in my safe, I find it again to-morrow;...

safeguard, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.211 15 ...one foreign observer thinks he has found the safeguard in the sanctity of Marriage among us;...
    Ctr 6.155 24 Solitude, the safeguard of modiocrity, is, to genius, the stern friend...
    Scot 11.467 12 What an ornament and safeguard is humor!

safeguards, n. (1)

    PerF 10.85 18 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us...the safeguards of rectitude.

safe-keeping, n. (1)

    MoS 4.164 21 The neighboring lords and gentry brought jewels and papers to [Montaigne] for safe-keeping.

safely, adv. (18)

    MN 1.197 18 We may...safely study the mind in nature...
    Con 1.299 22 ...it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
    SR 2.47 2 [The divine idea] may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues...
    Lov1 2.177 4 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Hsm1 2.263 21 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    SwM 4.131 18 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy...
    SwM 4.132 27 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held...as a quite arbitrary and accidental picture of the truth,--not as the truth. Any other symbol would be as good; then this is safely seen.
    MoS 4.183 6 All moods may be safely tried...
    Elo1 7.74 5 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but...the wax which Ulysses stuffed into the ears of his sailors to pass the Sirens safely.
    WD 7.167 13 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman at the rising of what constellation he might safely sow...
    Boks 7.192 20 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Cour 7.263 7 It is the groom who knows the jumping horse well who can safely ride him.
    SA 8.90 15 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society in which everything can be safely said...doubles the value of life.
    Chr2 10.113 19 ...whoever feels any love or skill for ethical studies may safely lay out all his strength and genius in working in that mine.
    PLT 12.56 14 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so natural...will surely lead us out safely;...
    II 12.67 13 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    ACri 12.291 4 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished;...
    MLit 12.327 14 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...

safer, adj. (9)

    Comp 2.118 10 Blame is safer than praise.
    Cir 2.315 7 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes;...
    PPh 4.67 8 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
    ET4 5.73 12 It is a proverb in England that it is safer to shoot a man than a hare.
    Wth 6.96 23 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart.
    PC 8.231 6 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...believing that a free press will prove safer than the censorship;...
    EWI 11.101 7 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    JBS 11.280 17 It would be far safer and nearer the truth to say that all people, in proportion to their sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
    Let 12.393 24 The sea and the iron road are safer toys for such ungrown people;...

safest, adj. (4)

    ET11 5.191 2 Castles are proud things, but 't is safest to be outside of them.
    Wth 6.122 5 Mr. Stephenson...turned out to be the safest and cheapest engineer.
    Clbs 7.225 17 ...of all the cordials known to us, the best, safest and most exhilarating...is society;...
    Suc 7.291 7 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.

Safety, Committees of, n. (1)

    AKan 11.263 10 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...

safety, n. (29)

    DSA 1.122 17 ...the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God, do enter into that man with justice.
    Con 1.324 15 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me, shall...become fountains of safety.
    Tran 1.336 10 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
    Prd1 2.235 13 In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
    Hsm1 2.250 8 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease...
    Nat2 3.171 24 There is...the wood-fire to which the chilled traveller rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
    NR 3.230 27 In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses.
    MoS 4.160 9 [Skepticism] is a position taken up for better defence, as of more safety...
    NMW 4.233 16 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing every thing,--money, troops, generals, and his own safety also, to his aim;...
    ET2 5.27 26 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater; but the speed is safety...
    ET11 5.180 20 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country...makes the safety of the English hall.
    ET15 5.271 26 There is always safety in valor.
    Wth 6.100 23 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...so as to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.
    CbW 6.270 18 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation;...
    SS 7.15 13 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms, and our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diagonal line.
    Farm 7.151 12 The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from his enemy...takes poor land.
    SA 8.83 17 Nature made us all intelligent of these signs, for our safety and our happiness.
    SA 8.104 13 We have come to feel that by ourselves our safety must be bought;...
    PPo 8.242 12 The crocodile in the rolling stream had no safety from Afrasiyab.
    PerF 10.75 23 [Labor] is...in works of safety, of delight, of wrath, of science.
    PerF 10.86 17 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
    Edc1 10.151 24 ...you see [the young man's] want of those tastes and perceptions which make the power and safety of your character.
    MMEm 10.433 6 It is essential to the safety of every mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically ascertained;...
    HDC 11.71 15 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...
    War 11.174 8 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham...
    FSLC 11.213 21 Let us know that not by the public, but by ourselves, our safety must be bought.
    JBS 11.281 17 ...our blind statesmen go up and down, with committees of vigilance and safety, hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
    ACiv 11.305 27 There can be no safety until this step [emancipation] is taken.
    EPro 11.322 24 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This one [Emancipation], too, bristled with danger, but through it was the sole safety.

Safety, Provincial Committe (1)

    HDC 11.72 23 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety.

safety-lamp, n. (1)

    Aris 10.40 8 ...if the healer of small-pox, the contriver of the safety-lamp... should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?

sagacious, adj. (2)

    EdAd 11.388 13 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics, sagacious only to seize the victorious side, have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...
    CPL 11.502 21 ...every one of these [words] is the contribution of the wit of one and another sagacious man...

sagacious, n. (1)

    Con 1.321 24 As it loses its truth, [religion] loses its credit with the sagacious.

sagacity, n. (7)

    Comp 2.111 22 Fear is an instructor of great sagacity...
    Pol1 3.208 15 Parties...have better guides to their own humble aims than the sagacity of their leaders.
    SwM 4.95 19 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
    FRep 11.514 6 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...if he have sagacity, soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    PLT 12.25 12 Every man has material enough in his experience to exhaust the sagacity of Newton in working it out.
    PLT 12.32 4 ...individual men have secret senses, each some incommunicable sagacity.
    MLit 12.323 13 To look at [Goethe] one would say there was never an observer before. What sagacity...

Sagamore, n. (1)

    War 11.159 6 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...

Sagas, n. (5)

    ET4 5.57 5 The [Norse] Sagas describe a monarchical republic like Sparta.
    ET4 5.57 19 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe.
    ET4 5.59 27 The early [Norse] Sagas are sanguinary and piratical;...
    ET14 5.233 26 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English. It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle and in the Sagas of the Northmen.
    PI 8.57 17 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems, the Sagas of the North...

Sagas, Norse, n. (2)

    Cour 7.258 8 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    PC 8.214 1 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia;...

Sagas of the Kings of Norwa (1)

    ET4 5.57 1 The Heimskringla, or Sagas of the Kings of Norway, collected by Snorro Sturleson, is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history.

sage, n. (14)

    MN 1.196 17 ...the thunder...makes a skin-deep cut, and so does the sage.
    SR 2.67 3 Man...quotes some saint or sage.
    Pt1 3.7 24 The poet does not wait for the hero or the sage...
    Chr1 3.109 11 When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...
    Chr1 3.109 15 ...a golden chair was placed for the Yunani sage.
    Chr1 3.109 17 The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief [Zertusht], said, This form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.
    Chr1 3.110 8 [The virtuous prince] waits a hundred ages till a sage comes, and does not doubt.
    Chr1 3.110 11 ...he who waits a hundred ages until a sage comes, without doubting, knows men.
    UGM 4.14 17 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
    PPh 4.49 22 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me.
    ShP 4.210 6 What sage has [Shakespeare] not outseen?
    Edc1 10.154 6 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it...is of so easy application, needing no sage or poet...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    MoL 10.255 3 ...neither saint nor sage, can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    EzRy 10.392 14 Sage and savage strove harder in [Ezra Ripley] than in any of my acquaintances...

sages, n. (11)

    SR 2.45 21 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
    Mrs1 3.143 21 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there. Monarchs and heroes, sages and lovers, these gallants are not.
    MoS 4.178 14 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    ET14 5.248 24 Coleridge...with eyes looking before and after to the highest bards and sages...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.
    ET18 5.308 6 [England] is the land of patriots, martyrs, sages and bards...
    DL 7.115 27 The greatest man in history was the poorest. How was it with the captains and sages of Greece and Rome...
    PI 8.2 12 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./
    Aris 10.57 27 The great Indian sages had a lesson for the Brahmin, which every day returns to mind, All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    Supl 10.176 3 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men...
    Plu 10.301 17 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports...
    HCom 11.339 7 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/

Sahara Desert, n. (1)

    Bost 12.183 17 There is the climate of the Sahara: a climate where the sunbeams are vertical;...

Sahara, Desert of, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 21 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma...accuse man.

Saib, King, n. (1)

    ACri 12.297 25 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.

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