Separable to Set-To

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

separable, adj. (1)

    WSL 12.338 26 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes...often whimsical and amusing; yet they are quite sincere and...are easily separable from the man.

separate, adj. (14)

    Nat 1.4 25 ...all that is separate from us...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    Int 2.329 23 ...the moment [logic] would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.
    Art1 2.365 23 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature, and destroy its separate and contrasted existence.
    NER 3.264 10 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    F 6.10 4 ...sometimes...the family vice is drawn off in a separate individual and the others are proportionally relieved.
    Ctr 6.156 20 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...
    SS 7.6 24 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house;...
    WD 7.183 5 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite separate from his scientific.
    Cour 7.266 1 ...there is no separate essence called courage...
    Aris 10.33 7 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit, with separate function and difference of dignity.
    SovE 10.186 17 ...when I say that the world is made up of moral forces, these are not separate.
    SovE 10.186 19 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move: heat is not separate...
    HDC 11.46 7 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
    HDC 11.46 11 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...

separate, v. (13)

    Nat 1.7 7 The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between [a man] and what he touches.
    Nat 1.21 4 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?
    MN 1.209 21 If the man will exactly obey [that well-known voice], it will adopt him, so that he shall not any longer separate it from himself in his thought;...
    Comp 2.105 2 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Fdsp 2.195 3 Will these [friends] too separate themselves from me again...
    NR 3.225 16 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners; but separate them and there is no gentleman and no lady in the group.
    PPh 4.48 24 These strictly-blended elements [Unity and Variety] it is the problem of thought to separate and to reconcile.
    PPh 4.70 24 Socrates and Plato are the double star which the most powerful instruments will not entirely separate.
    SS 7.14 14 ...[people in conversation] separate as oil from water...
    Comc 8.158 20 ...separate any part of Nature and attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the ridiculous begins.
    Comc 8.159 1 Separate any object...from the connection of things...it becomes at once comic;...
    EzRy 10.392 22 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their wives in this cold weather.
    Wom 11.425 17 ...I think it impossible to separate the interests and education of the sexes.

separated, adj. (3)

    MN 1.207 22 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    OS 2.276 24 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can.
    FRO1 11.479 26 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...

separated, v. (16)

    Comp 2.94 14 ...when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon.
    OS 2.281 13 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do...
    Int 2.327 5 ...a truth, separated by the intellect, is no longer a subject of destiny.
    Art1 2.367 4 The art that thus separates is itself first separated.
    Mrs1 3.141 27 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    NMW 4.238 5 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers...
    F 6.27 13 Our thought...affirms an oldest necessity, not to be separated from thought...
    F 6.27 14 Our thought...affirms an oldest necessity...not to be separated from will.
    SS 7.8 24 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
    Elo1 7.73 20 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits. Thus separated, as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a juggle...
    Grts 8.302 21 ...the scholars represent...the intellect and the moral sentiment,-which in the last analysis can never be separated.
    Dem1 10.25 27 [Mesmerism]...is separated by celestial diameters from the love of spiritual truths.
    Plu 10.314 2 To [Plutarch] the Epicureans are hateful, who held that the soul perishes when it is separated from the body.
    FRO1 11.479 27 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends,-separated but sympathetic... was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    MAng1 12.220 5 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles, its parts separated...
    Milt1 12.275 20 The most affecting passages in Paradise Lost are personal allusions; and when we are fairly in Eden, Adam and Milton are often difficult to be separated.

separately, adv. (4)

    OS 2.284 5 The moment the doctrine of the immortality [of the soul] is separately taught, man is already fallen.
    SwM 4.116 16 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical... terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.
    ET2 5.25 4 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which separately are organized much in the same way as our New England Lyceums...
    EzRy 10.387 22 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately...

separates, v. (7)

    Nat 1.67 9 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies things...
    Int 2.326 4 Intellect separates the fact considered, from you...
    Art1 2.367 4 The art that thus separates is itself first separated.
    Pol1 3.219 16 [The movement toward self-government] separates the individual from all party...
    MoS 4.179 27 ...the excellence of each [man] is an inflamed individualism which separates him more.
    Clbs 7.237 22 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what river separates the dwellings of the sons of the giants from those of the gods;...
    Grts 8.307 3 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him...

separating, adj. (1)

    OS 2.280 7 To the bad thought which I find in [the book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away.

separating, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.182 24 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty...

separation, n. (16)

    Nat 1.38 16 The wise man shows his wisdom in separation...
    MR 1.242 6 ...no separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself;...
    Tran 1.341 5 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.
    Comp 2.105 18 So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried... but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
    Comp 2.105 22 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected...
    OS 2.283 25 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    Art1 2.354 18 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Nat2 3.178 16 The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    NER 3.269 22 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man...
    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;...
    ET13 5.226 9 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests...
    Insp 8.273 2 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity.
    Chr2 10.116 10 ...each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
    MoL 10.249 9 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy... and thus the separation was a mutual fault.
    LLNE 10.329 21 Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation.
    JBB 11.267 4 Gentlemen who have preceded me have well said that no wall of separation could here exist.

separations, n. (2)

    DL 7.120 22 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require;...
    Boks 7.215 14 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.

separators, n. (1)

    Tran 1.342 23 ...this retirement does not proceed from any whim on the part of these separators;...

September, n. (13)

    Farm 7.148 3 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    PI 8.46 8 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;...
    EzRy 10.383 6 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784. He died September 21, 1841.
    HDC 11.32 6 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.32 7 ...on the 2d of September, 1635, corresponding in New Style to 12th September...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.58 23 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton, but before he had executed the remainder of his threat he was hanged, in Boston, in September, 1676.
    HDC 11.71 7 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...
    HDC 11.81 7 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord], on the 12th September...
    War 11.158 11 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    FSLC 11.192 26 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.
    FSLC 11.195 9 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
    EPro 11.316 4 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September.
    EPro 11.321 27 Every acre in the free states gained substantial value on the twenty-second of September.

sepulchre, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.326 5 ...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.

sepulchres, n. (5)

    Nat 1.3 1 [Our age] builds the sepulchres of the fathers.
    Mrs1 3.119 19 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
    WD 7.175 10 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.
    PI 8.51 11 Of their living habitations they made little account, conceiving of them but as hospitia, or inns, while they adorned the sepulchres of the dead...
    Imtl 8.326 19 ...the churches of Europe are really sepulchres.

sepulture, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.324 19 ...the history of religion may be read in the forms of sepulture.

sequel, n. (18)

    LT 1.281 15 The sad Pestalozzi ...after witnessing [the French Revolution' s] sequel, recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Tran 1.330 26 [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.
    YA 1.379 26 I pass to speak of the signs of that which is the sequel of trade.
    SL 2.148 2 Our dreams are the sequel of our waking knowledge.
    Exp 3.71 22 ...every insight from this realm of thought...promises a sequel.
    Exp 3.78 22 ...in its sequel [murder] turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations.
    Chr1 3.108 10 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune;...
    Nat2 3.173 17 Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of nature].
    PPh 4.74 12 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out, in the sequel, to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    ET2 5.25 14 The request [to lecture in England] was urged...by friendliest parties in Manchester, who, in the sequel, amply redeemed their word.
    ET4 5.55 23 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years,--say impossible to conquer, when one remembers the long sequel;...
    ET5 5.79 22 ...[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.
    ET7 5.120 5 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it;...
    DL 7.124 5 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    Dem1 10.17 18 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It resembled chance, since it showed no sequel.
    EPro 11.317 9 ...so fair a mind...so reticent that his decision has taken all parties by surprise, whilst yet it just the sequel of his prior acts,-the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    Bost 12.201 2 There is a Columbia of thought and art and character, which is the last and endless sequel of Columbus's adventure.
    MLit 12.321 5 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.

sequence, n. (9)

    SwM 4.102 25 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as from a tower, over nature and arts, without ever losing sight of the texture and sequence of things, almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    MoS 4.170 23 We hearken to the man of science, because we anticipate the sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.
    ET5 5.80 15 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists, following the sequence of nature...
    ET11 5.191 18 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
    ET18 5.301 21 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas, and wrathfully supported by their laws in unbroken sequence for a thousand years.
    OA 7.330 16 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence...
    PI 8.38 20 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded. And this perception has at once its moral sequence.
    EdAd 11.389 15 The facility of majorities is no protection from the natural sequence of their own acts.
    Wom 11.404 6 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.

sequent, adj. (2)

    MN 1.219 21 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution...
    Wsp 6.218 15 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius, the sequent retrogression...

sequestered, adj. (2)

    Int 2.345 22 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
    ET13 5.217 16 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.

sequestered, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.106 8 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized. How cloistered and constitutionally sequestered from the market and from scandal!

sequestering, v. (2)

    Art1 2.354 11 The virtue of art lies...in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety.
    SHC 11.430 18 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature...

sequestration, n. (2)

    MR 1.233 27 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love...
    Wom 11.414 7 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this.

sequins, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.231 16 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves.
    Supl 10.177 17 A bag of sequins, a jewel...constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.

Sequoia Gigantea, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 14 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...

sequoias, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.334 27 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees, say of the sequoias...

Sequoias, n. (2)

    Farm 7.147 25 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger, and the mammoth Sequoias rose to their enormous proportions.
    Farm 7.148 7 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias, built a high wall...

seraph, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.419 7 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment.

seraphic, adj. (1)

    QO 8.181 10 Albert...St. Buonaventura, the seraphic doctor, Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

seraphim, n. (4)

    SL 2.138 13 [Every man] hears and feels what you say of the seraphim, and of the tin-peddler.
    Int 2.345 19 I shall not presume to interfere in the old politics of the skies;-- The cherubim know most; the seraphim love most.
    WD 7.171 14 The blue sky is a covering for a market and for the cherubim and seraphim.
    Chr2 10.96 3 Before [the moral sentiment] what are persons, prophets, or seraphim...

sere, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.82 2 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
    Pt1 3.29 19 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    CL 12.151 23 In August...we observe already that the leaf is sere...

serenade, n. (2)

    ShP 4.217 23 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
    PPr 12.389 21 [Carlyle] is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel, but salvation to the ear for which it is meant.

Serena's Bower, Mammoth Ca (1)

    Ill 6.309 10 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to...a niche or grotto...called, I believe, Serena' s Bower.

serene, adj. (35)

    Nat 1.57 14 No man fears age or misfortune or death in [ideas'] serene company...
    Nat 1.65 3 [The world's] serene order is inviolable by us.
    AmS 1.107 26 The private life of one man shall be...more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.
    LE 1.178 5 ...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    MR 1.246 2 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be serene and docile to what the mind shall speak...is frugality for gods and heroes.
    YA 1.373 26 That serene Power interposes the check upon the caprices and officiousness of our wills.
    Comp 2.123 10 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure. Herein I rejoice with a serene eternal peace.
    SL 2.151 10 The scholar...follows some giddy girl, not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene, oracular and beautiful in her soul.
    Fdsp 2.206 1 [Friendship] is fit for serene days...
    Hsm1 2.259 12 ...why should a woman...think, because...the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
    Exp 3.50 15 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism.
    Exp 3.65 8 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden, and spend your earnings as a waif or godsend to all serene and beautiful purposes.
    Mrs1 3.137 20 ...a lady is serene.
    Pol1 3.218 25 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    MoS 4.175 24 Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
    MoS 4.178 22 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...
    ET19 5.312 12 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round...
    Ctr 6.159 23 ...the [Greek] heroes...retain a serene aspect;...
    Bhr 6.196 23 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts...
    Ill 6.310 21 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars... ... ...I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture.
    SS 7.9 1 ...we sit and muse and are serene and complete;...
    Elo1 7.78 23 With a serene face, [Caesar] subverts a kingdom.
    Cour 7.255 12 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which...is never quite itself until the hazard is extreme; then it is serene and fertile...
    Cour 7.265 27 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we, like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive...how serene is the sufferer.
    OA 7.327 23 He is serene who does not feel himself pinched and wronged...
    Insp 8.279 1 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful. That does not prevent me from appearing quite serene to the persons who surround me.
    Aris 10.56 2 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... They seem to have arrived at the fact, to have got rid of the show, and to be serene.
    Schr 10.264 11 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity...
    EzRy 10.390 23 [Ezra Ripley's] brow was serene and open to his visitor...
    ALin 11.337 9 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
    ALin 11.337 16 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations...
    II 12.67 16 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading.
    II 12.76 14 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
    PPr 12.386 6 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates. It is felt to be so much deduction from the universality of the picture. It is not serene sunshine, but everything is seen in lurid storm-lights.
    Trag 12.405 22 ...in the serene hours we have no courage to spare.

serenely, adv. (5)

    SL 2.141 2 ...[each man] sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.
    Hsm1 2.259 17 Let the maiden, with erect soul, walk serenely on her way...
    Int 2.344 5 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more bright star shining serenely in your heaven...
    Chr2 10.97 4 [The moral force] is serenely above all mediation.
    WSL 12.344 21 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune.

serenity, n. (16)

    AmS 1.105 17 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    AmS 1.105 27 The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims.
    Tran 1.354 2 What am I? What but a thought of serenity and independence...
    Hist 2.15 5 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal serenity;...
    Prd1 2.237 13 He who wishes to walk in the most peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution.
    OS 2.289 27 ...[the energy of the soul] comes as serenity and grandeur.
    Int 2.346 22 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters sit in their clouds...
    Chr1 3.98 22 ...rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity...
    NER 3.284 3 As soon as a man is wonted...to see how this high will prevails without an exception or an interval, he settles himself into serenity.
    MoS 4.183 21 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...
    ET8 5.138 18 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily...and serenity is its normal condition.
    Bty 6.296 15 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential...
    OA 7.328 3 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.
    Elo2 8.124 4 In the mortifications of disappointment, [Science's] soothing voice shall whisper serenity and peace.
    SHC 11.428 13 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
    Trag 12.412 13 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty, without disturbing the seals of serenity;...

Serf, n. (1)

    ALin 11.328 24 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...

serfdom, n. (1)

    ET13 5.215 22 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...set bounds to serfdom and slavery...

serfs, n. (1)

    ET13 5.216 11 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.

sergeant, n. (1)

    SMC 11.373 16 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades, a sergeant in his regiment, writing to his own family, uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.

sergeant-at-arms, n. (1)

    AKan 11.263 13 I wish we could send the sergeant-at-arms to stop every American who is about to leave the country.

serial, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.80 5 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.

Serial Library [H. G. Boh (1)

    PNR 4.80 1 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...

series, n. (50)

    Nat 1.40 2 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will not only particular events but great classes, nay, the whole series of events...
    Nat 1.70 19 To [spirit]...the longest series of events, the oldest chronologies are young and recent.
    MN 1.192 12 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short series of steps, taken;...
    LT 1.265 16 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    Hist 2.3 14 [The universal mind's] genius is illustrated by the entire series of days.
    Hist 2.23 20 ...every thing is in turn intelligible to [the individual], as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs.
    SR 2.86 19 Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since.
    Fdsp 2.192 26 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...
    Cir 2.304 21 Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series.
    Cir 2.320 8 Life is a series of surprises.
    Int 2.334 6 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Pt1 3.20 21 ...the poet...shows us all things in their right series and procession.
    Exp 3.45 1 Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.
    Exp 3.67 23 Life is a series of surprises...
    SwM 4.104 5 The robust Aristotelian method...conversant with series and degree...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.109 1 ...there is no limit to this ascending scale [in nature], but series on series.
    SwM 4.109 3 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next, each series punctually repeating every organ and process of the last.
    SwM 4.117 15 [Correspondence] was involved...in the doctrine of identity and iteration, because the mental series exactly tallies with the material series.
    SwM 4.117 17 [Correspondence] required an insight that could rank things in order and series;...
    MoS 4.181 20 The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
    ET2 5.25 10 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland. I was invited, on liberal terms, to read a series of lectures in them all.
    ET5 5.81 1 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of means they employ.
    ET11 5.181 22 The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the series of squares called Belgravia.
    ET11 5.188 21 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...keeping the series of history unbroken...
    Ill 6.319 20 ...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
    Elo1 7.62 6 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.
    Elo1 7.71 16 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
    Boks 7.220 23 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club, in which each shall undertake a single work or series for which he is qualified.
    PC 8.209 7 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the incipient series of international congresses;...
    PC 8.220 24 ...the next step in the series is the equivalence of the soul to Nature.
    Insp 8.292 7 [Another source of inspiration is] Conversation, which, when it is best, is a series of intoxications.
    Dem1 10.20 14 The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from Nature some advantage without paying for it.
    Aris 10.44 22 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point.
    Aris 10.44 26 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series.
    PerF 10.72 5 These [natural] forces are in an ascending series...
    PerF 10.72 11 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements...a new style and series, the spiritual.
    PerF 10.74 26 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    PerF 10.79 25 In each talent is the perception of an order and series in the department he deals with...
    PerF 10.79 26 In each talent is the perception...of an order and series which preexisted in Nature...
    Prch 10.226 4 As the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into gases and nebulae, so is the universe an infinite series of planes, each of which is a false bottom;...
    LLNE 10.335 11 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
    LLNE 10.353 1 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed...on all men...
    HDC 11.82 6 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole series of important public events in which this town played a part.
    ACiv 11.310 13 In the recent series of national successes, this message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the best.
    PLT 12.24 8 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...
    CL 12.139 21 Our climate is a series of surprises...
    MAng1 12.230 9 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments, with the great series of the Prophets and Sibyls in alternate tablets...
    MAng1 12.230 10 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments...and a series of greater and smaller fancy pieces in the lunettes.
    ACri 12.286 20 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose...

Series, n. (1)

    SwM 4.105 18 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence.

serious, adj. (53)

    YA 1.393 23 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy...
    Mrs1 3.149 23 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin Hood;,--yet with the port of an emperor, if need be,--calm, serious and fit to stand the gaze of millions.
    Nat2 3.193 21 Are we not engaged to a serious resentment of this use that is made of us?
    UGM 4.3 21 The search after the great man is...the most serious occupation of manhood.
    SwM 4.139 16 For the anomalous pretension of Revelations of the other world,--only [Swedenborg's] probity and genius can entitle it to any serious regard.
    ET3 5.37 1 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
    ET4 5.62 20 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
    ET6 5.104 2 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
    ET8 5.129 11 Was it...a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg...that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves?
    ET8 5.142 7 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy); and the civil service in departments where serious official work is done;...
    ET11 5.191 13 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor.
    ET13 5.216 24 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
    F 6.30 4 The one serious and formidable thing in nature is a will.
    Pow 6.61 6 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game,--if they lose heart and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they have a serious check.
    Wth 6.109 20 Of course the loss [of an American ship] was serious to the owner, but the country was indemnified;...
    Ctr 6.156 10 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras;...that [nature's] favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought.
    CbW 6.273 11 [Friendship] is a serious and majestic affair...
    Bty 6.298 3 We observe [women's] intellectual influence on the most serious student.
    Ill 6.316 12 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
    DL 7.116 15 I see not how serious labor...is to be avoided;...
    Boks 7.215 16 In novels the most serious questions are beginning to be discussed.
    Clbs 7.226 20 ...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.
    Clbs 7.230 20 ...serious, happy discourse, avoiding personalities, dealing with results, is rare...
    Clbs 7.250 12 ...[Nature's] great gifts have something serious and stern.
    OA 7.325 27 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
    SA 8.91 9 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    Elo2 8.110 1 True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...
    Comc 8.163 23 ...it is the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it, and in mirth to do the same with those that are serious and seem in earnest;...
    Imtl 8.346 2 I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
    Chr2 10.101 21 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Chr2 10.107 26 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor?
    Supl 10.175 21 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us.
    SovE 10.203 27 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...
    Plu 10.304 16 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces, uttering sentences altogether thoughtful and serious...continues her voice a thousand years...
    LLNE 10.341 18 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation.
    LLNE 10.343 22 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results. Nothing more serious came of it than the modest quarterly journal called The Dial...
    LLNE 10.354 18 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is;...
    LLNE 10.355 2 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
    EzRy 10.386 24 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
    MMEm 10.432 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    Thor 10.461 11 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes...
    Carl 10.495 27 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them;...
    Carl 10.497 7 [Carlyle] was very serious about the bad times;...
    FSLN 11.230 18 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?
    FSLN 11.241 5 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads,-it is growing serious,-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...
    ACiv 11.298 16 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
    SMC 11.359 24 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a serious devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved...
    EdAd 11.385 22 What more serious calamity can befall a people than a constitutional dulness and limitation?
    SHC 11.429 14 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites: and they have requested me to say a few words which the serious and tender occasion inspires.
    FRep 11.541 11 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons, and serious care of criminals...
    Bost 12.192 17 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.
    Bost 12.202 26 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Milt1 12.262 4 ...[Milton] said...true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...

serious, n. (2)

    Plu 10.312 25 Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom...to reach in mirth the same ends which the most serious are proposing.
    HDC 11.31 14 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.

seriously, adv. (14)

    Con 1.321 2 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree that...seriously interrupted the progress of the work.
    YA 1.393 9 The English...are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy], but an American would seriously resent it.
    Hsm1 2.256 15 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously;...
    ET5 5.75 2 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...
    ET9 5.146 12 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET11 5.194 27 When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to great personal prowess. ... And this was very seriously pursued;...
    CbW 6.257 19 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social rank.
    PI 8.60 16 After the disappearance of Merlin from King Arthur's court he was seriously missed...
    SA 8.94 11 ...[Madame de Stael] said one day, seriously...If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...
    FSLN 11.217 23 My own habitual view is to the well-being of students or scholars. And it is only when the public event affects them, that it very seriously touches me.
    Wom 11.405 7 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman. And none is more seriously interesting to every healthful and thoughtful mind.
    Shak1 11.447 3 We seriously endeavored...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
    FRep 11.522 27 [Americans] are carless of politics, because they do not entertain the possibility of being seriously caught in meshes of legislation.
    CInt 12.118 26 ...I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands, which is a very sincere, and apt to be a very seriously considered expression of opinion.

seriousness, n. (2)

    Bty 6.287 1 ...the sweet seriousness of sixteen...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    HDC 11.76 4 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.

sermon, n. (19)

    DSA 1.138 18 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
    Comp 2.94 4 I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
    Comp 2.94 15 ...when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon.
    Hsm1 2.247 21 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    CbW 6.245 9 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul;...
    QO 8.185 1 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
    Chr2 10.106 26 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon; if a funeral, then a sermon;...
    Chr2 10.107 1 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon died,-still a sermon...
    Prch 10.230 16 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    Prch 10.230 20 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.
    Prch 10.233 10 The essential ground of a new book or a new sermon is a new spirit.
    EzRy 10.391 13 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.
    EzRy 10.394 24 [Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or sermon...
    HDC 11.40 16 The sermon [to the settlers of Concord] fell into good and tender hearts;...
    HDC 11.51 19 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum;...
    HDC 11.67 18 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of the two.
    ACri 12.287 25 I remember when a venerable divine [Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.
    AgMs 12.360 11 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than the last, as I observe the first sermon of a minister is often his best...
    EurB 12.376 4 ...there is but one standard English novel, like the one orthodox sermon...

Sermons [Isaac Barrow], n. (1)

    WSL 12.339 10 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of...Lucas on Happiness, or Lucas on Holiness, or even Barrow's Sermons.

sermons, n. (14)

    DSA 1.139 15 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons...
    LT 1.272 27 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned...to the prayers and the sermons of churches;...
    Chr1 3.107 17 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would divide some share of credit...[Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    NER 3.259 27 ...[some intelligent persons] jumped the Greek and Latin, and read law, medicine, or sermons, without it.
    PPh 4.70 6 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension], familiar now to all the poetry and to all the sermons of the world, that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    PPh 4.76 9 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess.
    ET13 5.229 18 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.
    DL 7.120 11 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the youthful criticism, on Sunday, of the sermons;...
    OA 7.334 15 [George Whitefield's] voice and manner helped him more than his sermons.
    Imtl 8.328 5 Sixty years ago...the sermons and prayers heard...were all directed on death.
    Chr2 10.116 24 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
    Prch 10.229 17 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    LLNE 10.334 4 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons...
    MMEm 10.411 9 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.

serpent, n. (2)

    Nat 1.16 7 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the serpent...
    MR 1.233 20 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man.

serpents, n. (2)

    SwM 4.130 6 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents;...
    PerF 10.84 23 [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.

serratures, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.338 16 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...the branch of a tree is nothing but a leaf whose serratures have become twigs.
    EurB 12.366 2 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see...the serratures of every leaf...

Serurier [Seruzier], Jean, (1)

    NMW 4.234 14 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.

servant, n. (24)

    Nat 1.10 14 ...to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
    DSA 1.140 3 We need not chide the negligent servant.
    Con 1.324 23 I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods...
    Lov1 2.170 11 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...suffers no one who is its servant to grow old...
    NER 3.277 15 I wish more to be a benefactor and servant than you wish to be served by me;...
    SwM 4.122 1 Swedenborg styles himself in the title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...
    Wth 6.123 25 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress, servant and child...
    Wsp 6.235 23 When I went abroad [said Benedict], I kept company with every man on the road, for I knew that my evil and my good did not come from these, but from the Spirit, whose servant I was.
    DL 7.122 19 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices of master or servant...
    SA 8.91 16 To trespass on a public servant is to trespass on a nation's time.
    SA 8.92 8 The soul of a man must be the servant of another.
    SA 8.95 10 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    Dem1 10.11 26 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...
    PerF 10.69 1 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...
    Prch 10.228 14 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine, and cannot spare the benefit of so pure a servant of truth and love.
    EzRy 10.387 7 ...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. He...looked at the cloud...and seemed to say, You know me; this field is mine,-Dr. Ripley's,-thine own servant!
    Thor 10.461 5 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it,-that his body was a bad servant...
    HDC 11.39 18 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    EWI 11.114 9 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them.
    War 11.173 18 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles. I see him to be the servant of truth, of love and of freedom...
    ACiv 11.297 6 ...God is God because he is the servant of all.
    CInt 12.113 7 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of...the primal sentiments of humanity. Yet it is but...a far-off means and servant;...
    MAng1 12.238 4 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo].
    EurB 12.374 12 For this reason, children delight in fairy tales. Nature is described in them as the servant of man, which they feel ought to be true.

servants, n. (22)

    Nat 1.13 5 More servants wait on man/ Than he'll take notice of./
    Nat 1.69 16 More servants wait on man/ Than he'll take notice of./
    Con 1.312 3 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    YA 1.377 13 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans... new command takes place, new servants and new masters.
    Pt1 3.8 1 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...
    Mrs1 3.145 22 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...what his servants robbed, he restored...
    Nat2 3.190 21 ...these servants, this kitchen, these stables, horses and equipage...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    NER 3.268 18 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear;...
    UGM 4.23 21 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a...pontiff who...releases his servants from their barbarous homages;...
    NMW 4.225 22 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...dress, dinners, servants without number...
    NMW 4.240 19 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
    GoW 4.279 4 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] become the servants of great ideas...
    ET3 5.37 24 The innumerable details [in England]...the multitudes of rich and of remarkable people, the servants and equipages...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET10 5.166 21 ...a man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
    ET11 5.193 25 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year. The spending is for a great part in servants...
    ET15 5.266 24 One hears anecdotes of the rise of [the London Times's] servants, as of the functionaries of the India House.
    Farm 7.142 22 Who are the farmer's servants?
    LLNE 10.353 12 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just...
    HDC 11.34 6 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...
    HDC 11.80 27 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury. This was securing the prudence of the
    FRep 11.541 27 I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served.
    WSL 12.343 3 Whatever can make for itself an element, means, organs, servants and the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.

servare, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.191 19 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.

serve, v. (118)

    Nat 1.13 2 Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve [man].
    Nat 1.40 4 [Nature] is made to serve.
    Nat 1.52 24 ...all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.
    AmS 1.93 21 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create;...
    DSA 1.121 8 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...then...God is well pleased.
    LE 1.169 20 [All men] serve nature for bread...
    LE 1.175 11 Let the youth study the uses of solitude and of society. Let him use both, not serve either.
    LE 1.182 1 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man;...
    MR 1.239 19 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...whom...beast and fish seemed all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.246 8 Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly summon others to serve them.
    MR 1.246 22 ...[infirm people] never bestir themselves to serve another person;...
    MR 1.247 2 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self...
    LT 1.274 12 [Milton's] picture would serve for our times.
    LT 1.290 12 For that reality let us stand; that let us serve, and for that speak.
    Con 1.307 18 [The youth says] I shall serve those whom I can, and they who can will serve me.
    Con 1.307 19 [The youth says] I shall serve those whom I can, and they who can will serve me.
    Con 1.309 16 To the end of your power you will serve this lie which cheats you.
    Con 1.319 27 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...will serve him a sexton's turn.
    YA 1.378 8 Trade goes...to bring every kind of faculty of every individual that can in any manner serve any person, on sale.
    Hist 2.33 2 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them.
    SR 2.53 22 This rule [of self-reliance]...may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
    Comp 2.94 27 Is it that [the good] are to have leave to pray and praise, to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now.
    Comp 2.119 7 If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more.
    Comp 2.119 8 If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more.
    SL 2.161 18 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus. And all our after years, like menials, serve and wait on this...
    Hsm1 2.260 13 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
    Hsm1 2.260 14 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
    Cir 2.301 23 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Art1 2.360 21 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Art1 2.364 26 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil how deep is the secret of form...
    Art1 2.367 20 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal before [men] eat and drink;...
    Art1 2.367 21 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal in eating and drinking...
    Pt1 3.17 22 Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols.
    Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
    Chr1 3.103 5 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he...has doubled his power to serve you...
    Gts 3.164 11 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also.
    Nat2 3.181 2 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...to serve up all her dream-like variety.
    Nat2 3.183 10 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us...
    UGM 4.8 18 Men have a pictorial or representative quality, and serve us in the intellect.
    UGM 4.18 1 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us, so that they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
    UGM 4.29 16 Serve the great.
    UGM 4.31 18 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    UGM 4.34 9 For a time our teachers serve us personally...
    SwM 4.139 7 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... They who serve me with adoration,--I am in them, and they in me.
    SwM 4.139 9 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone, he is as respectable as the just man;...
    MoS 4.184 21 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him.
    GoW 4.276 15 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing. The same measure will still serve [with the Devil]...
    GoW 4.279 24 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can, assured that it has...millions of readers yet to serve.
    ET6 5.106 8 ...[the Englishman's] bearing, on being introduced, is cold, even though he...is studying how he shall serve you.
    F 6.42 4 ...the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    F 6.48 5 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will...serve him for a horse.
    F 6.48 8 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which...compels every atom to serve an universal end.
    Pow 6.56 5 Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one...
    Wth 6.112 20 The crime which bankrupts men and states is...declining from your main design, to serve a turn here or there.
    Wth 6.116 3 Long free walks...free [the land-owner's] brain and serve his body.
    Ctr 6.143 1 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk; and provided only the boy...is of a noble and ingenuous strain, these will not serve him less than the books.
    Ctr 6.159 12 A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be said to have arrived at self-possession.
    Bhr 6.175 25 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him;...
    Bhr 6.185 5 Look on this woman. There is not beauty...nor distinguished power to serve you;...
    CbW 6.247 1 'T is the fine souls who serve us...
    CbW 6.254 9 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...
    CbW 6.275 10 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money.
    CbW 6.278 24 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve...
    Bty 6.302 11 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Civ 7.29 2 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    Civ 7.30 16 Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
    Civ 7.30 26 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also...the powers of darkness, and force them to serve against their will the ends of wisdom and virtue.
    Art2 7.39 4 ...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.55 26 [The arts] come to serve [man's] actual wants, never to please his fancy.
    Elo1 7.91 14 ...these talents [of oratory] are quite something else when they are subordinated and serve [the man];...
    Boks 7.193 1 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
    Boks 7.201 16 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
    Boks 7.206 26 Hume will serve [the scholar] for an intelligent guide...
    Boks 7.212 13 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight.
    Suc 7.292 7 We do not believe our own thought; we must serve somebody;...
    SA 8.85 17 ...the sentiment of honor and the wish to serve make all our pains superfluous.
    SA 8.95 14 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.
    Elo2 8.133 4 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    Res 8.148 6 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob.
    Res 8.149 17 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries...serve no purpose but to see the ground.
    Comc 8.170 20 He whom all things should serve, serves some one of his own tools.
    Insp 8.273 8 [Most men's] house and trade and families serve them as ropes to give a coarse continuity.
    Insp 8.279 9 Great wits to madness nearly are allied;/ Both serve to make our poverty our pride./
    Grts 8.319 3 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Dem1 10.20 24 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language, used to serve only low or political purposes, the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.
    Aris 10.40 15 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity... should keep their secrets, or only communicate them to each other, must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Aris 10.66 2 ...the American who would serve his country must learn the beauty and honor of perseverance...
    PerF 10.84 23 [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.
    Chr2 10.102 1 Great men serve us as insurrections do in bad governments.
    Chr2 10.111 2 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the Great, D'Alembert] preached the true God,-Him whom men serve by justice and uprightness;...
    Edc1 10.126 20 The animals that accompany and serve man make no progress as races.
    Edc1 10.132 1 ...truly the population of the globe has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
    Edc1 10.143 4 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment; but, above all, good poetry in all kinds, epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them...
    SovE 10.192 27 Serve, and thou shalt be served.
    SovE 10.193 1 If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
    SovE 10.211 1 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like to serve somebody...
    Schr 10.277 6 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past, and rendering them in the instant when they can serve the possessor;...
    Schr 10.279 1 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But...if his talents...come to work for ostentation, they cannot serve him.
    LLNE 10.347 16 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said...there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    MMEm 10.402 3 [Mary Moody Emerson's] good will to serve in time of sickness or of pressure was known to [her brothers and sisters]...
    GSt 10.507 16 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that, after all his efforts to serve men without appearing to do so, there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.
    LS 11.22 22 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
    HDC 11.79 2 In the year 1775, [Concord] raised 100 minute-men, and 74 soldiers to serve at Cambridge.
    HDC 11.79 3 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.
    EWI 11.144 2 If the black man is...not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
    War 11.165 18 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now;...
    FSLC 11.196 5 To serve [the Fugitive Slave Law], low and mean people are found by the groping of the government.
    AKan 11.254 2 And ye shall succor men;/ 'T is nobleness to serve;/...
    ACiv 11.297 2 Ich dien, I serve, is a truly royal motto.
    ALin 11.336 20 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that this heroic deliverer [Lincoln] could no longer serve us;...
    ALin 11.336 26 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven...shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?
    CPL 11.502 11 Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many more than have heard their names.
    FRep 11.535 16 ...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn.
    FRep 11.542 3 Whilst every man can say I serve...he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    CInt 12.119 24 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that...they serve him with a million hands...
    CL 12.145 15 [The farmer] makes every cloud in the sky, and every beam of the sun, serve him.
    Bost 12.205 5 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that the most noble motto was that of the Prince of Wales,-I serve...
    Milt1 12.267 27 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task, by which he might serve the state daily...

served, n. (1)

    FRep 11.542 1 I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served.

served, v. (43)

    Nat 1.15 1 A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of Beauty.
    Nat 1.41 13 When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.
    MR 1.247 5 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served;...
    MR 1.252 18 See this wide society of laboring men and women. We allow ourselves to be served by them...
    Con 1.312 8 ...every whim is anticipated and served by the best ability of the whole population of each country.
    Chr1 3.101 12 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had served up to it, and would have it.
    Chr1 3.102 11 We shall still postpone our existence...whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us. We have not yet served up to it.
    Mrs1 3.129 17 ...if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
    Mrs1 3.150 16 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
    Gts 3.163 23 It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you.
    Gts 3.163 24 It is a very onerous business, this of being served...
    Gts 3.164 7 After you have served [a magnanimous person] he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
    NER 3.277 16 I wish more to be a benefactor and servant than you wish to be served by me;...
    UGM 4.13 10 We must not be sacks and stomachs. To ascend one step,-- we are better served through our sympathy.
    UGM 4.31 7 We are equally served by receiving and by imparting.
    NMW 4.257 16 France served [Napoleon] with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him;...
    NMW 4.258 8 ...this exorbitant egotist [Napoleon] narrowed, impoverished and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him;...
    ET1 5.19 2 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals...whom London had well served.
    ET8 5.142 18 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in books, maps, models...
    ET11 5.193 1 Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...
    ET14 5.240 16 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    Pow 6.67 7 ...[Boniface] made good friends of the selectmen, served them with his best chop when they supped at his house...
    Pow 6.78 20 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.
    Wth 6.118 10 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth...
    Bty 6.289 4 The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
    SS 7.1 2 Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl,/ Served high and low, the lord and churl/...
    WD 7.157 10 One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
    PI 8.61 8 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you...
    Comc 8.166 19 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    Dem1 10.5 14 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...and if it served no other purpose would show us how accurately Nature fits man awake.
    SovE 10.188 22 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
    SovE 10.192 27 Serve, and thou shalt be served.
    MoL 10.244 17 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.
    Plu 10.309 12 ...Plutarch thought, with Ariston, that neither a bath nor a lecture served any purpose, unless they were purgative.
    LS 11.3 11 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper]; whether mixed or unmixed wine should be served;...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    HDC 11.34 25 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time, and especially, alewives, about the bigness of a herring. These served them also for manure.
    HDC 11.51 15 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire, as opportunity served, and the English lived among them, to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.65 16 Captain Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative.
    HDC 11.86 17 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place... of pious and excellent persons...who served God...
    EWI 11.101 26 From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races.
    II 12.83 9 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world; and all good labor, by which society is really served, will be found to be of that kind.
    ACri 12.286 21 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose...
    MLit 12.332 23 ...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe]...

serves, v. (25)

    Nat 1.41 19 ...a thing is good only so far as it serves;...
    DSA 1.132 16 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards], inviting me...to Be. And thus...Jesus serves us...
    Mrs1 3.120 10 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
    Nat2 3.178 20 ...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.
    MoS 4.155 8 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...
    ShP 4.194 17 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building, which serves also as a frame to hold the figures;...
    NMW 4.258 26 Only that good profits...which serves all men.
    ET4 5.52 14 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery...
    ET8 5.135 9 [The Englishman] says no, and serves you...
    F 6.12 4 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill...serves to pass the time;...
    Wth 6.111 22 That is the good head, which serves the end and commands the means.
    Art2 7.40 2 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself;...
    PI 8.26 7 When [nature] serves us best...we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
    PI 8.49 27 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.
    Comc 8.170 21 He whom all things should serve, serves some one of his own tools.
    QO 8.183 4 A great man...will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
    QO 8.191 7 If we are fired and guided by these [inspiring lessons], we... shall return to [an author] as long as he serves us so well.
    Aris 10.52 7 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    PLT 12.61 1 ...each [mind and heart] is easily exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become the synonym of God...
    II 12.70 17 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise, which serves the turn of interesting us once more...
    II 12.83 1 Whilst [a man] serves his genius, he works when he stands, when he sits, when he eats and when he sleeps.
    Mem 12.92 1 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...
    Bost 12.205 5 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that he is greatest who serves best.
    Milt1 12.263 12 [Milton] serves from love, not from fear.
    Trag 12.407 2 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end...heedless whether it serves or crushes [man].

service, n. (126)

    Nat 1.12 10 [Commodity]...is a benefit which is...not ultimate, like its service to the soul.
    Nat 1.41 14 When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.
    DSA 1.140 1 In a large portion of the community, the religious service gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.
    LE 1.157 17 ...men here...prefer...any livery productive of ease or profit, to the unproductive service of thought.
    LE 1.157 18 ...in every sane hour the service of thought appears reasonable...
    MN 1.220 10 A [New England] man was born...to suffer for the benefit of others like the noble rock-maple which all around our villages bleeds for the service of man.
    MR 1.252 17 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears, with the devotion of his faculties to our service.
    Tran 1.347 5 ...what if [these youths] eat clouds, and drink wind, they have not been without service to the race of man.
    YA 1.369 10 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.383 13 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate...
    SR 2.71 20 I like the silent church before the service begins...
    Comp 2.119 6 ...honest service cannot come to loss.
    SL 2.166 2 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...go out to service...
    Hsm1 2.254 10 ...hospitality must be for service...
    OS 2.278 24 In their habitual and mean service to the world...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    OS 2.293 23 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service...
    OS 2.297 12 [Man] will...be content with all places and with any service he can render.
    Pt1 3.6 1 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars, earth and water. These stand and wait to render him a peculiar service.
    Pt1 3.27 7 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...with the intellect released from all service...
    Pt1 3.32 5 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    Mrs1 3.145 13 Real service will not lose its nobleness.
    Gts 3.164 8 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    Gts 3.164 10 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    Gts 3.165 16 [Men] eat your service like apples, and leave you out.
    Pol1 3.213 7 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to...the apportionment of service...
    UGM 4.5 10 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    UGM 4.6 15 [The great man's] service to us is of like sort.
    UGM 4.7 25 Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men.
    UGM 4.8 16 Mind thy affair, says the spirit:--coxcomb, would you meddle with the skies, or with other people? Indirect service is left.
    UGM 4.21 11 How to illustrate...the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    UGM 4.23 24 ...I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service.
    PPh 4.60 1 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.
    SwM 4.94 4 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.99 20 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland, for the royal service.
    SwM 4.145 19 Swedenborg has rendered a double service to mankind...
    SwM 4.145 27 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt, and abandoned himself to his joy and worship. This was his first service [to mankind].
    SwM 4.146 6 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men...
    NMW 4.239 21 Bonaparte had passed through all the degrees of military service...
    GoW 4.277 9 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied,--as always there is a tendency,--to the service of the senses...
    ET4 5.56 27 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    ET4 5.72 19 Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas;...
    ET5 5.86 14 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
    ET6 5.103 8 ...the machines [in England] require punctual service...
    ET6 5.110 5 Terms of service and partnership [in England] are lifelong, or are inherited.
    ET8 5.131 21 [The English] are good...at...any desperate service which has daylight and honor in it;...
    ET8 5.140 12 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard: and this could not please the king, who had many clever people about him, zealous in his service.
    ET8 5.142 3 For actual service...the [English] army and navy may be entered...
    ET8 5.142 6 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy); and the civil service in departments where serious official work is done;...
    ET11 5.175 8 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
    ET11 5.184 25 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a tone...of exclusiveness. They have borne their full share of duty and danger in this service...
    ET11 5.185 10 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
    ET13 5.217 19 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service in humanizing the people...
    ET13 5.218 7 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a [religious] service in the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.
    ET13 5.218 10 In York minster...I heard the service of evening prayer read and chanted in the choir.
    ET13 5.218 25 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant.
    ET15 5.264 16 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
    ET16 5.286 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] loitered in the church [Salisbury Cathedral], outside the choir, while the service was said.
    ET17 5.293 25 The like frank hospitality, bent on real service, I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...
    Wth 6.89 14 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. The elements offer their service to him.
    Wth 6.97 21 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
    Bhr 6.172 13 [Manners'] first service is very low...
    Bhr 6.187 2 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    Wsp 6.231 4 Where is the service which can escape its remuneration?
    CbW 6.247 6 [Fine society] renders the service of a perfumery or a laundry...
    CbW 6.272 21 Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend.
    CbW 6.275 12 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money. Yet the old rules hold good. Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured by money.
    CbW 6.275 16 Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
    CbW 6.276 1 ...it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid;...
    Elo1 7.75 19 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    DL 7.117 1 ...[the reform that applies itself to the household] must...put domestic service on another foundation.
    Farm 7.144 10 ...the earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect.
    Cour 7.253 24 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Washington, giving his service to the public without salary or reward.
    SA 8.101 7 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments. Every country wishes this, and each has taken its own method to secure such service to the state.
    Elo2 8.129 20 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it? This happy turn did great service in promoting that excellent bill [regulating trials in cases of high treason].
    Elo2 8.132 25 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
    Grts 8.303 8 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.
    Aris 10.45 22 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    Aris 10.45 24 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    Aris 10.51 7 The expectation and claims of mankind indicate the duties of this class [public respresentatives]. Some service they must pay.
    Aris 10.51 11 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind;...
    Aris 10.55 17 The service we receive from the great is a mutual deference.
    Aris 10.59 17 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor, to be entered only by long and real service...
    Aris 10.61 25 Effectual service in his own legitimate fashion distinguishes the true man.
    PerF 10.84 24 [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 10.110 7 One service which this age has rendered is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and available to all.
    Prch 10.223 16 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service.
    Schr 10.276 7 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    Schr 10.278 7 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to...draw the eager service of thousands, rarely appear [in America].
    Plu 10.320 10 I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his Author and to his readers.
    Plu 10.322 3 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
    EzRy 10.387 12 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    MMEm 10.410 19 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth. The man rather declined this service, as he did not know Miss Hoar.
    MMEm 10.410 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
    Thor 10.451 11 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him...
    GSt 10.505 10 When one remembers [George Stearns's] incessant service;... I think this this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.17 18 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority.
    HDC 11.65 15 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...for which service, the town is to pay Captain Minott ten pounds.
    HDC 11.77 9 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
    HDC 11.78 8 The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in the American Revolution] is very great.
    HDC 11.78 12 [Concord] spends profusely, affectionately, in the service [of the American Revolution].
    HDC 11.80 21 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service...
    EWI 11.101 15 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...and would not exchange them for the more intelligent but precarious hired service of whites, I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    War 11.167 11 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek, as one engaged, throughout his being, no longer to the service of an individual but to the common soul of all men.
    FSLC 11.199 22 The only benefit that has accrued from the [Fugitive Slave] law is its service to education.
    FSLN 11.241 25 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
    AKan 11.258 6 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them...order funeral service to be said for the citizens whom they were unable to defend.
    TPar 11.290 23 By the incessant power of his statement, [Theodore Parker] made and held a party. It was his great service to freedom.
    ACiv 11.297 4 ...it is the mark of nobleness to volunteer the lowest service...
    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, or by service as good in his own department?
    SMC 11.366 4 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...and sent to New Orleans, where they were employed in guard duty during their term of service.
    SMC 11.366 9 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick...saw hard service in the Ninth Corps, under General Burnside.
    SMC 11.367 6 ...these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    SMC 11.368 7 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment did good service at Harrison' s Landing...
    SMC 11.371 2 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service at Rappahannock Station;...
    CPL 11.502 9 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. It is a just type of the service rendered to mankind by wise men.
    FRep 11.542 5 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    FRep 11.542 18 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.
    PLT 12.33 22 Right thought...comes daily, like our daily bread, to humble service;...
    CInt 12.121 26 ...in the class called intellectual the men are no better than the uninstructed. They use their wit and learning in the service of the Devil.
    Bost 12.205 3 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that reward comes by faithful service;...
    MAng1 12.224 24 After an active and successful service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.
    MAng1 12.238 17 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino...and made him rich in his service.
    Milt1 12.276 8 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men] were too passive in their great service;...
    ACri 12.283 4 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things; and yet I am far from thinking this subordinate service unimportant.
    ACri 12.297 12 The best service Carlyle has rendered is to rhetoric...
    PPr 12.381 15 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the principle of permanence shall be admitted into all contracts of mutual service;...

serviceable, adj. (2)

    Art2 7.40 4 The useful arts comprehend...the sciences, so far as they are made serviceable to political economy.
    Thor 10.461 9 ...Mr. Thoreau was equipped with a most adapted and serviceable body.

services, n. (17)

    YA 1.386 1 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
    Gts 3.165 12 No services are of any value, but only likeness.
    Gts 3.165 14 When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more.
    NER 3.256 21 ...if I had not that commodity [money]...man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
    ET2 5.25 16 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services.
    Wth 6.108 20 All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services.
    CbW 6.260 12 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.
    Elo1 7.79 26 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    WD 7.159 24 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery. If that were satire, yet it is coming to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind...
    Supl 10.170 16 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries...
    SlHr 10.448 13 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of the Temperance and Peace and other philanthropic societies...
    HDC 11.65 23 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.
    HDC 11.72 19 It is said that all the services of that day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of Concord]...
    HDC 11.76 4 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    PLT 12.28 1 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...
    MAng1 12.235 26 When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but should be free.
    ACri 12.283 5 The secondary services of literature may be classed under the name of Rhetoric...

servile, adj. (12)

    OS 2.291 27 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk. For they are, in their own elevation, the fellows of kings, and must feel the servile tone of conversation in the world.
    Mrs1 3.122 27 The gentleman is...not in any manner dependent and servile...
    F 6.30 5 Society is servile from want of will...
    F 6.35 3 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down...into a...servile... animal?
    Ctr 6.153 12 [The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe...servile to public opinion.
    Wsp 6.213 26 ...we are never without a hint that these powers [of the senses and of the understanding] are mediate and servile...
    Chr2 10.111 6 When the highest conceptions...are imported, the nation...is servile.
    HDC 11.63 11 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect.
    FSLC 11.201 8 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared.
    FSLN 11.225 26 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    ACiv 11.298 11 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I see...for such calamity no solution but servile war...
    Milt1 12.270 7 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English...will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.

servilely, adv. (1)

    PI 8.71 4 In good society...is not everything spoken in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the sense?

servility, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.174 21 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.

serving, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.229 8 ...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, and not...the loving heart and serving hand.

serving, n. (3)

    MN 1.200 26 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends without the least emphasis or preference to any...allows the understanding no place to work.
    UGM 4.8 6 ...in strictness, we are not much cognizant of direct serving.
    II 12.77 20 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true; and by faithful serving, we shall complete our noviciate to this subtle art.

serving, v. (12)

    Nat 1.63 17 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis, serving to apprize us of the eternal distinction between the soul and the world.
    MR 1.240 3 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the serving of his country...
    YA 1.373 6 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled a cruel kindness, serving the whole even to the ruin of the member;...
    Comp 2.114 9 It is best...to buy...in the house, good sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving;...
    UGM 4.8 12 Serving others is serving us.
    UGM 4.8 13 Serving others is serving us.
    Elo1 7.87 12 ...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    Chr2 10.100 27 When a man is born...preferring truth, justice and the serving of all men to any honors or any gain, men readily feel the superiority.
    Prch 10.228 4 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul...bent on serving, teaching and uplifting men.
    Thor 10.464 14 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light, serving for the ornament of their writing, was in him an unsleeping insight;...
    JBS 11.279 11 Our farmers...had learned that life...was to be spent in loving and serving mankind.
    Trag 12.406 27 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end, serving [man] if his wishes chance to lie in the same course...

servir, Memoirs pour, n. (1)

    MN 1.201 26 Read alternately...a treatise of astronomy, for example, with a volume of French Memoires pour servir.

servir, v. (1)

    PLT 12.15 1 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.

servitors, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.110 6 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.262 10 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...

servitude, n. (5)

    Hist 2.14 3 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
    Nat2 3.195 11 Our servitude to particulars betrays us into a hundred foolish expectations.
    F 6.25 9 The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.
    PLT 12.46 10 The revelation of thought takes us out of servitude into freedom.
    MAng1 12.217 1 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful...

Sesostris, n. (2)

    WD 7.179 19 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...
    PI 8.23 22 Every healthy mind is a true Alexander or Sesostris...

session, n. (5)

    NMW 4.226 24 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow: and he did speak it, with much effect, at the next day's session.
    ET4 5.64 15 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
    Elo2 8.123 10 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    CSC 10.373 13 In March [1841], accordingly, a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church...
    HDC 11.46 7 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.

Sessions, Lucy, n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 20 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and memorable part in the debate...

sessions, n. (3)

    CSC 10.376 2 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    HDC 11.71 11 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions.
    AKan 11.263 10 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety, go into permanent sessions...

set, adj. (4)

    Int 2.331 6 At last comes the era of reflection...when we of set purpose sit down to consider an abstract truth;...
    NR 3.239 12 ...there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.
    CbW 6.278 5 The man,--it is his attitude...not on set days and public occasions, but at all hours...
    PLT 12.38 15 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published in set propositions...

set, n. (12)

    MN 1.193 17 Here, a new set of distinctions...prevail.
    Prd1 2.236 15 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Exp 3.61 11 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Chr1 3.97 24 ...the soul of goodness escapes from any set of circumstances;...
    MoS 4.185 17 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    MoS 4.185 18 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    Pow 6.58 4 Each plus man represents his set...
    Clbs 7.248 10 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...
    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...
    SA 8.90 21 Do not look sourly at the set or the club which does not choose you.
    Wom 11.418 16 Men taunt [women] that, whatever they do, say, read or write, they are thinking of themselves and their set.
    FRep 11.523 8 ...[Americans] take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it.

set, v. (209)

    Nat 1.48 21 The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature.
    Nat 1.56 24 These [thoughts] are they who were set up from everlasting...
    Nat 1.64 12 Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?
    Nat 1.71 2 ...who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit?
    AmS 1.89 9 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent, that is...who set out from accepted dogmas...
    AmS 1.90 17 ...the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead...
    AmS 1.93 24 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they...set the hearts of their youth on flame.
    AmS 1.108 15 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
    LE 1.167 5 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books...
    LE 1.174 5 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...
    LE 1.178 9 Let [the scholar] endeavor...cheerfully, to solve the problem of that life which is set before him.
    MN 1.193 18 ...we set a bound to the respectability of wealth...
    MN 1.199 11 We can...never tell where to set the first stone.
    MN 1.210 2 ...if [a man's] eye is set on the things to be done...then the voice grows faint...
    MN 1.213 1 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
    MR 1.235 11 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle?
    MR 1.245 6 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy for their proportion of the landscape in which we set them...
    LT 1.265 1 ...let us set up our Camera also, and let the sun paint the people.
    LT 1.278 5 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong...
    Con 1.298 1 The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.
    Con 1.309 27 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely...that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.310 6 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.313 16 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has... set hopes in your heart which shall be history in the next ages.
    Con 1.315 2 ...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the corruption of mankind.
    Con 1.319 23 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
    Tran 1.331 24 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house]...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    YA 1.375 5 /Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and inviolable springs./
    YA 1.389 5 I might not set down our most proclaimed offences as the worst.
    SR 2.45 16 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions...
    SR 2.55 13 ...we know not where to begin to set [conformists] right.
    SR 2.67 25 We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts...
    Comp 2.104 14 The particular man aims...to set up for himself;...
    SL 2.144 8 [A man] is like one of those booms which are set out from the shore on rivers to catch drift-wood...
    SL 2.151 16 [A man] may set his own rate.
    SL 2.151 21 [The world] leaves every man, with profound unconcern, to set his own rate.
    SL 2.156 18 Dreadful limits are set in nature to the powers of dissimulation.
    Fdsp 2.211 26 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls...
    Prd1 2.227 17 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber...
    Prd1 2.239 1 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    Hsm1 2.255 22 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    Hsm1 2.263 13 It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
    Cir 2.318 10 Do not set the least value on what I do...
    Pt1 3.29 12 ...the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
    Exp 3.64 15 We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors of wrath...
    Exp 3.69 15 ...I have set my heart on honesty in this chapter...
    Chr1 3.87 1 The sun set; but set not his hope:/...
    Chr1 3.108 5 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...because they set a bound to the exaggeration that has been made of the personality of the last divine person.
    Chr1 3.114 22 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages.
    Mrs1 3.119 7 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    Gts 3.160 10 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
    Pol1 3.217 7 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...in the Conversations' Lexicon it is not set down;...
    NR 3.239 8 ...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking up all styles and tricks...
    NR 3.247 15 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NER 3.273 14 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they...after some pause, rose up all together with earnestness, exclaiming, Let us set out with him immediately.
    NER 3.284 11 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    NER 3.284 14 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing. They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning themselves, and will certainly succeed.
    PPh 4.65 18 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that...we might, by imitating the uniform revolutions of divinity, set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    PNR 4.89 12 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    SwM 4.128 24 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
    MoS 4.158 1 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance; and the only defence set up, is the fear of doing worse in disorganizing.
    MoS 4.160 12 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it not too high nor too low...
    NMW 4.228 2 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside.
    NMW 4.234 2 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...
    GoW 4.266 13 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.
    GoW 4.272 1 [Goethe's] Helena...is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...
    GoW 4.274 14 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
    GoW 4.281 16 There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth...
    GoW 4.289 19 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    ET5 5.76 14 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    ET5 5.78 3 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs, so fierce that when their teeth were set you must cut their heads off to part them.
    ET5 5.89 27 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate: No, said an Englishman, but to set your shoulder at the wheel...
    ET5 5.91 16 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
    ET7 5.124 13 ...[Englishmen's] eyes seem to be set at the bottom of a tunnel...
    ET13 5.215 22 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...set bounds to serfdom and slavery...
    ET16 5.273 14 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    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...
    Pow 6.53 3 Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
    Pow 6.76 12 There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one.
    Ctr 6.132 13 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
    Ctr 6.144 16 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    Ctr 6.165 26 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Bhr 6.172 19 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to get [people] washed, clothed, and set up on end;...
    Bhr 6.190 5 Neither Aristotle, nor Leibnitz, nor Junius, nor Champollion has set down the grammar-rules of this dialect [of behavior]...
    Wsp 6.217 3 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. ... But, once satisfied of such superiority, we set no limit to our expectation of his genius.
    Wsp 6.235 18 I ate whatever was set before me [said Benedict];...
    CbW 6.261 19 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants. Set a dog on him;...
    CbW 6.261 20 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants. Set a dog on him; set a highwayman on him;...
    CbW 6.268 1 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...
    Bty 6.291 24 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Ill 6.320 23 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    Ill 6.321 6 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal. Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.
    Ill 6.323 7 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...
    SS 7.4 12 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge here; set oaks there...
    SS 7.4 13 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge here; set oaks there,--trees behind trees; above all, set evergreens...
    SS 7.13 14 In society, high advantages are set down to the individual as disqualifications.
    Art2 7.41 19 You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will, but as you must. There is a quick bound set to your caprice.
    Art2 7.42 17 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...
    Elo1 7.68 14 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative!
    Elo1 7.79 25 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    Elo1 7.88 21 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved, but a solid proposition is set forth...
    DL 7.115 24 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best...set in lead, set in poverty.
    DL 7.115 25 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best...set in lead, set in poverty.
    DL 7.116 4 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian. Poor, says Plutarch, when he set about it, poorer when he had finished it.
    DL 7.117 11 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is to raise our aim.
    Farm 7.135 10 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain/...
    Farm 7.147 10 Set out a pine-tree, and it dies in the first year...
    Boks 7.190 15 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
    Boks 7.201 12 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history, in which the important moments and persons can be rightly set down;...
    Clbs 7.240 5 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    Clbs 7.247 22 ...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
    Suc 7.287 3 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...
    Suc 7.309 18 Set down nothing that will not help somebody;...
    PI 8.40 2 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry...is that it is a new work of Nature...
    PI 8.47 1 I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences [of common English metres], and be at once set on searching for the words that can rightly fill these vacant beats.
    PI 8.57 4 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own; the waves of melody will...set him into concert and harmony.
    PI 8.60 17 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin].
    PI 8.62 11 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free.
    SA 8.85 2 There is even a little rule of prudence for the young experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
    Res 8.146 18 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
    Comc 8.165 21 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
    Comc 8.172 11 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep;...
    PC 8.230 15 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists, as in a barbarous age;...
    PPo 8.255 4 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs...
    Insp 8.270 11 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end... before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Insp 8.277 18 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here, nor was there any time to consider how to set it punctually down...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Insp 8.287 16 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.
    Insp 8.294 14 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Grts 8.308 19 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result...
    Imtl 8.325 14 [The Greek] set his wit and taste, like elastic gas, under these mountains of stone [the pyramids], and lifted them.
    Imtl 8.337 12 The love of life is out of all proportion to the value set on a single day...
    Imtl 8.344 15 Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but inviolable springs./
    Imtl 8.348 12 Will you offer empires to such as cannot set a house or private affairs in order?
    Dem1 10.19 11 I set down these things as I find them...
    Aris 10.52 10 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    Aris 10.57 12 Let [a true aristocrat]...stand for that which he was born and set to maintain.
    Chr2 10.111 25 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors,-to writers who were not careful to set down name or date or titles or cities or postmarks in these illuminations!
    Edc1 10.130 12 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power; learning that in his own constitution he can set the shining maze in order...
    Edc1 10.157 20 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk;...
    SovE 10.193 7 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].
    Prch 10.237 26 ...how rare and lofty, how unattainable, are the aims [the Church] labors to set before men!
    MoL 10.246 15 Linnaeus or Robert Brown must not be set to raise gooseberries and cucumbers...
    Plu 10.319 18 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship...and has set them down with such candor and grace as to make them good reading to-day.
    LLNE 10.327 22 The age of arithmetic and of criticism has set in.
    LLNE 10.328 14 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no, set your heart at rest on that point, said the landlord;...
    LLNE 10.349 19 [Genius] must now set itself to raise the social condition of man...
    LLNE 10.355 3 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
    LLNE 10.356 19 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
    MMEm 10.398 15 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends, but she is too soon sensible that she can set them as she wills;...
    Thor 10.478 4 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. It was an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
    Carl 10.490 19 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons...
    LS 11.5 27 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.
    HDC 11.31 24 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    HDC 11.48 21 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...
    HDC 11.49 8 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    HDC 11.57 4 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school...
    HDC 11.60 4 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
    HDC 11.77 1 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are set apart...
    LVB 11.93 14 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    EWI 11.99 16 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    EWI 11.104 4 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.106 11 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    EWI 11.107 5 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...
    EWI 11.108 5 John Woolman of New Jersey...was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.
    EWI 11.111 3 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.
    EWI 11.132 19 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime, and should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons...may now be.
    EWI 11.135 5 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.142 4 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;...
    War 11.167 24 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else, if you pretend to set an arbitrary limit...give up the principle...
    War 11.167 27 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit which the common sense of all mankind has set...
    FSLC 11.183 11 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end...he cannot be relied on at a pinch...
    FSLC 11.209 16 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do.
    FSLC 11.213 2 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London...
    FSLC 11.214 7 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented, and a limit set to these encroachments [of slavery] forever.
    FSLN 11.223 25 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
    AKan 11.257 22 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...and are then set on by highwaymen...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.258 16 I esteem [governments] only good in the moment when they are established. I set the private man first.
    JBS 11.277 19 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio, and the boy was there set to keep sheep...
    ACiv 11.302 13 There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history.
    HCom 11.342 9 The revolutions carry their own points, sometimes to the ruin of those who set them on foot.
    SMC 11.348 6 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
    SMC 11.363 5 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language, especially from an officer, whose duty it was to set them a better example.
    SMC 11.363 20 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...
    Koss 11.397 21 [The people of Concord] set no more value than you [Kossuth] do on cheers and huzzas.
    Wom 11.407 13 ...[women] give entirely to their affections, set their whole fortune on the die...
    CPL 11.508 6 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves;...
    FRep 11.536 27 There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history.
    PLT 12.4 15 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall...see that what is set down is true through all the sciences;...
    PLT 12.48 7 Each of these talents is born to be unfolded and set at work for the use and delight of men...
    II 12.70 1 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.
    Mem 12.92 16 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain. Well, that is as it should be. That is the police of the Universe: the angels are set to punish you...
    Mem 12.92 25 Memory is...a guardian angel set there within you to record your life;...
    Mem 12.96 3 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end.
    Mem 12.101 18 ...all the facts in this chest of memory are property at interest. And who shall set a boundary to this mounting value?
    CInt 12.113 16 Against the heroism of soldiers I set the heroism of scholars...
    CInt 12.116 16 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.
    CInt 12.120 23 You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the high privilege of thought.
    CL 12.149 1 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.
    CL 12.163 9 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    CW 12.174 15 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries.
    Bost 12.195 20 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    Milt1 12.269 10 Milton...delicately bred in all the elegancy of art and learning, was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
    ACri 12.293 3 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...as a general thing; after all. Confusions of lie and lay, sit and set, shall and will.
    ACri 12.300 19 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience, and we set about translating it at once into our parallel facts.
    ACri 12.304 16 Don't set out to please; you will displease.
    MLit 12.311 14 In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature...we cannot promise to set in very exact order what we have to say.
    MLit 12.328 25 ...we may here set down by way of comment of [Goethe's] genius the impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm Meister.
    MLit 12.331 4 Goethe...must be set down as the poet of the Actual, not of the Ideal;...
    WSL 12.342 7 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...the old constellations have set...
    Let 12.393 20 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

sets, n. (2)

    NR 3.229 16 We are amphibious creatures...having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.
    SS 7.14 12 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.

sets, v. (36)

    Nat 1.14 9 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    Nat 1.19 26 Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
    LE 1.172 10 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large.
    Con 1.314 16 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    Tran 1.337 13 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man...sets the seal of his divine nature to the grace he accords.
    SL 2.157 7 This is that law whereby a work of art...sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he made it.
    SL 2.159 12 [A man's] vice...sets the mark of the beast on the back of the head...
    OS 2.279 9 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will against mine, one for one...
    Int 2.337 13 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation...
    Art1 2.352 19 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art]...
    Mrs1 3.128 5 [Fashion] usually sets its face against the great of this hour.
    Pol1 3.203 13 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    NR 3.225 18 The least hint sets us on the pursuit of a character which no man realizes.
    UGM 4.17 17 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy...
    PPh 4.64 26 What a price [Plato] sets on the feats of talent...
    NMW 4.227 14 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures, sets his stamp on them...
    ET4 5.59 22 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; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
    ET8 5.140 18 The slow, deep English mass smoulders with fire, which at last sets all its borders in flame.
    ET9 5.148 7 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain] sets every man on being and doing what he really is and can.
    Wsp 6.223 12 If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it.
    CbW 6.259 12 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which sets our human atoms spinning...
    Farm 7.146 8 Water...sets its irresistible shoulder to your mills or your ships...
    Boks 7.213 23 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance...
    OA 7.328 17 ...age sets its house in order...
    PI 8.6 6 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment...
    PI 8.18 24 [The act of imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance.
    PI 8.64 6 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    Insp 8.296 3 Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
    Chr2 10.103 13 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on some asceticism or some practice of self-examinatioon to hold him to obedience...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Edc1 10.140 3 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    Edc1 10.158 19 ...if the boy [in your school] stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
    SovE 10.205 16 ...freedom has its own guards, and, as soon as in the vulgar it runs to license, sets all reasonable men on exploring those guards.
    FSLN 11.236 18 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.
    ALin 11.329 19 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    CInt 12.119 14 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song, just as a powerful note of an organ sets all tuned strings in its neighborhood in accordant vibration...
    CInt 12.123 17 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it...sets up for itself...

setting, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.137 6 The faith should blend with the light of rising and of setting suns...
    WD 7.182 9 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./

setting, n. (1)

    Nat 1.9 15 Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.

setting, v. (19)

    DSA 1.128 10 The truth contained in [the Christian church], you, my young friends, are now setting forth to teach.
    YA 1.384 3 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...setting a higher value on the private family...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    Hsm1. 2.252 23 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...setting his heart on a horse or a rifle...
    OS 2.279 13 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of [my child's] young eyes looks the same soul;...
    Pol1 3.214 20 I can see well enough a great difference between my setting myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act after my views;...
    SwM 4.141 7 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains, agreeing with...the rising and setting of autumnal stars.
    MoS 4.175 15 There is the power of moods, each setting at nought all but its own tissue of facts and beliefs.
    Pow 6.67 26 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
    Wth 6.97 21 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
    Art2 7.54 17 ...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.
    Cour 7.261 26 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do, setting a dogged resolution to resist this natural infirmity.
    PI 8.63 18 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    Chr2 10.97 19 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.
    Schr 10.263 25 [Intellect] is the power that makes the world incarnated in man, and...setting the north and the south, and the stars in their places.
    Thor 10.463 2 ...setting, like all highly organized men, a high value on his time, [Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
    Thor 10.473 24 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that...
    HDC 11.31 6 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    ACiv 11.297 9 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing of men and setting them to work...
    EurB 12.367 7 ...Wordsworth...though setting a private and exaggerated value on his compositions;...is really a master of the English language...

settings, n. (1)

    PLT 12.14 3 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and its settings...that I may learn to live with it wisely...

settle, v. (21)

    AmS 1.85 4 [The scholar] must settle [nature's] value in his mind.
    SR 2.62 11 ...I am to settle [the picture's] claims to praise.
    Cir 2.318 12 Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false.
    Int 2.345 20 The gods shall settle their own quarrels.
    Exp 3.60 24 ...I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should... do broad justice where we are...
    Exp 3.64 18 So many things are unsettled which it is of the first importance to settle;...
    Mrs1 3.155 9 ...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
    Pol1 3.204 16 If it be not easy to settle the equity of this question [of property], the peril is less when we take note of our natural defenses.
    NR 3.235 18 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns...
    ET4 5.44 8 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races and settle the true bounds;...
    ET16 5.278 22 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
    Wth 6.118 3 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the Church and to settle him in the rectorship which was in the gift of the family;...
    WD 7.174 22 ...academies convene to settle the claims of the old schools.
    Dem1 10.18 9 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted...to settle the thing once for all...
    Thor 10.454 3 [Thoreau]...wished to settle all his practice on an ideal foundation.
    LS 11.16 7 If it could be satisfactorily shown that [the primitive Church] esteemed [the Lord's Supper] authorized and to be transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us.
    HDC 11.32 2 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop, and an agreement that they should settle at Musketaquid.
    HDC 11.45 18 [The settlers] were to settle the internal constitution of the towns...
    EdAd 11.391 4 There are literary and philosophical reputations to settle.
    FRep 11.512 12 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages;...
    PLT 12.27 5 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another.

settled, adj. (13)

    Comp 2.125 7 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and no settled character...
    Fdsp 2.206 9 [Friendship] should never fall into something usual and settled...
    Cir 2.320 5 People wish to be settled;...
    Chr1 3.93 11 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...
    Mrs1 3.131 24 ...there is nothing settled in manners...
    ET11 5.173 6 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET15 5.267 23 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
    Elo1 7.80 27 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
    Dem1 10.20 5 The demonologic is only a fine name for egotism; an exaggeration namely of the individual, whom it is Nature's settled purpose to postpone.
    Edc1 10.142 12 ...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man] and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he blush so...
    PLT 12.55 10 Literary men for the most part have a settled despair as to the realization of ideas in their own time.
    II 12.76 17 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us,-I know not; but there seems a settled determination to break our spirit.
    CL 12.136 4 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.

settled, v. (37)

    AmS 1.88 26 The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled the book is perfect;...
    LE 1.170 26 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the breast of man;...
    Cir 2.311 16 All that we reckoned settled shakes and rattles;...
    Exp 3.76 26 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon...
    Pol1 3.203 20 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors...
    NER 3.268 25 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind. Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to procure alleviations...
    PPh 4.54 21 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    MoS 4.164 5 In 1571...Montaigne...settled himself on his estate.
    ShP 4.209 27 What point...of the conduct of life, has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    NMW 4.248 21 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm, the weather settled...
    ET3 5.35 21 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.
    ET5 5.75 2 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...
    ET6 5.110 22 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a finality...
    ET12 5.213 9 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
    Pow 6.59 10 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer, and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader.
    Wth 6.121 6 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...
    Elo1 7.78 4 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has...settled it with himself that he will no longer stick at anything.
    Elo2 8.126 1 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    Schr 10.274 17 One thing is for [the thoughtful man] settled, that he is to come at his ends.
    LS 11.3 13 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    HDC 11.31 1 ...the town of Concord was settled by a party of non-conformists...
    HDC 11.46 17 [The Massachusetts Bay towns'] powers were speedily settled by obvious convenience...
    HDC 11.55 26 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield.
    HDC 11.61 25 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits...
    HDC 11.65 25 The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...
    HDC 11.85 3 [Concord's] sons have settled the region around us, and far from us.
    EWI 11.121 13 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...
    FSLC 11.204 10 [Webster] adheres to the letter. Happily he was born late,-after the independence had been declared, the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
    FSLN 11.226 26 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages, and settled always in the same way by every great jurist, that an immoral law cannot be valid.
    AKan 11.259 2 Who doubts that Kansas would have been very well settled, if the United States had let it alone?
    JBB 11.266 1 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./
    JBS 11.279 1 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    Shak1 11.448 3 [Shakespeare's] fame is settled on the foundations of the moral and intellectual world.
    CPL 11.497 27 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England...
    CL 12.144 25 ...'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.
    CL 12.144 27 ...'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 12.284 9 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

settlement, n. (15)

    Exp 3.64 19 So many things are unsettled which it is of the first importance to settle; and, pending their settlement, we will do as we do.
    GoW 4.286 20 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years...after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
    DL 7.124 8 In men, it is their...settlement in a town...or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    SA 8.101 26 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories.
    EzRy 10.381 11 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England, at the first settlement of the town;...
    HDC 11.38 14 The Puritans, to keep the remembrance...of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.
    HDC 11.40 26 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord];...
    HDC 11.43 10 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.56 16 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people. Better evidence could not be desired of the rapid growth of the settlement [Concord].
    HDC 11.61 13 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim to the envenomed prejudice against their countrymen.
    EWI 11.99 8 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    FSLC 11.199 1 [Webster's] final settlement has dislocated the foundations.
    FSLC 11.208 14 Why in the name of common sense and the peace of mankind is not [abolition] made the subject of instant negotiation and settlement?
    Bost 12.190 13 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston]...within a few years after the first settlement it grew to be the metropolis of the whole English America.
    Milt1 12.270 10 At one time [Milton] meditated writing a poem on the settlement of Britain...

settlements, n. (3)

    HDC 11.29 6 ...the people of New England...as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.39 12 ...if, in common with all the settlements, [the settlers of Concord] found the air of America very cold, they might say with Higginson...that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.62 7 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken. They never more disturbed the interior settlements...

settler, n. (2)

    Cour 7.270 15 ...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    PC 8.208 1 Land without price is offered to the settler...

settlers, n. (7)

    Farm 7.139 23 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession.
    HDC 11.30 14 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord].
    HDC 11.32 12 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
    HDC 11.41 7 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price...
    HDC 11.45 4 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers...were united by personal affection.
    HDC 11.55 12 The fish, which had been the abundant manure of the settlers, was found to injure the land.
    HDC 11.68 16 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of; as they are the fruit of the heroic enterprises of the first settlers of these American colonies.

settles, v. (5)

    NER 3.284 2 As soon as a man is wonted...to see how this high will prevails without an exception or an interval, he settles himself into serenity.
    ET8 5.134 15 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET8 5.138 16 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily...
    Wth 6.123 23 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...
    SovE 10.193 7 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice]. Settles for evermore the ponderous equator to its line...

settling, v. (3)

    Res 8.151 16 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself...
    FRep 11.516 10 We are in these days settling for ourselves and our descendants questions which...will make the peace and prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
    Mem 12.95 16 The memory plays a great part in settling the intellectual rank of men.

set-to, n. (1)

    ET4 5.63 11 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting...and in the readiness for a set-to in the streets...

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