Say to Scabbard

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

say, v. (936)

    Nat 1.17 26 What was it that nature would say?
    Nat 1.25 19 We say the heart to express emotion...
    Nat 1.32 19 ...we see that [nature] always stands ready to clothe what we would say...
    Nat 1.51 17 ...I may say, a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact... that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    Nat 1.53 21 The wild beauty of this hyperbole, I may say in passing, it would not be easy to match in literature.
    Nat 1.54 23 The perception of real affinities between events (that is to say, of ideal affinities, for those only are real), enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
    Nat 1.58 23 ...[the theosophists] might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
    Nat 1.61 22 Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.
    Nat 1.71 24 Say, rather, [the structure] once fitted [man]...
    Nat 1.75 5 We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it, as we say, to the higher law of the mind.
    AmS 1.88 5 I might say, it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth.
    AmS 1.90 14 The book...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they - let us hold by this.
    AmS 1.92 24 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page. I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.
    AmS 1.100 15 It remains to say somewhat of [the scholar's] duties.
    AmS 1.106 16 ...in a millennium, one or two men; that is to say, one or two approximations to the right state of every man.
    AmS 1.108 25 I ought not to delay longer to add what I have to say of nearer reference to the time and to this country.
    DSA 1.121 5 When...[man] attains to say, - I love the Right...then...God is well pleased.
    DSA 1.129 12 The understanding...said...This was Jehovah come down out of heaven, I will kill you, if you say he was a man.
    DSA 1.135 19 ...it is my duty to say to you that the need was never greater of new revelation than now.
    DSA 1.137 20 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    DSA 1.140 23 In the street, what has [the poor preacher] to say to the bold village blasphemer?
    DSA 1.143 6 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    DSA 1.145 25 ...say, I also am a man.
    LE 1.157 11 It suffices me to say...that the diffidence of mankind in the soul has crept over the American mind...
    LE 1.158 4 What I have to say on that doctrine [of Literary Ethics] distributes itself under the topics of the resources, the subject, and the discipline of the scholar.
    LE 1.159 24 Say to such doctors, We are thankful to you, as we are to history...
    LE 1.160 12 I will say with the warlike king, God gave me this crown...
    LE 1.164 5 Say to the man of letters that he cannot paint a Transfiguration... and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    LE 1.166 12 [The listener] must also rise and say somewhat.
    LE 1.167 6 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.
    LE 1.167 9 Say rather all literature is yet to be written.
    LE 1.172 16 ...I only say that any particular portraiture does not in any manner exclude or forestall a new attempt...
    LE 1.175 26 You will pardon me, Gentlemen, if I say I think that we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule;...
    LE 1.180 11 ...they say the bough of the tree has the character of the leaf...
    LE 1.181 12 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the reverence of the humble commerce and humble needs of life,-to hearken what they say... the secret of the world is to be learned...
    LE 1.185 20 When you shall say...I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions;...then dies the man in you;...
    MN 1.199 6 ...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we be felt by every true person to say what is just.
    MN 1.210 22 Shall I say then that as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
    MN 1.215 25 ...I say to you plainly there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
    MN 1.216 24 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    MN 1.221 2 I stand here to say, Let us worship the mighty and transcendent Soul.
    MN 1.221 27 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God:-I shall not seek to penetrate the mystery...
    MN 1.222 3 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God... I admit the force of what you say.
    MR 1.240 21 ...one may say that the husbandman's is the oldest and most universal profession...
    MR 1.245 12 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands.
    MR 1.247 14 If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
    LT 1.259 1 The Times, as we say...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    LT 1.266 10 Now and then comes a bolder spirit, I should rather say, a more surrendered soul...
    LT 1.273 25 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion is now no more within himself...
    LT 1.280 3 ...if I am just, then is there no slavery, let the laws say what they will.
    LT 1.281 5 We say then that the reforming movement is sacred in its origin;...
    LT 1.287 15 ...we might say we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
    LT 1.290 19 You will absolve me from the charge of...the desire to say smart things at the expense of whomsoever, when you see that reality is all we prize...
    Con 1.300 13 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself, so that when you remember what he was, and see what he is, you say, What strides! what a disparity is here!
    Con 1.301 6 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
    Con 1.302 10 There is the question not only what the conservative says for himself, but, why must he say it?
    Con 1.306 11 There [the youth] stands...with all the reason of things, one would say, on his side.
    Con 1.310 21 It is trivial and merely superstitious to say that nothing is given you...
    Con 1.312 18 It is frivolous to say you have no acre, because you have not a mathematically measured piece of land.
    Con 1.316 17 What you say of your planted, builded and decorated world is true enough...
    Con 1.321 26 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry, Hush;...
    Con 1.324 10 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour and company fair and fortunate.
    Con 1.325 22 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society...
    Tran 1.329 1 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that they are not new...
    Tran 1.329 19 ...[the Idealists] say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell.
    Tran 1.331 6 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    Tran 1.331 10 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive. What more could an idealist say?
    Tran 1.333 26 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves; but hears, as at a vast distance, what they say...
    Tran 1.335 16 ...I say I make my circumstance;...
    Tran 1.336 16 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./
    Tran 1.338 24 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is the Saturnalia or excess of Faith;...
    Tran 1.344 5 Love me, [Transcendentalists] say, but do not ask who is my cousin and my uncle.
    Tran 1.344 10 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset. If you cannot divine it, you would not understand what I say.
    Tran 1.347 10 [Transcendentalists] say to themselves, It is better to be alone than in bad company.
    Tran 1.349 5 Each cause as it is called,-say Abolition, Temperance... becomes speedily a little shop...
    Tran 1.349 5 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop...
    Tran 1.352 1 ...we must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
    Tran 1.353 9 That is to be done which [the Transcendentalist] has not skill to do, or to be said which others can say better...
    Tran 1.355 7 ...the justice which is now claimed for the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the beneficiary. I say this is the tendency, not yet the realization.
    YA 1.377 21 ...as they say of dying people, all [Feudalism's] faults came out.
    YA 1.378 19 The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade;...
    YA 1.383 14 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten cents the hour.
    YA 1.384 10 ...one may say that aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these attempts fail...
    YA 1.389 20 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease, or, shall I say, the publicness of opinion...
    YA 1.394 27 ...we only say, Let us live in America, too thankful for our want of feudal institutions.
    Hist 2.5 14 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.
    Hist 2.8 26 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the case;...
    Hist 2.23 22 The primeval world,--the Fore-World, as the Germans say,--I can dive to it in myself...
    Hist 2.33 16 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.
    Hist 2.37 10 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.
    Hist 2.40 12 How many times we must say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople!
    SR 2.46 6 ...to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time...
    SR 2.48 25 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    SR 2.51 13 ...why should I not say to [the angry Abolitionist], Go love thy infant;...
    SR 2.54 23 ...not possibly can [the preacher] say a new and spontaneous word?
    SR 2.55 12 ...every word [conformists] say chagrins us...
    SR 2.62 6 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book... seem to say...Who are you, Sir?
    SR 2.67 2 Man...dares not say I think...
    SR 2.68 18 ...all that we say is the far-off remembering of the intuition.
    SR 2.68 20 That thought by what I can now nearest approach to say it, is this.
    SR 2.72 8 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,-Come out unto us.
    SR 2.72 24 Say to [people], O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.
    SR 2.75 27 If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined.
    SR 2.79 5 [Men] say with those foolish Israelites, Let not God speak to us, lest we die.
    SR 2.84 2 ...if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice;...
    Comp 2.109 6 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    Comp 2.109 7 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    Comp 2.114 2 Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor.
    Comp 2.120 17 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well?...
    SL 2.131 16 If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice.
    SL 2.132 7 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him...
    SL 2.134 3 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not...say, Crump is a better man with his grunting resistance to all his native devils.
    SL 2.138 13 [Every man] hears and feels what you say of the seraphim, and of the tin-peddler.
    SL 2.140 6 I say, do not choose;...
    SL 2.144 12 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
    SL 2.146 11 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles, it is vain to say, I will pour it only into this or that;--it will find its level in all.
    SL 2.153 25 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise, and half the people say, What poetry! what genius! it still needs fuel to make fire.
    SL 2.155 22 The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the laws of health.
    SL 2.156 27 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    SL 2.157 10 That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say...
    SL 2.164 16 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.
    SL 2.164 17 I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
    Lov1 2.180 4 The statue is then beautiful...when it...demands an active imagination to go with it and say what it is in the act of doing.
    Lov1 2.180 26 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset. Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
    Lov1 2.184 25 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,/ That one might almost say her body thought./
    Fdsp 2.197 11 I hear what you say of the admirable parts and tried temper of the party you praise...
    Fdsp 2.206 18 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection, say some who are learned in this warm lore of the heart, betwixt more than two.
    Fdsp 2.208 6 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle.
    Fdsp 2.211 27 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls...
    Fdsp 2.212 1 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such?
    Fdsp 2.212 4 There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous.
    Prd1 2.238 13 ...the peace of society is often kept, because, as children say, one is afraid and the other dares not.
    Prd1 2.240 8 Scarcely can we say we see new men, new women, approaching us.
    Hsm1. 2.252 12 What shall [heroism] say then to the sugar-plums and cats'-cradles... which rack the wit of all society?
    Hsm1 2.262 6 The circumstances of man, we say, are historically somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever before.
    OS 2.273 23 ...we say that the Judgment is distant or near...
    OS 2.278 10 We owe many valuable observations to people...who say the thing without effort which we want...
    OS 2.279 18 We know truth when we see it, let sceptic and scoffer say what they choose.
    OS 2.286 24 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it...
    OS 2.291 16 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty...
    OS 2.295 9 ...when I burn with pure love, what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?
    Cir 2.321 13 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...
    Int 2.331 22 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me.
    Int 2.332 27 Men say, Where did [the writer] get this?...
    Int 2.345 4 Say then...that [the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
    Pt1 3.4 12 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...
    Pt1 3.7 16 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... disparages such as say and do not...
    Pt1 3.21 25 ...language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses.
    Pt1 3.31 26 ...the gypsies say of themselves it is in vain to hang them, they cannot die.
    Pt1 3.35 7 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
    Pt1 3.39 18 ...by and by [the poet] says something which is original and beautiful. That charms him. He would say nothing else but such things.
    Pt1 3.39 20 In our way of talking we say That is yours, this is mine;...
    Pt1 3.40 9 Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say It is in me, and shall out.
    Exp 3.48 9 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say.
    Exp 3.53 10 The physicians say they are not materialists; but they are...
    Exp 3.56 15 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge. But will it answer thy question to say, Because thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular?
    Exp 3.59 21 Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, Children, eat you victuals, and say no more of it.
    Exp 3.60 9 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians if you will, to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Exp 3.63 3 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of Nature's pictures in every street...
    Exp 3.65 1 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides...
    Exp 3.65 16 Thy sickness, they say, and thy puny habit require that thou do this or avoid that...
    Exp 3.68 3 You will not remember, [God] seems to say, and you will not expect.
    Exp 3.79 27 ...use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are;...
    Exp 3.81 4 ...we cannot say too little of our constitutional necessity of seeing things under private aspects...
    Exp 3.82 1 A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the first condition of advice.
    Exp 3.83 27 I say to the Genius...In for a mill, in for a million.
    Exp 3.85 10 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success. I say this polemically...
    Exp 3.86 1 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat; up again, old heart!--it seems to say...
    Chr1 3.91 22 The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say...
    Chr1 3.103 18 Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through;...
    Chr1 3.103 19 Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through;...
    Chr1 3.110 5 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
    Mrs1 3.131 6 To say what good of fashion we can, it rests on reality...
    Mrs1 3.141 14 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    Mrs1 3.142 26 The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of derision on what we say.
    Mrs1 3.151 4 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...
    Mrs1 3.151 24 [Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
    Gts 3.163 7 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    Nat2 3.186 17 Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living...
    Nat2 3.187 21 Not less remarkable is the overfaith of each man in the importance of what he has to do or say.
    Nat2 3.192 1 [The rich] are like one who has interrupted the conversation of a company to make his speech, and now has forgotten what he went to say.
    Nat2 3.193 16 What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse...
    Nat2 3.195 16 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner;...
    Pol1 3.200 19 The statute stands there to say, Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day?
    Pol1 3.206 15 The law may in a mad freak say that all shall have power except the owners of property;...
    Pol1 3.209 25 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    Pol1 3.218 13 Most persons of ability meet in society with a kind of tacit appeal. Each seems to say, I am not all here.
    Pol1 3.221 22 ...there are now men...more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.225 1 I cannot often enough say that a man is only a relative and representative nature.
    NR 3.228 20 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one! what heart-drawings I feel to thee!...
    NR 3.229 4 If they say [a personal influence] is great, it is great;...
    NR 3.229 5 ...if they say [a personal influence] is small, it is small;...
    NR 3.236 12 What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes you into your class and section.
    NR 3.241 18 ...gamesters say that the cards beat all the players...
    NR 3.243 4 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    NR 3.246 25 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...
    NER 3.254 19 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
    NER 3.258 19 Once (say two centuries ago), Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.262 15 It makes no difference what you say, you must make me feel that you are aloof from [the institution];...
    NER 3.271 16 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies, listening gladly to what they say of him...
    NER 3.273 9 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
    NER 3.276 16 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
    NER 3.277 18 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine...
    NER 3.277 20 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends! for I could not say it otherwise than because a great enlargement had come to my heart and mind...
    NER 3.282 1 We seek to say thus and so, and over our head some spirit sits which contradicts what we say.
    NER 3.282 3 We seek to say thus and so, and over our head some spirit sits which contradicts what we say.
    UGM 4.4 1 You say, the English are practical;...
    UGM 4.5 19 I can say to you what I cannot first say to myself.
    UGM 4.12 2 Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs and Beaumonts...
    UGM 4.15 27 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language, and can say what he will.
    UGM 4.19 9 Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, She had lived with me long enough.
    UGM 4.20 14 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities;...
    UGM 4.31 5 Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
    UGM 4.35 5 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    PPh 4.40 2 Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer [Plato].
    PPh 4.40 5 St. Augustine...Goethe, are likewise [Plato's] debtors and must say after him.
    PPh 4.41 2 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
    PPh 4.41 20 ...after some time it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master and what is only of his school.
    PPh 4.44 7 [Plato] travelled into Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time; some say three,--some say thirteen years.
    PPh 4.44 8 [Plato] travelled into Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time; some say three,--some say thirteen years.
    PPh 4.48 16 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
    PPh 4.48 27 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not.
    PPh 4.51 26 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    PPh 4.55 19 Our strength is transitional, alternating; or, shall I say, a thread of two strands.
    PPh 4.58 24 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    PPh 4.64 18 [Plato] saw the institutions of Sparta and recognized, more genially one would say than any since, the hope of education.
    PPh 4.75 1 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. These things I hear like pipes and drums, whose sound makes me deaf to every thing you say.
    PPh 4.75 24 It remains to say that the defect of Plato in power is only that which results inevitably from his quality.
    PPh 4.78 7 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    PPh 4.78 26 When we say [of Plato], Here is a fine collection of fables;... we speak as boys...
    PNR 4.81 5 ...[nature] is insensible to what you say of tedious preparation.
    PNR 4.82 8 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    PNR 4.86 20 One would say that [Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a district or an island, in intellectual geography...
    PNR 4.87 23 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure...
    SwM 4.95 21 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
    SwM 4.96 5 The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say, travelling the path of existence through thousands of births...there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    SwM 4.97 27 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire...to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight...
    SwM 4.103 27 Swedenborg was born into an atmosphere of great ideas. It is hard to say what was his own...
    SwM 4.111 23 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg]...leave me nothing to say on their proper grounds.
    SwM 4.116 2 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur, I will not say in the living body only, but throughout nature...
    SwM 4.117 27 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.127 2 Of this book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success.
    SwM 4.135 27 I say, with the Spartan, Why do you speak so much to the purpose, of that which is nothing to the purpose?
    SwM 4.137 24 One man, you say, dreads erysipelas,--show him that this dread is evil...
    SwM 4.138 4 That is active duty, say the Hindoos, which is not for our bondage;...
    SwM 4.139 18 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    MoS 4.151 14 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
    MoS 4.153 5 The first [men of ideas] had leaped to conclusions not yet ripe, and say more than is true;...
    MoS 4.156 17 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that?
    MoS 4.157 12 [The skeptic says] Why fancy that you have all the truth in your keeping? There is much to say on all sides.
    MoS 4.158 11 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius? There is much to say on both sides.
    MoS 4.165 10 ...nobody can think or say worse of [Montaigne] than he does.
    MoS 4.166 25 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
    MoS 4.168 4 There have been men with deeper insight [than Montaigne's]; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts...
    MoS 4.170 4 Shall we say that Montaigne has spoken wisely...
    MoS 4.171 8 The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic...
    MoS 4.171 22 Every superior mind...I should rather say, will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature...
    MoS 4.173 5 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say.
    MoS 4.174 20 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude is partial and deformed...
    MoS 4.176 7 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say, Well, the army, after all, is the gate to fame, manners and poetry...
    MoS 4.179 15 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    MoS 4.180 5 ...shall we, because a good nature inclines us to virtue's side, say, There are no doubts...
    MoS 4.181 26 ...[the spiritualist] is forced to say, O, these things will be as they must be...
    MoS 4.182 9 the people's questions are not [the spiritualist's]; their methods are not his; and against all the dictates of good nature he is driven to say he has no pleasure in them.
    MoS 4.182 22 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures: why should I make believe them? Will any say, This is cold and infidel?
    MoS 4.182 23 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures: why should I make believe them? Will any say, This is cold and infidel? The wise and magnanimous will not say so.
    MoS 4.185 7 The lesson of life is practically...to believe what the years and the centuries say, against the hours;...
    MoS 4.185 10 Things seem to say one thing, and say the reverse.
    ShP 4.190 3 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    ShP 4.191 11 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all;...
    ShP 4.193 10 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts. It is now no longer possible to say who wrote them first.
    ShP 4.197 2 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet];...
    ShP 4.197 3 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet]; only they say a good many foolish things, and do not know when they have spoken wisely.
    ShP 4.210 21 ...what [Shakespeare] has to say is of that weight as to withdraw some attention from the vehicle;...
    ShP 4.215 18 We say, from the truth and closeness of [Shakespeare's] pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart.
    ShP 4.217 12 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    NMW 4.256 14 ...I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men of business, against the stationary or conservative party. I omitted then to say...that these two parties differ only as young and old.
    GoW 4.262 16 ...that which is for [a man] to say lies as a load on his heart until it is delivered.
    GoW 4.262 26 [The writer] counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable.
    GoW 4.275 26 [Goethe] will realize what you say.
    GoW 4.275 27 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife' s fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years.
    GoW 4.276 3 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another. He sifts it. I am here, he would say, to be the measure and judge of these things.
    GoW 4.284 1 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken.
    GoW 4.286 22 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...
    ET1 5.11 16 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing, a man to whom he looked up,--no, to say that he looked up to him would be to speak falsely, but a man whom he looked at with so much interest,--should embrace such [Unitarian] views.
    ET1 5.12 18 I took advantage of a pause to say that [Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
    ET1 5.19 14 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America...
    ET2 5.27 5 ...they say at sea a stern chase is a long race...
    ET2 5.28 7 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say...
    ET2 5.29 27 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET3 5.39 12 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.
    ET4 5.52 7 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England, say eight or ten or twenty varieties...
    ET4 5.53 26 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins.
    ET4 5.55 22 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;...
    ET4 5.63 2 ...one may say of England that this watch moves on a splinter of adamant.
    ET4 5.66 1 The French say that the Englishwomen have two left hands.
    ET4 5.70 17 The French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight before them like mad dogs.
    ET6 5.102 7 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
    ET6 5.102 15 ...the Times newspaper they say is the pluckiest thing in England...
    ET6 5.103 21 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal. At last, you take your hint from the fury of life you find, and say, one thing is plain, this is no country for fainthearted people;...
    ET6 5.103 26 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain.
    ET6 5.103 27 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain. I say as much of England...
    ET6 5.111 2 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary. The barons say, Nolumus mutari;...
    ET6 5.112 3 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope behind.
    ET7 5.118 2 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as Fare fac,--Say, do,--of the Fairfaxes;...
    ET7 5.118 3 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as... Say and seal, of the house of Fiennes;...
    ET7 5.118 6 When [the English] unmask cant, they say, The English of this is, etc.;...
    ET7 5.118 19 The Duke of Wellington, who had the best right to say so, advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.
    ET7 5.126 7 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That English treasons never can succeed;/...
    ET8 5.127 15 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors. The French say, gay conversation is unknown in their island.
    ET9 5.145 16 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] see a handsome foreigner, they say he looks like an Englishman...
    ET10 5.156 15 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy;...and they say without shame, I cannot afford it.
    ET11 5.177 12 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing;...
    ET11 5.186 15 The upper classes have only birth, say the people here [in England], and not thoughts.
    ET13 5.214 14 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to say, he might reply, if the question were open...
    ET13 5.214 22 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    ET13 5.215 8 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.220 6 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence...
    ET13 5.223 4 They say here [in England], that if you talk with a clergyman, you are sure to find him well-bred, informed and candid...
    ET13 5.224 13 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live.
    ET14 5.239 15 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held...of the idealists, or (as we popularly say, naming from the best example) Platonists.
    ET14 5.242 26 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say, in literary history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...
    ET14 5.248 5 It is very certain, I may say in passing, that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    ET14 5.249 14 But for Coleridge...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    ET14 5.252 6 Every one of [the Englishmen] is a thousand years old and lives by his memory: and when you say this, they accept it as praise.
    ET14 5.254 26 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away. The artists say, Nature puts them out; the scholars have become unideal.
    ET14 5.255 3 The fact is, say [the English] over their wine, all that about liberty, and so forth, is gone by; it won't do any longer.
    ET15 5.267 10 What would The [London] Times say? is a terror in Paris, in Berlin, in Vienna, in Copenhagen and in Nepaul.
    ET15 5.268 24 ...[the English] do not know, when they take [the London Times] up, what their paper is going to say...
    ET16 5.273 23 There was much to say [to Carlyle]...of the travelling Americans and their usual objects in London.
    ET16 5.274 17 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence, and thinks a sincere man will see something and say nothing.
    ET16 5.274 19 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to...say, I can build you a coffin for such dead persons as you are, and for such dead purposes as you have, but you shall have no ornament.
    ET16 5.279 16 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    ET16 5.281 23 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world, and... does not stick to say, the Deity who made the world by the scheme of Stonehenge.
    ET17 5.298 3 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that, alone in his time, he treated the human mind well...
    ET18 5.302 12 What we must say about a nation is a superficial dealing with symptoms.
    ET18 5.304 22 ...we say that only the English race can be trusted with freedom...
    ET18 5.307 3 ...now we say that the right measures of England are the men it bred;...
    ET19 5.310 19 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    ET19 5.312 6 I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
    ET19 5.313 20 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations, mother of heroes...
    ET19 5.314 5 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    F 6.1 13 Or say, the foresight that awaits/ Is the same Genius that creates./
    F 6.4 3 We must begin our reform earlier still,-at generation: that is to say, there is Fate...
    F 6.8 17 Will you say, the disasters which threaten mankind are exceptional...
    F 6.10 7 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion and say his father...comes to the windows of his eyes...
    F 6.12 24 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.13 4 To say it less sublimely,-in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition...
    F 6.17 8 It would not be safe to say when a captain like Bonaparte...would be born in Boston;...
    F 6.23 6 If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate, and say, Fate is all; then we say, a part of Fate is the freedom of man.
    F 6.25 9 We rightly say of ourselves, we were born and afterward we were born again...
    F 6.29 27 ...one may say boldly that no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
    F 6.46 15 ...what their companion prepares to say to [some people], they first say to him;...
    Pow 6.70 3 The people lean on this [aboriginal source], and the mob is not quite so bad an argument as we sometimes say, for it has this good side.
    Pow 6.71 20 We say that success is constitutional;...
    Pow 6.77 25 Diligence passe sens, Henry VIII. was wont to say, or great is drill.
    Pow 6.79 15 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...
    Pow 6.80 13 I adjourn what I have to say on this topic [the limit to the value of talent and superficial success] to the chapters on Culture and Worship.
    Wth 6.95 16 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
    Wth 6.108 23 One might say that all things are of one price;...
    Wth 6.112 24 I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
    Wth 6.113 2 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Wth 6.122 6 We say the cows laid out Boston.
    Wth 6.125 24 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals;...
    Ctr 6.141 10 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Ctr 6.148 25 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...
    Ctr 6.151 17 ...the box-coat is like wine, it unlocks the tongue, and men say what they think.
    Ctr 6.152 4 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
    Ctr 6.153 14 You say the gods ought to respect a life whose objects are their own;...
    Ctr 6.156 23 We say solitude, to mark the character of the tone of thought;...
    Ctr 6.157 24 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock...
    Ctr 6.159 10 We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
    Ctr 6.159 23 ...we say of Niagara that it falls without speed.
    Ctr 6.160 25 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and though he will say nothing of philosophy, he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them...
    Ctr 6.164 13 Let me say here that culture cannot begin too early.
    Bhr 6.173 9 I have seen men who neigh like a horse when you...say something which they do not understand...
    Bhr 6.177 18 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.
    Bhr 6.178 2 The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole ground.
    Bhr 6.180 2 When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.
    Bhr 6.180 9 There is a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing...
    Bhr 6.190 12 One would say that the persuasion of [men's] speech is not in what they say...
    Bhr 6.190 13 ...the persuasion of [men's] speech is not in what they say...
    Bhr 6.191 14 One would say, the rule is,--What man is irresistibly urged to say, helps him and us.
    Bhr 6.191 15 ...What man is irresistibly urged to say, helps him and us.
    Bhr 6.192 27 It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet or speak or write to him;...
    Bhr 6.197 14 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners? the golden mean is...say frankly, unattainable.
    Wsp 6.201 10 I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as we say the devil's attorney.
    Wsp 6.201 12 I have...no belief that it is of much importance what I or any man may say...
    Wsp 6.201 14 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me... though I should try to say the reverse.
    Wsp 6.213 1 You say there is no religion now.
    Wsp 6.213 11 There is a principle...which all speech aims to say...
    Wsp 6.214 18 We say the old forms of religion decay...
    Wsp 6.215 9 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
    Wsp 6.225 22 In every variety of human employment...there are, among the numbers who do their task perfunctorily, as we say...the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    Wsp 6.226 26 ...you can never say anything but what you are.
    Wsp 6.227 17 [As we grow older] We have...an ear which hears not what men say, but hears what they do not say.
    Wsp 6.227 18 [As we grow older] We have...an ear which hears not what men say, but hears what they do not say.
    Wsp 6.228 22 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what they must say;...
    Wsp 6.228 23 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say...
    Wsp 6.228 26 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said...
    Wsp 6.231 3 The Buddhists say, No seed will die: every seed will grow.
    Wsp 6.235 4 [Benedict said] I seem to fail in my friends and clients, too. That is to say, in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten;...
    Wsp 6.237 14 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is...
    CbW 6.243 3 Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/ Usurp the seats for which all strive;/...
    CbW 6.245 6 So much fate...enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    CbW 6.246 19 What we have...to say of life, is rather description...than available rules.
    CbW 6.248 4 You must say of nothing, That is beneath me [said Mirabeau]...
    CbW 6.250 25 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    CbW 6.251 18 You would say this rabble of nations might be spared.
    CbW 6.252 13 To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer...
    CbW 6.253 5 They were the fools who cried against me, you will say, wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm;...
    CbW 6.257 15 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
    CbW 6.260 20 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. ... But the wise gods say, No, we have better things for thee.
    CbW 6.263 6 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...but I will say, get health.
    CbW 6.266 19 ...we shall not always traverse seas and lands...for pleasure, as we say.
    CbW 6.269 8 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves.
    CbW 6.269 9 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves.
    CbW 6.270 18 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation; as seamen say, you shall cut and run.
    CbW 6.272 4 Ask what is best in our experience, and we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
    CbW 6.278 10 I prefer to say, with the old prophet, Seekest thou great things? seek them not...
    Bty 6.281 17 We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn council...
    Bty 6.287 24 We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
    Bty 6.289 14 We say love is blind...
    Bty 6.289 25 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
    Bty 6.293 16 I need not say how wide the same law [of gradation] ranges...
    Bty 6.294 23 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Bty 6.296 9 To Eve, say the Mahometans, God gave two thirds of all beauty.
    Bty 6.296 19 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
    Bty 6.299 5 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...
    Ill 6.317 23 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport?
    Ill 6.320 20 We must work and affirm, but we have no guess of the value of what we say or do.
    Ill 6.323 16 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...has any advantage of them.
    SS 7.13 7 ...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product of health and of a social habit.
    SS 7.14 14 It would be more true to say [people in conversation] separate as oil from water...
    SS 7.15 22 ...most men...say good things to you in private, but will not stand to them in public.
    Civ 7.20 10 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes.
    Civ 7.27 18 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe; that is to say, the planet itself splits his stick.
    Civ 7.29 12 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit, say two hundred millions of miles, between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.39 20 If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
    Art2 7.41 27 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain...have more to say than he.
    Art2 7.47 19 ...I say that the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
    Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?
    Elo1 7.63 14 The Welsh Triads say, Many are the friends of the golden tongue.
    Elo1 7.67 19 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or,--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
    Elo1 7.68 1 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with a substantial cordial man, made of milk as we say...
    Elo1 7.72 21 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Elo1 7.74 21 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
    Elo1 7.75 10 ...we may say of such collectively that the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence.
    Elo1 7.78 12 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    Elo1 7.82 14 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say.
    Elo1 7.82 21 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    Elo1 7.89 4 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me...inestimable to such as have something to say.
    Elo1 7.89 21 Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places. What will he say next?
    Elo1 7.91 1 ...perhaps we should say that the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate his sanity.
    DL 7.109 3 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period.
    DL 7.112 7 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible;...
    DL 7.118 19 Let a man...say, My house is here in the county, for the culture of the county;...
    Farm 7.140 15 It is for [the farmer] to say whether men shall marry or not.
    Farm 7.141 24 We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth...
    Farm 7.142 1 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure...
    Farm 7.144 2 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it.
    WD 7.158 23 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
    WD 7.161 5 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...
    WD 7.162 24 Malthus...forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    WD 7.168 14 ...[the days] say nothing...
    WD 7.181 19 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    WD 7.183 27 There are people who...after years of activity, say, We knew all this before;...
    Boks 7.194 18 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost,--say, in England, all but Shakspeare, Milton and Bacon...
    Boks 7.195 11 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.
    Clbs 7.226 27 Neither do we by any means always go to people for conversation. How often to say nothing,--and yet must go;...
    Clbs 7.228 5 Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
    Clbs 7.229 10 ...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no thoughts.
    Clbs 7.231 7 The reply of old Isocrates comes so often to mind,--The things which are now seasonable I cannot say; and for the things which I can say it is not now the time.
    Clbs 7.233 8 The greatest sufferers are often those who have the most to say...
    Clbs 7.234 21 ...I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
    Clbs 7.245 24 The poet Marvell was wont to say that he would not drink wine with any one with whom he could not trust his life.
    Clbs 7.246 20 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see how much they have to say...
    Cour 7.257 6 Cut off [the snapping-turtle's] head, and the teeth will not let go the stick. Break the egg of the young, and the little embryo...bites fiercely; these vivacious creatures contriving--shall we say?--not only to bite after they are dead, but also to bite before they are born.
    Cour 7.257 11 ...mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
    Cour 7.266 14 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.
    Cour 7.267 10 Of [Charles XII, of Sweden] we may say that he led a life more remote from death, and in fact lived more, than any other man.
    Cour 7.269 13 ...a new book astonishes for a few days...and nobody knows what to say of it...
    Cour 7.270 25 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Cour 7.275 10 Let us say then frankly that the education of the will is the object of our existence.
    Cour 7.279 7 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    Suc 7.285 17 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua. Let them answer and say if they know where Veragua lies.
    Suc 7.287 20 These feats that we extol do not signify so much as we say.
    Suc 7.288 27 I have heard that Nelson used to say, Never mind the justice or the impudence, only let me succeed.
    Suc 7.291 16 Do your work. I have to say this often, but Nature says it oftener.
    Suc 7.292 2 ...it is rare to find a man...who speaks that which he was created to say.
    Suc 7.302 25 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know, I may say, nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    Suc 7.304 10 What was on [the lover's] lips to say is uttered by his friend.
    Suc 7.306 5 The very law of averages might have assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five good heads.
    OA 7.317 10 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the ancestor of all around him; which fact the Indian Vedas express when they say, He that can discriminate is the father of his father.
    OA 7.326 10 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say, O, he had headache...
    PI 8.13 21 ...if crystals, if alkalies, in their several fashions say what I say, it must be true.
    PI 8.13 22 ...if crystals, if alkalies, in their several fashions say what I say, it must be true.
    PI 8.16 11 The atomic theory is only an interior process produced, as geometers say...
    PI 8.16 22 In poetry we say we require the miracle.
    PI 8.21 1 ...shall we say that the imagination exists by sharing the ethereal currents?
    PI 8.28 10 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired soul reading arguments and affirmations in all Nature of that which it is driven to say.
    PI 8.29 26 Veracity...is that which we require in poets,--that they shall say how it was with them...
    PI 8.32 11 Of course, we know what you say, that legends are found in all tribes,--but this legend is different.
    PI 8.34 9 The subject [of poetry]--we must so often say it--is indifferent.
    PI 8.43 23 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say.
    PI 8.45 3 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;... they speak to us, and we listen with surprise to what they say.
    PI 8.47 14 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists, though the odds are immense against our finding it, and only genius can rightly say the banns.
    PI 8.50 12 Thomas Taylor...is really...a better poet, or perhaps I should say a better feeder to a poet, than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
    PI 8.50 14 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
    PI 8.52 17 I know what you say of mediaeval barbarism and sleigh-bell rhyme...
    PI 8.54 11 I might even say that the rhyme is there in the theme, thought and image themselves.
    PI 8.56 20 ...[Newton] only predicts, one would say, a grander poetry...
    PI 8.66 25 A good poem--say Shakspeare's Macbeth...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men...
    PI 8.68 27 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution,--by many words hoping to suggest what he cannot say.
    PI 8.72 1 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery.
    PI 8.75 7 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to...leave them no countenance to say aught of what is so trivial as their selfish thinking and doing.
    SA 8.78 1 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.
    SA 8.81 12 Manners seem to say, You are you, and I am I.
    SA 8.84 12 We say, in these days, that credit is to be abolished in trade; is it?
    SA 8.85 22 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.
    SA 8.86 17 Why need you, who are not a gossip...tell eagerly what the neighbors or the journals say?
    SA 8.89 2 Thus much for manners: but we are not content with pantomime; we say, This is only for the eyes.
    SA 8.89 14 He must be inestimable to us to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves.
    SA 8.89 15 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    SA 8.96 18 Don't say things.
    SA 8.96 20 Don't say things. What you are...thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    SA 8.96 22 A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.
    SA 8.96 24 The main point is to...say, with Newton, There's no contending against facts.
    SA 8.98 27 ...as we say, we never talk shop before company.
    SA 8.106 24 ...those people, and no others, interest us...who are absorbed, if you please to say so, in their own dream.
    Elo2 8.114 20 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say...
    Elo2 8.120 24 I have heard an eminent preacher say that he learns from the first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a successful day.
    Elo2 8.125 5 You say, If [the man in the street] could only express himself;...
    Elo2 8.125 10 That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you...
    Elo2 8.127 5 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other.
    Elo2 8.128 8 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
    Elo2 8.131 8 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him. But I say, provided your cause is really honest.
    Elo2 8.132 6 ...I should rather say that when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    Res 8.145 26 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him.
    Res 8.152 7 Well for [the scholar] if he can say with the old minstrel, I know where to find a new song.
    Comc 8.157 17 ...[Aristotle's] definition [of the ridiculous]...does not say all we know.
    QO 8.178 20 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that, in a large sense, one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.187 26 ...shall we say that only the first men were well alive...
    QO 8.189 7 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say;...
    QO 8.190 13 Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust, in another mouth.
    QO 8.194 18 ...a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering... As the journals say, the italics are ours.
    QO 8.197 3 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote,-reading, as we say, between the lines.
    PC 8.208 11 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man...
    PC 8.209 8 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...all, one may say, in a high degree revolutionary...
    PC 8.212 6 ...if any one say we have had enough of these boastful recitals, then I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
    PC 8.212 7 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
    PC 8.214 4 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names more distant...
    PC 8.217 6 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds, say to a nation of minds...
    PC 8.222 7 ...if we should analyze Newton's discovery, we should say that if it had not been anticipated by him, it would not have been found.
    PC 8.223 23 ...the universe at last is only prophetic, or, shall we say, symptomatic...
    PC 8.226 21 ...the tongue is always learning to say what the ear has taught it...
    PC 8.229 8 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!
    PC 8.234 1 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...
    PPo 8.254 18 Oft have I said, I say it once more,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    PPo 8.254 21 I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;/ What the Eternal says, I stammering say again./
    PPo 8.262 4 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
    Insp 8.273 10 ...[most men] say to-day what occurs to them, and something else to-morrow.
    Insp 8.279 14 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us.
    Insp 8.279 27 The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days spent in the chase...
    Insp 8.290 27 ...Sir Joshua Reynolds...used to say the human face was his landscape.
    Insp 8.297 11 These are some hints towards what is in all education a chief necessity,-the right government, or, shall I not say? the right obedience to the powers of the human soul.
    Grts 8.303 9 You say of some new person, That man will go far...
    Grts 8.307 26 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man] consults his ease I may say...
    Grts 8.308 15 ...I will say that another trait of greatness is facility.
    Grts 8.308 27 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Grts 8.312 12 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it...
    Grts 8.312 23 Say with Antoninus, If the picture is good, who cares who made it?
    Grts 8.313 24 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful.
    Grts 8.313 26 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...
    Grts 8.318 16 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him.
    Grts 8.319 23 ...the world is an echo which returns to each of us what we say?
    Imtl 8.332 13 ...I should say that the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
    Imtl 8.332 22 ...you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the...places of coarse amusement. But that is only to say that the practical faculties are faster developed than the spiritual.
    Imtl 8.334 27 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees, say of the sequoias...
    Imtl 8.345 25 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;...
    Imtl 8.346 24 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection?
    Imtl 8.347 10 Is immortality only an intellectual quality, or, shall I say, only an energy...
    Imtl 8.347 27 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear. It makes a day memorable. We say we lived years in that hour.
    Imtl 8.349 23 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist.
    Imtl 8.349 24 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist.
    Dem1 10.13 9 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends.
    Dem1 10.18 19 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all creatures, and even over the elements; who shall say how far such an influence may extend?
    Dem1 10.22 19 We may...say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck presides over him!
    Dem1 10.23 26 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy.
    Dem1 10.24 12 They who love [occult facts] say they are to reveal to us a world of unknown, unsuspected truths.
    Dem1 10.26 11 I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./
    Dem1 10.27 12 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown awful powers which transcend the ken of the understanding.
    Aris 10.38 24 If the differences [in men] are organic, so are the merits, that is to say the power and excellence we describe are real.
    Aris 10.41 6 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men...who say what they mean and go straight to their objects.
    Aris 10.43 20 Temperament is fortune, and we must say it so often.
    Aris 10.44 7 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
    Aris 10.45 22 The blood royal never pays, we say.
    Aris 10.50 9 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Aris 10.51 3 ...I should say, if [Will] is not in you, you had better not put yourself in places where not to have it is to be a public enemy.
    Aris 10.55 26 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come. It is not important what they say.
    Aris 10.63 17 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by their fate...
    PerF 10.67 1 What central flowing forces, say,/ Make up thy splendor, matchless day?/
    PerF 10.72 3 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent, that is to say, the opposite shore of the ocean, rises.
    PerF 10.76 15 For man, the receiver of all, and depositary of these volumes of power, I am to say that his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.
    Chr2 10.91 17 ...we say in our modern politics...that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Chr2 10.92 19 He is moral, we say it with Marcus Aurelius and with Kant, whose aim or motive may become a universal rule...
    Chr2 10.96 9 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
    Chr2 10.97 21 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. We should say with Heraclitus: Come into this smoky cabin; God is here also: approve yourself to him.
    Chr2 10.100 3 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better. That is only to say, there is degree and gradation throughout Nature;...
    Chr2 10.106 13 Our horizon is not far, say one generation, or thirty years...
    Chr2 10.110 16 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity-say the sarcasms of Voltaire...good-naturedly...
    Edc1 10.125 19 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.147 17 ...as mechanics say, when one has learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft.
    Edc1 10.153 27 ...say rather, the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil.
    Edc1 10.156 19 Say little; do not snarl; do not chide;...
    Supl 10.165 16 The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
    Supl 10.168 25 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was the power of plain statement...
    Supl 10.171 7 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad;...
    Supl 10.177 20 Shall I say, further, that the Orientals excel in costly arts...
    SovE 10.186 16 ...when I say that the world is made up of moral forces, these are not separate.
    SovE 10.190 20 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity calm, beautiful, passionless...
    SovE 10.201 9 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. You cannot bring yourself to care for it. You say: Cut away; my tree is Ygdrasil-the tree of life.
    SovE 10.211 6 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world;...
    SovE 10.214 5 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    Prch 10.220 7 In proportion to a man's want of goodness, it seems to him another and not himself; that is to say, the Deity becomes more objective, until finally flat idolatry prevails.
    Prch 10.221 1 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet;...the face seems no longer that of an enemy. I say the effect is withering;...
    Prch 10.226 14 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    Prch 10.228 27 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    Prch 10.231 10 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day;...
    Prch 10.231 19 I do not love sensation preaching...the review of our appearances and what others say of us!
    Prch 10.233 16 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
    Prch 10.233 19 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
    Prch 10.235 6 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same...flanked, I may say, by the resolute...
    Prch 10.235 27 I should say boldly that we should astonish every day by a beam out of eternity;...
    Prch 10.236 15 It is true that which they say of our New England oestrum, which will never let us stand or sit...
    Schr 10.263 8 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
    Schr 10.264 14 [The scholar] is...here to be sobered, not by the cares of life as men say...but by the depth of his draughts of the cup of immortality.
    Schr 10.272 25 I proceed to say that the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar's] duties...may show that his place is no sinecure.
    Schr 10.276 18 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off, shall I say? and bottled into persons;...
    Schr 10.279 19 Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human invention.
    Schr 10.288 12 ...it is so much easier to say many things than to explain one.
    Plu 10.296 18 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch and his contemporaries; led, we may say, by the eminent critic Sainte-Beuve.
    Plu 10.303 8 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate,-we will say, more advisedly, the benign Providence...
    Plu 10.304 11 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...
    Plu 10.305 9 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    Plu 10.305 10 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    Plu 10.307 16 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say, like another Berkeley, Matter is itself privation;...
    Plu 10.312 21 [Seneca's] thoughts are excellent, if only he had the right to say them.
    LLNE 10.325 18 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following.
    LLNE 10.330 6 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...and then I should say much later from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...
    LLNE 10.353 11 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just...
    LLNE 10.359 3 Housekeepers say, There are a thousand things to everything...
    LLNE 10.361 5 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of...the uniformity, perhaps they would say the squalid contentment of society around them...
    LLNE 10.361 7 One would say then that impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.361 10 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say, intellectual sans-culottism...
    LLNE 10.362 16 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.364 1 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook Farm], not happily, as I think; I should rather say, quite unworthy of his genius.
    EzRy 10.387 5 ...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...
    EzRy 10.388 9 Right manly [Ezra Ripley] was, and the manly thing he could always say.
    EzRy 10.388 27 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us. With the Doctor's views it was a matter of religion to say thus much.
    EzRy 10.391 11 ...it is no reflection on others to say that [Ezra Ripley] was the most public-spirited man in the town.
    EzRy 10.391 26 [Ezra Ripley] had a foresight, when he opened his mouth, of all that he would say...
    MMEm 10.409 10 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.
    MMEm 10.415 20 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
    MMEm 10.416 17 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    MMEm 10.418 24 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor?
    MMEm 10.427 4 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain-shall I say-polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    MMEm 10.430 16 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say nothing is added to the wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the earth...why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    MMEm 10.432 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] friends used to say to her, I wish you joy of the worm.
    SlHr 10.438 15 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.443 7 I am sorry to say [Samuel Hoar] could not be elected to Congress a second time from Middlesex.
    SlHr 10.447 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] had nothing to say about himself;...
    Thor 10.456 2 [Thoreau]...I may say required a little sense of victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
    Thor 10.456 5 It cost [Thoreau] nothing to say No;...
    Thor 10.456 6 It cost [Thoreau] nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes.
    Thor 10.457 23 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say;...
    Thor 10.460 9 ...idealist as he was...it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    Thor 10.480 4 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety, had failed to describe the seeds or count the sepals. That is to say, we replied, the blockheads were not born in Concord;...
    Carl 10.496 6 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say, Now we are proof; we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe;...
    Carl 10.497 19 [Carlyle] has stood for scholars, asking no scholar what he should say.
    GSt 10.507 7 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief...
    GSt 10.507 23 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future. For the Spirit of the Universe seems to say: He has done well; is not that saying all?
    LS 11.16 27 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it;...
    LS 11.19 14 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    LS 11.23 15 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    LS 11.24 7 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not. This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
    HDC 11.39 13 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.44 18 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.68 8 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.78 12 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    HDC 11.79 7 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large...
    LVB 11.88 1 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame/...
    LVB 11.89 18 ...the circumstance that my name will be utterly unknown to you [Van Buren] will only give the fairer chance to your equitable construction of what I have to say.
    LVB 11.91 14 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to execute the same. Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act.
    LVB 11.95 1 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    EWI 11.100 16 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...
    EWI 11.104 4 ...if we saw the whip applied to old men, to tender women; and, undeniably, though I shrink to say so, pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.105 1 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    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 11.118 3 We sometimes say, the planter does not want slaves, he only wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves yield him;...
    EWI 11.121 23 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population redounds to their own credit...
    EWI 11.129 3 ...I must say, a delight in justice...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.132 9 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.133 4 ...I am loath to say harsh things...
    EWI 11.133 22 I may as well say...that whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants...there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    EWI 11.134 26 ...let the citizens in their primary capacity...say to the government of the State, and of the Union, that government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party;...
    EWI 11.138 5 I will say further that we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    EWI 11.142 19 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust. They hold back, and say to each other that social position is not to be gained by pushing.
    EWI 11.144 27 I say to you, you must save yourself, black or white, man or woman;...
    War 11.155 13 ...whilst this principle [of self-help], necessarily, is inwrought into the fabric of every creature, yet it is but one instinct; and though a primary one, or we may say the very first, yet the appearance of the other instincts immediately modifies and controls this;...
    War 11.162 1 This is a poor, tedious society of yours, [sensible men] say; we do not see what good can come of it.
    War 11.168 8 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say yes, you only invite the robber and assassin;...
    War 11.168 13 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    War 11.169 21 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    War 11.169 23 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man; nor are we careful to say, or even to know, what in such crises is to be done.
    War 11.176 4 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...here, where not a family, not a few men, but mankind, shall say what shall be;...
    FSLC 11.180 22 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
    FSLC 11.183 12 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch...
    FSLC 11.183 13 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch: he will say, morality means pricking a vein.
    FSLC 11.193 7 ...here I may say that it is absurd, what I often hear, to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.
    FSLC 11.193 14 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra...'T is you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the words.
    FSLC 11.194 12 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. You can keep no secret, for whatever is true some of them will unreasonably say.
    FSLC 11.198 5 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made?
    FSLC 11.202 15 I need not say how much I have enjoyed [Webster's] fame.
    FSLC 11.205 1 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment...
    FSLC 11.206 22 I pass to say a few words to the question, What shall we do?
    FSLC 11.208 20 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy,-never conceding the right of the planter to own, but that we may acknowledge the calamity of his position...
    FSLC 11.211 15 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean Massachusetts in all the quarters of her dispersion;...
    FSLN 11.217 18 [Intellectual people who take their ideas from others] say what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
    FSLN 11.217 24 ...what I have to say is to [students or scholars].
    FSLN 11.218 5 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    FSLN 11.219 7 I say Mr. Webster, for though the [Fugitive Slave] Bill was not his, it is yet notorious that he was the life and soul of it...
    FSLN 11.219 13 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of what are called brilliant men...but men without self-respect...
    FSLN 11.220 7 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this. He too is responsible; they will not be. It will always suffice to say,-I followed him.
    FSLN 11.220 17 In what I have to say of Mr. Webster I do not confound him with vulgar politicians before or since.
    FSLN 11.221 20 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things...
    FSLN 11.228 16 ...if the reporters say true, [Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.
    FSLN 11.237 14 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons...to say, Nothing is good but stealing.
    FSLN 11.238 18 ...when the Southerner points to the anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.
    FSLN 11.239 1 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival. They say, God may consent, but not forever.
    FSLN 11.240 25 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...before [man] dare say, I am free.
    FSLN 11.241 27 [The single defender of the right] may well say, If my countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the controversy...
    FSLN 11.244 13 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart. It seemed, as the Turks say, Fate makes that a man should not believe his own eyes.
    AsSu 11.250 4 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing...to bear his part in the labor which party organization requires. I say it to his honor.
    AsSu 11.251 12 ...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    AKan 11.256 10 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated?
    AKan 11.260 17 ...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
    JBB 11.268 19 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence;...
    JBB 11.270 14 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...I may say, almost every man who loves the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, like him...
    JBS 11.280 15 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    JBS 11.280 18 It would be far safer and nearer the truth to say that all people, in proportion to their sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
    TPar 11.289 9 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...to speak tart truth, when that was peremptory and when there were few to say it.
    TPar 11.289 12 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he overestimated his friends,-I may well say it...
    TPar 11.291 24 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
    ACiv 11.309 5 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.
    EPro 11.318 10 ...when it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln],-one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    EPro 11.318 16 Better is virtue in the sovereign than plenty in the season, say the Chinese.
    EPro 11.324 13 If you could add, say [foreign critics], to your strength the whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of people to come under this government against their will.
    EPro 11.324 18 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
    ALin 11.328 1 Nature, they say, doth dote,/ And cannot make a man/ Save on some worn-out plan,/ Repeating us by rote/...
    HCom 11.339 1 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/
    HCom 11.342 2 Even Divine Providence, we may say, always seems to work after a certain military necessity.
    HCom 11.344 19 [Harvard men] might say, with their forefathers the old Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.
    SMC 11.350 24 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    SMC 11.352 21 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle,-say, rather, at its new acknowledgment...
    SMC 11.363 8 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to. He looked at me as much as to say, Do you know whom you are talking to?...
    SMC 11.363 9 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to. He looked at me as much as to say, Do you know whom you are talking to? and I looked at him as much as to say, Yes, I do.
    SMC 11.369 7 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion; he will go anywhere you say...
    SMC 11.375 14 ...let me...say, that it is easy to see that if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    EdAd 11.382 11 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    EdAd 11.382 13 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    EdAd 11.385 8 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities;...
    EdAd 11.386 5 It is a poor consideration that the country wit is precocious, and, as we say, practical;...
    EdAd 11.388 26 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    EdAd 11.392 8 ...the Divine, or, as some will say, the truly Human, hovers, now seen, now unseen, before us.
    Koss 11.398 17 ...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
    Koss 11.400 6 This republic greets in you [Kossuth] a republican. We only say, Well done, good and faithful.
    Koss 11.400 9 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College).
    Koss 11.400 16 ...I speak the sense not only of every generous American, but the law of mind, when I say that it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who...think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    Wom 11.405 3 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind,-perhaps we should say sporadic...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    Wom 11.406 2 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.
    Wom 11.406 7 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she takes them for granted, and does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.
    Wom 11.406 13 [Women]...pass with us not so much by what they say or do, as by their presence.
    Wom 11.408 8 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts-which should, one would say, be the arts of women-has yet been obtained by them, equal to the mastery of men in the same.
    Wom 11.410 5 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...
    Wom 11.410 20 ...[the horse and ox]...say no thanks, but fight down whatever opposes their appetite.
    Wom 11.412 15 [Women] emit from their pores...one would say, wave upon wave of rosy light...
    Wom 11.413 3 We men have no right to say it, but the omnipotence of Eve is in humility.
    Wom 11.418 14 Men taunt [women] that, whatever they do, say, read or write, they are thinking of themselves...
    Wom 11.419 12 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Wom 11.420 5 ...I can say, for one, that all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.
    Wom 11.425 16 ...I ought to say, I think it impossible to separate the interests and education of the sexes.
    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...
    RBur 11.441 22 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature.
    RBur 11.443 2 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
    RBur 11.443 5 ...hearken for the incoming tide, what the waves say of [the memory of Burns].
    RBur 11.443 11 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs, and they say them by heart...
    Shak1 11.448 16 We say to the young child in the cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare, waiting for you!
    Shak1 11.449 13 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition, or say, who was his father and his brethren;...
    Shak1 11.450 27 'T is fine for Englishmen to say, they only know history by Shakspeare.
    FRO1 11.477 12 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard. To many...I have found so much in accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.
    FRO1 11.477 16 I say again, in the phrase used by my friend, that we began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago...
    FRO2 11.486 27 ...a man of religious susceptibility, and one at the same time conversant with many men,-say a much-travelled man,-can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
    CPL 11.501 19 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what... weaves cotton, is anything worth, I have little to say.
    CPL 11.506 25 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure.
    FRep 11.523 6 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good! Or they take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm!...
    FRep 11.530 13 ...we say that revolutions beat all the insurgents...
    FRep 11.542 3 Whilst every man can say I serve...he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    PLT 12.5 2 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears; and this discloses that the mind as it opens, the mind as it shall be, comprehends and works thus; that is to say, the Intellect builds the universe and is the key to all it contains.
    PLT 12.5 24 ...when I look at the tree or the river and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means unimpressive.
    PLT 12.6 2 [When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his king which he does not deliver because the hour when he should say it is not yet arrived.
    PLT 12.9 27 ...we have to say that there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled...
    PLT 12.11 22 ...if one can say so without arrogance, I might suggest that he who who contents himself with dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...
    PLT 12.14 12 The analytic process is...shall I say it? somewhat mean, as spying.
    PLT 12.16 20 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream.
    PLT 12.22 22 The robber, as the police reports say, must have been intimately acquainted with the premises.
    PLT 12.22 25 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...
    PLT 12.26 12 Scholars say that if they return to the study of a new language after some intermission, the intelligence of it is more and not less.
    PLT 12.26 17 We say the book grew in the author's mind.
    PLT 12.27 7 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain;...
    PLT 12.27 8 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain; he cannot say it truly until a sufficient time for the arrangement of the particles has elapsed.
    PLT 12.31 5 ...[intellectual persons who believe in the ideas of others] say what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
    PLT 12.34 13 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we have little to say.
    PLT 12.40 9 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself. We say with Kenelm Digby, All things that she knoweth are herself, and she is all that she knoweth.
    PLT 12.40 13 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    PLT 12.42 1 Say, what impresses me ought to impress me.
    PLT 12.49 9 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas. Dante, one would say, did the same thing before he wrote the verses.
    PLT 12.50 5 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line...
    PLT 12.50 22 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea, or, as the French say, enfant perdu d'une conviction isolee...
    PLT 12.51 17 You say thought is a penurious rill. Well, we can wait.
    PLT 12.52 12 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and say, I honor and despise you.
    PLT 12.55 8 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a little too true.
    PLT 12.62 20 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
    PLT 12.63 1 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is divine...
    II 12.65 16 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we have little to say;...
    II 12.71 15 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem- say Spenser...
    II 12.72 9 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as...the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
    II 12.74 17 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can; for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
    II 12.78 24 ...we must affirm and affirm, but neither you nor I know the value of what we say;...
    II 12.79 16 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance.
    II 12.79 19 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by memory, charlatanism begins.
    II 12.84 18 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say.
    II 12.85 10 A new constitution, a new fever, say the physicians.
    II 12.86 8 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to an excess, to partiality, to individualism? Follow it still.
    Mem 12.92 12 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain.
    Mem 12.94 5 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.
    Mem 12.99 16 If writing weakens the memory, we may say as much or more of printing.
    Mem 12.101 21 They say in Architecture, An arch never sleeps;....
    Mem 12.101 22 ...I say, the Past will not sleep...
    Mem 12.102 15 ...I suppose I speak the sense of most thoughtful men when I say, I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    Mem 12.105 8 The Persians say, A real singer will never forget the song he has once learned.
    Mem 12.107 13 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next...
    CInt 12.116 18 These are giddy times, and, you say, the college will be deserted.
    CInt 12.116 20 ...I say, those were giddy times which went before these...
    CInt 12.118 2 Never was pure valor-and almost I might say, never pure ability-shown in a bad cause.
    CInt 12.123 10 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is to observe the order...
    CInt 12.127 15 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too high for me;...
    CInt 12.127 21 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents, not to train attorneys, and those who say what they please, but to adorn Genius...
    CInt 12.128 24 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...you expose your atheism.
    CInt 12.130 8 If I had young men to reach, I should say to them, Keep the intellect sacred.
    CInt 12.130 21 I should say to [young men], do what you can do.
    CL 12.141 16 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
    CL 12.156 12 Of the finer influences [of nature], I shall say that they are not less positive, if they are indescribable.
    CL 12.159 27 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad,-I need not say it now in the crash of bankruptcy;...
    CL 12.163 7 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.
    CL 12.164 13 'T is not easy to say again what Nature says to us.
    CL 12.166 10 ...I will say, of the two facts, the world and man, man is by much the larger half.
    CW 12.172 26 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    CW 12.173 4 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden; here is my Vale of Tempe, say rather my Elysium.
    CW 12.177 11 I am sorry to say the farmers seldom walk for pleasure.
    CW 12.177 27 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds, so that it is impossible to say when vegetation begins.
    Bost 12.186 17 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why.
    Bost 12.188 22 I do not speak with any fondness, but with the language of coldest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
    Bost 12.195 3 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will say with Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Bost 12.197 23 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which, I may say, gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
    Bost 12.198 3 We can show [in New England] native examples, and I may almost say (travellers as we are) natives who never crossed the sea, who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
    Bost 12.202 1 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck.
    Bost 12.210 15 This praise [of our ancestors] was a concession of unworthiness in those who had so much to say of it.
    MAng1 12.221 4 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years; we ought to say, rather, as long as he lived.
    MAng1 12.228 25 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is taken away.
    MAng1 12.231 2 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
    MAng1 12.239 23 It is more commendation to say, This was Michael Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
    MAng1 12.239 24 It is more commendation to say, This was Michael Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
    MAng1 12.239 26 Michael [Angelo]...had the philosophy to say, Only an inventor can use the inventions of others.
    MAng1 12.242 21 Amidst all these witnesses to [Michelangelo's] independence, his generosity, his purity and his devotion, are we not authorized to say that this man was penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...
    Milt1 12.252 24 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say;...
    Milt1 12.253 15 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history, and so (shall we not say?) of all men, in the power to inspire.
    Milt1 12.254 13 ...we proceed to say that we think no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    Milt1 12.255 27 ...we are tempted to say that art and not life seems to be the end of [German writers'] effort.
    Milt1 12.260 5 Very early in life [Milton] became conscious that he had more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
    Milt1 12.261 26 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am utterly untrained in those rules which best rhetoricians have given...
    Milt1 12.276 4 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 knew not what they did;...
    Milt1 12.276 13 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things...
    Milt1 12.276 14 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things, and say them only to the unpleasing dualism, when the man and the poet show like a double consciousness.
    ACri 12.283 2 Literature is but a poor trick, you will say, when it busies itself to make words pass for things;...
    ACri 12.284 25 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators, who say they cannot be rendered into any other language without loss of vigor...
    ACri 12.284 27 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators, who say they cannot be rendered into any other language without loss of vigor, as we say of any darling passage of our own masters.
    ACri 12.288 15 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say;...
    ACri 12.291 13 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood.
    ACri 12.294 15 One would say Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece;...
    ACri 12.296 21 ...[Herrick] took what he knew, and took it easy, as we say.
    ACri 12.298 2 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise.
    ACri 12.300 13 All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric, or, I may say, of metonomy.
    PD 12.307 3 The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
    PD 12.307 4 The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
    MLit 12.310 13 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere...
    MLit 12.311 15 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 12.313 18 We say...that the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...
    MLit 12.314 14 A man may say I, and never refer to himself as an individual;...
    MLit 12.317 15 ...we say that these low customary ways are not all that survives in human beings.
    MLit 12.319 12 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems-one would say most incongruously united by some bookseller-of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    MLit 12.320 4 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well; or is this what that man was created to say?
    MLit 12.320 6 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
    MLit 12.320 7 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things...
    MLit 12.322 5 Of Thomas Carlyle...we shall say nothing at this time...
    MLit 12.323 12 To look at [Goethe] one would say there was never an observer before.
    MLit 12.324 3 He does not say so in syllables, yet a sort of conscientious feeling [Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology for many of [his stories].
    MLit 12.326 22 If we try Goethe by the ordinary canons of criticism, we should say that his thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...
    MLit 12.331 7 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet...of this world, and not of religion and hope; in short, if we may say so, the poet of prose, and not of poetry.
    MLit 12.334 2 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.
    Pray 12.353 25 I know that sorrow comes not at once only. We cannot meet it and say, now it is overcome...
    Pray 12.355 25 Let these few scattered leaves, which a chance (as men say, but which to us shall be holy) brought under our eye nearly at the same moment, stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    AgMs 12.360 13 ...every man has one thing which he specially wishes to say...
    PPr 12.380 1 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a brave and just book, and not a semblance. No new truth, say the critics on all sides. Is it so?
    PPr 12.380 18 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down into every pew.
    PPr 12.387 23 ...the sun and stars affect us only grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say, Is that all?
    Let 12.392 16 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.
    Let 12.397 13 Especially to one importunate correspondent we must say that there is no chance for the aesthetic village.
    Let 12.400 4 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same.
    Let 12.401 3 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave nothing pure, which they do not pollute...
    Trag 12.406 6 ...one would say that history gave no record of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
    Trag 12.407 21 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt;...if you say the Lord's prayer backwards;...
    Trag 12.410 8 Frankly...it is necessary to say that all sorrow dwells in a low region.

sayer, n. (3)

    DSA 1.134 18 Always the seer is a sayer.
    OS 2.277 16 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer.
    Pt1 3.7 6 The poet is the sayer...

Sayer, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.6 26 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer.

sayers, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.7 18 ...some men, namely poets, are natural sayers...
    Pt1 3.7 21 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
    ET8 5.136 7 [The English] like the sayers of No, better than the sayers of Yes.

sayest, v. (1)

    Imtl 8.350 6 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death, that it is not easy to understand it, there is no other speaker to be found like thee.

saying, n. (12)

    Lov1 2.180 25 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset. Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you?
    Exp 3.47 4 I quote another man's saying; unluckily that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
    UGM 4.14 4 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch.
    UGM 4.14 16 ...I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius: A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
    PI 8.74 10 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
    Res 8.142 9 Resources of America! why, one thinks of Saint-Simon's saying, The Golden Age is not behind, but before you.
    Imtl 8.329 13 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Plu 10.310 23 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    CPL 11.496 19 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples...of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them, reminding us of Sir Isaac Newton's saying, that they who give nothing before their death, never in fact give at all.
    II 12.80 9 It was the saying of Pythagoras, Remember to be sober, and to be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom.
    CL 12.147 12 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.
    CW 12.177 16 It is an old saying that physicians or naturalists are the only professional men who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...

saying, v. (74)

    Nat 1.73 17 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge...but that of God is a morning knowledge...
    AmS 1.108 7 The books which once we valued...we have quite exhausted. What is that but saying that we have come up with the point of view which the universal mind took through the eyes of one scribe;...
    MR 1.230 10 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the same thing.
    MR 1.255 13 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
    Con 1.316 3 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying, This way of life is wrong...
    SR 2.50 17 On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,-But these impulses may be from below...
    Comp 2.94 17 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life?
    SL 2.145 22 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection...
    SL 2.160 10 ...with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I AM.
    SL 2.162 16 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest still.
    Fdsp 2.214 14 Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying Who are you?
    Prd1 2.239 14 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries]...assume that you are saying precisely that which all think...
    Exp 3.49 17 We look to [death] with a grim satisfaction, saying, There at least is reality that will not dodge us.
    Chr1 3.89 17 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
    Mrs1 3.142 14 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him, saying, his debt was of older standing, and Sheridan must wait.
    Pol1 3.201 8 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    Pol1 3.211 19 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom;...
    NR 3.247 26 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind...
    UGM 4.15 25 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...
    SwM 4.133 26 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
    SwM 4.137 21 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    MoS 4.154 22 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    MoS 4.174 14 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
    ShP 4.189 13 A poet is no rattle-brain, saying what comes uppermost...
    ShP 4.189 14 A poet is no rattle-brain, saying what comes uppermost, because he says every thing, saying at last something good;...
    NMW 4.240 22 ...some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back. Napoleon interfered, saying Respect the burden, Madam.
    NMW 4.246 11 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...
    NMW 4.254 4 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...
    ET7 5.117 16 [The English] are blunt in saying what they think...
    ET7 5.120 18 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET7 5.120 25 In the power of saying rude truth...no men surpass [the English].
    ET16 5.288 6 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.
    Wth 6.107 23 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you.
    Ctr 6.145 8 I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel;...
    Bhr 6.194 10 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
    Wsp 6.213 2 You say there is no religion now. 'T is like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun...
    Bty 6.285 9 The king...conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days;...
    Bty 6.285 16 Thou hast ceased to take recreation, saying to thyself, In seven days I shall be put to death.
    OA 7.317 27 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments.
    PI 8.30 17 ...colder moods are forced to respect the ways of saying [the poet's thought]...
    SA 8.105 13 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists,--Talkers who mistake...saying for having.
    PC 8.210 27 People have in all countries been burned and stoned for saying things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.
    Grts 8.304 14 ...you shall not tell me that you have learned to know men;... your saying so unsays it.
    Imtl 8.321 7 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/ Voice of earth to earth returned,/ Prayers of saints that inly burned,-/ Saying, What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/...
    Imtl 8.329 23 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
    Chr2 10.99 20 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it...no longer believes because of thy saying, but because it has recognized them in itself.
    MoL 10.241 2 Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: Some of your are to-day saying your farewells to each other...
    Schr 10.283 14 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age. More or less clouded it yet resides the same in all, saying Ay, ay, or No, no to every proposition.
    EzRy 10.393 18 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had in saying difficult and unspeakable things;...
    EzRy 10.393 21 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in delivering to a man or a woman that which all their other friends had abstained from saying...
    MMEm 10.407 6 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
    MMEm 10.409 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate?
    MMEm 10.410 17 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and 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.
    SlHr 10.438 6 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that he was old, and his life was not worth much...
    Thor 10.463 11 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the Graham House.
    HDC 11.27 5 Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm/ Saying, 't is mine, my children's and my name's./
    EWI 11.126 1 ...[slavery] does not love...a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks;...
    FSLN 11.219 22 [Supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] had no opinions, they had no memory for what they had been saying like the Lord's Prayer all their lifetime...
    FSLN 11.221 23 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things,-grand things if he had them, and, if he had them not, only to abstain from saying unfit things...
    FSLN 11.224 19 It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right.
    JBS 11.276 15 And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/
    TPar 11.292 19 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten with their double tongue saying all that is sordid for the corruption of man.
    ChiE 11.473 12 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.
    FRO2 11.489 13 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man...
    CPL 11.507 24 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are secondary...
    FRep 11.523 5 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good!
    PLT 12.35 9 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth... aboriginal...and saying, like poor Topsy, never was born; growed.
    PLT 12.40 26 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held not from any man's saying so...is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.64 2 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.
    II 12.74 21 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.
    MAng1 12.228 22 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...saying that he needed to have his compasses in his eye, and not in his hand, because the hands work whilst the eye judges.
    Milt1 12.260 8 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    ACri 12.297 21 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...
    MLit 12.329 6 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual...

Sayings, Golden [Pythagoras (1)

    PI 8.12 14 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation. Pythagoras's Golden Sayings were such...

sayings, n. (13)

    Tran 1.355 27 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    SR 2.68 5 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they understand them...
    PPh 4.74 10 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians, whilst the rumor of his sayings and quibbles gets abroad every day,--turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    SwM 4.126 5 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...
    Bhr 6.185 5 Look on this woman. There is not beauty, nor brilliant sayings...
    CbW 6.246 10 We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
    CbW 6.246 12 ...not by strength of ours, or of the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the youth] must stand or fall.
    Grts 8.314 17 [Napoleon] has left...a multitude of sayings...
    Plu 10.297 11 Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction...or in memorable sayings, drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    ALin 11.333 11 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings...
    Shak1 11.450 3 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    FRO2 11.489 25 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for friendship...
    Mem 12.103 8 Plato remembered Anaxagoras by one of his sayings.

says, v. (300)

    Nat 1.9 8 Nature says, - [man] is my creature...
    Nat 1.21 18 ...[William Russell's] biographer says, the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side.
    Nat 1.45 14 [The spirit] says, From such as this [human form] have I drawn joy and knowledge;...
    AmS 1.91 21 The Arabian proverb says, A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
    AmS 1.92 6 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet...says that which lies close to my own soul...
    AmS 1.92 26 As the proverb says, He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    DSA 1.125 19 When [man] says, I ought;...deep melodies wander through his soul from Supreme Wisdom.
    MN 1.196 14 The new book says, I will give you the key to nature...
    MN 1.219 13 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;...
    MR 1.230 5 ...the scholar says, Cities and coaches shall never impose on me again;...
    MR 1.250 15 Look, [the practical man] says, at the tools with which this world of yours is to be built.
    LT 1.260 15 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet, and says, I will hold fast;...
    LT 1.260 17 ...to whom I will, will I give; and whom I will, I will exclude and starve: so says Conservatism;...
    LT 1.279 27 If, [the man of ideas] says, I am selfish, then is there slavery... wherever I go.
    LT 1.284 18 ...before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw before...
    Con 1.302 10 There is the question not only what the conservative says for himself, but, why must he say it?
    Con 1.306 15 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth, where is my part?...
    Tran 1.330 10 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts not affected by the illusions of sense...
    Tran 1.332 10 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...that figures do not lie;...
    Tran 1.336 25 I, [Jacobi] says, am that atheist...who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    Tran 1.337 22 The Buddhist...who says, Do not flatter your benefactors...is a Transcendentalist.
    Tran 1.351 1 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest and rust: but we do not like your work. Then, says the world, show me your own.
    Hist 2.6 21 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    Hist 2.19 22 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    SR 2.87 5 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...
    Comp 2.104 3 The soul says, Eat; the body would feast.
    Comp 2.104 4 The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only.
    Comp 2.104 6 The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue;...
    SL 2.135 24 When we come out of the caucus...into the fields and woods, [nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
    SL 2.158 8 A stranger comes from a distant school...with airs and pretensions; an older boy says to himself, It's of no use; we shall find him out to-morrow.
    SL 2.161 16 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus.
    SL 2.164 14 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.
    Fdsp 2.204 26 My author says,--I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I effectually am...
    Fdsp 2.206 15 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced (for even in that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be altogether paired), that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Prd1 2.228 12 Dr. Johnson is reported to have said,--If the child says he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,--whip him.
    Prd1 2.235 1 Strike, says the smith, the iron is white;...
    Prd1 2.235 2 ...keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can...
    Prd1 2.237 16 The Latin proverb says, In battles the eye is first overcome.
    Hsm1 2.253 12 ...the soul of a better quality...says, I will obey the God, and the sacrifice and the fire he will provide.
    OS 2.271 23 A wise old proverb says, God comes to see us without bell;...
    Int 2.343 16 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.
    Pt1 3.13 17 Things more excellent than every image, says Jamblichus, are expressed through images.
    Pt1 3.29 1 Milton says that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously...
    Pt1 3.39 11 ...[the artist] says, with the old painter, By God it is in me and must go forth of me.
    Pt1 3.39 16 Most of the things [the poet] says are conventional, no doubt;...
    Pt1 3.39 17 ...by and by [the poet] says something which is original and beautiful.
    Exp 3.47 2 ...my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    Chr1 3.100 14 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do...
    Chr1 3.109 25 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...
    Mrs1 3.147 2 [The theory of society] says with the elder gods,-As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Gts 3.164 1 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your benefactors.
    NR 3.226 10 ...no one of [the speakers in a debate] hears much that another says, such is the preoccupation of mind of each;...
    UGM 4.8 14 Mind thy affair, says the spirit...
    UGM 4.30 19 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...
    PPh 4.39 17 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    PPh 4.40 27 An Englishman reads [Plato] and says, how English!...
    PPh 4.42 25 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man...
    PPh 4.49 21 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me.
    PPh 4.68 19 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    PPh 4.69 24 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    SwM 4.100 18 At the Diet of 1751, Count Hopken says, the most solid memorials on finance were from [Swedenborg's] pen.
    SwM 4.127 6 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love, which, Dante says, Casella sang among the angels in Paradise;...
    SwM 4.145 14 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    MoS 4.153 21 The nerves, says Cabanis, they are the man.
    MoS 4.153 25 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending. For his part, he says, he puts his down his neck and gets the good of it.
    MoS 4.155 12 Am I an ox, or a dray?--you are both in extremes, [the skeptic] says.
    MoS 4.156 6 ...I see plainly, [the skeptic] says, that I cannot see.
    MoS 4.165 12 ...if there be any virtue in him, [Montaigne] says, it got in by stealth.
    MoS 4.165 16 Five or six as ridiculous stories, too, [Montaigne] says, can be told of me, as of any man living.
    MoS 4.169 17 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me...
    MoS 4.173 9 [The wise skeptic] does not wish to...blazon every doubt and sneer that darkens the sun for him. But he says, There are doubts.
    MoS 4.182 18 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...
    ShP 4.189 14 A poet is no rattle-brain, saying what comes uppermost, because he says every thing, saying at last something good;...
    ShP 4.216 6 ...Saadi says, It was rumored abroad that I was penitent; but what had I to do with repentance?
    NMW 4.225 1 God has granted, says the Koran, to every people a prophet in its own tongue.
    NMW 4.237 13 My ambition, [Napoleon] says, was great, but was of a cold nature.
    NMW 4.248 15 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter...
    NMW 4.248 18 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains.
    GoW 4.276 6 ...what [Goethe] says of religion...refuses to be forgotten.
    GoW 4.279 10 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear. I am only man, he says;...
    ET2 5.27 18 There are many advantages, says Saadi, in sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them.
    ET4 5.68 4 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to sleep.
    ET4 5.68 11 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
    ET4 5.69 21 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water...
    ET4 5.70 1 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He says, His bed was under a thatching, and the way to it up a ladder; his fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
    ET4 5.73 3 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
    ET4 5.73 7 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game. The Saxon Chronicle says he loved the tall deer as if he were their father.
    ET5 5.82 11 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best attended to...is that of England.
    ET5 5.88 20 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
    ET5 5.98 21 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
    ET6 5.108 18 The song of 1596 says, The wife of every Englishman is counted blest.
    ET6 5.110 9 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET6 5.113 13 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    ET7 5.117 24 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
    ET7 5.119 24 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty.
    ET7 5.124 8 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    ET7 5.126 2 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/...
    ET8 5.135 8 [The Englishman] says no, and serves you...
    ET9 5.145 11 A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET9 5.145 23 ...when [the Englishman] wishes to pay you the highest compliment, he says, I should not know you from an Englishman.
    ET10 5.153 11 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses.
    ET11 5.175 18 Our success in France, says the historian [Thomas Fuller], lived and died with [Richard Beauchamp].
    ET11 5.178 9 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire...
    ET11 5.178 14 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    ET11 5.194 4 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the nobility, I could never keep up.
    ET12 5.204 27 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    ET13 5.229 22 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...
    ET14 5.232 23 [The English muse] says, with De Stael, I tramp in the mire with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.
    ET14 5.257 6 [Wordsworth] wrote a poem, says Landor, without the aid of war.
    ET15 5.268 10 [The London Times]...sticks to what it says.
    ET16 5.279 23 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum;...
    ET16 5.290 6 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...
    ET17 5.297 8 Landor, always generous, says that [Wordsworth] never praised anybody.
    F 6.26 4 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am immortal;...
    F 6.26 5 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind...seeing its invincibility, he says, I am strong.
    F 6.26 23 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says...
    F 6.38 11 As the general says to his soldiers, If you want a fort, build a fort.
    Wth 6.89 18 Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
    Wth 6.95 5 The rich man, says Saadi, is everywhere expected and at home.
    Wth 6.107 7 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough,--is too heavy, or too thin. The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness you want;...
    Wth 6.123 15 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Ctr 6.133 18 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation.
    Ctr 6.139 14 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of all wild beasts;...
    Ctr 6.139 16 ...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn than untaught.
    Ctr 6.147 27 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    Ctr 6.149 16 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.
    Ctr 6.151 6 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Epaminondas, who never says anything, but will listen eternally;...
    Ctr 6.151 18 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing/...
    Ctr 6.161 13 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty. Plato says Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
    Ctr 6.162 6 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    Bhr 6.167 13 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/...
    Bhr 6.182 8 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical.
    Bhr 6.187 6 Euripides, says Aspasia, has not the fine manners of Sophocles;...
    Bhr 6.190 18 A man already strong is listened to, and everything he says is applauded.
    Bhr 6.194 13 The legend says [the monk Basle's] sentence was remitted...
    Wsp 6.211 1 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade. Well, says the man in the street, Cobden got a stipend out of it.
    Wsp 6.211 5 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty. Ay, says New York, he made a handsome thing of it...
    Wsp 6.232 23 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague...
    Wsp 6.235 10 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    CbW 6.246 7 We like very well to be praised for our action, but our conscience says, Not unto us.
    CbW 6.254 8 Schiller says the Thirty Years' War made Germany a nation.
    CbW 6.260 1 Marcus Antoninus says that Fronto told him that the so-called high-born are for the most part heartless;...
    CbW 6.266 10 There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich...that of the sick...and that of the traveller, who says, Anywhere but here.
    CbW 6.268 15 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he sought. Ah! now I perceive, he says, it must be deep with persons;...
    CbW 6.278 8 The populace says, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful.
    Bty 6.284 18 The boy is not attracted [to science]. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.
    Bty 6.297 7 Walpole says, The concourse was so great, when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her.
    Bty 6.300 18 Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, With the physiognomy of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.
    Bty 6.303 3 Proclus says, [Beauty] swims on the light of forms.
    Ill 6.312 22 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says;...
    Ill 6.321 7 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. Not so, says the good Heaven;...
    Civ 7.34 17 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free;...
    Art2 7.49 22 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said.
    Elo1 7.62 14 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...
    Elo1 7.64 9 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
    Elo1 7.64 18 The Koran says, A mountain may change its place, but a man will not change his disposition;...
    Elo1 7.73 6 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Elo1 7.74 16 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Elo1 7.84 2 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    DL 7.113 21 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not annoy your taste...
    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.
    WD 7.178 16 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments...
    Boks 7.189 6 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
    Boks 7.197 1 Montaigne says, Books are a languid pleasure;...
    Clbs 7.229 12 ...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no thoughts. What a barren-witted pate is mine! the student says;...
    Cour 7.260 18 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay;...
    Cour 7.266 8 The thoughtful man says, You differ from me in opinion and methods...
    Cour 7.273 21 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
    Suc 7.287 11 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/...
    Suc 7.289 4 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
    Suc 7.291 17 Do your work. I have to say this often, but Nature says it oftener.
    Suc 7.294 12 The good workman never says, There, that will do;...
    Suc 7.298 24 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees, and says, They ought to come down;...
    Suc 7.302 24 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    Suc 7.305 5 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.
    Suc 7.312 5 ...Euripides says that Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
    OA 7.323 17 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    PI 8.37 17 ...the poet says nothing but what helps somebody;...
    PI 8.53 5 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
    PI 8.58 26 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He will assimilate, he will agree with the deep and the shallow.
    PI 8.59 7 To an exile on an island [Taliessin] says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
    PI 8.59 10 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat;...
    PI 8.61 7 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well, but...thus the proverb says true, Leave the court and the court will leave you.
    SA 8.87 9 ...[Lord Chesterfield] says, I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.
    Elo2 8.117 6 [The orator] knew very well behorehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead, and therefore it was wise to speak. Then the observer says, What a godsend is this manner of man to a town!...
    Elo2 8.122 22 If indignation makes verses, as Horace says, it is not less true that a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
    Elo2 8.131 27 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
    Res 8.138 4 A philosophy...which says 't is all of no use...dispirits us;...
    Res 8.145 13 Napoleon says, the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
    Res 8.145 22 Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg.
    Res 8.151 24 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of the ash, for nothing ill.
    Comc 8.167 7 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea;...
    QO 8.184 2 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
    QO 8.184 27 ...[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.
    QO 8.190 12 Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
    PPo 8.244 17 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    PPo 8.244 22 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    PPo 8.244 26 [Hafiz] says,-I batter the wheel of heaven/ When it rolls not rightly by;/ I am not one of the snivellers/ Who fall thereon and die./
    PPo 8.247 13 Loose the knots of the heart, [Hafiz] says.
    PPo 8.252 21 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    PPo 8.254 10 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    PPo 8.254 21 I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;/ What the Eternal says, I stammering say again./
    PPo 8.257 4 The willows, [Hafiz] says, bow themselves to every wind out of shame for their unfruitfulness.
    PPo 8.258 15 Hafiz says,-Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship...
    PPo 8.259 1 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Insp 8.276 22 I am not, says the man, at the top of my condition to-day...
    Insp 8.281 1 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
    Insp 8.282 17 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/...
    Insp 8.283 12 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...
    Insp 8.283 26 Had I not lived with Mirabeau, says Dumont, I never should have known all that can be done in one day...
    Insp 8.287 23 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    Insp 8.289 20 La Nature aime les croisements, says Fourier.
    Insp 8.289 27 George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Grts 8.308 10 Montluc...says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
    Grts 8.317 8 William Blake the artist frankly says, I never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
    Imtl 8.325 25 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    Imtl 8.326 25 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
    Imtl 8.335 5 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long,-A house, says Ruskin, is not in its prime until it is five hundred years old...
    Imtl 8.341 20 Art is long, says the thinker, and life is short.
    Imtl 8.349 22 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which also Yama allows, and says, Choose the third boon, O Nachiketas!
    Dem1 10.14 4 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as sacred...
    Dem1 10.23 1 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
    Aris 10.48 4 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that it must end one way or another, it must not remain as it was; for I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    PerF 10.85 2 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    PerF 10.85 5 ...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political consideration;...
    PerF 10.85 8 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
    Chr2 10.98 16 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...
    Chr2 10.105 22 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
    Chr2 10.110 13 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...good-naturedly...
    Chr2 10.112 22 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition...
    Chr2 10.120 6 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.
    Edc1 10.157 23 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of the young people says a wise thing, greet it...
    Supl 10.169 27 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.
    Supl 10.170 3 When [a farmer] wishes to condemn any treatment of soils or of stock, he says, It won't do any good.
    Supl 10.175 18 Sow grain, and it does not come up; put lime into the soil and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
    SovE 10.184 14 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.
    SovE 10.185 21 The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./
    MoL 10.249 25 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    Schr 10.272 8 Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth from the celestial gods...
    Schr 10.281 14 ...[Plotinus] says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.
    Schr 10.281 19 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation.
    Schr 10.285 19 ...what [Genius] says and does is not in a by-road...
    Plu 10.295 24 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
    Plu 10.304 10 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...
    Plu 10.308 3 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to bring reason and things together...
    Plu 10.312 11 Seneca, says L'Estrange, was a pagan Christian, and is very good reading for our Christian pagans.
    Plu 10.315 18 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother;...
    MMEm 10.427 2 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life. Contradictions, the modern German says, of the Infinite and finite.
    Thor 10.468 20 [Thoreau] says, [Weeds] have brave names, too...
    Carl 10.491 27 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat secret and silent...
    Carl 10.492 10 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament gathers up six millions of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
    Carl 10.495 25 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England.
    LS 11.7 6 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes.
    LS 11.14 12 I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul] says, that which I delivered to you.
    HDC 11.56 8 We pretended to come hither, [Peter Bulkeley] says, for ordinances;...
    EWI 11.141 8 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind...
    FSLC 11.188 5 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch...
    FSLC 11.191 18 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.
    FSLC 11.205 6 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others; he says what he hears said...
    AKan 11.261 5 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts;...
    TPar 11.291 26 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always because he must...
    SMC 11.350 26 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    SMC 11.353 10 War, says the poet,...is the arduous strife,/ To which the triumph of all good is given./
    Wom 11.407 20 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
    Wom 11.414 24 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
    SHC 11.428 11 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...
    CPL 11.494 5 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.
    PLT 12.28 25 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint and uses her goods she speaks no word; if he blunders and starves she says nothing.
    PLT 12.35 14 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.
    PLT 12.62 19 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
    Mem 12.95 15 He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
    Mem 12.104 23 Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is to develop the affections.
    Mem 12.109 6 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.
    CInt 12.130 3 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    CInt 12.131 18 Study for eternity smiled on me, says Van Helmont.
    CL 12.155 3 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health...
    CL 12.157 3 Can you hear what the morning says to you, and believe that?
    CL 12.164 14 'T is not easy to say again what Nature says to us.
    CL 12.165 3 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
    CL 12.166 24 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know what Pindar means when he says that water is the best of things...
    Bost 12.184 1 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    Bost 12.199 9 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...
    MAng1 12.220 2 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface.
    MAng1 12.222 23 Goethe says that he is but half himself who has never seen the Juno in the Rondanini Palace at Rome.
    MAng1 12.223 4 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures, improper, says his biographer, for the place, but proper for the exhibition of all the pomp of his profound knowledge.
    MAng1 12.228 13 I have found, says [Michelangelo's] friend, some of his designs in Florence, where, whilst may be seen the greatness of his genius, it may also be known that when he wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    MAng1 12.237 14 ...[Michelangelo] says he is only half in Rome, since, truly, peace is only to be found in the woods.
    MAng1 12.241 19 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.
    Milt1 12.257 7 Aubrey says [of Milton], This harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned body.
    Milt1 12.264 13 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    ACri 12.297 27 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.
    ACri 12.302 6 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a man can wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
    ACri 12.302 21 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.
    MLit 12.325 25 [Goethe's journal] was, says Wieland, as good as Xenophon's Anabasis.
    WSL 12.338 27 What [Landor] says of Wordsworth is true of himself, that he delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.
    WSL 12.347 24 [Landor] knows the value of his own words. They are not, he says, written on slate.
    PPr 12.389 2 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.
    Let 12.395 1 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me?...
    Trag 12.410 16 If a man says, Lo! I suffer-it is apparent that he suffers not, for grief is dumb.
    Trag 12.415 27 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

say'st, v. (1)

    PPo 8.262 6 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./

scabbard, n. (1)

    Let 12.402 20 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit, or, as men said, from a blade too sharp for the scabbard, it turned out that they had not wit enough.

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