Scaffold to Scintillations

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

scaffold, n. (4)

    Nat 1.21 17 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city on his way to the scaffold.
    Hsm1 2.256 6 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
    Hsm1 2.262 26 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor, if need be...on the scaffold.
    LLNE 10.336 8 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven,-the scaffold of the divine vengeance Saurin called it...

scaffolding, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.187 17 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...had a prospective end, like the scaffolding by which the house was built;...
    MAng1 12.228 27 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is taken away.

scaffoldings, n. (1)

    ET5 5.91 16 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.

scais, v. (2)

    MoS 4.166 23 Over his name [Montaigne] drew an emblematic pair of scales, and wrote Que scais je? under it.
    MoS 4.169 24 Que scais je? What do I know?

scald, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.145 26 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not scald milk-pans...

scale, n. (88)

    Nat 1.38 17 ...[the wise man's] scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature.
    Nat 1.38 19 The foolish have no range in their scale...
    LE 1.159 1 ...so pass into [the scholar's] mind...the grand events of history, to take a new order and scale from him.
    LE 1.160 12 ...things must take my scale...
    LE 1.182 22 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will seem low and utilitarian...
    Tran 1.343 23 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    YA 1.367 4 Public gardens, on the scale of such plantations in Europe and Asia, are now unknown to us.
    YA 1.370 22 ...here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    Hist 2.20 3 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself.
    SR 2.63 16 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...make his own scale of men and things...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Prd1 2.223 3 Once in a long time, a man traverses the whole scale...
    OS 2.273 17 ...always the soul's scale is one, the scale of the senses and the understanding is another.
    Pt1 3.6 16 The poet is...the man...who...traverses the whole scale of experience...
    Exp 3.72 14 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale...
    Chr1 3.95 16 All individual natures stand in a scale, according to the purity of this element [truth] in them.
    Mrs1 3.130 15 Each [member of an assembly] returns to his degree in the scale of good society...
    Nat2 3.182 17 That identity [in nature]...reduces to nothing great intervals on our customary scale.
    Nat2 3.195 27 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    NR 3.231 12 The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale...
    UGM 4.20 2 Life is a scale of degrees.
    PPh 4.46 26 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant, extends across the entire scale...
    PPh 4.50 14 As one diffusive air, passing through the perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    PPh 4.62 16 There is a scale; and the correspondence of heaven to earth...is our guide.
    PPh 4.68 11 All things are in a scale;...
    PNR 4.82 9 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 16 [Plato] wrote on the scale of the mind itself...
    SwM 4.98 24 [Swedenborg's] frame is on a larger scale and possesses the advantages of size.
    SwM 4.106 15 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale or degrees;...
    SwM 4.109 1 ...there is no limit to this ascending scale [in nature]...
    ET3 5.42 19 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.
    ET4 5.50 11 As the scale mounts, the organizations become complex.
    ET8 5.136 24 [The English] have great range of scale...
    ET8 5.136 25 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement. With larger scale, they have great retrieving power.
    ET8 5.139 8 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    ET12 5.205 17 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America, where his college is half suspected by the Freshman to be insignificant in the scale beside trade and politics.
    ET14 5.235 25 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale...
    ET18 5.306 18 An Englishman shows no mercy to those below him in the social scale...
    F 6.9 3 So is the scale of races...imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.12 4 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill nowise alters rank in the scale of nature...
    F 6.16 3 ...the scale of tribes...is as uniform as the superposition of strata.
    F 6.24 10 Let [man]...show his lordship by manners and deeds on the scale of nature.
    Wth 6.91 15 [A man] may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases...
    Ctr 6.137 4 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
    Bhr 6.181 12 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Wsp 6.223 3 From these low external penalties the scale ascends.
    Bty 6.306 11 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...
    Bty 6.306 25 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Ill 6.318 3 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it, a fixed scale and rank above rank in the phantasms.
    SS 7.1 14 ...when the mate of the snow and wind,/ [Seyd] left each civil scale behind/...
    Civ 7.26 4 Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the cost of higher qualities: the man is sensual and cruel. But this scale is not invariable.
    Elo1 7.98 23 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth...
    DL 7.118 6 With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
    DL 7.118 12 The rich, as we reckon them...in a true scale would be found very indigent...
    Farm 7.139 15 [The farmer's] entertainments, his liberties and his spending must be on a farmer's scale, and not on a merchant's.
    Farm 7.147 10 Nature suggests every economical expedient somewhere on a great scale.
    WD 7.162 4 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems. The intercourse is not new, but the scale is new.
    Clbs 7.242 11 Does it never occur that we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen,--as there are musical notes too high for the scale of most ears?
    Suc 7.295 17 ...in the scale of powers it is not talent but sensibility which is best...
    SA 8.88 20 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that turns the scale in social encounters...
    Elo2 8.112 7 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power...
    Elo2 8.124 19 The orator must command the whole scale of the language...
    PC 8.206 2 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears/...
    PC 8.209 5 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve local famine...
    PC 8.210 20 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions, all on a national scale too, have evoked!...
    PC 8.218 3 Eloquence a hundred times has turned the scale of war and peace at will.
    Insp 8.270 26 In the savage man, thought is infantile; and, in the civilized, unequal and ranging up and down a long scale.
    Grts 8.301 6 ...[greatness] has a long scale of degrees...
    Aris 10.32 27 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
    Chr2 10.122 11 [Character] extols humility,-by every self-abasement lifted higher in the scale of being.
    SovE 10.186 26 'T is a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman...
    SovE 10.210 1 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...
    MoL 10.243 22 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art...
    Plu 10.321 13 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in the street, the market...
    LLNE 10.348 15 Here [in Fourier] was arithmetic on a huge scale.
    Thor 10.459 1 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
    Thor 10.484 21 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity...
    EWI 11.128 10 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost men of the earth;...every particle of evidence was sifted and laid in the scale;...
    War 11.152 21 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war] endures no counterfeit...
    FSLC 11.185 11 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime...
    FSLC 11.203 13 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but...he omitted to throw himself into the movement in those critical moments when his leadership would have turned the scale.
    FSLN 11.240 8 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale...
    AsSu 11.248 9 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    AKan 11.257 3 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed...on the scale of a national action.
    ACiv 11.304 18 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war...
    EdAd 11.385 11 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities; that the moral and intellectual effects are not on the same scale with the trade and production.
    EdAd 11.386 6 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by little men...
    CInt 12.130 26 Our colleges may differ much in the scale of requirements... but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    MLit 12.333 15 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments?

scale, v. (1)

    Cir 2.305 18 Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder;...

scales, n. (5)

    PNR 4.89 21 Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo and Socrates by village scales.
    MoS 4.166 23 Over his name [Montaigne] drew an emblematic pair of scales, and wrote Que scais je? under it.
    Ctr 6.132 6 The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales, weighing his food.
    PI 8.23 25 The senses imprison us, and we help them with metres as limitary,--with a pair of scales and a foot-rule and a clock.
    AsSu 11.246 5 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./

Scaliger, Joseph Justus, n. (1)

    WSL 12.341 12 When we pronounce the names of...Erasmus, Scaliger and Montaigne;...we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.

Scaligers, n. (1)

    Boks 7.192 25 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear,--the...Magliabecchis, Scaligers, Mirandolas, Bayles, Johnsons...

scalp, n. (1)

    Res 8.146 1 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.

scalp, v. (2)

    Res 8.145 27 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him.
    Res 8.146 1 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.

scalped, v. (1)

    AKan 11.257 24 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...and are then... pillaged, and numbers of them killed and scalped...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...

scalpel, n. (1)

    SwM 4.104 24 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

Scamp Jupiter, n. (1)

    NMW 4.256 8 ...[Napoleon] fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.

scan, v. (2)

    Cir 2.299 4 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...
    GSt 10.501 23 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.

scandal, n. (5)

    Chr1 3.106 9 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized. How cloistered and constitutionally sequestered from the market and from scandal!
    ET11 5.192 19 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
    War 11.159 22 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have killed him had he not fled his country forever. The scandal which we feel in such facts certainly shows that we have got on a little.
    FSLC 11.196 27 The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.
    ACri 12.296 14 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood, between his feet...in his village, neighbors' gossip and scandal.

scandalous, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.81 10 We must hold hard to this poverty, however scandalous...
    Schr 10.270 5 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets.
    EWI 11.133 16 There is a scandalous rumor...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.

scandals, n. (3)

    Nat 1.60 15 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than the scandals of ecclesiastical history...
    ET11 5.192 26 ...gaming, racing, drinking and mistresses bring [the English aristocracy] down, and the democrat can still gather scandals, if he will.
    ET11 5.193 10 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out...

scandens, Mikania, n. (1)

    Thor 10.481 16 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily,-then, the gentian, and the Mikania scandens...

Scanderbeg [George Castriot (1)

    SR 2.63 2 Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus?

Scanderoon, Syria, n. (1)

    ET5 5.79 4 Sir Kenelm Digby...who won the sea-fight of Scanderoon, was a model Englishman in his day.

Scandinavia, n. (3)

    Suc 7.303 16 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia, under the fires of the equator...
    PC 8.214 1 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia;...
    MoL 10.242 24 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers;...

Scandinavian, adj. (7)

    ET4 5.66 14 Both branches of the Scandinavian race are distinguished for beauty.
    ET8 5.135 1 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again...
    ET8 5.137 15 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the Isle of Man, of the Scandinavian Thing;...
    ET9 5.147 14 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage, celebrated among our Scandinavian forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air.
    ET10 5.162 17 Scandinavian Thor...in England has advanced with the times...
    Civ 7.22 10 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.
    QO 8.187 11 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...

Scandinavian, n. (1)

    ET5 5.76 19 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls...

Scandinavians, n. (4)

    ET4 5.52 18 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
    ET5 5.74 2 The Saxon and the Northman are both Scandinavians.
    Boks 7.217 27 The Greek fables...the Younger Edda of the Scandinavians... have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    ACri 12.295 14 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...the Scandinavians with their Snorre Sturleson;...

scanned, v. (1)

    SlHr 10.448 27 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./

scanning, n. (1)

    NER 3.271 10 It would be easy to show, by a narrow scanning of any man' s biography, that we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...

scanty, adj. (1)

    SA 8.82 16 ...we are awkward for want of thought. The inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive at the extremities.

Scapin, Jupiter, n. (1)

    NMW 4.256 8 ...[Napoleon] fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.

scar, n. (4)

    Exp 3.49 9 ...something which I fancied was a part of me...falls off from me and leaves no scar.
    ET9 5.147 27 If one of [the English] have...a scar, or mark...he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    Wsp 6.210 18 Another scar of this skepticism is the distrust in human virtue.
    SlHr 10.446 21 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar] .Yet when politicians or speculators approached him, these memories left no scar;...

scarce, adj. (1)

    WD 7.164 5 Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

scarce, adv. (6)

    DSA 1.149 20 ...these are heights that we can scarce remember...without contrition and shame.
    LE 1.167 10 Poetry has scarce chanted its first song.
    Fdsp 2.204 18 ...we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in another as to draw us by love.
    Insp 8.273 6 With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
    Edc1 10.134 26 We scarce educate [boys'] bodies.
    ACri 12.292 20 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there being scarce a person of any note in England but what some time or other paid a visit or sent a present to our Lady of Walsingham...

scarcely, adv. (25)

    Nat 1.4 12 We have...scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation.
    AmS 1.83 25 The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work...
    DSA 1.142 11 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any man dare to be wise and good...
    DSA 1.145 16 ...men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    LE 1.158 22 ...over [the scholar] streams Time, scarcely divided into months and years.
    SR 2.57 7 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory...
    Comp 2.125 9 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him... Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday.
    SL 2.148 13 As in dreams, so in the scarcely less fluid events of the world every man sees himself in colossal...
    Fdsp 2.191 6 How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us!
    Prd1 2.240 8 Scarcely can we say we see new men, new women, approaching us.
    Hsm1 2.254 24 A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses;...
    UGM 4.16 9 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor, which is possible in personal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime, genius perpetually pays;...
    MoS 4.150 20 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters; and that of Goethe and Schiller...is scarcely more kind.
    Wth 6.98 4 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it.
    Civ 7.23 22 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying...the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    DL 7.124 17 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises. It is scarcely less perceivable in educated men, so called, than in the uneducated.
    PPo 8.239 19 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures...
    Plu 10.298 19 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
    EzRy 10.384 21 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How wonderful the preservation.
    MMEm 10.404 14 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool.
    MMEm 10.412 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice...
    MMEm 10.427 24 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
    HDC 11.35 19 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance, yet they can scarcely be exaggerated.
    War 11.156 3 In some parts of this country, where the intellectual and moral faculties have as yet scarcely any culture, the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?
    Pray 12.355 10 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by; thou hast not done this, and then left me here to myself, a poor, weak man, scarcely able to earn my bread.

scarcity, n. (1)

    MoL 10.247 15 The fears and agitations of men who watch...the plenty or scarcity of money...are not for [the scholar].

scare, v. (1)

    Boks 7.216 18 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a cloying success or scare them with shocks of tragedy.

scarecrow, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.110 11 ...Voltaire is no longer a scarecrow;...

scared, v. (6)

    SL 2.148 10 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    CbW 6.259 5 ...as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared...
    Cour 7.274 18 ...the timid woman is not scared by fagots;...
    SovE 10.207 20 The mystic or theist is never scared by any startling materialism.
    War 11.163 14 ...one is scared to find at what a cost the peace of the globe is kept.
    FRep 11.524 14 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate with the interest of their trade or of their property.

scares, v. (1)

    SR 2.56 23 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency;...

scarf, n. (1)

    DL 7.123 8 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody: for one it was a world too wide, for the next it dragged on the ground, and for the third it shrunk to a scarf.

scarlet, adj. (8)

    ET11 5.197 26 [Titles of lordship] belong, with wigs, powder and scarlet coats, to an earlier age...
    Ctr 6.152 19 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out,--the love of the scarlet feather...
    Ctr 6.152 23 ...I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo the street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
    Wsp 6.208 2 Here are...even in the decent populations, idolatries wherein the whiteness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
    Bty 6.306 13 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
    PPo 8.257 22 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
    Plu 10.312 9 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of Nero had the natural effect of driving virtue to its loftiest antagonisms.
    Bost 12.208 8 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city; infinite meanness, scarlet crime.

scarlet, n. (2)

    DL 7.104 8 By lamplight [the nestler] delights in shadows on the wall; by daylight, in yellow and scarlet.
    Thor 10.470 15 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks, whose brilliant scarlet makes the rash gazer wipe his eye...

scarred, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.114 10 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman...

scarred, v. (1)

    PC 8.224 27 Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions...

scars, n. (1)

    OS 2.292 22 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God... effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments!

scars, v. (1)

    Suc 7.306 25 What delights, what emancipates, not what scars and pains us, is wise and good in speech and in the arts.

scatter, v. (7)

    Con 1.308 9 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor, before I suffer you...to ride into my estate, and claim to scatter it as your own.
    SR 2.66 2 It must be that when God speaketh he...should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought;...
    SL 2.143 23 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let [a man] scatter them on every wind...
    NR 3.235 13 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat, when presently the dream will scatter...
    UGM 4.35 9 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song...
    Bhr 6.196 5 There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
    EWI 11.147 2 I assure myself that this coldness and blindness [towards the negro] will pass away. A single noble wind of sentiment will scatter them forever.

scatter-brained, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.229 2 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.

scattered, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.141 3 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    LT 1.275 18 See how daring is the reading, the speculation, the experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall arise who could unite these scattered rays!
    PLT 12.20 4 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit.
    Pray 12.355 24 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...

scattered, v. (12)

    MR 1.255 22 He who would help himself and others should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person,-such as we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world;...
    ET4 5.51 3 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man;...
    ET11 5.183 6 All over England, scattered at short intervals among ship-yards, mills, mines and forges, are the paradises of the nobles...
    ET11 5.189 18 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
    Plu 10.317 24 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece [Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes were already scattered in his works.
    FSLC 11.211 19 ...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...as she sees her progeny scattered over the face of the land...
    TPar 11.287 18 'T is objected to [Theodore Parker] that he scattered too many illusions.
    Bost 12.192 22 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet been scattered;...
    MAng1 12.218 1 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
    Milt1 12.260 27 ...[Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...
    Pray 12.350 17 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer]...
    Let 12.400 2 Is [Germany] not like some battle-field, where hands and arms and all members lie scattered about, whilst the life-blood runs away into the sand?

scattering, n. (1)

    LS 11.7 24 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation, beyond the abolition of the festival he was celebrating, and the scattering of the nation...

scattering, v. (1)

    PC 8.231 18 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.

scatters, v. (6)

    SR 2.54 6 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
    Int 2.323 3 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;--/ The sower scatters broad his seed;/ The wheat thou strew'st be souls./
    Gts 3.164 23 ...rectitude scatters favors on every side without knowing it...
    MoS 4.170 26 We...dislike what scatters or pulls down.
    CbW 6.250 16 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
    Mem 12.95 5 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters.

Scaurus, Marcus, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.195 8 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against the Republic.
    Bhr 6.195 13 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    Bhr 6.195 15 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?

scavengers, n. (2)

    Cour 7.276 14 Wolf, snake and crocodile are not inharmonious in Nature, but are made useful as checks, scavengers and pioneers;...
    SovE 10.188 17 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the scavengers, executioners, diggers...

scene, n. (21)

    Nat 1.11 9 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    Nat 1.20 17 When a noble act is done, - perchance in a scene of great natural beauty...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.20 26 ...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.36 14 The understanding...finds nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene.
    Tran 1.334 1 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves; but hears, as at a vast distance, what they say, as if his consciousness would speak to him through a pantomimic scene.
    Lov1 2.183 19 ...this dream of love, though beautiful, is only one scene in our play.
    Pt1 3.33 23 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene.
    PPh 4.75 11 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.
    ShP 4.193 14 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays], inserting a speech or a whole scene...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ShP 4.195 25 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell...
    NMW 4.234 16 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
    ET7 5.125 13 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge.
    Elo1 7.68 19 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He... though he cannot describe, hopes to suggest the whole scene.
    SA 8.82 3 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable. And this scene is daily repeated in hovels as well as in high houses.
    Res 8.142 13 We have seen slavery disappear like a painted scene in a theatre;...
    Insp 8.289 5 Novelty, surprise, change of scene, refresh the artist...
    Imtl 8.339 25 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene.
    HDC 11.58 7 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
    PLT 12.50 5 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene or line.
    II 12.84 17 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene...
    ACri 12.293 26 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself...on the scene...

scene-painting, n. (1)

    Exp 3.48 13 There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here at least we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit.

scenery, n. (9)

    Nat 1.18 11 I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery...
    LT 1.262 9 ...trees make scenery, and constitute the hospitality of the landscape...
    YA 1.368 8 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make...chains of mountains quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    Nat2 3.176 5 We exaggerate the praises of local scenery.
    SwM 4.140 26 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.
    Ctr 6.160 7 The influence of fine scenery...appeases our irritations...
    Ill 6.310 1 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
    Dem1 10.5 10 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem not to fit us...
    CL 12.152 20 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air,- the action of new scenery on the mind is not less fruitful.

scenes, n. (8)

    LT 1.262 17 Thoughts...transport me into new and magnificent scenes.
    SL 2.164 7 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?
    Pt1 3.39 6 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as...the orator into the assembly of the people; and the others in such scenes as each has found exciting to his intellect, and each presently feels the new desire.
    Suc 7.284 11 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Dem1 10.5 18 In our dreams the same scenes and fancies are many times associated...
    MMEm 10.411 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths...
    EWI 11.124 1 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips. What if it cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa?
    EWI 11.124 3 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows...

scent, n. (7)

    PI 8.36 20 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow...is event enough for him...
    PI 8.72 17 Music seems to you sufficient, or the subtle and delicate scent of lavender;...
    PPo 8.260 27 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./
    Prch 10.220 22 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like hunters on the scent...
    Thor 10.481 18 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight...
    Thor 10.481 20 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy. The scent, of course, reveals what is concealed from the other senses.
    HDC 11.33 16 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.

scented, adj. (2)

    JBS 11.280 26 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...
    CL 12.161 27 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...and the mints, or the scented goldenrod...

scents, n. (2)

    Nat 1.52 25 ...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
    Dem1 10.13 3 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed in...scents we do not smell...

scents, v. (1)

    Nat 1.42 15 ...this moral sentiment which thus scents the air...is caught by man...

sceptic, n. (1)

    OS 2.279 17 We know truth when we see it, let sceptic and scoffer say what they choose.

sceptical, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.70 19 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.

scepticism, n. (7)

    Cir 2.305 25 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism.
    Exp 3.65 9 Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism...
    Exp 3.65 13 ...thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream; thou wilt not be missed in the scorning and scepticism;...
    Exp 3.69 8 The ardors of piety agree at last with the coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is of God.
    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...
    NER 3.270 13 I resist the scepticism of our education and of our educated men.
    NER 3.278 18 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no scepticism, no atheism but that.

scepticisms, n. (2)

    Exp 3.75 12 The new statement will comprise the scepticisms as well as the faiths of society...
    Exp 3.75 14 ...scepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless...

sceptics, n. (1)

    NER 3.270 18 I do not recognize...a permanent class of sceptics...

sceptre, n. (7)

    Nat 1.73 13 These are examples of Reason's momentary grasp of the sceptre;...
    MR 1.241 9 ...he only can become a master, who...by real cunning extorts from nature its sceptre.
    YA 1.376 16 ...the sceptre comes to be a crow-bar.
    Mrs1 3.149 27 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will; let him yield or divide the sceptre at the door of the house.
    ET6 5.109 23 [The English] keep...their wig and mace, sceptre and crown.
    ET19 5.311 5 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong, the love and devotion to that,--this is the imperial trait, which arms them with the sceptre of the globe.
    Elo1 7.72 19 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...

schedule, n. (2)

    Int 2.346 19 ...[the Greek philosophers' thought] commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration.
    Wth 6.107 10 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want;...here is his schedule;...

Scheherazade [Arabian Night (1)

    PerF 10.81 19 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is... a pretty crowd all bright with one electricity; there in the centre of fellowship and joy is Scheherazade again.

Scheherezade [Arabian Night (2)

    Elo1 7.70 19 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the Arabian Nights] to save her life...
    LLNE 10.351 11 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].

Scheherezade, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.70 23 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhel (7)

    LE 1.161 3 ...do not teach me out of Leibnitz or Schelling...
    Int 2.344 27 The Bacon...the Hume, Schelling...is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
    Pt1 3.32 18 All the value which attaches to...Schelling...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    ET14 5.242 14 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the identity-philosophy of Schelling, couched in the statement that all difference is quantitative.
    F 6.13 1 I find the coincidence of the extremes of Eastern and Western speculation in the daring statement of Schelling...
    Edc1 10.133 6 If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism...some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events...
    II 12.70 12 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin...

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhel (2)

    Elo2 8.131 24 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending.
    LLNE 10.338 19 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy...

scheme, n. (14)

    DSA 1.145 8 ...each would be an easy secondary to some Christian scheme...
    Chr1 3.113 5 We chase some flying scheme...
    NER 3.264 8 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    NER 3.273 7 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
    PNR 4.89 9 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    MoS 4.156 2 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...
    MoS 4.160 27 The soul of man must be the type of our scheme...
    ET16 5.281 24 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.
    F 6.4 23 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...
    EWI 11.112 5 The scheme of the Minister, with such modification as it received in the legislature, proposed gradual emancipation [in the West Indies];...
    ALin 11.328 25 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...
    FRO2 11.488 17 This positive, historical, authoritative scheme [of miraculous dispensation] is not consistent with our experience or our expectations.
    Bost 12.198 24 That colonizing [of New England] was a great and generous scheme...
    Bost 12.199 6 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

schemer, n. (1)

    MoS 4.156 5 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute...of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.

schemes, n. (10)

    Con 1.303 19 Your schemes may be feasible, or may not be...
    YA 1.383 10 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be made by these first adventurers [the Communities], which will draw ridicule on their schemes.
    Nat2 3.180 1 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
    MoS 4.160 15 The Spartan and Stoic schemes are too stark and stiff for our occasion.
    Wth 6.120 24 The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...
    Grts 8.314 19 When one of his favorite schemes missed, [Napoleon] had the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it somewhere else.
    LLNE 10.349 7 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it had not the partiality and hint-and-fragment character of most popular schemes...
    LLNE 10.353 23 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...
    EWI 11.138 10 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
    WSL 12.342 21 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.

scheming, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.140 2 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man; not by scheming speculators...

Schiller, Johann Christoph (1)

    CbW 6.254 8 Schiller says the Thirty Years' War made Germany a nation.

Schiller, Johann Christoph (2)

    Chr1 3.89 15 The authority of the name of Schiller is too great for his books.
    MoS 4.150 20 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters; and that of Goethe and Schiller...is scarcely more kind.

Schiller, Johann Christoph (3)

    ET16 5.274 9 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it...
    Clbs 7.238 23 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when France, in the person of Madame de Stael, visited Goethe and Schiller;...
    Imtl 8.329 21 Schiller said, What is so universal as death, must be benefit.

Schiller, Johann Christophe (1)

    Clbs 7.238 2 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton; when Schiller came to Goethe;...

Schiller's, Johann Christop (1)

    QO 8.185 24 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...

Schiraz, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.154 12 The king of Schiraz could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.

Schirin, n. (1)

    PPo 8.242 24 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the romances of the loves of Leila and Medschnun, of Chosru and Schirin...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

schism, n. (3)

    Chr2 10.105 18 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time...
    MoL 10.249 10 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy... and thus the separation was a mutual fault. But I think it is a schism which must be healed.
    LLNE 10.325 14 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.

Schlegel, August Wilhelm vo (2)

    SA 8.95 2 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel!...
    Supl 10.169 2 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored;...

Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm von, (2)

    Exp 3.47 19 The history of literature--take the net result of Tiraboschi, Warton, or Schlegel--is a sum of very few ideas...
    ShP 4.204 9 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing, and the translation of his works by Wieland and Schlegel, that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich E (1)

    Elo2 8.131 24 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending.

Schlemil, Peter (?), n. (1)

    Dem1 10.20 23 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...which is represented in modern fable by the telescope as used by Schlemil, is simply mischievous.

Schleswig Holstein, n. (1)

    ET8 5.141 14 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France...of Schleswig Holstein...

Schleswig-Holstein, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 25 England maintains trade, not liberty; stands against Greece;...against Schleswig-Holstein;...

Schlichting, Jan Daniel, n. (1)

    SwM 4.102 11 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in anatomy, the discoveries of Schlichting, Monro and Wilson;...

Scholar, American, n. (2)

    AmS 1.82 12 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day, - the AMERICAN SCHOLAR.
    AmS 1.114 9 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to the American Scholar.

scholar, n. (175)

    AmS 1.83 2 Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
    AmS 1.84 4 In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect.
    AmS 1.84 16 ...is not the true scholar the only true master?
    AmS 1.84 19 In life, too often, the scholar errs with mankind...
    AmS 1.85 3 The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle [of nature] most engages.
    AmS 1.87 12 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past...
    AmS 1.87 19 The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;...
    AmS 1.94 7 There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse...
    AmS 1.94 20 Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential.
    AmS 1.94 26 ...there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
    AmS 1.95 24 The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by...
    AmS 1.97 27 If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action.
    AmS 1.99 20 ...the scholar loses no hour which the man lives.
    AmS 1.100 14 I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by nature...
    AmS 1.100 18 The office of the scholar is to cheer...
    AmS 1.102 22 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
    AmS 1.104 2 Free should the scholar be, - free and brave.
    AmS 1.104 6 ...fear is a thing which a scholar by his very function puts behind him.
    AmS 1.113 23 The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time...
    AmS 1.114 14 The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant.
    LE 1.155 14 ...a scholar is the favorite of Heaven and earth...
    LE 1.155 22 ...the scholar by every thought he thinks extends his dominion into the general mind of men...
    LE 1.157 20 The scholar may lose himself in schools...and become a pedant;...
    LE 1.157 24 ...the scholar is the student of the world;...
    LE 1.157 27 ...of what worth the world is, and with what emphasis it accosts the soul of man, such is the worth, such the call of the scholar.
    LE 1.158 6 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 1.158 7 The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the Intellect.
    LE 1.158 9 The resources of the scholar are co-extensive with nature and truth...
    LE 1.164 20 In order to a knowledge of the resources of the scholar, we must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
    LE 1.166 23 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad.
    LE 1.167 1 To be as good a scholar as Englishmen are...satisfies us.
    LE 1.170 12 What else do these volumes of extracts and manuscript commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
    LE 1.173 14 Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.
    LE 1.174 14 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those private, sincere, divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    LE 1.176 2 ...we have need of...such an asceticism...as only the hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce.
    LE 1.177 9 The scholar will feel that the richest romance...lies enclosed in human life.
    LE 1.180 27 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts...
    LE 1.181 23 The good scholar will not refuse to bear the yoke in his youth;...
    LE 1.183 18 The scholar regrets to damp the hope of ingenuous boys;...
    LE 1.183 21 Hence the temptation to the scholar to mystify...
    LE 1.184 20 Be a scholar, and he shall have the scholar's part of everything.
    LE 1.187 16 ...[Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to the scholar...
    MN 1.193 12 ...the scholar must be a bringer of hope...
    MN 1.193 27 Even the scholar is not safe;...
    MR 1.229 7 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    MR 1.230 5 ...the scholar says, Cities and coaches shall never impose on me again;...
    LT 1.289 5 To a true scholar the attraction of the aspects of nature...is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    LT 1.291 1 What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time?
    SL 2.151 5 The scholar forgets himself and apes the customs and costumes of the man of the world to deserve the smile of beauty...
    Fdsp 2.191 23 The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought...
    Prd1 2.233 3 The scholar shames us by his bifold life.
    Int 2.341 20 A self-denial no less austere than the saint's is demanded of the scholar.
    Exp 3.65 2 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task...
    Mrs1 3.124 10 The society of the energetic class...is full...of attempts which intimidate the pale scholar.
    Mrs1 3.144 19 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    NER 3.253 12 [Other reformers] assailed particular vocations, as...that...of the scholar.
    NER 3.269 16 In [scholars'] experience the scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt...
    NER 3.270 3 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar certain powers of expression...
    PPh 4.44 2 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates...remained for ten years his scholar...
    PPh 4.75 14 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet...
    SwM 4.99 11 [Swedenborg] was a scholar from a child...
    MoS 4.153 19 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
    ShP 4.192 7 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history...
    GoW 4.264 18 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar.
    GoW 4.265 25 The scholar is the man of the ages...
    GoW 4.266 3 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy, which is of no import unless the scholar heed it.
    GoW 4.270 5 Among these [men of literary genius of our age] no more instructive name occurs than that of Goethe to represent the powers and duties of the scholar or writer.
    GoW 4.288 9 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...
    ET1 5.4 17 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world;...
    ET1 5.10 3 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
    ET1 5.15 4 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar [Carlyle] nourished his mighty heart.
    ET8 5.133 14 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET12 5.204 11 The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer.
    ET12 5.212 4 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
    ET14 5.245 8 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    Pow 6.57 10 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius and the scholar, it is because it is large and sluggish...
    Wth 6.115 5 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
    Ctr 6.164 24 ...I think it a presentable motive to a scholar, that...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Bhr 6.183 13 A scholar may be a well-bred man, or he may not.
    Bhr 6.183 19 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions, it is then the enthusiast's turn...
    Bhr 6.183 20 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal on his terms.
    Ill 6.316 23 'T is fine for us to point at one or another fine madman, as if there were any exempts. The scholar in his library is none.
    SS 7.11 3 A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
    DL 7.110 2 ...a scholar is a literary foundation.
    WD 7.159 14 Steam is an apt scholar and a strong-shouldered fellow...
    WD 7.169 19 ...in the common experience of the scholar, the weathers fit his moods.
    WD 7.169 26 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus.
    WD 7.179 17 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday.
    WD 7.181 3 I remember well the foreign scholar who made a week of my youth happy by his visit.
    Boks 7.196 13 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
    Boks 7.203 3 The imaginative scholar will find few stimulants to his brain like these writers [the Platonists].
    Boks 7.205 16 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Abstracts of my Readings, which will spur the laziest scholar to emulation of his prodigious performance.
    Boks 7.220 20 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club...
    Clbs 7.244 9 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he...
    Clbs 7.246 11 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    Clbs 7.246 15 A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains;...
    Cour 7.269 13 ...a new book astonishes for a few days...but the scholar is not deceived.
    Suc 7.297 9 When the scholar or the writer has pumped his brain for thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into Nature, has he never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle...than in all his literary results?
    OA 7.329 17 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
    PI 8.12 23 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno...
    SA 8.82 23 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar is inspired, transformed...
    SA 8.104 27 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...of the scholar for his pursuit;...
    Elo2 8.124 24 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    Res 8.152 1 ...the uses of the woods are many, and some of them for the scholar high and peremptory.
    Comc 8.166 28 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar only as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    PC 8.210 2 Mark...the large resources...of a scholar, in this age.
    PC 8.221 8 The chief value [of devotion to natural science] is not the useful powers he obtained, but the test it has been of the scholar.
    Insp 8.291 17 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!
    Grts 8.303 24 There is somewhat in the true scholar which he cannot be laughed out of...
    Grts 8.310 25 ...if you are a scholar, be that.
    Grts 8.311 5 No way has been found for making heroism easy, even for the scholar.
    Grts 8.311 19 Let the scholar measure his valor by his power to cope with intellectual giants.
    Grts 8.313 21 Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar?
    Grts 8.319 5 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Imtl 8.341 7 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end.
    Edc1 10.142 2 The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
    MoL 10.241 14 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels which an old scholar may without pretension bring to youth...
    MoL 10.241 18 I offer perpetual congratulation to the scholar;...
    MoL 10.247 1 I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
    MoL 10.247 5 A scholar defending the cause of slavery...is a traitor to his profession.
    MoL 10.247 8 A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor to his profession. He has ceased to be a scholar.
    MoL 10.248 27 Every man is a scholar potentially...
    MoL 10.249 6 A scholar was once a priest.
    MoL 10.249 7 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy...
    MoL 10.249 10 The true scholar is the Church.
    MoL 10.250 18 The ambassador is held to maintain the dignity of the Republic which he represents. But what does the scholar represent?
    MoL 10.252 7 ...the scholar does not stand by his order...
    MoL 10.254 12 The scholar is bound to stand for all the virtues and all the liberties...
    Schr 10.263 12 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage...
    Schr 10.264 17 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    Schr 10.268 21 ...the scholar finds in [the practical men] unlooked-for acceptance of his most paradoxical experience.
    Schr 10.272 3 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him.
    Schr 10.272 18 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion;...
    Schr 10.273 2 The scholar, when he comes, will be known by an energy that will animate all who see him.
    Schr 10.274 1 The speculative man, the scholar, is the right hero.
    Schr 10.275 16 The ends I have hinted at made the scholar or spiritual man indispensable to the Republic or Commonwealth of Man.
    Schr 10.278 21 In making this claim of costly accomplishments for the scholar, I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of his work by the lustre of his appointments.
    Schr 10.280 16 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the development of that mind is arrested. The scholar is lost in the showman.
    Schr 10.283 25 The scholar...is unfurnished who has only literary weapons.
    Schr 10.286 7 The scholar must be ready for bad weather...
    Schr 10.286 22 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career.
    Schr 10.288 14 ...the scholar must be much more than a scholar...
    Schr 10.288 15 ...the scholar must be much more than a scholar...
    Plu 10.308 15 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He...prefers to sit as a scholar with Plato, than as a disputant;...
    LLNE 10.334 3 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons...
    LLNE 10.335 21 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham, an excellent classical and German scholar, had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.
    LLNE 10.344 8 Theodore Parker was...an excellent scholar...
    LLNE 10.369 12 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    EzRy 10.391 23 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the scholar...
    Carl 10.489 4 [Carlyle] is not mainly a scholar...
    Carl 10.489 8 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman...and then only accidentally and by a surprising addition, the admirable scholar and writer he is.
    Carl 10.493 12 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
    Carl 10.497 19 [Carlyle] has stood for scholars, asking no scholar what he should say.
    HDC 11.65 10 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    EWI 11.125 24 Slavery is no scholar, no improver;...
    EdAd 11.383 16 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    Wom 11.416 7 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar.
    CPL 11.503 13 ...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached. Yet to a scholar the book is as good or better.
    PLT 12.23 9 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task...
    PLT 12.44 2 ...the true scholar is one who has the power to stand beside his thoughts...
    PLT 12.48 17 To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths; as soon as the scholar attempts it, he is half a charlatan.
    Mem 12.106 18 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.
    CInt 12.125 7 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CInt 12.128 9 Now if there be genius in the scholar...he is made to find his own way.
    CInt 12.131 7 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar is to be put fairly on his own powers...
    MAng1 12.241 9 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...
    Milt1 12.248 18 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.
    ACri 12.285 11 Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
    ACri 12.295 25 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech,-words and phrases that no scholar coined;...
    MLit 12.319 19 A good English scholar [Shelley] is, with ear, taste and memory;...
    WSL 12.341 7 In these busy days...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    PPr 12.380 21 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.
    PPr 12.381 19 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation...to the scholar, that he shall be there for light;...
    PPr 12.384 2 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...
    PPr 12.384 7 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.

Scholar, n. (3)

    AmS 1.108 24 ...I have dwelt perhaps tediously upon this abstraction of the Scholar.
    Schr 10.264 7 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar...
    Schr 10.273 11 In our experiences, learning is not learned, nor is genius wise. The name of the Scholar is taken in vain.

scholars, n. (102)

    AmS 1.94 14 I have heard it said that the clergy, - who are always...the scholars of their day, - are addressed as women;...
    LE 1.155 4 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    LE 1.155 10 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.
    LE 1.156 2 The few scholars in each country...seem to me not individuals but societies;...
    MN 1.191 7 The scholars are the priests of that thought which establishes the foundations of the earth.
    MN 1.192 18 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result, any more than I admire the routine of the scholars or clerical class.
    MR 1.229 11 ...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    MR 1.250 2 ...no class more faithless than the scholars or intellectual men.
    Lov1 2.173 25 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate, without any risk such as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men.
    OS 2.288 6 Among the multitude of scholars and authors we feel no hallowing presence;...
    Exp 3.66 5 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. Here, among the farms, we adduce the scholars as examples of this treachery.
    Pol1 3.221 15 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
    NR 3.232 14 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that of scholars, for example;...
    NER 3.269 14 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education. Unhappily too the doubt comes from scholars...
    PPh 4.44 18 ...in proportion to the culture of men they become [Plato's] scholars;...
    SwM 4.103 10 ...[Swedenborg] is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.
    SwM 4.118 18 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    NMW 4.229 9 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in the presence of scholars and grammarians...
    GoW 4.264 12 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who see connection where the multitude see fragments...
    GoW 4.266 2 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy...
    GoW 4.289 19 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    ET3 5.41 2 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    ET6 5.114 18 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French. In America, we are apt scholars...
    ET8 5.139 9 Even the scale of expense on which people live, and to which scholars and professional men conform, proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    ET10 5.154 13 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET11 5.176 19 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars.
    ET12 5.199 5 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
    ET13 5.219 12 ...the clergy for a thousand years have been the scholars of the nation [England].
    ET14 5.238 3 ...[English] scholars, Camden, Usher, Selden...acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
    ET14 5.252 14 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air.
    ET14 5.254 27 ...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.
    ET17 5.297 18 I do not attach much importance to the disparagement of Wordsworth among London scholars.
    ET18 5.299 21 The history of Rome and Greece, when written by [English] scholars, degenerates into English party pamphlets.
    ET18 5.302 27 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what clerks and scholars!
    Ctr 6.136 1 Have you seen...two or three scholars...
    Ctr 6.138 7 'T is incident to scholars that each of them fancies he is pointedly odious in his community.
    Ctr 6.158 15 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course;...
    Ctr 6.164 14 In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Ctr 6.164 23 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    Bhr 6.183 15 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.
    Wsp 6.208 4 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries, scholars as well as merchants, succumb to a great despair...
    SS 7.3 11 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one?
    DL 7.110 11 How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
    Boks 7.191 9 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Clbs 7.243 3 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces...
    Clbs 7.244 19 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.
    Cour 7.275 23 Scholars and thinkers are prone to an effeminate habit...
    PI 8.63 15 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    SA 8.82 27 An intellectual man...is instantly reinforced by being put into the company of scholars...
    QO 8.181 7 ...scholars will recognize [Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza' s] dogmas as reappearing in men of a similar intellectual elevation throughout history.
    PC 8.216 17 I think I have seen two or three great men who, for that reason, were of no account among scholars.
    PC 8.230 15 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists, as in a barbarous age;...
    PC 8.232 11 The community of scholars do not know their own power...
    PPo 8.255 5 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs, since his scholars collected them for the first time after his death.
    Insp 8.282 5 Another consideration...will cheer the heart of older scholars, namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.
    Insp 8.288 25 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known...
    Insp 8.296 25 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars, in so many countries, of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
    Grts 8.302 18 ...the scholars represent the intellect, by which man is man;...
    Grts 8.317 5 It is noted of some scholars...that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.
    Edc1 10.146 10 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he called in the succor...of experts in coins, of scholars and connoisseurs;...
    Edc1 10.146 21 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had...become associated with distinguished scholars...
    Edc1 10.152 9 Try your design on the best school. The scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities.
    SovE 10.186 8 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    MoL 10.253 21 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon, which led the way to all the subsequent studies of the English and German scholars on that foundation.
    MoL 10.254 10 The treachery of scholars!
    MoL 10.254 22 ...the scholars, the seers, have been false to their trust.
    Schr 10.261 4 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica. The territory of scholars is yet larger.
    Schr 10.262 14 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...
    Schr 10.262 22 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...
    Plu 10.293 2 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch, not only to scholars, but to all reading men...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.294 4 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome, and read lectures to some friends or scholars, he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    Plu 10.295 3 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.
    LLNE 10.360 6 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm]...
    Carl 10.490 21 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons,-bishops, courtiers, scholars, writers...
    Carl 10.497 19 [Carlyle] has stood for scholars...
    Carl 10.498 2 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    Carl 10.498 6 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has...taught scholars their lofty duty.
    FSLN 11.217 22 My own habitual view is to the well-being of students or scholars.
    FSLN 11.218 6 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    FSLN 11.237 13 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons to hold him up...
    FSLN 11.242 5 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason tax the coldness and indifferentism of scholars and literary men.
    HCom 11.343 5 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.
    HCom 11.344 5 Scholars changed the black coat for the blue.
    Wom 11.423 21 ...when I read the list of...giants in law, or eminent scholars...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    Humb 11.458 13 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history...
    Humb 11.458 27 I know that we have been accustomed to think [the Germans] were too good scholars...
    CPL 11.496 5 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now;...
    PLT 12.7 26 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose.
    PLT 12.9 11 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars to be courtiers and diners-out...
    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 12.38 15 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation of scholars and philosophers...
    Mem 12.107 10 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    CInt 12.113 16 Against the heroism of soldiers I set the heroism of scholars...
    CInt 12.116 24 ...the scholars did not learn and teach...
    CInt 12.121 4 ...I wish this were a needless task, to urge upon you scholars the claims of thought and learning.
    CL 12.161 12 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion.
    CL 12.161 14 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion. The scholars made puns. the skipper saw instructive facts on every side...
    Milt1 12.250 24 ...as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam, and even less celebrated scholars.
    ACri 12.304 24 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.
    MLit 12.327 11 [Goethe] is the king of all scholars.
    MLit 12.327 12 In these days and in this country, where the scholars are few and idle...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    PPr 12.388 10 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.

scholar's, n. (8)

    Nat 1.76 14 ...you perhaps call [your house]...a scholar's garret.
    AmS 1.91 12 Books are for the scholar's idle times.
    LE 1.156 13 ...a very different estimate of the scholar's profession prevails in this country...
    LE 1.184 20 Be a scholar, and he shall have the scholar's part of everything.
    LE 1.185 6 ...I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the scholar's place and hope...
    ET1 5.18 19 [Carlyle] was already turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation.
    Grts 8.311 26 The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's...
    PPr 12.379 16 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on these topics with such wise men of all ranks and parties as are drawn to a scholar's house...

scholarship, n. (3)

    LE 1.187 3 Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that systematically retreats?...
    Wth 6.115 1 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many...made the experiment...but all were cured of their faith that scholarship and practical farming...could be united.
    TPar 11.286 26 ...[Theodore Parker's] scholarship had made him a reader and quoter of verses.

scholarships, n. (2)

    ET12 5.210 8 ...whether by cramming tutor or by examiners with prizes and foundational scholarships, education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
    ET12 5.210 11 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...

scholastic, adj. (7)

    LE 1.176 1 ...we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule;...
    YA 1.366 2 The land...is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...
    NER 3.258 11 One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.
    SwM 4.142 11 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
    ET10 5.154 3 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks, in reference to a private and scholastic life, of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    Chr2 10.91 16 Surely it is not to prove or show the truth of things,-that sounds a little cold and scholastic,-no, it is for benefit, that all subsists.
    Plu 10.299 19 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter. But this scholastic omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he understands his own diagram.

scholastic, n. (1)

    Bost 12.200 24 The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its sinister side, which is most felt by the drilled and scholastic...

scholastically, adv. (1)

    II 12.87 12 Obedience to its genius (to speak a little scholastically) is the particular of faith;...

school, adj. (11)

    Int 2.330 27 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men, and especially of those classes whose minds have not been subdued by the drill of school education.
    ET12 5.211 16 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
    Bhr 6.190 26 In this country, where school education is universal, we have a superficial culture...
    DL 7.120 11 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home...
    Suc 7.304 24 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
    PerF 10.86 26 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Edc1 10.140 4 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    Edc1 10.147 24 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    SMC 11.356 8 Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable, God-fearing men as the members of our school committee here.
    SHC 11.433 10 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games of education; the distribution of school prizes;...
    Milt1 12.252 9 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next age to [Milton's] own.

School, Divinity, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.335 26 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.

School Exhibitions, n. (1)

    CW 12.172 12 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were...to take hold of one's heart at the School Exhibitions.

School, Farm, n. (1)

    CbW 6.258 26 A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.

School, Free, n. (1)

    ET13 5.224 1 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.

School, Grammar, n. (1)

    Bost 12.195 20 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

School, Latin, n. (2)

    SL 2.133 6 The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
    Bhr 6.195 7 Here is a lesson which I brought along with me in boyhood from the Latin School...

school, n. (87)

    Nat 1.36 10 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding...
    AmS 1.84 21 Let us see [the scholar] in his school...
    AmS 1.90 12 The book...the school of art...stop with some past utterance of genius.
    AmS 1.97 3 ...school and playground...are gone already;...
    MN 1.192 1 ...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house...
    MR 1.248 3 We are to revise the whole of our social structure, the State, the school...
    LT 1.265 3 Let us paint the agitator, and the man of the old school...
    SR 2.76 9 A sturdy lad...who...keeps a school...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Comp 2.99 5 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at the village school...
    SL 2.158 6 A stranger comes from a distant school, with better dress...
    Hsm1 2.257 3 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    Mrs1 3.144 11 ...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;...
    NER 3.263 14 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...
    UGM 4.31 6 Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
    PPh 4.41 22 ...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 22 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied every school of learning...
    PNR 4.88 18 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's proper genius that hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic] school.
    ShP 4.202 4 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not... whether he kept school...
    ET1 5.13 17 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    ET4 5.47 6 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...what nursing, school, and exercises they had...
    ET4 5.63 20 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...
    ET5 5.78 20 You shall trace these Gothic touches [in England] at school, at country fairs...
    ET6 5.105 21 [Englishmen] have all been trained in one severe school of manners...
    ET11 5.184 17 ...[the English peers] have their share in the subordinate offices, as a school of training.
    ET11 5.187 8 Politeness is the ritual of society...a school of manners...
    ET12 5.201 1 ...[Oxford] is, in British story...the school of the island...
    ET12 5.209 14 The definition of a public school [in England] is a school which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.
    ET12 5.209 15 The definition of a public school [in England] is a school which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.
    ET14 5.245 17 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied. Plato is resisted, and his school.
    ET14 5.255 25 Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put round frosted cake.
    F 6.3 23 ...we find that we must begin [reform] earlier,-at school.
    Pow 6.59 3 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Ctr 6.142 15 You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
    Ctr 6.155 14 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that sells the horse but builds the school;...
    CbW 6.252 21 ...this beast-force, whilst it makes...the school of heroes... has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
    Civ 7.25 11 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    Art2 7.56 26 Popular institutions, the school...are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Elo1 7.96 26 [The sturdy countryman] has learned his lessons in a bitter school.
    DL 7.120 23 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require;...
    Boks 7.203 21 ...Pythagoras was...the founder of a school of ascetics and socialists...
    Cour 7.266 26 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...
    Suc 7.294 27 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...got the appointment; but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
    Suc 7.299 15 Is...the village school...only boards or brick and mortar?
    Suc 7.311 9 There is an external life, which is educated at school...
    SA 8.86 2 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers, if only for a school of manners,--the silent prayer before meals.
    SA 8.102 18 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types...
    SA 8.102 19 Our gentlemen of the old school, that is, the school of Washington, Adams and Hamilton, were bred after English types...
    Insp 8.270 11 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Insp 8.292 9 [Conversation] is the true school of philosophy...
    PerF 10.86 25 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Edc1 10.126 3 Humanly speaking, the school, the college, society, make the difference between men.
    Edc1 10.128 11 The household is a school of power.
    Edc1 10.135 23 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    Edc1 10.139 6 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    Edc1 10.141 7 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
    Edc1 10.148 19 The whole theory of the school is on the nurse's or mother' s knee.
    Edc1 10.150 25 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character?
    Edc1 10.152 9 Try your design on the best school.
    Edc1 10.153 10 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school...
    Edc1 10.153 19 A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it; an automaton, a machine, can be made to keep a school so.
    Edc1 10.157 22 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk;...
    SovE 10.192 8 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery...later in the school...
    Plu 10.305 27 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    LLNE 10.338 5 ...while society remained in doubt between the indignation of the old school and the audacity of the new, a higher note sounded.
    LLNE 10.343 1 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect...
    LLNE 10.365 8 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels. The common school was well enough, but to the common nursery they had grave objections.
    EzRy 10.381 15 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age, when his father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school...
    EzRy 10.389 4 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy...which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
    SlHr 10.447 13 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school...
    Thor 10.451 15 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school...
    HDC 11.46 22 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the care of public worship, the school and the poor;...
    HDC 11.57 5 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school...
    HDC 11.65 8 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord...
    FSLC 11.213 5 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe. Every man educated at the Northern school carries the like advantages into the South.
    SMC 11.358 25 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott] at school, at play and at work...
    EdAd 11.391 17 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
    EdAd 11.391 20 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
    Wom 11.424 6 ...let [women] enter a school as freely as a church...
    FRep 11.527 18 The town-meeting is, after the high-school, a higher school.
    PLT 12.58 24 No wonder the children...play horse, play soldier, play school, play bear...
    CInt 12.117 6 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school;...
    Bost 12.196 8 ...the young farmers and mechanics...in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Bost 12.201 14 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear...in the yard of the dame's school, from very little republicans: I ' m as good as you be...
    MAng1 12.220 24 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins; to which he replied, I go yet to school, that I may continue to learn.
    Milt1 12.267 24 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
    ACri 12.284 2 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
    MLit 12.322 4 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them, and the rather that his name does not readily associate itself with any school of writers.

School of Design, n. (1)

    ACri 12.304 19 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation. Nor can we promise that our School of Design will secure a lucrative post to the pupils.

School, Sunday, n. (2)

    LT 1.279 23 ...if every child was brought into the Sunday School, would the wounds of the world heal...
    Exp 3.64 10 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not come out of the Sunday School...

School [Winchester, England (1)

    ET16 5.290 19 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.

school-books, n. [schoolbooks,] (2)

    MoS 4.173 4 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.
    Edc1 10.157 25 [The pupils] shall have no book but schoolbooks in the room;...

schoolboy, n. [school-boy,] (6)

    AmS 1.86 15 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...
    Exp 3.63 9 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet...
    ET1 5.23 3 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising,--he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a school-boy declaiming,--that I at first was near to laugh;...
    ET4 5.68 3 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to sleep.
    Cour 7.264 10 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic...
    PPo 8.249 1 A law or statute is to [Hafiz] what a fence is to a nimble school-boy,-a temptation for a jump.

school-boys, n. [schoolboys,] (3)

    Art1 2.361 4 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys.
    Ctr 6.142 13 You send your child to the school-master, but 't is the schoolboys who educate him.
    CW 12.172 10 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were to greet me in the highway...

school-committee, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.156 25 No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee... can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...

school-court, n. (1)

    ET12 5.202 2 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in 1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be publicly burnt.

school-days, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.173 21 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of...familiar rules of behavior impressed on young people in their school-days.

school-days', n. (1)

    Scot 11.464 5 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth, when, later, they come to dismiss finally their school-days' library, will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.

schooled, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.103 15 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime...

schooled, v. (3)

    CbW 6.249 8 Masses...need not to be flattered but to be schooled.
    DL 7.112 13 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    EWI 11.134 9 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.

school-fellows', n. (1)

    Scot 11.463 18 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815,-my own and my school-fellows' joy in the book.

school-flogging, n. (1)

    ET4 5.63 24 [The English] have retained impressment, deck-flogging, army-flogging and school-flogging.

school-girl, n. (1)

    Mem 12.106 7 ...I come to a bright school-girl who remembers all she hears...

school-girls, n. [schoolgirls,] (5)

    Lov1 2.173 6 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging, half-artful, half-artless ways of school-girls...
    Bty 6.286 27 ...the beauty of school-girls...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Clbs 7.232 13 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls...
    PerF 10.81 9 See in a circle of school-girls one with no beauty...but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
    CW 12.172 10 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were to greet me in the highway...

school-house, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.172 22 The rude village boy teases the girls about the school-house door;...

school-house, n. [schoolhouse,] (4)

    WD 7.168 26 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...
    HDC 11.49 7 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house, a public pew...hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    HDC 11.56 23 The college had been already gathered [at Concord] in 1638. Now the schoolhouse went up.
    HDC 11.65 9 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord...

schooling, n. (1)

    ShP 4.206 3 We tell the chronicle of parentage...schooling...

schoolman, n. (1)

    PNR 4.81 18 [Plato] is more than...a schoolman...

schoolmaster, n. [school-master,] (9)

    Pow 6.58 8 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Ctr 6.142 12 You send your child to the school-master, but 't is the schoolboys who educate him.
    Bty 6.298 27 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.
    Elo1 7.74 25 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
    Elo1 7.87 10 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...like a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum...
    Edc1 10.154 6 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...and tutor or schoolmaster in his first term can apply it,-that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    HDC 11.65 5 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...
    II 12.75 25 That virtue which was never taught us, we cannot teach others. They must be taught by the same schoolmaster.
    WSL 12.344 20 [Landor] draws his own portrait in the costume of a village schoolmaster...

schoolmasters, n. (2)

    Plu 10.295 27 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters.
    Bost 12.196 11 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.

schoolmaster's, n. (1)

    PPr 12.381 16 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the state shall provide at least schoolmaster's education for all the citizens;...

school-mates, n. (1)

    ShP 4.206 3 We tell the chronicle of parentage...school-mates...

schoolmen, n. (3)

    Nat 1.73 17 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen...
    Nat2 3.176 23 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
    Mem 12.94 22 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge...

school-room, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.151 16 Is it not manifest...that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room...
    Edc1 10.158 15 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear. Then you have made your school-room like the world.

schools, n. (59)

    LE 1.157 20 The scholar may lose himself in schools...and become a pedant;...
    LE 1.159 20 ...a complaisance to reigning schools...must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    MR 1.228 24 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment,-Christianity...schools...
    Con 1.322 5 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused, schools...or what not, [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    Hist 2.26 26 ...the vaunted distinction...between Classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and pedantic.
    Comp 2.96 3 That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence.
    SL 2.138 6 We pass in the world for sects and schools...
    Hsm1 2.248 22 ...a Stoicism not of the schools...shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
    Cir 2.308 13 Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools.
    Pt1 3.16 11 The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their symbols than the populace with theirs.
    Nat2 3.171 5 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise.
    Pol1 3.210 22 ...[the conservative party] does not...establish schools...
    NR 3.240 5 ...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
    NER 3.257 12 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...
    NER 3.259 4 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world. But in a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common-sense still goes on.
    PPh 4.39 6 ...[Plato's sentences] are the corner-stones of schools;...
    PPh 4.60 7 [Plato] has good-naturedly furnished the courtier and citizen with all that can be said against the schools.
    ET1 5.5 25 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities...
    ET1 5.19 18 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture. Schools do no good.
    ET1 5.20 16 In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers?
    ET4 5.63 15 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength...
    ET5 5.80 20 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson, a doctor in the schools, would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...
    ET10 5.169 24 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
    ET12 5.208 7 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...
    ET12 5.209 12 These seminaries [English public schools] are finishing schools for the upper classes...
    ET13 5.226 5 The wise legislator will spend on temples, schools, libraries, colleges...
    ET18 5.306 16 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the submissive ideas pervading these people. The fagging of the schools is repeated in the social classes.
    Wth 6.104 5 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it...
    WD 7.174 23 ...academies convene to settle the claims of the old schools.
    Suc 7.286 14 We have seen women who could institute hospitals and schools in armies.
    SA 8.102 15 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    Elo2 8.124 24 The street must be one of [the orator's] schools.
    Elo2 8.127 21 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he prayed for the schools...
    Elo2 8.128 24 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.
    Elo2 8.129 24 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
    Chr2 10.109 5 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put obstacles in the way of schools...it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    Chr2 10.117 27 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in creating... ragged schools...
    Edc1 10.148 15 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature, in patent schools and academies and in great colleges and universities.
    Edc1 10.153 21 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...
    Supl 10.178 11 The political economist defies us to show...a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.
    Plu 10.311 1 ...though curious in the questions of the schools on the nature and genesis of things, [Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    LLNE 10.325 23 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split... Calvinism into Old and New schools;...
    HDC 11.82 19 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...
    HDC 11.82 21 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools; besides about 1200 dollars which are paid, by subscription, for private schools.
    HDC 11.84 12 ...for the most part, [our fathers]...provide well for the schools and the poor.
    LVB 11.90 8 We have seen some of [the Cherokees] in our schools and colleges.
    EWI 11.121 20 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    FSLC 11.182 4 The college, the churches, the schools, the very shops and factories, are discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law];...
    FSLC 11.196 24 I wonder that our acute people who have learned that the cheapest police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    FSLN 11.242 27 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
    EdAd 11.383 9 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap postage and a cheap press...
    Wom 11.422 12 ...one [man] wishes schools, another armies...
    CPL 11.495 5 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each...caring for its schools, its charities, its highways.
    CPL 11.495 10 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have...good preachers, good schools...
    FRep 11.527 7 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.
    CL 12.157 18 Our schools and colleges strangely neglect the general education of the eye.
    Bost 12.186 18 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...
    Bost 12.195 26 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...
    Milt1 12.277 16 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...

Schools, Sunday, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.448 15 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of...the Sunday Schools...

schoolyard, n. [school-yard,] (2)

    DL 7.120 7 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other in schoolyard...with scraps of poetry or song...
    Edc1 10.139 27 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other;...the good-natured yet defiant independence of a leading boy's behavior in the school-yard.

Schopenhauer, Arthur, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.131 25 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending.
    Res 8.138 7 A Schopenhauer...teaching that this is the worst of all possible worlds...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.

Schuyler, Philip John, n. (1)

    SL 2.164 22 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant, or to General Schuyler...

Schwartz, Berthold [Monk], (1)

    FRep 11.513 12 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...

sciatica, n. (2)

    F 6.47 15 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has sciatica in his loins... he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Bhr 6.196 20 ...if you have headache, or sciatica...I beseech you...to hold your peace...

science, gai [gaie], n. (2)

    Boks 7.220 26 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!
    PI 8.37 15 Poetry is the gai science.

Science, Joyous, Professors (1)

    Schr 10.262 24 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...

Science, Modern, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.335 27 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science;...

science, n. (313)

    Nat 1.4 10 All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
    Nat 1.39 16 Open any recent journal of science...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Nat 1.39 19 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Nat 1.56 11 Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter.
    Nat 1.57 5 As objects of science [ideas] are accessible to few men.
    Nat 1.59 1 It appears that motion...physical and intellectual science...all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    Nat 1.66 6 Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight...
    Nat 1.67 21 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind, and build science upon ideas.
    Nat 1.68 5 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    Nat 1.69 23 The perception of this class of [spiritual] truths makes the attraction which draws men to science...
    Nat 1.69 25 In view of this half-sight of science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
    Nat 1.74 21 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    AmS 1.81 8 We do not meet...for the advancement of science...
    AmS 1.86 7 ...science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
    AmS 1.93 18 History and exact science [the wise man] must learn by laborious reading.
    AmS 1.98 5 Years are well spent...in science;...to the one end of mastering... a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    AmS 1.110 17 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already...through philosophy and science...
    DSA 1.125 4 By [the religious sentiment] is the universe made safe and habitable, not by science or power.
    DSA 1.143 22 Science is cold.
    LE 1.185 26 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of... science...
    LE 1.186 6 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science;...
    MN 1.206 12 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...a science...
    MN 1.213 12 ...as the power or genius of nature is ecstatic, so must its science or the description of it be.
    MR 1.248 4 We are to revise the whole of our social structure...trade, science...
    LT 1.271 20 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;...
    LT 1.272 11 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching...that term where speech becomes silence, and science conscience.
    LT 1.285 27 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...which shall animate labor by love and science...
    YA 1.378 1 [Trade] displaces physical strength, and instals computation, combination, information, science, in its room.
    YA 1.382 7 The science is confident...
    Hist 2.34 15 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
    Hist 2.41 1 ...the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature.
    SR 2.86 3 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    SR 2.86 18 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin, whose equipment exhausted the resources of science and art.
    SR 2.86 27 We reckoned the improvements of the art of war among the triumphs of science...
    SL 2.139 27 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences...the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now...
    Fdsp 2.196 15 In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness.
    Fdsp 2.196 24 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...
    Prd1 2.222 2 [Prudence] is the science of appearances.
    Prd1 2.222 25 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol, as the poet and artist and the naturalist and man of science.
    Hsm1 2.248 26 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more than books of political science...
    Cir 2.308 24 There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow;...
    Int 2.326 11 Intellect...sees an object as it stands in the light of science...
    Int 2.327 14 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... It is offered for science.
    Int 2.337 12 A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject...
    Int 2.339 22 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of...science...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    Int 2.344 25 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity. Especially take the same ground in regard to...the science of the mind.
    Art1 2.369 3 When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
    Pt1 3.12 15 This day shall be better than my birthday: then I became an animal; now I am invited into the science of the real.
    Pt1 3.14 17 Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial.
    Pt1 3.14 26 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man...
    Pt1 3.15 1 ...the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.
    Pt1 3.21 8 [The poet] uses forms according to the life, and not according to the form. This is true science.
    Pt1 3.21 18 By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer or Language-maker...
    Pt1 3.28 1 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... science...
    Pt1 3.40 2 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up!...
    Exp 3.52 26 On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting influences of so-called science.
    Exp 3.62 19 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science...
    Exp 3.79 8 To [the intellect], the world is a problem in mathematics or the science of quantity...
    Mrs1 3.126 24 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate;...
    Mrs1 3.152 13 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    Nat2 3.177 26 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature]...
    Nat2 3.183 19 Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
    Pol1 3.210 22 ...[the conservative party] does not...encourage science...
    Pol1 3.210 26 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
    Pol1 3.220 16 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of institutions of art and science can be answered.
    NR 3.235 5 ...[Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church]...are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
    NR 3.244 16 ...we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals...
    NR 3.245 22 ...nature secures [every man] as an instrument by self-conceit, preventing the tendencies to religion and science;...
    NER 3.258 3 The lessons of science should be experimental...
    NER 3.258 20 Once...Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.258 23 ...the Mathematics had a momentary importance at some era of activity in physical science.
    UGM 4.10 19 Something is wanting to science until it has been humanized.
    UGM 4.12 26 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    UGM 4.35 10 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song...
    PPh 4.51 27 ...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,--pure science; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    PPh 4.62 18 As there is a science of stars, called astronomy;...so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PPh 4.62 19 As there is...a science of quantities, called mathematics;...so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PPh 4.62 20 As there is...a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PPh 4.62 21 ...there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PPh 4.63 7 [Dialectic] is of that rank [said Plato] that no intellectual man will enter on any study for its own sake, but only with a view to advance himself in that one sole science which embraces all.
    PPh 4.63 26 ...all virtue and all felicity depend on this science of the real...
    PPh 4.70 14 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that [virtue] is not a science, but an inspiration;...
    PNR 4.80 9 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    PNR 4.83 22 Plato affirms the coincidence of science and virtue;...
    PNR 4.85 13 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    SwM 4.98 5 ...the men of God purchased their science by folly or pain.
    SwM 4.100 20 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.101 18 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle science;...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    SwM 4.101 19 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle science;...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    SwM 4.102 3 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...
    SwM 4.104 27 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's] contemporary, was affirming, in his beautiful science, that Nature is always like herself...
    SwM 4.110 19 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    SwM 4.111 27 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was written...to put science and the soul...at one again.
    SwM 4.113 8 ...it is necessary to take science as a guide in pursuing [nature' s] steps.
    SwM 4.115 22 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
    SwM 4.118 5 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 4.118 6 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...a science of such grand presage would absorb all faculties;...
    SwM 4.120 25 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the world, in which all history and science would play an essential part, was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    SwM 4.126 27 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love;...and from the sense of the words, his science.
    SwM 4.127 2 In the Conjugal Love, [Swedenborg] has unfolded the science of marriage.
    SwM 4.127 15 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage;...
    SwM 4.132 3 Except Rabelais and Dean Swift nobody ever had such science of filth and corruption [as did Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.145 2 In the shipwreck...the pilot chooses with science,--I plant myself here; all will sink before this;...
    SwM 4.145 21 By the science of experiment and use, [Swedenborg] made his first steps...
    MoS 4.152 17 After dinner, arithmetic is the only science...
    MoS 4.170 22 We hearken to the man of science, because we anticipate the sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.
    ShP 4.209 7 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious and demoniacal powers which defy our science...
    ShP 4.217 16 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have, through the majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    ShP 4.218 18 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who gave to the science of the mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed...that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    NMW 4.250 23 [Bonaparte] delighted in the conversation of men of science...
    GoW 4.290 1 It is the last lesson of modern science that the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    ET5 5.81 3 There is room in [the English people's] minds for this and that,-- a science of degrees.
    ET5 5.85 24 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
    ET5 5.93 9 There is no department of literature, of science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a first-rate book.
    ET5 5.93 13 It is England whose opinion is waited for on the merit of a new invention, an improved science.
    ET6 5.114 11 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects, bits of popular science...
    ET6 5.115 5 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing, have tried every thing, and can do every thing, and are quite superior to letters and science.
    ET8 5.128 14 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children, requiring war, or trade, or engineering, or science, instead of frivolous games.
    ET9 5.150 13 ...in books of science, one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    ET9 5.150 23 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality and in the more important ones of freedom, virtue and science.
    ET9 5.151 19 There is no fence in metaphysics discriminating Greek, or English, or Spanish science.
    ET10 5.163 9 ...all that can aid science, gratify taste, or soothe comfort, is in open market [in England].
    ET10 5.163 15 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET10 5.166 6 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for access to means of science or study...
    ET13 5.230 11 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    ET14 5.237 1 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth. Their poets by simple force of mind equalized themselves with the accumulated science of ours.
    ET14 5.238 21 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
    ET14 5.239 4 The rules of [idealism's] genesis or its diffusion are not known. That knowledge...would supersede all that we call science of the mind.
    ET14 5.240 13 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
    ET14 5.240 22 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    ET14 5.244 4 The Germans generalize: the English cannot interpret the German mind. German science comprehends the English.
    ET14 5.252 20 [The English] have lost all commanding views in literature, philosophy and science.
    ET14 5.253 3 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science...
    ET14 5.253 11 ...English science puts humanity to the door.
    ET14 5.253 13 [English science] wants the connection which is the test of genius. The science is false by not being poetic.
    ET14 5.253 24 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...of Richard Owen, who has...has enriched science with contributions of his own...
    ET14 5.254 1 ...for the most part the natural science in England is out of its loyal alliance with morals...
    ET16 5.274 22 For the science, [Carlyle] had if possible even less tolerance [than for art]...
    ET16 5.281 8 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew;...
    ET16 5.282 16 ...science was an arcanum...
    ET17 5.292 27 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science, Robert Brown, Owen, Sedgwick...
    ET18 5.303 5 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class, who are always the source of letters and science.
    F 6.14 11 In science we have to consider two things...
    F 6.17 4 One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
    F 6.30 25 [The brave youth's] science is to make weapons and wings of these passions and retarding forces.
    Wth 6.89 4 Wealth requires...the benefits of science, music and fine arts...
    Wth 6.95 1 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Wth 6.97 25 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all. For example, the providing to each man the means and apparatus of science and of the arts.
    Bhr 6.184 11 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles...
    Wsp 6.218 21 Our recent culture has been in natural science.
    Wsp 6.240 27 The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
    Wsp 6.241 11 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...
    Wsp 6.241 16 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will have...science for symbol and illustration;...
    CbW 6.251 11 All revelations, whether of mechanical or intellectual or moral science, are made...to single persons.
    Bty 6.281 4 What a parade we make of our science...
    Bty 6.282 18 All our science lacks a human side.
    Bty 6.284 1 The motive of science was the extension of man...
    Bty 6.284 7 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.
    Bty 6.284 12 The formulas of science are like the papers in your pocket-book, of no value to any but the owner.
    Bty 6.284 14 Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory...
    Bty 6.284 17 What manner of man does science make?
    Bty 6.284 22 [The collector] has got all snakes and lizards in his phials, but science has done for him also...
    Bty 6.285 20 ...the men of science...are not victims of their pursuits more than others.
    Bty 6.286 10 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Bty 6.286 16 [Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners, the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence] are facts of a science which we study without book...
    Bty 6.289 1 Every man values every acquisition he makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions.
    Ill 6.314 8 Science is a search after identity...
    Ill 6.320 8 ...what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought...
    SS 7.9 21 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
    Civ 7.24 13 Scraps of science, of thought, of poetry are in the coarsest sheet, so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    Elo1 7.97 4 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
    Farm 7.143 5 Science has shown the great circles in which Nature works;...
    Farm 7.152 14 It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best lands, and in the best manner.
    WD 7.158 2 Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science;...
    WD 7.162 19 The science of power is forced to remember the power of science.
    WD 7.162 20 The science of power is forced to remember the power of science.
    WD 7.172 9 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    WD 7.176 7 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts;...
    WD 7.182 25 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking. The same rule holds in science.
    WD 7.183 6 ...in Newton, science was as easy as breathing;...
    Boks 7.191 10 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Boks 7.217 22 Every good fable...every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they proceed from an intellectual integrity... have the imaginative element.
    Clbs 7.226 2 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts,--running from those of daily necessity, to the last results of science...
    Clbs 7.231 2 Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
    Clbs 7.235 13 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in the parlor...or the chamber of science...
    Clbs 7.240 25 Every variety of gift--science, religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Clbs 7.244 24 The man of thought...the man of science...whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Cour 7.264 17 Courage is equality to the problem...in science...or in action;...
    Suc 7.302 20 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men...
    Suc 7.303 6 ...genius is measured by its skill in this science [of sensibility].
    OA 7.319 8 [The cup of time]...fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science...
    OA 7.323 6 We still feel the force...of Humboldt, the encyclopaedia of science.
    PI 8.7 10 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects, and hence our science...
    PI 8.10 9 Science was false by being unpoetical.
    PI 8.10 24 Science does not know its debt to imagination.
    PI 8.16 10 Chemistry, geology, hydraulics, are secondary science.
    PI 8.39 8 ...poetry is science...
    PI 8.41 15 Our science is always abreast of our self-knowledge.
    PI 8.50 19 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    PI 8.66 14 I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must precede all science of the visible or the invisible world;...
    PI 8.66 15 I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must precede all science of the visible or the invisible world; and that science is the realization of that hope in either region.
    PI 8.71 13 You must have eyes of science to see in the seed its nodes;...
    Elo2 8.132 25 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
    Res 8.143 1 American energy is overriding every venerable maxim of political science.
    Comc 8.166 25 In science the jest at pedantry is analogous to that in religion which lies against superstition.
    QO 8.184 24 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham! he knows politics, Greek, history, science;...
    QO 8.200 12 ...our language, our science, our religion, our opinions, our fancies we inherited.
    PC 8.207 19 Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology...
    PC 8.208 25 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...
    PC 8.210 12 Consider...what genius of science...the railroad, the telegraph... have evoked!...
    PC 8.212 16 Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    PC 8.219 27 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
    PC 8.220 27 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science.
    PC 8.224 22 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand, its laws to his science, not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    PC 8.228 12 [The moral sentiment]...draws its own rent out of every novelty in science.
    PC 8.228 12 Science corrects the old creeds;...
    PC 8.228 26 It was the conviction of Plato...that piety is an essential condition of science...
    PC 8.234 12 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe.
    Insp 8.282 11 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Niebuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    Insp 8.295 25 Books of natural science...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Imtl 8.334 2 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind.
    Imtl 8.352 4 The soul cannot be gained by knowledge...not by manifold science.
    Dem1 10.17 2 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Aris 10.32 3 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman...
    Aris 10.36 11 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities. In science, in trade...it is the same thing.
    Aris 10.39 3 I wish catholic men, who by their science and skill are at home in every latitude and longitude...
    PerF 10.75 24 [Labor] is...in works of safety, of delight, of wrath, of science.
    Chr2 10.91 5 [Morals] is the science of substances, not of shows.
    Chr2 10.95 20 [The moral sentiment] puts us...in the cabinet of science and of causes...
    Chr2 10.103 9 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight, as science, as fancy, as imagination is;...but it is a sovereign rule...
    Chr2 10.113 10 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty...
    Chr2 10.113 17 ...the science of ethics has no mutation;...
    Edc1 10.126 2 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost...at last, the ripest results of art and science.
    Edc1 10.130 7 What leads [man] to science?
    Edc1 10.134 15 Why always coast on the surface and never open the interior of Nature, not by science, which is surface still, but by poetry?
    Edc1 10.149 10 Nature provided for the communication of thought, by planting with it in the receiving mind a fury to impart it. 'T is so in every art, in every science.
    SovE 10.187 2 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science...
    SovE 10.210 4 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of the rights of women...come for a hearing.
    SovE 10.211 27 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from inventions to science...
    SovE 10.213 6 Now science and philosophy recognize the parallelism, the approximation, the unity of the two [Spirit and Matter]...
    Schr 10.263 26 Intellect is the science of metes and bounds;...
    Schr 10.283 5 Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts will find that our science of the mind has not got far.
    Schr 10.289 8 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history, and rise on the same stairs to science and to joy.
    Plu 10.297 9 Whatever is eminent...in institutions, in science...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    Plu 10.297 19 [Plutarch] is...not a master in any science;...
    Plu 10.310 6 Now and then there are hints of superior science [in Plutarch].
    Plu 10.310 10 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    LLNE 10.328 26 In science the French savant, exact, pitiless...travels into all nooks and islands...
    LLNE 10.329 15 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...with instincts instead of science...all gone;...
    LLNE 10.336 20 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology...
    LLNE 10.337 5 ...whether by a reaction of the general mind against the too formal science, religion and social life of the earlier period,-there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.338 1 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points, and as such was excellent criticism on the narrow and dead classification of what passed for science;...
    LLNE 10.338 8 The German poet Goethe revolted against the science of the day...
    LLNE 10.338 9 The German poet Goethe revolted against the science of the day, against French and English science...
    LLNE 10.338 23 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law; in science, in politics, in social life;...
    LLNE 10.355 20 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers...
    LLNE 10.369 27 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    MMEm 10.399 14 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life]...marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity.
    MMEm 10.429 21 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the science of mind...
    MMEm 10.431 18 No object of science or observation ever was pointed out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and commands;...
    Thor 10.452 9 ...though very studious of natural facts, [Thoreau] was incurious of technical and textual science.
    Thor 10.469 8 The other weapon with which [Thoreau] conquered all obstacles in science was patience.
    Thor 10.479 26 ...[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...
    HDC 11.46 26 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered...
    FSLC 11.182 2 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law],-literature and science appear effeminate...
    FSLN 11.232 10 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science...
    FSLN 11.232 21 ...the world exists...to teach the science of liberty...
    HCom 11.341 15 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things. He said it, no doubt, as science, but we of this day can repeat it as political and social truth.
    HCom 11.343 10 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it.
    EdAd 11.386 26 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which...this sudden creation of enormous values is made? This is equally the view of science and of patriotism.
    Wom 11.407 27 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
    Wom 11.408 21 ...there is an art...better than botany, geology, or any science; namely, Conversation.
    Wom 11.409 10 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference; that in the former, though...unenlightened by science, he had found much observation and much intelligence;...
    SHC 11.430 24 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.
    Humb 11.457 15 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos.
    Humb 11.457 20 How [Humboldt] reaches from science to science...
    ChiE 11.471 11 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph.
    ChiE 11.472 14 ...I must remember that [China] has respectable remains of astronomic science...
    CPL 11.507 3 You meet with a man of science...but you do not know how to draw out of him that which he knows.
    FRep 11.525 18 The gracious lesson taught by science to this country is that the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    FRep 11.527 24 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the...eagerness for novelty, even for all the follies of false science;...
    PLT 12.4 6 [These higher laws] also are objects of science...
    PLT 12.4 25 No matter how far or how high science explores, it adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...
    PLT 12.10 24 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.
    PLT 12.11 22 I cannot myself use that systematic form which is reckoned essential in treating the science of the mind.
    PLT 12.13 20 I want not the logic, but the power, if any, which [metaphysics] brings into science and literature;...
    PLT 12.17 10 ...I see that Intellect is a science of degrees...
    PLT 12.43 10 My measure for all subjects of science as of events is their impression on the soul.
    PLT 12.55 15 To science there is no poison;...
    PLT 12.60 13 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted, and there is...no rule of life or art or science, on which it is not a competent and the only competent judge.
    II 12.66 15 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness]... equal in original science...
    II 12.67 2 [Instinct's] property is absolute science and an implicit reliance is due to it.
    II 12.68 23 We attributed power and science and good will to the Instinct...
    II 12.77 18 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true;...
    II 12.87 23 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    Mem 12.96 18 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought;...
    Mem 12.100 20 A man would think twice about learning a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    Mem 12.101 5 So is it with every fact in a new science: they are mutually explaining...
    CInt 12.115 1 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not.
    CInt 12.123 25 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought], and drawing from it illumination to that science or art to which his constitution and affections draw him.
    CInt 12.128 8 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage from the centre forth...along the intellectual roads to the theory and practice of special science.
    CL 12.157 20 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.
    CL 12.166 2 Astronomy is a cold, desert science...
    CL 12.167 3 The very science by which [matter] is shown to you argues the force of man.
    CW 12.177 13 [Walking] is a fine art;-there are degrees of proficiency, and we distinguish the professors of that science from the apprentices.
    Bost 12.199 22 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
    Milt1 12.255 4 Lord Bacon, who has written much and with prodigious ability on this science [of human nature], shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].
    ACri 12.283 17 ...Heaven, Hell, power, science, the Neant, exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.
    ACri 12.289 20 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades;...
    ACri 12.290 8 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting...
    MLit 12.332 26 ...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe], with all the treasuries of wit, of science, and of power at his command.
    MLit 12.334 9 The very depth of the sentiment...is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.
    Trag 12.416 25 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science.

Science, n. (10)

    DSA 1.151 22 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science...
    Ctr 6.165 25 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Art2 7.37 2 All departments of life at the present day--Trade, Politics, Letters, Science, or Religion--seem to feel...the identity of their law.
    Elo2 8.124 2 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    PC 8.213 8 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries, as seen by the eye of Science, but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
    PerF 10.82 22 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives; Science her length and breadth;...
    MMEm 10.425 19 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.
    MMEm 10.426 1 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the emotions...
    MMEm 10.429 16 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him. Science, Nature,-O, I 've yearned to open some page;-not now, too late.
    SHC 11.430 9 ...Science is popularized;...

Science, Natural, n. (4)

    LT 1.259 3 ...the present aspects of our social state...Natural Science, Agriculture...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    PI 8.7 16 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PC 8.211 10 A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and successful study of Natural Science.
    EdAd 11.391 12 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...

Science, Praise of, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 22 ...[the Germans] take any general topic, as...Praise of Science...and write and quote without method or end.

science-armed, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 4 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men, science-armed and society-armed, sit at large in this ample region...

science-baffling, adj. (1)

    SR 2.63 27 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...

sciences, n. (40)

    Hist 2.39 10 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the opening of new sciences and new regions in man.
    OS 2.275 27 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
    Exp 3.54 15 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
    UGM 4.12 22 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences...
    PPh 4.41 26 What is a great man but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food?
    PPh 4.62 22 ...there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PPh 4.62 26 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
    PNR 4.80 16 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    SwM 4.115 22 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
    SwM 4.117 21 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies...
    MoS 4.178 2 We have been sopped and drugged...with sciences, with events...
    MoS 4.178 6 The mathematics, 't is complained, leave the mind where they find it: so do all sciences;...
    MoS 4.178 8 I find a man who has passed through all the sciences, the churl he was;...
    GoW 4.271 11 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences...
    GoW 4.272 3 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    GoW 4.284 20 [Goethe] is the type of culture, the amateur of all arts and sciences and events;...
    GoW 4.290 20 The secret of genius is...in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
    Wsp 6.229 21 Physiognomy and phrenology are not new sciences...
    Wsp 6.229 24 ...now sciences of broader scope are starting up behind [physiognomy and phrenology].
    CbW 6.246 27 We have a debt...to those who have added new sciences;...
    CbW 6.271 20 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of living, new books, new men, new arts and sciences;...
    Art2 7.40 3 The useful arts comprehend...the sciences, so far as they are made serviceable to political economy.
    Res 8.153 16 Resources of Man,--it is...the roll of arts and sciences;...
    QO 8.178 26 We quote...arts, sciences, religion, customs and laws;...
    QO 8.193 17 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style...of sculptures...or sciences, on us.
    PC 8.222 1 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...
    Insp 8.293 17 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require... new books, new men, new arts and sciences.
    Dem1 10.12 15 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Edc1 10.125 22 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...in the languages, in sciences...
    Edc1 10.149 1 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
    SovE 10.213 13 The man of this age must be matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.
    Prch 10.217 17 ...the mind, haughty with its sciences, disdains the religious forms as childish.
    MoL 10.245 5 We have superficial sciences...
    Schr 10.264 2 All the sciences are only new applications...of the one law which [the scholar's] mind is.
    MMEm 10.431 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts and sciences.
    SlHr 10.445 28 ...of the modern sciences [Samuel Hoar] liked to read popular books on geology.
    PLT 12.4 16 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall...see that what is set down is true through all the sciences;...
    PLT 12.4 18 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working...after the laws of the human mind.
    PLT 12.34 16 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the great night. Yet a spark at which all the illuminations of human arts and sciences were kindled.
    II 12.65 20 Consciousness is...the taper at which all the illumination of human arts and sciences was kindled.

Sciences, ...Vanity of... [ (1)

    Boks 7.211 15 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.

scientific, adj. (38)

    MN 1.198 5 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of scientific statement?
    YA 1.365 11 ...scientific agriculture is an object of growing attention;...
    SR 2.84 15 ...[society] is scientific;...
    Mrs1 3.153 7 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in the literary or scientific circle...
    SwM 4.99 25 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.
    SwM 4.100 4 [Swedenborg] ceased to publish any more scientific books...
    SwM 4.110 24 ...[Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos, his scientific works being about half of the whole number;...
    SwM 4.111 1 The scientific works [of Swedenborg] have just now been translated into English...
    SwM 4.111 3 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...
    SwM 4.117 11 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement...
    GoW 4.287 8 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET1 5.6 19 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site;...
    ET5 5.76 2 A nobility of soldiers cannot keep down a commonalty of shrewd scientific persons.
    ET5 5.90 21 Private persons [in England] exhibit, in scientific and antiquarian researches, the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    ET5 5.92 25 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau...
    ET14 5.239 23 The Platonic is the poetic tendency; the so-called scientific is the negative and poisonous.
    ET16 5.274 4 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive.
    Wsp 6.240 26 The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
    CbW 6.262 1 Bad times have a scientific value.
    Ill 6.314 9 ...the scientific whim is lurking in all corners.
    WD 7.183 5 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite separate from his scientific.
    Cour 7.267 4 Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.
    SA 8.103 20 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects, with...his respect for lettered and scientific people, that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    PC 8.219 4 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments and steam, is worth many hundred men...
    PPo 8.259 20 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token of his mistress.
    Aris 10.44 9 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be...of a secure hand, of a scientific memory, a right classifier;...
    SovE 10.209 10 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it...dedicated themselves to write out its scientific scriptures to become its Vulgate for millions?
    Prch 10.217 4 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of...the scientific or political or economic institution for other better or worse forms.
    MoL 10.251 10 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks.
    Plu 10.309 23 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.
    LLNE 10.337 15 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt was coarse and odious to scientific men...
    LLNE 10.350 3 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue, by adventurous scientific and persistent tillage, the pestilential tracts;...
    FSLN 11.242 27 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
    Wom 11.415 24 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...
    PLT 12.3 3 I have used such opportunity as I have had...to attend scientific lectures;...
    PLT 12.8 3 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...
    CInt 12.122 5 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst colleges, churches, and scientific museums...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    MLit 12.312 9 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which, spreading from the poetic into the scientific, religious and philosophical domains, has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...

scientifically, adv. (2)

    Tran 1.333 16 ...when he speaks scientifically, or after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    SwM 4.117 26 ...literature has no book in which the symbolism of things is scientifically opened.

scientifics, n. (1)

    SwM 4.129 26 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist. I refer to his feeling of the profanation of thinking to what is good, from scientifics.

scintillations, n. (1)

    Grts 8.314 4 Scintillations of greatness appear here and there in men of unequal character...

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