Seem to Seigneurs

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

seem, v. (237)

    Nat 1.17 8 I seem to partake [the sky's] rapid transformations;...
    Nat 1.22 21 The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other...
    Nat 1.37 21 ...debt...which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Nat 1.41 8 This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature, as to seem the end for which it was made.
    Nat 1.53 14 In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to [Shakspeare] recent and transitory.
    Nat 1.75 3 To our blindness, these [common] things seem unaffecting.
    AmS 1.82 11 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day...
    DSA 1.121 15 ...this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.
    DSA 1.123 16 ...the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
    DSA 1.125 9 ...the worlds, time, space, eternity, do seem to break out into joy.
    DSA 1.127 26 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life...when suggested, seem ridiculous.
    DSA 1.150 1 ...all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.
    LE 1.156 3 The few scholars in each country...seem to me not individuals but societies;...
    LE 1.164 8 Say to the man of letters that he cannot...be a grand-marshal,- and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    LE 1.166 24 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad. We do not seem to have imagined its riches.
    LE 1.182 22 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will seem low and utilitarian...
    MN 1.194 16 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite...
    MN 1.209 23 If the man will exactly obey [that well-known voice], it will adopt him, so that he shall not any longer separate it from himself in his thought; he shall seem to be it, he shall be it.
    MN 1.214 9 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that.
    MR 1.234 5 ...our laws which establish and protect [property] seem not to be the issue of love and reason...
    MR 1.234 19 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil...
    LT 1.262 14 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring, as it would seem, its meanings nearer to the mind.
    LT 1.263 2 ...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    LT 1.266 8 ...how many [men] seem not quite available for that idea which they represent?
    LT 1.277 3 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this mistake;...
    LT 1.280 20 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist...
    LT 1.290 10 ...men seem to fear and to shun [the Moral Sentiment] when it comes barely to view in our immediate neighborhood.
    Con 1.306 7 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men, to whom it is...a fact of hunger, distress, and exclusion from opportunities, it must needs seem injurious.
    Tran 1.335 9 Am I in harmony with myself? my position will seem to you just and commanding.
    Tran 1.335 11 Am I vicious and insane? my fortunes will seem to you obscure and descending.
    Tran 1.347 21 A picture...can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    Tran 1.348 26 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.
    Tran 1.349 2 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...
    Tran 1.353 6 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    YA 1.381 12 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant. This result might well seem astounding.
    YA 1.384 23 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords...
    YA 1.394 16 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society, and which seem to impose the alternative to resist or to avoid it.
    SR 2.50 21 ...my friend suggested,--But these impulses may be from below, not from above. I replied, They do not seem to me to be such;...
    SR 2.59 2 ...of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.
    SR 2.61 9 ...posterity seem to follow [a true man's] steps as a train of clients.
    SR 2.62 6 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book... seem to say...Who are you, Sir?
    SR 2.75 10 The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out...
    SR 2.80 8 ...the luminaries of heaven seem to [the unbalanced mind] hung on the arch their master built.
    Comp 2.100 19 The true life and satisfactions of man seem to elude the utmost rigors or felicities of condition...
    Comp 2.106 24 ...it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral.
    Comp 2.107 9 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares...
    SL 2.136 25 If we look wider...laws and letters and creeds and modes of living seem a travesty of truth.
    SL 2.159 18 A man may play the fool in the drifts of a desert, but every grain of sand shall seem to see.
    SL 2.160 12 The lesson which these observations convey is, Be, and not seem.
    SL 2.163 20 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge...
    Lov1 2.174 18 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Lov1 2.176 23 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and [the lover] almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite.
    Fdsp 2.214 3 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature...though it seem to rob us of some joy, will repay us with a greater.
    Prd1 2.231 6 Poetry and prudence should be coincident. ... But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.
    Prd1 2.232 15 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.
    Hsm1 2.254 6 In some way the time [the magnanimous] seem to lose is redeemed...
    Hsm1 2.254 7 In some way...the pains [the magnanimous] seem to take remunerate themselves.
    Hsm1 2.257 26 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...
    Hsm1 2.258 21 ...[many extraordinary young men] seem to throw contempt on our entire polity and social state;...
    OS 2.288 26 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    Cir 2.303 13 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen;...
    Cir 2.310 26 When each new speaker [in a conversation] strikes a new light...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    Cir 2.314 5 ...these metals and animals, which seem to stand there for their own sake, are means and methods only...
    Cir 2.320 23 Now for the first time seem I to know any thing rightly.
    Int 2.331 15 I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
    Int 2.338 10 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    Pt1 3.3 16 ...men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Pt1 3.5 22 ...the great majority of men seem to be minors...
    Pt1 3.12 5 ...I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live,--opaque, though they seem transparent...
    Pt1 3.30 5 We seem to be touched by a wand which makes us dance and run about happily, like children.
    Exp 3.45 5 ...there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended;...
    Exp 3.46 26 Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference.
    Exp 3.47 25 There are even few opinions, and these seem organic in the speakers...
    Exp 3.48 25 In the death of my son...I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
    Exp 3.52 7 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them.
    Exp 3.55 9 When at night I look at the moon and stars, I seem stationary, and they to hurry.
    Exp 3.78 24 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view...
    Chr1 3.107 27 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine, and who seem to be an accumulation of that power [of character] we consider.
    Chr1 3.110 24 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;--another, and he cannot speak, and the bones of his body seem to lose their cartilages;...
    Mrs1 3.130 12 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a political, a religious convention;--the persons seem to draw inseparably near;...
    Mrs1 3.135 3 Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature...
    Mrs1 3.142 22 We may easily seem ridiculous in our eulogy of courtesy...
    Nat2 3.169 11 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    Nat2 3.169 19 The solitary places do not seem quite lonely.
    Nat2 3.169 11 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    Nat2 3.169 19 The solitary places do not seem quite lonely.
    Nat2 3.169 11 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    Nat2 3.169 19 The solitary places do not seem quite lonely.
    Nat2 3.178 6 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.
    Nat2 3.181 18 If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a system in transition.
    Nat2 3.181 23 ...the trees...seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
    Nat2 3.192 20 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature.
    NER 3.273 16 Men in all ways are better than they seem.
    NER 3.275 26 Is [a man's] ambition pure? then will his laurels and his possessions seem worthless...
    NER 3.285 1 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
    UGM 4.9 22 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited...for a destined human deliverer.
    UGM 4.11 3 We speak now only of...the way in which [the sciences] seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long.
    UGM 4.22 16 I seem to have no good without breach of good manners.
    UGM 4.25 5 Without Plato we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book. We seem to want but one, but we want one.
    UGM 4.26 4 Viewed from any high point...the Western civilization, would seem a bundle of insanities.
    UGM 4.27 24 [Geniuses] are very attractive, and seem at a distance our own...
    UGM 4.29 2 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where children seem so much at the mercy of their foolish parents...
    PPh 4.67 17 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be; if not...you will only annoy me. I shall seem to you stupid...
    PPh 4.78 14 Let us not seem to treat with flippancy [Plato's] venerable name.
    SwM 4.101 7 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to England, where he does not seem to have attracted any attention whatever from the learned or the eminent;...
    SwM 4.125 25 [To Swedenborg] The covetous seem to themselves to be abiding in cells where their money is deposited...
    SwM 4.126 1 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood.
    MoS 4.166 25 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
    MoS 4.182 20 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures...
    MoS 4.185 9 Things seem to say one thing, and say the reverse.
    MoS 4.185 12 Things seem to tend downward...
    MoS 4.185 22 We see, now, events forced on which seem to retard or retrograde the civility of ages.
    ShP 4.208 13 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...which seem to have fallen out of heaven... and tell me if they match;...
    NMW 4.229 17 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher. Therefore the land and sea seem to presuppose him.
    NMW 4.235 24 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences, (as large majorities of men seem to agree,) certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    ET4 5.69 24 The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England.
    ET7 5.124 13 ...[Englishmen's] eyes seem to be set at the bottom of a tunnel...
    ET10 5.166 18 The English...seem to have established a tap-root in the bowels of the planet, because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    ET11 5.186 5 These people [English nobility] seem to gain as much as they lose by their position.
    ET11 5.192 16 In the reign of the Fourth George, things do not seem to have mended [in England]...
    ET14 5.241 6 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this.
    ET14 5.252 15 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air. I seem to walk on a marble floor, where nothing will grow.
    ET15 5.269 1 When I see [the English] reading [the London Times's] columns, they seem to me becoming every moment more British.
    ET19 5.312 6 I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
    F 6.9 14 People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
    F 6.42 10 A man will see his character emitted in the events that seem to meet...him.
    F 6.43 2 Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you... walking cities...
    Wth 6.97 10 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot...they seem to steal their own dividends.
    Bhr 6.179 20 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs...
    Bhr 6.180 24 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...seem to call out the police...
    Bhr 6.197 17 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor? The chances seem infinite against success; and yet success is continually attained.
    Wsp 6.207 19 ...the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.
    Wsp 6.224 10 People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Wsp 6.235 3 [Benedict said] I seem to fail in my friends and clients, too.
    Wsp 6.237 9 [Benedict said] Thrust the [sick] woman out, and you thrust your babe out of doors, whether it so seem to you or not.
    CbW 6.251 2 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...nor does it seem to make much difference whether he is bachelor or patriarch;...
    Bty 6.284 8 These geologies, chemistries, astronomies, seem to make wise...
    Bty 6.284 26 The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate of spiritual health.
    Bty 6.302 14 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...causing the sun and moon to seem only the decorations of his estate;--this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Bty 6.306 5 Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles;...
    Ill 6.307 6 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./ Sleep is not, death is not;/ Who seem to die live./
    Ill 6.314 12 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear...
    Ill 6.322 6 If life seem a succession of dreams, yet poetic justice is done in dreams also.
    SS 7.8 22 ...the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light...
    SS 7.12 19 [Animal spirits] seem a power incredible...
    Art2 7.37 3 All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel...the identity of their law.
    DL 7.106 26 ...by beautiful traits, which without art yet seem the masterpieces of wisdom...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    DL 7.125 18 ...[the men we see] all seem the hacks of some invisible riders.
    DL 7.127 11 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the world...
    DL 7.129 12 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
    DL 7.129 14 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men, which at first seem only the romances of youth, acquire a graver importance;...
    Farm 7.145 6 All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable.
    WD 7.161 11 There does not seem any limit to these new informations of the same Spirit that made the elements at first...
    WD 7.181 12 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem to measure my tasks...
    WD 7.183 22 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration.
    Cour 7.271 7 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards.
    Suc 7.282 4 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...
    Suc 7.296 19 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
    Suc 7.304 9 The supernal powers seem to take [the lover's] part.
    PI 8.71 6 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but related.
    SA 8.81 11 Manners seem to say, You are you, and I am I.
    SA 8.89 16 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    Elo2 8.124 10 ...in your struggles with the world...when even your country may seem ready to abandon herself and you...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Comc 8.162 25 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man...
    Comc 8.163 21 ...it is the highest degree of injustice not to be just and yet seem so...
    Comc 8.163 24 ...it is the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it, and in mirth to do the same with those that are serious and seem in earnest;...
    PPo 8.253 16 ...we must try to give some of [Hafiz's] poetic flourishes the metrical form which they seem to require...
    Insp 8.271 23 Every real step is...by lyrical facility, and never by main strength and ignorance. Years of mechanic toil will only seem to do it; it will not so be done.
    Imtl 8.325 26 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    Imtl 8.340 23 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death; which were only those of the understanding, and not of the affections; so immortal and incorruptible a thing did knowledge seem to them to be.
    Dem1 10.4 12 ...[in dreams] we seem busied for hours and days in peregrinations over seas and lands...
    Dem1 10.5 10 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem not to fit us...
    Dem1 10.5 20 In our dreams the same scenes and fancies are many times associated, and that too, it would seem, for years.
    Dem1 10.7 23 [Dreams] seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience.
    Dem1 10.8 15 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams]...
    Dem1 10.8 23 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem preposterous...
    Dem1 10.16 9 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.
    Aris 10.37 12 We like cool people, who...seem to have many strings to their bow...
    Aris 10.37 27 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those Merovingians, Guelphs...of the old warlike ages!
    Aris 10.43 17 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;...
    Aris 10.47 26 This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot contrive to seem without the trouble of being?
    Aris 10.47 27 This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot contrive to seem without the trouble of being?
    Aris 10.55 27 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... They seem to have arrived at the fact, to have got rid of the show, and to be serene.
    Aris 10.56 17 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment. In this impoverishing animation, I seem to meet a Hunger, a wolf.
    PerF 10.72 6 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual;...
    Chr2 10.95 7 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    Chr2 10.98 9 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    Supl 10.173 8 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
    SovE 10.189 24 No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
    Prch 10.232 21 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves...
    Schr 10.270 15 Even the demonstrations of Nature for millenniums seem not to have attained their end, until this interpreter [the poet] arrives.
    Schr 10.281 26 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    Plu 10.294 13 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to us.
    MMEm 10.413 16 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station;...
    MMEm 10.415 9 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself.
    MMEm 10.425 1 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    SlHr 10.441 8 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...
    Carl 10.494 21 A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle], previous, it would seem, to all inquiry whether the force be divine or diabolic.
    LS 11.22 10 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form. I seem to lose the substance in seeking the shadow.
    HDC 11.38 19 I seem to see [the settlers of Concord]...addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.
    HDC 11.41 9 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals...
    HDC 11.41 13 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges, and they seem to have fallen heavily on the few wealthy planters.
    HDC 11.63 12 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect. It would seem that his visit to England had made him a courtier.
    HDC 11.65 3 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord];...
    HDC 11.66 17 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements.
    LVB 11.94 1 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year...seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.118 18 We sometimes observe that spoiled children...seem to measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause.
    EWI 11.145 27 These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of the country.
    War 11.163 21 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    FSLC 11.187 16 Pains seem to have been taken to give us in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture of right.
    FSLN 11.238 13 The masters of slaves seem generally anxious to prove that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the meanest of their bondsmen.
    EPro 11.318 23 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
    SMC 11.348 10 Felt they no pang of passionate regret/ For those unsolid goods that seem so much our own?/
    EdAd 11.391 23 What will easily seem to many a far higher question than any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the period.
    EdAd 11.392 6 Mankind for the moment seem to be in search of a religion.
    EdAd 11.392 12 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...
    Wom 11.405 1 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    Wom 11.410 6 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...
    PLT 12.16 13 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river...
    PLT 12.23 4 From whatever side we look at Nature we seem to be exploring the figure of a disguised man.
    PLT 12.26 11 ...our mental processes go forward even when they seem suspended.
    PLT 12.61 5 ...the soul in which one [mind or heart] predominates is ever watchful and jealous when such immense claims are made for one as seem injurious to the other.
    PLT 12.63 24 ...at last [the Intellect] will be justified, though for the moment it seem hostile to what is most reveres.
    II 12.73 24 ...when we consider who and what the professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially on its artists?
    II 12.87 5 The virtue of the Intellect is its own...and at last, it will be justified, though for the time it seem hostile to that which it most reveres.
    II 12.87 27 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.
    MAng1 12.215 11 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    Milt1 12.248 21 [Milton's] prose writings...seem to have been read with avidity.
    Milt1 12.262 22 ...[Milton's] virtues are so graceful that they seem rather talents than labors.
    Milt1 12.276 12 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances.
    MLit 12.310 25 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents books...that seem to heave with the life of millions...
    MLit 12.311 5 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which work dubiously on society and seem to inoculate it with a venom before any healthy result appears.
    MLit 12.323 8 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...
    MLit 12.326 11 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions...
    MLit 12.328 11 ...that we may not seem to dodge the question which all men ask...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    PPr 12.390 24 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent...
    Trag 12.408 23 ...the essence of tragedy does not seem to me to lie in any list of particular evils.

seemed, v. (131)

    DSA 1.138 23 It seemed strange that the people should come to church.
    DSA 1.138 24 It seemed as if [the people's] houses were very unentertaining...
    LE 1.156 20 This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reasonable expectation of mankind.
    LE 1.184 11 ...[the scholar] will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom out of what seemed hours of obstruction and loss.
    MN 1.215 5 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...hates the enterprise which lately seemed so fair...
    MR 1.239 18 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...whom...beast and fish seemed all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.254 21 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom,-a plant...that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly,-by its... gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    YA 1.363 19 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
    YA 1.366 21 ...this [inclination to cultivate the soil] seemed a happy tendency.
    YA 1.381 18 [The farmer's condition] seemed a great deal worse, because the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    YA 1.382 23 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations]...
    Hist 2.18 12 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait...
    Comp 2.93 3 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation] life was ahead of theology...
    Comp 2.93 13 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation] might be shown men a ray of divinity...
    Comp 2.126 15 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    SL 2.134 18 ...the wonders of which [men of extraordinary success] were the visible conductors seemed to the eye their deed.
    SL 2.134 23 That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation.
    Lov1 2.176 12 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence...
    Fdsp 2.216 7 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    Cir 2.305 8 ...the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
    Int 2.343 25 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...seemed to many young men in this country.
    Pt1 3.10 20 Society seemed to be compromised.
    Pt1 3.10 22 Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before...
    Pt1 3.36 3 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness;...
    Chr1 3.87 4 Fixed on the enormous galaxy,/ Deeper and older seemed his eye:/...
    Chr1 3.94 11 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him...
    Chr1 3.105 26 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity...
    Mrs1 3.152 2 [Lilla] did not study...the books of the seven poets, but all the poems of the seven seemed to be written upon her.
    Mrs1 3.154 23 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side.
    Nat2 3.192 13 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead, enjoying, as it seemed, their height and privilege of motion...
    Pol1 3.202 16 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
    Pol1 3.203 20 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors...
    NR 3.225 23 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    NR 3.248 14 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I loved man, if men seemed to me mice and rats;...
    NER 3.253 18 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.
    NER 3.268 10 A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    PPh 4.53 13 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course...
    SwM 4.98 20 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons...
    SwM 4.131 17 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that seemed of brass...
    MoS 4.162 21 It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book [Montaigne's Essays]...
    ShP 4.217 9 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    NMW 4.235 9 In the plenitude of [Napoleon's] resources, every obstacle seemed to vanish.
    ET1 5.8 6 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also, which seemed undiscriminating.
    ET1 5.19 27 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.
    ET14 5.235 25 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale...
    ET14 5.249 24 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.
    ET16 5.273 6 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET17 5.291 6 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.
    ET17 5.292 4 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart...
    ET17 5.296 1 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    ET18 5.305 7 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage, and their companions seemed bags of bones.
    F 6.19 14 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see men overboard struggling in the waves...
    Bhr 6.176 2 When [the old Massachusetts statesman] sat down, after speaking, he seemed in a sort of fit...
    Bhr 6.184 22 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
    Bhr 6.185 17 Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always that she demanded the heart.
    CbW 6.263 25 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying. I said he seemed to me to need quite other company...
    Ill 6.310 14 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...
    Ill 6.310 16 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them.
    SS 7.12 9 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist.
    DL 7.124 21 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    DL 7.124 24 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    WD 7.177 16 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face. He seemed to me more sane than those who hold themselves cheap.
    Boks 7.217 6 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...
    Clbs 7.242 2 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    OA 7.330 14 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
    PI 8.60 23 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke which seemed like air...
    Elo2 8.109 5 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/ Seemed, when at last his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./
    QO 8.184 7 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book;...
    QO 8.198 12 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public...
    PPo 8.236 4 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
    Grts 8.308 11 Montluc...says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
    Dem1 10.17 14 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was not god-like, since it seemed unreasonable;...
    Dem1 10.17 19 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... All which limits us seemed permeable to that.
    Dem1 10.17 20 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary elements of our constitution;...
    Dem1 10.17 22 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... Only in the impossible it seemed to delight...
    Dem1 10.17 24 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things...I named the Demoniacal...
    Dem1 10.25 12 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
    Chr2 10.109 1 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
    LLNE 10.325 20 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 war between intellect and affection;...
    LLNE 10.333 21 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton, and with such sweet modulation that he seemed to give as much beauty as he borrowed;...
    LLNE 10.342 6 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke. One declared that It seemed to him like going to heaven in a swing;...
    EzRy 10.383 14 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans...
    EzRy 10.387 5 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He...looked at the cloud...and seemed to say, You know me; this field is mine...
    EzRy 10.389 11 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing;...and, as a lady thus favored remarked to me, seemed as if he was going to make a meal of you.
    EzRy 10.394 10 [Ezra Ripley]...seemed to address each person rather as the representative of his house and name, than as an individual.
    MMEm 10.415 26 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor...
    SlHr 10.441 13 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he...in private seemed ever sitting in judgment on kings.
    SlHr 10.444 10 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...
    SlHr 10.447 8 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be its friend and defender;...
    Thor 10.450 1 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Thor 10.450 2 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Thor 10.456 6 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it...
    Thor 10.463 3 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
    Thor 10.465 6 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with, so that nothing seemed concealed from such terrible eyes.
    Thor 10.468 2 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset...
    Thor 10.471 14 [Thoreau's] power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses.
    Thor 10.476 16 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
    Thor 10.479 25 ...[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...
    Thor 10.480 15 ...[Thoreau] seemed born for great enterprise and for command;...
    Thor 10.484 19 Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this plant [the Edelweisse]...
    LS 11.13 21 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.17 5 It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the soul to God.
    HDC 11.46 23 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes...and, what seemed of at least equal importance, to exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before the country.
    HDC 11.50 25 Master of all sorts of wood-craft, [the Indian] seemed a part of the forest and the lake...
    HDC 11.50 27 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.
    HDC 11.61 21 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den.
    EWI 11.123 20 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down.
    EWI 11.124 17 [The negroes] seemed created by Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine articles.
    EWI 11.141 8 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind...
    EWI 11.146 4 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    EWI 11.146 5 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history...when it seemed doubtful whether brute force would not triumph in the eternal struggle.
    EWI 11.146 12 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has believed there was no vindication of right; it is horrible to think of, but it seemed so.
    FSLN 11.223 4 [Webster] seemed born for the bar...
    FSLN 11.244 13 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart. It seemed, as the Turks say, Fate makes that a man should not believe his own eyes.
    ALin 11.331 2 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...
    EdAd 11.388 18 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor to have vindicated the rights of millions...we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    RBur 11.442 21 It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all the best tunes;...
    Shak1 11.447 8 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse... whom this day [Shakespeare's anniversary] seemed to elect and challenge.
    Mem 12.109 6 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.
    Mem 12.109 11 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.
    CL 12.155 5 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence.
    Bost 12.210 13 Washington has seemed an exceptional virtue.
    MAng1 12.237 20 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual.
    Milt1 12.258 15 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome...
    MLit 12.320 13 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered how hostile his genius at first seemed to the reigning taste...
    MLit 12.322 24 ...a thousand men seemed to look through [Goethe's] eyes.
    MLit 12.322 26 Of all the men of this time, not one has seemed so much at home in it as [Goethe].
    MLit 12.323 18 [Goethe's] love of Nature has seemed to give a new meaning to that word.
    WSL 12.342 10 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects:-In the afternoon we came unto a land/ In which it seemed always afternoon./
    AgMs 12.364 4 ...so much wisdom seemed to lie under all [Edmund Hosmer's] statement that it deserved a record.
    Let 12.396 12 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

seemeth, v. (1)

    Pray 12.355 2 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou dost make thyself known to me...

seeming, adj. (11)

    MN 1.199 1 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear; and the world revenged itself for the seeming arrogance by the good story about his shoe.
    Mrs1 3.152 19 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...
    NER 3.274 6 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world.
    UGM 4.33 20 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
    Ill 6.321 1 That story of Thor...describes us, who are contending, amid these seeming trifles, with the supreme energies of nature.
    WD 7.176 20 We owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and pedlers.
    Clbs 7.234 2 One lesson we learn early,--that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern.
    PI 8.49 15 There is under the seeming poverty of metres an infinite variety...
    SovE 10.189 23 The inevitabilities are always sapping every seeming prosperity built on a wrong.
    II 12.82 2 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.
    Mem 12.109 1 In dreams a rush...of seeming experiences...and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.

Seeming, Being and [Ralph (1)

    Scot 11.462 9 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory. Lecture, Being and Seeming, 1838.

seeming, n. (7)

    LE 1.176 24 Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is...the seeming that unmakes our being.
    Con 1.299 9 Conservatism tends to universal seeming and treachery...
    Tran 1.349 27 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming...
    SL 2.160 9 [Virtue] consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming...
    Art1 2.360 20 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...in the narrow lodging where [the artist] has endured the constraints and seeming of a city poverty, will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    GoW 4.289 20 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.
    Comc 8.158 4 ...there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.

seeming [solid-seeming], adj. (1)

    Nat 1.55 21 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded and dissolved by a thought;...

seeming, v. (7)

    Nat 1.36 22 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of being and seeming...
    MN 1.198 19 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    Hist 2.39 19 ...it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
    Exp 3.70 21 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.
    Wsp 6.215 27 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...being to seeming;...
    Comc 8.164 5 ...the occasion of laughter is some seeming, some keeping of the word to the ear and eye, whilst it is broken to the soul.
    Shak1 11.450 22 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].

seemingly, adv. (1)

    Cir 2.308 11 Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts...

seemliness, n. (2)

    AmS 1.99 23 What is lost in seemliness is gained in strength.
    Wsp 6.207 9 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./

seemly, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.171 21 Details are melancholy; the plan is seemly and noble.

seems, v. (325)

    Nat 1.15 9 [The beauty of nature] seems partly owing to the eye itself.
    Nat 1.16 16 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    Nat 1.16 24 The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
    Nat 1.21 21 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    Nat 1.34 20 There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms;...
    Nat 1.45 4 A right action seems to fill the eye...
    Nat 1.66 3 That which seems faintly possible...is often faint and dim because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.
    AmS 1.101 19 ...[the scholar] takes...the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand to society...
    AmS 1.109 15 We, it seems, are critical;...
    DSA 1.119 10 Man under [the stars] seems a young child...
    DSA 1.132 24 The world seems to [the simple] to exist for [the great and rich soul]...
    DSA 1.135 25 The Church seems to totter to its fall...
    DSA 1.143 7 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    DSA 1.147 22 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
    LE 1.157 2 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    LE 1.160 27 ...the soul seems to whisper, There is a better way than this indolent learning of another.
    LE 1.165 10 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law...to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    LE 1.168 14 The man...who rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove.
    LE 1.178 22 Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their prisoner.
    MN 1.194 22 ...it seems to me the wit of man...is the grace and presence of God.
    MN 1.197 22 It seems to me therefore that it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate this hour by exploring the method of nature.
    MN 1.203 4 ...we are steadied by the perception...that all seems just begun;...
    MN 1.203 18 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    MN 1.204 17 The royal reason, the Grace of God, seems the only description of our multiform but ever identical fact.
    MN 1.210 27 What is best in any work of art but that part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
    MN 1.211 16 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard to the whole, and not to the parts;...
    MN 1.223 7 I praise with wonder this great reality, which seems to drown all things in the deluge of its light.
    MN 1.223 11 The entrance of this [great reality] into his mind seems to be the birth of man.
    LT 1.259 20 Nature itself seems to propound to us this topic, and to invite us to explore the meaning of the conspicuous facts of the day.
    LT 1.273 2 ...the thought that [these ideas] can ever have any footing in real life, seems long since to have been exploded by all judicious persons.
    LT 1.286 4 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
    Con 1.296 3 There is a fragment of old fable which seems somehow to have been dropped from the current mythologies...
    Tran 1.341 17 ...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems drudgery.
    Tran 1.343 8 ...[Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...
    Tran 1.344 12 ...it seems as if this loneliness, and not this love, would prevail in [the Transcendentalists'] circumstances...
    Tran 1.348 13 The popular literary creed seems to be, I am a sublime genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
    Tran 1.352 2 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
    Tran 1.353 13 Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere waiting;...
    Tran 1.357 25 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the Genius...then most when he seems to lead to uninhabitable deserts of thought and life;...
    YA 1.371 9 It seems so easy for America to inspire and express the most expansive and humane spirit;...
    YA 1.384 19 ...the landscape seems to crave Government.
    YA 1.385 11 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen;...
    YA 1.388 4 In America, out-of-doors all seems a market;...
    YA 1.394 5 ...in England, the fact seems to me intolerable, what is commonly affirmed, that such is the transcendent honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
    Hist 2.26 22 The Greek had, it seems, the same fellow-beings as I.
    Hist 2.26 26 ...the vaunted distinction...between Classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and pedantic.
    Hist 2.31 2 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists...
    Hist 2.34 6 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
    SR 2.48 19 It seems [the youth] knows how to speak to his contemporaries.
    SR 2.57 6 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone...
    SR 2.72 5 At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
    SR 2.76 4 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    Comp 2.116 4 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
    Comp 2.123 19 The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less.
    Comp 2.123 26 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye; he fears they will upbraid God. What should they do? It seems a great injustice.
    Comp 2.126 11 ...a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    SL 2.131 17 In these hours [of clear reason] the mind seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much.
    SL 2.131 19 In these hours [of clear reason] the mind seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much.
    SL 2.146 1 Nothing seems so easy as to speak and to be understood.
    SL 2.153 23 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    Lov1 2.169 20 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.172 25 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she removed herself from him infinitely...
    Lov1 2.178 10 Beauty...which pleases everybody with it and with themselves, seems sufficient to itself.
    Lov1 2.179 13 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but, as it seems to me, to a quite other and unattainable sphere...
    Fdsp 2.195 25 [Our friend's] goodness seems better than our goodness...
    Fdsp 2.211 3 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me.
    Prd1 2.230 19 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform.
    Prd1 2.238 6 To himself, [a man] seems weak; to others, formidable.
    Hsm1 2.248 11 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.
    Hsm1 2.250 19 ...[heroism] seems not to know that other souls are of one texture with it;...
    Hsm1. 2.252 16 There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness.
    Hsm1 2.254 20 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to be solemn...
    Hsm1 2.261 17 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    Cir 2.305 21 Every [result] seems to be contradicted by the new;...
    Cir 2.306 23 What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world;...
    Cir 2.315 10 ...it seems to me that with every precaution you take against such an evil you put yourself into the power of the evil.
    Cir 2.319 5 ...old age seems the only disease;...
    Int 2.331 25 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.
    Int 2.332 6 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...
    Int 2.335 13 [The thought] seems, for the time, to inherit all that has yet existed...
    Int 2.336 24 ...the imaginative vocabulary seems to be spontaneous also.
    Int 2.343 6 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside...
    Int 2.343 13 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence...
    Int 2.343 19 Each new mind we approach seems to require an abdication of all our past and present possessions.
    Int 2.343 21 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living.
    Int 2.346 1 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers]...
    Int 2.346 11 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Art1 2.353 16 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...
    Art1 2.355 19 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying out of gardens.
    Art1 2.356 15 The office of painting and sculpture seems to be merely initial.
    Art1 2.356 21 Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs.
    Art1 2.362 11 [Raphael's Transfiguration] seems almost to call you by name.
    Pt1 3.10 10 ...the world seems always waiting for its poet.
    Pt1 3.29 18 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Pt1 3.32 26 How cheap even the liberty then seems;...when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
    Pt1 3.35 12 The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    Exp 3.52 8 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    Exp 3.68 3 You will not remember, [God] seems to say, and you will not expect.
    Exp 3.73 21 Our life seems not present so much as prospective;...
    Exp 3.73 24 Most of life seems to be mere advertisement of faculty;...
    Exp 3.84 10 ...that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.
    Exp 3.86 1 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat; up again, old heart!--it seems to say...
    Chr1 3.92 18 Nature seems to authorize trade...
    Chr1 3.103 11 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house...
    Chr1 3.115 5 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    Mrs1 3.121 15 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average;...
    Mrs1 3.140 18 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...perhaps because such a person seems to reserve himself for the best of the game...
    Mrs1 3.152 11 ...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.
    Gts 3.160 24 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
    Gts 3.162 11 We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living by it...
    Gts 3.163 10 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    Gts 3.164 14 Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
    Nat2 3.169 18 To have lived through all [the day's] sunny hours, seems longevity enough.
    Nat2 3.172 8 It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
    Nat2 3.181 8 [Nature] keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them.
    Pol1 3.218 13 Most persons of ability meet in society with a kind of tacit appeal. Each seems to say, I am not all here.
    NR 3.233 1 The modernness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.
    NR 3.235 10 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat...
    NR 3.238 24 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance, it seems the only talent;...
    NER 3.257 26 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events...
    NER 3.281 21 Each [man] seems to have some compensation yielded to him by his infirmity...
    UGM 4.3 9 Nature seems to exist for the excellent.
    UGM 4.9 27 In the history of discovery, the ripe and latent truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself.
    UGM 4.12 11 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...
    UGM 4.17 11 When [the imagination] wakes, a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force.
    UGM 4.28 4 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
    UGM 4.31 13 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and great benefit it is to each speaker...
    PPh 4.41 5 ...Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius.
    PPh 4.42 7 When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
    PNR 4.80 19 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    SwM 4.95 2 [The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will, which is the seat of personality, seems to convert the universe into a person;...
    SwM 4.101 1 ...[Swedenborg] seems to have kept the friendship of men in power.
    SwM 4.102 2 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...
    SwM 4.128 19 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate...
    SwM 4.130 11 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...
    SwM 4.133 7 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie...cold and still. What seems an individual and a will, is none.
    SwM 4.136 11 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with...palm-trees and shittim-wood, instead of sassafras and hickory,--seems the most needless.
    MoS 4.160 17 A theory of Saint John, and non-resistance, seems...too thin and aerial.
    MoS 4.168 10 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays].
    MoS 4.175 3 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination; for it seems to concern the shattering of baby-houses and crockery-shops.
    MoS 4.185 16 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    MoS 4.185 26 ...throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means.
    ShP 4.197 22 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna...
    ShP 4.206 7 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.
    NMW 4.251 17 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value, after all the deduction that it seems is to be made from them on account of his known disingenuousness.
    GoW 4.272 21 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes (for he seems to see out of every pore of his skin), strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    ET2 5.27 16 Since the ship was built, it seems, the master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board.
    ET2 5.28 16 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now, at night, seems to hear the steamer behind her, which left Boston to-day at two;...
    ET2 5.30 6 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage; and of this no landsman seems so fearful as the seaman.
    ET3 5.35 6 ...the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion.
    ET4 5.53 23 ...there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British prosperity.
    ET4 5.72 17 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert cavalry. At one time this skill seems to have declined.
    ET5 5.100 13 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
    ET6 5.112 3 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope behind.
    ET7 5.117 14 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal structure...
    ET9 5.144 4 Property is so perfect [in England] that it seems the craft of that race...
    ET14 5.237 21 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET14 5.239 5 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;...
    ET14 5.249 4 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
    ET14 5.259 17 ...I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...
    ET14 5.259 22 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone...
    ET16 5.288 20 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...and on it man seems not able to make much impression.
    ET18 5.303 9 ...[Englishmen's] speech seems destined to be the universal language of men.
    Pow 6.57 3 ...a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers...
    Pow 6.60 3 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better; but has not stoutness or stomach, as the first has, and so his wit seems over-fine or under-fine.
    Pow 6.65 5 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Pow 6.72 7 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    Wth 6.97 9 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning...seems to be a compromise of their character;...
    Wth 6.114 4 ...it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Ctr 6.147 22 ...as a medical remedy, travel seems one of the best.
    Bhr 6.177 22 Man cannot fix his eye on the sun, and so far seems imperfect.
    Bhr 6.183 18 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element. They all have somewhat which he has not, and, it seems, ought to have.
    Bhr 6.189 14 ...even the size of your companion seems to vary with his freedom of thought.
    Wsp 6.208 12 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
    CbW 6.258 5 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    CbW 6.266 16 All America seems on the point of embarking for Europe.
    CbW 6.277 19 The main difference between people seems to be that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and another is not.
    Bty 6.288 11 The remedy seems never to be far off, since the first step into thought lifts this mountain of necessity.
    Bty 6.296 19 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
    Ill 6.311 4 Our conversation with nature is not just what it seems.
    Ill 6.319 18 ...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
    SS 7.7 14 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems entitled to marry;...
    Art2 7.42 3 Man seems to have no option about his tools...
    Art2 7.42 8 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.
    Art2 7.42 8 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers...
    Art2 7.51 5 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    Elo1 7.71 25 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. ... He seems to me like a stately ram, who goes as a master of the flock.
    Elo1 7.81 23 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly human...
    Elo1 7.88 16 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Franklin. Its application to law seems quite accidental.
    Elo1 7.89 2 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me of little use for the most part to those who have it...
    DL 7.113 26 ...the love of wealth seems to grow chiefly out of the root of the love of the Beautiful.
    DL 7.117 6 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,--not chosen by his parents or friends, but by his genius, with earnestness and love. Nor is this redress so hopeless as it seems.
    WD 7.158 17 ...so many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over new;...
    WD 7.172 6 ...nothing expresses that power which seems to work for beauty alone.
    WD 7.184 14 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of which talent seems only a tool...
    Boks 7.192 15 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Boks 7.204 5 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    Boks 7.213 7 Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature.
    Clbs 7.230 16 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare.
    Clbs 7.241 20 Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities...
    Suc 7.289 15 Egotism...seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.
    Suc 7.292 20 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old...
    Suc 7.295 20 How often it seems the chief good to be born with a cheerful temper...
    PI 8.38 25 ...there is a third step which poetry takes, and which seems higher than the others, namely, creation...
    PI 8.40 9 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle.
    PI 8.65 16 Literature warps away from life, though at first it seems to bind it.
    PI 8.72 16 Music seems to you sufficient...
    SA 8.86 27 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
    SA 8.98 4 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
    Comc 8.157 18 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well-intended halfness;...
    Comc 8.161 22 ...a perception of the Comic seems to be a balance-wheel in our metaphysical structure.
    Comc 8.162 14 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
    Comc 8.168 20 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind, seizing a classification...stops in the classification; or learning languages and reading books...stops in the languages and books; in both the learner seems to be wise, and is not.
    QO 8.197 13 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    PPo 8.245 12 In honor dies he to whom the great seems ever wonderful.
    PPo 8.258 7 This picture of the first days of Spring, from Enweri, seems to belong to Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.269 16 There are times when the intellect is so active that everything seems to run to meet it.
    Insp 8.275 22 Shakspeare seems to you miraculous;...
    Insp 8.276 9 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat;...
    Insp 8.280 20 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/...
    Insp 8.281 23 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort, and it seems to us that this facility may be indefinitely applied and resumed.
    Grts 8.309 11 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power, so that not he, but mankind, seems to speak through his lips.
    Imtl 8.337 13 The love of life...seems to indicate...a conviction of immense resources and possibilities proper to us...
    Imtl 8.342 24 Nothing seems to me so excellent as a belief in the laws.
    Dem1 10.5 5 A dislocation seems to be the foremost trait of dreams.
    Dem1 10.7 8 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...
    Aris 10.31 24 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor...which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.
    PerF 10.73 15 ...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity. We call it temperament, and it seems to be the remains of wolf, ape, and rattlesnake in him.
    PerF 10.74 6 ...[man] seems to have as many talents as there are qualities in Nature.
    PerF 10.81 22 See how rich life is; rich in private talents, each of which charms us in turn and seems the best.
    Chr2 10.95 25 This wonderful [moral] sentiment...seems to be the fountain of the intellect;...
    Edc1 10.125 1 A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
    Edc1 10.137 8 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.
    Edc1 10.150 14 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    Supl 10.169 9 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words...
    SovE 10.184 15 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.
    SovE 10.200 17 It seems as if, when the Spirit of God speaks so plainly to each soul, it were an impiety to be listening to one or another saint.
    SovE 10.214 1 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    Prch 10.220 6 In proportion to a man's want of goodness, it seems to him another and not himself;...
    Prch 10.220 26 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet;...the face seems no longer that of an enemy.
    Schr 10.259 9 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold,/ Melting matter into dreams,/ Panoramas which I saw,/ And whatever glows or seems/ Into substance, into Law./
    Schr 10.274 15 It seems to me that the thoughtful man needs no armor but this-concentration.
    Schr 10.278 1 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    Schr 10.278 16 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    Schr 10.282 1 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts. We will not speak for them, because to speak for them seems so weak and hopeless.
    Plu 10.316 20 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle...
    MMEm 10.407 13 This seems a world rather of trying each others' dispositions than of enjoying each others' virtues.
    MMEm 10.409 21 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...
    MMEm 10.413 27 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations,-that retribution which seems forever going on in this part of creasion,-I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.426 14 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.
    MMEm 10.427 25 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;...
    MMEm 10.429 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore. So it seems best to get that very humbling business of insurance.
    Thor 10.484 26 It seems an injury that [Thoreau] should leave in the midst his broken task...
    GSt 10.507 23 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future. For the Spirit of the Universe seems to say: He has done well; is not that saying all?
    LS 11.10 15 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    HDC 11.44 16 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England], who seems first to have been appointed by the General Court...
    HDC 11.55 14 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress...
    HDC 11.57 18 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been pressed by three of the colonies...
    HDC 11.64 10 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord].
    HDC 11.65 16 Captain Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative.
    HDC 11.66 6 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss, in 1738. Soon after his ordination, the town seems to have been divided by ecclesiastical discords.
    HDC 11.76 8 The presence of these aged men who were in arms on that day [battle of Concord] seems to bring us nearer to it.
    EWI 11.100 12 The institution of slavery seems to its opponent to have but one side...
    EWI 11.118 1 I may here express a general remark, which the history of slavery seems to justify...
    EWI 11.146 15 Especially, it seems to me, some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect...so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    FSLC 11.179 5 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer: for there seems to be no option.
    FSLC 11.190 18 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh, Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void]. I have no intention to recite these passages I had marked:-such citation indeed seems to be something cowardly...
    FSLN 11.217 2 I do not often speak to public questions;-they are odious and hurtful, and it seems like meddling or leaving your work.
    FSLN 11.241 2 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the patience it requires...seems to demand of us more than mere hoping.
    JBB 11.270 18 It seems to me that a common feeling joins the people of Massachusetts with [John Brown].
    JBB 11.270 27 We fancy, in Massachusetts, that we are free; yet it seems the government is quite unreliable.
    TPar 11.292 4 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
    EPro 11.319 1 ...one midsummer day seems to repair the damage of a year of war.
    EPro 11.319 5 ...an event [Emancipation] worth the dreadful war...seems now to be close before us.
    HCom 11.342 2 Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a certain military necessity.
    SMC 11.362 21 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant seems to think that these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been at West Point four years.
    FRep 11.532 21 It seems as if history gave no account of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
    FRep 11.542 19 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
    PLT 12.24 15 Man seems a higher plant.
    PLT 12.31 14 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
    PLT 12.56 2 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    PLT 12.57 7 ...society seems to be in conspiracy to utilize every gift prematurely...
    PLT 12.63 2 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is...the continuation of the divine effort. Alas! it seems not to be ours...
    II 12.65 11 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience;...
    II 12.65 15 [Instinct] is that which never pretends: nothing seems less, nothing is more.
    II 12.71 15 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem...
    II 12.72 5 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    II 12.74 20 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.
    II 12.76 17 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us,-I know not; but there seems a settled determination to break our spirit.
    II 12.77 14 ...the beatitude of the Intellect seems to lie out of our volition...
    II 12.88 3 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.
    Mem 12.98 8 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew;...
    Mem 12.99 14 The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could recite at once any passage of Homer that was desired.
    Mem 12.106 12 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...
    CInt 12.125 11 In the romance Spiridion a few years ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...
    CL 12.135 7 The land, the care of land, seems to be the calling of the people of this new country...
    CL 12.143 4 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes] is at no time a superficial light, but, under favorable accidents, it is a light which seems to come from depths below all depths;...
    CL 12.146 1 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
    CL 12.151 18 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest through his arteries;... and the immensity of life seems to make the world deep and wide.
    Bost 12.192 12 [The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays...
    Bost 12.211 4 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    MAng1 12.218 11 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity, intimating that what is truly beautiful seems related to all Nature.
    MAng1 12.218 15 Every great work of art seems to take up into itself the excellencies of all works...
    MAng1 12.237 24 It seems that Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...
    MAng1 12.241 15 Towards his end, there seems to have grown in [Michelangelo] an invincible appetite of dying...
    Milt1 12.255 27 ...we are tempted to say that art and not life seems to be the end of [German writers'] effort.
    Milt1 12.257 27 In the midst of London, [Milton] seems...to have been tuned in concord with the order of the world;...
    Milt1 12.260 22 ...Milton's mind seems to have no thought or emotion which refused to be recorded.
    ACri 12.284 19 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement...where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
    MLit 12.317 9 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    MLit 12.324 1 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.
    MLit 12.327 13 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    MLit 12.333 10 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    WSL 12.339 21 In Mr. Landor's coarseness...the rude word seems sometimes to arise from a disgust at niceness and over-refinement.
    WSL 12.340 13 ...[Landor's Imaginary Conversations] seems to us as original in its form as in its matter.
    EurB 12.371 1 ...[modern painters]...paint for their predecessors' public. It seems as if the same vice had worked in poetry.
    Let 12.394 26 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society...would give their genius that inspiration which it seems to wait in vain.
    Let 12.395 11 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate.
    Trag 12.405 9 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be a defensive war...
    Trag 12.405 14 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain...
    Trag 12.409 21 In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events.
    Trag 12.410 20 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.
    Trag 12.416 13 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

seen, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.170 20 Seen or unseen, we believe the tie exists [between all things in life].
    SMC 11.348 17 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...

seen, n. (1)

    SL 2.146 17 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen.

seen, v. (336)

    Nat 1.7 11 Seen in the streets of cities, how great [the stars] are!
    Nat 1.18 15 ...in the same field, [the attentive eye] beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before...
    Nat 1.18 16 ...in the same field, [the attentive eye] beholds, every hour, a picture which...shall never be seen again.
    Nat 1.19 8 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part.
    Nat 1.22 8 ...whosoever has seen a person of powerful character...will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    Nat 1.23 1 Therefore does beauty, which...as we have seen, comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
    Nat 1.27 19 It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies...
    Nat 1.28 25 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
    Nat 1.28 26 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor...then all its habits... become sublime.
    Nat 1.35 23 ...every object rightly seen, unlocks a new faculty of the soul.
    Nat 1.44 16 So intimate is this Unity, that, it is easily seen, it...betrays its source in Universal Spirit.
    Nat 1.44 24 Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side.
    Nat 1.50 6 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces...are no longer seen;...
    Nat 1.50 6 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision...causes and spirits are seen through [outlines and surfaces].
    Nat 1.51 1 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach], or, at least...seen as apparent, not substantial beings.
    Nat 1.51 13 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!
    Nat 1.58 8 ...The things that are seen, are temporal;...
    Nat 1.60 1 ...seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal;...
    Nat 1.75 6 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels.
    Nat 1.76 24 ...disagreeable appearances...are temporary and shall be no more seen.
    Nat 1.77 7 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...heroic acts, around its way, until evil is no more seen.
    AmS 1.103 4 ...let [the scholar]...bide his own time, - happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly.
    DSA 1.130 3 Having seen that the law in us is commanding, [Jesus] would not suffer it to be commanded.
    DSA 1.144 10 [Man] is seen amid miracles.
    LE 1.158 15 When [the scholar] has seen that [the intellectual power] is not his...he will know that he...may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.
    MN 1.202 20 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    MN 1.204 25 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    MN 1.204 26 ...seen from the platform of intellection there is nothing for us but praise and wonder.
    MN 1.205 6 ...[the ocean] it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
    MN 1.213 16 ...[the poet's] will in [his inspiration must be] only the surrender of will to the Universal Power, which will not be seen face to face...
    MN 1.219 18 [The Puritans' motive for settlement] is to be seen in what they were, and not in what they designed;...
    MR 1.227 13 ...beautiful and perfect men we are not now, no, nor have even seen such;...
    MR 1.254 19 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    MR 1.255 21 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;...
    MR 1.256 7 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...sure of more to come than is yet seen,-postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    LT 1.271 5 There is a perfect chain...of reforms...and all must be seen in order to do justice to any one.
    LT 1.271 6 Seen in this their natural connection, [reforms] are sublime.
    LT 1.277 22 I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him; but when I have seen it near, I do not like it better.
    LT 1.284 20 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life.
    LT 1.284 23 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.
    Tran 1.349 3 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists]...when nearly seen, paltry matters.
    YA 1.380 3 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance. We have already seen our way to shorter methods.
    Hist 2.12 11 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church...its Saints' days and image-worship, we have as it were been the man that made the minster; we have seen how it could and must be.
    Hist 2.16 2 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Hist 2.18 10 The trivial experience of every day is always...converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed.
    Hist 2.18 17 The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
    Hist 2.19 4 I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.19 8 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.
    Hist 2.20 22 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    Hist 2.28 9 I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
    SR 2.49 20 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men...
    SR 2.65 21 If I see a trait, my children will see it after me...although it may chance that no one has seen it before me.
    Comp 2.103 4 The causal retribution is in the thing and is seen by the soul.
    Comp 2.103 5 The retribution in the circumstance is seen by the understanding;...
    Comp 2.104 18 The particular man aims...in particulars...to govern, that he may be seen.
    Comp 2.117 14 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
    Comp 2.120 10 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities, as to individuals, when the truth is seen and the martyrs are justified.
    Comp 2.125 5 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...
    Lov1 2.171 19 Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth.
    Lov1 2.171 20 ...all is sour if seen as experience.
    Lov1 2.172 1 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
    Lov1 2.188 17 ...in health the mind is presently seen again...
    Fdsp 2.211 1 The hues of the opal...are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    Prd1 2.229 5 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    Prd1 2.229 26 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery (the only great affecting picture which I have seen) is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    Prd1 2.233 19 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    Prd1 2.237 21 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    Hsm1 2.249 1 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.
    Hsm1 2.253 26 Nothing of the kind have I seen in any other country.
    Hsm1 2.258 16 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men who never ripened...
    Hsm1 2.263 20 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    OS 2.269 13 ...the act of seeing and the thing seen...are one.
    OS 2.294 14 ...the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.
    OS 2.295 25 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
    Cir 2.302 3 Our globe seen by God is a transparent law...
    Cir 2.303 7 ...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause, which, being narrowly seen, is itself the effect of a finer cause.
    Cir 2.307 13 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
    Cir 2.308 16 ...discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle...
    Cir 2.312 12 The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
    Int 2.329 5 [Ideas]...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture, bethink us where we have been, what we have seen...
    Int 2.335 24 ...only when [the ray of light] falls on an object is it seen.
    Art1 2.351 16 ...the same power which sees through [the painter's] eyes is seen in that spectacle [of nature];...
    Art1 2.357 15 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Pt1 3.30 14 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
    Pt1 3.36 2 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons...
    Pt1 3.36 27 We have all seen changes as considerable in wheat and caterpillars.
    Pt1 3.39 14 [The artist] pursues a beauty, half seen, which flies before him.
    Exp 3.56 1 How strongly I have felt of pictures that when you have seen one well, you must take your leave of it;...
    Exp 3.56 4 I have had good lessons from pictures which I have since seen without emotion or remark.
    Exp 3.63 24 ...hawk and snipe and bittern, when nearly seen, have no more root in the deep world than man...
    Exp 3.77 2 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon, and ascribe to him the properties that will attach to any man so seen.
    Exp 3.79 15 Sin, seen from the thought, is a diminution, or less;...
    Exp 3.79 16 ...seen from the conscience or will, [sin] is pravity or bad.
    Exp 3.83 10 I have seen many fair pictures not in vain.
    Chr1 3.95 27 Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature.
    Chr1 3.104 19 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know. I have besides seen, etc.
    Chr1 3.108 25 Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in life...
    Chr1 3.108 26 We have seen many counterfeits, but we are born believers in great men.
    Chr1 3.113 20 ...we have never seen a man...
    Mrs1 3.149 11 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were never learned there...
    Mrs1 3.155 17 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near;...
    Nat2 3.176 7 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.
    Nat2 3.192 11 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...
    Pol1 3.201 2 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering.
    Pol1 3.204 22 The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    Pol1 3.212 21 Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men. Reason for one is seen to be reason for another, and for every other.
    NR 3.239 26 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
    NR 3.244 12 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all...
    NER 3.259 14 Four or five persons I have seen who read Plato.
    UGM 4.33 18 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    PPh 4.53 20 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective;...
    PPh 4.55 20 The sea-shore, sea seen from shore, shore seen from sea;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.69 21 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...which, could it be seen, would ravish us with its perfect reality.
    PPh 4.78 23 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato]. I think it is trueliest seen when seen with the most respect.
    PPh 4.78 24 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato]. I think it is trueliest seen when seen with the most respect.
    SwM 4.102 19 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...requires a long focal distance to be seen;...
    SwM 4.110 11 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating...vortical motion, which is seen in eggs as in planets.
    SwM 4.117 12 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement, because it was habitually present to him, and never not seen.
    SwM 4.132 27 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held...as a quite arbitrary and accidental picture of the truth,--not as the truth. Any other symbol would be as good; then this is safely seen.
    MoS 4.149 7 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse.
    MoS 4.151 10 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals], remembering what they have seen and hoped of ideas, should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
    MoS 4.151 12 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
    MoS 4.166 11 ...[Montaigne] has seen too much of gentlemen of the long robe, until he wishes for cannibals;...
    MoS 4.181 12 The manners and thoughts of believers astonish [some minds] and convince them that these have seen something which is hid from themselves.
    ShP 4.199 9 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...which, if seen, would go to reduce the wonder.
    NMW 4.230 19 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was seen...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    GoW 4.265 15 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    ET1 5.13 26 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen...
    ET3 5.38 2 I reply to all the urgencies that refer me to this and that object indispensably to be seen,--Yes, to see England well needs a hundred years;...
    ET3 5.40 20 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    ET4 5.45 27 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain...
    ET4 5.66 13 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please...mainly by that uncorrupt youth in the face of manhood, which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET4 5.73 19 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    ET6 5.108 10 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
    ET8 5.139 19 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    ET10 5.160 4 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.
    ET10 5.166 8 Such as we have seen is the wealth of England; a mighty mass...
    ET11 5.185 21 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... who...have seen every secret of art and nature...
    ET14 5.234 10 [The hard English mentality] is not less seen in poetry.
    ET16 5.273 4 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen;...
    ET16 5.285 2 I had not seen more charming grounds [than at Wilton Hall].
    ET16 5.287 12 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth...
    ET16 5.288 18 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night...
    ET16 5.289 23 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York.
    ET18 5.302 7 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which might give additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest star.
    ET18 5.302 18 ...the wealth of the source is seen in the plenitude of English nature.
    ET18 5.305 4 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
    ET18 5.306 22 ...the feudal system can be seen with less pain on large historical grounds.
    ET19 5.312 22 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long...
    ET19 5.312 23 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long, and little good of them till you had seen them in action;...
    ET19 5.313 13 I see [England]...well remembering that she has seen dark days before;...
    F 6.6 1 The Destinee.../ That executeth in the world over al,/ The purveiance that God hath seen beforne,/ So strong it is/...Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
    F 6.22 2 ...Fate...is different seen from above and from below...
    F 6.45 12 If [a man's] mind could be seen, the hump would be seen.
    Pow 6.61 19 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Pow 6.75 10 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen...
    Wth 6.91 25 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion, that it is not respectable to be seen earning a living;...
    Wth 6.95 24 ...I have never seen a rich man.
    Wth 6.95 24 I have never seen a man as rich as all men ought to be...
    Wth 6.100 6 The right merchant is...a man...who makes up his decision on what he has seen.
    Wth 6.101 2 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Wth 6.107 5 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price, as they...in large manufactures, are seen to do.
    Ctr 6.133 9 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.
    Ctr 6.135 20 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
    Ctr 6.135 27 Have you seen a few lawyers, merchants and brokers...
    Ctr 6.139 10 The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken...will not deny the validity of education.
    Ctr 6.145 23 You do not think you will find anything [abroad] which you have not seen at home?
    Ctr 6.160 22 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Bhr 6.173 7 I have seen men who neigh like a horse when you contradict them...
    Bhr 6.185 13 Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has seen a cat.
    Bhr 6.189 6 What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect;...
    Bhr 6.195 20 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...
    Wsp 6.214 13 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    Wsp 6.214 15 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    Wsp 6.215 18 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
    CbW 6.257 18 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging...
    CbW 6.264 19 He who desponds betrays that he has not seen [the law which distributes things].
    CbW 6.269 24 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.
    Bty 6.287 16 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed;...
    Bty 6.291 13 ...the smith at his forge, or whatever useful labor, is becoming to the wise eye. But if it is done to be seen, it is mean.
    Bty 6.298 26 Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.
    Bty 6.300 4 ...petulant old gentlemen...who have seen cut flowers to some profusion...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ill 6.319 14 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    SS 7.4 19 ...[[my new friend] suffered at being seen where he was...
    SS 7.8 6 I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for only one person.
    SS 7.14 21 I know that my friend can talk eloquently; you know that he cannot articulate a sentence: we have seen him in different company.
    Civ 7.27 12 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.
    Art2 7.37 7 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...
    Art2 7.43 13 It will be seen that in each of these [fine] arts there is much which is not spiritual.
    Art2 7.49 17 The poet aims...to subject to thought things seen without (voluntary) thought.
    Art2 7.50 22 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed...
    Elo1 7.85 8 The orator, as we have seen, must be a substantial personality.
    DL 7.108 17 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks...
    DL 7.111 5 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit, and his character must be seen in them.
    DL 7.118 8 Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are.
    DL 7.118 8 It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor...
    DL 7.119 25 Who has not seen...the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...
    DL 7.124 18 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    DL 7.125 20 We have never yet seen a man.
    WD 7.163 20 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    WD 7.163 23 Tantalus...has been seen again lately.
    Clbs 7.233 21 [Holmes's (?)] conversation is all pictures: he can reproduce whatever he has seen;...
    Clbs 7.239 6 ...an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged. Only Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that?
    Clbs 7.239 9 ...Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    Clbs 7.242 10 ...we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen...
    Clbs 7.246 24 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men.
    Cour 7.254 16 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    Cour 7.264 14 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered. These once seen, he is as cool as Archimedes...
    Suc 7.286 7 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold...
    Suc 7.286 13 We have seen women who could institute hospitals and schools in armies.
    Suc 7.286 14 We have seen a woman who by pure song could melt the souls of whole populations.
    Suc 7.299 5 ...I have just seen a man...who told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
    Suc 7.304 16 ...it has happened that the artist has often drawn in his pictures the face of the future wife whom he had not yet seen.
    Suc 7.305 23 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    Suc 7.308 21 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    Suc 7.309 27 I have seen scores of people who can silence me...
    OA 7.318 25 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
    OA 7.322 20 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made,--an eye that hath seen more than all that went before him...
    OA 7.333 23 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house...
    PI 8.15 24 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise.
    PI 8.19 25 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen...
    PI 8.19 26 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen...
    PI 8.20 21 Better than images is seen through them.
    PI 8.27 25 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    PI 8.40 21 [The poet] has seen something which all the mathematics and the best industry could never bring him unto.
    PI 8.58 17 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
    SA 8.88 8 It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
    SA 8.94 15 ...[Madame de Stael] said...I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
    SA 8.97 12 ...I have seen a man of genius who made me think that if other men were like him cooperation were impossible.
    SA 8.102 22 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation; but, though some of us have seen such, I doubt they are all gone.
    SA 8.102 26 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    Elo2 8.131 23 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis...
    Res 8.141 17 We have seen the railroad and telegraph subdue our enormous geography;...
    Res 8.141 18 ...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of Esquimaux, become lands of promise.
    Res 8.142 13 We have seen slavery disappear like a painted scene in a theatre;...
    Res 8.142 14 ...we have seen the most healthful revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new spirit.
    Res 8.142 17 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce;...
    Comc 8.160 19 ...all falsehoods, all vices seen at sufficient distance... become ludicrous.
    Comc 8.160 19 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous.
    Comc 8.162 17 ...with what unfeigned compassion we have seen such a person [of excessive susceptibility to the ludicrous] receiving like a willing martyr the whispers into his ear of a man of wit.
    Comc 8.167 25 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen;...
    Comc 8.172 19 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly.
    Comc 8.172 25 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?
    QO 8.203 5 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the subject to which it has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
    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;...
    PC 8.214 16 [The Middle Ages] are seen to be the feet on which we walk...
    PC 8.216 15 I think I have seen two or three great men who, for that reason, were of no account among scholars.
    PPo 8.240 23 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf. No fowler has taken him, and none now living has seen him.
    PPo 8.254 12 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    PPo 8.265 5 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/ When you came to the Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had fifty of you come,/ So had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none of us yet seen./
    PPo 8.265 6 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/ When you came to the Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had fifty of you come,/ So had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none of us yet seen./
    Insp 8.292 19 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought...detaches itself, and allows itself to be seen as a thought...
    Grts 8.318 1 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
    Grts 8.318 24 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen...
    Grts 8.320 18 The man whom we have not seen...he it is whom we seek...
    Imtl 8.326 6 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.
    Imtl 8.328 15 Death is seen as a natural event...
    Imtl 8.329 2 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung...
    Imtl 8.331 12 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate, both of whom are now dead. I have seen them both;...
    Imtl 8.337 22 I have seen what glories of climate...
    Imtl 8.338 2 All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
    Imtl 8.338 3 All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
    Dem1 10.11 3 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
    Aris 10.53 17 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience; the mediocre and the dull are reached as well as the intelligent. I have seen it conspicuously shown in a village.
    Aris 10.53 21 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
    Chr2 10.109 7 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    Edc1 10.145 23 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
    Edc1 10.149 13 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.
    SovE 10.197 4 ...I have never until now dreamed that this undertaking the entire management of my own affairs was not commendable. I have never seen, until now, that it dwarfed me.
    MoL 10.257 18 We will not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.
    Schr 10.261 14 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like.
    Schr 10.281 4 We have seen to weariness what you [idealists] cannot do; now show us what you can and will do, asks the practical man...
    Schr 10.282 6 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars, when seen in the light of this despised and imbecile truth.
    LLNE 10.333 5 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country.
    LLNE 10.336 11 ...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...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system, which in turn was too minute to be seen at the distance of many stars which we behold.
    Thor 10.476 15 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
    Carl 10.496 22 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen...
    Carl 10.497 8 [Carlyle] was very serious about the bad times; he had seen this evil coming, but thought it would not come in his time.
    HDC 11.29 6 ...the people of New England...as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.73 7 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    LVB 11.90 7 We have seen some of [the Cherokees] in our schools and colleges.
    LVB 11.95 25 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.
    EWI 11.147 10 Seen in masses, it cannot be disputed, there is progress in human society.
    War 11.151 16 War...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    War 11.161 12 The star once risen, though only one man in the hemisphere has yet seen its upper limb in the horizon, will mount and mount...
    FSLC 11.200 17 The hands that put the chain on the slave are in that moment manacled. Who has seen anything like that which is now done?
    JBB 11.268 12 Many of you have seen [John Brown]...
    JBB 11.271 27 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
    ALin 11.336 4 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen- perhaps even he-the proverbial ingratitude of statesmen;...
    ALin 11.336 6 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen mean men preferred.
    ALin 11.336 10 [Lincoln] had seen Tennessee, Missouri and Maryland emancipate their slaves.
    ALin 11.336 12 [Lincoln] had seen Savannah, Charleston and Richmond surrendered;...
    ALin 11.336 13 [Lincoln]...had seen the main army of the rebellion lay down its arms.
    HCom 11.345 2 We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.
    EdAd 11.388 22 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    EdAd 11.392 9 ...the Divine, or, as some will say, the truly Human, hovers, now seen, now unseen, before us.
    Koss 11.397 16 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
    Koss 11.399 1 We [people of Concord] have seen, with great pleasure, that there is nothing accidental in your [Kossuth's] attitude.
    Koss 11.399 3 We [people of Concord] have seen that you [Kossuth] are organically in that cause you plead.
    Shak1 11.449 17 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
    ChiE 11.472 2 China is old...in wisdom, which is gray hair to a nation,- or, rather, truly seen, is eternal youth.
    FRep 11.519 16 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of humanity...
    PLT 12.36 12 [Pan] was only seen under disguises...
    PLT 12.38 5 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new. Having seen them we are no longer brute lumps whirled by Fate...
    PLT 12.40 12 Insight assimilates the thing seen.
    PLT 12.49 4 As a talent Dante's imagination is the nearest to hands and feet that we have seen.
    PLT 12.49 26 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology.
    PLT 12.54 7 The novelist should not make any character act absurdly, but only absurdly as seen by others.
    PLT 12.55 7 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which, seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
    II 12.66 18 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of, that another man has seen or may see somewhat more than we, of the primary facts;...
    Mem 12.94 3 On seeing a face I am aware that I have seen it before...
    Mem 12.94 4 On seeing a face I am aware that I have seen it before, or that I have not seen it before.
    Mem 12.102 1 Who, [can judge] the new man? He that has seen men.
    Mem 12.105 10 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
    Mem 12.107 22 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but a reminder of its law...
    CL 12.142 22 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in this respect.
    CL 12.142 26 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    CL 12.143 27 ...you have [in Illinois] the monotony of Holland, and when you step out of the door can see all that you will have seen when you come home.
    CL 12.159 7 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know... where the noblest landscapes are seen...these we call professors.
    CL 12.162 10 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...
    CL 12.162 11 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where the Wilson's plover can be seen and heard?
    Bost 12.189 19 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
    Bost 12.208 19 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind...
    MAng1 12.222 24 Goethe says that he is but half himself who has never seen the Juno in the Rondanini Palace at Rome.
    MAng1 12.228 14 I have found, says [Michelangelo's] friend, some of his designs in Florence, where, whilst may be seen the greatness of his genius, it may also be known that when he wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    Milt1 12.252 13 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    Milt1 12.262 24 Among so many contrivances as the world has seen to make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.
    ACri 12.299 14 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it in any newspaper or journal...
    MLit 12.322 2 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...
    WSL 12.337 21 [John Bull] has never seen a good horse in America...
    EurB 12.366 15 ...[the poet's] verses must be spheres and cubes, to be seen and smelled and handled.
    EurB 12.373 18 ...[Bulwer] has really seen London society...
    PPr 12.386 7 ...everything [in Carlyle] is seen in lurid storm-lights.
    Let 12.402 18 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.
    Trag 12.405 1 He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.
    Trag 12.415 26 This self-adapting strength [of our human being] is especially seen in disease.

Seena, Abu Ali, n. (1)

    SwM 4.95 22 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...

seer, n. (15)

    AmS 1.91 1 ...instead of being its own seer, let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...and a fatal disservice is done.
    DSA 1.134 18 Always the seer is a sayer.
    MR 1.242 8 ...no separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself;...
    OS 2.269 14 ...the seer and the spectacle...are one.
    Pt1 3.36 9 There was this perception in [Swedenborg] which makes the poet or seer an object of awe and terror...
    SwM 4.131 13 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new crew of offenders.
    SwM 4.133 25 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
    SwM 4.141 14 ...it is certain that [the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must tally with what is best in nature. ... In this mood we hear the rumor that the seer has arrived...
    ShP 4.219 10 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us; and the heart of the seer and the heart of the listener sank in them.
    PI 8.26 26 [The true poet] is the healthy, the wise, the fundamental, the manly man, seer of the secret;...
    Imtl 8.347 3 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities.
    Dem1 10.10 19 Things are significant enough, Heaven knows; but the seer of the sign,-where is he?
    Chr2 10.103 26 The [moral] sentiment...measures...whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.
    Schr 10.275 19 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder.
    War 11.161 4 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness; and its actualization...predicted according to the light of each seer.

seers, n. (9)

    Prd1 2.233 18 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
    Nat2 3.167 3 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    MoS 4.181 9 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...an instinctive reliance on the seers and believers of realities.
    MoL 10.254 22 ...the scholars, the seers, have been false to their trust.
    LS 11.2 2 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    PPr 12.380 3 ...the merit of seers is not to invent but to dispose objects in their right places...

seer's, n. (1)

    AmS 1.93 8 ...the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months...

sees, v. (186)

    Nat 1.9 27 ...the guest sees not how he should tire of [these plantations of God] in a thousand years.
    Nat 1.16 22 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
    Nat 1.45 7 ...in the one thing [the wise man] does rightly, he sees the likeness of all which is done rightly.
    Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Nat 1.60 3 Idealism sees the world in God.
    Nat 1.60 13 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than the scandals of ecclesiastical history...
    Nat 1.71 23 [Man] sees that the structure still fits him...
    AmS 1.83 23 [The planter] sees his bushel and his cart...
    AmS 1.90 8 The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates.
    DSA 1.140 24 The village blasphemer sees fear in the face, form, and gait of the minister.
    LE 1.157 5 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline, but empty,-which whoso sees may fill with what wit and character is in him...
    LE 1.184 14 When [the scholar] sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.208 2 If only [a man] sees, the world will be visible enough.
    MN 1.214 16 ...a man never sees the same object twice...
    MN 1.217 16 He who is in love...sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved...
    Con 1.322 4 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    Tran 1.330 20 The idealist, in speaking of events, sees them as spirits.
    Hist 2.13 9 Genius...sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite diameters.
    Hist 2.23 16 Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind...
    Hist 2.33 10 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    Comp 2.101 5 ...the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis...
    Comp 2.105 26 ...[the unwise man] sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail...
    Comp 2.115 16 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
    SL 2.137 22 He who sees moral nature out and out...is a pedant.
    SL 2.138 7 One sees very well how Pyrrhonism grew up.
    SL 2.138 9 Every man sees that he is that middle point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
    SL 2.147 12 Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees.
    SL 2.148 14 As in dreams, so in the scarcely less fluid events of the world every man sees himself in colossal...
    SL 2.148 16 The good, compared to the evil which [every man] sees [in the world], is as his own good to his own evil.
    Lov1 2.171 7 ...each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured...
    Lov1 2.171 9 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error...
    Lov1 2.178 23 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues. For that reason the lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others.
    Lov1 2.178 27 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings...
    Prd1 2.221 8 ...whosoever sees my garden discovers that I must have some other garden.
    Prd1 2.223 3 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...
    Prd1 2.223 9 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.
    Prd1 2.223 23 [Culture] sees prudence not to be a several faculty...
    Prd1 2.235 26 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Hsm1 2.263 22 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    OS 2.296 13 [The soul] is not wise, but it sees through all things.
    Cir 2.317 16 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which...sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done...
    Int 2.326 11 Intellect...sees an object as it stands in the light of science...
    Art1 2.351 15 ...the same power which sees through [the painter's] eyes is seen in that spectacle [of nature];...
    Pt1 3.6 14 The poet is...the man...who sees and handles that which others dream of...
    Pt1 3.19 5 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web.
    Pt1 3.20 23 ...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step nearer to things, and sees the flowing or metamorphosis;...
    Pt1 3.22 11 ...the poet names the thing because he sees it...
    Pt1 3.26 7 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees;...
    Pt1 3.34 2 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent.
    Pt1 3.37 2 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
    Pt1 3.39 9 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning.
    Exp 3.66 21 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now reads and sees, and they will seize the pen and chisel.
    Chr1 3.96 11 ...[a man] sees only what he animates.
    Chr1 3.97 20 The hero sees that the event is ancillary;...
    Chr1 3.115 12 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me? if none sees it, I see it;...
    Nat2 3.185 15 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
    Nat2 3.189 19 As soon as [a man] is released from the instinctive and particular and sees [his speech's] partiality, he shuts his mouth in disgust.
    NR 3.236 4 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as a rack of clouds...
    NR 3.238 19 ...when [the recluse] comes into a public assembly he sees that men have very different manners from his own...
    NR 3.241 11 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room;...
    NR 3.243 17 As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object.
    NER 3.272 5 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done;...
    SwM 4.95 24 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together; and, on parting, the philosopher said, All that he sees, I know; and the mystic said, All that he knows, I see.
    SwM 4.119 25 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
    SwM 4.119 27 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
    SwM 4.125 5 [To Swedenborg] Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue of knowing and understanding. As he is, so he sees.
    SwM 4.136 21 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he sees with eyes and in the richest symbolic forms the awful truth of things...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    MoS 4.149 16 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
    MoS 4.154 14 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him; he sees nothing but the bundle of hay.
    MoS 4.155 5 [The skeptic] sees the one-sidedness of these men of the street;...
    MoS 4.172 2 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
    MoS 4.172 16 The wise skeptic is a bad citizen; no conservative, he sees the selfishness of property and the drowsiness of institutions.
    MoS 4.182 27 [The spiritualist's far-sighted good-will] sees to the end of all transgression.
    ShP 4.208 3 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age...gives way to a new age, which sees the works and asks in vain for a history.
    NMW 4.232 6 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges...
    GoW 4.275 24 [Goethe] sees at every pore...
    ET10 5.162 4 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land...
    ET14 5.248 14 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon...
    ET14 5.253 16 The poet only sees [the reptile or the mollusk] as an inevitable step in the path of the Creator.
    ET15 5.261 20 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted;...
    ET19 5.313 15 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day...
    F 6.11 13 Who meets [a man], or who meets [a woman], in the street, sees that they are ripe to be each other's victim.
    F 6.25 17 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye...sees that what is must be and ought to be...
    F 6.27 8 He who sees through the design, presides over it...
    F 6.30 7 One way is right to go; the hero sees it...
    Pow 6.58 27 The strong man sees the possible houses and farms.
    Pow 6.61 12 One comes to value this plus health when he sees that all difficulties vanish before it.
    Pow 6.74 19 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all; he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair.
    Wth 6.86 9 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Wth 6.107 3 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price...
    Ctr 6.145 18 Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen? One sees very well what their fate must be.
    Ctr 6.161 7 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Wsp 6.221 17 Law it is...which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
    CbW 6.257 27 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who, because he does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration...
    CbW 6.264 16 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things, does not despond...
    Bty 6.289 5 ...as fast as [a man] sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.
    Ill 6.319 20 The intellect sees that every atom carries the whole of nature;...
    Elo1 7.64 25 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude...
    Elo1 7.81 10 ...what if one should come of the same turn of mind as [a man' s] own, and who sees much farther on his own way than he?
    Elo1 7.93 10 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences uttered by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees...
    Elo1 7.98 22 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth...
    DL 7.126 10 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he...sees in each person original manners...
    DL 7.132 21 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond. Whilst he sees it, every thought and act is raised...
    WD 7.163 17 [Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.
    Cour 7.263 12 [The soldier] sees how much is the risk...
    Cour 7.266 24 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in wasps...
    Cour 7.269 3 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Cour 7.269 9 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.
    Suc 7.288 15 The public sees in [an invention] a lucrative secret.
    PI 8.10 14 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.
    PI 8.11 16 The lover sees reminders of his mistress in every beautiful object;...
    PI 8.17 23 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    PI 8.21 3 The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and roll this way and that...
    PI 8.24 21 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    PI 8.26 27 ...against all the appearance [the true poet] sees and reports the truth, namely that the soul generates matter.
    PI 8.30 11 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight: and the perception creates the strong expression of it as the man who sees his way walks in it.
    PI 8.33 16 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth.
    PI 8.35 11 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it to have a purpose and beauty...
    PI 8.39 12 Do [men] think there is chance or wilfulness in what [the poet] sees and tells?
    PI 8.41 20 The weaver sees gingham;...
    PI 8.41 21 ...the broker sees the stock-list;...
    PI 8.41 22 ...the poet sees the horizon...
    PI 8.58 16 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
    PI 8.74 9 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
    SA 8.87 19 No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours. And everybody sees certain moral benefit in it.
    Res 8.138 3 A philosophy which sees only the worst;...dispirits us;...
    Res 8.144 11 [The energetic man] sees expedients and means where we saw none.
    Comc 8.161 8 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it...
    PPo 8.255 26 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./
    PPo 8.264 31 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/...
    PPo 8.265 1 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/...
    Grts 8.302 22 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;...
    Grts 8.320 22 The man...who sees longevity in his cause;...he it is whom we seek...
    Aris 10.44 14 ...when I bring one man into an estate, he sees vague capabilities...
    Aris 10.44 16 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it.
    Aris 10.44 24 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point. The poet sees wishfully enough the result;...
    Aris 10.57 1 The wise man takes all for granted until he sees the parallelism of that which puzzled him with his own view.
    PerF 10.79 27 In each talent is the perception...of an order and series which preexisted in Nature, and which this mind sees and conforms to.
    PerF 10.83 6 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    PerF 10.83 10 [The susceptible man]...obeys a preexisting right which he sees.
    Chr2 10.99 17 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself.
    Chr2 10.107 10 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen. And one sees with some pain the disuse of rites so charged with humanity and aspiration.
    Chr2 10.114 3 The Church...clings to the miraculous...which has even an immoral tendency, as one sees in Greek, Indian and Catholic legends...
    Chr2 10.119 15 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky, where he Looks in and sees each blissful deity,/ Where he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
    Chr2 10.120 9 [Character] sees that a man's friends and his foes are of his own household, of his own person.
    Edc1 10.126 15 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear. No horizon shuts down. He sees things in their causes...
    Edc1 10.144 20 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or hears in music or apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    Edc1 10.144 23 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes practicable in mechanics or possible in political society, which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    Supl 10.169 21 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you... and he sees whether you see straight also...
    SovE 10.206 2 The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
    Prch 10.227 10 [The theologian] sees that what is most effective in the writer is what is dear to his, the reader's, mind.
    Prch 10.233 11 The author...sees the sweep of a more comprehensive tendency than others are aware of;...
    MoL 10.247 12 Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
    Schr 10.263 27 ...[intellect] sees no bound to the eternal proceeding of law forth into nature.
    Schr 10.274 2 [The scholar] is brave, because he sees the omnipotence of what which inspires him.
    LLNE 10.353 14 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic, which he sees to include all men in its law...
    Carl 10.497 10 ...now [the bad time] is coming, and the only good [Carlyle] sees in it is the visible appearance of the gods.
    War 11.165 22 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.
    FSLC 11.211 18 ...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...
    FSLN 11.225 24 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    FSLN 11.241 4 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
    AsSu 11.246 4 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./
    JBB 11.270 16 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man...who sees what a tiger's thirst threatens him in the malignity of public sentiment in the slave states.
    TPar 11.292 1 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always...because he sees that, whether he speak or refrain from speech, this is said over him;...
    SHC 11.431 25 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...
    FRep 11.522 2 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...sees its inevitable force unlocking itself in elemental order day by day...
    FRep 11.542 6 Whilst every man can say I serve...he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    PLT 12.12 4 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees...
    PLT 12.14 15 The poet sees wholes and avoids analysis;...
    PLT 12.17 4 ...I believe...that mind makes the senses it sees with;...
    PLT 12.23 12 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...
    PLT 12.33 17 The healthy mind...sees things in place...
    PLT 12.40 13 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    PLT 12.40 14 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    PLT 12.40 15 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    PLT 12.43 1 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    PLT 12.44 19 The intellect that sees the interval partakes of it...
    PLT 12.55 26 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration;...
    PLT 12.59 19 ...wit sees the short way...
    II 12.68 1 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief...
    Mem 12.98 8 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees;...
    CW 12.179 7 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...
    MAng1 12.241 27 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he sees it is already twenty-four o'clock...
    MLit 12.319 4 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end-an infinite good...
    PPr 12.380 6 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
    Trag 12.414 8 [The man who is centred] sees already in the ebullition of sin the simultaneous redress.

see-saw, n. (2)

    UGM 4.27 20 We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the state depends on the see-saw.
    F 6.45 13 If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will run into his sentences...

seest, v. (2)

    Con 1.296 16 Seest thou the great sea, how it ebbs and flows?...
    Fdsp 2.214 16 ...seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform...

seeth, v. (4)

    DSA 1.144 24 All men go in flocks...avoiding the God who seeth in secret.
    MN 1.223 3 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    GoW 4.268 2 That man seeth, who seeth that the speculative and the practical doctrines are one [say the Hindoos].
    Chr2 10.94 18 He who doth a just action seeth therein nothing of his own...

seething, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.342 6 ...whoso knows these seething brains...will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    Pow 6.57 20 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees, with seething brains...and everything begins to shine with values.

seigneurs, n. (1)

    OA 7.321 9 ...patricians or patres, senate or senes, seigneurs or seniors... and the like, all signify simply old men.

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