Seize to Sensations

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

seize, v. (14)

    MN 1.209 15 As children in their play run behind each other, and seize one by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen pilot.
    MR 1.239 7 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all seize their own...
    Fdsp 2.215 7 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. I ought then to dedicate myself to them. I go in that I may seize them, I go out that I may seize them.
    Int 2.331 26 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.
    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.
    PPh 4.63 1 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
    ET2 5.32 4 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up, which you...seize with the joy of a collector.
    Bty 6.291 22 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Insp 8.276 19 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad.
    Schr 10.268 15 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places with their grand alternatives, and Honor watches to see whether you dare seize the palms.
    EPro 11.318 12 Against all timorous counsels [Lincoln] had the courage to seize the moment;...
    EdAd 11.388 14 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics, sagacious only to seize the victorious side, have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...
    Mem 12.93 8 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    CInt 12.119 20 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people...

seized, v. (9)

    Nat 1.55 25 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and...seized their law.
    NMW 4.249 8 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful.
    ET4 5.72 14 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed...
    Ctr 6.136 20 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey...
    PPo 8.242 15 ...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against the generals of Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem, who seized him by the girdle and dragged him from his horse.
    CSC 10.374 25 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all...seized their moment, if not their hour [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    AKan 11.256 18 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? ... Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered? That Mr. Robinson of Fitchburg has been imprisoned? Rev. Mr. Nute of Springfield seized...
    JBS 11.276 15 And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/
    WSL 12.346 27 Mr. Landor's definitions are only enumerations of particulars; the generic law is not seized.

seizes, v. (8)

    Lov1 2.169 10 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...
    Lov1 2.174 11 ...the celestial rapture falling out of heaven seizes only upon those of tender age...
    Int 2.334 10 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as the word of its momentary thought.
    Wsp 6.221 18 Law it is...which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
    Cour 7.257 1 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth.
    PI 8.4 3 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...seizes his wild charger by the tail.
    Insp 8.293 21 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths; every mind seizes them as they pass;...
    Trag 12.411 4 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

seizing, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.197 22 Thou [my friend] hast come to me lately, and already thou art seizing thy hat and cloak.
    PI 8.47 7 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
    Comc 8.168 15 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 to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops in the classification;...
    EWI 11.115 23 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...

seizure, n. (1)

    Wth 6.109 19 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.

seizures, n. (1)

    Wth 6.110 2 ...after the war was over, we received compensation over and above, by treaty, for all the seizures [of American ships].

seken, v. (1)

    CL 12.136 10 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

Selah, n. (1)

    MR 1.249 22 We use these words [Faith and Hope] as if they were as obsolete as Selah and Amen.

Selden, John, n. (6)

    SwM 4.102 20 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests, as Aristotle... Selden...that a certain vastness of learning...is possible.
    ET5 5.76 27 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Selden, Dugdale, Newton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET14 5.238 3 ...[English] scholars, Camden, Usher, Selden...acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
    SS 7.10 21 The king lived and ate in his hall with men, and understood men, said Selden.
    Clbs 7.243 22 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare...Selden...
    Chr2 10.108 27 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.

Selden [Seldon], John, n. (1)

    CPL 11.505 7 Hear the testimony of Seldon, the oracle of the English House of Commons in Cromwell's time.

Selden's, John, n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 18 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Selden's Table-Talk;...

Seldens, n. (2)

    ET12 5.207 25 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;--Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys...
    Boks 7.192 24 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear,--the Fabricii, the Seldens...

seldom, adv. (49)

    Nat 1.50 21 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.
    AmS 1.83 21 The planter...is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    LE 1.185 12 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect whereof you will seldom hear from the lips of your new companions.
    Hist 2.29 23 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    Comp 2.113 22 In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom.
    Comp 2.115 22 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...though seldom named, exalt his business to his imagination.
    Lov1 2.174 14 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...
    Fdsp 2.203 24 We can seldom go erect.
    Fdsp 2.206 17 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted...that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Fdsp 2.214 26 I would have [my friends and my books] where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
    Prd1 2.223 16 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence...which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends...
    OS 2.285 13 In that other [man], though they had seldom met, authentic signs had yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.
    Gts 3.164 16 ...we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    Gts 3.164 21 ...we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit which is directly received.
    NER 3.255 19 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...
    PPh 4.42 27 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man...
    NMW 4.238 19 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible.
    GoW 4.288 20 We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
    ET8 5.141 26 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
    ET9 5.145 6 Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the English, in consequence of which they contract familiarity with friends who are of that nation, and seldom with others;...
    ET11 5.195 27 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    ET16 5.286 4 ...the nave of a church is seldom so long that it need be divided by a screen.
    Ctr 6.141 17 ...though we must not omit any jot of our system, we can seldom be sure that it has availed much...
    Bhr 6.167 9 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./ He looketh seldom in their face,/ His eyes explore the ground/...
    Bhr 6.186 2 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.
    CbW 6.248 19 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die...
    Civ 7.23 13 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.
    DL 7.111 8 Take off all the roofs...and we shall seldom find the temple of any higher god than Prudence.
    DL 7.125 19 How seldom do we behold tranquillity!
    WD 7.173 2 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls...
    Boks 7.193 22 ...I can seldom go there [to the Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
    Boks 7.200 2 ...Plutarch's Morals is...seldom reprinted.
    Clbs 7.230 21 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion.
    Cour 7.258 4 In war even generals are seldom found eager to give battle.
    PPo 8.251 9 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better...
    Imtl 8.331 9 There is a profound melancholy at the base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
    Dem1 10.18 16 [Demonic individuals] seldom recommend themselves through goodness of heart.
    Dem1 10.18 23 Seldom or never do [demonic individuals] meet their match among their contemporaries;...
    Edc1 10.136 14 ...the coming age and the departing age seldom understand each other.
    LLNE 10.331 25 It was remarked that for a man who threw out so many facts [Everett] was seldom convicted of a blunder.
    MMEm 10.406 5 Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.
    Thor 10.451 11 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him...
    War 11.169 21 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    PLT 12.13 14 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return.
    CW 12.177 11 ...the farmers seldom walk for pleasure.
    Milt1 12.249 3 Milton seldom deigns a glance at the obstacles that are to be overcome before that which he proposes can be done.
    ACri 12.305 3 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique. In society I do not find it, in modern books, seldom;...
    WSL 12.346 2 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.
    Pray 12.350 14 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes...

seld-seen, adj. (1)

    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- seld-seen flamens...

select, adj. (18)

    DSA 1.139 17 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul...
    Lov1 2.178 22 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues.
    Fdsp 2.201 5 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation which is a kind of absolute...
    Fdsp 2.211 27 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls...
    Mrs1 3.120 14 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...
    Pol1 3.216 22 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    ET6 5.105 25 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons;...
    DL 7.123 20 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do the select individuals whom he admires...
    DL 7.128 19 It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.
    Clbs 7.245 4 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes...to exchange his gifts for yours; and the first hint of a select and intelligent company is welcome.
    Clbs 7.246 3 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company, to the charging himself with too many select letters of introduction.
    QO 8.194 2 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour;...
    Edc1 10.141 11 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...requires good will, beauty, wit and select information;...
    Prch 10.227 3 What is essential to the theologian is, that whilst he is select in his opinions...he shall be broad in his sympathies,-not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    Plu 10.298 16 ...eminently social, [Plutarch]...surrounded himself with select friends...
    Milt1 12.254 10 [Milton] is identified in the mind with all select and holy images...
    MLit 12.311 22 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...
    MLit 12.325 22 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...

select, v. (9)

    MR 1.236 7 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...a man may select the fittest employment for his peculiar talent again, without compromise.
    SL 2.133 11 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
    Pol1 3.213 22 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself select his agents.
    NR 3.228 20 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one! what heart-drawings I feel to thee!...
    ET1 5.8 19 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...
    CbW 6.276 17 ...whatever art you select...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
    SS 7.14 2 Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly... with the energy of health to select what is ours and reject what is not.
    Thor 10.462 16 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones.
    HDC 11.33 27 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.

selected, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.369 17 I recall these few selected facts, none of them of much independent interest...

selected, v. (10)

    Nat 1.33 15 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth.
    MN 1.201 18 That no single end may be selected and nature judged thereby, appears from this...
    Tran 1.356 1 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists], some of whose traits we have selected;...
    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...
    HDC 11.41 23 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop... and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house of Captain Humphrey Hunt.
    SMC 11.355 23 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River; and...it looks as if the editors of the Southern press were in all times selected from this class.
    SHC 11.431 2 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    FRep 11.511 23 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...
    CInt 12.120 21 You, gentlemen, are selected out of the great multitude of your mates...
    EurB 12.372 24 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia, of which no special merit it can possess equals the total merit of having selected such a subject in such a spirit.

selecter, adj. (1)

    Shak1 11.452 27 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but... being again preferred to selecter companions, find no obstacle to ruling these as they did their earlier mates;...

selectest, adj. (2)

    Con 1.314 5 ...in the darlings of the selectest circles of European or American aristocracy, the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    PI 8.65 14 All [Nature's] kinds share the attributes of the selectest extremes.

selectest, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.222 27 ...gossip is a weapon impossible to exclude from the privatest, highest, selectest.

selecting, adj. (3)

    SL 2.144 4 A man is...a selecting principle...
    Wth 6.84 5 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
    Dem1 10.16 17 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe...

selecting, v. (2)

    CbW 6.276 21 ...whatever art you select...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
    Dem1 10.10 2 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints...

selection, n. (21)

    YA 1.367 20 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat]...
    YA 1.368 11 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work.
    YA 1.368 13 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work.
    SL 2.144 1 A man's genius...the selection of what is fit for him...determines for him the character of the universe.
    Art1 2.352 1 What is that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...
    Mrs1 3.130 19 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.
    Pol1 3.213 19 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as...by a selection of the best citizens;...
    GoW 4.261 6 [The writer's] office is a reception of the facts into the mind, and then a selection of the eminent and characteristic experiences.
    GoW 4.286 11 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents;...
    ET5 5.93 24 ...the vigilance of party criticism [in England] insures the selection of a competent person.
    ET12 5.212 11 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    Elo1 7.90 20 ...selection, tenacity of memory...are keys which the orator holds;...
    Boks 7.195 5 [Nature] does the same thing by books as by her gases and plants. There is always a selection in writers, and then a selection from the selection.
    Boks 7.195 6 [Nature] does the same thing by books as by her gases and plants. There is always a selection in writers, and then a selection from the selection.
    Boks 7.195 20 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;...
    PI 8.20 22 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image.
    PI 8.20 24 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image. The selection must follow fate.
    PI 8.36 9 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
    Plu 10.302 22 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments, through his loving selection alone, have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
    ACri 12.290 20 A good writer must convey the feeling of a flamboyant witness, and at the same time of chemic selection...
    WSL 12.344 23 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical selection of his heads proves this taste.

selections, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.129 8 Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results. These mutual selections are indestructible.
    QO 8.182 7 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages...
    MMEm 10.399 16 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine...

selectman, n. (1)

    HDC 11.44 15 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England]...

selectmen, n. (7)

    F 6.14 9 ...it would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote, to put the selectmen or the mayor and aldermen at the hay-scales.
    Pow 6.67 6 ...[Boniface] made good friends of the selectmen...
    Farm 7.149 26 The selectmen [of Concord] have once in every five years perambulated the boundaries...
    HDC 11.44 25 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen...
    HDC 11.54 23 In 1639, our first selectmen [from Concord]...were appointed.
    HDC 11.64 3 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory, I find the selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.
    HDC 11.65 7 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord...

selectmen's, n. (1)

    HDC 11.65 19 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds.

Selectmen's, n. (1)

    HDC 11.67 23 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

selects, v. (2)

    UGM 4.21 2 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place.
    QO 8.194 13 We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

self, n. (30)

    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.
    MR 1.247 2 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self...
    YA 1.393 27 [Philip II's] ambassador replied, Your Majesty's self is but a ceremony.
    Hist 2.7 10 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist...describes [to each reader] his unattained but attainable self.
    SR 2.82 2 I...at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is...the sad self...that I fled from.
    OS 2.292 19 ...for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.
    Pt1 3.23 11 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age...she detaches from him a new self...
    Exp 3.77 4 The great and crescive self...supplants all relative existence...
    NER 3.282 4 We would persuade our fellow to this or that; another self within our eyes dissuades him.
    UGM 4.35 2 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause.
    PPh 4.63 21 I give you joy, O sons of men!...that we have hope to search out what might be the very self of everything.
    SwM 4.123 22 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]... without one swell of vanity, or one look to self in any common form of literary pride!...
    ShP 4.212 6 [Shakespeare] was the farthest reach of subtlety compatible with an individual self...
    Ctr 6.135 2 Yet is this private interest and self so overcharged that if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
    Bhr 6.179 15 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self...
    Civ 7.20 14 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. It is the learning the secret of cumulative power, of advancing on one's self.
    Suc 7.289 23 [Egotists] are ever thrusting this pampered self between you and them.
    Suc 7.291 6 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.291 13 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value.
    PI 8.15 1 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
    QO 8.201 22 [Originality] is being, being one's self...
    Grts 8.320 19 The man...in whom no regard of self degraded the adorer of the laws...he it is whom we seek...
    Chr2 10.100 15 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which has no weakness of self...
    Edc1 10.154 25 ...in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for the returns of reason and the conquest of self;...
    MMEm 10.418 2 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed, and I am delighted with myself:-my dear self has done well.
    War 11.166 6 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join...
    FSLC 11.186 22 ...virtue is the very self of every man.
    ACiv 11.297 23 ...a man coins himself into his labor;...to secure that to him, to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government.
    MLit 12.315 24 [The selfish] invited us to contemplate Nature, and showed us an abominable self.

Self, n. (2)

    DSA 1.145 6 None assayeth the stern ambition to be the Self of the nation and of nature...
    SR 2.63 25 What is the aboriginal Self...

self-abandoning, adj. (1)

    MoL 10.242 13 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind.

self-abasement, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.122 10 [Character] extols humility,-by every self-abasement lifted higher in the scale of being.

self-accusation, n. (2)

    AmS 1.101 15 ...[the scholar] takes...the self-accusation, the faint heart... which are the nettles...in the way of the self-relying...
    MN 1.204 22 Self-accusation, remorse...are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...

self-acquaintance, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.198 2 The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude;...

self-acting, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.159 11 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...

self-activity, n. (1)

    Prch 10.224 4 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...

self-adapting, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.415 26 This self-adapting strength [of our human being] is especially seen in disease.

self-adjusting, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.105 22 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply.

self-affirmed, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.223 1 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal, self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...

self-annihilation, n. (1)

    SL 2.134 24 That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation.

self-approval, n. (1)

    MR 1.232 24 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration;...

self-asserting, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.58 18 Each talent is ambitious and self-asserting;...

self-assertion, n. (2)

    SA 8.102 25 With all our haste, and slipshod ways and flippant self-assertion, I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    PPo 8.252 17 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...

self-assured, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.48 12 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause...self-assured that it shall arrive at an absolute and sufficient one...

self-assured, v. (2)

    ET17 5.297 21 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was...self-assured that he should create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.
    AsSu 11.246 2 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./

self-balanced, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.121 4 Being is the vast affirmative...self-balanced...

self-centred, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.109 13 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/...

self-centred, v. (1)

    Schr 10.264 9 [The scholar] is here to be the beholder of the real; self-centred amidst the superficial;...

self-chosen, adj. (1)

    PI 8.7 5 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen...

self-collected, adj. (1)

    Hsm1 2.249 24 ...warned, self-collected and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let [a man] take both reputation and life in his hand...

self-command, n. (11)

    Nat 1.43 1 What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of Health!
    Hist 2.24 21 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities; courage...self-command...
    Prd1 2.235 18 By diligence and self-command, let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal...
    GoW 4.284 14 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...of a stoical self-command and self-denial...
    Ctr 6.159 18 [People] do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished, the charm of manners, of self-command, of benevolence.
    SA 8.85 19 Self-command is the main elegance.
    Dem1 10.20 19 All that frees talent without increasing self-command is noxious.
    Edc1 10.156 15 Have the self-command you wish to inspire.
    Supl 10.163 7 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command...
    LLNE 10.333 15 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;-feats which no man could better accomplish, such was his self-command and the security of his manner.
    SlHr 10.440 7 ...[Samuel Hoar's] self-command was perfect.

self-commanded, adj. (1)

    SL 2.129 5 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ Sole and self-commanded works/...

self-communion, n. (1)

    Prch 10.236 11 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...

self-complacency, n. (1)

    MLit 12.325 15 We are provoked with [Goethe's] Olympian self-complacency...

self-complacent, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.187 24 The strong, self-complacent Luther declares with an emphasis not to be mistaken, that God himself cannot do without wise men.

self-conceit, n. (5)

    Con 1.299 18 ...[reform] runs to egotism and bloated self-conceit;...
    NR 3.245 21 ...nature secures [every man] as an instrument by self-conceit...
    Ctr 6.142 8 I like people who like Plato. Because this love does not consist with self-conceit.
    PLT 12.9 3 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have...effectually suppressed this overweening self-conceit.
    Let 12.401 18 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...which melts self-conceit...

self-conceited, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.258 18 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.

self-congratulation, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.232 10 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.

self-constituted, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.120 16 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society, running through all the countries of intelligent men, a self-constituted aristocracy...

self-containing, n. (1)

    MoS 4.159 20 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...

self-content, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.132 12 All that fashion demands is composure and self-content.

self-control, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.214 21 I can see well enough a great difference between my setting myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act after my views;...
    Bhr 6.195 27 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control;...
    SA 8.86 22 Self-control is the rule.

self-creation, n. (1)

    SovE 10.183 16 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...

self-culture, n. (2)

    SR 2.80 22 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated Americans.
    GoW 4.288 8 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture.

self-deception, n. (1)

    OA 7.319 25 ...besides the self-deception, the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.

self-dedication, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.448 13 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved (and this when in his best strength), and his self-dedication thenceforward to unpaid services of the Temperance and Peace and other philanthropic societies...

self-defence, n. (5)

    YA 1.382 27 ...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence;...
    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...
    CbW 6.270 22 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent; and experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence...
    LLNE 10.358 8 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence...
    War 11.168 3 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence...

self-defended, adj. (2)

    UGM 4.28 24 ...whilst every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature, Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other. Each is self-defended.
    War 11.155 6 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being;...

self-defensive, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.285 16 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things, which are powers, self-defensive;...

self-denial, n. (13)

    DSA 1.131 9 ...even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins, if they did not wear the Christian name.
    MN 1.204 23 ...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 1.220 6 What a debt is ours to that old religion...teaching privation, self-denial and sorrow!
    Prd1 2.233 27 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    Int 2.341 18 A self-denial no less austere than the saint's is demanded of the scholar.
    GoW 4.284 14 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...of a stoical self-command and self-denial...
    Ctr 6.155 8 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
    PPo 8.248 24 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that...her glances can impart to him the fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].
    LLNE 10.332 27 In the pulpit...[Everett] made amends to himself and his auditor for the self-denial of the professor's chair, and...he gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    MMEm 10.419 19 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.
    FRep 11.531 7 If we never put on the liberty-cap until we were freemen by love and self-denial, the liberty-cap would mean something.
    MAng1 12.244 23 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature, and who seek by labor and self-denial to approach its source in perfect goodness.
    Let 12.395 22 It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this particular... if we were up to the mark of self-denial and faith in our general activity.

Self-denial, n. (1)

    Schr 10.265 16 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.

self-denying, adj. (4)

    NER 3.284 23 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...
    NMW 4.233 14 [Napoleon] is firm, sure, self-denying, self-postponing...
    SovE 10.205 2 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
    Milt1 12.273 6 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life...

self-dependence, n. (1)

    War 11.172 18 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...the Warwicks, the Plantagenets? It is their absolute self-dependence.

self-dependent, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.334 13 It is simpler to be self-dependent.
    SR 2.60 6 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it...is self-dependent, self-derived...
    Aris 10.57 23 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind...

self-derived, adj. (1)

    SR 2.60 6 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it...is self-dependent, self-derived...

self-devoted, adj. (1)

    SL 2.158 24 The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always instruct and command mankind.

self-devotion, n. (5)

    YA 1.387 14 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by perseverance, self-devotion...
    Exp 3.59 9 There is now no longer any right course of action nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.
    UGM 4.30 25 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders, who have sentiment, opinion, love, self-devotion; and they make war and death sacred;...
    MoS 4.155 10 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...no unrewarded self-devotion...
    Let 12.398 11 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said...there is now no longer any right course of action, nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.

self-directed, n. (1)

    AmS 1.101 18 ...[the scholar] takes...the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the...tangling vines in the way of the...self-directed;...

self-directed, v. (1)

    Civ 7.32 9 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are...I see what cubic values America has...

self-direction, n. (1)

    F 6.38 18 As soon as there is life, there is self-direction...

self-directions, n. (1)

    PI 8.7 8 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects...

self-disparagement, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.152 7 ...one of the traits down in the books as distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.

self-dissection, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.329 25 The young men were born with...a tendency to introversion, self-dissection...

self-distribution, n. (1)

    SS 7.14 11 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.

self-distrust, n. (1)

    HDC 11.53 18 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in their request to remain near the English...

self-elected, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.209 14 ...friends are self-elected.

self-equal, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.222 27 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal, self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...

self-equality, n. (3)

    SwM 4.103 1 Over and above the merit of [Swedenborg's] particular discoveries, is the capital merit of his self-equality.
    ET4 5.46 11 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate, but they have maintained constancy and self-equality for many ages.
    PPo 8.247 3 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...are in Hafiz...

self-esteem, n. (4)

    PC 8.230 22 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians swelling with self-esteem...
    Imtl 8.343 3 ...no prosperity is promised to our self-esteem.
    CInt 12.118 18 ...I note that we had a vast self-esteem on the subject of Bunker Hill, Yorktown and New Orleans.
    Milt1 12.264 1 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.

self-esteems, n. (2)

    UGM 4.22 24 ...in these new fields there is room: here are no self-esteems, no exclusions.
    Koss 11.399 10 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...crossing parties, nationalities, private interests and self-esteems;...

self-evident, adj. (2)

    Pol1 3.203 25 That principle [of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal just] no longer looks so self-evident as it appeared in former times...
    PPh 4.76 20 [Plato] attempted a theory of the universe, and his theory is not complete or self-evident.

self-evolving, adj. (2)

    Cir 2.304 1 The life of man is a self-evolving circle...
    PNR 4.86 3 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit...

self-examination, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.103 14 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on some asceticism or some practice of self-examinatioon to hold him to obedience...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Prch 10.231 21 We come to church properly for self-examination...

self-examining, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.380 16 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent...

self-executing, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.222 27 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal, self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...

self-existence, n. (6)

    Tran 1.334 18 Everything divine shares the self-existence of Deity.
    SR 2.69 7 The soul raised over passion...perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right...
    SR 2.70 14 Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause...
    PPh 4.48 22 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...and affirms the necessary existence of variety, the self-existence of both, as each is involved in the other.
    WD 7.184 9 There are people...who have self-existence and self-help;...
    Chr2 10.93 16 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all. Its attributes are self-existence, eternity, intuition and command.

self-existent, adj. (4)

    Tran 1.334 17 Everything real is self-existent.
    OS 2.289 15 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Pt1 3.14 20 ...physics and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...
    PNR 4.85 27 [Plato's] definition of ideas, as what is simple, permanent, uniform and self-existent...marks an era in the world.

self-explication, n. (1)

    Art1 2.352 6 What is a man but nature's finer success in self-explication?

self-fed, adj. (2)

    PC 8.216 11 Probably the men [early geniuses] were so great, so self-fed, that the recognition of them by others was not necessary to them.
    MLit 12.309 10 Our souls are not self-fed...

self-feeding, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.335 20 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star...

self-government, n. (5)

    Pol1 3.219 6 The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government...
    ET18 5.304 8 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;... in the instruction of the people, to qualify them for self-government...
    HDC 11.49 5 ...so be [the town-meeting] an everlasting testimony for [the settlers of Concord], and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self-government.
    FSLC 11.204 13 ...[Webster] has no faith in the power of self-government;...
    FRep 11.528 6 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance, cover self-government;...

self-gratulation, n. (1)

    UGM 4.24 26 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.

self-heal, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.195 3 All over the wide fields of earth grows the prunella or self-heal.

self-healing, n. (1)

    Nat 1.73 10 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...self-healing;...

self-help, n. (10)

    MR 1.246 6 Can we not learn the lesson of self-help?
    Con 1.320 7 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...never self-help, renovation, and virtue.
    Comp 2.117 18 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to...acquire habits of self-help;...
    DL 7.115 18 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help.
    WD 7.184 9 There are people...who have self-existence and self-help;...
    SovE 10.183 15 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    War 11.155 2 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle, which Nature had deeply at heart? What is that principle?-it is self-help.
    War 11.155 4 Nature implants with life the instinct of self-help...
    War 11.155 18 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of war...
    FRO2 11.487 19 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...exert the timid faculties until they are robust, and thus train him to self-help...

self-helped, v. (1)

    Civ 7.32 9 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are...I see what cubic values America has...

self-helping, adj. (3)

    SR 2.78 20 Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
    MoL 10.251 4 I wish the youth to be...a man dipped in the Styx of human experience, and made invulnerable so,-self-helping.
    Let 12.397 11 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions...

self-hood, n. [selfhood,] (2)

    Ill 6.320 12 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest...
    Dem1 10.22 14 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?

self-immolating, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.30 24 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.

self-indulgence, n. (5)

    MR 1.243 10 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence...
    Con 1.325 23 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society...
    PerF 10.84 14 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for property, but for use...and not for toys, not for self-indulgence.
    JBS 11.279 14 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise...
    PLT 12.60 19 Instantly [man] is dwarfed by self-indulgence.

self-indulgent, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.232 27 A man of genius...self-indulgent, becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
    Thor 10.453 2 Never idle or self-indulgent, [Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...

self-inquisitorial, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.129 20 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.

self-instituted, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.149 22 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher;...

self-interest, n. (3)

    MoS 4.176 27 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law...
    PC 8.230 19 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest...
    SovE 10.189 2 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...in spite of malignity and blind self-interest...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...

selfish, adj. (55)

    Nat 1.72 15 ...he that works most in [the world] is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong...he is a selfish savage.
    MR 1.230 21 The ways of trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft...
    MR 1.245 9 We shall be rich to great purposes; poor only for selfish ones.
    MR 1.250 21 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
    MR 1.252 24 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble and king from the foundation of the world.
    LT 1.280 1 If, [the man of ideas] says, I am selfish, then is there slavery... wherever I go.
    Tran 1.352 23 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height; I was at my old tricks, the selfish member of a selfish society.
    Tran 1.355 2 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation.
    YA 1.371 24 Men are narrow and selfish...
    YA 1.374 23 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence... which infatuates the most selfish men to act against their private interest for the public welfare.
    Art1 2.368 20 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    Pt1 3.3 7 ...if you inquire whether [the umpires of taste] are beautiful souls... you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
    Chr1 3.91 25 The men who carry their points...are themselves the country which they represent; nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.
    Chr1 3.103 23 Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
    Mrs1 3.141 6 ...intellect is selfish and barren.
    Mrs1 3.145 7 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees. What if they are in the mouths of selfish men...
    Gts 3.164 9 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    Pol1 3.220 11 ...there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    NER 3.269 17 In [scholars'] experience the scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends.
    NER 3.277 5 The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
    NMW 4.224 6 The first [conservative] class is timid, selfish, illiberal...
    NMW 4.224 8 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...
    NMW 4.231 4 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...compact, instant, selfish, prudent...
    NMW 4.242 12 The day of sleepy, selfish policy...was ended [in France]...
    NMW 4.255 13 ...[Napoleon] was intensely selfish;...
    NMW 4.258 18 Every experiment...that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
    ET1 5.17 18 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
    F 6.35 3 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down...into a selfish... animal?
    F 6.45 25 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
    F 6.47 17 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a sour face and a selfish temper;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Pow 6.67 4 [Boniface] was a social, vascular creature, grasping and selfish.
    Wth 6.114 14 ...proud people are intolerably selfish...
    CbW 6.254 9 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...
    CbW 6.256 24 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    CbW 6.263 12 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom, absolutely selfish...
    CbW 6.276 4 All sensible people are selfish...
    CbW 6.276 9 If you deal generously, the other, though selfish and unjust, will...deal truly with you.
    Elo1 7.62 11 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations...
    WD 7.166 14 The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
    PI 8.75 8 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to...leave them no countenance to say aught of what is so trivial as their selfish thinking and doing.
    QO 8.204 15 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed and not perverted to low and selfish account.
    Imtl 8.334 15 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui?
    PerF 10.78 21 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person strong for his duty...
    LLNE 10.355 21 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers...
    EWI 11.138 25 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled by underlings, ignorant, timid and selfish...
    FSLN 11.239 20 The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong and selfish.
    FRep 11.521 25 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...gambling them all away for a paltry selfish gain.
    FRep 11.536 7 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both...
    PLT 12.61 11 Intellect...runs down into talent, selfish working for private ends...
    CInt 12.127 9 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade.
    MLit 12.315 22 Thought for the selfish became selfish.
    MLit 12.317 5 A selfish commerce and government have caught the eye and usurped the hand of the masses.
    MLit 12.319 9 ...[Byron's] praise of Nature is thieving and selfish.
    EurB 12.374 9 Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were universal, not selfish;...
    Let 12.395 17 We do a great many selfish things every day;...

selfish, n. (3)

    DSA 1.147 24 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied...to the exaggeration of the finite and selfish...
    Nat2 3.179 4 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...
    MLit 12.315 22 Thought for the selfish became selfish.

selfishly, adv. (3)

    SR 2.73 20 I do this not selfishly but humbly and truly.
    Nat2 3.179 3 Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade.
    SHC 11.430 17 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature...

selfishness, n. (44)

    MR 1.232 16 ...the general system of our trade...is a system of selfishness;...
    MR 1.234 6 ...our laws which establish and protect [property] seem not to be the issue of love and reason, but of selfishness.
    MR 1.252 8 Our age and history...has not been the history of kindness, but of selfishness.
    Con 1.314 23 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance of it in private hours mitigates his selfishness...
    Tran 1.338 22 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
    YA 1.374 11 ...the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices is the preventive of famine;...
    Hist 2.40 25 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride...
    Comp 2.118 23 The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
    Fdsp 2.191 2 Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Cir 2.318 4 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good into every chink and hole that selfishness has left open...
    Cir 2.318 5 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good into every chink and hole that selfishness has left open, yea into selfishness and sin itself;...
    Mrs1 3.145 8 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees. What if they are...used as means of selfishness?
    Nat2 3.178 23 By fault of our dulness and selfishness we are looking up to nature...
    Pol1 3.210 14 ...[the spirit of our American radicalism]...is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    NER 3.277 6 The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
    NER 3.279 6 ...in spite of selfishness and frivolity, the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    UGM 4.24 9 The worthless and offensive members of society...never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.
    SwM 4.120 17 A man is in general and in particular an organized... selfishness or gratitude.
    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 4.176 9 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness plants best, prunes best...
    GoW 4.276 27 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought...
    ET11 5.174 11 The selfishness of the [English] nobles comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit.
    F 6.27 26 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
    CbW 6.256 13 The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of the two oceans, are effected, are paltry,--coarse selfishness, fraud and conspiracy;...
    WD 7.162 5 Our selfishness would have held slaves...
    Dem1 10.21 24 Great men feel that they are so by sacrificing their selfishness...
    Aris 10.63 17 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality...abhorring the selfishness of the rich...
    Aris 10.64 1 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of pitiless selfishness...
    Schr 10.285 3 These questions [of life] speak...to Genius...whose private counsels are not tinged with selfishness, but are laws.
    LLNE 10.365 26 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that proportion averse to labor, and were charged by the heads of the departments with a certain indolence and selfishness.
    MMEm 10.407 12 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert selfishness.
    EWI 11.100 24 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded. The hardest selfishness is to be borne with.
    EWI 11.109 20 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.
    EWI 11.146 26 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny.
    FSLC 11.183 7 A man of a greedy and unscrupulous selfishness may maintain morals when they are in fashion...
    Koss 11.400 21 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction from selfishness, indifference, or from property...you may encounter, we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...
    FRep 11.531 5 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus; not union or justice, but selfishness and cunning.
    Mem 12.92 14 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain.
    MLit 12.314 7 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...
    MLit 12.314 9 ...this habit of intellectual selfishness has acquired in our day the fine name of subjectiveness.
    MLit 12.317 7 ...selfishness and the senses write the laws under which we live...
    EurB 12.368 18 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt to reconcile these with the spirit of fashion and selfishness...
    Let 12.394 27 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. But, the selfishness!
    Let 12.395 19 We do a great many selfish things every day; among them all let us do one thing of enlightened selfishness.

selfism, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.133 22 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism...

self-kindled, adj. (3)

    Nat2 3.167 9 Self-kindled every atom glows,/ And hints the future which it owes./

self-knowledge, n. (5)

    Hist 2.37 26 A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
    SL 2.132 24 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom. This requires rare gifts. Yet without this self-knowledge there may be a sylvan strength and integrity in that which he is.
    Pt1 3.15 2 ...the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.
    PI 8.41 15 Our science is always abreast of our self-knowledge.
    Dem1 10.9 12 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge;...

self-limiting, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.254 26 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes...the fevers and distempers of men, self-limiting.

self-love, n. (8)

    ET2 5.28 11 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.
    ET4 5.49 26 ...we flatter the self-love of men and nations by the legend of pure races...
    Ctr 6.135 9 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
    Cour 7.253 8 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own;...
    SA 8.93 18 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
    Edc1 10.137 17 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune;...
    MMEm 10.409 3 It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none. The fact has generally increased piety and self-love.
    CInt 12.123 15 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...

self-made, adj. (3)

    NER 3.260 1 ...the self-made men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular graduates...
    SHC 11.431 12 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years;...its repairs self-made;...
    ACri 12.285 5 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots, self-made or college-made, who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.

self-moved, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.100 23 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good;...

self-naming, n. (1)

    PPo 8.252 9 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy.

self-pleasing, adj. (1)

    LT 1.277 18 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are...self-pleasing...men...

self-pleasing, n. (1)

    ET9 5.149 4 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing...

self-poise, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.137 5 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.
    Wsp 6.203 15 A self-poise belongs to every particle...
    Wsp 6.204 5 Nature has self-poise in all her works;...

self-poised, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.55 14 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical.

self-possessed, adj. (5)

    MN 1.217 3 Never self-possessed or prudent, [Love] is all abandonment.
    ET1 5.15 11 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command;...
    Bhr 6.186 14 Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
    Bhr 6.186 15 Those who are not self-possessed obtrude and pain us.
    Bhr 6.189 24 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is deep-founded...

self-possession, n. (12)

    Fdsp 2.211 18 ...the least defect of self-possession vitiates...the entire relation [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.237 17 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
    OS 2.277 22 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. ... All are conscious of attaining to a higher self-possession.
    Art1 2.356 23 When [dancing] has educated the frame to self-possession... the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...
    Ctr 6.159 14 A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be said to have arrived at self-possession.
    Bhr 6.171 9 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them; but when these have mastered her secret they...recover their self-possession.
    Elo1 7.74 8 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop...
    Cour 7.255 24 ...the pure article...self-possession at the cannon's mouth...is the endowment of elevated characters.
    Suc 7.295 16 He only who comes into this central intelligence...comes into self-possession.
    Elo2 8.118 25 ...deep interest or sympathy...will carry the cold and fearful presently into self-possession and possession of the audience.
    Chr2 10.102 14 Character denotes habitual self-possession...
    Prch 10.230 3 [The clergy's] first duty is self-possession founded on knowledge.

self-postponing, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.233 14 [Napoleon] is firm, sure, self-denying, self-postponing...

self-praising, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.267 4 Young men, I warn you against the clamors of these self-praising frivolous activities,-against these busy-bodies;...

self-preservation, n. (3)

    YA 1.374 13 ...the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
    MMEm 10.418 25 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor? Pho! self-preservation, dignity, confidence in the future, contempt of trifles! Alas, I am disgraced.
    EPro 11.325 3 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper, until the instinct of self-preservation forced us into the war.

self-protecting, adj. (3)

    Clbs 7.245 5 ...the club must be self-protecting...
    PerF 10.85 26 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a true analysis of these laws, showing how immortal and how self-protecting they are, would be a wholesome lesson for every time and for this time.
    FSLC 11.185 23 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] is interesting as it shows the self-protecting nature of the world and of Divine laws.

self-protection, n. (2)

    CbW 6.247 3 Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
    Cour 7.257 11 ...[the babe] comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

self-publishing, adj. (1)

    FRO2 11.487 5 Nothing really is so self-publishing, so divulgatory, as thought.

self-recoveries, n. (1)

    Exp 3.81 10 We must hold hard to this poverty...and by more vigorous self-recoveries... possess our axis more firmly.

self-recovery, n. (5)

    Nat 1.66 17 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it...is arrived at...by a continual self-recovery...
    AmS 1.91 3 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done.
    Cir 2.309 7 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery...
    PLT 12.58 17 There must be perpetual rallying and self-recovery.
    CInt 12.123 14 There must be the perpetual rallying and self-recovery;...

self-reference, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.135 5 ...if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
    Mem 12.97 1 ...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an intellectual man.

self-regard, n. (1)

    ET9 5.148 5 ...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is one of the secrets of their power and history.

self-registration, n. (1)

    GoW 4.262 1 In nature, this self-registration is incessant...

self-regulated, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.22 16 What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change;...

self-regulation, n. (1)

    Wth 6.107 15 There is in all our dealings a self-regulation that supersedes chaffering.

self-reliance, n. (25)

    LT 1.279 4 ...I urge the more earnestly the paramount duties of self-reliance.
    Hist 2.6 12 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the foundation...of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self-reliance.
    SR 2.50 4 Self-reliance is [society's] aversion.
    SR 2.69 24 Why then do we prate of self-reliance?
    SR 2.77 3 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
    SR 2.78 9 Discontent is the want of self-reliance...
    SR 2.87 20 ...the reliance on Property...is the want of self-reliance.
    Int 2.344 12 Entire self-reliance belongs to the intellect.
    Mrs1 3.131 15 There is almost no kind of self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it the freedom of its saloons.
    Mrs1 3.132 17 We are such lovers of self-reliance that we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position...
    NR 3.228 5 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for useful association, but they want either love or self-reliance.
    UGM 4.29 12 If we huff and chide [children] they soon come not to mind it and get a self-reliance;...
    Pow 6.54 27 ...the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
    Bhr 6.186 13 The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
    Bhr 6.190 23 Self-reliance is the basis of behavior...
    SS 7.7 11 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    Aris 10.60 20 One trait more we must celebrate, the self-reliance which is the patent of royal natures.
    Aris 10.65 20 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    SovE 10.206 23 We in America are charged...that our institutions, our politics and our trade have fostered a self-reliance which is small, liliputian, full of fuss and bustle;...
    FSLN 11.236 12 ...our education is...to know...that self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
    EdAd 11.387 16 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality in the careless self-reliance of the manners...
    FRep 11.522 19 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks. This...gives, of course, an easy self-reliance...
    FRep 11.528 5 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance, cover self-government;...
    FRep 11.534 27 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance...
    CInt 12.120 14 [Demosthenes] wins his cause honestly. His doctrine is self-reliance.

self-relying, adj. (2)

    SR 2.71 4 ...the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul.
    NMW 4.224 8 The second [democratic] class is selfish also, encroaching, bold, self-relying...

self-relying, n. (1)

    AmS 1.101 18 ...[the scholar] takes...the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the...tangling vines in the way of the self-relying...

self-repairing, adj. (2)

    Farm 7.142 21 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks;...the vat and piston, wheels and tires...are self-repairing.
    Res 8.139 13 The vat, the piston, the wheels and tires [of the earth]...are self-repairing.

self-reproaches, n. (1)

    SL 2.160 23 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not assisted him...heretofore?

self-respect, n. (26)

    YA 1.392 8 It is true, the public mind wants self-respect.
    Fdsp 2.192 6 See, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.
    Mrs1 3.136 21 The complement of this graceful self-respect, and that of all the points of good-breeding I most require and insist upon, is deference.
    ET5 5.82 23 Their self-respect, their faith in causation...have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
    ET11 5.194 8 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen]...
    ET13 5.215 22 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired resistance to tyrants, inspired self-respect...
    CbW 6.247 12 There are other measures of self-respect for a man than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
    Clbs 7.247 14 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
    Suc 7.288 6 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet have as much self-respect as the English...
    PC 8.210 23 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true nobles, by which the self-respect of each town and state is enriched.
    Grts 8.303 2 Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears.
    Grts 8.307 24 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man] consults his ease...
    Grts 8.309 14 If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems.
    Grts 8.313 11 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint.
    Grts 8.320 12 With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
    PerF 10.69 17 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect...
    Chr2 10.100 23 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention.
    Chr2 10.108 24 ...the stern determination...to be chaste and humble, was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    SlHr 10.437 11 ...[Samuel Hoar's] self-respect restrained him from any foolhardiness.
    SlHr 10.439 21 [Samuel Hoar] combined a uniform self-respect with a natural reverence for every other man;...
    FSLC 11.198 4 You have a law [The Fugitive Slave Law] which no man can obey, or abet the obeying, without loss of self-respect...
    FSLN 11.219 17 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...men of eloquent speech, but men without self-respect...
    JBS 11.280 19 ...all people, in proportion to their sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
    Wom 11.416 16 ...[antagonism to Slavery] has, among its other effects, given Woman a feeling of public duty and an added self-respect.
    Wom 11.417 21 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape. That they have not, is an eulogy on their taste and self-respect.
    FRO2 11.487 14 ...we all agree that the health and integrity of man is self-respect...

self-respecting, adj. (4)

    Mrs1 3.136 11 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy, and am struck with nothing more agreeably than the self-respecting fashions of the time.
    MoS 4.169 8 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms, no aspiration; contented, self-respecting and keeping the middle of the road.
    Plu 10.298 11 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man...
    FRep 11.538 21 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...self-respecting...obeyers of duty...

self-revealing, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.212 2 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from London or Washington law, of public opinion, to the self-revealing idea;...

self-reverence, n. (2)

    Aris 10.37 3 From the folly of too much association we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
    Milt1 12.255 1 ...we think it impossible to recall one in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same vibration of hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name of Milton awakens.

self-rule, n. (1)

    MN 1.217 14 ...is not he only unhappy who is not in love? his fancied freedom and self-rule-is it not so much death?

self-sacrifice, n. (2)

    Cour 7.253 16 Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew.
    Plu 10.318 3 [Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and self-sacrifice has made his books...a bible for heroes;...

self-sacrificing, adj. (2)

    Civ 7.24 4 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    LLNE 10.361 15 ...there was immense hope in these young people [at Brook Farm]. There was nobleness; there were self-sacrificing victims who compensated for the levity and rashness of their companions.

self-sacrificingly, adv. (1)

    Bhr 6.174 2 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars.

selfsame, adj. [self-same,] (9)

    AmS 1.96 24 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings...
    LE 1.159 17 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old, hard, peaked earth and its old self-same productions are made new every morning...
    LE 1.163 15 I am tasting the self-same life...which I so admire in other men.
    SL 2.165 16 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought, emotion as pure...these all are his...
    GoW 4.267 26 [The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,] are but one, for for both obtain the selfsame end...
    F 6.40 15 All the toys that infatuate men...are the selfsame thing...
    WD 7.183 10 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky.
    PI 8.9 4 ...galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of the selfsame energy.
    Imtl 8.349 3 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is not immortality, but eternity...appearing in the farthest east and west.

self-satisfied, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.158 26 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All...

self-searching, adj. (1)

    FRO2 11.487 24 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...an adult, self-searching soul...

self-seeker, n. (1)

    UGM 4.22 6 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which...bankrupts every self-seeker...that man liberates me;...

self-seekers, n. (2)

    PerF 10.86 19 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety, so that when canvassed we shall be found to be made up of a majority of reckless self-seekers.
    MLit 12.336 3 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies, skeptics, self-seekers...

self-similar, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.107 10 In the old aphorism, nature is always self-familiar.
    PC 8.224 7 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature, daunting, bewildering, but all penetrable, all self-similar;...

self-subsistency, n. (6)

    Pol1 3.212 10 Lynch-law prevails only where there is greater hardihood and self-subsistency in the leaders.
    Ctr 6.163 15 ...mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.
    War 11.173 13 This self-subsistency is the charm of war;...
    War 11.173 14 ...this self-subsistency is essential to our idea of man.
    FRO2 11.487 14 ...we all agree that the health and integrity of man is...self-subsistency...
    CInt 12.114 26 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.

self-subsistent, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.257 27 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.

self-sufficiency, n. (2)

    MR 1.237 26 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook, for they have some sort of self-sufficiency...
    ET8 5.133 7 There are multitudes of rude young English who have the self-sufficiency and bluntness of their nation...

self-sufficing, adj. (5)

    SR 2.71 3 ...the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing...soul.
    SL 2.165 18 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart as great, self-sufficing, dauntless... these all are his...
    OS 2.269 12 ...this deep power...whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour...
    Art1 2.356 2 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...is beautiful, self-sufficing...
    Imtl 8.340 14 [Truth] is self-sufficing, sound, entire.

self-sufficingness, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.99 11 The face which character wears to me is self-sufficingness.

self-supplied, adj. (1)

    NER 3.260 18 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...

self-supplying, adj. (1)

    QO 8.189 1 In every kind of parasite...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...

self-supporting, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.156 6 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays; no matter how much convenience, beauty, or eclat, it must be self-supporting.

self-surrender, n. (2)

    GoW 4.284 4 ...[Goethe] is incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment.
    Art2 7.49 24 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.

self-sustained, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.334 14 ...the deity of man is to be self-sustained...
    Gts 3.162 4 We wish to be self-sustained.

self-sustaining, adj. (2)

    Imtl 8.336 3 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?
    EWI 11.140 4 ...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority.

self-taught, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.239 22 Such [amatory] verses, chanted by their self-taught poets... will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...

self-tormentors, n. (1)

    Cour 7.274 15 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.

self-tormentor's, n. (1)

    Int 2.328 3 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...

self-trust, n. (17)

    AmS 1.100 17 [The scholar's duties] may all be comprised in self-trust.
    AmS 1.104 1 In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
    AmS 1.106 4 For this self-trust, the reason is deeper than can be fathomed...
    LE 1.160 16 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust...
    SR 2.56 23 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency;...
    SR 2.63 24 The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust.
    SR 2.76 20 Let a Stoic...tell men...that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear;...
    Hsm1 2.250 10 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence...
    Hsm1 2.251 26 Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
    Exp 3.81 8 That need [of seeing things under private aspect] makes in morals the capital virtue of self-trust.
    Suc 7.292 25 Self-trust is the first secret of success...
    Suc 7.295 4 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    Grts 8.314 11 Napoleon commands our respect by his enormous self-trust...
    Dem1 10.15 21 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
    Aris 10.65 27 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles; but the fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man...a self-trust which is a trust in God himself.
    PerF 10.78 15 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    Edc1 10.135 8 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one; to teach self-trust...

self-truth, n. (1)

    Suc 7.291 25 ...whilst this self-truth is essential to the exhibition of the world and to the growth and glory of each mind, it is rare to find a man who believes his own thought...

self-union, n. (1)

    SL 2.132 23 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom.

self-willed, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.522 20 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks. This...gives, of course, an easy self-reliance that makes him self-willed and unscrupulous.

sell, v. (41)

    MN 1.194 8 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found...any wares which thou couldst buy or sell...
    YA 1.378 13 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell;...
    SR 2.74 1 ...I cannot sell my liberty...to save [my friends'] sensibility.
    Prd1 2.234 15 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the State-Street prudence of buying by the acre to sell by the foot;...
    Hsm1 2.255 12 The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
    Cir 2.307 25 We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
    Pt1 3.33 6 ...dream delivers us to dream, and while the drunkenness lasts we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our religion, in our opulence.
    Exp 3.64 25 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed, and in the interim we will sell our books for the most we can.
    Exp 3.73 25 ...information is given us not to sell ourselves cheap;...
    Pol1 3.202 23 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    NR 3.247 6 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
    NER 3.252 9 One apostle thought all men should go to farming, and another that no man should buy or sell...
    UGM 4.4 9 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it...
    UGM 4.8 3 The boy believes there is a teacher who can sell him wisdom.
    ET4 5.64 4 The right of the husband to sell the wife has been retained [in England] down to our times.
    ET9 5.144 7 The king cannot step on an acre [in England] which the peasant refuses to sell.
    ET10 5.165 7 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...and all Europe cannot prevail on him to sell or compound for an inch of the land.
    ET10 5.169 7 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that the yeoman was forced to sell his cow and pig, his tools and his acre of land;...
    ET11 5.193 20 [English noblemen's] many houses eat them up. They cannot sell them, because they are entailed.
    ET17 5.295 2 The Edinburgh Review wrote what would tell and what would sell.
    ET18 5.301 25 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs...
    Wth 6.103 23 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    Wth 6.109 13 The ancient poet said, The gods sell all things at a fair price.
    Wth 6.119 6 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
    Suc 7.290 14 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn...the sale of goods through pretending that they sell...
    PerF 10.80 27 I knew a stupid young farmer...with whom the only intercourse you could have was to buy what he had to sell.
    Chr2 10.96 8 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
    Schr 10.259 3 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages/...
    Schr 10.259 4 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages/...
    EzRy 10.391 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] loved to buy dearer and sell cheaper than others.
    HDC 11.37 25 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
    HDC 11.69 13 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...
    HDC 11.69 18 ...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of this country.
    EWI 11.112 17 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years, and the non-praedials for four years. The other fourth of the apprentice's time was to be his own, which he might sell to his master, or to other persons;...
    AKan 11.257 7 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...sell our apple-trees, our acres, our pleasant houses.
    PLT 12.48 23 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain, but are made to sell, and will not hold any curtain but cobwebs.
    PLT 12.57 16 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear.
    AgMs 12.361 14 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
    AgMs 12.361 20 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November;...
    AgMs 12.361 21 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.
    AgMs 12.361 23 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.

seller, n. (1)

    CInt 12.118 13 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.

selling, v. (2)

    MR 1.234 14 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money, which is the selling [oneself] for a number of years...
    Wth 6.119 5 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without selling his land.

sells, v. (5)

    Wth 6.108 9 If a St. Michael's pear sells for a shilling, it costs a shilling to raise it.
    Ctr 6.155 14 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that sells the horse but builds the school;...
    Ill 6.317 6 [The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the peddler sells at the door;...
    Grts 8.317 18 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    FRep 11.532 10 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...with the same abandonment to the moment and the facts of the hour as the Esquimau who sells his bed in the morning.

selon, adv. (1)

    ET8 5.128 18 [The English] sported sadly; ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays, said Froissart;...

selves, n. (4)

    AmS 1.107 8 [The poor and the low] cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero...
    OS 2.276 24 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can.
    ET4 5.73 2 ...[the English] boast...that their horses are become their second selves.
    SA 8.90 4 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves...

Selwyn, George, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.192 4 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.

semblance, n. (10)

    MR 1.230 3 We thought [the money-catcher] had some semblance of ground to stand upon...
    MR 1.253 16 ...the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base. They only vote for these, because they were asked with the voice and semblance of kindness.
    Hist 2.19 16 The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
    Fdsp 2.204 9 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
    Cir 2.322 7 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
    Mrs1 3.127 14 Thus grows up Fashion, an equivocal semblance...
    SwM 4.110 16 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...and carrying up the semblance into divine forms,--delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    ET5 5.98 6 The [English] Universities galvanize dead languages into a semblance of life.
    ET8 5.134 27 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them.
    PPr 12.380 1 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a brave and just book, and not a semblance.

semblances, n. (1)

    PI 8.10 18 We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic.

semi-animal, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.68 10 ...as we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best,--so is this semi-animal exuberance [in the orator], like a good stove, of the first necessity in a cold house.
    Insp 8.276 9 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat;...

semi-barbarous, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.70 9 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in semi-barbarous ages... show what it aims at.

semi-canonical, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.218 22 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world...

semi-civilized, adj. (1)

    ACiv 11.304 17 The war is welcome to the Southerner;...and suits his semi-civilized condition.

semigod, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.129 2 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/

semi-Greeks, n. (1)

    ET14 5.254 5 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who love analogy...

semi-material, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.13 8 We are too passive in the reception of these material or semi-material aids.

semi-medical, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.24 16 ...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...

seminal, adj. (1)

    II 12.65 9 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...

seminaries, n. (1)

    ET12 5.209 12 These seminaries [English public schools] are finishing schools for the upper classes...

seminary, n. (1)

    ET12 5.200 23 [Oxford's] foundations date...from Arthur, if, as is alleged, the Pheryllt of the Druids had a seminary here.

semi-Saracen, adj. (1)

    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, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.

semi-savage, adj. (2)

    UGM 4.19 21 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general.
    PC 8.215 8 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...

semi-somnous, adj. (1)

    PI 8.51 17 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid...

semper, adv. (1)

    Supl 10.175 1 Semper sibi similis.

sempiternal, adj. (3)

    Cir 2.321 23 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to lose our sempiternal memory...
    PNR 4.88 25 [Plato's] writings have...the sempiternal youth of poetry.
    Suc 7.304 6 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication!

sempstresses, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.360 5 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm],- shoemakers, joiners, sempstresses.

senate, n. (15)

    DSA 1.143 21 Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market.
    LT 1.290 7 ...[the Moral Sentiment] rides the stormy eloquence of the senate, sole victor;...
    SR 2.56 11 Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college.
    SR 2.59 21 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field...
    Comp 2.109 9 ...this law of laws [Compensation], which the pulpit, the senate and the college deny, is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    SL 2.150 3 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate...
    Clbs 7.235 13 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in...the senate, or the chamber of science...
    OA 7.321 9 ...patricians or patres, senate or senes, seigneurs or seniors... and the like, all signify simply old men.
    OA 7.321 10 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the like, all signify simply old men.
    Elo2 8.115 13 We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism and the pulpit, peaceful professions;...
    Imtl 8.325 5 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial. It made...the priesthood a senate of sextons.
    EWI 11.137 1 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    FSLN 11.223 5 [Webster] seemed...born for the senate...
    Shak1 11.450 4 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    PLT 12.57 3 If a man show...bold front in the forum or senate, people clap their hands without asking more.

Senate, n. (15)

    NER 3.265 23 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him.
    NMW 4.228 5 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when in behalf of the Senate he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    Bhr 6.195 14 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus, President of the Senate, excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    Bhr 6.195 15 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus, President of the Senate, denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    Elo1 7.75 20 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    Elo2 8.113 22 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    Elo2 8.123 8 On his return in the winter to the Senate at Washington, [John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Elo2 8.125 15 ...when any orator at the bar or in the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...
    QO 8.183 9 Thirty years ago, when Mr. Webster at the bar or in the Senate filled the eyes and minds of young men, you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    Schr 10.269 25 Why need [the poet] meddle with politics? His idlest thought, his yesternight's dream is told already in the Senate.
    LVB 11.91 17 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of deserters for us; and the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives, neither hear these men nor see them...
    EWI 11.129 17 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
    AsSu 11.248 16 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    AsSu 11.251 3 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever lived. It is the high compliment he pays to the intelligence of the Senate and of the country.
    AKan 11.255 23 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate...speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.

Senate, United States, n. (4)

    Elo2 8.122 26 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams, at that time a member of the United States Senate at Washington, was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    Imtl 8.331 11 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate...
    Imtl 8.331 18 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues...
    GSt 10.504 4 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...

senates, n. (7)

    UGM 4.16 4 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    Ctr 6.161 19 ...Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity, before which the brawls of modern senates are but pot-house politics.
    Bhr 6.183 25 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
    Civ 7.21 27 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!...
    DL 7.107 9 The events that occur [in the home] are more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies.
    DL 7.108 3 Is it not plain that not in senates, or courts...but in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    Farm 7.138 9 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way...from mortified pleaders in courts and senates...

senator, n. (7)

    NR 3.246 8 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...
    ShP 4.198 25 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...
    Wsp 6.211 15 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust, as of senator or president, by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,-- the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    MoL 10.256 10 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    EWI 11.133 12 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons, and each senator with near half a million, if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    FSLC 11.203 4 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.
    Bost 12.205 12 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...

Senator, n. (2)

    Aris 10.45 14 It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
    EzRy 10.382 22 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776: Christopher Gore, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator in Congress;...

senators, n. (14)

    Pol1 3.218 13 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough...
    UGM 4.23 6 I applaud...an officer equal to his office; captains, ministers, senators.
    ET11 5.176 19 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars.
    Pow 6.63 21 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were not those who knew better...
    Bhr 6.188 12 People masquerade before us...as...senators, or professors...
    Ill 6.315 5 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold,--presidents of colleges and governors and senators...
    Clbs 7.238 15 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes...the senators in the capitol...
    Schr 10.282 4 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...
    EWI 11.129 24 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause...
    EWI 11.132 7 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.133 8 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    EWI 11.133 24 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives and senators at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants...there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    EWI 11.135 25 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives.
    FSLN 11.242 16 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.

Senators, n. (2)

    Aris 10.40 23 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators, Indian Brahmins... inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    FSLN 11.219 16 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...men of high station, a President of the United States, Senators...but men without self-respect...

senator's, n. (1)

    MoL 10.256 7 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...

send, v. (60)

    DSA 1.140 10 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money a hundred or a thousand miles...
    SR 2.85 3 ...the same blow shall send the white to his grave.
    SL 2.145 23 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection...
    Mrs1 3.131 9 ...to exclude and mystify pretenders and send them into everlasting Coventry, is [fashion's] delight.
    Gts 3.160 9 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
    ET5 5.95 26 Steam is almost an Englishman. I do not know but they will send him to Parliament next...
    ET8 5.132 24 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
    ET12 5.212 15 ...we all send our sons to college, and though he be a genius, the youth must take his chance.
    Pow 6.65 6 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Wth 6.107 24 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you.
    Wth 6.108 2 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him.
    Wth 6.110 5 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Ctr 6.142 12 You send your child to the school-master, but 't is the schoolboys who educate him.
    Ctr 6.142 14 You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
    Ctr 6.154 5 What is odious but...people...who send for the doctor...
    Bhr 6.170 25 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding-school...or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
    Bhr 6.193 2 It is sublime to feel and say of another...we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance;...
    Wsp 6.241 19 [The new church founded on moral science] shall send man home to his central solitude...
    CbW 6.261 21 ...send [a rich man] to Kansas...and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants...
    Civ 7.27 25 We had letters to send: couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough;...
    Civ 7.28 5 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters].
    Elo1 7.79 10 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander;...
    Elo1 7.79 11 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander;...
    Elo1 7.95 26 [The woods and mountains] send us every year some piece of aboriginal strength...
    Boks 7.205 13 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his Memoirs of Himself...
    Clbs 7.228 9 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder...is a wonderful relief.
    Suc 7.303 10 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which...send wonderful eye-beams across assemblies...
    Suc 7.305 26 Send a deep man into any town, and he will find another deep man there...
    Elo2 8.128 22 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.
    PC 8.207 21 Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology, to fly with [men] over the sea, and to send their messages under it.
    Imtl 8.322 2 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    Chr2 10.116 26 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons at home, and, if he did not return, would never think to send for them.
    Edc1 10.151 4 What fiery soul will [the college] send out to warm a nation with his charity?
    Supl 10.164 15 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
    SovE 10.198 8 ...as we send to England for shrubs which grow as well in our own door-yards and cow-pastures.
    EzRy 10.381 16 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school, not thinking himself able to send one son to college without injury to his other children.
    MMEm 10.420 5 ...it would send me [Mary Moody Emerson] packing to depend for anything.
    SlHr 10.443 15 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    Thor 10.460 24 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable. He replied,-I did not send to you for advice, but to announce that I am to speak.
    LS 11.22 21 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
    HDC 11.46 4 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
    HDC 11.84 19 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
    EWI 11.132 15 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    EWI 11.134 11 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders. What if we should send thither representatives who were a particle less amiable and less innocent?
    FSLC 11.188 6 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the dog-hutch he fled from.
    AsSu 11.248 16 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    AsSu 11.248 22 ...it will only do to send foolish persons to Washington, if you wish them to be safe.
    AKan 11.258 2 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.263 12 I wish we could send the sergeant-at-arms to stop every American who is about to leave the country.
    AKan 11.263 14 Send home every one who is abroad...
    SMC 11.369 16 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home.
    SMC 11.372 21 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes...
    ChiE 11.474 7 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art...
    FRep 11.511 18 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...
    FRep 11.516 5 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
    PLT 12.25 5 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.
    CL 12.152 23 ...[man's] old propensities will stir at midsummer, and send him, like an Indian, to the sea.
    Bost 12.194 26 These ancient men...send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
    ACri 12.298 18 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...
    AgMs 12.360 15 ...who is this book [the Agricultural Survey] written for? Not for farmers; no pains are taken to send it to them;...

sending, v. (10)

    LT 1.291 13 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.
    Prd1 2.233 25 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort, which nature is not slack in sending him, as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    Chr1 3.91 11 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    UGM 4.28 7 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
    PPh 4.40 15 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men...
    Res 8.148 7 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob. Try sending round the contribution-box.
    FRep 11.524 2 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    Bost 12.207 16 The Massachusetts colony grew...all the while sending out colonies to every part of New England;...
    Bost 12.209 5 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...sending out boughs and buds...
    MAng1 12.241 24 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...

sends, v. (28)

    Nat 1.46 15 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal;...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Comp 2.99 3 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    Lov1 2.181 12 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth before the soul...
    Pt1 3.23 14 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...
    Nat2 3.185 1 Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.
    Nat2 3.185 18 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms...with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    UGM 4.28 5 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 4.32 14 Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.
    MoS 4.174 9 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight, and sends back the votary orphaned.
    ET4 5.68 2 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood...
    ET8 5.129 17 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen].
    ET12 5.210 22 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men...
    ET13 5.227 17 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect;...
    ET13 5.227 18 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect; but also sends them the name of the person whom they are to elect.
    Pow 6.63 5 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Pow 6.67 23 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens.
    Bty 6.295 16 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    PI 8.32 25 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book.
    PerF 10.78 6 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky...
    Chr2 10.99 2 God sends his message, if not by one, then quite as well by another.
    Chr2 10.101 21 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Edc1 10.137 1 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
    Edc1 10.144 26 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world, when he sends into quiet houses a young soul with a thought which is not met...
    SovE 10.212 10 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment in which it was a happy type or symbol of the Power; but the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson...
    JBB 11.272 20 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    FRep 11.544 2 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    Bost 12.204 10 When [Nature] has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped for that.
    EurB 12.373 2 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press, which sends them to so many willing thousands.

Seneca, n. (7)

    Boks 7.211 25 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius...
    Insp 8.283 12 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...
    Plu 10.294 9 ...though the contemporary...of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch] does not cite them...
    Plu 10.311 10 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca...
    Plu 10.311 15 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca, a professional philosopher...
    Plu 10.311 26 Seneca was still more a man of the world than Plutarch;...
    Plu 10.312 11 Seneca, says L'Estrange, was a pagan Christian, and is very good reading for our Christian pagans.

Senectute, De [Cicero], n. (1)

    OA 7.315 12 [Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running commentary on Cicero's chapter De Senectute.

senes, n. (1)

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

seneschal, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.112 20 The gods must seat themselves without seneschal in our Olympus...
    SA 8.86 26 ...what a seneschal and detective is laughter!
    Mem 12.95 18 A seneschal of Parnassus is Mnemosyne.

seneschals, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.146 25 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy, or only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum. Yet that is the infirmity of the seneschals, who do not know their sovereign when he appears.

senility, n. (1)

    EPro 11.322 26 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...

senior, adj. (4)

    DL 7.104 18 ...chiefly, like his senior countrymen, the young American studies new and speedier modes of transportation.
    OA 7.315 3 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the Society...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    OA 7.315 4 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the Society, as well as senior alumnus of the University, was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    EzRy 10.382 15 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town.

Senior Classic, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 25 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...

senior, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.137 25 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul...

seniority, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.112 22 The gods must seat themselves without seneschal in our Olympus, and as they can instal themselves by seniority divine.
    DL 7.104 23 The small enchanter nothing can withstand,--no seniority of age...

seniors, n. (9)

    Tran 1.356 11 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect to this institution and that usage;...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    Tran 1.357 10 Grave seniors talk to the deaf...
    SR 2.48 21 ...[the youth] will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.
    Lov1 2.170 7 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love. But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors.
    OA 7.320 8 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors...
    OA 7.321 10 ...patricians or patres, senate or senes, seigneurs or seniors... and the like, all signify simply old men.
    OA 7.321 27 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...
    SovE 10.206 1 We delight in children...because of their reverence for their seniors, and for their objects of belief.
    Shak1 11.447 4 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...

sens, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 25 Diligence passe sens, Henry VIII. was wont to say, or great is drill.

sensation, adj. (2)

    Elo2 8.128 3 I should add what is told of [Dr. Charles Chauncy],--that he so disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might never be eloquent;...
    Prch 10.231 17 I do not love sensation preaching...

sensation, n. (15)

    Tran 1.331 12 The materialist, secure in the certainty of sensation, mocks at fine-spun theories...
    SR 2.55 26 The muscles...grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.
    Lov1 2.180 14 Concerning [poetry] Landor inquires whether it is not to be referred to some purer state of sensation and existence.
    Prd1 2.231 11 Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman, as invariably as sensation;...
    Exp 3.62 19 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation.
    MoS 4.149 1 Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and on the other morals.
    ET10 5.170 24 ...an erudition of sensation takes place [in England]...
    F 6.12 5 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill...serves to pass the time; the life of sensation going on as before.
    Wth 6.127 1 Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation;...
    Bty 6.306 12 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
    DL 7.126 20 ...beauty is not...the dower of man and of woman as invariably as sensation.
    PI 8.24 24 It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience;...
    Grts 8.303 13 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
    FSLC 11.179 10 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    PLT 12.39 1 A man is intellectual in proportion as he can make an object of every sensation, perception and intuition;...

sensations, n. (8)

    Nat 1.47 12 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations...
    LE 1.168 16 The man who...rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove, his sensations and his world are so novel and strange.
    Exp 3.72 12 ...there is that in us which...ranks all sensations and states of mind.
    Nat2 3.185 27 The child...without any power to compare and rank his sensations...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    PPh 4.63 10 The essence or peculiarity of man [said Plato] is to comprehend...that which in the diversity of sensations can be comprised under a rational unity.
    CbW 6.263 13 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...attentive to its sensations...
    Elo1 7.62 11 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations...
    MAng1 12.232 11 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.

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