Sense, Common to Sepals

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

Sense, Common, n. (1)

    LE 1.182 21 At one pole is Reason; at the other, Common Sense.

sense, n. (387)

    Nat 1.5 8 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man;...
    Nat 1.8 9 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind.
    Nat 1.15 21 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
    Nat 1.24 18 Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe.
    Nat 1.33 10 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense.
    Nat 1.33 11 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...
    Nat 1.33 23 In their primary sense these [proverbs] are trivial facts...
    Nat 1.35 16 By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature...
    Nat 1.37 8 What tedious training...to form the common sense;...
    Nat 1.47 4 Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man...in every object of sense.
    Nat 1.67 15 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    Nat 1.74 11 There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of their fathers, but their sense of duty has not yet extended to the use of all their faculties.
    AmS 1.90 26 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is...springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair.
    AmS 1.93 6 ...the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    DSA 1.121 2 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that grand word...
    DSA 1.132 25 ...[the simple] have not yet drunk so deeply of [the great soul' s] sense as to see that only by coming again to themselves...can they grow forevermore.
    LE 1.159 14 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew...
    LE 1.164 2 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
    LE 1.182 16 [The man of genius] must draw from the infinite Reason, on one side; and he must penetrate into the heart and sense of the crowd, on the other.
    MN 1.214 7 ...because ecstasy is the law and cause of nature, you cannot interpret it in too high and deep a sense.
    MN 1.219 23 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was...the overflowing of the sense of natural right in every clear and active spirit of the period.
    MR 1.239 12 Instead of the masterly good humor and sense of power and fertility of resource in himself;...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    LT 1.259 18 The Times...are to be studied...as sacred leaves, whereon a weighty sense is inscribed...
    LT 1.279 5 I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
    Con 1.316 26 ...the gravity and sense of some slave Moses...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Tran 1.330 6 [The idealist]...admits the impressions of sense, admits their coherency...
    Tran 1.330 11 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts not affected by the illusions of sense...
    Tran 1.331 21 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
    Tran 1.346 19 ...in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense.
    YA 1.388 13 I find no expression...of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood. I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense.
    YA 1.391 22 One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience...
    Hist 2.8 9 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    Hist 2.9 2 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense...
    Hist 2.25 21 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it...
    Hist 2.33 4 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make... the men of sense...
    SR 2.45 10 Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense;...
    SR 2.46 7 ...to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time...
    SR 2.64 11 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...
    Comp 2.114 4 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.
    Comp 2.114 6 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener, or to buy good sense applied to gardening;...
    Comp 2.114 7 It is best...to buy...in your sailor, good sense applied to navigation;...
    Comp 2.114 8 It is best...to buy...in the house, good sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving;...
    Comp 2.114 10 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs.
    Comp 2.122 11 There can be no excess to love...none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.
    SL 2.161 5 We are full of these superstitions of sense, the worship of magnitude.
    Fdsp 2.198 8 The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our mates, and the returning sense of insulation recalls us from the chase.
    Fdsp 2.207 20 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention, which good sense demands, destroys the high freedom of great conversation...
    Prd1 2.223 1 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    Prd1 2.232 9 [The man of talent's] art is...less for every defect of common sense.
    Prd1 2.232 22 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    Prd1 2.233 5 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.
    Hsm1 2.263 6 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty...
    OS 2.267 16 What is the universal sense of want and ignorance...
    OS 2.269 26 My words do not carry [the soul's] august sense;...
    OS 2.277 19 ...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. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart beats with nobler sense of power and duty...
    OS 2.282 2 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
    OS 2.282 14 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    Cir 2.301 8 We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms [the circle].
    Cir 2.314 26 The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense;...
    Cir 2.320 11 ...of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat;...
    Int 2.345 6 Say then, instead of too timidly poring into his obscure sense, that [the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
    Art1 2.349 28 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/ Whilst upper life the slender rill/ Of human sense doth overfill./
    Art1 2.352 5 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols.
    Art1 2.352 17 ...the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day and nation to convey his enlarged sense to his fellow-men.
    Art1 2.363 25 Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
    Art1 2.366 15 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and...convey their better sense in an oratorio, a statue, or a picture.
    Pt1 3.15 10 The beauty of the fable proves the importance of the sense;...
    Pt1 3.17 9 ...there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.18 17 ...we use defects and deformities to a sacred purpose, so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye.
    Pt1 3.30 12 Men have really got a new sense...
    Pt1 3.30 22 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Pt1 3.32 8 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    Pt1 3.34 14 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Exp 3.47 24 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
    Exp 3.59 20 Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, Children, eat you victuals, and say no more of it.
    Chr1 3.99 18 A man should give us a sense of mass.
    Mrs1 3.124 5 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power...
    Mrs1 3.127 11 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
    Mrs1 3.131 13 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
    Mrs1 3.132 4 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment...
    Mrs1 3.139 4 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense...
    Mrs1 3.139 22 ...fashion is not good sense absolute, but relative;...
    Mrs1 3.139 23 ...fashion is...not good sense private, but good sense entertaining company.
    Mrs1 3.140 16 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover sense, grace and good-will...
    Nat2 3.183 25 Common sense knows its own...
    Nat2 3.183 27 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
    Nat2 3.184 1 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
    Nat2 3.190 17 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind.
    Nat2 3.192 27 The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.
    Pol1 3.204 5 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...
    Pol1 3.214 11 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...
    NR 3.231 3 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
    NER 3.266 15 ...when [the individual's] will, enlightened by reason, is warped by his sense;...what concert can be?
    NER 3.267 1 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only, and without sense of weight.
    NER 3.268 9 A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    NER 3.274 1 We crave a sense of reality...
    NER 3.284 23 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority...
    UGM 4.17 8 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
    UGM 4.17 13 [The imagination] opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size...
    UGM 4.18 27 ...[a wise man] would establish [in our village] a sense of immovable equality...
    UGM 4.34 6 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery; but the sense of the pictures is sacred...
    PPh 4.61 13 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world...
    PPh 4.72 20 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live...usually, in the strictest sense, on bread and water...
    PPh 4.78 24 [Plato's] sense deepens, his merits multiply, with study.
    PPh 4.78 27 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys...
    PNR 4.82 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses.
    PNR 4.87 4 All the gods of the Pantheon are, by their names, [to Plato] significant of a profound sense.
    SwM 4.117 5 ...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with their translation into a moral or political sense.
    SwM 4.118 10 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices...
    SwM 4.120 5 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    SwM 4.121 8 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense.
    SwM 4.126 27 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love;...and from the sense of the words, his science.
    SwM 4.129 6 So far from there being anything divine in the low and proprietary sense of Do you love me? it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    SwM 4.145 6 Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense...
    MoS 4.164 14 ...[Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and probity.
    MoS 4.168 3 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head; treating every thing without ceremony, yet with masculine sense.
    MoS 4.171 10 The nonconformist and the rebel...discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
    MoS 4.176 7 Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts: common sense resumes its tyranny;...
    MoS 4.177 4 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
    MoS 4.185 9 The lesson of life is practically...to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.
    ShP 4.196 1 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune, so that reading for the sense will best bring out the rhythm,--here the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ShP 4.215 13 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic.
    NMW 4.225 14 [Napoleon] is no saint...and he is no hero, in the high sense.
    NMW 4.227 18 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    NMW 4.228 5 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    NMW 4.229 4 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things.
    NMW 4.238 15 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune. The same prudence and good sense mark all his behavior.
    NMW 4.245 18 ...in the prevalence of sense and spirit over stupidity and malversation, all reasonable men have an interest;...
    NMW 4.248 4 Bonaparte relied on his own sense...
    GoW 4.277 20 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...
    GoW 4.279 27 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense.
    GoW 4.280 3 Nature and character assist [Wilhelm Meister's passage from democrat to the aristocracy], and the rank is made real by sense and probity in the nobles.
    ET1 5.5 6 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will...give one...the sense of having been met...
    ET4 5.49 5 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war...
    ET4 5.58 17 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense...
    ET5 5.75 24 Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy...
    ET5 5.75 25 Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy...
    ET5 5.77 17 A hard temperament had been formed by Saxon and Saxon-Dane, and such of these French or Normans as could reach it were naturalized in every sense.
    ET8 5.132 14 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
    ET8 5.134 16 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET11 5.180 15 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    ET11 5.186 19 [The English upper classes] have the sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which disgusts in the aspiring classes...
    ET11 5.187 11 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry.
    ET13 5.222 5 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.
    ET13 5.223 14 The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms...
    ET14 5.232 1 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    ET14 5.234 23 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired;...
    ET14 5.235 22 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost. The English mind flowered in every faculty. The common sense was surprised and inspired.
    ET14 5.239 6 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;--the vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking resemblances, predominated.
    ET14 5.241 2 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    ET14 5.252 22 [A good Englishman] has learning, good sense, power of labor, and logic;...
    ET14 5.257 20 Through all his refinements...[Tennyson] has reached the public,--a certificate of good sense and general power...
    ET15 5.271 6 Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the London Times.
    ET15 5.271 7 Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the London Times. It is the comic version of the same sense.
    ET16 5.275 13 I told Carlyle that...I saw everywhere in the country [England] proofs of sense and spirit...
    ET16 5.279 1 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    ET17 5.292 1 A man of sense and of letters...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
    ET19 5.311 3 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong...
    F 6.6 10 The Greek Tragedy expressed the same sense [of Fate].
    F 6.21 1 ...if we give it the high sense in which the poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate;...
    F 6.48 25 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Pow 6.71 3 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty...
    Wth 6.92 25 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth...gave fame by his sense and energy to the name and affairs of the Tittleton snuff-box factory.
    Wth 6.93 7 Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves...
    Wth 6.125 15 ...there is no maxim of the merchant which does not admit of an extended sense...
    Ctr 6.137 7 Culture...puts [a man] among his equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy...
    Ctr 6.137 24 We must...meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
    Ctr 6.140 12 There are people who can never understand...any second or expanded sense given to your words...
    Ctr 6.141 8 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Ctr 6.147 3 No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages.
    Ctr 6.159 10 We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
    Bhr 6.173 2 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners--forms accepted by the sense of all--can reach...
    Bhr 6.180 18 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet, if in sympathy with the society, he shall not have a sense of this fact...
    Bhr 6.183 26 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms? Manners:...sense to see his advantage, and manners up to it.
    Wsp 6.212 26 ...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    CbW 6.258 25 A man of sense and energy...said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.
    CbW 6.269 20 ...folly in the sense of fun...can easily be borne;...
    Bty 6.284 5 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind;...
    Bty 6.289 24 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
    Bty 6.293 9 ...many a good experiment, born of good sense and destined to succeed, fails only because it is offensively sudden.
    Bty 6.304 9 Facts which had never before left their stark common sense suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.
    Ill 6.314 25 I knew a humorist who in a good deal of rattle had a grain or two of sense.
    SS 7.10 11 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be corrected by a common sense and experience.
    Civ 7.19 12 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment, as in practical power, religion, liberty, sense of honor and taste.
    Civ 7.22 11 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.
    Art2 7.37 6 ...[all the departments of life] translate each into a new language the sense of the other.
    Art2 7.38 7 Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
    Art2 7.39 12 In this sense, recognizing the Spirit which informs Nature, Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
    Art2 7.46 25 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    Art2 7.47 4 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it.
    Elo1 7.64 24 Young men...are eager to enjoy this sense of added power [of eloquence]...
    Elo1 7.69 21 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes...signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
    Elo1 7.88 11 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense...
    Elo1 7.88 13 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense.
    Farm 7.142 1 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense...
    WD 7.157 23 ...there is no sense or organ which is not capable of exquisite performance.
    WD 7.164 17 All tools are in one sense edge-tools...
    WD 7.182 19 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I had rather have none.
    Boks 7.191 9 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Boks 7.213 7 Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature.
    Clbs 7.236 15 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
    Clbs 7.240 12 Can you stop the motions of good sense?
    Clbs 7.246 1 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
    Suc 7.292 3 ...nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
    Suc 7.310 6 To awake in man and to raise the sense of worth...that is the only aim.
    Suc 7.310 25 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study, thought or heroism, and only hoped by good sense and fidelity to do what they could and pass unblamed?
    OA 7.318 22 ...looking at age under an aspect more conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    OA 7.320 9 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury...
    PI 8.3 2 The perception of matter is made the common sense, and for cause.
    PI 8.3 9 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
    PI 8.3 11 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds...
    PI 8.3 14 The common sense which does not meddle with the absolute... believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.6 1 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature...
    PI 8.6 20 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own, very different from the order which this common sense uses.
    PI 8.10 1 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see the law gleaming through, like the sense of a half-translated ode of Hafiz.
    PI 8.16 2 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is not forgotten.
    PI 8.19 7 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.20 2 Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
    PI 8.21 21 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs...all but itself. But this second sight does not necessarily impair the primary or common sense.
    PI 8.21 26 Poetry must first be good sense, though it is something better.
    PI 8.25 1 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure.
    PI 8.43 24 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry, in the literal sense of the term...
    PI 8.48 14 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
    PI 8.52 3 With...the first strain of a song, we quit the world of common sense...
    PI 8.53 14 Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero...but the beauty and soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    PI 8.54 9 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    PI 8.54 10 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    PI 8.65 4 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.
    PI 8.70 21 Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
    PI 8.71 5 In good society...is not everything spoken in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the sense?
    SA 8.79 6 ...in every sense the subject of manners has a constant interest to thoughtful persons.
    SA 8.87 18 No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours.
    SA 8.88 25 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    SA 8.89 12 Welfare requires...persons...who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue;...
    SA 8.90 17 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.92 19 [Speech] is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
    SA 8.100 8 It is the sense of every human being that man should have this dominion of Nature...
    SA 8.103 4 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good sense...combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
    Elo2 8.109 8 Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,/ Than [the patriot] to common sense and common good/...
    Elo2 8.121 3 In the church I call him only a good reader who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
    Elo2 8.124 6 In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
    Res 8.147 19 Against the terrors of the mob...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    Comc 8.158 15 [Animals'] activity is marked by unerring good sense.
    Comc 8.162 6 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow men can do little for him.
    Comc 8.164 17 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it, and the sense of the disproportion is comedy.
    QO 8.178 20 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that, in a large sense, one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.194 15 We read the quotation with [the writer's] eyes, and find a new and fervent sense;...
    QO 8.197 7 Our best thought came from others. We heard in their words a deeper sense than the speakers put into them...
    PC 8.205 7 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,/ Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense/ Inviting to new knowledge, one with old./
    PC 8.209 18 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power...
    PC 8.223 21 All things admit of this extended sense...
    PC 8.230 24 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...you are to make valid the large considerations of equity and good sense;...
    PPo 8.239 9 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos (more Oriental in every sense)...
    Insp 8.294 19 Words used in a new sense and figuratively, dart a delightful lustre;...
    Insp 8.295 8 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and spirit.
    Grts 8.316 18 We must have some charity for the sense of the people, which admires natural power...
    Grts 8.319 11 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense...
    Dem1 10.10 3 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense.
    Dem1 10.13 20 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.
    Dem1 10.14 13 Let me add one more example of the same good sense...
    Aris 10.39 15 I wish...men who...can feel and convey the sense which is only collectively or totally expressed by a population;...
    Aris 10.53 2 ...Genius...gives [men] a sense of delicious liberty and power.
    Aris 10.64 8 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
    Aris 10.64 10 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
    PerF 10.74 5 [Man's] whole frame is responsive to the world...every sense, every pore to a new element...
    PerF 10.82 12 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of its power on a keener sense.
    Chr2 10.93 14 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all.
    Chr2 10.114 2 The Church...clings to the miraculous, in the vulgar sense...
    Edc1 10.125 4 The use of the world is that man may learn its laws. And the human race have wisely signified their sense of this, by calling wealth, means,-Man being the end.
    Edc1 10.130 10 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age, but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...
    Edc1 10.140 7 In their fun and extreme freak [boys] hit on the topmost sense of Horace.
    Edc1 10.141 19 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Edc1 10.147 22 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read, and in good time can convey to all the domestic circle the sense of Shakspeare.
    Edc1 10.148 13 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...
    Supl 10.173 6 We...cannot live without much outlet for all our sense and nonsense.
    Supl 10.173 17 The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative citizens, who make the reserved guard, the central sense, of the world.
    Supl 10.174 25 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but a firm common sense through all her elephants and lions...
    SovE 10.184 11 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does;...
    SovE 10.185 11 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe. In the measure in which he has this sense he is a man...
    SovE 10.185 20 The finer the sense of justice, the better poet.
    SovE 10.188 23 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right...
    Prch 10.220 13 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them...
    Prch 10.220 21 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect, the surprise of the results and the sense of power, we are like hunters on the scent...
    Schr 10.271 16 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
    Schr 10.280 8 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours to an infinite common sense...
    Schr 10.280 26 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
    Schr 10.283 1 I wish...to see men's sense of duty extend to the cherishing and use of their intellectual powers...
    Plu 10.307 19 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.
    Plu 10.308 5 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to...make truth consist with sober sense.
    Plu 10.309 1 [Plutarch] is an eclectic in such sense as Montaigne was,- willing to be an expectant, not a dogmatist.
    Plu 10.314 26 So keen is [Plutarch's] sense of allegiance to right reason, that he makes a fight against Fortune whenever she is named.
    Plu 10.320 10 I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his Author and to his readers.
    LLNE 10.356 12 ...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists had a sense of duty which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.
    CSC 10.373 21 This [Chardon Street] Convention never...pretended to arrive at any result by the expression of its sense in formal resolutions;...
    MMEm 10.405 10 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts...discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.
    SlHr 10.448 17 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    Thor 10.456 3 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
    Thor 10.462 7 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense...
    Thor 10.463 6 [Thoreau!s] trenchant sense was never stopped by his rules of daily prudence...
    Thor 10.464 6 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    Carl 10.495 22 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral sense...
    GSt 10.504 2 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed...all gainsayers.
    LS 11.18 17 [Jesus] is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man, that is, an instructor of man.
    LS 11.25 3 ...whilst the recollection of [the pastoral office's] claim oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness, I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its highest functions.
    HDC 11.81 15 In 1787, the admirable instructions given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.
    HDC 11.84 1 I find our annals [of Concord] marked with a uniform good sense.
    LVB 11.88 1 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame/...
    EWI 11.118 18 We sometimes observe that spoiled children...seem to measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause.
    EWI 11.124 21 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born...with a sense of justice, as well as a taste for strong drink.
    EWI 11.125 7 The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties.
    War 11.152 25 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight...
    War 11.167 26 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit which the common sense of all mankind has set...
    FSLC 11.183 22 The sense of injustice is blunted,-a sure sign of the shallowness of our intellect.
    FSLC 11.207 4 ...I conceive it demonstrated,-the necessity of common sense and justice entering into the laws.
    FSLC 11.208 12 Why in the name of common sense and the peace of mankind is not [abolition] made the subject of instant negotiation and settlement?
    FSLN 11.219 26 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide...
    FSLN 11.220 2 ...it is always a little difficult to decipher what this public sense is;...
    FSLN 11.229 13 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed that the old religion and the sense of the right had faded and gone out;...
    FSLN 11.229 23 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal...to the men...of delicate moral sense.
    FSLN 11.229 24 ...there are rights which rest on the finest sense of justice...
    FSLN 11.231 23 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.
    FSLN 11.235 11 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    FSLN 11.242 23 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
    AsSu 11.248 2 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    JBS 11.279 6 [John Brown] grew up...having that force of thought and that sense of right which are the warp and woof of greatness.
    TPar 11.284 13 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.
    ACiv 11.303 20 Here again is a new occasion which heaven offers to sense and virtue.
    ACiv 11.310 20 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act, done under a strong sense of duty.
    ALin 11.331 20 ...[Lincoln] had a strong sense of duty...
    ALin 11.333 26 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions; what unerring common sense;...
    ALin 11.334 10 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph of the good sense of mankind...
    SMC 11.349 20 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    SMC 11.351 3 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...
    SMC 11.351 10 The sense of the town, the eloquent inscriptions the shaft now bears...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.358 5 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
    SMC 11.359 21 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott] a strong good sense...
    EdAd 11.387 1 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism, whose true sense is almost the reverse of its popular sense.
    EdAd 11.387 2 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism, whose true sense is almost the reverse of its popular sense.
    Koss 11.400 14 ...I speak the sense not only of every generous American, but the law of mind, when I say that it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who...think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    Wom 11.405 24 In this sense, as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.
    Wom 11.414 8 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this.
    Wom 11.424 19 ...whatever is popular...shows the spontaneous sense of the hour.
    RBur 11.440 19 [Burns's] muse and teaching was common sense...
    RBur 11.441 2 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters...
    Shak1 11.446 6 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
    Shak1 11.451 20 How good and sound and inviolable [Shakespeare's] innocency, that...speaks the pure sense of humanity on each occasion.
    Scot 11.464 27 [Scott's] good sense probably elected the ballad to make his audience larger.
    Scot 11.466 3 ...[Scott's] eminent humanity delighted in the sense and virtue and wit of the common people.
    Scot 11.466 27 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him from the faults and foibles incident to poets...
    FRep 11.516 27 Cant is good to provoke common sense.
    FRep 11.517 2 The trance-mediums, the rebel paradoxes, exasperate the common sense.
    FRep 11.517 7 The lodging the power in the people...has the effect of holding things closer to common sense;...
    FRep 11.537 15 The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment...
    FRep 11.540 22 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect...announcing its good pleasure that now...the world shall be governed by common sense and law of morals.
    PLT 12.31 26 ...a dog has a sense that you have not, to find the track of his master or of a fox...
    PLT 12.34 20 [Instinct] is that sense by which men feel when they are wronged...
    PLT 12.36 25 ...[Instinct] has a range as wide as human nature, running over all the ground of morals, of intellect and of sense.
    PLT 12.36 27 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense.
    PLT 12.46 11 The revelation of thought takes us out of servitude into freedom. So does the sense of right.
    PLT 12.46 22 Heaven is the exercise of the faculties, the added sense of power.
    PLT 12.49 23 ...I speak of [Talent] in quite another sense, namely, in the habitual speed of combination of thought.
    PLT 12.54 11 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is fast becoming sense...
    II 12.74 20 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.
    II 12.76 1 ...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    II 12.87 17 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal.
    Mem 12.92 24 Memory is...a living instructor, with a prophetic sense of the values which he guards;...
    Mem 12.93 4 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances...
    Mem 12.102 15 ...I suppose I speak the sense of most thoughtful men when I say, I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    Mem 12.108 10 The universal sense of fables and anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and geography.
    CInt 12.117 22 I presently know...whether [my companion's] sense of duty is more or less severe...than mine;...
    CInt 12.118 6 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice...
    CL 12.142 16 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals, their patient good sense...
    CW 12.179 11 ...when [the man] sees...the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic, as well as the sense and scope of the whole...
    CW 12.179 12 ...there is a general sense which the best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves unexplained.
    MAng1 12.216 14 Beauty in the largest sense...this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.
    Milt1 12.277 21 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions;...
    ACri 12.289 17 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...in the popular mind, the Devil is a malignant person. Yet all our speech expresses the first sense.
    ACri 12.300 11 The world, history, the powers of Nature,-[the poet] can make them speak what sense he will.
    MLit 12.313 23 ...the single soul feels its right...to summon all facts and parties before its tribunal. And in this sense the age is subjective.
    MLit 12.318 16 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.
    MLit 12.332 3 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance, as we might relate of a man that he had or had not the sense of tune...
    MLit 12.332 6 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he failed in the high sense to be a creator...
    WSL 12.345 16 What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men...or (in the popular sense) religious men, have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    AgMs 12.359 25 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of an erect good sense and independent spirit...
    EurB 12.367 1 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense;...
    PPr 12.391 19 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods, but in the burdens, refrains, and grand returns of his sense and music.
    Trag 12.417 3 ...higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are not distinguished from each other...

senseless, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.267 13 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...a senseless repeating of yesterday's fingering and running;...

senses, n. (136)

    Nat 1.5 4 In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;...
    Nat 1.9 2 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
    Nat 1.12 8 Under the general name of commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature.
    Nat 1.17 16 ...broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding;...
    Nat 1.31 18 The poet...bred in the woods, whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.39 25 From the child's successive possession of his several senses... he is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    Nat 1.47 15 In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Nat 1.48 10 ...[nature] is ideal to me so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses.
    Nat 1.49 14 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
    Nat 1.49 21 The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
    Nat 1.54 15 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    DSA 1.119 20 One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world in which our senses converse.
    DSA 1.123 3 [The moral sentiment's] operation in life, though slow to the senses, is at last as sure as in the soul.
    DSA 1.128 3 ...man...can only attend to what addresses the senses.
    LE 1.157 19 ...in every sane hour the service of thought appears reasonable, the despotism of the senses insane.
    LE 1.181 19 ...by this discipline, the usurpation of the senses is overcome...
    MN 1.205 24 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy;...
    MN 1.216 5 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses;...
    MR 1.256 15 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to greater sacrifices...
    Con 1.318 19 ...[the conservative party] lives in the senses, not in truth;...
    Tran 1.329 17 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses...
    Tran 1.329 18 ...the second class [Idealists] perceive that the senses are not final...
    Tran 1.329 19 ...The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell.
    Tran 1.330 9 [The idealist]...asks the materialist for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent them.
    Tran 1.330 17 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which it only needs a retirement from the senses to discern.
    Tran 1.340 4 ...the skeptical philosophy of Locke...insisted that there was nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the experience of the senses...
    YA 1.363 5 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children...
    Hist 2.15 11 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?
    Hist 2.15 21 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk, although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses...
    Hist 2.24 7 The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature, the perfection of the senses...
    Hist 2.25 26 The Greeks are...perfect in their senses and in their health...
    Hist 2.26 3 [The Greeks] made vases, tragedies and statues, such as healthy senses should,--that is, in good taste.
    Comp 2.103 21 ...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character.
    Comp 2.103 22 ...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character.
    Comp 2.111 1 The senses would make things of all persons;...
    SL 2.163 17 ...why should we be cowed by the name of Action? 'T is a trick of the senses,--no more.
    Lov1 2.169 15 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...and... enhances the power of the senses...
    Lov1 2.180 7 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
    Prd1 2.221 23 ...it would be hardly honest in me...whilst my debt to my senses is real and constant, not to own it in passing.
    Prd1 2.222 1 Prudence is the virtue of the senses.
    Prd1 2.222 8 The world of the senses is a world of shows;...
    Prd1 2.222 17 [Prudence] is legitimate...when it unfolds the beauty of laws within the narrow scope of the senses.
    Prd1 2.224 8 The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards...
    Prd1 2.228 6 If you think the senses final, obey their law.
    Prd1 2.229 8 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    Prd1 2.230 12 Let [the figures in this picture of life]...honor their own senses with trust.
    Prd1 2.232 3 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...
    OS 2.272 14 The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable;...
    OS 2.273 17 ...always the soul's scale is one, the scale of the senses and the understanding is another.
    OS 2.284 24 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity...
    Int 2.328 24 We do not determine what we will think. We only open our senses...and suffer the intellect to see.
    Int 2.335 22 The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
    Art1 2.367 17 [Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the ideal. Thus is art vilified; the name conveys to the mind its secondary and bad senses;...
    Pt1 3.6 10 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...
    Pt1 3.29 25 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Chr1 3.109 9 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses;...
    Chr1 3.114 15 ...the mind requires a victory to the senses;...
    Mrs1 3.122 7 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because...the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.
    Mrs1 3.138 27 ...at short distances the senses are despotic.
    Nat2 3.171 15 Cities give not the human senses room enough.
    Nat2 3.185 25 The child...the fool of his senses...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    NR 3.243 22 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    NR 3.246 20 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses;...
    NER 3.261 11 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected, but of much that the man be in his senses.
    NER 3.283 23 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    UGM 4.8 1 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and prophecy.
    UGM 4.18 23 True genius will...add new senses.
    PPh 4.52 6 By religion, [each student] tends to unity; by intellect, or by the senses, to the many.
    PNR 4.82 9 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    PNR 4.82 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses.
    MoS 4.153 3 ...the men of the senses revenge themselves on the professors and repay scorn for scorn.
    MoS 4.184 20 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him.
    GoW 4.274 6 ...in the solidest kingdom of routine and the senses, [Goethe] showed the lurking daemonic power;...
    GoW 4.277 9 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied,--as always there is a tendency,--to the service of the senses...
    ET10 5.163 6 All that can feed the senses and passions...in in open market [in England].
    ET14 5.234 8 Hudibras has the same hard mentality,--keeping the truth at once to the senses and to the intellect.
    ET14 5.234 12 Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses.
    ET14 5.254 14 A horizon of brass of the diameter of his umbrella shuts down around [the English student's] senses.
    ET14 5.255 18 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England]...the priapism of the senses and the understanding.
    Wth 6.91 7 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals...the riot of the senses...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Wsp 6.213 22 It is the order of the world to educate with accuracy the senses and the understanding;...
    Wsp 6.224 8 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination...
    Bty 6.303 11 ...the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
    Ill 6.311 8 The senses interfere everywhere...
    Ill 6.319 4 There are deceptions of the senses, deceptions of the passions...
    Farm 7.144 26 Our senses are skeptics...
    WD 7.157 9 All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of [the human body's] limbs and senses.
    WD 7.157 12 Machines can only second, not supply, [man's] unaided senses.
    Suc 7.298 19 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...with so many hints to his astonished senses;...
    Suc 7.303 23 ...the lover has more senses and finer senses than others;...
    OA 7.319 7 [The cup of time] opens the senses...
    OA 7.319 12 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time]...lose their stature, strength, beauty and senses...
    PI 8.23 24 The senses imprison us...
    PI 8.24 6 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
    PI 8.24 8 The senses collect the surface facts of matter.
    PI 8.24 23 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    Comc 8.160 27 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy, giving himself unreservedly to his senses...
    Imtl 8.325 12 The Greek, with his perfect senses and perceptions, had quite another philosophy [of immortality].
    Dem1 10.11 19 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not...be true in senses and to an extent never intended by the inventor.
    Dem1 10.25 17 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness that were to satisfy the uttermost wish of the senses without danger or a drop of sweat.
    Chr2 10.96 23 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without.
    Chr2 10.109 25 We boast the triumph of Christianity over Paganism, meaning the victory of the spirit over the senses;...
    Edc1 10.126 13 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.
    Edc1 10.134 20 Our culture has truckled to the times,-to the senses.
    Edc1 10.150 7 ...though every young man is born with some determination in his nature...it is, in the most, obstructed and delayed, and, whatever they may hereafter be, their senses are now opened in advance of their minds.
    SovE 10.206 27 We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our senses and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are desolated.
    Prch 10.220 3 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns. The senses instantly transfer the reverence from the vanishing Spirit to this steadfast form.
    Prch 10.224 13 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously active...
    Prch 10.225 2 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give new senses, new wisdom of its own kind;...
    Schr 10.279 23 These gifts, these senses, these facilities are excellent as long as subordinated;...
    Schr 10.281 15 ...[Plotinus] says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.
    MMEm 10.415 25 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor...
    Thor 10.461 13 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...
    Thor 10.471 15 [Thoreau's] power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses.
    Thor 10.481 10 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...
    Thor 10.481 21 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy. The scent, of course, reveals what is concealed from the other senses.
    War 11.152 17 War educates the senses...
    FSLN 11.227 23 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses.
    FRO2 11.489 5 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That claim...permits official and arbitrary senses to be grafted on the teachings.
    PLT 12.17 4 ...I believe...that mind makes the senses it sees with;...
    PLT 12.32 4 ...individual men have secret senses, each some incommunicable sagacity.
    PLT 12.37 23 The senses minister to a mind they do not know.
    PLT 12.38 21 ...the perception [of spiritual facts] thus satisfied reacts on the senses, to clarify them...
    PLT 12.39 26 The senses report the new fact or change;...
    PLT 12.46 5 Wishing is castle-building; the dreaming about things agreeable to the senses, but to which we have no right.
    II 12.80 13 Why should we be the dupes of our senses...
    Mem 12.90 19 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you...offer them somewhat disagreeable to their senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
    Mem 12.104 9 You may perish out of your senses, but not out of your memory or imagination.
    CInt 12.121 6 The order of the world educates with care the senses and the understanding.
    CL 12.156 18 There is somewhat finer in the sky than we have senses to appreciate.
    CL 12.156 23 Where is he who has senses fine enough to catch the inspiration of the landscape?
    Milt1 12.257 16 [Milton] had the senses of a Greek.
    MLit 12.317 8 ...selfishness and the senses write the laws under which we live...
    MLit 12.324 8 [Goethe] shared...the subjectiveness of the age, and that too in both the senses I have discriminated.
    MLit 12.331 1 ...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the dominion of the senses...
    EurB 12.366 13 The poet must not only converse with pure thought, but he must demonstrate it almost to the senses.

sensibilities, n. (2)

    Suc 7.301 7 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities...
    Suc 7.303 8 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...

sensibility, n. (58)

    Tran 1.345 2 ...the delicate [nature] will be shallow, or the victim of sensibility;...
    SR 2.74 2 ...I cannot sell...my power, to save [my friends'] sensibility.
    Exp 3.50 21 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown, if he falls asleep in his chair?...
    Exp 3.61 12 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Nat2 3.175 27 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.
    SwM 4.130 3 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed.
    NMW 4.255 7 Leave sensibility to women [said Napoleon];...
    ET4 5.67 7 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect. Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine perception and poetic construction.
    ET14 5.251 7 ...there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    CbW 6.257 16 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
    Bty 6.286 14 ...the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence never go out of fashion.
    Cour 7.265 6 ...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till they feel pain, whilst others of more sensibility anticipate it...
    Suc 7.295 18 ...in the scale of powers it is not talent but sensibility which is best...
    Suc 7.301 27 Ah! if one could keep this [moral] sensibility...
    Suc 7.302 11 This sensibility appears in the homage to beauty which exalts the faculties of youth;...
    Suc 7.304 18 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child' s voice fully addressed to him...
    Suc 7.305 13 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility gives welcome to all excellence...
    OA 7.328 20 Youth has an excess of sensibility...
    PI 8.30 7 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility...
    PI 8.36 20 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow...is event enough for him...
    SA 8.88 15 If...a man has not firm nerves and has keen sensibility, it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.
    Elo2 8.120 13 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...and indicates a rare sensibility...
    Elo2 8.126 24 ...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with those who have a quick sensibility.
    Res 8.139 27 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
    Res 8.140 18 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
    Comc 8.162 8 ...the sensibility to the ludicrous may run into excess.
    QO 8.194 19 The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader.
    QO 8.201 24 Genius is in the first instance, sensibility...
    PC 8.223 17 Nature, we find, is ever as is our sensibility;...
    Insp 8.282 7 ...there is this daily renovation of sensibility...
    Insp 8.287 19 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear; if you have sensibility, it admits you to sacred interiors;...
    Grts 8.319 24 It is not examples of greatness, but sensibility to see them, that is wanting.
    PerF 10.76 18 We define Genius to be a sensibility to all the impressions of the outer world...
    PerF 10.76 19 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions...
    PerF 10.82 8 The sensibility is all.
    Supl 10.170 23 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility...
    SovE 10.185 20 ...health, melody and a wider horizon belong to moral sensibility.
    Prch 10.230 25 ...over all, let [the young preacher] value the sensibility that receives, that loves, that dares, that affirms.
    MoL 10.241 11 ...before the shadows of these times darken over your youthful sensibility and candor, let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    Thor 10.465 8 I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in search of...
    FSLC 11.179 19 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any discomfort before. I find the like sensibility in my neighbors;...
    FSLC 11.188 11 ...all men that are born are, in proportion to their power of thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLN 11.223 23 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
    JBS 11.280 19 ...all people, in proportion to their sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
    ACiv 11.299 16 Is...this evolution of man to the highest powers, only to give him sensibility...
    SMC 11.358 21 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it, cost him what struggles it might. Yet it is from this temperament of sensibility that great heroes have been formed.
    Shak1 11.448 6 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
    FRO1 11.477 13 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    PLT 12.42 18 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world...
    PLT 12.43 9 The conduct of Intellect must respect nothing so much as preserving the sensibility.
    PLT 12.43 19 ...sensibility does not exhaust our idea of [genius].
    PLT 12.61 27 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power...
    CInt 12.128 10 Now if there be genius in the scholar, a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world...he is made to find his own way.
    CL 12.166 17 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found, with beauty, culture and sensibility, answers our purpose still better.
    Milt1 12.258 12 [Milton's] sensibility to impressions from beauty needs no proof from his history;...
    MLit 12.316 4 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only the sensibility of the sick...
    Let 12.398 18 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things, which only embitters their sensibility to the evil...
    Let 12.401 17 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul, to which the shy sensibility opens...

sensible, adj. (56)

    Nat 1.18 24 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides... will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Nat 1.25 22 ...thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things...
    Nat 1.36 19 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons of difference...
    Nat 1.40 16 Sensible objects conform to the premonitions of Reason...
    Nat 1.67 23 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    DSA 1.130 9 ...we become sensible of the first defect of historical Christianity.
    DSA 1.136 16 In how many churches...is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul;...
    MR 1.235 22 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    Tran 1.333 2 The materialist respects sensible masses...
    YA 1.393 8 The English...are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy]...
    SR 2.81 6 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue...
    OS 2.271 19 Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible.
    OS 2.288 7 Among the multitude of scholars and authors...we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than inspiration;...
    Cir 2.318 19 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
    Int 2.335 19 To be communicable [the thought] must become picture or sensible object.
    Mrs1 3.132 13 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    NR 3.229 23 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
    SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.119 2 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.
    ET3 5.36 16 ...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
    ET4 5.68 8 ...[Admiral Rodney] declared himself very sensible to fear...
    ET5 5.84 16 The Englishman wears a sensible coat buttoned to the chin...
    ET8 5.129 16 [The English] are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic and stubborn,--and as mild, sweet and sensible.
    ET8 5.131 26 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar. Being both vascular and highly organized, so as to be very sensible of pain; and intellectual...
    ET9 5.144 17 British citizenship is as omnipotent as Roman was. Mr. Cockayne is very sensible of this.
    ET11 5.197 25 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome. I wonder that sensible men have not been already impatient of them.
    ET13 5.222 13 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET14 5.235 18 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius. The tablets of their brain...were finely sensible to the double glory.
    ET16 5.288 27 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England. And, in England, I am quite too sensible of this.
    Ctr 6.160 10 Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.
    Wsp 6.218 17 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you...
    CbW 6.269 25 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.
    CbW 6.276 4 All sensible people are selfish...
    WD 7.164 6 Can anybody remember when sensible men...were plentiful?
    OA 7.318 7 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time...
    OA 7.326 14 Every one is sensible of this cumulative advantage in living.
    PI 8.21 8 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the celestial stream...
    PPo 8.239 13 The Persians and the Arabs...are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.
    Grts 8.304 3 A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of thinking to please.
    Grts 8.304 4 Sensible men are very rare.
    Grts 8.304 5 A sensible man does not brag...
    Chr2 10.121 3 In a sensible family, nobody ever hears the words shall and shan't;...
    Prch 10.223 21 I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion...
    MMEm 10.398 14 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends, but she is too soon sensible that she can set them as she wills;...
    HDC 11.53 15 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    EWI 11.121 8 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as strongly sensible of the blessings of liberty, as any that we know of in any country.
    War 11.161 23 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.
    ACiv 11.307 7 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not last;-not for want of sincere good will in sensible Southerners...
    ALin 11.332 14 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...affable, and not sensible to the affliction which the innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any one else.
    SMC 11.358 26 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... the most amiable, sensible, unpretending of men;...
    FRO1 11.478 3 We are all very sensible...of the feeling that churches are outgrown;...
    FRep 11.524 12 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people.
    CL 12.140 21 We are very sensible of this [power of the air], when, in midsummer, we go to the seashore, or mountains...
    CL 12.147 22 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to people who are growing old, against their will. A man in that predicament, if he stands... among young people, is made quite too sensible of the fact;...
    ACri 12.299 23 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
    EurB 12.373 8 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America. The effect on manners cannot be less sensible...

sensibly, adv. (2)

    Elo1 7.79 19 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go, as sensibly as a July sun or a December frost...
    EWI 11.136 19 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...

sensitive, adj. (8)

    MoS 4.165 7 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    ET8 5.137 22 Compare the tone of the French and of the English press: the first querulous, captious, sensitive about English opinion;...
    CbW 6.271 11 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces... exaggerated bad news and the rain. This is forlorn, and they feel sore and sensitive.
    PI 8.54 19 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags;...
    Res 8.137 8 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light;...
    PerF 10.86 27 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    MMEm 10.423 14 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field, with the sensitive Channing...what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    FSLC 11.203 5 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.

sensitive, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.140 23 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the sensitive.

sensitiveness, n. (1)

    YA 1.392 10 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure.

sensual, adj. (34)

    Nat 1.52 5 The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;...
    AmS 1.115 22 The study of letters shall be no longer a name...for sensual indulgence.
    DSA 1.135 3 Not any profane man, not any sensual...can teach...
    LE 1.186 4 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science;...
    MN 1.214 2 Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things...
    MR 1.244 17 We are first sensual, and then must be rich.
    Con 1.299 20 ...[reform] runs...to unnatural refining and elevation which ends in hypocrisy and sensual reaction.
    Hist 2.27 26 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people.
    Comp 2.103 25 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair;...
    Comp 2.105 4 We can no more...get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside...
    Comp 2.105 25 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man...is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt;...
    Comp 2.105 26 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man...is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt;...
    Prd1 2.228 8 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
    Hsm1 2.251 22 All prudent men see that the [heroic] action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
    OS 2.283 3 In past oracles of the soul the understanding seeks to find answers to sensual questions...
    OS 2.283 23 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love], heedless of sensual fortunes...never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    Art1 2.366 17 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes;...
    Pt1 3.3 7 ...if you inquire whether [the umpires of taste] are beautiful souls... you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
    Pt1 3.14 17 Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial.
    MoS 4.181 13 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position...
    NMW 4.224 21 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and most various means to that end;...
    NMW 4.258 18 Every experiment...that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
    ET14 5.247 19 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good.
    Civ 7.26 3 Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the cost of higher qualities: the man is sensual and cruel.
    DL 7.121 5 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which, excluding them from the sensual enjoyments which make other boys too early old, has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    PI 8.73 25 In the mire of the sensual life, [poets'] religion, their poets...are hosts of ideals...
    SA 8.86 24 You have in you there a noisy, sensual savage...
    PC 8.220 19 How much more are...the wise and good souls...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    PPo 8.250 10 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...
    Insp 8.283 6 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes, or whoever else, should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose...
    Edc1 10.150 9 [Young men] are more sensual than intellectual.
    MoL 10.242 3 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
    PLT 12.15 6 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect], and the great auguries that come from it, notwithstanding the impediments which our sensual civilization puts in the way.
    MAng1 12.240 18 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world...not to provoke but to purify the sensual into an intellectual and divine love.

sensual, n. (1)

    Hist 2.35 18 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful, by fighting down the unjust and sensual.

sensualism, n. (6)

    LT 1.276 21 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism, not slavery...are needed...
    Lov1 2.183 13 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women...
    Prd1 2.224 12 The true prudence limits this sensualism...
    Exp 3.54 19 On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism...
    Edc1 10.151 22 You see [the young man's] sensualism;...
    FRep 11.531 17 In this country...there is, at present, a great sensualism...

sensualist, n. (2)

    SR 2.74 8 ...the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes.
    ET14 5.248 6 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.

sensuality, n. (5)

    DSA 1.126 4 Man fallen...into sensuality, is never quite without the visions of the moral sentiment.
    Prd1 2.232 1 We have found out fine names to cover our sensuality withal...
    Aris 10.40 27 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach...even out of sensuality and sneers, is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Schr 10.279 10 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius...sensuality for art;...
    EWI 11.125 18 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness.

sensualized, v. (1)

    NER 3.270 9 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be...sensualized by unbelief.

sensually, adv. (1)

    Pt1 3.14 19 ...physics and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...

sensuous, adj. (9)

    Tran 1.330 21 [The idealist] does not deny the sensuous fact...
    Pt1 3.4 13 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...
    Bty 6.289 27 Beyond their sensuous delight, the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
    OA 7.318 25 From the point of sensuous experience...the estimate of age is low...
    PI 8.20 8 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    Plu 10.299 6 A poet in verse or prose must have a sensuous eye...
    LLNE 10.353 20 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...though against all sensuous probability, acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    Mem 12.91 24 Once [the active mind] joined its facts by color and form and sensuous relations.
    Mem 12.107 23 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was, a mere sensuous object before the eye or ear, but a reminder of its law...

sent, v. (75)

    AmS 1.83 20 The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    Comp 2.116 21 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...
    SL 2.145 20 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...
    Hsm1 2.246 25 Soph. Why should I grieve or vex for being sent/ To them I ever loved the best?.../
    Hsm1 2.258 23 ...[many extraordinary young men's] is the tone of a youthful giant who is sent to work revolutions.
    Pt1 3.7 18 ...some men, namely poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression...
    Chr1 3.106 10 It was only this morning that I sent away some wild flowers of these wood-gods.
    Chr1 3.109 10 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster.
    PPh 4.74 20 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment; and refusing to recant, in a caprice of the popular government was condemned to die, and sent to the prison.
    SwM 4.107 4 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor, with the heart and strength of the rudest Viking that his rough Sweden ever sent to battle.
    NMW 4.225 6 Paris and London and New York...were also to have their prophet; and Bonaparte was qualified and sent.
    ET1 5.10 10 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.
    ET4 5.62 1 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound...
    ET5 5.91 10 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...
    ET11 5.182 25 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
    ET12 5.201 13 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum, whither Elias Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.
    ET16 5.276 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament...
    ET16 5.280 22 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the dog-car...in which we were to be sent to Wilton.
    ET18 5.307 1 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament...
    Pow 6.55 10 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins.
    Pow 6.66 13 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market.
    Pow 6.69 2 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will cover you with glory...
    Ctr 6.131 21 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...
    Bhr 6.193 20 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Bhr 6.194 3 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit...
    Bhr 6.194 9 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
    Wsp 6.228 10 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness, and begged her to summon the nun without delay. The nun was sent for...
    Wsp 6.233 6 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...
    CbW 6.275 21 A man of wit was asked, in the train, what was his errand in the city. He replied, I have been sent to procure an angel to do cooking.
    SS 7.12 1 A backwoodsman, who had been sent to the university, told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
    Elo1 7.72 22 ...when he sent his great voice forth out of his breast...not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    WD 7.168 13 [The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party;...
    Clbs 7.235 20 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors.
    Cour 7.279 2 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
    Elo2 8.116 8 [The people] have sent their best men;...
    Res 8.143 16 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...
    Comc 8.165 16 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    Comc 8.165 17 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    Comc 8.166 10 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
    Insp 8.270 11 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Imtl 8.329 27 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said; for if life be a pleasure, yet since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us.
    MoL 10.242 5 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown. But the Heaven which sent him hither knew that well enough, and sent him as a leader to lead.
    MoL 10.242 24 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers;...
    MoL 10.257 24 I learn with joy and with deep respect that this college has sent its full quota to the field.
    Plu 10.295 10 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    SlHr 10.438 21 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...it was now time for the military officer to be sent;...
    Thor 10.460 17 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.460 22 ...[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.
    Thor 10.480 11 ...what were you [Thoreau] sent into the world for, but to add this observation?
    HDC 11.63 8 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England, with Mr. Stoughton, as agent for the Colony;...
    HDC 11.72 25 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
    HDC 11.81 24 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord]...
    EWI 11.115 9 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent out in the year 1837... describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
    EWI 11.117 21 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith (a governor of their own class who had been sent out to gratify the planters), threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...
    War 11.159 9 ...in 1705, Vaudreuil sent [Assacombuit] to France, where he was introduced to the king.
    AKan 11.256 27 This aid must be sent [to Kansas]...
    JBS 11.278 5 ...it chanced that in Pennsylvania, where he was sent by his father to collect cattle, [John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...
    SMC 11.364 2 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons...
    SMC 11.366 2 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...and sent to New Orleans...
    SMC 11.369 24 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
    SMC 11.370 12 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
    ChiE 11.471 3 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one opinion on this remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire in the world to the youngest Republic.
    CPL 11.498 22 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    FRep 11.512 2 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe...
    PLT 12.18 22 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action, to take body, only to carry forward the will which sent them out.
    CL 12.138 1 When the shipyards were infested with rot, Linnaeus was sent to provide some remedy.
    MAng1 12.231 25 Benedict XIV., during one of these panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and examine [St. Peter's dome].
    MAng1 12.236 4 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.
    MAng1 12.236 5 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.
    MAng1 12.238 3 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats. He therefore sent him four bundles of them...
    MAng1 12.240 16 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world as an image of the divine beauty...
    Milt1 12.259 12 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...
    ACri 12.292 22 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there being scarce a person of any note in England but what some time or other paid a visit or sent a present to our Lady of Walsingham...
    ACri 12.299 17 I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...
    AgMs 12.363 2 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms.

sentence, n. (70)

    Nat 1.41 26 ...every natural process is a version of a moral sentence.
    Nat 1.69 26 ...we accept the sentence of Plato, that poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
    AmS 1.93 5 Every sentence is doubly significant...
    AmS 1.94 2 Gowns and pecuniary foundations...can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.
    SL 2.153 2 The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
    OS 2.273 7 ...in languor, give us...a profound sentence, and we are refreshed;...
    OS 2.279 24 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    Cir 2.302 16 The Greek letters...are already passing under the same sentence and tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
    Int 2.338 7 ...a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    Int 2.343 8 The ancient sentence said, Let us be silent, for so are the gods.
    Int 2.347 5 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever relent so much as to insert a popular or explaining sentence...
    Pt1 3.34 3 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent. Every verse or sentence possessing this virtue will take care of its own immortality.
    NR 3.245 9 No sentence will hold the whole truth...
    UGM 4.17 15 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and a sentence in a book...sets free our fancy...
    PPh 4.55 14 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical.
    PPh 4.57 21 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    PPh 4.60 17 ...[Plato] paints and quibbles; and by and by comes a sentence that moves the sea and land.
    SwM 4.103 22 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...
    SwM 4.126 7 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
    SwM 4.144 16 [Swedenborg's] great name will turn a sentence.
    MoS 4.168 20 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence...
    MoS 4.181 24 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy...to turn your sentence with something auspicious...
    ShP 4.195 17 Malone's sentence is an important piece of external history.
    ShP 4.214 23 ...the sentence [in Shakespeare] is so loaded with meaning and so linked with its foregoers and followers, that the logician is satisfied.
    NMW 4.227 17 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon...deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    GoW 4.282 7 It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it
    GoW 4.283 17 However excellent [Goethe's] sentence is, he has somewhat better in view.
    ET1 5.9 25 An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more [to Landor] than all the censures.
    ET4 5.63 27 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.
    ET5 5.85 21 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
    ET6 5.115 1 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk]. Much attrition has worn every sentence into a bullet.
    ET9 5.146 7 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    ET14 5.235 3 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly; nor is a sentence made of Roman words alone, without loss of strength.
    ET14 5.241 24 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence, that Nature is commanded by obeying her;...
    Bhr 6.194 13 The legend says [the monk Basle's] sentence was remitted...
    CbW 6.257 1 It is a sentence of ancient wisdom that God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
    Ill 6.325 4 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    SS 7.7 2 We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful, not so much as write one clean sentence.
    SS 7.14 21 I know that my friend can talk eloquently; you know that he cannot articulate a sentence: we have seen him in different company.
    Elo1 7.64 13 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...
    Elo1 7.74 21 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
    Elo1 7.88 18 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    WD 7.178 16 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments...
    Boks 7.211 24 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius...
    PI 8.8 22 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence;...
    PI 8.11 25 We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly conversation without a similitude.
    PI 8.54 14 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...
    PI 8.54 19 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags;...
    QO 8.191 15 Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
    QO 8.194 9 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before...
    QO 8.195 8 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg, and wonders at the wisdom...
    QO 8.195 26 ...Hallam cites a sentence from Bacon or Sidney...and straightway it commends itself to us...
    QO 8.196 6 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
    QO 8.196 11 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...
    PC 8.218 1 ...a sentence, has played its part in great events.
    Imtl 8.324 6 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence...
    SovE 10.201 6 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
    Plu 10.317 15 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss. The puzzle in the worthy translator's mind between his theology and his reason well reappears in the puzzle of his sentence.
    LLNE 10.334 11 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises...but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
    HDC 11.59 4 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    EWI 11.136 4 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
    War 11.169 8 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame;...
    FSLN 11.243 23 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country, but with a lingering conscience which qualified each sentence with a recommendation to mercy.
    Mem 12.100 27 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...
    Mem 12.101 4 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.
    MAng1 12.232 1 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.
    ACri 12.296 24 Herrick's merit is the simplicity and manliness of his utterance, and, rarely, the weight of his sentence.
    ACri 12.297 10 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes hard hits all the time. There's more character than intellect in every sentence-herein strongly resembling Samuel Johnson.
    WSL 12.348 7 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence...
    Trag 12.412 9 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...verifying the primeval sentence of history on the permanency of that people, Their strength is to sit still.

sentenced, v. (1)

    ET4 5.63 26 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.

sentences, n. (50)

    Nat 1.70 3 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    DSA 1.126 10 The sentences of the oldest time, which ejaculate this piety, are still fresh and fragrant.
    DSA 1.151 12 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences...
    LE 1.166 16 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak,-to speak...with rhythmical balance of sentences,-as it was to sit silent;...
    SR 2.67 27 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames...
    OS 2.286 24 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the turn of his sentences...will involuntarily confess it...
    Int 2.335 1 The constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems.
    PPh 4.39 4 [Plato's] sentences contain the culture of nations;...
    SwM 4.103 12 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bonmots...
    MoS 4.168 9 The sincerity and marrow of the man [Montaigne] reaches to his sentences.
    ShP 4.208 13 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    GoW 4.269 11 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences...
    GoW 4.287 22 [Goethe] is...a writer of occasional poems and of an encyclopaedia of sentences.
    ET1 5.10 5 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
    ET14 5.236 25 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    ET14 5.256 13 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    ET17 5.294 22 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed.
    F 6.45 14 If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will run into his sentences...
    Pow 6.77 1 Dr. Johnson said, in one his flowing sentences, Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    Wsp 6.224 5 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
    Elo1 7.88 18 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are not always finished to the eye...
    Elo1 7.88 20 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved...
    Elo1 7.93 8 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences uttered by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees...
    Boks 7.211 27 ...one cannot afford to read for a few sentences;...
    OA 7.334 26 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...
    PI 8.19 15 Our best definition of poetry is one of the oldest sentences...
    PI 8.21 22 Pindar, Dante, yes, and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster, may all be parsed...
    QO 8.191 11 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence.
    PPo 8.245 10 ...[Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences...
    Chr2 10.111 23 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors...
    Schr 10.282 20 ...it is the end of eloquence...perhaps in a few sentences,- to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    Plu 10.299 25 ...Montaigne excelled his master [Plutarch] in the point and surprise of his sentences.
    Plu 10.302 20 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
    Plu 10.304 8 ...I cannot forbear to cite one or two sentences [from Plutarch] which none who reads them will forget.
    Plu 10.304 15 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces, uttering sentences altogether thoughtful and serious...continues her voice a thousand years...
    Plu 10.311 16 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca...a writer of sentences...
    LLNE 10.333 9 [Everett] abounded in sentences, in wit, in satire...
    LLNE 10.334 3 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons...
    EzRy 10.392 1 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable;...
    MMEm 10.408 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible...wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.
    MMEm 10.417 15 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...
    Thor 10.482 6 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts...
    EWI 11.115 14 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame. But I must be indulged in quoting a few sentences from the pages that follow it...
    PLT 12.52 15 It is much to write sentences;...
    Milt1 12.251 9 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings...not like Erasmus's sentences, which were made, not grown.
    ACri 12.291 8 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag.
    MLit 12.309 20 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    MLit 12.310 8 [Poems' light] is not in their grammatical construction which they give me. If I analyze the sentences, it eludes me...
    WSL 12.348 23 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last...on the value of his sentences.
    WSL 12.349 5 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.

Sentences, n. (1)

    Boks 7.218 26 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, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Sentences of Epictetus; of Marcus Antoninus;...

sentences, v. (2)

    SR 2.49 3 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
    MoS 4.172 24 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.

sentient, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.145 16 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature, rank over rank into sentient beings.

Sentiment, Moral, n. (2)

    LT 1.289 10 That reality, that causing force is moral. The Moral Sentiment is but its other name.
    Con 1.301 10 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present...

sentiment, n. (301)

    Nat 1.32 1 At the call of a noble sentiment, again the woods wave...
    Nat 1.41 4 ...Nature...lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
    Nat 1.42 14 ...this moral sentiment...is caught by man...
    DSA 1.120 23 A more...overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
    DSA 1.121 12 The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws.
    DSA 1.122 2 ...as this sentiment [of virtue] is the essence of all religion, let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment...
    DSA 1.122 4 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue]...
    DSA 1.122 7 The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.
    DSA 1.124 23 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment...
    DSA 1.124 24 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment...
    DSA 1.125 6 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures;...
    DSA 1.125 11 This sentiment [of virtue] is divine and deifying.
    DSA 1.125 25 ...[man] can never go behind this sentiment [of virtue].
    DSA 1.126 1 This [religious] sentiment lies at the foundation of society...
    DSA 1.126 6 Man fallen...into sensuality, is never quite without the visions of the moral sentiment.
    DSA 1.126 7 ...all the expressions of this [moral] sentiment are sacred...
    DSA 1.126 9 The expressions of this [moral] sentiment affect us more than all other compositions.
    DSA 1.136 13 Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
    DSA 1.138 27 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment...
    DSA 1.145 11 Once leave...your own sentiment...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    LE 1.165 25 The vision of genius comes by...giving leave and amplest privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.
    MR 1.240 4 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the indulgence of his sentiment;...
    MR 1.249 13 ...if...a woman or a child discovers a sentiment of piety...I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    MR 1.249 26 ...[the Americans] are deaf to a sentiment.
    MR 1.252 3 ...there will dawn ere long...on our modes of living, a nobler morning than that Arabian faith, in the sentiment of love.
    MR 1.252 13 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...
    LT 1.260 25 Meantime...arises Reform...and offers the sentiment of Love as an overmatch to this material might [of Conservatism].
    LT 1.272 13 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man...
    LT 1.276 24 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are needed,-but...reliance on the sentiment of man...
    LT 1.277 13 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment with personal and party heats...
    LT 1.280 23 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is no slave;...
    Con 1.304 9 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor of age...
    Con 1.321 22 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which, the moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout sentiment, are worthless.
    Tran 1.343 25 ...it is a fidelity to this sentiment [Love] which has made common association distasteful to [Transcendentalists.]
    YA 1.364 8 ...I hasten to speak of the utility of these improvements in creating an American sentiment.
    YA 1.365 3 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    YA 1.366 7 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.387 20 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation, one of a more generous sentiment...
    YA 1.389 15 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    YA 1.390 4 If a humane measure is propounded...for the succor of the poor; that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
    YA 1.390 17 We cannot give our life to the cause...of the pauper, as another is doing; but to one thing we are bound, not to blaspheme the sentiment and the work of that man...
    YA 1.394 2 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    YA 1.394 23 ...the system [of English aristocracy] is an invasion of the sentiment of justice and the native rights of men...
    Hist 2.15 19 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    Hist 2.27 14 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student] a sentiment of his infancy...he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    SR 2.45 5 The sentiment [original lines] instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
    SR 2.48 4 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    SR 2.83 4 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which...taste and sentiment will be satisfied also.
    Comp 2.102 6 That soul which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law.
    SL 2.155 6 ...the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    Lov1 2.169 4 Nature...in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    Lov1 2.169 19 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.171 6 ...we must...study the sentiment [of love] as it appeared in hope...
    Lov1 2.172 5 What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment [of love]?
    Lov1 2.177 21 [Love] expands the sentiment;...
    Fdsp 2.198 11 ...if [a man] should record his true sentiment, he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love...
    Prd1 2.239 13 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries], assume an identity of sentiment...
    Hsm1 2.257 8 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.
    OS 2.275 23 Within the same sentiment is the germ of intellectual growth...
    OS 2.276 11 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world...
    OS 2.294 19 ...the sources of nature are in [man's] own mind, if the sentiment of duty is there.
    Cir 2.315 18 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
    Cir 2.315 19 ...your bravest sentiment is familiar to the humblest men.
    Exp 3.51 12 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
    Exp 3.52 16 Some modifications the moral sentiment avails to impose, but the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Exp 3.68 21 ...the moral sentiment is well called the newness...
    Exp 3.72 17 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees. The sentiment from which it sprung determines the dignity of any deed...
    Chr1 3.106 13 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment;...
    Chr1 3.115 11 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
    Mrs1 3.129 27 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Nat2 3.178 22 ...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.
    Pol1 3.204 15 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement and the moral sentiment will write the law of the land.
    Pol1 3.205 26 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes, as...the religious sentiment, the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    Pol1 3.207 22 Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment of the present time accords better with it.
    Pol1 3.211 6 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.
    Pol1 3.220 22 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
    NER 3.262 24 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes.
    UGM 4.30 24 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;...
    PNR 4.87 16 Before all men, [Plato] saw the intellectual values of the moral sentiment.
    SwM 4.93 22 Wherever the sentiment of right comes in, it takes precedence of every thing else.
    SwM 4.94 2 For other things, I make poetry of them; but the moral sentiment makes poetry of me.
    SwM 4.94 19 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
    SwM 4.129 8 ...it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    SwM 4.135 13 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral sentiment...
    SwM 4.139 4 The largest is always the truest sentiment...
    MoS 4.153 11 [The men of the senses] believe...that there is much sentiment in a chest of tea;...
    MoS 4.175 8 I think that the intellect and moral sentiment are unanimous;...
    MoS 4.176 25 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places?
    MoS 4.183 5 The final solution in which skepticism is lost, is in the moral sentiment...
    MoS 4.183 8 All moods may be safely tried, and their weight allowed to all objections: the moral sentiment as easily outweighs them all, as any one.
    ShP 4.196 20 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual jewel, every flower of sentiment it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
    GoW 4.267 21 ...in...actions that...put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    GoW 4.268 5 The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    GoW 4.284 4 ...[Goethe] is incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment.
    ET5 5.87 14 It is not usually a point of honor, nor a religious sentiment... that [the English] will shed their blood for;...
    ET5 5.100 5 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET6 5.108 16 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    ET6 5.108 19 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature;...
    ET8 5.130 15 [The English] are of the earth, earthy; and of the sea, as the sea-kinds, attached to it for what it yields them, and not from any sentiment.
    ET10 5.154 5 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present century...
    ET11 5.172 11 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these sumptuous piles, and I suppose it is the sentiment of every traveller...It was well to come ere these were gone.
    ET12 5.208 6 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...
    ET13 5.215 12 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England]...
    ET13 5.215 19 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
    ET13 5.215 26 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...works to which the key is lost, with the sentiment which created them;...
    ET14 5.237 15 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson, full of heroic sentiment in a manly style, were received with favor.
    ET15 5.272 2 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields, by guidance of the public sentiment to the right.
    F 6.28 13 If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment.
    F 6.29 3 Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power.
    Bhr 6.187 19 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.
    Wsp 6.213 18 To this [moral] sentiment belong vast and sudden enlargements of power.
    Wsp 6.216 24 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own...
    Wsp 6.221 10 In us, [the law] is inspiration; out there in nature we see its fatal strength. We call it the moral sentiment.
    Wsp 6.227 10 In the progress of the character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment...
    Wsp 6.234 14 I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
    Bty 6.300 7 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Bty 6.306 9 ...the woman who has shared with us the moral sentiment,--her locks must appear to us sublime.
    Ill 6.319 6 There are...the structural, beneficent illusions of sentiment and of the intellect.
    Civ 7.19 11 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment...
    Civ 7.22 24 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy... guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind;...
    Civ 7.26 5 High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate;...
    Elo1 7.66 18 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens...
    Elo1 7.78 4 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
    Elo1 7.95 14 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    Elo1 7.95 25 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
    Elo1 7.97 23 The highest platform of eloquence is the moral sentiment.
    DL 7.129 20 ...the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.
    WD 7.177 23 The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment.
    Boks 7.199 2 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see...the supremacy of truth and the religious sentiment, he shall be contented also.
    Boks 7.204 4 What is really best in any book is translatable,--any real insight or broad human sentiment.
    Boks 7.218 23 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, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations.
    Clbs 7.231 3 Amidst all the gay banter, sentiment cannot profane itself and venture out.
    Cour 7.273 6 The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiment.
    Cour 7.273 25 ...whenever the religious sentiment is adequately affirmed, it must be with dazzling courage.
    Suc 7.296 23 Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine.
    Suc 7.300 15 If thought is form, sentiment is color.
    PI 8.11 14 The mind, penetrated with its sentiment or its thought, projects it outward on whatever it beholds.
    PI 8.18 4 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    PI 8.41 6 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    SA 8.85 16 ...the sentiment of honor and the wish to serve make all our pains superfluous.
    SA 8.88 9 If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...
    SA 8.104 23 The consolation and happy moment of life...is sentiment;...
    SA 8.106 1 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
    Elo2 8.132 7 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    Res 8.138 24 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    Comc 8.159 20 ...a prophet, in whom the moral sentiment predominates, or a philosopher...these do not joke...
    Comc 8.164 7 ...the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...
    Comc 8.164 11 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    Comc 8.164 14 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead. To the sympathies this...occasions grief. But to the intellect the lack of the sentiment gives no pain;...
    Comc 8.164 18 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...
    Comc 8.164 24 In religion, the sentiment is all;...
    Comc 8.164 26 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did;...
    Comc 8.165 22 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
    Comc 8.173 5 What is nobler than the expansive sentiment of patriotism...
    Comc 8.173 17 We do nothing that is not laughable whenever we quit our spontaneous sentiment.
    QO 8.192 22 The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
    QO 8.192 24 It never troubles the simple seeker from whom he derived such or such a sentiment.
    QO 8.202 1 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of thought. It implies Will, or original force, for their right distribution and expression. If to this the sentiment of piety be added...the oldest thoughts become new and fertile...
    PC 8.224 23 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand, its laws to his science, not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    PC 8.228 10 The foundation of culture...is at last the moral sentiment.
    PC 8.228 17 ...[science] does not surprise the moral sentiment.
    PC 8.229 27 When the will is absolutely surrendered to the moral sentiment, that is virtue;...
    PC 8.233 11 ...I draw new hope...from the healthy sentiment of the American people...
    PC 8.233 18 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society...
    PPo 8.250 12 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.
    PPo 8.261 5 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] love rises to a religious sentiment...
    Insp 8.281 13 Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
    Grts 8.302 20 ...the scholars represent...the intellect and the moral sentiment...
    Grts 8.307 1 ...[every man] shares with all mankind the gift of reason and the moral sentiment...
    Imtl 8.343 12 The moral sentiment measures itself by sacrifice.
    Imtl 8.347 22 ...see how the sentiment is wise.
    Dem1 10.26 4 It is wholly a false view to couple these things [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] in any manner with the religious nature and sentiment...
    Aris 10.50 3 ...the powers...of a priest [are determined] by the act of inspiring us with a sentiment which disperses the grief from which we suffered.
    Aris 10.54 18 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction...
    Aris 10.55 1 ...noble sentiment is the highest form of Beauty.
    Aris 10.56 16 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment.
    Aris 10.60 15 There is...no sentiment or thought that will not sometime embody itself in the form of a friend.
    Aris 10.62 16 ...[the gentleman] will find...in the civility of whole nations, vulgarity of sentiment.
    PerF 10.83 6 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    PerF 10.83 9 [The susceptible man] does not then invent his sentiment or his act...
    PerF 10.83 13 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it severs the man from all other men;...
    PerF 10.87 9 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
    PerF 10.87 18 The illusion that strikes me as the masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
    Chr2 10.93 5 ...humility is a sentiment of our insignificance when the benefit of the universe is considered.
    Chr2 10.94 14 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
    Chr2 10.95 16 Not by adding...does the moral sentiment help us;...
    Chr2 10.95 24 This wonderful [moral] sentiment...seems to be the fountain of the intellect;...
    Chr2 10.96 5 The moral sentiment is alone omnipotent.
    Chr2 10.96 15 ...under the action of this sentiment of the Right, [a man's] heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature.
    Chr2 10.100 27 When a man is born with a profound moral sentiment... men readily feel the superiority.
    Chr2 10.101 26 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart. The highest of these...elevate by sentiment and by their habitual grandeur of view.
    Chr2 10.103 6 The [moral] sentiment never stops in pure vision...
    Chr2 10.103 18 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Chr2 10.103 22 The [moral] sentiment...is the judge and measure of every expression of it...
    Chr2 10.104 20 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms...
    Chr2 10.107 15 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious; certainly not that they have less integrity or sentiment...
    Chr2 10.113 23 All the victories of religion belong to the moral sentiment.
    Chr2 10.114 23 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient...
    Chr2 10.115 3 The [moral] sentiment itself teaches unity of source...
    Chr2 10.117 11 There will always be a class of imaginative youths, whom poetry, whom the love of beauty, lead to the adoration of the moral sentiment...
    SovE 10.184 15 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.
    SovE 10.185 14 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment...
    SovE 10.188 3 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law...
    SovE 10.189 7 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms,-which we cannot do, for out duty requires us to be the very hands of this guiding sentiment...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    SovE 10.197 9 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...
    SovE 10.198 26 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...
    SovE 10.200 13 ...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and rises, it leaves crowds.
    SovE 10.207 2 We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our senses and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are desolated.
    SovE 10.208 20 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend, but in the moral sentiment and the metaphysical fact which the legends enclosed...
    SovE 10.212 3 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from all that talent executes to the sentiment that fills the heart and dictates the future of nations.
    SovE 10.212 6 The commanding fact which I never do not see, is the sufficiency of the moral sentiment.
    Prch 10.217 22 ...it appears...as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    Prch 10.219 17 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment...
    Prch 10.219 22 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon.
    Prch 10.220 10 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion...
    Prch 10.221 10 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration;...
    Prch 10.225 6 The lessons of the moral sentiment are...an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.
    Prch 10.227 26 [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] purpose is as real as Dante's sentiment and hatred of vice.
    Prch 10.228 20 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
    Prch 10.235 11 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...seeing that a sentiment never loses its pathos or its persuasion...
    Prch 10.236 6 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...refresh the sentiment;...
    Schr 10.274 26 It is the corruption of our generation that men...do not esteem life simply as a means of expressing a sentiment.
    Schr 10.275 8 Beauty belongs to the [moral] sentiment...
    Plu 10.300 2 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure.
    Plu 10.305 6 ...here is [Plutarch's] sentiment on superstition, somewhat condensed in Lord Bacon's citation of it...
    Plu 10.313 9 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...
    LLNE 10.326 24 ...the sentiment of patriotism is weak;...
    LLNE 10.329 18 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...warm negro ages of sentiment and vegetation,-all gone;...
    LLNE 10.336 24 The religious sentiment made nothing of bulk or size, or far or near;...
    LLNE 10.369 7 [Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared...
    MMEm 10.430 22 ...one secret sentiment of virtue, disinterested (or perhaps not), is worthy...
    Carl 10.495 9 ...pointing all his satire, is the severity of [Carlyle's] moral sentiment.
    HDC 11.29 9 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord]. The sentiment is just, and the practice is wise.
    HDC 11.72 5 A deep religious sentiment sanctified the thirst for liberty.
    LVB 11.95 27 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.
    LVB 11.96 3 ...God is in the [moral] sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.
    EWI 11.108 24 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment, that Providence had never made that to be wise which was immoral...
    EWI 11.135 17 ...[emancipation in the West Indies] was achieved by plain means of plain men, working not under a leader, but under a sentiment.
    EWI 11.147 2 I assure myself that this coldness and blindness [towards the negro] will pass away. A single noble wind of sentiment will scatter them forever.
    EWI 11.147 20 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom.
    War 11.152 8 ...in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions...
    War 11.156 25 Not only the moral sentiment, but trade, learning and whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war] down.
    FSLC 11.181 13 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers: not an unpleasing sentiment...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.186 20 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened: By the sentiment of duty.
    FSLC 11.188 8 ...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. It is contrary to the primal sentiment of duty...
    FSLC 11.193 23 The very defence which the God of Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.
    FSLC 11.205 2 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment...
    FSLC 11.213 13 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed.
    FSLN 11.228 1 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals. There was something like an attempt to debauch the moral sentiment of the clergy and of the youth.
    FSLN 11.236 14 The insight of the religious sentiment will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.
    AKan 11.260 20 Is it to be supposed that there are no men in Carolina who dissent from the popular sentiment now reigning there?
    JBB 11.270 18 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man...who sees what a tiger's thirst threatens him in the malignity of public sentiment in the slave states.
    JBS 11.280 24 All women are drawn to [John Brown] by their predominance of sentiment.
    JBS 11.281 13 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    ACiv 11.308 4 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility, urged on her, not by any romance of sentiment, but by her own extreme perils?
    EPro 11.317 3 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    EPro 11.319 23 ...slavery overpowers the disgust of the moral sentiment only through immemorial usage.
    EPro 11.323 9 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession impossible...
    SMC 11.351 23 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet, an orator...
    EdAd 11.389 1 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    Koss 11.400 19 ...it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who, all over the world, think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    Wom 11.406 27 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that women are strong by sentiment;...
    Wom 11.407 3 Man is the will, and Woman the sentiment.
    Wom 11.412 20 ...the starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment...
    Wom 11.415 19 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV...
    RBur 11.439 7 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    RBur 11.440 13 [Robert Burns's] organic sentiment was absolute independence...
    FRO1 11.478 27 ...the Church should always be new and extemporized, because it is eternal and springs from the sentiment of men, or it does not exist.
    FRO1 11.479 22 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the perfection of taste...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRO2 11.486 5 ...the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the Universe was made;...
    FRO2 11.486 23 ...every sentiment and precept of Christianity can be paralleled in other religious writings...
    CPL 11.497 25 A deep religious sentiment is...an inspirer of the intellect...
    CPL 11.498 5 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.
    CPL 11.508 7 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves; for they wake the imagination and the sentiment...
    FRep 11.515 25 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind.
    PLT 12.46 2 A blending of these two-the intellectual perception of truth and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
    Mem 12.102 9 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day.
    CInt 12.120 2 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...subject to the total and native sentiment of the man...
    CInt 12.120 3 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind.
    CInt 12.126 4 It is true that the University and the Church...do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.131 24 ...it is the privilege of the moral sentiment to be every moment new and commanding...
    Bost 12.188 17 [Boston] is...a seat...of men of principle, obeying a sentiment...
    Bost 12.194 8 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Bost 12.195 6 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England;...
    Bost 12.198 7 It is the property of the religious sentiment to be the most refining of all influences.
    Bost 12.198 13 ...no depth of affection that does not rise to a religious sentiment, can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    Bost 12.198 22 The religious sentiment gave the iron purpose and arm.
    Bost 12.210 16 The [American] heroes only shared this power of a sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
    MAng1 12.242 9 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari...
    Milt1 12.254 2 Milton...reads the laws of the moral sentiment to the new-born race.
    Milt1 12.267 14 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures... dignity by lowliness? Obeying this sentiment, Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
    Milt1 12.268 7 ...the religious sentiment warmed [Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.
    MLit 12.328 20 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?
    MLit 12.334 7 The very depth of the sentiment...is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.
    WSL 12.338 21 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...capable of the utmost delicacy of sentiment...
    WSL 12.340 22 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...honor for every just and generous sentiment...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    WSL 12.342 18 ...a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master's freedom a slavery.
    WSL 12.348 18 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
    Pray 12.352 1 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment...
    EurB 12.375 17 Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance] the reader had been made a participator of their triumph;...
    Trag 12.407 15 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons on whom too the religious sentiment exerts little force, we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

Sentiment, n. (1)

    Wom 11.407 4 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail...

sentimental, adj. (12)

    Exp 3.61 22 I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental...
    Mrs1 3.145 15 All generosity is not merely French and sentimental;...
    ET18 5.304 27 The English designate the kingdoms emulous of free institutions, as the sentimental nations.
    CbW 6.252 7 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils.
    SS 7.9 25 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life...making our warm covenants sentimental and momentary.
    OA 7.320 23 Universal convictions are not to be shaken...by the sentimental fears of girls...
    QO 8.195 20 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their... citation of a passage, carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.
    Imtl 8.344 11 The doctrine [of immortality] is not sentimental...
    Imtl 8.348 3 [Jesus] is never once weak or sentimental;...
    MoL 10.257 11 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom stifles this discussion as sentimental...
    Plu 10.300 19 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch], and this in chapters chiefly ethical, which are so prone to be heavy and sentimental.
    LLNE 10.344 27 The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.

sentimentalism, n. (4)

    ET6 5.113 2 [The English] hate nonsense, sentimentalism and highflown expression;...
    Wsp 6.215 16 Let us replace sentimentalism by realism...
    FSLC 11.204 22 So with the eulogies of liberty in [Webster's] writings,- they are sentimentalism and youthful rhetoric.
    PLT 12.55 5 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...

sentimentalist, n. (3)

    F 6.6 22 ...Nature is no sentimentalist...
    SA 8.105 24 A little experience acquaints us with the unconvertibility of the sentimentalist...
    SA 8.106 9 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist.

sentimentalists, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.185 7 Here come the sentimentalists, and the invalids.
    SA 8.105 12 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists...
    FSLC 11.183 19 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom: the sentimentalists went down-stream.

sentimentality, n. (1)

    QO 8.203 14 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw...

sentiments, n. (65)

    AmS 1.102 2 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments...
    DSA 1.132 20 A true conversion...is...to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.
    MR 1.232 17 ...the general system of our trade...is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature;
    MR 1.232 19 ...the general system of our trade...is not measured by the exact law of reciprocity, much less by the sentiments of love and heroism...
    MR 1.234 1 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love...
    Tran 1.338 12 ...we have yet no man...who, trusting to his sentiments, found life made of miracles;...
    Hist 2.33 7 ...if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments...then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    Prd1 2.232 21 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    Hsm1 2.262 23 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    OS 2.283 23 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    Exp 3.74 4 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
    Mrs1 3.150 17 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions...
    Mrs1 3.152 7 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments;...
    Pol1 3.221 17 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable...men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt.
    Pol1 3.221 27 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.230 27 In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses.
    NER 3.264 13 These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
    NER 3.268 4 We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man...
    MoS 4.175 18 There is the power of complexions, obviously modifying the dispositions and sentiments.
    ShP 4.209 13 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the confusion of sentiments in the most susceptible, and, at the same time, the most intellectual of men?
    ShP 4.212 10 [Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his legend with form and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
    NMW 4.228 1 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside.
    NMW 4.228 3 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside. The sentiments were for women and children.
    NMW 4.228 16 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    NMW 4.228 22 Napoleon renounced, once for all, sentiments and affections...
    NMW 4.253 12 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments;...
    NMW 4.253 19 Bonaparte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments.
    ET2 5.33 10 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side. In every man's thought arises now a new system, English sentiments, English loves and fears...
    ET11 5.187 5 [English noblemen] have been a social church proper to inspire sentiments mutually honoring the lover and the loved.
    ET11 5.190 21 In the roll of [English] nobles are found...men of solid virtues and of lofty sentiments;...
    ET14 5.259 7 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
    Wsp 6.231 22 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being...as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
    Ill 6.312 4 We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments.
    Art2 7.51 18 [A work of great art] conspires with all exalted sentiments.
    Elo1 7.98 3 Everything hostile is stricken down in the presence of the [moral] sentiments;...
    Elo1 7.98 8 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address nations.
    Boks 7.199 9 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...
    Boks 7.200 15 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by philosophic sentiments...
    SA 8.105 11 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
    Res 8.139 25 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
    Comc 8.164 8 ...the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...
    Imtl 8.347 19 ...when we are living in the sentiments we ask no questions about time.
    Aris 10.62 7 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form...
    Aris 10.66 7 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments...
    SovE 10.198 24 ...it is...our negligence...of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
    Prch 10.221 6 In the activity of the understanding, the sentiments sleep.
    MoL 10.257 13 The war uplifted us into generous sentiments.
    Schr 10.263 15 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments;...
    LLNE 10.326 23 The social sentiments are weak;...
    LVB 11.89 14 ...at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...
    LVB 11.92 23 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad? From their mind are the sentiments of love and a good nature wiped clean out?
    LVB 11.93 1 In speaking thus the sentiments of my neighbors and my own, perhaps I overstep the bounds of decorum.
    EWI 11.122 21 There have been nations elevated by great sentiments.
    FSLC 11.192 22 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened by all the sentiments.
    FSLC 11.194 13 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. ... You can commit no crime, for they are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it;...
    FSLC 11.194 27 ...the sentiments, of course, write the statutes.
    FSLC 11.195 2 Laws are merely declaratory of the natural sentiments of mankind...
    FSLN 11.236 9 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us are breathed into us from on high...
    ACiv 11.297 15 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    EdAd 11.392 16 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know...that he must rest on the moral and religious sentiments...
    EdAd 11.392 20 ...the moral and religious sentiments meet us everywhere...
    CInt 12.113 5 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of...the primal sentiments of humanity.
    MAng1 12.241 6 [Michelangelo's] poems themselves cannot be read without awakening sentiments of virtue.
    Milt1 12.262 21 [Milton's] gifts are subordinated to his moral sentiments;...
    MLit 12.317 24 There are...sentiments, which find no aliment or language for themselves on the wharves, in court, or market...

sentinel, n. (3)

    PPo 8.250 16 Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul's independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...
    CInt 12.115 26 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the sentinel who fires a signal-cannon...
    PPr 12.389 21 [Carlyle] is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel, but salvation to the ear for which it is meant.

sentinels, n. (3)

    Pow 6.72 11 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs, in prisons, under the muskets of sentinels,--this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    War 11.163 18 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    ACiv 11.300 14 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower...

sepal, n. (1)

    SwM 4.107 14 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.

sepals, n. (1)

    Thor 10.480 3 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety, had failed to describe the seeds or count the sepals.

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