Sidmouth to Sinewy

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

Sidmouth, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 13 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

Sidney, Algernon, n. (1)

    Schr 10.275 1 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father from his prison a little before his execution: I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.

Sidney, Philip, n. (19)

    Hist 2.10 23 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a martyrdom...of Sidney...
    Hsm1 2.258 10 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of...Sidney...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    Chr1 3.89 10 Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds.
    Mrs1 3.120 26 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels, from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Walter Scott, paint this figure [of the gentleman].
    Mrs1 3.146 18 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio...and Sir Philip Sidney...
    ShP 4.203 12 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex...
    ET4 5.47 10 How came such men as...Philip Sidney, Isaac Newton...
    ET6 5.112 21 Sir Philip Sidney is one of the patron saints of England...
    ET11 5.189 27 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the letters and essays of Sir Philip Sidney;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.195 6 ...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother...gave plain and hearty counsel.
    ET14 5.238 16 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Sidney, Lord Brooke, Herbert...
    ET16 5.284 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...
    ET16 5.284 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Here lies Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
    ET18 5.307 11 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
    Bty 6.300 24 Sir Philip Sidney, the darling of mankind, Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance...
    Boks 7.207 5 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Sidney...
    PI 8.44 19 Ben Jonson told Drummond that Sidney did not keep a decorum in making every one speak as well as himself.
    QO 8.195 27 ...Hallam cites a sentence from Bacon or Sidney...and straightway it commends itself to us...
    JBS 11.281 3 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who...like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of cold water to the dying soldier who needs it more.

Sidney's, Philip, n. (1)

    SL 2.153 16 ...take Sidney's maxim:--Look in thy heart, and write.

Sidonides, n. (1)

    ET4 5.55 4 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family...

siege, n. (4)

    Int 2.332 5 ...the oracle comes because we had previously laid siege to the shrine.
    SwM 4.99 18 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald...
    Cour 7.270 9 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram, heedless of the siege and sack of the city;...
    MAng1 12.224 23 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was sufficient, and the Prince was obliged to turn his siege into a blockade.

sieges, n. (1)

    War 11.171 22 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the thunders of so many sieges...

Siegfried, n. (1)

    Comp 2.107 3 Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal...

sieve, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.112 23 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition...
    PLT 12.32 7 I know well what a sieve every ear is.

sift, v. (6)

    LE 1.171 12 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain...
    Elo1 7.85 22 In a court of justice...[the audience] really wish to sift the statements and know what the truth is.
    Boks 7.221 6 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    Clbs 7.224 3 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./
    Chr2 10.112 23 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition, and will sift it out again.
    Schr 10.286 24 Dissuade all you can from the lists [of scholarship]. Sift the wheat, frighten away the lighter souls.

sifted, v. (3)

    ET1 5.4 7 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe...it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
    EWI 11.128 10 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost men of the earth;...every particle of evidence was sifted and laid in the scale;...
    HCom 11.341 21 It is not the Government, but the War, that has...sifted out the pedants...

sifter, n. (1)

    SovE 10.213 20 sifting, adj. (1) YA 1.381 17 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

sifting, v. (3)

    MR 1.232 9 I leave for those who have the knowledge the part of sifting the oaths of our custom-houses;...
    Mrs1 3.133 23 [Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of character.
    Mem 12.104 11 The memory has a fine art of sifting out the pain and keeping all the joy.

sifts, v. (1)

    GoW 4.276 3 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another. He sifts it.

sigh, n. (4)

    Boks 7.189 19 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we leave the shop with a sigh...
    Boks 7.193 5 We look over with a sigh the monumental libraries of Paris, of the Vatican and the British Museum.
    PI 8.55 12 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/ A sigh that piercing mortifies/...
    Bost 12.194 12 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?

sigh, v. (4)

    PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone...
    DL 7.121 13 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh for fine clothes...
    MLit 12.318 12 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    Pray 12.356 26 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God, to thee do I sigh day and night.

sighed, v. (2)

    HCom 11.340 6 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    Bost 12.202 14 Bonaparte sighed for his republicans of 1789.

sighing, v. (1)

    LE 1.163 2 In the sighing of these woods...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...

sight, n. (128)

    Nat 1.46 22 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom...he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time.
    Nat 1.65 21 The poet finds something ridiculous in his delight until he is out of the sight of men.
    Nat 1.66 7 Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight...
    Nat 1.67 27 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    Nat 1.69 24 ...the end is lost sight of in attention to the means.
    Nat 1.77 12 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.89 10 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent, that is...who set out...not from their own sight of principles.
    AmS 1.109 22 Sight is the last thing to be pitied.
    DSA 1.128 1 Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight...
    DSA 1.142 3 The pulpit in losing sight of this Law, loses its reason...
    DSA 1.150 22 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple which new love, new faith, new sight shall restore...
    LE 1.179 17 ...[Napoleon] had a faith, like sight, in the application of means to ends.
    MN 1.192 8 ...I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires;...
    MN 1.202 4 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to... glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.205 23 ...O rich and various Man! thou palace of sight and sound......
    MR 1.232 26 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight...
    MR 1.239 26 ...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 his ends...
    MR 1.245 25 Much of the economy which we see in houses...is best kept out of sight.
    MR 1.249 20 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
    LT 1.270 9 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong, which gradually emerged to sight out of the turbid controversy.
    LT 1.270 26 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates, until it excludes the others from sight...
    LT 1.276 2 These reforms...are ourselves; our own light, and sight, and conscience;...
    LT 1.276 17 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
    Hist 2.9 2 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense...
    Hist 2.32 8 Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.
    SR 2.59 3 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of at a little distance...
    SR 2.75 3 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...clear his sight...
    Lov1 2.182 17 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world...
    Lov1 2.187 11 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Fdsp 2.205 11 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It...quite loses sight of the delicacies and nobility of the relation.
    Hsm1 2.246 7 Dor. Stay, Sophocles,--with this tie up my sight;/...
    OS 2.293 4 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is the true...
    Art1 2.353 9 Above his will and out of his sight [a man] is necessitated by the air he breathes...to share the manner of his times...
    Pt1 3.14 7 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Exp 3.45 7 ...there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
    Mrs1 3.129 18 You may keep this [aristocratic, fashionable] minority out of sight and out of mind, but it is tenacious of life...
    Nat2 3.183 26 Common sense...recognizes the fact at first sight in chemical experiment.
    Nat2 3.185 26 The child...commanded by every sight and sound...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Nat2 3.187 2 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...starting at sight of a snake...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    Nat2 3.191 16 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...the old aims have been lost sight of...
    NR 3.234 16 The eye must not lose sight for a moment of the purpose [of the artist].
    NR 3.242 27 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight...
    NER 3.258 3 The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy;...
    NER 3.271 7 Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity, which he tolerates by shortness or torpidity of sight.
    NER 3.275 9 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart... to acquit himself in all men's sight as a man.
    UGM 4.7 10 ...the great are near; we know them at sight.
    PPh 4.63 23 The misery of man is to be baulked of the sight of essence...
    PPh 4.65 9 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
    PPh 4.69 20 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom, which our wonderful organ of sight cannot reach unto...
    PNR 4.82 12 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
    PNR 4.82 13 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
    PNR 4.84 23 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... This second sight explains the stress laid on geometry.
    SwM 4.100 22 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame of second sight...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.102 24 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as from a tower, over nature and arts, without ever losing sight of the texture and sequence of things, almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    SwM 4.119 25 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
    MoS 4.181 8 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith; not a sight of realities, but an instinctive reliance on the seers and believers of realities.
    ShP 4.189 10 ...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm...
    NMW 4.233 22 ...[Napoleon] never for a moment lost sight of his way onward...
    NMW 4.246 10 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids...
    GoW 4.264 18 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar. It is an end never lost sight of...
    GoW 4.287 18 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist. Was it...that his sight was microscopic...
    ET4 5.59 3 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody...
    ET5 5.88 15 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
    ET14 5.232 20 [The English] ask their constitutional utility in verse. The kail and herrings are never out of sight.
    ET14 5.256 18 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law...
    ET16 5.279 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge]. The old sphinx put our petty differences of nationality out of sight.
    ET19 5.311 9 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character, which certainly wanders into strange vagaries, so that its origin is often lost sight of, but which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    F 6.6 8 For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./
    F 6.31 21 The divine order does not stop where [men's] sight stops.
    Ctr 6.160 24 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Bhr 6.173 7 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.
    Bhr 6.177 25 In some respects the animals excel us. The birds have a longer sight...
    Bhr 6.181 20 If the organ of sight is such a vehicle of power, other features have their own.
    Bhr 6.193 11 ...[simple and noble persons] recognize at sight...
    Wsp 6.219 22 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity...and so forth.
    Wsp 6.227 14 [As we grow older] We have another sight, and a new standard;...
    Wsp 6.234 25 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion, in all men's sight...
    CbW 6.273 15 There is a pudency about friendship as about love, and though fine souls never lose sight of it, yet they do not name it.
    Bty 6.299 1 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.
    SS 7.9 7 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years, out of sight and in sight, is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...
    WD 7.184 1 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight;...
    WD 7.184 2 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight;...
    Boks 7.203 12 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over the cave at Delphi; his heart dances, his sight is quickened.
    Boks 7.212 14 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight.
    Suc 7.290 25 ...excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
    OA 7.316 12 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight, deafness...
    PI 8.19 10 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 8.21 20 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs...all but itself. But this second sight does not necessarily impair the primary or common sense.
    PI 8.22 1 This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of delight and of moral use.
    PI 8.27 13 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach...
    PI 8.28 3 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
    PC 8.224 5 Here stretches out of sight...this vast Nature...
    Insp 8.270 8 We are very glad that [the aboriginal man] ate his fishes and snails and marrow-bones out of our sight and hearing...
    Aris 10.61 24 ...when the great come by, as always there are angels walking in the earth, they know [the generous soul] at sight.
    Chr2 10.104 5 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism; whilst in Nature is none at all, God keeping out of sight...
    Edc1 10.127 18 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact that they have worse than no values...
    Edc1 10.137 25 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul...
    Supl 10.164 23 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it. Sharper sight would indicate the true line.
    LLNE 10.351 12 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
    MMEm 10.401 16 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains...
    MMEm 10.409 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity...
    MMEm 10.412 22 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight!...
    MMEm 10.426 9 ...the hold on [external objects] is so slight, that duty is lost sight of perhaps, at times.
    Thor 10.477 5 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    Thor 10.481 19 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight...
    Carl 10.492 27 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    HDC 11.36 21 [the Indians'] sight was so excellent, that, standing on the seashore, they often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    EWI 11.141 7 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind...
    War 11.163 8 We have all grown up in the sight of frigates and navy-yards...
    War 11.168 8 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight?
    Wom 11.414 3 ...women know, at first sight, the characters of those with whom they converse.
    SHC 11.433 6 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village and is out of sight of the Monuments;...
    PLT 12.14 6 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...catch sight of its splendor...
    PLT 12.21 26 If man has organs for breathing, for sight...you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
    PLT 12.62 23 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk, I have an office...
    II 12.77 16 ...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.
    CInt 12.123 16 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...
    CInt 12.132 5 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    CL 12.153 17 Shores in sight of each other in a warm climate make boat-builders;...
    Bost 12.194 3 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine, a man of as clear a sight as almost any other; of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Milt1 12.265 23 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of sight.
    MLit 12.320 8 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things...
    MLit 12.330 23 The limits of artificial society are never quite out of sight [in Wilhelm Meister].
    MLit 12.335 3 ...a love that fainteth at the sight of its object, is new to-day.
    WSL 12.339 19 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies, and he is determined they shall for the future put them out of sight.
    Pray 12.357 2 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself...
    PPr 12.387 14 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
    Let 12.393 20 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

sights, n. (5)

    SR 2.82 4 I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions...
    Lov1 2.177 8 [The lover] is a palace of sweet sounds and sights;...
    PI 8.22 23 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier...to decipher the arrow-head character, than to interpret these familiar sights.
    PI 8.23 1 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    EWI 11.104 16 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince. They are not pleasant sights.

sign, n. (61)

    Nat 1.46 20 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    AmS 1.81 10 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters...
    AmS 1.81 13 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct.
    AmS 1.111 5 It is a sign - is it not? - of new vigor when the extremities are made active...
    AmS 1.113 11 Another sign of our times...is the new importance given to the single person.
    DSA 1.143 13 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house, in sign of an equal right in the soul, has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    LT 1.284 23 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.
    Tran 1.340 25 It is a sign of our times...that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Tran 1.354 21 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    Hist 2.9 14 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign?
    Hist 2.40 1 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him, and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other.
    Lov1 2.186 12 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance.
    Hsm1 2.261 19 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men.
    OS 2.272 18 ...to speak with levity of these limits [of time and space] is, in the world, the sign of insanity.
    Pt1 3.8 21 The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold.
    Exp 3.71 13 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...
    Mrs1 3.121 13 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.136 19 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    Nat2 3.169 10 There are days which occur in this climate...when everything that has life gives sign of satisfaction...
    NER 3.279 14 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
    SwM 4.97 5 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints--a beatitude, but without any sign of joy;...
    SwM 4.143 7 It is the best sign of a great nature that it opens a foreground...
    ET14 5.249 16 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
    Bhr 6.175 15 ...Nature and Destiny...never fail...to hang out a sign for each and for every quality.
    Bty 6.286 26 ...not less does nature furnish us with every sign of grace and goodness.
    Bty 6.290 3 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that...each is a sign of some better health or more excellent action.
    Bty 6.299 14 A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
    Boks 7.192 3 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Suc 7.306 15 Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness...
    Suc 7.306 21 All beauty...is a sign of health, prosperity and the favor of God.
    PI 8.37 2 [The poet] does not give his hand, but in sign of giving his heart;...
    SA 8.79 23 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force...
    Elo2 8.131 4 [Eloquence] is the attitude taken, the unmistakable sign...that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    Comc 8.159 17 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the intellect, and the outward sign is the muscular irritation of laughter.
    QO 8.186 18 There are many fables which, as they...betray no sign of being borrowed, are said to be agreeable to the human mind.
    Dem1 10.10 10 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign.
    Dem1 10.10 10 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign. The sign is always there, if only the eye were also;...
    Dem1 10.10 19 Things are significant enough, Heaven knows; but the seer of the sign,-where is he?
    Dem1 10.16 27 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in...the wholesome potency of the sign of the cross in modern Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Dem1 10.28 5 The whole world is an omen and a sign.
    Aris 10.62 9 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which utility and even genius must do homage. And it is the sign and badge of this nobility, the drawing his counsel from his own breast.
    MoL 10.246 23 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought.
    Plu 10.316 14 When the guests are gone, [Plutarch] would leave one lamp burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to fires...
    Thor 10.450 3 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Carl 10.495 14 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    LS 11.20 4 I will...not pay [Jesus] a stiff sign of respect, as men do those whom they fear.
    EWI 11.147 26 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things...in the history of the First of August [1834], has made a sign to the ages, of his will.
    FSLC 11.180 1 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented...
    FSLC 11.183 23 The sense of injustice is blunted,-a sure sign of the shallowness of our intellect.
    ACiv 11.297 21 ...a man coins himself into his labor; turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
    EPro 11.322 7 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far; a sign of inmost security and permanence.
    Wom 11.406 22 ...any remarkable opinion or movement shared by woman will be the first sign of revolution.
    FRep 11.537 25 ...[our civilization] has not ended nor given sign of ending in a hero.
    PLT 12.53 7 I must think...this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.
    II 12.71 5 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in art, in books. The mark and sign of it is newness.
    CL 12.139 24 ...among our many prognostics of the weather, the only trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that it is going to be cold.
    CL 12.151 1 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
    Milt1 12.257 15 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
    Pray 12.356 1 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported, and be a sign of the times.

sign, v. (1)

    Ill 6.315 6 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who held themselves bound to sign every temperance pledge...

signal, adj. (20)

    MR 1.255 3 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success.
    MR 1.256 16 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave their signal talents...
    YA 1.392 9 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure.
    Hist 2.9 5 ...the purpose of nature, betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history.
    Comp 2.105 17 So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried... but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
    UGM 4.15 3 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
    ET11 5.174 13 The selfishness of the [English] nobles comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit.
    ET17 5.293 17 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    Pow 6.80 24 ...never was any signal act or achievement in history but by this expenditure [of spirit].
    Bhr 6.183 7 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.
    CbW 6.245 11 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul; if of two, if of ten, 't is a signal success.
    PC 8.221 2 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and immense.
    PC 8.227 5 Great men,-the age goes on their credit; but all the rest, when their wires are continued and not cut, can do as signal things...
    PerF 10.78 19 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations flow to us...
    Plu 10.295 7 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's] Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.
    CSC 10.376 3 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved by signal passages of pure eloquence...
    FSLC 11.205 7 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others; he says what he hears said, but often makes signal blunders in their use.
    EPro 11.319 13 It is by no means necessary that this measure [Emancipation] should be suddenly marked by any signal results on the negroes or on the rebel masters.
    HCom 11.343 8 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.
    EdAd 11.389 12 ...the retributions of armed states are not less sure and signal than those which come to private felons.

signal, n. (3)

    LT 1.288 8 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have hoisted some signal...
    Bhr 6.178 1 A cow can bid her calf, by secret signal...to run away...
    EWI 11.122 1 I said, this event [emancipation in the West Indies] is a signal in the history of civilization.

signal-cannon, n. (1)

    CInt 12.115 27 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the sentinel who fires a signal-cannon...

signalize, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.134 3 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory...they grasp each other's hand, to identify and signalize each other.
    ET1 5.9 18 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge, as if to signalize their commanding freedom.
    SMC 11.352 1 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution...

signalized, v. (2)

    DL 7.125 2 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism.
    Insp 8.277 7 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves...

signalizes, v. (2)

    Insp 8.283 3 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse]...
    Grts 8.307 3 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him...

signalizing, v. (1)

    Wom 11.411 9 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?

signals, n. (2)

    PNR 4.82 23 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death,--that law by which, in nature...putrefaction and cholera are only signals of a new creation;...
    JBS 11.279 24 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown]...knew the secret signals by which animals communicate.

signatures, n. (2)

    GoW 4.261 22 ...the round is all memoranda and signatures...
    Imtl 8.345 9 ...whilst I find the signatures, the hints and suggestions, noble and wholesome...yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.

sign-board, n. (1)

    YA 1.386 8 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...

signboards, n. (1)

    Exp 3.53 6 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.

signed, v. (3)

    Insp 8.290 10 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers in London, against the license of the organ-grinders...
    CSC 10.373 4 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers, signed by a few individuals...
    EWI 11.111 27 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrage...rekindled the flame of British indignation. Petitions poured into Parliament: a million persons signed their names to these;...

signet, n. (2)

    AmS 1.105 12 ...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament...takes his signet and form.
    Nat2 3.180 19 The whole code of [nature's] laws may be written on...the signet of a ring.

Signet, Writer to the, n. (1)

    Scot 11.467 20 [Scott] was apprenticed at Edinburgh to a Writer to the Signet, and became a Writer to the Signet...

signet-ring, n. (1)

    PPo 8.240 13 Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which he commanded the spirits...

significance, n. (17)

    Nat 1.32 22 Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them...
    Nat 1.36 1 In view of the significance of nature, we arrive at once at a new fact, that nature is a discipline.
    LT 1.284 14 This Ennui...this word of France has got a terrific significance.
    YA 1.370 17 ...the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.
    SL 2.144 25 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    Pt1 3.18 10 We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use.
    ET7 5.116 4 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning.
    F 6.4 7 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm...the significance of the individual...
    PI 8.8 24 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
    PI 8.18 1 ...[as soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it] he can now find symbols of universal significance...
    PI 8.20 23 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image.
    Dem1 10.8 13 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this phantasmagoria.
    Thor 10.483 24 Of what significance the things you can forget?
    TPar 11.287 1 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.
    PLT 12.43 18 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.
    Mem 12.91 25 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...
    Mem 12.107 18 Thoreau said, Of what significance are the things you can forget.

significant, adj. (20)

    Nat 1.32 21 ...we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.
    Nat 1.35 19 ...every form [shall be] significant of [the world's] hidden life and final cause.
    AmS 1.93 6 Every sentence is doubly significant...
    Lov1 2.176 16 [Love] makes all things alive and significant.
    Prd1 2.226 19 ...nature is inexhaustibly significant...
    Pt1 3.35 3 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant.
    NER 3.251 13 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing... in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...
    PNR 4.87 3 All the gods of the Pantheon are, by their names, [to Plato] significant of a profound sense.
    GoW 4.264 8 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature...
    GoW 4.266 6 In this country...the solid portion of the community is named with significant respect in every circle.
    ET6 5.104 16 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in his manners, in...the inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;--all significant of burly strength.
    Bhr 6.181 26 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you how significant a feature is the nose;...
    Civ 7.22 10 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.
    PPo 8.247 8 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature... which...make [the poet] an object of interest and his every phrase and syllable significant, are in Hafiz...
    Dem1 10.10 18 Things are significant enough, Heaven knows;...
    SovE 10.192 3 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are...significant pictures of the laws of the mind;...
    Prch 10.231 9 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... The others...are only neuters in the hive,-every one a possible royal bee, but not now significant.
    LLNE 10.332 8 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...enriched with so many excellent digressions and significant quotations, that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    MAng1 12.244 9 Three significant garlands are sculptured on [Michelangelo's] tomb;...
    Let 12.396 14 It is not for nothing...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

significantly, adv. (2)

    Mrs1 3.140 27 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Bhr 6.169 2 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure...of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.

signified, v. (21)

    MN 1.201 6 ...intention might be signified by a straight line of definite length.
    SR 2.63 20 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Prd1 2.222 26 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
    Cir 2.299 5 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/ Knew they what that signified,/ A new genesis were here./
    Mrs1 3.153 11 The worth of the thing signified must vindicate our taste for the emblem.
    Pol1 3.208 7 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
    SwM 4.120 12 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods; and Swedenborg added...that these, when they saw terrestrial objects, did not think at all about them, but only about those which they signified.
    ShP 4.209 27 What mystery has [Shakespeare] not signified his knowledge of?
    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...
    F 6.1 12 ...the prevision is allied/ Unto the thing so signified;/...
    Bhr 6.181 9 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. It must be a victory achieved in the will, before it can be signified in the eye.
    Wsp 6.206 1 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture...
    Wsp 6.214 25 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence...
    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.
    PI 8.20 11 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are in heaven; they have no idea of such things, but of the realities signified thereby.
    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.
    LLNE 10.367 7 One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride in their advanced condition, signified by a frequent phrase, Before we came out of civilization.
    LS 11.12 5 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two reasons...(2) because it was typical, and all understood that humility is the thing signified.
    LS 11.12 8 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us, and its bread and wine...do not help us to understand the redemption which they signified.
    FSLN 11.221 20 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that a little more or less of rhetoric signified nothing...
    CL 12.165 13 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard to man.

signifies, v. (18)

    Tran 1.353 17 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do...
    Lov1 2.183 15 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift...
    Pt1 3.19 10 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit.
    SwM 4.121 4 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding;...
    MoS 4.149 14 A man is flushed with success, and bethinks himself what this good luck signifies.
    ShP 4.218 7 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It is but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream, or Winter Evening's Tale: what signifies another picture more or less?
    GoW 4.281 25 What signifies that [the writer] trips and stammers;...
    ET5 5.76 2 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links, against a cotton-spinner with steam in his mill;...
    Boks 7.200 10 ...it signifies little where you open [Plutarch's] book, you find yourself at the Olympian tables.
    Suc 7.294 15 If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
    Suc 7.299 27 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of water? a little more or less signifies nothing.
    OA 7.325 13 I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
    Insp 8.293 27 ...it is not [the fact] which signifies, but the use we put it to...
    Grts 8.312 27 If it was right, what signifies who did it?
    Aris 10.65 18 I do not know whether that word Gentleman, although it signifies a leading idea in recent civilization, is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    Thor 10.484 19 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains... It is called by botanists the Gnaphalium leontopodium, but by the Swiss Edelweisse, which signifies Noble Purity.
    SMC 11.375 6 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War]...
    FRO2 11.485 4 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...

signify, v. (30)

    MN 1.205 20 The great Pan of old, who was clothed in a leopard skin to signify the beautiful variety of things...was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    Lov1 2.179 22 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
    Fdsp 2.205 18 I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
    Fdsp 2.212 26 Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
    OS 2.285 14 In that other [man]...authentic signs had yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.
    Int 2.325 24 Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
    Pt1 3.18 21 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures, as...blindness to Cupid, and the like,--to signify exuberances.
    Nat2 3.173 13 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These sunset clouds...signify it and proffer it.
    ShP 4.218 5 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify?
    ET6 5.102 11 ...the one thing the English value is pluck. The word is not beautiful, but on the quality they signify by it the nation is unanimous.
    Ill 6.322 14 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such castaways...
    WD 7.178 19 We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or grand moments, that signify.
    Suc 7.287 19 These feats that we extol do not signify so much as we say.
    OA 7.321 11 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the like, all signify simply old men.
    PI 8.12 25 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno...
    PI 8.19 12 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify.
    PI 8.42 13 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending from an interest in in visible things to an interest in that which they signify...
    PI 8.52 15 ...when we rise into the world of thought, and think of these things [food, fire, our work, tools, and material necessities] only for what they signify, speech refines into order and harmony.
    Prch 10.231 9 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day;...
    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...
    MMEm 10.402 26 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
    LS 11.6 27 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present. What did it really signify?
    War 11.154 26 What does all this war, beginning from the lowest races and reaching up to man, signify?
    SMC 11.350 14 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.
    PLT 12.5 20 Every object in Nature is a word to signify some fact in the mind.
    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 12.77 4 We call genius...divine; to signify its independence of our will.
    CL 12.164 20 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words, without a hint of what they signify...
    CL 12.166 7 We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
    ACri 12.298 14 ...one would think, the English people would...signify, by crowning [Carlyle] with a chaplet of oak-leaves, their joy that such a head existed among them...

signing, v. (2)

    DSA 1.143 2 In the country, neighborhoods, half parishes are signing off, to use the local term.
    MR 1.237 9 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...

signs, n. (35)

    Nat 1.25 5 Words are signs of natural facts.
    Nat 1.25 9 Words are signs of natural facts.
    AmS 1.110 14 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days...
    AmS 1.110 18 One of these signs [of coming days] is the fact that the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    LT 1.260 13 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet...
    LT 1.287 5 Every age has a thousand sides and signs and tendencies...
    LT 1.289 26 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs.
    YA 1.379 24 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat broader and better, whose signs are already dawning in the sky.
    YA 1.379 25 I pass to speak of the signs of that which is the sequel of trade.
    YA 1.380 5 The time is full of good signs.
    Hist 2.5 20 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...
    Hist 2.18 9 The trivial experience of every day is always...converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed.
    Comp 2.114 17 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs.
    Comp 2.114 18 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen...
    SL 2.141 18 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by... outward signs that mark him extraordinary...is fanaticism...
    SL 2.143 24 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let [a man] scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.
    Lov1 2.186 9 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue;...
    Hsm1 2.263 2 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again; and very easily in a republic, if there appear any signs of a decay of religion.
    OS 2.285 13 In that other [man]...authentic signs had yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.
    Art1 2.363 3 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...
    Pt1 3.12 11 ...now I shall see men and women, and know the signs by which they may be discerned from fools and satans.
    Pt1 3.21 11 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.
    Pt1 3.35 10 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have... universal signs, instead of these village symbols,--and we shall both be gainers.
    NER 3.251 9 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from the Church nominal...
    PNR 4.83 12 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... fables which have imprinted themselves in the human memory like the signs of the zodiac;...
    ET3 5.37 8 ...some signs portend that [London] has reached its highest point.
    F 6.46 16 ...a hundred signs apprise [some people] of what is about to befall.
    Bty 6.306 15 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...signs and tokens of thought and character in manners...
    OA 7.317 2 ...if the essence of age is not present, these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and ridiculous;...
    PI 8.48 25 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man; hence the taste for signs, sortilege, prophecy and fulfilment, anniversaries...
    SA 8.83 16 Nature made us all intelligent of these signs, for our safety and our happiness.
    Insp 8.282 27 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
    Mem 12.90 13 ...we like signs of riches and extent of nature in an individual.
    PPr 12.379 13 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...
    Let 12.398 9 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...

Sigurd, King, n. (1)

    Cour 7.258 9 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.

Sigurd [Sturluson, Heimskri (1)

    ET4 5.60 3 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...

silence, n. (53)

    AmS 1.102 26 In silence...let [the scholar] hold by himself;...
    DSA 1.119 16 ...the never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward has not yielded yet one word of explanation.
    DSA 1.148 25 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
    LE 1.160 1 ...we have been born out of the eternal silence;...
    LE 1.176 12 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being...
    LE 1.183 25 ...let [the scholar]...wait in patience, knowing that truth can make even silence eloquent and memorable.
    MN 1.208 12 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego...and then immerge again into the holy silence and eternity...
    MN 1.219 2 Genius...advertises us that it flows out of a deeper source than the foregoing silence...
    LT 1.259 10 ...there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grand and immovable...behind it in silence.
    LT 1.261 4 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which encroaches on [Conservatism] every day...and leaves it nothing but silence and possession.
    LT 1.272 10 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching...that term where speech becomes silence...
    Tran 1.359 18 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim by silence as well as by speech...shall abide in beauty and strength...
    Comp 2.96 5 That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence.
    Comp 2.96 8 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Comp 2.102 20 Every secret is told...every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.
    Comp 2.106 4 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God...
    SL 2.156 12 ...your silence answers very loud.
    Fdsp 2.208 8 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade.
    OS 2.269 8 ...within man is...the wise silence;...
    Cir 2.310 15 In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
    Cir 2.311 20 Good as is discourse, silence is better...
    Int 2.336 5 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
    Int 2.343 9 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality...
    Chr1 3.100 10 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...whom [society] cannot let pass in silence...he helps;...
    Chr1 3.112 8 Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing?
    NR 3.245 11 ...Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech;...
    GoW 4.286 20 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years...after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
    ET8 5.139 20 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    ET14 5.245 24 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters...
    ET16 5.274 16 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence...
    ET16 5.281 7 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew;...
    ET17 5.297 16 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company, but no one making the expected remark, he put back his own in silence.
    Elo1 7.61 22 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates...all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return to the fireside.
    Elo1 7.62 2 The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those...who impatiently break silence before their time.
    Elo1 7.87 2 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner... reducing him to silence...
    DL 7.115 4 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a bribe paid for silence...
    PI 8.72 27 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
    SA 8.96 15 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence.
    Elo2 8.116 12 The silence and coldness after the meeting is opened and the purpose of it stated, are not encouraging.
    Chr2 10.95 8 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    Schr 10.282 3 We will hold fast our opinion and die in silence.
    EWI 11.100 3 ...by speech and by silence;...[emancipation] goes forward.
    EWI 11.133 8 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    EWI 11.133 19 There is a scandalous rumor...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
    TPar 11.291 2 ...whilst I praise this frank speaker [Theodore Parker], I have no wish to accuse the silence of others.
    SHC 11.434 15 What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to silence?
    PLT 12.35 2 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man' s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power...breaking its silence;...
    II 12.69 5 ...could we break the silence of this oldest angel [Instinct], who was with God when the worlds were made!
    II 12.79 14 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
    CL 12.142 11 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    CL 12.142 17 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...and if they add words, 't is only when words are better than silence.
    MLit 12.317 27 There are...sentiments...which are soothed by silence, by darkness...
    MLit 12.334 4 [The Doctrine of the Life of Man] is that which...sits in the silence of the youth.

silence, v. (7)

    OS 2.267 8 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.
    OS 2.277 26 There is a certain wisdom of humanity...which our ordinary education often labors to silence and obstruct.
    Suc 7.310 1 I have seen scores of people who can silence me...
    EWI 11.139 26 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...would fain silence every honest voice...
    ACiv 11.301 26 Banknotes rob the public, but are such a daily convenience that we silence our scruples...
    PLT 12.55 19 The curses of malignity and despair are important criticism, which must be heeded until [a man] can explain and rightly silence them.
    Bost 12.203 7 ...there is always [in Boston] a minority unconvinced, always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence.

silenced, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.31 16 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister of Woodhill, in Bedfordshire...

silenced, v. (6)

    Nat2 3.191 6 ...wealth was good as it...silenced the creaking door...
    ET5 5.81 9 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced.
    F 6.7 27 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets, which...are silenced by the fall of the temperature of one night.
    Bhr 6.183 16 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.
    Elo1 7.66 21 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens, and the audiences of the fun and of facts and of the understanding are all silenced and awed.
    Elo1 7.96 2 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man who is not to be silenced or insulted or intimidated by a mob...

silences, n. (2)

    Thor 10.466 2 ...what accusing silences, and what searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can remember!
    ACri 12.290 14 The silences, pauses, of an orator are as telling as his words.

silencing, v. (5)

    ET2 5.29 26 ...'t is no wonder that the history of our race is so recent, if the roar of the ocean is silencing our traditions.
    Farm 7.153 3 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry; but their influence somewhat resembles that which the same Nature has on the child,--of subduing and silencing him.
    Clbs 7.236 6 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...and at least silencing those who were not generous enough to accept his thoughts.
    Wom 11.416 12 Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such students. [Antagonism to Slavery] took a man from the plough and made him acute, eloquent, and wise to the silencing of the doctors.
    II 12.70 18 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise, which serves the turn of... silencing reproaches...

silent, adj. (90)

    Nat 1.17 7 From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.
    Nat 1.18 22 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides, which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    DSA 1.125 2 ...the silent song of the stars is [the religious sentiment].
    LE 1.166 7 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of free...speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    LE 1.166 17 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak,-to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.173 25 And why must the student be solitary and silent?
    MN 1.200 8 How silent, how spacious...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    Con 1.297 6 ...Saturn was silent...
    Hist 2.9 1 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the case; if not, let them forever be silent.
    SR 2.71 19 I like the silent church before the service begins...
    Comp 2.119 3 There is a third silent party to all our bargains.
    SL 2.161 10 ...real action is in silent moments.
    SL 2.161 14 The epochs of our life are...in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk;...
    Lov1 2.175 16 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary and none too silent for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Fdsp 2.211 25 Let us be silent,--so we may hear the whisper of the gods.
    Hsm1 2.259 26 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness. The silent heart encourages her;...
    Int 2.329 21 ...[logic's] virtue is as silent method;...
    Int 2.343 7 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside, and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more inclination and respect.
    Int 2.343 9 The ancient sentence said, Let us be silent, for so are the gods.
    Pt1 3.11 5 I had fancied that the oracles were all silent...
    Pt1 3.24 21 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth, Phosphorus, whose aspect is such that it is said all persons who look on it become silent.
    Pt1 3.26 10 The path of things is silent.
    Exp 3.48 21 An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
    Nat2 3.193 7 It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence...
    Pol1 3.217 6 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character]; the Annual Register is silent;...
    NER 3.272 4 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done;...
    ShP 4.204 20 ...there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty...
    ET12 5.207 13 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.
    ET13 5.220 16 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return...
    ET13 5.220 26 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    ET17 5.294 16 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He was at first silent and indisposed...
    Wth 6.92 19 The statue is so beautiful that it...makes the market a silent gallery for itself.
    Wth 6.114 10 Pride...can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented in fine saloons.
    Bhr 6.169 5 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech. This silent and subtile language is Manners;...
    Wsp 6.208 20 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects...
    Wsp 6.230 3 How it comes to us in silent hours, that truth is our only armor in all passages of life and death!
    Art2 7.52 17 Painting was called silent poetry...
    DL 7.104 10 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered...by the extent of natural objects, and is silent.
    Farm 7.141 2 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...
    WD 7.155 10 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    Clbs 7.246 14 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories and put himself on a good footing with the company; then he could be as silent as he chose.
    Cour 7.269 25 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
    Cour 7.270 24 [John Brown] held the belief that courage and chastity are silent concerning themselves.
    Suc 7.306 11 ...the oracles are never silent;...
    OA 7.326 16 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who speak for him when he is silent...
    PI 8.29 9 Fancy...is silent in the presence of great passion and action.
    PI 8.37 3 ...[the poet] is...silent, uncommitted or in love, as his heart leads him.
    PI 8.52 5 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent.
    SA 8.86 2 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals.
    Elo2 8.116 2 I must feel that the speaker...comes for something...or let him be silent.
    Elo2 8.116 16 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent;...
    Comc 8.163 19 Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless they speak, but their philosophy even whilst they are silent or jest merrily;...
    PC 8.209 11 A silent revolution has impelled...all this activity [in America].
    Insp 8.274 3 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent.
    Insp 8.293 9 ...a writer must find an audience up to his thought, or he...will sink to their level or be silent.
    Grts 8.300 2 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Grts 8.309 24 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
    Dem1 10.4 17 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter, to be rebuked by the cold, lonely, silent midnight...
    Chr2 10.98 2 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.
    Chr2 10.114 19 It is only yesterday that our American churches, so long silent on Slavery...wheeled in line for Emancipation.
    SovE 10.200 24 You have meditated in silent wonder on your existence in this world.
    MoL 10.249 4 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions...
    Plu 10.320 12 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals]...
    Thor 10.478 27 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau, as if he spoke when silent, and was still present when he had departed.
    Carl 10.492 2 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat secret and silent...
    LS 11.18 9 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    EWI 11.101 12 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants, their silent obedience...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.109 20 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.
    EWI 11.114 24 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...
    FSLN 11.218 11 Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take in all classes.
    AsSu 11.249 10 In Congress, [Charles Sumner] did not rush into party position. He sat long silent and studious.
    AKan 11.260 23 [Dissenters in Carolina] are silent as the grave.
    TPar 11.290 24 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
    TPar 11.291 4 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy.
    EPro 11.325 20 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim. Not less so is the silent joy which has greeted it in all generous hearts...
    ALin 11.329 22 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent...
    Wom 11.418 21 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    CPL 11.503 18 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    CPL 11.506 21 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life,-these silent guides...
    PLT 12.28 17 Silent, passive, even sulkily, Nature offers every morning her wealth to man.
    PLT 12.36 5 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe,- silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of the spheres...
    II 12.69 21 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips?
    CL 12.156 2 ...mountains are silent poets...
    Milt1 12.247 16 ...if the new and temporary renown of the poet is silent again, it is nevertheless true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
    Milt1 12.250 27 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself. The voice of the mob is silent, and Milton speaks.
    Milt1 12.260 20 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
    ACri 12.287 13 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
    MLit 12.335 18 [The Genius of the time] cannot be silent, if it would.
    Pray 12.352 11 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...
    Let 12.400 26 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and they flit about like ghosts, cold and silent;...

silent, n. (1)

    Hist 2.7 13 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him...

silently, adv. (6)

    SL 2.140 25 There is one direction in which all space is open to [each man]. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion.
    Fdsp 2.191 9 How many we...sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be wth!
    WD 7.168 15 ...if we do not use the gifts [the days] bring, they carry them as silently away.
    SA 8.87 24 [The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed; and silently and steadily his behavior mends.
    Imtl 8.332 11 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They looked in each other's eyes silently...
    Wom 11.426 9 Woman should find in man her guardian. Silently she looks for that...

Silenus, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.155 10 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth;...

silex, n. (2)

    WD 7.175 6 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was common lime and silex and water and sunlight...
    QO 8.201 6 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food, and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain, by time and art, to his hand.

silk, adj. (3)

    Hsm1 2.253 2 What a disgrace is it to me to take note how many pairs of silk stockings thou hast...
    ET7 5.122 24 The [English] barrister refuses the silk gown of Queen's Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.
    ET10 5.157 6 The headlong bias to utility [in England]...if possible will teach spiders to weave silk stockings.

silk, n. (8)

    Lov1 2.173 7 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops to buy a skein of silk...
    Hsm1 2.254 23 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to...denounce with bitterness...the use of tobacco, or opium, or tea, or silk, or gold.
    Mrs1 3.120 11 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
    Nat2 3.183 11 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us, though we sit in chairs of ivory on carpets of silk.
    UGM 4.8 26 The inventors of fire...silk...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    F 6.20 22 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band softer than silk... and this held him;...
    PPo 8.240 27 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk...
    Supl 10.177 23 ...the Orientals excel...in weaving on hand-looms costly stuffs from silk and wool...

silken, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.205 20 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...

silk-mercer, n. (1)

    ET11 5.177 10 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet...

silks, n. (2)

    Ill 6.324 1 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence; as...in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice-creams.
    ChiE 11.472 12 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...the luxury of silks...

silk-worm, n. (1)

    ET10 5.167 4 There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating. A man should not be a silk-worm, nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

silkworms, n. (1)

    ET5 5.84 3 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick,--to bees and silkworms;...

sill, n. (1)

    Schr 10.269 23 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it, as if it were Holy Writ. What need has he to cross the sill of his door?

sills, n. (1)

    Bost 12.205 17 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is...the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.

silly, adj. (4)

    YA 1.391 27 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    SR 2.49 5 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.
    NMW 4.254 23 Love is a silly infatuation, depend upon it [said Napoleon].
    Aris 10.51 20 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows, balks their respect and confounds their understanding by silly extravagances.

silver, adj. (11)

    LT 1.264 27 Whilst the Daguerreotypist, with camera-obscura and silver plate, begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...
    SL 2.129 12 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/ Forging, through swart arms of Offence,/ The silver seat of Innocence./
    Gts 3.161 26 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    PNR 4.83 8 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the golden, silver, brass and iron temperaments;...
    ET6 5.107 26 [The Englishman] is very fond of silver plate...
    Wth 6.103 20 ...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of the right and wrong where it circulates.
    PI 8.48 5 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PI 8.48 7 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PC 8.225 4 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
    PPo 8.253 27 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    HDC 11.86 2 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Whitfield, whose silver voice melted his great congregation into tears;...

silver, n. (15)

    PPh 4.66 5 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold; into the military, silver;...
    PPh 4.66 9 Men have their metal, as of gold and silver.
    PNR 4.84 19 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls...
    PNR 4.84 20 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls...
    ET5 5.76 24 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons, swift to reward every kindness done them, with gifts of gold and silver.
    ET10 5.160 3 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.
    ET10 5.164 26 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and iron [in England], into silver and gold...
    ET10 5.169 4 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    Res 8.141 25 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    PPo 8.242 5 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    SovE 10.211 6 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world;...
    Schr 10.272 8 Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth from the celestial gods...
    HDC 11.79 21 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    CPL 11.497 13 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.
    FRep 11.512 7 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, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet. The brave manufacturers made their fortune. The jewellers imitated the revived models in silver and gold.

Simeon, St., n. (1)

    Hist 2.28 15 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...

similar, adj. (26)

    Nat 1.23 21 ...the result or the expression of them all [the works of nature] is similar and single.
    MN 1.223 16 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
    Comp 2.95 18 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day...
    Art1 2.358 14 Since what skill is...shown [in a work of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul...it should produce a similar impression to that made by natural objects.
    Chr1 3.94 8 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals. Men exert on each other a similar occult power.
    Nat2 3.188 9 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words. A similar experience is not infrequent in private life.
    Nat2 3.192 6 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    SwM 4.119 12 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern psychology offers no similar example of a deranged balance.
    SwM 4.132 22 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it.
    ET1 5.8 22 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...and did not even omit to remark the similar termination of their names.
    Wth 6.113 5 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Bhr 6.195 20 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...
    SS 7.5 25 These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases...
    Elo1 7.62 7 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...
    QO 8.181 8 ...scholars will recognize [Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza' s] dogmas as reappearing in men of a similar intellectual elevation throughout history.
    PPo 8.240 3 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    Edc1 10.131 2 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt? What but that much revolving of similar facts in his mind has shown him that always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    Edc1 10.147 6 Teach [a boy] the difference between the similar and the same.
    LLNE 10.353 7 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed that a similar model lay in every mind...
    LS 11.10 16 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    HDC 11.78 20 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried. A similar order is taken respecting hay.
    SHC 11.434 8 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    PLT 12.3 13 ...I thought-could not a similar [scientific] enumeration be made of the laws and powers of the Intellect...
    Milt1 12.248 27 [Milton's tracts] are not effective, like similar productions of Swift and Burke;...
    Milt1 12.250 23 ...as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...
    Pray 12.355 28 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...

similarity, n. (1)

    PLT 12.20 11 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.

similarly, adv. (2)

    SwM 4.114 9 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones...
    Supl 10.172 8 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.

similars, n. (1)

    NMW 4.223 9 It is Swedenborg's theory...as it is sometimes expressed, every whole is made of similars;...

similies, n. (1)

    Plu 10.300 21 No poet could illustrate his thought with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does Plutarch].

similis, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.175 1 Semper sibi similis.

similitude, n. (2)

    ET9 5.145 3 Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the English...
    PI 8.11 26 We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly conversation without a similitude.

Simonides, n. (2)

    Thor 10.476 26 [Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides...
    Thor 10.476 27 [Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides, but is better than any poem of Simonides.

simony, n. (1)

    ET13 5.230 8 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...

simoon, n. (2)

    Cour 7.264 1 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves... nor an Arab by the simoon...
    PPo 8.238 16 ...the desert, the simoon, the mirage, the lion and the plague endanger [subsistence in the East]...

Simorg, n. (11)

    PPo 8.240 19 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg, king of birds...
    PPo 8.263 19 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds...resolve on a pilgrimage...to pay their homage to the Simorg.
    PPo 8.263 26 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out. Three only persevered, and arrived before the throne of the Simorg.
    PPo 8.264 9 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
    PPo 8.264 13 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./
    PPo 8.264 14 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./
    PPo 8.264 15 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./
    PPo 8.264 18 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./
    PPo 8.264 20 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./ A single look grouped the two parties,/ The Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,/ This in that and that in this, As the world has never heard./
    PPo 8.265 2 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/ When you came to the Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had fifty of you come,/ So had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none of us yet seen./
    PPo 8.265 19 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./

simple, adj. (137)

    Nat 1.16 13 ...the simple perception of natural forms is a delight.
    Nat 1.25 3 Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple, double, and threefold degree.
    LE 1.165 21 Nothing is more simple than greatness;...
    LE 1.165 21 ...to be simple is to be great.
    MR 1.245 21 Economy is...a sacrament...when it is the prudence of simple tastes...
    Con 1.326 8 [The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety.
    Hist 2.16 7 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    SR 2.66 5 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away...
    SR 2.71 8 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
    SR 2.75 4 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
    SR 2.84 5 Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life...
    Comp 2.111 8 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him.
    SL 2.132 19 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.
    SL 2.138 25 ...only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong...
    Fdsp 2.195 6 ...my relation to [my friends] is so pure that we hold by simple affinity...
    Hsm1 2.256 20 Simple hearts put all the history and customs of this world behind them...
    Hsm1 2.260 22 A simple manly character need never make an apology...
    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 2.275 11 This is the law of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues.
    OS 2.291 1 Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
    Int 2.325 10 Intellect is the simple power anterior to all action or construction.
    Int 2.345 12 ...you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.
    Art1 2.358 18 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Art1 2.362 7 All great actions have been simple...
    Art1 2.362 14 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations! This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.
    Pt1 3.28 25 The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.
    Pt1 3.29 22 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor and hungry, and such as are of simple taste.
    Chr1 3.95 13 The reason why we feel one man's presence and do not feel another's is as simple as gravity.
    Chr1 3.104 21 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    Chr1 3.106 3 I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own;...
    Pol1 3.221 10 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.
    PNR 4.80 12 Modern science...by the simple expedient of lighting up the vast background, generates a feeling of complacency and hope.
    PNR 4.85 26 [Plato's] definition of ideas, as what is simple, permanent, uniform and self-existent...marks an era in the world.
    SwM 4.101 4 [Swedenborg's] habits were simple;...
    SwM 4.109 11 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    MoS 4.157 6 [The skeptic says] Why pretend that life is so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?
    NMW 4.231 20 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...
    NMW 4.235 1 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up. Seeing that, I tried a simple method of elevating light howitzers.
    NMW 4.251 21 I admire [Bonaparte's] simple, clear narrative of his battles;...
    GoW 4.271 5 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
    ET1 5.24 17 Wordsworth honored himself by his simple adherence to truth...
    ET5 5.79 22 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    ET14 5.236 26 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth. Their poets by simple force of mind equalized themselves with the accumulated science of ours.
    ET16 5.277 5 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
    Wth 6.108 4 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same simple and surly market?
    Bhr 6.193 9 Between simple and noble persons there is always a quick intelligence;...
    Wsp 6.213 12 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...
    Wsp 6.215 17 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    CbW 6.278 22 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...love of what is simple and beautiful;...
    Bty 6.289 9 We ascribe beauty to that which is simple;...
    Ill 6.322 25 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
    Civ 7.21 16 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay.
    Civ 7.29 10 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.40 9 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    Art2 7.55 10 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world... the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.63 1 An audience is not a simple addition of the individuals that compose it.
    Elo1 7.98 11 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs...
    DL 7.119 11 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship...
    Farm 7.146 21 Great is the force of a few simple arrangements;...
    WD 7.174 18 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
    WD 7.183 8 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic.
    Boks 7.197 12 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is good for simple minds...
    Clbs 7.241 21 ...the simple lover of truth...finds himself a stranger and alien.
    Cour 7.264 12 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered.
    PI 8.47 21 The fact is made conspicuous, nay, colossal, by this simple rhetoric [of iterations of phrase]...
    PI 8.54 4 Poetry will never be a simple means...
    SA 8.99 9 ...What we want is...your content to be a vehicle of the simple truth.
    QO 8.189 18 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
    QO 8.192 23 It never troubles the simple seeker from whom he derived such or such a sentiment.
    PC 8.207 24 [Men] come from crowded, antiquated kingdoms to the easy sharing of our simple forms.
    PPo 8.238 6 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple...
    Grts 8.310 3 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...it is too simple to be described...
    Imtl 8.333 25 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    Dem1 10.12 23 In the hands of poets, of devout and simple minds, nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
    Dem1 10.23 22 The fault of most men is that they...do not wait the simple movement of the soul...
    Dem1 10.24 21 While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world by using their eyes.
    Aris 10.39 23 ...we are in danger of forgetting so simple a fact as that the basis of all aristocracy must be truth...
    Aris 10.41 4 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
    Aris 10.41 16 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...
    Aris 10.62 4 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    PerF 10.85 22 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends...
    Chr2 10.94 21 We have no idea of power so simple and so entire as this [general mind].
    Chr2 10.97 10 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me;...
    Chr2 10.109 11 Truth is too simple for us;...
    Chr2 10.116 12 ...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted the voice of Nature...
    Edc1 10.130 14 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
    Edc1 10.154 11 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    Edc1 10.158 22 By simple living, by an illimitable soul, you inspire...all.
    Supl 10.175 27 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence, the simple and great characters, are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
    SovE 10.198 18 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
    SovE 10.198 19 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
    SovE 10.210 21 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
    Prch 10.228 21 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment. I put it to this simple test: Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
    Prch 10.230 14 The simple fact that the pulpit exists...assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    Prch 10.237 5 Truth is simple, and will not be antique;...
    Schr 10.283 8 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a simple wisdom behind all acquired wisdom;...
    Plu 10.293 17 ...the simple truth is, that [Plutarch] was not the tutor of Trajan...
    Plu 10.311 23 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets...
    LLNE 10.332 6 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.338 11 The German poet Goethe...declared war against the great name of Newton, proposed his own new and simple optics;...
    LLNE 10.338 12 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...
    LLNE 10.345 15 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself...of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
    MMEm 10.416 17 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    SlHr 10.439 7 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man of simple tastes...
    SlHr 10.441 18 ...[Samuel Hoar] was not adorned with any graces of rhetoric:-But simple truth his utmost skill./
    SlHr 10.447 3 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church;...
    Thor 10.464 9 [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.
    GSt 10.505 27 [George Stearns] had been always a man of simple tastes...
    GSt 10.506 9 There [George Stearns] sat in the council, a simple, resolute Republican...
    LS 11.4 15 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...and Bishop Hoadley, that it was...a simple commemoration.
    EWI 11.116 16 We were told that the dress of the negroes [in Antigua] on that occasion [of emancipation in the West Indies] was uncommonly simple and modest.
    War 11.160 24 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls...
    FSLC 11.202 23 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight statement, simple force;...
    FSLN 11.222 4 ...[Webster] was so thoroughly simple and wise in his rhetoric;...
    AKan 11.263 1 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap. If the problem was new, it was simple.
    JBB 11.268 13 ...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime courage.
    JBB 11.271 16 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.
    JBB 11.272 18 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    ACiv 11.307 24 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South, and identifies his interest with that of the Northern laborer. Now, in the name of all that is simple and generous, why should not this great right be done?
    ACiv 11.309 10 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly...
    SMC 11.350 16 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough...
    FRO2 11.486 3 ...I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    CPL 11.495 2 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns...
    FRep 11.538 24 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
    PLT 12.37 21 Simple percipiency is the virtue of space, not of man.
    PLT 12.55 6 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    CInt 12.118 6 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice...
    CL 12.142 4 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    CL 12.164 22 ...the best passages of great poets, old and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape.
    CL 12.166 23 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know [Nature's] simple, cheap pleasures...
    Bost 12.195 23 Many and rich are the fruits of that simple statute [establishing schools in Massachusetts].
    MAng1 12.224 21 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was sufficient...
    MAng1 12.227 8 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed to be the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to repair the walls of churches.
    MAng1 12.237 4 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...not of the simple inhabitants of lowly streets or humble cottages, but of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    ACri 12.281 2 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
    MLit 12.335 26 [The Genius of the time] will describe...the now unbelieved possibility of simple living...
    PPr 12.381 4 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight. Like every work of genius, [Carlyle's Past and Present's] great value is in telling such simple truths.

simple, n. (4)

    DSA 1.132 22 ...a great and rich soul, like [Christ's], falling among the simple...names the world.
    OS 2.289 25 [The energy of the soul] comes to the lowly and simple;...
    Art1 2.361 8 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...pierced directly to the simple and true;...
    Pol1 3.201 5 The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic.

simpleness, n. (1)

    ET14 5.236 14 There is a hygienic simpleness...even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...

simpler, adj. (13)

    LT 1.262 1 We do not think the sky will be bluer...but only that our relation to our fellows will be simpler and happier.
    Tran 1.334 12 It is simpler to be self-dependent.
    SL 2.135 7 ...our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it;...
    Fdsp 2.207 25 No two men but being left alone with each other enter into simpler relations.
    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.
    Nat2 3.180 24 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
    NR 3.235 21 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that...life will be simpler when we live at the centre and flout the surfaces.
    NER 3.254 1 ...in each of these [reform] movements emerged...a tendency to the adoption of simpler methods...
    SwM 4.114 8 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    ET10 5.170 5 ...the evil [of England's wealth] requires a deeper cure, which time and a simpler social organization must supply.
    ET11 5.194 25 The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.
    Elo1 7.70 10 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in semi-barbarous ages, when it has some advantages in the simpler habit of the people, show what it aims at.
    MMEm 10.421 22 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...

simpler, adv. (1)

    PPr 12.391 3 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement. It will be done again and again, sharper, simpler;...

simplest, adj. (23)

    LT 1.276 5 [These reforms] are the simplest statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong.
    OS 2.291 3 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written...
    OS 2.292 16 The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God;...
    Cir 2.320 24 The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
    Art1 2.358 11 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...that they restore to us the simplest states of mind, and are religious.
    Art1 2.359 1 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature...
    Pol1 3.212 25 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
    Pol1 3.221 26 ...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...
    GoW 4.287 7 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET4 5.50 10 The low organizations are simplest;...
    ET5 5.86 27 ...[the English] rely most on the simplest means...
    ET16 5.277 5 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
    ET16 5.287 3 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... I thought only of the simplest and purest minds;...
    Bty 6.294 24 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Art2 7.39 1 ...from the simplest expedient of private prudence to the American Constitution;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Elo2 8.125 24 ...all poetry is written in the oldest and simplest English words.
    Thor 10.455 2 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation, wishing to meet his companion on the simplest terms.
    Thor 10.463 9 [Thoreau] liked and used the simplest food...
    HDC 11.75 20 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts.
    LVB 11.93 20 You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any sectional and party feeling. It is in our hearts the simplest commandment of brotherly love.
    FSLN 11.232 15 Now, Gentlemen, I think we have in this hour instruction again in the simplest lesson.
    FRep 11.538 13 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of political society.
    PPr 12.382 14 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had...

simplicity, n. (45)

    Nat 1.8 7 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
    Nat 1.29 24 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends on the simplicity of his character...
    Nat 1.30 1 When simplicity of character...is broken up...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.30 5 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    YA 1.392 3 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Hist 2.14 14 There is, at the surface [of history], infinite variety of things; at the centre there is simplicity of cause.
    Hist 2.26 1 [Greek] Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children.
    SR 2.71 11 Let our simplicity judge [the invaders]...
    Comp 2.111 13 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong;...
    SL 2.137 20 The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine.
    SL 2.137 21 The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine.
    SL 2.137 24 The simplicity of nature is not that which may easily be read...
    Fdsp 2.202 20 ...I...may deal with [a friend] with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
    OS 2.270 6 ...I desire...to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.
    Art1 2.359 16 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    Art1 2.362 21 [The work of art] was not painted for [picture dealers], it was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by simplicity and lofty emotions.
    Pt1 3.18 12 We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.
    GoW 4.275 2 [Goethe] has contributed a key to many parts of nature, through the rare turn for unity and simplicity in his mind.
    GoW 4.290 2 ...the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    ET1 5.19 8 [Wordsworth] sat down, and talked with great simplicity.
    ET6 5.113 5 Even Brummel, [the Englishmen's] fop, was marked by the severest simplicity in dress.
    ET11 5.186 13 ...[English nobles] have that simplicity and that air of repose which are the finest ornament of greatness.
    ET16 5.279 5 Stonehenge, in virtue of the simplicity of its plan and its good preservation, is as if new and recent;...
    Bhr 6.179 22 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs, where he looked for innocence and simplicity.
    Clbs 7.241 17 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to share with him the sphere of freedom and the simplicity of truth.
    Suc 7.289 25 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing...
    PI 8.68 25 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution...
    SA 8.90 18 ...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.
    QO 8.195 13 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity...
    Aris 10.55 10 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the elegant simplicity...which all men admire...
    Chr2 10.93 22 The extreme simplicity of this [moral] intuition embarrasses every attempt at analysis.
    Chr2 10.109 17 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...and they finding...the greatest simplicity, I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Supl 10.171 14 ...whilst thus everything recommends simplicity and temperance of action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
    Supl 10.174 15 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature...
    Supl 10.176 11 ...the basis of character must be simplicity...
    LLNE 10.332 25 In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.
    LLNE 10.333 2 In the pulpit...with an infantine simplicity still, of manner, [Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    LLNE 10.341 23 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...with rare simplicity and grandeur of perception...
    LLNE 10.357 6 [Thoreau said] What you call bareness and poverty, is to me simplicity.
    SlHr 10.444 24 Mr. Hoar was distinguished in his profession...by the simplicity of his means.
    HDC 11.83 24 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture...of a community of great simplicity of manners...
    PLT 12.63 17 The superiority of the man is in the simplicity of his thought...
    CL 12.155 26 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion. O holy simplicity of diet, past all praise!
    Milt1 12.267 12 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    ACri 12.296 23 Herrick's merit is the simplicity and manliness of his utterance...

simplification, n. (1)

    NMW 4.230 16 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight...in the choice, simplification and combining of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.

simply, adv. (48)

    AmS 1.81 10 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters...
    LE 1.164 15 ...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved. What does this mean? Why simply that the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray...
    MR 1.233 15 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    MR 1.237 8 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    LT 1.289 7 To a true scholar the attraction of...the passages of his experience, is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    Hist 2.25 20 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons speak simply,--speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it...
    SR 2.57 20 With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    SR 2.67 8 There is simply the rose;...
    Cir 2.318 14 ...I simply experiment...
    PPh 4.66 23 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him; but, simply, whilst they were with him they grew wise, not because of him;...
    ShP 4.207 1 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...
    NMW 4.253 15 ...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; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon], who proposed to himself simply a brilliant career...
    NMW 4.254 21 [Napoleon's] doctrine of immortality is simply fame.
    ET6 5.104 1 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain. I say as much of England, for other cause, simply on account of the vigor and brawn of the people.
    ET10 5.170 7 At present [England] does not rule her wealth. She is simply a good England...
    ET12 5.213 12 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford, to mould the opinions of cities, to build their houses as simply as birds their nests...
    CbW 6.252 15 To say then, the majority are wicked, means...simply that the majority are unripe...
    Bty 6.295 7 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit;...
    Ill 6.320 9 ...what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought...
    Clbs 7.232 21 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply...
    OA 7.321 11 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the like, all signify simply old men.
    PI 8.22 26 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    QO 8.195 6 ...another's thoughts have a certain advantage with us simply because they are another's.
    Grts 8.304 9 A sensible man...is content with putting his fact or theme simply on its ground.
    Imtl 8.347 5 Let any master simply recite to you the substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
    Dem1 10.20 23 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous.
    Dem1 10.23 7 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...simply does not act where he should not...
    Chr2 10.100 21 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth. Such souls...simply by their presence pass judgment on [men].
    Chr2 10.119 18 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is... simply a change from coarser to finer checks.
    SovE 10.199 25 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind...
    SovE 10.202 16 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    Prch 10.235 7 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same...flanked...by the resolute, simply by minding their own affair.
    Prch 10.235 18 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
    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.
    CSC 10.374 1 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    LS 11.21 22 [Christianity] has for its object simply to make men good and wise.
    FSLC 11.186 26 ...laws...are simply declaratory of a right which already existed...
    FSLC 11.202 17 Simply [Webster] was the one eminent American of our time, whom we could produce as a finished work of Nature.
    JBS 11.279 18 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...abstemious, refusing luxuries, not sourly and reproachfully, but simply as unfit for his habit;...
    TPar 11.287 22 Simply, those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him.
    EdAd 11.389 25 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people; for the reason that this is simply a formal and superficial interest;...
    Shak1 11.452 17 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth...
    PLT 12.11 14 My contribution [to the study of the laws and powers of the Intellect] will be simply historical.
    PLT 12.14 25 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.
    II 12.67 25 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion, simply by the failure to affect the spirit.
    ACri 12.294 13 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth...
    Let 12.394 18 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association, but simply a concentration of chosen people.
    Let 12.398 24 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be hid from the reproachful eyes of their countrymen...

Sims, Thomas, n. (1)

    TPar 11.290 16 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.

Simsbury, Connecticut, n. (1)

    JBB 11.267 21 [John Brown's] grandfather, of Simsbury, in Connecticut, was a captain in the Revolution.

simulate, v. (2)

    Elo2 8.130 23 Absoluteness is required, and [the eloquent man] must have it or simulate it.
    Grts 8.309 13 There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it, and men who wish to be orators simulate it.

simulating, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.237 23 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes, though the intellect goes on simulating the moral as before, its sanity is gradually destroyed.

simulation, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 13 The gladiators in the lists of power feel, through all their frocks of force and simulation, the presence of worth.

simultaneous, adj. (6)

    MN 1.200 25 The simultaneous life throughout the whole body...allows the understanding no place to work.
    Bhr 6.182 12 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    HDC 11.74 22 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his men.
    SHC 11.430 27 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    Trag 12.405 19 There is a simultaneous diminution of memory and hope.
    Trag 12.414 9 [The man who is centred] sees already in the ebullition of sin the simultaneous redress.

simultaneously, adv. (2)

    Edc1 10.132 5 ...in history an idea always overhangs, like the moon, and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the souls of a generation.
    Wom 11.426 19 ...whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.

sin, n. (26)

    AmS 1.105 9 To ignorance and sin, [the world] is flint.
    DSA 1.123 6 By [the moral sentiment] a man is made the Providence to himself, dispensing good to his goodness, and evil to his sin.
    DSA 1.147 3 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and sin, with souls that made our souls wiser;...
    MN 1.204 23 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    MN 1.221 11 I will that we keep terms with sin and a sinful literature and society no longer...
    Con 1.320 7 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...pardons for sin, funeral honors...
    SL 2.132 12 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    SL 2.150 24 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society...
    SL 2.159 7 [A man's] sin bedaubs him...
    Hsm1 2.249 17 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...
    OS 2.284 14 These questions which we lust to ask about the future are a confession of sin.
    Cir 2.308 2 The only sin is limitation.
    Cir 2.318 5 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good into every chink and hole that selfishness has left open, yea into selfishness and sin itself;...
    Exp 3.78 10 ...that which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
    Exp 3.79 12 Saints are sad, because they behold sin...from the point of view of the conscience...
    Exp 3.79 15 Sin, seen from the thought, is a diminution, or less;...
    ET1 5.19 24 Sin is what [Wordsworth] fears...
    Clbs 7.234 6 In fact the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
    PI 8.58 19 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
    Edc1 10.144 8 Be...the lover of [the child's] virtue,-but no kinsman of his sin.
    LLNE 10.354 11 ...abstinence from pleasure appeared to [Fourier] a great sin.
    HDC 11.56 14 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people.
    PLT 12.8 26 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...
    MAng1 12.236 20 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    Let 12.397 22 Whilst [a man] dwells in the old sin, he will pay the old fine.
    Trag 12.414 9 [The man who is centred] sees already in the ebullition of sin the simultaneous redress.

Sin, n. (1)

    LT 1.282 2 Our forefathers walked in the world and went to their graves tormented with the fear of Sin...

sin, v. (3)

    Comp 2.95 5 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was...You sin now, we shall sin by and by;...
    Comp 2.95 6 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was...You sin now, we shall sin by and by; we would sin now, if we could;...
    Supl 10.171 25 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned. We don't wish to sin on the other side...

Sinai, Mt., n. (1)

    ET13 5.229 10 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai...

sincere, adj. (58)

    DSA 1.141 13 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers, as...in the sincere moments of every man.
    LE 1.167 24 Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...
    LE 1.171 23 ...the first observation you make, in the sincere act of your nature...may open a new view of nature and of man...
    LE 1.174 15 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those private, sincere, divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    LE 1.187 15 ...[Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to the scholar...
    MR 1.241 7 ...he only is a sincere learner...who learns the secrets of labor...
    MR 1.250 3 Now if I talk with a sincere wise man...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    LT 1.283 25 So little action amidst such audacious and yet sincere profession...
    Tran 1.344 2 ...[Transcendentalists] do not wish, as they are sincere and religious, to gratify any mere curiosity which you may entertain.
    SL 2.158 26 Never was a sincere word utterly lost.
    Lov1 2.173 23 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate...
    Fdsp 2.192 26 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...
    Fdsp 2.202 15 A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
    Fdsp 2.202 26 Every man alone is sincere.
    Fdsp 2.207 8 ...three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    OS 2.268 25 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship...
    Art1 2.361 9 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was familiar and sincere;...
    Pt1 3.16 8 It is nature the symbol...which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    Exp 3.61 15 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...and honor it in their blind capricious way with sincere homage.
    Pol1 3.219 4 Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.
    NR 3.246 9 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...
    NR 3.247 11 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NR 3.247 26 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind...
    NER 3.253 22 ...there was sincere protesting against existing evils...
    PPh 4.45 17 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a sound, sincere and catholic man...
    MoS 4.165 23 ...I, [says Montaigne,] who am as sincere and perfect a lover of virtue of that stamp as any other whatever, am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    ET16 5.274 16 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence, and thinks a sincere man will see something and say nothing.
    Bhr 6.192 18 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that...the greatest success is...perfect understanding between sincere people.
    Boks 7.202 8 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Boks 7.220 16 ...it would be well for sincere young men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British Association...
    Boks 7.221 3 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere result as it lies in his mind...
    Cour 7.253 6 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private advantage.
    Cour 7.259 19 ...the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    PI 8.30 2 ...the fault of our popular poetry is that it is not sincere.
    SA 8.91 22 ...sincere and happy conversation doubles our powers;...
    PC 8.229 3 ...great men are sincere.
    Dem1 10.13 10 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends.
    Aris 10.41 5 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
    Chr2 10.97 11 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me;...
    Chr2 10.107 26 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor?
    Edc1 10.128 13 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round.
    Prch 10.230 11 [The man of practice or worldly force] is sincere and ardent in his vocation, and plunged in it. Let priest or poet be as good in theirs.
    MoL 10.255 16 God and Nature are altogether sincere, and Art should be as sincere.
    Plu 10.309 6 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict, sincere and affectionate.
    EzRy 10.385 19 [Ezra Ripley] was a perfectly sincere man...
    EzRy 10.393 14 [Ezra Ripley] was sincere, and kept to his point...
    MMEm 10.408 15 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson]...could always be tamed by large and sincere conversation.
    SlHr 10.446 13 [Samuel Hoar's] modesty was sincere.
    SlHr 10.447 20 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
    GSt 10.502 23 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.
    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...
    SMC 11.361 12 ...[George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    PLT 12.53 12 Every sincere man is right...
    CInt 12.118 25 ...I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands, which is a very sincere, and apt to be a very seriously considered expression of opinion.
    CInt 12.119 2 The emigration into America of British...people is the eulogy of America by the most competent and sincere arbiters.
    Milt1 12.277 24 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions, and sometimes the muse soars highest in the former, because the thought is more sincere.
    WSL 12.338 25 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes...often whimsical and amusing; yet they are quite sincere...
    Let 12.396 8 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society.

sincerely, adv. (7)

    SL 2.153 13 The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.
    MoS 4.162 23 It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book [Montaigne's Essays], in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience.
    CbW 6.264 12 Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
    Imtl 8.339 11 Every really able man...if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    AsSu 11.250 16 ...beyond this charge, which it is impossible was ever sincerely made, that he broke over the proprieties of debate, I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    EdAd 11.389 19 ...we...should be sincerely pleased if we could give a direction to the Federal politics...
    PLT 12.63 13 [Socrates] was sincerely humble...

sincerer, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.168 15 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind, seizing a classification to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops in the classification;...

sincerest, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.36 7 Space, time...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    Lov1 2.171 14 Let any man go back to those delicious relations...which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, he will shrink and moan.
    PI 8.31 2 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would, instead of to the fatal is: this holds even of the bravest and sincerest writers.

sincerity, n. (36)

    DSA 1.140 26 Let me not taint the sincerity of this plea by any oversight of the claims of good men.
    Fdsp 2.201 18 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
    Fdsp 2.202 22 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank;...
    Fdsp 2.203 17 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing...
    Fdsp 2.210 9 A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from [my friend] I want...
    OS 2.292 7 Souls like these make us feel that sincerity is more excellent than flattery.
    OS 2.292 10 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity...
    UGM 4.20 14 ...life is a sincerity.
    MoS 4.168 8 The sincerity and marrow of the man [Montaigne] reaches to his sentences.
    GoW 4.281 10 A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    ET7 5.116 4 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning.
    ET7 5.117 1 [Englishmen's] practical power rests on their national sincerity.
    ET11 5.179 16 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American...
    ET14 5.233 8 [The Englishman] must be treated with sincerity and reality;...
    ET17 5.292 8 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England], until the sincerity of English kindness ceased to surprise.
    Bhr 6.193 13 ...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than the talents and skills they may chance to possess, namely on sincerity and uprightness.
    Wsp 6.212 2 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of sincerity.
    Wsp 6.212 20 It has been charged that a want of sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American society.
    Wsp 6.219 19 Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see this unity, intimacy and sincerity [in nature];...
    Wsp 6.221 26 ...the police and sincerity of the universe are secured by God' s delegating his divinity to every particle;...
    Wsp 6.226 21 This reaction, this sincerity is the property of all things.
    Wsp 6.227 7 As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity...
    DL 7.117 23 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall which shines with sincerity...
    Cour 7.260 13 ...the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right.
    Elo2 8.130 1 ...the essential thing [in eloquence] is heat, and heat comes of sincerity.
    SovE 10.205 9 It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how little you believe...
    SovE 10.207 14 If there be sincerity and good meaning-if there be really in us the wish to seek for our superiors...we shall not long look in vain.
    MoL 10.242 14 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind.
    MoL 10.256 1 Sincerity is, in dangerous times, discovered to be an immeasurable advantage.
    Thor 10.478 1 Thoreau was sincerity itself...
    TPar 11.288 27 The vice charged against America is the want of sincerity in leading men.
    ALin 11.328 16 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
    PLT 12.31 7 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
    PLT 12.63 20 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
    PPr 12.389 23 [Carlyle]...gives sincerity where it is due.
    Let 12.394 4 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers, obviously persons of sincerity and elegance, should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...

sinecure, n. (2)

    ET11 5.175 6 ...I make no doubt that feudal tenure was no sinecure...
    Schr 10.273 1 ...the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar's] duties...may show that his place is no sinecure.

sinecures, n. (1)

    ET11 5.176 4 Great estates are not sinecures, if they are to be kept great.

sinew, n. (5)

    SR 2.75 9 The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out...
    ET3 5.43 5 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew.
    ET18 5.302 25 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war, what sinew in labor...
    Res 8.140 17 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew...
    Supl 10.164 5 ...the positive is the sinew of speech...

sinews, n. (6)

    AmS 1.107 10 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make...those giant sinews combat and conquer.
    Wth 6.105 23 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.
    PPo 8.242 20 The gripe of [Rustem's] hand cracked the sinews of an enemy.
    HDC 11.36 11 The moose was still trotting in the country, and of his sinews [the Indians] made their bowstring.
    FSLC 11.209 21 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused; the sinews of man being relieved by sinews of steam.
    FSLC 11.209 22 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused; the sinews of man being relieved by sinews of steam.

sinewy, adj. (1)

    Grts 8.305 2 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology, sinewy, out-of-doors men...

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