Sockets to Sometimes

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

sockets, n. (1)

    Bty 6.290 23 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.

socks, n. (1)

    SMC 11.372 20 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which the men drew shoes and socks...

Socrates, Apology of [Plato (1)

    Boks 7.199 19 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read...the Apology of Socrates.

Socrates [Charmides, Plato] (1)

    Pt1 3.30 26 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...

Socrates, n. (57)

    Nat 1.22 4 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    Hist 2.28 5 How easily these old worships...of Socrates, domesticate themselves in the mind.
    Hist 2.31 13 When the gods come among men, they are not known. Jesus was not; Socrates and Shakspeare were not.
    SR 2.58 1 Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates...
    SR 2.86 7 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men...
    OS 2.282 3 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...are of this kind.
    Int 2.342 25 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.
    Mrs1 3.126 1 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen of the best blood...
    NER 3.280 13 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    PPh 4.42 17 Plato absorbed the learning of his times,--Philolaus, Timaeus, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and what else; then his master, Socrates;...
    PPh 4.43 27 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates, was easily dissuaded from this pursuit...
    PPh 4.44 2 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates...remained for ten years his scholar, until the death of Socrates.
    PPh 4.58 2 [Plato] has been charged with feigning sickness at the time of the death of Socrates.
    PPh 4.70 22 Socrates and Plato are the double star which the most powerful instruments will not entirely separate.
    PPh 4.70 24 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
    PPh 4.70 27 Socrates, a man of humble stem, but honest enough;...
    PPh 4.74 7 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue... and very well, as it appeared to him; but at this moment he cannot even tell what it is,--this cramp-fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him.
    PPh 4.75 10 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.
    PPh 4.75 17 The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the synthesis in the mind of Plato.
    PPh 4.75 20 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates...
    PNR 4.89 21 Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo and Socrates by village scales.
    SwM 4.97 9 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates, Plotinus...will readily come to mind.
    MoS 4.157 21 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable...
    MoS 4.169 10 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms, no aspiration; contented, self-respecting and keeping the middle of the road. There is but one exception,--in his love for Socrates.
    GoW 4.288 14 Socrates loved Athens;...
    ET1 5.8 17 [Landor]...undervalued Burke, and undervalued Socrates;...
    ET1 5.16 26 ...[Carlyle] disparaged Socrates;...
    CbW 6.252 27 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times, like Socrates, with his famous irony;...
    CbW 6.261 4 The first-class minds, Aesop, Socrates...had the poor man's feeling and mortification.
    CbW 6.267 11 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
    Civ 7.33 3 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Elo1 7.64 8 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
    DL 7.115 27 The greatest man in history was the poorest. How was it...with Socrates...
    Boks 7.199 12 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates...
    Boks 7.201 2 Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory to Plato, and supplies traits of Socrates;...
    Boks 7.201 7 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.
    Clbs 7.235 23 The life of Socrates is a propounding and a solution of these [conundrums].
    Cour 7.253 19 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome,--of Socrates, Aristides and Phocion;...
    Cour 7.274 10 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates.
    Suc 7.287 27 Newton was a great man, without...lucifer-matches, or ether for his pain; so was Shakspeare and Alfred and Scipio and Socrates.
    Suc 7.296 9 We assume...that there is...but...one Socrates.
    Suc 7.296 11 We should know how to praise Socrates...without impoverishing us.
    Suc 7.302 21 The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a certain archness...
    OA 7.322 12 We still feel the force of Socrates...
    PI 8.38 10 Socrates, the Indian teachers of the Maia, the Bibles...these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    PC 8.220 15 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Socrates in Athens, the saints in Judea...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    Insp 8.275 16 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.
    Chr2 10.110 9 Socrates and Marcus Aurelius are allowed to be saints;...
    Chr2 10.111 21 Pythagoras, Socrates...these speak originally;...
    Edc1 10.149 24 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates;...
    SovE 10.208 22 A new Socrates, or Zeno, or Swedenborg...may be born in this age...
    Plu 10.308 3 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to bring reason and things together...
    Shak1 11.448 25 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...
    ChiE 11.472 19 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    PLT 12.63 12 Socrates kept all his virtues as well as his faculties well in hand.
    ACri 12.287 3 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...
    WSL 12.349 6 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.

Socrates', n. (2)

    PPh 4.59 25 Socrates' profession of obstetric art is good philosophy;...
    PNR 4.83 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially...in Socrates' belief that the laws below are sisters of the laws above.

Socrates, On the Daemon of (1)

    Boks 7.200 5 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates, On Isis and Osiris...

Socrates [Plato, Crito], n. (2)

    PPh 4.74 20 Socrates entered the prison and took away all ignominy from the place...
    PPh 4.74 23 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery.

Socrates [Plato, Gorgias], (1)

    Boks 7.189 6 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...

Socrates [Plato, Phaedrus], (1)

    Pray 12.351 13 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...

Socrates [Plato, Republic], (1)

    PPh 4.64 23 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.

Socrates [Plato ("), Theage (2)

    PPh 4.66 20 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages, who wishes to receive lessons from Socrates.
    PPh 4.66 21 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...

Socrates, [Plato, The Repu (1)

    WD 7.179 6 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.

Socrates's, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.256 3 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
    SwM 4.140 1 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to act or to find...
    PI 8.12 15 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation. Pythagoras's Golden Sayings were such, and Socrates's...

Socratic, adj. (2)

    PNR 4.81 16 Plato's fame does not stand...on any masterpieces of the Socratic reasoning...
    ET13 5.224 10 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...

sod, n. (3)

    OS 2.265 7 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/...
    EzRy 10.379 4 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./
    HDC 11.34 20 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground...till the sod of the earth was rotten...

sodium, n. (1)

    SS 7.6 5 ...there are metals, like potassium and sodium, which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha.

Sodom, n. (1)

    Con 1.313 19 You are yourself the result of this manner of living...this vituperated Sodom.

soever, adv. (5)

    Chr1 3.96 9 ...at how long a curve soever, all [a man's] regards return to his own good at last.
    Elo1 7.61 16 ...every man is an orator, how long soever he may have been a mute...
    LLNE 10.331 20 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    CL 12.167 1 Matter, how immensely soever enlarged by the telescope, remains the lesser half.
    Let 12.396 11 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

sofa, n. (1)

    ET17 5.294 15 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa.

sofas, n. (1)

    MR 1.246 11 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...

soft, adj. (27)

    MR 1.254 22 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom,-a plant...that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly,-by its... gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Con 1.300 22 The leaves and a shell of soft wood are all that the vegetation of this summer has made;...
    Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...lies floating in soft air...
    Hist 2.13 1 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
    Hist 2.13 25 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it...
    SR 2.85 3 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch...
    Lov1 2.178 13 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary. Like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself;...
    Hsm1 2.246 8 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
    OS 2.268 21 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere;...
    Exp 3.60 20 Men live in their fancy, like drunkards whose hands are too soft and tremulous for successful labor.
    Exp 3.84 14 Life wears to me a visionary face. Hardest roughest action is visionary also. It is but a choice between soft and turbulent dreams.
    Chr1 3.87 7 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/ Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
    Nat2 3.174 15 In [the stars'] soft glances I see what men strove to realize in some Versailles...
    ET8 5.135 6 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart...
    F 6.1 10 ...on [the poet's] mind, at dawn of day,/ Soft shadows of the evening lay./
    F 6.20 24 So soft and so stanch is the ring of Fate.
    Elo1 7.59 2 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on their wing;/...
    Elo2 8.127 19 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated, he tried to make soft approaches...
    PPo 8.260 9 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies:- Fair fall thy soft heart!/ A good work wilt thou do?/ O, pray for the dead/ Whom thy eyelashes slew!/
    Dem1 10.3 9 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms...
    Thor 10.482 12 The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper salted.
    HDC 11.59 5 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    SHC 11.428 14 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
    PLT 12.29 4 To the sculptor [Nature's] stone is soft;...
    MAng1 12.238 10 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all.
    ACri 12.302 10 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking, soft sunshine and hailstones...
    Trag 12.416 26 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy, solemn and soft with music...

soft, adv. (2)

    Exp 3.48 4 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces; we fall soft on a thought;...
    Exp 3.48 7 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./

soften, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.65 11 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the people furious, shall soften and compose them...
    DL 7.103 18 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...

softened, v. (2)

    Int 2.338 3 ...the artist's copies from experience [are]...always touched and softened by tints from this ideal domain.
    MoS 4.152 2 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings.

softening, n. (1)

    Supl 10.169 8 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.

softening, v. (1)

    EzRy 10.391 21 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment, softening ever and anon into elegancy, which make the distinction of the scholar...

softens, v. (1)

    PI 8.60 7 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself...

softer, adj. (1)

    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;...

softest, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.71 17 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
    CL 12.152 8 The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied splendor through the softest haze.

softly, adv. (7)

    Con 1.318 26 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
    SL 2.150 19 ...a person of related mind...comes to us so softly and easily... that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
    ShP 4.211 18 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye.
    F 6.49 19 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception that there are no contingencies;...
    SA 8.97 1 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    Dem1 10.13 5 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed...by innumerable impressions so softly laid on that though important we do not discover them until our attention is called to them.
    PLT 12.42 14 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if...it were a wide prairie.

softness, n. (4)

    Nat 1.17 24 The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes modulated with tints of unspeakable softness...
    Nat2 3.192 11 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...
    HDC 11.35 25 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be...for those who were new to the country and bred in softness, a formidable adventure.
    CL 12.158 5 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down. What new softness in the picture!

Sogd, Bukharia, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.253 16 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.
    Hsm1 2.253 16 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building...

Sogdians, n. (1)

    Plu 10.319 1 [Alexander] persuaded the Sogdians not to kill, but to cherish their aged parents;...

soi disant, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.134 2 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth, Rome and eloquence have ebbed away...

soil, n. (75)

    LE 1.181 26 The good scholar will not refuse...to make his own hands acquainted with the soil by which he is fed...
    MR 1.235 5 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to put ourselves into primary relations with the soil and nature...
    Con 1.311 9 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
    Con 1.312 27 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to...make shoes or wheels, to the tilling of the soil.
    YA 1.364 12 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    YA 1.366 12 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.366 24 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
    Hist 2.21 24 ...the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns.
    Hist 2.23 12 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    SR 2.82 27 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him, considering...the soil...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Comp 2.98 2 The influences of climate and soil in political history is another [instance of Compensation].
    Comp 2.98 4 The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers or scorpions.
    Prd1 2.226 6 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    Nat2 3.180 7 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...
    NMW 4.242 6 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates, secluded from all community with the children of the soil...
    GoW 4.261 12 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river its channel in the soil;...
    ET3 5.34 17 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all the capabilities, the arable soil...
    ET4 5.45 22 It has been denied that the English have genius. Be it as it may, men of vast intellect have been born on their soil...
    ET4 5.46 15 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
    ET4 5.52 6 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...
    ET4 5.52 9 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...as, out of a hundred pear-trees, eight or ten suit the soil of an orchard and thrive...
    ET4 5.53 18 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but less food...
    ET5 5.74 6 ...from the residence of a portion of these [Scandinavian] people in France, and from some effect of that powerful soil on their blood and manners, the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET5 5.96 6 The value of the houses in Britain is equal to the value of the soil.
    ET10 5.159 24 England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
    ET11 5.183 3 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    ET13 5.216 12 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.
    Pow 6.60 11 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of blight...
    Wth 6.114 9 Pride...can work on the soil...
    Ctr 6.165 19 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
    CbW 6.256 27 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the...network of the Mississippi Valley roads; which have evoked not only all the wealth of the soil, but the energy of millions of men.
    Civ 7.34 12 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages of soil, climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
    Art2 7.57 7 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    Farm 7.144 12 Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.
    Farm 7.147 18 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but in a basin, where it found deep soil...
    Farm 7.147 24 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger...
    Farm 7.148 16 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
    Farm 7.149 20 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
    Farm 7.149 20 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil...
    Farm 7.150 24 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that men breed too fast for the powers of the soil;...
    Farm 7.152 12 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil...
    Farm 7.152 24 This crust of soil which ages have refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and instructed people.
    WD 7.160 19 The soil of Holland...is below the level of the sea.
    WD 7.162 7 Our selfishness...would have excluded from a quarter of the planet all that are not born on the soil of that quarter.
    PI 8.31 19 To the poet the world is virgin soil;...
    Res 8.141 8 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these wonderful machines...
    PC 8.213 3 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that...the soil of the valleys and plains [is] a continual decomposition and recomposition.
    PC 8.223 12 I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates, as well as the surface and soil of the globe.
    PC 8.229 19 ...when we see creation we also begin to create. Depth of character, height of genius, can only find nourishment in this soil.
    PerF 10.75 8 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.
    Edc1 10.145 25 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil.
    Supl 10.175 17 Sow grain, and it does not come up; put lime into the soil and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
    MoL 10.244 6 ...[the Hebrew nation's] poems and histories cling to the soil of this globe like the primitive rocks.
    HDC 11.31 16 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
    HDC 11.34 4 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side.
    HDC 11.49 13 ...the people [of Concord] truly feel that they are lords of the soil.
    HDC 11.75 19 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts.
    EWI 11.126 3 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil;...
    EWI 11.129 7 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    TPar 11.285 24 Theodore Parker was a son of the soil...
    SMC 11.350 17 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,-a few slabs of granite, dug just below the surface of the soil, and laid upon the top of it;...
    SMC 11.354 1 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...burns as hotly in Kansas and California as in Boston, and no chemist can discriminate between one soil and the other.
    EdAd 11.387 8 Every foot of soil has its proper quality;...
    FRep 11.541 25 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best. The land is wide enough, the soil has bread for all.
    PLT 12.32 1 ...each tree can secrete from the soil the elements that form a peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its kind...
    II 12.80 25 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove, and covers the sand with a soil by shedding its leaves.
    Bost 12.183 12 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night...from every water and soil...
    Bost 12.184 9 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.
    ACri 12.284 24 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic, so strongly rooted in the German soil, that they are the terror of translators...
    AgMs 12.358 10 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock bedaubed with the soil of the field;...
    AgMs 12.358 20 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...
    AgMs 12.363 10 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have... reduced a stubborn soil to a good farm...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
    EurB 12.366 11 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
    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 are like a soil which an enemy has sown with poison...
    Let 12.402 6 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.

soil, v. (3)

    Nat 1.59 10 I do not wish to...soil my gentle nest.
    Chr1 3.115 24 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    ET19 5.313 27 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...truly a home to the thoughtful and generous who are born in the soil.

soiled, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.193 9 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts.
    HDC 11.84 5 These soiled and musty books [the Concord Town Records] are luminous and electric within.

soiled, v. (1)

    ET1 5.10 16 [Coleridge] took snuff freely, which presently soiled his cravat and neat black suit.

soils, n. (9)

    DSA 1.119 22 In its fruitful soils;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    MN 1.195 26 ...our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata...
    LT 1.289 22 The granite is curiously concealed...under fertile soils, and grasses, and flowers....
    YA 1.373 1 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
    ET14 5.243 9 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient fertility to tillage...
    Wsp 6.232 4 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and soils.
    Farm 7.138 23 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops...
    Supl 10.170 2 When [a farmer] wishes to condemn any treatment of soils or of stock, he says, It won't do any good.
    MMEm 10.424 22 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather-evanescent efforts, which will wear like flowerets in brighter soils;...

soiree, n. (1)

    SS 7.11 27 It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.

soirees, n. (1)

    SS 7.11 26 It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.

sojourn, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.257 16 Where the heart is...there the gods sojourn...
    ET13 5.225 6 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not...

solace, n. (4)

    AmS 1.115 6 ...for solace the perspective of your own infinite life;...
    Insp 8.295 1 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...
    MMEm 10.411 14 In her solitude of twenty years...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    RBur 11.443 20 [Burns's songs] are the property and the solace of mankind.

solace, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.185 7 When alone, [the lovers] solace themselves with the remembered image of the other.
    OS 2.291 21 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...

solaces, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.227 8 The domestic man...has solaces which others never dream of.
    Art1 2.366 20 These solaces and compensations, this division of beauty from use, the laws of nature do not permit.

solar, adj. (18)

    LT 1.266 26 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us...
    Hist 2.2 2 I am owner of the sphere,/ Of the seven stars and the solar year/...
    Hist 2.37 10 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.
    Pol1 3.220 25 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system;...
    PPh 4.47 2 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    MoS 4.184 15 Each man woke in the morning with an appetite that could eat the solar system like a cake;...
    ShP 4.213 25 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain; yet these, like nature's, will bear the scrutiny of the solar microscope.
    ET15 5.261 12 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of this solar microscope on every malfaisance...
    Wth 6.106 24 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wsp 6.202 12 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation...
    SS 7.5 8 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to...put diameters of the solar system and sidereal orbits between me and all souls...
    PI 8.39 18 Is the solar system good art and architecture?...
    PC 8.223 6 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    LLNE 10.350 7 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...
    FSLC 11.199 19 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
    Humb 11.457 21 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his encyclopaedic paragraphs!
    PLT 12.59 8 We are passing into new heavens in fact by the movement of our solar system...
    CL 12.140 2 I own I prefer the solar to the polar climates.

sold, n. (1)

    Gts 3.159 4 It is said...that the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into chancery and be sold.

sold, v. (22)

    DSA 1.138 10 This man had ploughed and planted and talked and bought and sold;...
    SR 2.52 12 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold;...
    Comp 2.107 15 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
    Gts 3.165 7 ...I like to see that we cannot be bought and sold.
    Pol1 3.197 4 All earth's fleece and food/ For their like are sold./
    MoS 4.149 16 [A man] drives his bargain in the street; but it occurs that he also is bought and sold.
    Wsp 6.199 3 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold/...
    CbW 6.261 26 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard, have been...sold for slaves, and know the realities of human life.
    Boks 7.209 18 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold.
    Suc 7.286 8 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold...
    Suc 7.294 25 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby sold his picture or machine...but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
    PPo 8.244 19 Our father Adam [says Hafiz] sold Paradise for two kernels of wheat;...
    Aris 10.49 1 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold for...
    PerF 10.79 22 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years... brought up the stock of his mills to par, and then sold out his interest...
    MoL 10.243 9 ...professors of colleges sold cigars, mince-pies, matches [in California]...
    LLNE 10.368 18 The society at Brook Farm existed...about six or seven years, and then broke up, the Farm was sold...
    MMEm 10.401 12 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold...
    HDC 11.49 9 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    EWI 11.130 13 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    EWI 11.133 15 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    SMC 11.360 15 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold...
    MAng1 12.226 9 Nanni sold the travertine, and filled up the piers [of the Pons Palatinus] with gravel at small expense.

soldat, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.237 6 ...Tout est soldat pour vous combattre.

soldier, n. (45)

    AmS 1.83 3 Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
    LE 1.179 3 Napoleon...putting aside the guns of those nearest him, walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went through the motions in the French mode.
    Hist 2.24 25 A sparse population and want [in the Grecian period] make every man his own valet, cook, butcher and soldier...
    SR 2.87 8 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should receive his supply of corn...and bake his bread himself.
    SL 2.165 7 Bonaparte...rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
    Chr1 3.114 16 ...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert judge, jury, soldier and king;...
    PPh 4.72 18 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier...
    ET1 5.9 20 [Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and inexhaustible, meant for a soldier...
    ET4 5.60 5 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother, on their respective merits,--one the soldier, and the other a lover of the arts of peace.
    ET4 5.63 26 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.
    ET5 5.99 23 Though not military, yet every common subject [in England] by the poll is fit to make a soldier of.
    ET11 5.194 23 When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to great personal prowess.
    ET11 5.194 25 The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.
    Pow 6.58 7 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Ctr 6.138 27 A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk and a dancer could not exchange functions.
    Bhr 6.176 15 Every man--mathematician, artist, soldier or merchant--looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Cour 7.257 27 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    Cour 7.261 16 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear...
    Cour 7.261 19 I knew a young soldier who died in the early campaign...
    Cour 7.262 22 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from a cannon...
    Cour 7.263 7 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
    Cour 7.263 10 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty...
    Cour 7.263 14 ...every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
    Cour 7.264 26 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
    Cour 7.268 10 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Cour 7.270 10 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; and the Roman soldier his faculty to strike at Archimedes.
    Cour 7.272 3 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.
    OA 7.323 4 We still feel the force...of Wellington, the perfect soldier;...
    PI 8.14 18 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier reads: An iron hand in a velvet glove.
    Res 8.144 20 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow...is his eider-down...
    Grts 8.302 11 'T is not the soldier, not Alexander, or Bonaparte...surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
    PerF 10.81 27 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes.
    PerF 10.82 2 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater.
    Carl 10.493 6 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    GSt 10.504 16 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a soldier to bide the brunt;...
    FSLN 11.237 7 Everything turns soldier to fight you down.
    JBS 11.281 4 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.
    HCom 11.341 4 ...I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...
    HCom 11.342 27 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. I do not know that I can make a soldier.
    SMC 11.368 26 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton, an excellent soldier, were fatally wounded.
    Koss 11.399 27 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment;...
    PLT 12.58 23 No wonder the children...play horse, play soldier, play school, play bear...
    CInt 12.114 7 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...
    Milt1 12.266 1 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.
    AgMs 12.359 5 These slight and useless city limbs of ours will come to shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer]...

Soldier's Life... [W. S. (1)

    Edc1 10.143 7 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life...

soldiers, n. (60)

    LE 1.178 25 On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file of English soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
    LE 1.180 26 ...when all tactics had come to an end then [Napoleon]... availed himself of the mighty saltations of the most formidable soldiers in nature.
    LT 1.279 15 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of...soldiers...
    YA 1.376 27 ...as long as war lasts, the nobles, who must be soldiers, rule very well.
    Hist 2.36 8 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital...
    SR 2.75 23 We are parlor soldiers.
    Prd1 2.237 20 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    MoS 4.170 2 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen, namely among courtiers, soldiers, princes, men of the world and men of wit and generosity.
    NMW 4.236 11 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death; when soldiers brave death, they drive him into the enemy's ranks.
    NMW 4.245 4 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    NMW 4.245 7 When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field [said Napoleon], they have all one rank in my eyes.
    ET4 5.71 27 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully, and if I wanted a good troop of soldiers, I should recruit among the stables.
    ET5 5.75 27 A nobility of soldiers cannot keep down a commonalty of shrewd scientific persons.
    ET5 5.86 4 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers...
    ET13 5.222 6 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.
    ET14 5.232 4 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to thought, as of sailors and soldiers who had lately learned to read.
    F 6.34 11 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society,-a layer of soldiers...
    F 6.38 11 As the general says to his soldiers, If you want a fort, build a fort.
    F 6.41 3 Ducks take to the water...soldiers to the frontier.
    Pow 6.63 26 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power...of soldiers and pirates;...
    Pow 6.70 14 The best anecdotes of this [aboriginal] force are to be had from savage life, in explorers, soldiers and buccaneers.
    CbW 6.255 2 Without war, no soldiers;...
    Ill 6.317 21 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty...
    Elo1 7.65 24 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music...drew soldiers and priests...
    Elo1 7.79 16 It is easy to illustrate this overpowering personality by these examples of soldiers and kings;...
    Farm 7.140 3 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man; not...by soldiers, nor professors...
    Cour 7.264 21 The general must stimulate the mind of his soldiers to the perception that they are men, and the enemy is no more.
    Cour 7.268 10 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Cour 7.271 3 'T is the quiet, peaceable men, the men of principle, that make the best soldiers.
    PI 8.46 1 In society you have this figure [of rhyme]...in a regiment of soldiers in uniform.
    PI 8.46 14 Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and trumpet.
    Grts 8.316 13 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
    Imtl 8.336 18 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Aris 10.38 6 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever...ended them. We give soldiers the same advantage to-day.
    Prch 10.220 22 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle;...
    GSt 10.503 13 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo...
    HDC 11.61 4 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that...it was the residence of many noted soldiers.
    HDC 11.73 11 Eight hundred British soldiers...had marched from Boston to Concord;...
    HDC 11.77 10 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
    HDC 11.79 2 In the year 1775, [Concord] raised 100 minute-men, and 74 soldiers to serve at Cambridge.
    HDC 11.84 19 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
    FSLC 11.192 10 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    FSLN 11.235 6 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.
    ACiv 11.304 24 All our soldiers are laborers;...
    ACiv 11.305 9 Then comes the summer, and the fever will drive the soldiers home;...
    SMC 11.355 7 ...armies...lift the spirit of the soldiers who compose them to the boiling point.
    SMC 11.356 5 It is an interesting part of the history [of the Civil War], the manner in which this incongruous militia were made soldiers.
    SMC 11.356 14 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    SMC 11.358 6 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country, and these are the soldiers you can depend upon.
    SMC 11.358 11 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
    SMC 11.361 15 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.
    SMC 11.376 15 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott], given in the following letter by one of his soldiers...
    FRO1 11.480 20 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers...
    CPL 11.501 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house, whose windows overlooked the retreat of the British soldiers in 1775...
    PLT 12.18 9 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men, like armed soldiers, ready and swift to go out to resist and conquer all the armies of error...
    CInt 12.113 16 Against the heroism of soldiers I set the heroism of scholars...
    MAng1 12.230 22 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves;...
    WSL 12.339 5 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...
    AgMs 12.360 7 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp...
    Trag 12.411 12 The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.

soldier's, n. (2)

    DL 7.103 12 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his little arms more irresistible than the soldier's...
    SMC 11.371 14 ...the campaign in the Wilderness surpassed all their worst experience hitherto of the soldier's life.

soldiery, n. (1)

    NER 3.251 16 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions; composed...of all the soul of the soldiery of dissent...

sole, adj. (23)

    LT 1.275 22 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, each part of which now only disgusts whilst it forms the sole thought of some poor Perfectionist or "Comer out"...
    LT 1.290 7 ...[the Moral Sentiment] rides the stormy eloquence of the senate, sole victor;...
    SL 2.129 5 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ Sole and self-commanded works/...
    Cir 2.320 17 I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
    Art1 2.366 4 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    NER 3.265 9 ...to [the men of less faith], concert appears the sole specific of strength.
    PPh 4.63 7 [Dialectic] is of that rank [said Plato] that no intellectual man will enter on any study for its own sake, but only with a view to advance himself in that one sole science which embraces all.
    PPh 4.76 4 It is almost the sole deduction from the merit of Plato that his writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets... possess.
    ET16 5.280 21 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the dog-car, sole procurable vehicle, in which we were to be sent to Wilton.
    PI 8.16 4 ...the sole question is...how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    PI 8.18 15 The invisible and imponderable is the sole fact.
    Comc 8.170 13 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.
    QO 8.204 6 ...the sole terms on which [the Past] can become ours are its subordination to the Present.
    Aris 10.57 6 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture to name one, and the same is almost the sole condition on which knighthood is to be won;...
    MMEm 10.404 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] calls herself the puny pilgrim, whose sole talent is sympathy.
    MMEm 10.413 2 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God. His name my fullest confidence. His sole presence ineffable pleasure.
    Carl 10.495 23 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is...his perception of the sole importance of truth and justice;...
    HDC 11.69 10 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America, for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence;...
    EWI 11.98 4 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed/...
    War 11.168 19 ...no man, it may be presumed, ever embraced the cause of peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being plundered and slain.
    FSLC 11.199 9 A measure of pacification and union. What is [the Fugitive Slave Law's] effect? To make one sole subject for conversation and painful thought throughout the continent, namely, slavery.
    EPro 11.322 24 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This one [Emancipation], too, bristled with danger, but through it was the sole safety.
    Bost 12.189 13 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees...with...the sole power of legislation...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

solely, adv. (4)

    Fdsp 2.212 18 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them;...
    Farm 7.142 2 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say...solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.
    Thor 10.472 24 ...not a particle of respect had [Thoreau] to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to the truth itself;...
    EWI 11.118 2 ...[slavery] is not founded solely on the avarice of the planter.

solem, n. (1)

    PC 8.225 22 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

solemn, adj. (27)

    Nat 1.31 24 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    Nat 1.54 9 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
    AmS 1.102 5 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...in all solemn hours, has uttered...these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
    DSA 1.134 19 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...
    MN 1.202 10 When we...look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever...to... ruin [your rival] with this solemn fop in wig and stars,-the king;-one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    Hist 2.20 11 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade;...
    SL 2.131 13 Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house.
    Hsm1 2.254 21 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to be solemn...
    Hsm1 2.256 27 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
    Chr1 3.107 1 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
    Nat2 3.170 19 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to...quit our life of solemn trifles.
    GoW 4.273 10 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty...to matters of convenience and necessity, as to solemn and festal performances.
    WD 7.155 11 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. I, too late,/ Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn./
    PI 8.35 20 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
    SA 8.96 8 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will accept the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie.
    Comc 8.162 21 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
    MMEm 10.421 7 High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn.
    LS 11.6 14 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.12 11 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...
    HDC 11.85 9 Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
    LVB 11.93 22 We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
    EWI 11.120 21 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God...
    SMC 11.347 4 They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
    Scot 11.464 25 ...[Scott] had the...skill...not to write solemn pentameters alike on a hero or a spaniel.
    CL 12.142 27 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    Milt1 12.250 19 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
    Trag 12.416 26 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy, solemn and soft with music...

solemnest, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.57 26 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...

solemnity, n. (8)

    Lov1 2.178 2 [The lover] is a new man, with...a religious solemnity of character and aims.
    Fdsp 2.201 25 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! ... Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation and honor its law!
    Hsm1 2.255 22 It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
    OS 2.277 21 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart...thinks and acts with unusual solemnity.
    ET8 5.127 14 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.
    LS 11.3 20 ...the questions [concerning the Lord's Supper] have been settled differently in every church, who should be admitted to the feast, and how often it should be prepared. ... So, as to the time of the solemnity.
    Milt1 12.277 3 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life, in order to give weight and solemnity to his thoughts;...
    MLit 12.310 23 [The library of the Present Age] exhibits a vast carcass of tradition every year with as much solemnity as a new revelation.

solemnized, v. (1)

    HDC 11.72 7 All the military movements in this town [Concord] were solemnized by acts of public worship.

solemnly, adv. (3)

    ET13 5.227 8 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    F 6.40 19 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    HDC 11.70 24 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...

solfataras, n. (1)

    Pow 6.70 19 ...fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap.

solicit, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.259 19 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye...
    ET8 5.129 26 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
    Bhr 6.170 25 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them, they solicit him to enter and possess.

solicitation, n. (1)

    ET10 5.159 5 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate" At the solicitation of the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...

solicitations, n. (3)

    MN 1.222 5 ...the solicitations of this spirit...are never forborne.
    Comc 8.165 12 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    MAng1 12.236 16 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;...

solicited, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.196 17 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited.

soliciting, adj. (2)

    NER 3.279 16 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    PC 8.227 13 Every soliciting instinct is only a hint of a coming fact...

soliciting, v. (2)

    FSLN 11.236 10 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us are breathed into us from on high...
    Bost 12.186 15 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...with so many philanthropies, humanities, charities, soliciting us to be great and good.

solicitous, adj. (4)

    Prd1 2.238 8 You are solicitous of the good-will of the meanest person, uneasy at his ill-will.
    ShP 4.196 23 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...
    HDC 11.53 21 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be their Recorder, being very solicitous that what they did agree upon might be faithfully kept without alteration.
    EdAd 11.388 5 We are more solicitous than others to make our politics clear and healthful...

solicitously, adv. (2)

    SR 2.78 24 We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate [the self-helping man]...
    EdAd 11.393 16 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space, but for inevitable utterance; and to such our journal is freely and solicitously open...

solicits, v. (2)

    AmS 1.84 12 [The scholar] Nature solicits with all her placid...pictures;...
    F 6.49 25 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...solicits the pure in heart to draw on all its omnipotence.

solicitude, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.227 7 As men get on in life, they acquire...somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused.
    SA 8.88 3 ...a king or a general does not need a fine coat, and a commanding person may save himself all solicitude on that point.
    Milt1 12.263 23 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.

solid, adj. (78)

    Nat 1.24 23 [Beauty in nature]...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good.
    Nat 1.46 19 ...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...
    LE 1.181 14 Let [the scholar] know...by mutual reaction of thought and life, to make thought solid, and life wise;...
    MN 1.193 26 Nothing solid is secure;...
    Con 1.300 24 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Tran 1.331 14 The materialist...believes that his life is solid...
    Tran 1.331 19 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
    Tran 1.341 4 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.
    Hist 2.9 6 Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
    Hist 2.31 21 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
    Comp 2.106 20 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/ That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./
    SL 2.143 19 Let [a man] regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature...
    SL 2.165 20 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world...these all are his...
    Prd1 2.239 16 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes, in solid column...
    Cir 2.313 2 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world...
    Pt1 3.4 5 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning...of a city or a contract, but they prefer to come again to the solid ground of historical evidence;...
    Pt1 3.35 14 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    Exp 3.61 19 The fine young people despise life, but in me...to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    Chr1 3.111 25 Those relations to the best men...become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
    UGM 4.9 11 A man is a centre for nature, running out threads of relation through every thing, fluid and solid...
    UGM 4.11 12 The gases gather to the solid firmament...
    UGM 4.27 27 There is something not solid in the good that is done for us.
    PPh 4.57 16 [Plato's] daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts;...
    SwM 4.100 18 At the Diet of 1751...the most solid memorials on finance were from [Swedenborg's] pen.
    SwM 4.106 3 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...
    MoS 4.152 19 After dinner...ideas are...follies of young men, repudiated by the solid portion of society...
    MoS 4.155 12 You that will have all solid, and a world of pig-lead, deceive yourselves grossly.
    MoS 4.159 14 ...what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own.
    MoS 4.161 14 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own;...
    MoS 4.169 1 Montaigne...is stout and solid;...
    MoS 4.169 6 [Montaigne]...likes to feel solid ground and the stones underneath.
    NMW 4.229 8 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in the presence of scholars and grammarians...
    GoW 4.266 5 In this country...the solid portion of the community is named with significant respect in every circle.
    GoW 4.278 4 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with so many and so solid thoughts...
    ET4 5.57 16 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...
    ET4 5.70 14 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day.
    ET5 5.84 17 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture.
    ET9 5.152 15 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor.
    ET10 5.165 6 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry, solid as the walls of Cuma...
    ET11 5.190 20 In the roll of [English] nobles are found...men of solid virtues and of lofty sentiments;...
    ET14 5.247 18 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good.
    ET17 5.292 3 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
    ET18 5.299 7 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...
    Wth 6.119 14 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property;...
    Wsp 6.210 21 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that the solid portion of society exist for the arts of comfort;...
    CbW 6.262 9 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
    Ill 6.308 3 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.309 5 We traversed, through spacious galleries affording a solid masonry foundation for the town and county overhead, the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Elo1 7.75 19 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    Elo1 7.75 21 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    Elo1 7.88 21 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved, but a solid proposition is set forth...
    Elo1 7.90 17 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball...and the cause is half won.
    Farm 7.144 26 The invisible and creeping air takes form and solid mass.
    Farm 7.153 16 ...the drawing-room heroes put down beside [the farmer] would shrivel in his presence; he solid and unexpressive, they expressed to gold-leaf.
    WD 7.171 18 Could our happiest dream come to pass in solid fact,--could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    Clbs 7.231 21 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as...one solid fact...
    Clbs 7.245 17 [A club] requires people...who sink trifles and know solid values...
    PI 8.5 10 Thin or solid, everything is in flight.
    PI 8.71 8 The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts;...
    PI 8.71 10 ...the poet complains that the solid men leave out the sky.
    Res 8.149 14 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful, for solid instruction or to save the ship or army.
    PC 8.227 15 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
    PerF 10.70 10 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    Edc1 10.147 9 Pardon in [a boy] no blunder. Then he will give you solid satisfaction as long as he lives.
    Supl 10.167 21 The people of English stock...are a solid people...
    Supl 10.173 16 The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative citizens...
    Thor 10.457 4 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody?
    War 11.164 22 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
    SMC 11.360 24 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps, for these were wetted into a solid mass in the rains and mud.
    EdAd 11.389 26 ...men of a solid genius are only interested in substantial things.
    Humb 11.457 17 The wonderful Humboldt, with his solid centre and expanded wings, marches like an army...
    CL 12.141 14 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material of the globe.
    CL 12.154 10 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe;...
    CL 12.160 27 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham, is solid and conscientious...
    Bost 12.183 10 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material globe.
    Bost 12.199 5 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
    MAng1 12.223 13 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
    ACri 12.294 5 ...[Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as solid and close to facts as the Banker's Gazette;...

solid, n. (6)

    Pt1 3.30 21 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines...a figure to be a bound of solid;...
    NR 3.243 11 As the ancient said, the world is a plenum or solid;...
    UGM 4.10 10 ...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    F 6.43 14 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind...
    Farm 7.144 20 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe...
    LLNE 10.352 12 [Fourier] treats man as...something that may be...made into solid or fluid or gas, at the will of the leader;...

solid [solid-seeming] adj. (1)

    Nat 1.55 20 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded and dissolved by a thought;...

solidaires, n. (1)

    PerF 10.83 23 ...the secret of the world is that its energies are solidaires;...

solidarity, n. (2)

    ET5 5.99 17 ...[the English] have solidarity, or responsibleness...
    Farm 7.143 14 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure. There is a perfect solidarity.

solidest, adj. (5)

    Fdsp 2.201 13 When [friendships] are real, they are...the solidest thing we know.
    NR 3.243 23 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist...
    GoW 4.274 5 ...in the solidest kingdom of routine and the senses, [Goethe] showed the lurking daemonic power;...
    Schr 10.271 25 ...the solidest rocks are made up of invisible gases...
    PLT 12.9 4 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all.

solidify, v. (1)

    Cir 2.304 11 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge and to solidify and hem in the life.

solidity, n. (14)

    Nat 1.36 11 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding, - its solidity or resistance...
    DSA 1.148 18 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...
    MR 1.254 21 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom,-a plant without any solidity...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Tran 1.331 26 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    NMW 4.229 2 [Napoleon]...acts with the solidity and the precision of natural agents.
    ET3 5.34 11 The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
    ET5 5.85 2 [The English] put the expense in the right place, as in their sea-steamers, in the solidity of the machinery and the strength of the boat.
    ET12 5.206 21 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of...the solidity and taste of English criticism.
    ET14 5.238 5 ...[English] scholars...acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
    ET19 5.311 12 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives...that thoroughness and solidity of work which is a national [English] characteristic.
    Elo1 7.89 14 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes. By the new placing, the circumstances acquire new solidity and worth.
    DL 7.122 4 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    PC 8.212 14 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia.
    Koss 11.397 9 ...[the people of Concord]...have been hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].

solidly, adv. (4)

    Hist 2.8 18 [Each man] must sit solidly at home...
    Prd1 2.223 4 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...
    PLT 12.50 8 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded...
    ACri 12.294 18 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded...

solids, n. (1)

    Prch 10.224 2 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent from surfaces to solids;...

soliform, adj. (1)

    PNR 4.83 12 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...soliform eye and his boniform soul;...

soliloquies, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.399 18 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson], poor, solitary...

soliloquizes, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.177 10 ...[the lover] soliloquizes;...

soliloquy, n. (3)

    SR 2.77 19 [Prayer] is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.
    MoS 4.168 1 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head;...
    ShP 4.195 24 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell...

solitariest, adj. (3)

    ET4 5.49 22 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history...has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    Aris 10.60 10 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...
    Shak1 11.450 7 The student finds the solitariest place not solitary enough to read [Shakespeare];...

solitary, adj. (67)

    Nat 1.7 3 I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me.
    LE 1.173 19 [The scholar] must be a solitary, laborious, modest, and charitable soul.
    LE 1.173 25 And why must the student be solitary and silent?
    LE 1.175 23 Have solitary prayer and praise.
    MN 1.193 9 Men...are continually yielding to this dazzling result of numbers, that which they would never yield to the solitary example of any one.
    MR 1.230 7 ...the scholar says...behold every solitary dream of mine is rushing to fulfilment.
    MR 1.244 13 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he flees into a solitary garden...to enjoy it...
    Tran 1.341 3 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living...
    Tran 1.347 22 ...[the Transcendentalists'] solitary and fastidious manners not only withdraw them from the conversation, but from the labors of the world;...
    Tran 1.359 7 ...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    SL 2.159 18 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel.
    Lov1 2.175 16 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Lov1 2.178 12 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.
    Cir 2.302 10 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining...
    Art1 2.359 23 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist...
    Exp 3.80 21 How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting, and we shall find it was a solitary performance?
    Exp 3.85 8 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Chr1 3.90 5 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is company for him, so that such men are often solitary...
    Mrs1 3.139 25 [Society]...hates quarrelsome, egotistical, solitary and gloomy people;...
    Nat2 3.169 19 The solitary places do not seem quite lonely.
    NR 3.228 14 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. The genius is all. The man,--it is his system: we do not try a solitary word or act, but his habit.
    NER 3.255 22 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government...
    NER 3.255 23 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...
    SwM 4.97 6 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints--a beatitude...earnest, solitary, even sad;...
    SwM 4.130 25 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...
    SwM 4.130 26 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...
    MoS 4.179 19 ...all the ways of culture and greatness lead to solitary imprisonment.
    ET5 5.100 18 The island [England] has produced two or three of the greatest men that ever existed, but they were not solitary in their own time.
    ET6 5.105 6 Every man in this polished country [England] consults only his convenience, as much as a solitary pioneer in Wisconsin.
    ET19 5.310 27 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race...
    SS 7.4 8 [My new friend] left the city; he hid himself in pastures. The solitary river was not solitary enough;...
    SS 7.4 9 [My new friend] left the city; he hid himself in pastures. The solitary river was not solitary enough;...
    SS 7.7 25 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the world.
    SS 7.9 16 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know!
    DL 7.120 14 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...
    Boks 7.190 18 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary...
    Clbs 7.228 20 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded! What a motive had then our solitary days!
    Insp 8.287 3 Solitary converse with Nature;...
    Dem1 10.7 7 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory? Nor is the fact quite solitary...
    Chr2 10.102 24 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...
    Edc1 10.150 18 ...the youth of genius...are irritable, uncertain, explosive, solitary...
    Schr 10.261 9 ...the society of lettered men is a university which...gathers in the distant and solitary student into its strictest amity.
    LLNE 10.342 27 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise...their studies were solitary.
    MMEm 10.399 19 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson], poor, solitary...
    MMEm 10.415 19 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
    MMEm 10.426 23 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite.
    SlHr 10.444 5 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man of public life...
    Thor 10.452 16 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    Thor 10.478 19 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    Carl 10.490 1 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man,-profoundly solitary...
    EWI 11.129 15 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
    SMC 11.349 17 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...
    Shak1 11.450 7 The student finds the solitariest place not solitary enough to read [Shakespeare];...
    Shak1 11.451 21 [Shakespeare] dwarfs all writers without a solitary exception.
    PLT 12.21 2 There is no solitary flower and no solitary thought.
    PLT 12.21 3 There is no solitary flower and no solitary thought.
    PLT 12.56 18 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular.
    II 12.80 3 ...[the secret Power] frowns on moths and puppets, passes by us, and seeks a solitary and religious heart.
    Mem 12.103 20 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river hear again the joyful voices of early companions...
    CW 12.174 12 In the arboretum you should have things which are of a solitary excellence...
    MAng1 12.220 22 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins;...
    ACri 12.295 13 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...
    MLit 12.311 2 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them, and give him to the midnight a sad, solitary, diseased man;...
    MLit 12.317 22 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places...
    Let 12.396 24 To live solitary and unexpressed is painful...

solitary, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.142 1 The solitary knows the essence of the thought...

solitude, n. (107)

    Nat 1.7 1 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.
    AmS 1.91 3 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done.
    AmS 1.101 11 Worse yet, [the scholar] must accept - how often! - poverty and solitude.
    AmS 1.103 14 The poet, in utter solitude...is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    DSA 1.137 18 We are fain to...secure, as best we can, a solitude that hears not.
    LE 1.162 19 In solitude...the ardent youth loiters and mourns.
    LE 1.173 21 [The scholar] must embrace solitude as a bride.
    LE 1.174 6 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...
    LE 1.174 11 Do not go into solitude only that you may presently come into public.
    LE 1.174 12 Do not go into solitude only that you may presently come into public. Such solitude denies itself;...
    LE 1.174 19 It is the noble, manlike, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you, and not crowds but solitude confers this elevation.
    LE 1.174 27 Inspiration makes solitude anywhere.
    LE 1.175 9 ...I would not have any superstition about solitude.
    LE 1.175 10 Let the youth study the uses of solitude and of society.
    MN 1.195 18 It is [great men's] solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
    LT 1.278 24 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
    LT 1.283 13 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
    Tran 1.334 17 Society is...best when it is likest to solitude.
    Tran 1.342 16 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to find their tasks and amusements in solitude.
    Tran 1.343 13 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are...persons whose faces are perhaps unknown to them, but whose fame and spirit have penetrated their solitude...
    SR 2.49 23 These are the voices which we hear in solitude...
    SR 2.54 1 ...it is easy in solitude to live after our own [opinion];...
    SR 2.54 4 ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    SL 2.150 23 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...it is a sort of joyful solitude.
    Lov1 2.176 25 In the green solitude [the lover] finds a dearer home than with men...
    Fdsp 2.194 5 ...I embrace solitude...
    Fdsp 2.198 2 The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude;...
    Fdsp 2.199 27 ...both parties are relieved by solitude.
    Fdsp 2.213 11 We may congratulate ourselves that the period...of shame, is passed in solitude...
    Hsm1 2.261 23 ...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties...of solitude...
    Pt1 3.39 15 The poet pours out verses in every solitude.
    Exp 3.85 24 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him.
    Chr1 3.106 20 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
    Nat2 3.172 1 ...we receive glances from the heavenly bodies, which call us to solitude...
    NR 3.228 1 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude, or by courtesy...
    NR 3.238 14 Solitude would ripen a plentiful crop of despots.
    UGM 4.14 25 ...in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful manners.
    ShP 4.216 17 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude...we seek to strike the balance?
    ShP 4.216 19 Solitude has austere lessons;...
    GoW 4.277 1 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that, in crowds or in solitude, darkens over the human thought...
    ET14 5.257 6 [Wordsworth] had no master but nature and solitude.
    Ctr 6.137 8 Culture...warns [a man] of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.
    Ctr 6.139 9 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy, art and religion; books, travel, society, solitude.
    Ctr 6.148 22 In the country [a man] can find solitude and reading...
    Ctr 6.155 24 Solitude...is, to genius, the stern friend...
    Ctr 6.156 6 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras;...
    Ctr 6.156 18 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    Ctr 6.156 23 We say solitude, to mark the character of the tone of thought;...
    Ctr 6.157 8 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities...
    Ctr 6.162 7 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    Bhr 6.167 8 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./
    Bhr 6.186 11 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth, ascribing the solitude which acts on them very injuriously to any cause but the right one.
    Wsp 6.223 7 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men; and the reaction of his fault on himself, in the solitude and devastation of his mind.
    Wsp 6.241 20 [The new church founded on moral science] shall send man home to his central solitude...
    CbW 6.259 23 The wise workman will not regret the poverty or the solitude which brought out his working talents.
    CbW 6.268 12 The youth aches for solitude.
    CbW 6.269 3 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods...then city shopmen...will mirror back to him...its populous solitude.
    SS 7.5 10 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...there to wear out ages in solitude...
    SS 7.7 6 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...
    SS 7.8 5 ...the necessity of solitude is deeper than we have said...
    SS 7.13 13 If solitude is proud, so is society vulgar.
    SS 7.15 14 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal.
    SS 7.15 20 We require such a solitude as shall hold us to its revelations when we are in the street and in palaces;...
    SS 7.15 25 Society and solitude are deceptive names.
    Farm 7.138 6 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society.
    WD 7.169 10 In solitude and in the country, what dignity distinguishes the holy time!
    WD 7.169 18 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    WD 7.175 14 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns.
    Boks 7.219 13 Friendship should give and take, solitude and time brood and ripen...[the communications of the sacred books].
    Suc 7.304 6 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication! In solitude, in banishment, the hope returned...
    OA 7.331 2 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    Insp 8.286 24 ...eminently thoughtful men...have insisted on an hour of solitude every day...
    Insp 8.288 9 ...the solitude of Nature is not so essential as solitude of habit.
    Insp 8.288 10 ...the solitude of Nature is not so essential as solitude of habit.
    Grts 8.310 13 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation. But none of these can compare with the greatness of that counsel which is open to you in happy solitude.
    Chr2 10.117 17 [The Sunday] invites to the noblest solitude and the noblest society...
    Edc1 10.141 15 ...if circumstances do not permit the high social advantages, solitude has also its lessons.
    Edc1 10.141 26 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation;...
    Edc1 10.142 9 Let [the solitary man] study the art of solitude...
    Edc1 10.142 20 ...the most genial and amiable of men must alternate society with solitude...
    Edc1 10.143 24 Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
    Prch 10.220 25 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet; we are alarmed at our solitude;...
    Prch 10.221 15 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world.
    Schr 10.265 12 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    LLNE 10.327 10 The age tends to solitude.
    MMEm 10.400 24 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people...
    MMEm 10.411 8 In her solitude of twenty years...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.413 21 A mediocre mind will be deranged in either extreme of... society or solitude.
    MMEm 10.414 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...
    MMEm 10.426 11 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life!
    Thor 10.458 6 As soon as [Thoreau] had exhausted the advantages of that solitude [at Walden Pond], he abandoned it.
    Thor 10.481 25 [Thoreau] loved Nature so well, was so happy in her solitude, that he became very jealous of cities...
    War 11.173 23 ...the man who...without any notice of his action abroad, expecting none, takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    FSLN 11.236 7 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters, by poverty, solitude, passions, War, Slavery;...
    Wom 11.425 7 I need not repeat to you-your own solitude will suggest it-that a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.
    CPL 11.499 25 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] I think that you never enjoy so much as in solitude with a book that meets the feelings...
    CPL 11.503 26 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    CPL 11.506 24 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...who now cast their moonlight illumination over solitude, weariness and fallen fortunes.
    Mem 12.103 16 In solitude, in darkness, we tread over again the sunny walks of youth;...
    MAng1 12.237 9 ...[Michelangelo] possessed an intense love of solitude.
    Milt1 12.278 18 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society, commending solitude, yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    Milt1 12.278 26 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote Paradise Lost;...
    MLit 12.320 24 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...and knew again the ineffable secret of solitude.
    WSL 12.340 13 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...
    Pray 12.352 26 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a solitude as strict and sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...
    Pray 12.353 4 If there is no hour of solitude granted me, still I will commune with thee [My Father].
    Trag 12.409 4 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...an ominous spirit which haunts...idleness and solitude.

Solitude, n. (1)

    Aris 10.39 13 I wish...men...who...are not too learned to love...the power and the spirits of Solitude;...

solitudes, n. (4)

    DSA 1.147 13 Can we not...pierce the deep solitudes of absolute ability and worth?
    Suc 7.298 22 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods]; and his eye and step are tempted on by what hazy distances to happier solitudes.
    FRep 11.534 20 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West...
    CL 12.139 8 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.

solo, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.214 2 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.

solo, adv. (1)

    MAng1 12.214 3 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.

solo, n. (1)

    SwM 4.109 12 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...in solo, in chorus...

Solomon, n. (11)

    Hist 2.5 22 ...I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
    MoS 4.176 4 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will: my finger-ring shall be the seal of Solomon;...
    PPo 8.240 12 The principal figure in the allusions of Eastern poetry is Solomon.
    PPo 8.240 12 Solomon had three talismans...
    PPo 8.240 23 By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds...
    PPo 8.240 26 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk...
    PPo 8.241 9 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
    PPo 8.241 18 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind them all came the ant, with a blade of grass: Solomon did not despise the gift of the ant.
    PPo 8.241 20 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon...
    PPo 8.241 22 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon, which one of the Dews or evil spirits found, and, governing in the name of Solomon, deceived the people.
    EdAd 11.384 14 ...[the traveller in America] exclaims, What a negro-fine royalty is that of Jamschid and Solomon.

Solomon, Song of, n. (1)

    PPo 8.249 18 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon...

Solomon's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.241 15 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.

Solon, n. (2)

    PPh 4.42 8 When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
    Plu 10.297 20 [Plutarch] is...not a lawgiver, like Lycurgus or Solon;...

solstice, n. (9)

    SR 2.85 13 The solstice [the man in the street] does not observe;...
    NR 3.231 14 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
    ET3 5.37 12 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years; and hence the impression that the British power...is in solstice...
    ET16 5.281 3 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...
    Ctr 6.147 18 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Wsp 6.218 15 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
    Edc1 10.131 21 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending their relation and law.
    II 12.70 4 Who knows not the insufficiency of our forces, the solstice of genius?
    CW 12.176 23 A man...should know the solstice and the equinox...

solstices, n. (2)

    Prch 10.219 8 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity,-solstices when we make no progress...will occur.
    Mem 12.94 20 Late in life we live by memory, and in our solstices or periods of stagnation;...

solus, adj. (1)

    II 12.85 2 ...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the whole play performed before himself solus.

soluta, v. (1)

    FRep 11.533 5 Corpora non agunt nisi soluta;...

solution, n. (30)

    Nat 1.4 2 Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
    LE 1.183 8 [They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
    MN 1.197 5 [Pure law] existed already in the mind in solution;...
    Comp 2.103 24 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem...
    Fdsp 2.201 16 Not one step has man taken toward the solution of the problem of his destiny.
    OS 2.293 7 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought...adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles.
    UGM 4.12 5 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
    SwM 4.94 15 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a book.
    SwM 4.95 26 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato denoted as Reminiscence...
    MoS 4.157 16 ...there is no practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had?
    MoS 4.183 4 The final solution in which skepticism is lost, is in the moral sentiment...
    GoW 4.287 12 ...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; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line is, for the time and person, a solution of the formidable problem...
    F 6.4 20 The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
    F 6.47 5 One key, one solution to the mysteries of human condition... exists;...
    F 6.47 6 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists;...
    F 6.48 7 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which holds nature and souls in perfect solution...
    SS 7.5 19 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions...
    Art2 7.40 11 We find that the question, What is Art? leads us directly to another,--Who is the Artist? And the solution of this is the key to the history of Art.
    DL 7.114 15 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution.
    DL 7.114 16 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution.
    Farm 7.146 14 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.
    Clbs 7.235 23 The life of Socrates is a propounding and a solution of these [conundrums].
    Cour 7.264 13 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.
    QO 8.179 26 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not a theory of philosophy that offers a solution of the great problems...
    Insp 8.283 24 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Yes, for they know how to give you in one moment the solution of the riddle you have pondered for months.
    Imtl 8.334 18 That the world is for [man's] education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
    Prch 10.233 5 ...if the events in which we have taken our part shall not see their solution until a distant future, there is yet a deeper fact;...
    ACiv 11.298 11 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I see...for such calamity no solution but servile war...
    SHC 11.436 21 Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.
    PLT 12.16 8 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not approach a solution.

solutions, n. (2)

    OS 2.282 22 [Revelations] are solutions of the soul's own questions.
    WD 7.162 2 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems.

solve, v. (19)

    LE 1.178 8 Let [the scholar] endeavor...cheerfully, to solve the problem of that life which is set before him.
    Hist 2.4 8 The Sphinx must solve her own riddle.
    Hist 2.5 2 Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
    Hist 2.32 23 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger. If the man could not answer, she swallowed him alive. If he could solve the riddle, the Sphinx was slain.
    Hsm1 2.259 15 [A woman] has a new and unattempted problem to solve...
    Chr1 3.108 12 None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice...
    PPh 4.45 15 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
    F 6.3 12 We are incompetent to solve the times.
    Wsp 6.230 12 Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me?
    Bty 6.279 19 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve the curse,/ And beam to the bounds of the universe./
    Insp 8.275 9 ...Swedenborg must solve the problems that haunt him, though he be crazed or killed.
    Insp 8.275 18 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.
    Insp 8.288 27 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem.
    Insp 8.292 5 The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.
    Dem1 10.18 8 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this riddle...
    Edc1 10.157 1 ...[these difficulties and perplexities in education] solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
    MoL 10.254 26 ...every age...has problems to solve, insoluble by the last age.
    Thor 10.453 27 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor...
    EdAd 11.390 16 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.

solved, v. (10)

    Nat 1.67 3 ...the problems to be solved are precisely those which the physiologist and the naturalist omit to state.
    Nat 1.73 22 The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul.
    Nat 1.75 18 Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.
    YA 1.385 9 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions, which embarrass other men, are to be solved.
    Hist 2.11 18 When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself...that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he...the problem is solved;...
    ET5 5.91 13 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits and solved the geographical problem.
    Schr 10.272 24 [The scholar] is the attorney of the world, and can never be superfluous where so vast a variety of questions are ever coming up to be solved...
    HDC 11.46 27 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government...
    Shak1 11.449 23 ...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare- as if his biography were not yet written; until the problem of the whole English race is solved.
    EurB 12.375 9 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances...

solvency, n. (2)

    ET5 5.97 25 Solvency is maintained [in England] by means of a national debt...
    ET10 5.156 2 Solvency is in the ideas and mechanism of an Englishman.

solvent, adj. (5)

    ET10 5.155 18 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.
    ET10 5.155 18 The British armies are solvent and pay for what they take.
    ET10 5.155 20 The British empire is solvent;...
    ET10 5.169 10 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin. The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and mechanics.
    Ill 6.323 2 I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent...

solvent, n. (3)

    Int 2.343 10 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality...
    Mrs1 3.151 16 [Lilla] was a solvent powerful to reconcile all heterogeneous persons into one society...
    Farm 7.144 19 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe...

solvents, n. (1)

    HCom 11.341 17 War passes the power of all chemical solvents...

solves, v. (1)

    Wom 11.420 21 If new power is here, of a character which solves old tough questions...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.

solving, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.61 12 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world...
    Bty 6.288 8 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...

solving, v. (1)

    Aris 10.50 2 ...the powers of a geometer [are determined] by solving his problem;...

Soma, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 19 Plant...the Soma of the Vedas,-Asclepias Viminalis...

sombre, adj. (2)

    MMEm 10.425 20 ...there is a sombre music in the whirl of times so long gone by.
    Trag 12.406 5 It is usually agreed that some nations have a more sombre temperament...

somehow, adv. (16)

    DSA 1.134 18 Somehow [the seer's] dream is told;...
    DSA 1.134 19 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...
    Con 1.296 4 There is a fragment of old fable which seems somehow to have been dropped from the current mythologies...
    Con 1.310 3 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...substantial justice was somehow done;...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    SR 2.80 11 It must be somehow that you stole the light from us.
    Comp 2.101 17 ...each [occupation, trade, art, transaction] must somehow accommodate the whole man and recite all his destiny.
    OS 2.296 20 [The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul...
    MoS 4.185 21 ...although...the march of civilization is a train of felonies,-- yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    ET3 5.41 1 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    Wth 6.109 3 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap.
    Wth 6.111 19 We must use the means, and yet, in our most accurate using somehow screen and cloak them...
    Wsp 6.216 20 It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
    Suc 7.304 2 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    SovE 10.194 1 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them, and somehow knits and coordinates the issues of them in all that is beyond the reach of private faculty.
    Wom 11.410 6 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...
    CInt 12.121 21 With this divine oracle [thought], we somehow do not get instructed.

Somers, John, n. (1)

    ET15 5.261 7 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his attention.

Somerset, Edward [Marquis o (1)

    F 6.33 20 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power was not devil...

Somerset, George, n. (3)

    EWI 11.106 10 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    EWI 11.136 6 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America...
    FSLC 11.191 13 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.

Somerset House, London, En (1)

    ET16 5.274 24 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.

Somerville, Mary, n. (1)

    ET17 5.293 5 It was my privilege also [in London] to converse with Miss Baillie, with Lady Morgan, with Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Somerville.

Somerville, Massachusetts, n (1)

    AKan 11.256 14 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that Mr. Hopps of Somerville, Mr. Hoyt of Deerfield...have been murdered?

sometime, adj. (1)

    CPL 11.498 3 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader, Rev. Peter Bulkeley, sometime fellow of Saint John's College in Cambridge, England, testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.

sometime, adv. (5)

    Hist 2.10 10 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule. Somewhere, sometime, it will demand and find compensation for that loss, by doing the work itself.
    F 6.6 4 The Destinee.../ So strong it is, that though the world had sworne/ The contrary of a thing by yea or nay,/ Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
    Aris 10.60 16 There is...no sentiment or thought that will not sometime embody itself in the form of a friend.
    Plu 10.317 11 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at;...
    MLit 12.336 2 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...

sometimes, adv. (230)

    Nat 1.72 1 ...sometimes [man] starts in his slumber...
    AmS 1.83 8 ...the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.
    AmS 1.101 2 ...[the scholar]...watching days and months sometimes for a few facts;...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    DSA 1.134 20 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy, sometimes with pencil on canvas...
    DSA 1.134 20 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes with chisel on stone...
    DSA 1.134 21 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite...
    DSA 1.134 23 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in anthems of indefinite music;...
    DSA 1.139 4 The good hearer is sure he has been touched sometimes;...
    DSA 1.141 5 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who, sometimes accepting with too great tenderness the tenet of the elders, have not accepted from others...the genuine impulses of virtue...
    LE 1.169 21 [All men] serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
    MN 1.193 13 I sometimes believe that our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...
    Tran 1.336 24 Jacobi...remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    YA 1.387 2 It is only their dislike of the pretender, which makes men sometimes unjust to the accomplished man.
    SR 2.52 18 ...I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar...
    Comp 2.93 23 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Comp 2.96 1 ...all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate.
    SL 2.148 7 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant...
    SL 2.156 25 When [a man] has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
    Fdsp 2.208 2 We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals.
    Fdsp 2.212 25 Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends...
    Prd1 2.229 10 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Hsm1 2.247 27 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic] stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.
    Hsm1 2.261 26 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    Hsm1 2.263 27 Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world...
    Cir 2.321 13 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...
    Pt1 3.21 19 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence...
    Pt1 3.21 20 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence...
    Exp 3.57 15 I cannot recall any form of man who is not superfluous sometimes.
    Mrs1 3.129 24 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Gts 3.162 10 We sometimes hate the meat which we eat...
    Nat2 3.191 11 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue sometimes had the headache...
    Pol1 3.211 21 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom;...
    NR 3.233 10 I read Proclus, and sometimes Plato, as I might read a dictionary...
    NR 3.235 23 I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake and preserve the due decorum.
    NER 3.272 10 Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics?
    PNR 4.83 3 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line, sometimes hypothetically given, as his defining of virtue, courage, justice, temperance;...
    PNR 4.89 6 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical, with intent to bring out, sometimes in violent colors, his thought.
    SwM 4.94 3 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.112 8 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    SwM 4.144 14 I think, sometimes, [Swedenborg] will not be read longer.
    MoS 4.164 7 Though [Montaigne] had been a man of pleasure and sometimes a courtier, his studious habits now grew on him...
    NMW 4.223 8 It is Swedenborg's theory...as it is sometimes expressed, every whole is made of similars;...
    ET1 5.10 1 Landor is strangely undervalued in England;...sometimes savagely attacked in the Reviews.
    ET1 5.21 17 [Wordsworth] said he thought [Carlyle] sometimes insane.
    ET2 5.32 2 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up...
    ET3 5.39 24 The London fog...sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul day, looking down one.
    ET3 5.42 22 Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation;...
    ET4 5.58 5 A king among these [Norse] farmers has a varying power, sometimes not exceeding the authority of a sheriff.
    ET4 5.63 26 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.
    ET6 5.111 23 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen. No merit quite countervails the want of this whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.
    ET7 5.120 25 In the power of saying rude truth, sometimes in the lion's mouth, no men surpass [the English].
    ET8 5.130 25 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
    ET8 5.137 26 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be who do not forget a debt...
    ET10 5.158 24 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom was improved further. But the men would sometimes strike for wages and combine against the masters...
    ET10 5.162 12 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture, and sometimes into trade.
    ET13 5.215 7 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET14 5.237 5 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
    ET14 5.244 20 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET14 5.253 25 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
    ET15 5.267 9 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts, and sometimes the ground of diplomatic complaint.
    ET15 5.269 13 [The London Times] addresses occasionally a hint to Majesty itself, and sometimes a hint which is taken.
    ET15 5.271 12 [Punch's] sketches are usually made by masterly hands, and sometimes with genius;...
    ET17 5.296 4 [Wordsworth's] face sometimes lighted up...
    ET18 5.305 4 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
    F 6.10 2 ...sometimes the unmixed temperament...is drawn off in a separate individual...
    F 6.10 6 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion...
    F 6.10 8 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion and say his...mother comes to the windows of his eyes, and sometimes a remote relative.
    F 6.31 19 ...relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes...
    F 6.34 13 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and burst the hoops...
    Pow 6.64 7 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those;...
    Pow 6.68 5 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters...
    Pow 6.70 3 The people lean on this [aboriginal source], and the mob is not quite so bad an argument as we sometimes say, for it has this good side.
    Wth 6.98 26 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Ctr 6.132 25 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    Ctr 6.142 11 ...books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them. He sometimes gets ready very slowly.
    Ctr 6.162 15 Be willing to go to Coventry sometimes...
    Ctr 6.162 24 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium...
    Bhr 6.175 20 Tender men sometimes have strong wills.
    Bhr 6.179 18 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes...make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there. The revelations are sometimes terrific.
    Bhr 6.186 19 ...we sometimes dream that we are in a well-dressed company without any coat...
    Wsp 6.220 25 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...
    CbW 6.253 15 Good is a good doctor but Bad is sometimes a better.
    CbW 6.256 9 In America...the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    CbW 6.264 3 ...as far as I had observed [the sick and dying] were as frivolous as the rest, and sometimes much more frivolous.
    CbW 6.272 15 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given...
    Bty 6.287 16 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed;...
    Bty 6.302 18 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
    Civ 7.26 18 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes the point of honor, as in the institution of chivalry;...
    Art2 7.43 12 Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts, whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use.
    Elo1 7.67 9 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons; nay, sometimes the same individual will take active part in them all, in turn.
    Elo1 7.75 15 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    Elo1 7.95 2 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character, which...became sometimes exquisitely provoking and sometimes terrific to [their antagonists].
    DL 7.119 24 There is many a humble house...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.120 12 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home, sometimes to the fatigue, sometimes to the admiration of sisters;...
    DL 7.120 13 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home, sometimes to the fatigue, sometimes to the admiration of sisters;...
    Farm 7.151 25 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear,--chances of war,--sometimes the bear eats him.
    WD 7.166 8 'T is sometimes questioned whether morals have not declined as the arts have ascended.
    Boks 7.201 22 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the official commanders.
    Boks 7.203 24 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.
    Boks 7.204 10 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    Clbs 7.225 24 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...
    Clbs 7.226 3 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is love...
    Clbs 7.226 4 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is thought...
    Clbs 7.226 6 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes a singing...
    Clbs 7.226 7 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes experience.
    Clbs 7.230 2 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    Cour 7.265 9 ...the threat is sometimes more formidable than the stroke...
    OA 7.317 6 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    OA 7.329 10 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    PI 8.9 15 Nature gives [the student], sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    PI 8.40 13 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and materials...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    PI 8.54 26 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains which charm their readers...
    PI 8.63 3 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    SA 8.83 21 ...certain voices are hoarse and truculent; sometimes they even bark.
    SA 8.86 7 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of relfection. ... What a check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table...
    SA 8.87 2 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    SA 8.87 14 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    Elo2 8.119 10 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
    Elo2 8.119 27 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Elo2 8.120 3 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private company...
    Elo2 8.120 12 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song; sometimes of itself enchains attention...
    Elo2 8.121 9 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice! sometimes it is a flute, sometimes a trip-hammer;...
    Elo2 8.121 10 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice! sometimes it is a flute, sometimes a trip-hammer;...
    Elo2 8.124 1 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart, which the brighter prospects of life will sometimes excite, the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    Res 8.148 6 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob.
    Comc 8.162 4 The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves.
    QO 8.194 3 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour; and the reader sometimes giving more to the citation than he owes to it.
    QO 8.196 27 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor...
    PC 8.218 25 Even manners are a distinction which, we sometimes see, are not to be overborne by rank or official power...
    PC 8.229 1 It happens sometimes that poets do not believe their own poetry;...
    PPo 8.244 14 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of these bards.
    PPo 8.246 10 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral than regulated sober life affords...
    PPo 8.250 12 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world. Sometimes it is a glance from the height of thought...
    PPo 8.250 18 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] feast, feasters and world are only one pebble more in the eternal vortex and revolution of Fate...
    PPo 8.251 2 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets, whether he write, as sometimes, with a parrot's, or, as at other times, with an eagle's quill.
    PPo 8.252 18 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...sometimes almost in the fun of Falstaff...
    PPo 8.252 19 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...sometimes with feminine delicacy.
    PPo 8.261 5 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] love rises to a religious sentiment...
    Insp 8.272 26 I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life, sometimes a religious impulse...
    Insp 8.272 26 I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life... sometimes an intellectual insight.
    Insp 8.273 24 Sometimes there is no sea-fire, and again the sea is aglow to the horizon.
    Insp 8.273 25 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window...
    Insp 8.276 27 See how the passions augment our force,-anger, love, ambition!-sometimes sympathy, and the expectation of men.
    Insp 8.280 11 Sleep benefits...incidentally...by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
    Insp 8.282 7 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    Insp 8.283 10 The power of the will is sometimes sublime;...
    Grts 8.301 20 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all,-to which we are all sometimes untrue, cowardly, faithless, but of which we never quite despair...
    Grts 8.316 7 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes in people not normal, nor educated, nor presentable, nor church-members...as in more orderly examples.
    Dem1 10.4 5 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures. Sometimes the forgotten companions of childhood reappear...
    Dem1 10.6 19 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood.
    Dem1 10.7 10 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...
    Dem1 10.7 11 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal]; and sometimes too the sharpwitted prosperous white man awakens it.
    Dem1 10.8 10 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man...
    Dem1 10.19 17 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    Dem1 10.19 21 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.
    Chr2 10.102 19 We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
    Chr2 10.104 22 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms, thundering its protest, sometimes in earnest and lofty rebuke;...
    Chr2 10.104 23 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
    Edc1 10.142 6 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit. The bias of mind is sometimes irresistible in that direction.
    Supl 10.163 17 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
    SovE 10.192 7 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery, to a rare child;...
    SovE 10.199 12 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
    Schr 10.269 10 Able men may sometimes affect a contempt for thought...
    Schr 10.280 3 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac...
    Schr 10.288 3 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold.
    Plu 10.302 14 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians. Yet he inspires a curiosity, sometimes makes a necessity, to read them.
    Plu 10.306 15 One asks sometimes whether a metaphysician can treat the intellect well.
    Plu 10.307 11 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    Plu 10.321 22 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point.
    LLNE 10.366 26 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes; which they punctually did. And it would sometimes occur that when they danced in the evening, clothespins dropped plentifully from their pockets.
    MMEm 10.420 23 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant...
    MMEm 10.422 16 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes...
    MMEm 10.427 3 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    SlHr 10.441 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
    SlHr 10.442 10 ...[Samuel Hoar's] influence was...sometimes complained of as a bar to public justice.
    SlHr 10.443 6 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's] conscience was a kind of meter of the degree of honesty in the country, by which on each occasion it was tried, and sometimes found wanting.
    SlHr 10.447 4 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church; was always an honored and sometimes an active member.
    Thor 10.464 13 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light...was in him an unsleeping insight;...
    Thor 10.465 3 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre. And this made the impression of genius which his conversation sometimes gave.
    Thor 10.466 26 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes, one of which will sometimes overfill a cart;... were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.471 24 [Thoreau] confessed that he sometimes felt like a hound or a panther...
    Thor 10.478 16 [Thoreau's] virtues...sometimes ran into extremes.
    Thor 10.484 15 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather, and is sometimes found dead at the foot, with the flower in his hand.
    Carl 10.489 19 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people.
    Carl 10.490 8 [Carlyle]...understands his own value quite as well as Webster, of whom his behavior sometimes reminds me...
    HDC 11.33 2 Sometimes passing through thickets where [the pilgrims'] hands are forced to make way for their bodies' passage...
    HDC 11.33 8 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, and wade up to their knees, tumbling sometimes higher, sometimes lower.
    HDC 11.64 9 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties, and minutes of such private agreements sometimes entered on the clerk's records.
    LVB 11.90 16 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...
    EWI 11.118 3 We sometimes say, the planter does not want slaves, he only wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves yield him;...
    EWI 11.118 15 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
    EWI 11.146 7 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has believed there was no vindication of right;...
    EWI 11.146 12 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    War 11.156 19 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting. It is like the talk of one of those monomaniacs whom we sometimes meet in society, who converse on horses;...
    TPar 11.287 5 'T is sometimes a question, shall we not leave [the old religions] to decay without rude shocks?
    TPar 11.289 12 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion...
    HCom 11.342 8 The revolutions carry their own points, sometimes to the ruin of those who set them on foot.
    SMC 11.353 3 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship...
    SMC 11.361 10 Always devoted, sometimes anxious...[George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    SMC 11.361 11 Always devoted...sometimes full of joy at the deportment of his comrades, [George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    SHC 11.434 19 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    FRO1 11.479 1 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    CPL 11.504 23 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable...
    PLT 12.36 14 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence.
    PLT 12.47 17 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened;...
    PLT 12.47 19 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened; but sometimes they pass away dumb, to find it where all obstruction is removed.
    II 12.74 13 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men,-for all are inspirable, and sometimes inspired,-that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.
    II 12.78 5 Truth indeed! We talk as if we had it, or sometimes said it...
    Mem 12.97 7 It sometimes occurs that Memory has a personality of its own...
    Mem 12.97 10 One sometimes asks himself, Is it possible that [Memory] is only a visitor, not a resident?
    Mem 12.100 5 [Defect of memory] is sometimes owing to excellence of genius.
    Mem 12.101 11 If new impressions sometimes efface old ones, yet we steadily gain insight;...
    Mem 12.103 1 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    Mem 12.109 6 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.
    CInt 12.120 19 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it...[my counsels to you] be of that nature as is sometimes not good for me to give, but are always good for you to follow.
    CL 12.138 18 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...
    CL 12.142 23 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in this respect.
    CL 12.150 13 I think sometimes how many days could Methuselah go out and find something new!
    CL 12.158 25 ...I have sometimes thought it would be well to publish an Art of Walking...
    CL 12.159 20 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing. The patient found something curative in that intercourse, by which he was quieted, and sometimes restored.
    CL 12.162 16 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose;...
    CL 12.162 22 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...
    CL 12.166 15 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better.
    Bost 12.208 16 Boston too is sometimes pushed into a theatrical attitude of virtue...
    Milt1 12.277 23 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.
    ACri 12.291 20 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
    WSL 12.337 1 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...
    WSL 12.339 21 In Mr. Landor's coarseness...the rude word seems sometimes to arise from a disgust at niceness and over-refinement.
    Pray 12.352 19 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them. I am tired to stay long, because...they sometimes talk gossip with me.
    PPr 12.390 2 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains. Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fulness, though deficient in depth.

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