Soverchio to Specimens

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

soverchio, n. (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.

sovereign, adj. (21)

    AmS 1.113 17 ...man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state...
    AmS 1.113 18 ...man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state...
    DSA 1.125 8 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures;...
    Tran 1.337 12 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
    Hist 2.3 10 ...this [universal mind] is the only and sovereign agent.
    Fdsp 2.202 12 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either...
    Int 2.344 15 [One soul] must treat things and books and sovereign genius as itself also a sovereign.
    ShP 4.216 8 Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
    ShP 4.216 9 Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
    ET10 5.165 9 [The English] delight in a freak as the proof of their sovereign freedom.
    ET11 5.181 8 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets; yet will not the Duke, who is sovereign here, permit them to be destroyed.
    Bty 6.302 25 ...the sovereign attribute [of beauty] remains to be noted.
    Elo1 7.65 8 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is...a taking sovereign possession of the audience.
    Aris 10.58 21 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...
    Chr2 10.103 11 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight...or an entertainment...but it is a sovereign rule...
    SlHr 10.441 9 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man, answering as sovereign state to sovereign state;...
    HDC 11.42 15 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power...
    HDC 11.44 5 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers.
    CPL 11.505 4 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life...
    ACri 12.302 12 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking...sour east wind and flowery southwest,-alternating, and each sovereign...
    MLit 12.333 20 All that in our sovereign moments each of us has divined of the powers of thought...this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.

sovereign, n. (12)

    YA 1.376 23 ...this club of noblemen...combine to brave the sovereign...
    SR 2.81 9 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he... visits cities and men like a sovereign...
    Int 2.344 16 [One soul] must treat things and books and sovereign genius as itself also a sovereign.
    Pt1 3.7 7 [The poet] is a sovereign...
    Mrs1 3.134 20 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit, though it were of his sovereign, should not leave his roof...
    Mrs1 3.146 26 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy, or only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum. Yet that is the infirmity of the seneschals, who do not know their sovereign when he appears.
    ET10 5.165 27 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners, gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which belong to that rank.
    ET18 5.308 2 Magna Charta, said Rushworth, is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
    Elo1 7.77 27 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily...might...unseat any sovereign...
    DL 7.105 19 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing it;...
    FSLC 11.191 22 No engagement (to a sovereign) can oblige or even authorize a man to violate the laws of Nature.
    EPro 11.318 16 Better is virtue in the sovereign than plenty in the season, say the Chinese.

sovereignly, adv. (3)

    NMW 4.246 4 [Napoleon's] capacious head, revolving and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs...
    PI 8.70 22 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood deals sovereignly with matter...
    Schr 10.281 13 Be that you are: be that cheerly and sovereignly.

sovereigns, n. (2)

    UGM 4.16 4 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    NMW 4.241 14 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration, which is the reverse of that ordinarily made by generals and sovereigns on the eve of a battle, sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.

sovereignties, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.107 15 ...Nature keeps these sovereignties in her own hands...
    ET5 5.82 11 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best attended to...is that of England.

sovereignty, n. (17)

    Nat 1.30 1 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    OS 2.272 8 The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand.
    Mrs1 3.147 1 The theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these [natural aristocrats].
    ET2 5.32 22 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years claimed the strict sovereignty of the sea...
    ET5 5.97 21 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen.
    F 6.27 16 [Our thought] apprises us of its sovereignty and godhead...
    Pow 6.63 1 As long as our people quote English standards they will miss the sovereignty of power;...
    Bty 6.285 8 The king, on the next day, conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso]...
    Aris 10.44 5 I think he'll be to Rome/ As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/ By sovereignty of nature./
    HDC 11.46 19 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes;...
    HDC 11.71 12 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty.
    FSLC 11.190 23 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...
    FSLN 11.233 18 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens.
    JBB 11.272 4 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    EdAd 11.384 15 ...[the traveller in America] exclaims, What a negro-fine royalty is that of Jamschid and Solomon. What a substantial sovereignty does my townsman possess!
    PLT 12.38 8 In so far as we see [spiritual facts] we share their life and sovereignty.
    ACri 12.303 1 ...this is the ball that is tossed...in the history of every mind by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.

sow, v. (7)

    MR 1.256 27 ...the time will come when we too...shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.
    Wth 6.124 6 Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow...
    WD 7.167 14 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman at the rising of what constellation he might safely sow...
    Supl 10.175 16 Sow grain, and it does not come up; put lime into the soil and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
    II 12.76 8 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power. My part is to sow, and sow, and re-sow, and in short do nothing but sow.
    II 12.76 9 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power. My part is to sow, and sow, and re-sow, and in short do nothing but sow.
    II 12.76 10 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power. My part is to sow, and sow, and re-sow, and in short do nothing but sow.

sowed, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.232 7 [The man of talent's] art never taught him...the wish to reap where he had not sowed.
    War 11.154 2 [Alexander's conquest of the East]...sowed the Greek customs and humane laws over Asia...

sower, n. (1)

    Int 2.323 3 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;--/ The sower scatters broad his seed;/ The wheat thou strew'st be souls./

sowers, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.128 23 [The working heroes] are the sowers...

sowers', n. (1)

    Schr 10.260 2 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like sowers' seeds into his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./

sowest, v. (1)

    SovE 10.192 26 As thou sowest, thou shalt reap.

sowing, n. (1)

    Grts 8.311 18 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air, like the annual ploughing and sowing of the Emperor of China.

sowing, v. (2)

    Int 2.346 15 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics. I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world.
    Bty 6.291 9 ...a farmer sowing seed...is becoming to the wise eye.

sown, v. (6)

    Nat 1.28 16 ...[The human corpse] is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
    Pt1 3.25 26 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song...
    Pt1 3.42 19 ...Wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    RBur 11.438 6 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
    Bost 12.204 25 The seed of prosperity was planted [in Massachusetts]. The people did not gather where they had not sown.
    Let 12.400 27 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...

sows, v. (2)

    Nat 1.13 10 The wind sows the seed;...
    Prd1 2.235 17 Let [a man] learn...that what he sows he reaps.

Space, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.39 11 ...Time and Space relations vanish as laws are known.

space, n. (99)

    Nat 1.5 9 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space...
    Nat 1.10 7 Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes.
    Nat 1.15 22 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay.
    Nat 1.36 5 Space, time...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    Nat 1.48 2 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...galaxy balancing galaxy, throughout absolute space, - or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.48 3 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.57 21 ...we learn that time and space are relations of matter;...
    Nat 1.64 3 ...[nature] does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time...
    Nat 1.73 14 These are examples of...the exertions of a power which exists not in time or space...
    DSA 1.122 10 [The laws of the soul] are...out of space...
    DSA 1.125 9 ...the worlds, time, space, eternity, do seem to break out into joy.
    LE 1.175 4 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...their eye fixes...on vacant space;...
    LE 1.182 12 The man of genius should occupy the whole space between God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
    MN 1.202 16 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...and whether it be quite worth while to make more, and glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.212 12 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and overpower each the nature of every other creature, and itself alone in all modes and throughout space and spirit to prevail and possess.
    MN 1.223 24 ...[these qualities] penetrate the ocean and land, space and time...
    MN 1.224 4 ...[the soul] is wider than space...
    LT 1.278 11 The world leaves no track in space...
    Tran 1.332 6 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space...
    Tran 1.333 5 The materialist respects sensible masses...every mass, whether majority of numbers, or extent of space...
    Tran 1.352 21 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height;...
    SR 2.64 13 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse...from space...
    SR 2.66 22 Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes...
    Comp 2.91 7 Gauge of more and less through space/ Electric star and pencil plays./
    SL 2.140 25 There is one direction in which all space is open to [each man].
    SL 2.162 21 Heaven...affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
    Fdsp 2.216 13 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space...
    Prd1 2.225 2 [Prudence] respects space and time...
    Prd1 2.228 21 The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
    Prd1 2.241 5 ...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments.
    Hsm1 2.259 22 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of her new-born being, which is the kindling of a new dawn in the recesses of space.
    OS 2.265 1 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...
    OS 2.272 13 ...[the soul] abolishes time and space.
    OS 2.272 16 ...the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable;...
    OS 2.272 19 ...time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.
    Int 2.335 23 The ray of light passes invisible through space...
    Art1 2.352 11 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success,--all the weary miles and tons of space and bulk left out...
    Pt1 3.21 12 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...
    Pt1 3.28 7 These [stimulants] are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space...
    Pt1 3.30 18 ...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 Aristotle defines space to be an immovable vessel in which things are contained;...
    Pt1 3.42 21 ...wherever are outlets into celestial space...there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
    Chr1 3.96 2 An individual is an encloser. Time and space...are left at large no longer.
    Mrs1 3.127 10 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by...leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.
    Nat2 3.179 25 All changes [in Efficient Nature] pass without violence, by reason of the two cardinal conditions of boundless space and boundless time.
    Nat2 3.181 11 Space exists to divide creatures;...
    PNR 4.81 4 With this artist [nature], time and space are cheap...
    SwM 4.101 20 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to pass the bounds of space and time...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    SwM 4.118 2 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object,--animal, rock, river, air,--nay, space and time, subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    MoS 4.169 1 Montaigne...does not wish to...annihilate space or time...
    MoS 4.184 9 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...a hunger, as of space to be filled with planets;...
    MoS 4.184 13 ...to each man is administered...a cup as large as space, and one drop of the water of life in it.
    ET11 5.178 8 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these ancient rules.
    ET11 5.178 12 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years...
    ET14 5.242 7 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Doctor Samuel Clarke's argument for theism from the nature of space and time;...
    ET14 5.258 24 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum. For once, there is...power which trifles with time and space.
    F 6.34 5 ...time [steam] shall lengthen, and shorten space.
    F 6.49 9 In astronomy is vast space but no foreign system;...
    Ctr 6.165 26 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Wsp 6.219 9 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft, and the ball never loses its way in its wild path through space,--a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    Bty 6.305 8 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines... as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Ill 6.320 9 ...what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought...
    SS 7.8 13 The determination of each is from all the others, like that of each tree up into free space.
    DL 7.101 4 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which the incarnate soul must climb,/ And paused for them, and looked around,/ With me who walked through space and time./
    Farm 7.148 24 The chemist...now affirms that this dreary space occupied by the farmer is needless;...
    WD 7.159 8 Why need I speak of steam, the enemy of space and time...
    WD 7.161 16 Art and power will...make...time out of space, and space out of time.
    WD 7.178 5 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it, whether time, or space, or light, or water, or food.
    WD 7.179 9 He only can enrich me who can recommend to me the space between sun and sun.
    WD 7.185 3 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    Suc 7.300 16 [Color] clothes the skeleton world with space, variety and glow.
    Suc 7.300 20 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important, and filling the main space in our history.
    PI 8.65 12 [Nature] is not proud...of space...
    PC 8.225 7 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age, lasting as space and time...
    PC 8.225 8 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age, lasting as space and time, embosomed in time and space.
    PC 8.225 8 ...time and space,-what are they?
    Imtl 8.323 5 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Dem1 10.4 1 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before us...
    Dem1 10.17 22 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary elements of our constitution; it shortened time and extended space.
    PerF 10.88 20 ...as...the planet on space in its flight, so do nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
    SovE 10.202 22 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?
    SovE 10.202 24 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?
    LLNE 10.336 26 The religious sentiment...triumphed over time as well as space;...
    HDC 11.86 8 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    War 11.157 22 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees...and man had a breathing space.
    FSLC 11.178 8 ...[Eternal Rights] reach no term, they never sleep,/ In equal strength through space abide;/...
    SMC 11.372 19 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...
    EdAd 11.393 14 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space...
    Shak1 11.452 14 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...and, in short space before and after, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Raleigh and Jonson.
    Humb 11.458 14 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history, who surpass all others in industry, space and endurance.
    PLT 12.37 22 Simple percipiency is the virtue of space, not of man.
    PLT 12.42 9 The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones across the gulfs of space in every direction.
    Mem 12.90 9 As gravity holds matter from flying off into space, so memory gives stability to knowledge;...
    Mem 12.97 3 Nature interests [the intellectual man];...time, space...in their own method and law.
    CInt 12.127 25 ...I thought...a college was to teach you geometry, or the lovely laws of space and figure;...
    CL 12.148 6 Some English reformers thought the cattle made all this wide space necessary between house and house...
    CL 12.156 10 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea, which yet are lanes and crevices to the great space in which the world shines like a cockboat in the sea.
    MAng1 12.224 20 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.
    WSL 12.348 8 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    Pray 12.356 17 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with its greatness take up all space.

Space, n. (4)

    Nat 1.38 9 Therefore is Space...that man may know that things are not huddled and lumped...
    Nat 1.44 10 ...the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space.
    OS 2.273 19 Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space and Nature shrink away.
    Prch 10.226 18 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./

space-penetrating, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.237 18 Many qualities go to make a good telescope...but the one eminent value is the space-penetrating power;...

spaces, n. (14)

    Nat 1.52 19 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse]...
    SR 2.61 8 Every true man...requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;...
    SR 2.69 9 Vast spaces of nature...are of no account.
    NR 3.246 2 ...our earth, whilst it spins on its own axis, spins all the time around the sun, through the celestial spaces...
    NER 3.284 6 ...the good globe is faithful, and carries us securely through the celestial spaces...
    SwM 4.110 5 Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value, and not remain there in globes and spaces.
    ET1 5.6 19 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site;...
    Ctr 6.160 5 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    Res 8.139 21 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...
    Dem1 10.3 11 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and sea...
    SHC 11.432 1 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...when they are disposed in masses and in large spaces.
    Shak1 11.448 13 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
    Bost 12.185 14 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.
    WSL 12.342 17 There are vast spaces in a thought...

spacious, adj. (9)

    MN 1.200 8 How silent, how spacious...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    Hist 2.37 5 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    ET3 5.41 27 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom...
    ET5 5.80 23 [The English people's] practical vision is spacious...
    Ctr 6.160 13 I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
    Ill 6.309 4 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...
    PC 8.210 18 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and the home trade (whose circuits in this country are as spacious as the foreign)... have evoked!...
    Insp 8.291 4 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...
    Aris 10.56 22 The nearer my friend, the more spacious is our realm...

spade, n. (10)

    AmS 1.100 6 There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade...
    MR 1.231 12 ...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world anew, as he does who puts the spade into the ground for food.
    MR 1.236 27 When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration...that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
    Prd1 2.230 11 Let [the figures in this picture of life]...call a spade a spade...
    Prd1 2.230 12 Let [the figures in this picture of life]...call a spade a spade...
    ET14 5.233 5 [The Englishman] loves the axe, the spade, the oar, the gun, the steam-pipe;...
    Wth 6.85 18 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the last secrets of art.
    Art2 7.42 23 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
    Art2 7.49 6 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar.
    Aris 10.37 27 How is it that the sword runs away with all the fame from the spade and the wheel?

spaded, v. (1)

    NER 3.253 1 ...the hundred acres of the farm must be spaded...

spadeful, n. (1)

    PerF 10.71 8 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds?

Spahi, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 13 ...here is...Spahi, the Persian ambassador;...

Spain, King of, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.149 17 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.
    Bhr 6.194 18 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when the latter was King of Spain...

Spain, n. (27)

    MR 1.251 16 [The Arabs] conquered Asia, and Africa, and Spain, on barley.
    YA 1.393 22 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy...
    Hist 2.9 23 I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands...in my own mind.
    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...
    UGM 4.23 3 I like...Charles V., of Spain;...
    ShP 4.207 27 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...in... the Ballads of Spain and Scotland,--Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ET4 5.57 21 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe. No vaporing of France and Spain has corrupted them.
    ET5 5.86 1 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without;...
    ET6 5.103 27 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain.
    ET6 5.109 10 Wellington governed India and Spain and his own troops...
    ET6 5.109 13 Wellington...though a general of an army in Spain, could not stir abroad for fear of public creditors.
    F 6.21 16 God may consent, but only for a time, said the bard of Spain.
    Pow 6.63 16 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with...Spain...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Pow 6.69 14 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...gypsying with Borrow in Spain and Algiers;...
    Bhr 6.178 16 ...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries, as France, Germany, Spain, Turkey, the eyes wink at each new name.
    Elo1 7.82 24 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    Suc 7.285 14 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua.
    PC 8.213 27 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Chronicle of the Cid, in Spain;...
    Grts 8.315 3 [Napoleon's] advice to his brother, King Joseph of Spain, was: I have only one counsel for you,-Be Master.
    PerF 10.77 15 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    Plu 10.295 3 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.
    War 11.165 10 ...when a truth appears...it will build fleets; it will carry over half Spain and half England;...
    Humb 11.458 8 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system...
    PLT 12.27 3 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another.
    PLT 12.27 8 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain;...
    Milt1 12.272 26 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.
    Milt1 12.272 27 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.

Spain, New, n. (1)

    War 11.158 20 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain...

spake, v. (5)

    DSA 1.127 10 Let this faith depart, and the very words it spake...become false...
    DSA 1.144 18 It is the office of a true teacher to show us...that [God] speaketh, not spake.
    PI 8.69 22 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe,--We, who speak the tongue/ That Shakspeare spake, the faith and manners hold/ Which Milton held./
    HDC 11.61 16 The worst feature in the history of those years [of King Philip's War], is, that no man spake for the Indian.
    ACri 12.296 16 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of...

spakest, v. (1)

    Con 1.297 2 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye; thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me with hatred.

span, v. (5)

    F 6.3 13 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas...
    F 6.4 10 ...our geometry cannot span these extreme points and reconcile them.
    Wth 6.84 12 ...The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,/ Where they were bid the rivers ran;/...
    Boks 7.217 6 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...
    Imtl 8.335 1 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees, say of the sequoias, a few of which will span the whole history of mankind;...

spangles, n. (1)

    Aris 10.36 22 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love which ought to reside in every man. This is the steel that is hid...under flowers and spangles.

Spaniard, Highminded [Wm. (1)

    ET1 5.23 25 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the feelings of a highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other...

Spaniard, n. (2)

    ET7 5.125 24 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous...
    PI 8.17 26 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then...Parthian, Mede, Chinese, Spaniard and Indian hear their own tongue.

Spaniards, n. (1)

    Boks 7.194 16 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the Persians, Confucius of the Chinese, Cervantes of the Spaniards;...

spaniel, n. (2)

    Scot 11.464 26 ...[Scott] had the...skill...not to write solemn pentameters alike on a hero or a spaniel.
    EurB 12.378 1 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things; but a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are themes for Olympus.

spanish, adj. (1)

    MR 1.231 25 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...

Spanish, adj. (11)

    MR 1.231 21 ...in the Spanish islands the venality of the officers of the government has passed into usage...
    NR 3.230 16 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius...
    ShP 4.193 6 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.
    ET8 5.137 13 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the West Indies, the edicts of the Spanish Cortes;...
    ET9 5.151 19 There is no fence in metaphysics discriminating Greek, or English, or Spanish science.
    CbW 6.278 13 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked.
    Boks 7.197 21 English history is best known through Shakspeare;...the Spanish, through the Cid.
    Suc 7.308 22 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    QO 8.196 17 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...Le Sage in Spanish costume...
    Grts 8.314 1 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared...
    FRep 11.515 5 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors...

Spanish America, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.227 13 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be, as the Indians were in Spanish America, a piece of money?

spanned, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.210 14 ...granting that these contingencies [of abolition] are too many to be spanned by any human geometry...still the question recurs, What must we do?

spanning, n. (1)

    ET14 5.236 2 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...their fancy and imagination and easy spanning of vast distances of thought...astonish...

spanning, v. (1)

    Civ 7.31 19 I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone.

span-worm, n. (2)

    SwM 4.107 27 A poetic anatomist, in our own day...assumes the hair-worm, the span-worm, or the snake, as the type or prediction of the spine.
    SwM 4.108 7 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over, as a span-worm, into a ball...

spar, n. (2)

    Exp 3.57 3 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar...
    UGM 4.10 8 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature,--the glitter of the spar...

sparce, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.57 12 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion. A sparce population gives this high worth to every man.

spare, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.39 27 Hard labor and spare diet [the settlers of Concord] had...

spare, v. (60)

    AmS 1.95 21 I do not see how any man can afford...to spare any action in which he can partake.
    Con 1.307 12 [The youth says] I cannot understand, or so much as spare time to read that needless library of your laws.
    Con 1.309 9 I cannot then spare you the whole world.
    Con 1.309 25 ...what your convenience could spare, your pride cannot.
    Prd1 2.227 2 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics; the more he has, the less is he willing to spare any one.
    Cir 2.315 4 ...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    Exp 3.62 9 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture which such a vanishing meteorous appearance can ill spare.
    Exp 3.69 10 Nature will not spare us the smallest leaf of laurel.
    Exp 3.84 11 In good earnest I am willing to spare this most unnecessary deal of doing.
    Chr1 3.107 22 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets, as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one.
    UGM 4.23 22 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is...an emperor who can spare his empire.
    PPh 4.41 27 [The great man] can spare nothing;...
    PNR 4.86 7 Plato is so centred that he can well spare all his dogmas.
    SwM 4.102 16 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries...and we are to judge, by what he can spare, of what remains.
    ShP 4.216 20 ...[solitude] can teach us to spare both heroes and poets;...
    ET10 5.163 8 ...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the intelligent middle class, who never spare in what they buy for their own consupmtion;...is in open market [in England].
    ET10 5.166 17 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of each individual,--that he has...power to spare.
    ET12 5.203 3 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
    Pow 6.53 22 If [a man] have secured the elixir, he can spare the wide gardens from which it was distilled.
    Pow 6.56 7 ...health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare...
    Pow 6.67 3 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals. He was a knave whom the town could ill spare.
    Pow 6.79 6 The friction in nature is so enormous that we cannot spare any power.
    Ctr 6.138 14 We can spare your opera...
    Ctr 6.148 8 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life, neither of which we can spare.
    Ctr 6.155 19 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities;...
    Ctr 6.166 7 Man's culture can spare nothing...
    Wsp 6.222 22 We cannot spare the coarsest muniment of virtue.
    Wsp 6.236 5 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it.
    CbW 6.243 11 Who has little, to him who has less, can spare/...
    CbW 6.264 4 Let us engage our companions not to spare us.
    CbW 6.273 3 ...He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    CbW 6.277 27 ...all rests at last on that integrity which dwarfs talent, and can spare it.
    Bty 6.294 15 There is not a particle to spare in natural structures.
    Boks 7.197 10 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare...
    Boks 7.200 4 ...such a reader as I am writing to can as ill spare [Plutarch's Morals] as the Lives.
    Boks 7.205 8 [The student] cannot spare Gibbon...
    Suc 7.289 20 I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
    OA 7.335 21 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare...
    Comc 8.166 21 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    QO 8.186 7 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/ Make me thy wrack when I come back,/ But spare me when I gang/-is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    PC 8.217 20 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him;...
    Edc1 10.142 26 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment;...
    Supl 10.166 6 ...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.
    Supl 10.174 21 ...Nature measures her greatness by what she can spare...
    SovE 10.192 13 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...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more than poetry or art. But it ought to come; it...is an insight which we cannot spare.
    Prch 10.228 13 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine, and cannot spare the benefit of so pure a servant of truth and love.
    LLNE 10.339 27 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public...
    LLNE 10.345 24 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant, and in turn go to his neighbor for any article which he had to spare.
    HDC 11.35 22 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest, from a little rising town that had not much to spare...must be laborious to all...
    JBS 11.276 7 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
    TPar 11.292 27 ...refusing to spare himself, [Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    FRO2 11.488 26 We cannot spare the vision nor the virtue of the saints;...
    FRep 11.516 6 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
    CL 12.145 21 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars. Observe their form; not a branch nor a twig is to spare.
    CL 12.157 26 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions, which we cannot spare...
    CL 12.161 1 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry...which perfectly answers its end, and has nothing to spare.
    ACri 12.286 6 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together...
    ACri 12.291 25 ...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 and writers of books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
    WSL 12.344 17 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings...
    Trag 12.405 23 ...in the serene hours we have no courage to spare.

spared, v. (24)

    Con 1.311 3 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    YA 1.371 22 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided,-the race never dying, the individual never spared...
    Mrs1 3.138 23 ...a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
    NMW 4.235 17 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared nothing...
    NMW 4.236 13 In the fury of assault, [Napoleon] no more spared himself.
    Pow 6.71 27 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    Wsp 6.232 19 The conviction that his work is dear to God and cannot be spared, defends [a man].
    CbW 6.248 16 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!
    CbW 6.251 19 You would say this rabble of nations might be spared.
    Bty 6.294 20 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
    Farm 7.146 25 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared...
    Boks 7.199 20 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library;...
    Elo2 8.116 11 [The people] have sent their best men;...and it is not easy to see who else can be spared or can be induced to go.
    Dem1 10.21 7 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on...the bank-messenger in the country, can well be spared.
    EzRy 10.389 9 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing; spared neither maid, wife nor widow...
    HDC 11.83 4 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
    EWI 11.140 7 ...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority. Come what will, their faculty cannot be spared.
    FSLC 11.201 9 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared.
    SMC 11.357 19 One of our later volunteers...in reply to my question, How can you be spared from your farm...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SMC 11.369 2 I feel, [George Prescott] writes, I have much to be thankful for that my life is spared...
    SHC 11.430 13 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
    ChiE 11.472 18 ...[China] has philosophers who cannot be spared.
    FRep 11.535 20 They who find America insipid-they for whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those cities.
    PLT 12.52 5 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...

sparely, adv. (1)

    DL 7.119 6 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may...dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold.

spares, v. (4)

    UGM 4.23 25 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe...
    ET6 5.107 16 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall; if he is in middle condition, he spares no expense on his house.
    ET14 5.240 10 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential...he never spares rebukes for such as neglect it;...
    Imtl 8.343 1 Nature never spares the individual;...

sparing, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.45 19 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire...that it appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...
    NMW 4.234 6 [Napoleon was] Not bloodthirsty, but not sparing of blood,-- and pitiless.
    PPo 8.259 7 Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations...

sparing, adv. (1)

    Ctr 6.151 19 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing/...

sparing, v. (1)

    ET7 5.117 17 [The English] are...sparing of promises...

sparingly, adv. (1)

    ET14 5.235 2 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly;...

spark, n. (24)

    Tran 1.358 20 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors; collectors of the heavenly spark...
    Hist 2.33 5 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man.
    Comp 2.91 13 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    Lov1 2.170 16 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges...
    Lov1 2.172 8 How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature!
    Exp 3.70 7 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    NER 3.258 6 ...the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories;...
    UGM 4.24 19 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
    MoS 4.176 2 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
    Pow 6.77 11 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark...
    Elo1 7.59 8 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
    Elo1 7.95 17 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    PI 8.58 25 In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is there but one course to the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is there but one spark in the fire of boundless energy?/
    PI 8.74 9 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
    Insp 8.273 22 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass;...
    Grts 8.315 12 It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption.
    Chr2 10.121 12 ...the electricity goes round the world without a spark or a sound, until there is a break in the wire or the water chain.
    Edc1 10.130 8 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...
    HDC 11.86 24 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
    EPro 11.320 17 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world: every spark of intellect, every virtuous feeling...all rally to its support.
    PLT 12.34 14 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the great night.
    PLT 12.34 15 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the great night. Yet a spark at which all the illuminations of human arts and sciences were kindled.
    PLT 12.35 2 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man' s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power...breaking its silence; the spark bursting into flame.
    II 12.65 21 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed...

sparkle, n. (9)

    ShP 4.197 5 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone...
    ET4 5.62 13 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat.
    F 6.48 19 How idle to choose a random sparkle here or there...
    Bty 6.290 21 It is...health of constitution that makes the sparkle and the power of the eye.
    PI 8.63 12 [The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards some sparkle of it...
    Insp 8.273 23 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass; then presently the world is all a cat's back, all sparkle and shock.
    EWI 11.106 12 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed. There is a sparkle of God's righteousness in Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good.
    CInt 12.112 15 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CL 12.154 3 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of life, and every sparkle is a fish.

sparkle, v. (4)

    LE 1.162 5 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky;...
    Comp 2.115 18 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his chisel-edge...do recommend to him his trade...
    Bty 6.304 18 Chaff and dust begin to sparkle...
    Bost 12.190 26 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

sparkles, n. (4)

    PNR 4.87 10 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls;...
    Insp 8.273 4 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity. Could we but turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds!
    SovE 10.209 14 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are...joyful sparkles...
    PLT 12.53 3 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again. Ah, could we turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds.

sparkles, v. (6)

    Nat2 3.179 1 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire...
    SwM 4.106 6 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous...and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air sparkles with crystals.
    ShP 4.215 26 ...[the poet] delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them.
    Pow 6.57 16 On the neck of the young man, said Hafiz, sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
    MoL 10.241 9 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers; perhaps the rare gift of poetry already sparkles...
    Milt1 12.265 13 [Milton's native honor] always sparkles in his eyes.

sparkling, adj. (3)

    LE 1.158 24 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor...its sparkling January heaven.
    Bty 6.306 12 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
    LLNE 10.334 7 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...

sparkling, v. (5)

    Pt1 3.11 3 These stony moments are still sparkling and animated!
    Bhr 6.181 1 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows.
    OA 7.328 5 In a world so charged and sparkling with power, a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience...
    Comc 8.167 21 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes.
    Milt1 12.248 24 [Milton's tracts] are...rich with allusion, sparkling with innumerable ornaments;...

sparks, n. (3)

    SwM 4.114 2 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./
    Wth 6.116 13 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks; the other is diffuse strength;...
    Bty 6.286 11 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty; and perhaps some sparks from it may yet light a conflagration in the other.

sparrow, n. (5)

    Suc 7.297 14 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted...in the piping of a sparrow, than in all his literary results?
    PI 8.34 5 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will, though it were a sparrow or a spider-web, as fully represent the central law...as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
    Imtl 8.323 12 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door...
    HDC 11.30 3 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...
    Mem 12.90 16 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we.

sparrows, n. (3)

    SS 7.14 27 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor. Leave them to seek their own mates, and they will be as merry as sparrows.
    Thor 10.450 2 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    CL 12.162 18 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to prevent the sparrows or tortoises.

sparry, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.309 21 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...

spars, n. (4)

    SwM 4.106 2 [Swedenborg] had studied spars and metals to some purpose.
    SwM 4.145 1 In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging...some to spars, some to mast;...
    Cour 7.263 17 The sailor loses fear as fast as he acquires command of sails and spars and steam;...
    PerF 10.74 14 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...

sparse, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.24 23 A sparse population and want [in the Grecian period] make every man his own valet, cook, butcher and soldier...
    FRep 11.526 15 ...really, though you see wealth in the capitals, it is only a sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...

Sparta, n. (10)

    Con 1.317 3 ...the erect, formidable valor of some Dorian townsmen in the town of Sparta;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    PPh 4.64 17 [Plato] saw the institutions of Sparta and recognized...the hope of education.
    ET4 5.57 6 The [Norse] Sagas describe a monarchical republic like Sparta.
    Elo1 7.73 4 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Elo1 7.79 10 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man. It was men of this stamp that the Grecian States used to ask of Sparta for generals.
    OA 7.321 10 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the like, all signify simply old men.
    Plu 10.301 27 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the disgust of the passing hour.
    Plu 10.314 21 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...his love of Sparta...
    Plu 10.322 13 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    EWI 11.122 22 There have been nations elevated by great sentiments. Such was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race...

Spartan, adj. (7)

    SR 2.60 13 Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
    Pol1 3.203 22 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors, on the Spartan principle of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.
    MoS 4.160 15 The Spartan and Stoic schemes are too stark and stiff for our occasion.
    Civ 7.26 20 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...patriotism, as in the Spartan and Roman republics;...
    Elo1 7.64 7 Among the Spartans, the art [of eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
    Clbs 7.250 14 When we look for the highest benefits of conversation, the Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
    PLT 12.24 1 ...if one remembers...how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...

Spartan, n. (4)

    MR 1.244 25 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...which none but a Spartan may enter or so much as behold.
    YA 1.391 9 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals, who, like the Roman or the Spartan, lent his own spirit to the State and made it great.
    SwM 4.136 1 I say, with the Spartan, Why do you speak so much to the purpose, of that which is nothing to the purpose?
    F 6.5 8 The Spartan, embodying his religion in his country, dies before its majesty without a question.

spartans, n. (1)

    Supl 10.169 5 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.

Spartans, n. (3)

    MR 1.240 13 Only such persons interest us, Spartans...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...
    Hist 2.24 3 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans...
    Elo1 7.64 7 Among the Spartans, the art [of eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.

Sparta's, n. (1)

    Pray 12.353 29 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./

spasm, n. (6)

    F 6.14 18 ...all that the primary power or spasm operates is still vesicles, vesicles.
    F 6.22 27 ...here they are, side by side...belt and spasm...
    Pow 6.64 19 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.
    Pow 6.74 22 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not.
    Pow 6.77 13 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill.
    PC 8.222 19 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...

spasmodic, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.289 16 Egotism...seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

spasms, n. (8)

    NMW 4.258 2 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers;...
    GoW 4.263 19 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    ET18 5.302 16 We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit who...delegates his energy in parts or spasms to vicious and defective individuals.
    F 6.32 20 ...the spasms of electricity...are awaiting you.
    Comc 8.158 1 ...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy, and it announces itself physically in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
    SovE 10.191 18 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    SovE 10.191 18 ...the spasms of Nature are years and centuries...
    FSLN 11.238 23 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages...

spatium, n. (1)

    Bost 12.188 6 It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the city and of the world is the same (spatium et urbis et orbis idem).

spawn, n. (2)

    AmS 1.106 14 ...men in the world of to-day...are spawn...
    Boks 7.196 6 Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour.

spawn, v. (1)

    ET3 5.39 8 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish;...

spawning, adj. (5)

    ET4 5.45 25 The spawning force of the [English] race has sufficed to the colonization of great parts of the world;...
    Ctr 6.153 26 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    CbW 6.251 17 ...this spawning productivity is not noxious or needless.
    EWI 11.143 21 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies and mites but their spawning numbers...
    FRep 11.538 6 The beautiful is never plentiful. Then Illinois and Indiana, with their spawning loins, must needs be ordinary.

spawning, n. (1)

    Thor 10.466 19 ...the fishes [in the Concord River], and their spawning and nests, their manners, their food;...were all known to [Thoreau]...

spawning, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.194 3 The gravid old Universe goes spawning on;...

spawns, v. (2)

    PerF 10.72 4 When life is less here, it spawns there.
    LLNE 10.352 17 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life, which spawns and scorns system and system-makers;...

speak, v. (330)

    Nat 1.8 8 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind.
    Nat 1.8 23 To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.
    Nat 1.45 16 [The spirit] says...in such as this [human form] have I found and beheld myself; I will speak to it;...
    Nat 1.45 17 [The spirit] says...in such as this [human form] have I found and beheld myself; I will speak to it; it can speak again;...
    Nat 1.59 9 Let us speak [nature] fair.
    AmS 1.91 20 We hear, that we may speak.
    AmS 1.115 20 ...we will speak our own minds.
    DSA 1.123 8 ...murder will speak out of stone walls.
    DSA 1.123 12 ...speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
    DSA 1.123 14 Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers...
    DSA 1.128 14 Of [the Christian church's] blessed words...you need not that I should speak.
    DSA 1.134 8 Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done...
    DSA 1.135 10 ...the man who aims to speak as books enable...babbles.
    DSA 1.151 3 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...
    DSA 1.151 10 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...shall speak in the West also.
    LE 1.161 27 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being, as...to aspire and to speak.
    LE 1.166 15 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak,-to speak with thoughts...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.187 8 [Thought] will speak...by its own miraculous organ.
    MN 1.194 21 I cannot,-nor can any man,-speak precisely of things so sublime...
    MN 1.198 11 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MN 1.216 15 You need not speak to me...that you should exert magnetism on me.
    MN 1.217 13 When we speak truly,-is not he only unhappy who is not in love?...
    MN 1.218 12 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
    MN 1.222 19 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight. Instantly we...can speak a deeper law.
    MR 1.230 11 Had I waited a day longer to speak, I had been too late.
    MR 1.246 3 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be serene and docile to what the mind shall speak...is frugality for gods and heroes.
    MR 1.253 26 The State must consider the poor man, and all voices must speak for him.
    LT 1.261 20 If you speak of the age, you mean your own platoon of people...
    LT 1.262 15 Thoughts walk and speak...
    LT 1.271 19 ...we find ourselves apologizing for our employments; we speak of them with shame.
    LT 1.288 7 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves, whom we speak as we pass...
    LT 1.290 13 For that reality let us stand; that let us serve, and for that speak.
    LT 1.290 15 I wish to speak of the politics...around us without ceremony or false deference.
    LT 1.290 22 ...we are bound on our entrance into nature to speak for [reality].
    Tran 1.333 27 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves; but hears, as at a vast distance, what they say, as if his consciousness would speak to him through a pantomimic scene.
    Tran 1.341 14 What [many intelligent and religious persons] do is done only because they are overpowered by the humanities that speak on all sides;...
    Tran 1.357 16 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak are not proficients;...
    YA 1.364 7 ...I hasten to speak of the utility of these improvements in creating an American sentiment.
    YA 1.371 14 ...[America] should speak for the human race.
    YA 1.379 25 I pass to speak of the signs of that which is the sequel of trade.
    YA 1.388 12 I find no expression...of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood. I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense.
    YA 1.388 13 I find no expression...of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood. I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense.
    Hist 2.25 20 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons speak simply,--speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it...
    Hist 2.35 8 ...all the postulates of elfin annals,--that the fairies do not like to be named;...that who seeks a treasure must not speak, and the like,--I find true in Concord...
    SR 2.45 9 Speak your latent conviction...
    SR 2.48 17 Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me.
    SR 2.48 20 It seems [the youth] knows how to speak to his contemporaries.
    SR 2.51 8 I ought to...speak the rude truth in all ways.
    SR 2.57 22 Speak what you think now in hard words...
    SR 2.57 23 ...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again...
    SR 2.66 13 If...a man claims to know and speak of God...believe him not.
    SR 2.67 23 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David...
    SR 2.70 1 Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is.
    SR 2.70 6 We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue.
    SR 2.79 6 [Men] say...Let not God speak to us, lest we die.
    SR 2.79 6 Speak thou, speak any man with us, and we will obey.
    Comp 2.110 7 A man cannot speak but he judges himself.
    SL 2.131 15 If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice.
    SL 2.144 22 It is enough that these particulars speak to me.
    SL 2.146 1 Nothing seems so easy as to speak and to be understood.
    SL 2.153 12 The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.
    SL 2.153 13 The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.
    SL 2.156 15 ...your fellow-men have learned that you cannot help them; for oracles speak.
    Lov1 2.170 9 ...this passion of which we speak [love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old...
    Fdsp 2.191 6 How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us!
    Fdsp 2.201 5 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation which is a kind of absolute...
    Fdsp 2.202 24 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank; that being permitted to speak truth...
    Fdsp 2.207 18 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party...
    Fdsp 2.211 15 There is at least this satisfaction in crime, according to the Latin proverb;--you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
    Fdsp 2.212 5 Wait, and thy heart shall speak.
    Fdsp 2.215 2 I cannot afford to speak much with my friend.
    Prd1 2.223 26 [Culture] sees prudence...to be...a name for wisdom and virtue conversing with the body and its wants. Cultivated men always feel and speak so...
    Hsm1 2.247 9 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words to follow such a deed as this?/
    Hsm1 2.258 20 ...when we hear [many extraordinary young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their superiority;...
    Hsm1 2.261 15 To speak the truth, even with some austerity...seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    OS 2.269 2 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which...constrains every one...to speak from his character and not from his tongue...
    OS 2.269 25 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it.
    OS 2.272 9 The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand.
    OS 2.272 17 ...to speak with levity of these limits [of time and space] is, in the world, the sign of insanity.
    OS 2.275 21 Speak to his heart, and the man becomes suddenly virtuous.
    OS 2.280 20 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence, and to speak with a worthier, loftier strain of that advent.
    OS 2.283 19 Never a moment did that sublime spirit [Jesus] speak in [men' s] patois.
    OS 2.286 10 ...your genius will speak from you, and mine from me.
    OS 2.287 14 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.287 25 ...if a man do not speak from within the veil...let him lowly confess it.
    Int 2.325 17 How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions...
    Int 2.342 24 ...if I speak, I define, I confine and am less.
    Int 2.342 27 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.
    Int 2.345 15 I will not...speak to the open question between Truth and Love.
    Int 2.347 10 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own...
    Art1 2.359 7 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Pt1 3.5 6 The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
    Pt1 3.8 27 ...we do not speak now of men of poetical talents...
    Pt1 3.18 4 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
    Pt1 3.41 19 God wills also [O poet]...that thou be content that others speak for thee.
    Exp 3.59 20 Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, Children, eat you victuals, and say no more of it.
    Exp 3.78 12 ...men never speak of crime as lightly as they think;...
    Chr1 3.109 22 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods, though they should speak without probable or necessary arguments.
    Chr1 3.110 23 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;--another, and he cannot speak...
    Mrs1 3.125 25 ...if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman...he is not to be feared.
    Mrs1 3.126 5 I use these old names [Diogenes, Socrates, Epaminondas], but the men I speak of are my contemporaries.
    Mrs1 3.132 6 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and speak or abstain...in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.132 24 ...any deference to some eminent man or woman of the world, forfeits all privilege of nobility. He is an underling...I will speak with his master.
    Mrs1 3.151 3 ...are there not women...who unloose our tongues and we speak;...
    Nat2 3.176 25 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess.
    Nat2 3.189 15 A man can only speak so long as he does not feel his speech to be partial and inadequate.
    Pol1 3.206 23 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do, either through the law or else in defiance of it. Of course I speak of all the property, not merely of the great estates.
    Pol1 3.221 21 ...there are now men,--if indeed I can speak in the plural number...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.226 13 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
    NR 3.228 24 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest...
    NR 3.235 22 I wish to speak with all respect of persons...
    NR 3.247 20 ...if we did not in any moment shift the platform on which we stand, and look and speak from another!...
    NER 3.266 1 All the men in the world cannot make a statue walk and speak...
    NER 3.268 3 We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man...
    UGM 4.7 9 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times...they do not speak to our want.
    UGM 4.11 1 We speak now only of our acquaintance with [the sciences] in their own sphere...
    UGM 4.12 1 ...all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason.
    UGM 4.29 5 We rightly speak of the guardian angels of children.
    PPh 4.45 23 As soon as [children] can speak and tell their want and the reason of it, they become gentle.
    PPh 4.48 7 Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to speak or to think without embracing both.
    PPh 4.57 23 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    PPh 4.73 12 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth...
    PPh 4.79 1 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys...
    SwM 4.133 17 All [Swedenborg's] figures speak one speech.
    SwM 4.136 1 I say, with the Spartan, Why do you speak so much to the purpose, of that which is nothing to the purpose?
    MoS 4.150 14 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
    MoS 4.151 16 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were already substantiated.
    ShP 4.199 10 Did the bard speak with authority?
    ShP 4.219 17 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler...who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration.
    NMW 4.226 22 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow...
    NMW 4.226 23 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow: and he did speak it, with much effect, at the next day's session.
    GoW 4.261 23 ...the round is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent.
    GoW 4.267 24 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.
    GoW 4.282 3 Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak.
    GoW 4.283 14 ...Goethe...does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    ET1 5.3 14 ...we could no longer speak aloud in the streets without being understood.
    ET1 5.11 17 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing, a man to whom he looked up,--no, to say that he looked up to him would be to speak falsely, but a man whom he looked at with so much interest,--should embrace such [Unitarian] views.
    ET1 5.15 21 Few were the objects and lonely the man [Carlyle]; not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore;...
    ET4 5.66 22 ...the Heimskringla has frequent occasion to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
    ET5 5.75 9 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;...
    ET5 5.90 2 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies...
    ET7 5.118 27 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments, alleging that in the French language one cannot speak without lying.
    ET7 5.120 20 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET7 5.125 6 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    ET7 5.126 4 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/...
    ET8 5.133 18 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present...
    ET8 5.136 6 ...[the English] do not speak to expectation.
    ET14 5.256 19 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law...
    ET19 5.310 23 I am...here...to speak of that which I am sure interests these gentlemen more than their own praises;...
    ET19 5.312 4 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these districts, that, on these very accounts I speak of, you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    F 6.25 26 ...we speak for Nature;...
    Wth 6.92 2 ...wise men...will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Wth 6.103 6 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Ctr 6.134 16 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit invincible by his culture...
    Ctr 6.156 7 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras; that nature may speak to the imagination...
    Bhr 6.174 9 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution to strangers not to speak loud;...
    Bhr 6.178 27 [Eyes] speak all languages.
    Bhr 6.190 11 How do [men] get this rapid knowledge, even before they speak, of each other's power and disposition?
    Bhr 6.193 1 It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet or speak or write to him;...
    Wsp 6.207 14 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum. We think and speak with more temperance and gradation,--but is not indifferentism as bad as superstition?
    Wsp 6.229 5 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you. Whilst your habit or whim chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait until that wise superior shall speak again.
    Wsp 6.238 10 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute. They speak to the ages...
    Bty 6.292 8 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize...
    Bty 6.293 22 ...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come by degrees.
    Bty 6.302 27 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
    Ill 6.322 27 Speak as you think, be what you are...
    SS 7.3 19 ...[my new friend] had one defect,--he could not speak in the tone of the people.
    SS 7.12 14 A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not facts enough to the purpose, and must decline its turn in the conversation. But they who speak have no more...
    Art2 7.48 25 [The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak...
    Art2 7.48 26 ...[the artist] is not to speak his own words, or do his own works, or think his own thoughts...
    Art2 7.52 7 ...[the ancient sculptures in Naples and Rome] surprise you with a moral admonition, as they speak of nothing around you...
    Elo1 7.59 7 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
    Elo1 7.61 2 It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters that whoever can speak can sing.
    Elo1 7.62 18 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
    Elo1 7.62 21 ...this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine...
    Elo1 7.79 8 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man.
    Elo1 7.79 20 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...men who, if they speak, are heard...
    Elo1 7.79 21 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...men who, if they speak, are heard, though they speak in a whisper...
    Elo1 7.83 16 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
    Elo1 7.84 5 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    Elo1 7.89 21 Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places. What will he say next? Let this man speak, and this man only.
    Farm 7.141 24 We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth...
    WD 7.159 7 Why need I speak of steam...
    WD 7.182 22 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
    Boks 7.192 5 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Boks 7.196 20 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
    Boks 7.198 9 Of Plato I hesitate to speak, lest there should be no end.
    Boks 7.203 13 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details...
    Boks 7.213 6 Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature.
    Clbs 7.226 17 Especially women use words that are not words...but reproduce the genius of that they speak of;...
    Clbs 7.228 2 The wish to speak to the want of another mind assists to clear your own.
    Clbs 7.249 17 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found...
    Cour 7.268 2 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    Cour 7.275 4 [The man with sacred courage] is free to speak truth;...
    Suc 7.297 19 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because...he loves books that speak to the imagination;...
    Suc 7.303 2 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge...
    OA 7.326 16 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who speak for him when he is silent...
    PI 8.9 12 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them.
    PI 8.12 6 God himself does not speak prose...
    PI 8.26 18 ...when we describe man as poet...we speak of the potential or ideal man...
    PI 8.39 2 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation... when the poet invents the fable, and invents the language which his heroes speak.
    PI 8.40 8 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle.
    PI 8.44 20 Ben Jonson told Drummond that Sidney did not keep a decorum in making every one speak as well as himself.
    PI 8.45 1 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;... moreover, they speak after their own characters, not ours;...
    PI 8.45 2 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;... they speak to us, and we listen with surprise to what they say.
    PI 8.50 25 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    PI 8.52 7 You shall not speak ideal truth in prose uncontradicted...
    PI 8.61 20 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you...
    PI 8.62 17 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak with me again...
    PI 8.65 4 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.
    PI 8.69 21 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe,--We, who speak the tongue/ That Shakspeare spake, the faith and manners hold/ Which Milton held./
    SA 8.89 9 Welfare requires...persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day...
    SA 8.92 21 Virtues speak to virtues...
    SA 8.99 17 ...in good conversation parties don't speak to the words, but to the meanings of each other.
    SA 8.102 4 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men, who speak so well...
    Elo2 8.110 5 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Elo2 8.117 5 [The orator] knew very well behorehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead, and therefore it was wise to speak.
    Elo2 8.117 25 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh, and eager to speak to the questions...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Elo2 8.118 2 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Elo2 8.122 17 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams] speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
    Elo2 8.126 3 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood...
    Elo2 8.130 1 Speak what you do know and believe;...
    Elo2 8.130 5 Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
    Comc 8.163 18 Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless they speak...
    QO 8.178 1 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come, which...shall speak to the imagination?
    PC 8.230 7 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
    PPo 8.247 6 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...which entitle the poet to speak with authority...are in Hafiz...
    PPo 8.254 4 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less repine./
    Grts 8.309 11 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power, so that not he, but mankind, seems to speak through his lips.
    Imtl 8.346 15 [Immortality] must be sacredly treated. Speak of the mount in the mount.
    Dem1 10.23 4 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who, though not gifted to speak when the people listen...relies on his instincts...
    Aris 10.56 25 When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by disputing his first words...
    Aris 10.63 24 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also. Then I shall not have forfeited my right to speak and act for mankind.
    PerF 10.87 21 ...we shrink to speak of [our moral sentiment] or to range ourselves by its side.
    Chr2 10.97 9 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    Chr2 10.97 10 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    Chr2 10.97 18 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.
    Chr2 10.98 7 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    Chr2 10.103 26 The [moral] sentiment...measures...whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.
    Chr2 10.108 22 ...the stern determination to do justly, to speak the truth... was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    Chr2 10.111 22 ...Behmen, George Fox,-these speak originally;...
    Edc1 10.141 13 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...teaches by practice the law of conversation, namely, to hear as well as to speak.
    Edc1 10.158 21 ...to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is committed to educate men.
    Supl 10.176 8 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...a ground...where they speak and think and do what they must....
    SovE 10.194 16 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he?
    Prch 10.224 16 Let [the torpid heart] speak, and all these rebels will fly to their loyalty.
    Prch 10.229 19 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Prch 10.232 19 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth... where we feel and speak so energetically of our country and our cause.
    Prch 10.235 8 Speak the affirmative;...
    Prch 10.235 25 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day...
    Schr 10.262 12 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which... gives us many twinges for our sloth and unfaithfulness:-the influence I speak of is of a higher strain.
    Schr 10.264 6 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar...
    Schr 10.281 27 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts. We will not speak for them...
    Schr 10.282 1 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts. We will not speak for them, because to speak for them seems so weak and hopeless.
    Schr 10.284 25 These questions [of life] speak to Genius...
    Plu 10.295 26 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write.
    Plu 10.305 12 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    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.
    LLNE 10.351 17 ...it is not to be doubted but that in the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
    SlHr 10.445 21 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison...
    Thor 10.460 18 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.460 25 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable. He replied,-I did not send to you for advice, but to announce that I am to speak.
    Thor 10.467 10 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river...
    Thor 10.470 2 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes...
    LS 11.11 2 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.
    HDC 11.52 5 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    HDC 11.66 27 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...
    EWI 11.100 1 In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any prejudice;...if one man cannot speak, ten others can;...
    EWI 11.100 5 ...by doing and by omitting to do, [emancipation] goes forward. Therefore I will speak,-or, not I, but the might of liberty in my weakness.
    EWI 11.100 16 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...
    EWI 11.133 20 It is so easy to omit to speak, or even to be absent when delicate things are to be handled.
    FSLC 11.178 13 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./
    FSLC 11.179 2 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...
    FSLC 11.198 19 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute, in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business...
    FSLC 11.203 10 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but, when expected and when pledged, he omitted to speak...
    FSLC 11.207 26 Is it impossible to speak of [abolition] with reason and good nature?
    FSLC 11.213 7 ...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic sections of this country as of equal civilization.
    FSLN 11.217 1 I do not often speak to public questions;...
    AKan 11.256 1 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate...speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.
    AKan 11.260 15 Can any citizen of Massachusetts travel in honor through Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
    JBB 11.268 13 ...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime courage.
    JBS 11.277 14 ...I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to...let [John Brown] speak for himself.
    TPar 11.285 15 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere...to those who speak with authority to their own times and therefore to ours.
    TPar 11.289 8 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...to speak tart truth...
    TPar 11.292 1 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always...because he sees that, whether he speak or refrain from speech, this is said over him;...
    ACiv 11.307 8 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not last;...because Slavery will again speak through [sensible Southerners] its harsh necessity.
    SMC 11.351 4 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...
    SMC 11.375 13 ...let me, in behalf of this assembly, speak directly to you, our defenders [veterans of the Civil War]...
    Koss 11.400 14 ...I speak the sense not only of every generous American, but the law of mind, when I say that it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who...think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    SHC 11.432 24 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed, to speak precisely, it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living.
    Shak1 11.448 2 We are all content to let Shakspeare speak for himself.
    CPL 11.502 17 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words...
    CPL 11.508 24 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
    FRep 11.518 21 We do not speak what we think...
    FRep 11.530 1 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...and that on such an organization sooner or later the moral laws must tell, to such ears must speak,-in this is our hope.
    FRep 11.535 24 The class of which I speak make themselves merry without duties.
    PLT 12.5 26 ...when I look at the tree or the river and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means unimpressive. I wait for them, I enjoy them before they yet speak.
    PLT 12.8 7 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject: Does the gentleman speak of anatomy? Who peeped into a box at the Custom House and then published a drawing of my rat?
    PLT 12.15 3 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect]...
    PLT 12.36 3 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...refusing to speak...
    PLT 12.46 25 All men know the truth, but what of that? It is rare to find one who knows how to speak it.
    PLT 12.46 26 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is like the hiss of a snake...
    PLT 12.49 22 ...I speak of [Talent] in quite another sense, namely, in the habitual speed of combination of thought.
    II 12.78 20 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
    II 12.79 7 ...you shall not speak of any work of art except in its presence;...
    II 12.79 10 It is not less the rule of this kingdom [of thought] that you shall not speak of the mount except on the mount;...
    II 12.84 16 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene...
    II 12.87 6 I will speak the truth in my heart...
    II 12.87 12 Obedience to its genius (to speak a little scholastically) is the particular of faith;...
    Mem 12.102 14 ...I suppose I speak the sense of most thoughtful men when I say, I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    CL 12.166 26 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must...have manners that speak of reality and great elements...
    Bost 12.188 20 I do not speak with any fondness, but with the language of coldest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
    Bost 12.200 18 ...a gold-mine, a new country, speak to the imagination...
    MAng1 12.240 24 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
    MAng1 12.243 14 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. Do you see that statue of Saint George? Michael Angelo asked it why it did not speak.
    Milt1 12.250 25 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself.
    Milt1 12.255 9 Of the upper world of man's being [Bacon's Essays] speak few and faint words.
    Milt1 12.262 9 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.276 16 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    ACri 12.284 11 This [national] style is probably to be sought...among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
    ACri 12.285 3 ...Goethe said, Poetry here, poetry there, I have learned to speak German.
    ACri 12.286 25 Speak with the vulgar, think with the wise.
    ACri 12.287 1 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.
    ACri 12.287 27 The sans-culottes at Versailles cried out, Let our little Mother Mirabeau speak!
    ACri 12.297 4 We have an artist [Carlyle] who in this merit of which I speak [mastery of the low style] will easily cope with these celebrities.
    ACri 12.300 11 The world, history, the powers of Nature,-[the poet] can make them speak what sense he will.
    ACri 12.303 4 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?
    MLit 12.327 7 ...in the court and law to which we ordinarily speak...we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...
    Let 12.393 8 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we... must speak on a priori grounds.
    Let 12.394 10 [The correspondents] want a friend to whom they can speak...

speaker, n. (36)

    AmS 1.98 8 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived...
    MN 1.209 13 I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind, and unable to turn his head and see the speaker.
    Hsm1 2.245 15 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is so earnest and cordial...that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    Cir 2.305 2 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker.
    Cir 2.305 3 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker.
    Cir 2.310 22 When each new speaker [in a conversation] strikes a new light...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    Cir 2.310 24 When each new speaker [in a conversation]...emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    Cir 2.311 23 The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer.
    Pt1 3.22 3 ...each word...obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer.
    Pt1 3.26 11 The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?
    Chr1 3.91 12 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    NR 3.247 15 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside by the same speaker, as morbid;...
    UGM 4.31 14 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and great benefit it is to each speaker...
    ET9 5.148 27 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
    Elo1 7.66 17 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens...
    Elo1 7.67 13 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    Elo1 7.83 1 This balance between the orator and the audience is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker.
    Elo1 7.84 13 ...the occasion always yields to the eminence of the speaker;...
    Elo1 7.92 21 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Elo1 7.94 6 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...
    DL 7.120 20 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement...of the discourse of a well-known speaker, with the expense of the entertainment;...
    Clbs 7.226 24 ...opinion native to the speaker is sweet and refreshing...
    Clbs 7.237 1 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree of shortcoming...yet the existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.
    OA 7.315 12 The character of the speaker [Josiah Quincy]...gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    Elo2 8.115 27 I must feel that the speaker compromises himself to his auditory...
    Elo2 8.118 20 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly...
    Elo2 8.120 22 Every one of us has at some time...perhaps been repelled once for all by a harsh, mechanical speaker.
    Elo2 8.121 13 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor;...
    Imtl 8.350 7 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death, that it is not easy to understand it, there is no other speaker to be found like thee.
    LLNE 10.326 21 The public speaker disclaims speaking for any other;...
    Thor 10.457 19 [Thoreau] was a speaker and actor of the truth...
    HDC 11.63 6 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.
    War 11.156 7 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue...
    AsSu 11.251 1 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever lived.
    TPar 11.291 1 ...whilst I praise this frank speaker [Theodore Parker], I have no wish to accuse the silence of others.
    Milt1 12.270 1 My mother bore me, [Milton] said, a speaker of what God made mine own, and not a translator.

Speaker, n. (1)

    Pow 6.76 16 The good Speaker in the House is not the man who knows the theory of parliamentary tactics, but the man who decides off-hand.

speakers, n. (22)

    DSA 1.147 19 There are persons who are...not speakers, but influences;...
    Hist 2.32 16 Every animal...has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    Exp 3.47 26 There are even few opinions, and these seem organic in the speakers...
    Mrs1 3.148 21 In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle...
    NR 3.226 9 Each of the speakers [in a debate] expresses himself imperfectly;...
    NR 3.229 7 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers...
    PPh 4.73 7 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine speakers...
    ET5 5.100 10 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;...
    Pow 6.78 5 All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
    Pow 6.78 6 All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
    Elo1 7.68 26 Our Southern people are almost all speakers...
    Elo1 7.82 6 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
    Elo2 8.114 21 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say, and so makes all other speakers appear little and cowardly before his face.
    QO 8.197 5 You have had the like experience in conversation: the wit was in what you heard, not in what the speakers said.
    QO 8.197 7 Our best thought came from others. We heard in their words a deeper sense than the speakers put into them...
    QO 8.199 8 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed...sleeping again, he saw and heard the speakers as before...
    Supl 10.167 16 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian, and infers weakness and inconsequence of character in speakers who use it.
    CSC 10.374 4 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention], and the remarks of the principal speakers.
    CSC 10.375 19 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention];...
    EzRy 10.392 6 ...often...[Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous, draggle-tail periods of other speakers.
    War 11.156 6 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity.
    II 12.78 22 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...

speaker's, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.94 11 ...a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a loss of attraction.
    Elo2 8.120 17 The voice...soon indicates what is the range of the speaker's mind.

speakest, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.179 23 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.

speaketh, v. (4)

    DSA 1.144 18 It is the office of a true teacher to show us...that [God] speaketh, not spake.
    SR 2.65 26 It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things;...
    OS 2.294 20 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door...
    Wom 11.403 4 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./

speaking, adj. (4)

    MN 1.218 22 Nature is a mute, and man, her articulate, speaking brother, lo! he also is a mute.
    Int 2.342 19 Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
    ET4 5.47 17 The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue...
    Art2 7.52 18 Painting was called silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.

speaking, n. (8)

    SL 2.141 27 It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment.
    ET8 5.128 26 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons...
    Elo1 7.68 6 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which...makes all safe and secure, so that any and every sort of good speaking becomes at once practicable.
    Elo1 7.75 9 These kinds of public and private speaking have their use and convenience to the practitioners;...
    Grts 8.309 2 ...in all public speaking, the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,-when these shine and burn in his address;...
    Plu 10.306 4 The plain speaking of Plutarch...has a great gain for brevity...
    CSC 10.376 1 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    Carl 10.491 26 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters, and stop all manner of mischievous speaking to Buncombe, and wind-bags.

speaking, v. (61)

    Nat 1.4 25 Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    DSA 1.127 2 Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
    Tran 1.330 20 The idealist, in speaking of events, sees them as spirits.
    Tran 1.359 8 ...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.376 7 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of consequence in this empire but he with whom I am actually speaking;...
    YA 1.376 8 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of consequence in this empire but he with whom I am actually speaking; and so long only as I am speaking to him is he of any consequence.
    SR 2.70 1 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking.
    SR 2.72 20 ...let us...wake...courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done in our smooth times by speaking the truth.
    Fdsp 2.203 14 No man would think of speaking falsely with [a man I knew]...
    OS 2.275 18 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    OS 2.295 27 We not only affirm that we have few great men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none;...
    Int 2.342 18 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth. He shall then know that there is somewhat more blessed and great in hearing than in speaking.
    Exp 3.79 6 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect.
    NER 3.273 19 It is a foolish cowardice which keeps us from trusting [men] and speaking to them rude truth.
    SwM 4.127 23 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...
    SwM 4.140 12 Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes...
    MoS 4.169 10 In speaking of [Socrates], for once [Montaigne's] cheek flushes and his style rises to passion.
    NMW 4.231 27 Again [Bonaparte] said, speaking of his son, My son can not replace me; I could not replace myself.
    ET3 5.43 25 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world. This light they derive from the liberty of speaking and writing, and thereby of thinking.
    ET9 5.149 17 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    ET12 5.207 12 [The Englishman]...is indisposed from writing or speaking, by the fulness of his mind...
    ET15 5.270 16 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    ET16 5.275 3 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English...
    ET17 5.295 10 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    F 6.26 3 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am immortal;...
    Ctr 6.158 11 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis.
    Bhr 6.176 2 When [the old Massachusetts statesman] sat down, after speaking, he seemed in a sort of fit...
    Art2 7.49 3 In speaking of the useful arts, I pointed to the fact that we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
    Elo1 7.76 1 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...has a talent for speaking.
    Elo1 7.82 5 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
    WD 7.179 7 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.
    WD 7.182 24 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
    Suc 7.286 9 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which had one merit, of speaking to the universal heart...
    Suc 7.301 15 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    OA 7.316 6 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
    PI 8.19 19 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in speaking to the Father and to matter;...
    PI 8.27 3 ...poetry is...the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal...
    PI 8.51 26 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
    SA 8.89 25 One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
    SA 8.96 14 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence.
    Grts 8.308 17 This necessity...of speaking your private thought and experience, few young men apprehend.
    Dem1 10.16 18 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one.
    Edc1 10.126 3 Humanly speaking, the school, the college, society, make the difference between men.
    Supl 10.167 4 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...speaking of him in a circle of his admirers, said...I believe him capable of virtue.
    LLNE 10.326 22 The public speaker disclaims speaking for any other;...
    LLNE 10.333 26 [Everett]...speaking, walking, sitting, was as much aloof and uncommon as a star.
    MMEm 10.414 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by the rich autumn landscape around her...
    Thor 10.452 7 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies...though as yet never speaking of zoology or botany...
    Carl 10.497 26 This aplomb [of Carlyle] cannot be mimicked; it is the speaking to the heart of the thing.
    HDC 11.31 9 Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent...
    HDC 11.48 1 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant being hindered from speaking...
    LVB 11.93 1 In speaking thus the sentiments of my neighbors and my own, perhaps I overstep the bounds of decorum.
    EWI 11.136 7 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America...
    TPar 11.291 6 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking.
    EdAd 11.385 26 We hearken in vain for any profound voice speaking to the American heart...
    RBur 11.442 12 [Burns] grew up in a rural district, speaking a patois unintelligible to all but natives...
    PLT 12.30 17 Absolutely speaking, I can only work for myself.
    PLT 12.40 25 ...a thought, properly speaking...is of inestimable value.
    II 12.84 19 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say. When you have done speaking, he returns to his private music.
    MLit 12.335 17 What...shall hinder the Genius of the time from speaking its thought?
    WSL 12.338 6 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of great downrightness in speaking the truth...

speaking-point, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.61 19 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point...

speaking-trumpets, n. (1)

    LT 1.288 12 Over all [the sailors'] speaking-trumpets, the gray sea and the loud winds answer, Not in us; not in Time.

speaks, v. (80)

    Nat 1.1 4 The eye reads omens where it goes,/ And speaks all languages the rose;/...
    Nat 1.53 6 [Shakspeare's] passion...swells, as he speaks, to a city...
    Nat 1.61 13 [Nature] always speaks of Spirit.
    Nat 1.62 10 [Nature] is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual...
    AmS 1.103 12 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks...
    DSA 1.129 3 [Jesus] said...Through me, God acts; through me, speaks.
    DSA 1.135 6 The man...through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach.
    DSA 1.142 8 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline to make it know...the divinity that speaks through it.
    LE 1.165 15 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature; he has only to open his mouth, and it speaks;...
    MN 1.209 18 That well-known voice speaks in all languages...and none ever caught a glimpse of its form.
    MN 1.219 3 Genius...advertises us...that it knows so deeply and speaks so musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.
    Tran 1.333 16 ...when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Tran 1.358 22 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...
    SL 2.156 23 When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens.
    SL 2.156 25 When [a man] has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
    Hsm1. 2.252 3 [Heroism] speaks the truth...
    OS 2.269 23 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part.
    OS 2.287 20 Jesus speaks always from within...
    OS 2.296 12 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it.
    Int 2.342 26 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.
    Int 2.343 2 [Socrates] likewise defers to [Lysis and Menexenus], loves them, whilst he speaks.
    Art1 2.365 9 The sweetest music is...in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
    Pt1 3.21 16 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.
    Pt1 3.27 3 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly...
    Pt1 3.27 4 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly...
    Pt1 3.31 10 ...Orpheus speaks of hoariness as that white flower which marks extreme old age;...
    Exp 3.58 6 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
    Nat2 3.196 17 Man imprisoned, man crystallized, man vegetative, speaks to man impersonated.
    Pol1 3.201 3 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering. It speaks not articulately, and must be made to.
    ShP 4.198 23 The learned member of the legislature, at Westminster or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands.
    ET3 5.34 12 The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
    ET6 5.104 6 The Englishman speaks with all his body.
    ET9 5.151 3 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
    ET10 5.154 2 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks, in reference to a private and scholastic life, of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET15 5.268 9 [The London Times] speaks out bluff and bold...
    ET15 5.269 15 There is an air of freedom even in [the London Times's] advertising columns, which speaks well for England to a foreigner.
    Ctr 6.150 21 ...[the man of the world]...speaks in monosyllables...
    Bhr 6.182 14 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bty 6.303 12 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
    Bty 6.303 23 Every natural feature...speaks of that central benefit which is the soul of nature...
    Art2 7.37 22 The man not only thinks, but speaks and acts.
    Art2 7.47 25 Nature...speaks the best part of the oration.
    Elo1 7.93 24 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it...speaks only through the most poetic forms;...
    Elo1 7.94 16 ...whilst [the preacher] speaks things, I feel that he is touching some of my relations, and I am uneasy;...
    Suc 7.292 1 ...it is rare to find a man...who speaks that which he was created to say.
    OA 7.317 16 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days, speaks articulately to those who discover him...
    OA 7.334 25 [John Adams] speaks very distinctly for so old a man...
    PI 8.26 8 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
    PI 8.31 13 ...[the amateur] speaks with his lips and the [poet] with a chest voice.
    Elo2 8.113 14 Whether he speaks in the Capitol or on a cart, [the orator] is the benefactor that lifts men above themselves...
    Elo2 8.114 18 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say...
    Elo2 8.131 6 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    QO 8.202 5 ...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    PC 8.224 22 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand, its laws to his science, not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    PPo 8.250 27 In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds...it speaks to the intelligent;...
    Chr2 10.94 15 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will...
    SovE 10.200 18 It seems as if, when the Spirit of God speaks so plainly to each soul, it were an impiety to be listening to one or another saint.
    Plu 10.304 18 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl...continues her voice a thousand years through the favor of the Divinity that speaks within her.
    Plu 10.315 22 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had been chopped off.
    LLNE 10.344 22 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.
    MMEm 10.411 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths...
    Carl 10.494 8 ...a lover who will live and die for that which he speaks for... [Carlyle] respects;...
    HDC 11.63 11 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect.
    FSLN 11.218 1 ...every man speaks mainly to a class whom he works with and more or less fully represents.
    FSLN 11.223 11 What gratitude does every man feel to him who speaks well for the right...
    AKan 11.255 7 Mr. Whitman is not here; but knowing, as we all do, why he is not, what duties kept him at home he is more than present. His vacant chair speaks for him.
    TPar 11.284 4 ...Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...
    ACiv 11.310 21 [Lincoln] speaks his own thought in his own style.
    Shak1 11.451 19 How good and sound and inviolable [Shakespeare's] innocency, that...speaks the pure sense of humanity on each occasion.
    FRO2 11.486 6 ...the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the Universe was made;...
    PLT 12.28 20 [Nature] is immensely rich; [man] is welcome to her entire goods, but she speaks no word...
    PLT 12.28 24 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint and uses her goods she speaks no word;...
    PLT 12.53 16 When [a man] speaks out of another's mind, we detect it.
    CInt 12.127 22 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius, which only speaks truth...
    CL 12.163 26 Nature speaks to the imagination;...
    MAng1 12.237 12 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...
    Milt1 12.250 27 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself. The voice of the mob is silent, and Milton speaks.
    MLit 12.316 12 The water we wash with never speaks of itself...
    WSL 12.337 9 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach, he speaks quick and strong;...
    WSL 12.347 18 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.

spear, n. (3)

    SR 2.84 23 What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander, whose property is...a spear...
    PPo 8.242 19 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance of the King of Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a spear.
    PPo 8.251 15 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./

spears, n. (1)

    Nat 1.20 24 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?

special, adj. (48)

    Nat 1.9 20 Crossing a bare common...without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    Nat 1.34 9 Can such things be,/ And overcome us like a summer's cloud,/ Without our special wonder?/
    LE 1.164 18 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray, as well as of the special skills it has already acquired.
    MN 1.191 9 No matter what is their special work or profession, [the scholars] stand for the spiritual interest of the world...
    MN 1.214 21 He who aims at progress should aim at an infinite, not at a special benefit.
    MR 1.256 9 There is a sublime prudence...which...postpones talent to genius, and special results to character.
    LT 1.269 17 ...[modern reform movements] not only check the special abuses...
    LT 1.277 4 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods...all exaggerated some special means...
    OS 2.276 3 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
    Art1 2.358 20 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Exp 3.57 8 ...each [man] has his special talent...
    Mrs1 3.139 17 Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts...
    NER 3.263 3 When we see...a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue?
    UGM 4.20 1 I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class.
    ET11 5.184 5 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that...men of rank were sworn special constables with the rest.
    ET14 5.240 7 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
    ET15 5.264 9 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...
    ET15 5.266 15 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr. Bailey, have contributed to its renown in their special departments.
    ET17 5.296 5 ...[Wordsworth's] conversation was not marked by special force or elevation.
    Pow 6.79 2 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience...
    Wth 6.90 13 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence, and in its special modification, pecuniary independence.
    Wth 6.112 11 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent. And to save on this point were to neutralize the special strength and helpfulness of each mind.
    Ctr 6.154 19 'T is a superstition to insist on a special diet.
    Bhr 6.196 12 Special precepts are not to be thought of;...
    Elo1 7.74 19 It requires no special insight to edit one of our country newspapers.
    Elo1 7.85 6 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration.
    Suc 7.291 24 ...[every man] is to dare...not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be. To do otherwise is to neutralize all those extraordinary special talents distributed among men.
    Elo2 8.117 11 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    Imtl 8.331 4 ...what is called great and powerful life...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
    Aris 10.57 18 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    PerF 10.81 10 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
    Chr2 10.92 25 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice. All the virtues are special directions of this motive;...
    Chr2 10.93 13 Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each individual;...
    LLNE 10.331 26 [Everett] had a good deal of special learning...
    LLNE 10.369 25 If I have owed much to the special influences I have indicated, I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    SlHr 10.439 13 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    Thor 10.481 14 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard...
    EWI 11.99 15 I might well hesitate...without the smallest claim to be a special laborer in this work of humanity, to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    EdAd 11.390 27 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time...
    PLT 12.9 18 We must have a special talent, and bring something to pass.
    CInt 12.120 6 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...not an ingenious special pleading...
    CInt 12.128 8 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage from the centre forth...along the intellectual roads to the theory and practice of special science.
    CW 12.179 10 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...
    Bost 12.184 21 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
    ACri 12.299 17 I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...
    AgMs 12.363 23 In this strain the Farmer [Edmund Hosmer] proceeded, adding many special criticisms.
    EurB 12.372 22 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia, of which no special merit it can possess equals the total merit of having selected such a subject in such a spirit.
    PPr 12.385 20 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.

specially, adv. (15)

    Tran 1.358 14 ...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...
    Cir 2.313 17 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    Pol1 3.218 15 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth...
    PNR 4.83 17 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 the doctrine, what comes from God to us, returns from us to God...
    NMW 4.227 27 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means.
    Ctr 6.143 26 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power, which it is [the boy's] main business to learn;--riding, specially...
    Wsp 6.241 4 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions. Our times are impatient of both, and specially of the last.
    Elo1 7.71 13 Homer specially delighted in drawing the same figure [of the orator].
    Suc 7.303 21 ...what is specially true of love is that it is a state of extreme impressionability;...
    Dem1 10.3 6 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him.
    Dem1 10.18 2 ...[the demonaical property] stands specially in wonderful relations with men...
    Dem1 10.22 3 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
    Plu 10.298 5 ...what specially marks him, [Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals.
    SlHr 10.448 16 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of...the cause of Education, and specially of the University...
    AgMs 12.360 13 ...every man has one thing which he specially wishes to say...

specialties, n. (2)

    OS 2.274 12 [The soul] has no dates...nor specialties nor men.
    FRO1 11.477 21 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...whatever their specialties...to unite in a movement of benefit to men...

specialty, n. (5)

    Con 1.302 25 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself in driving to the utmost some specialty of right conduct...
    ET10 5.167 12 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty;...
    Ctr 6.134 25 Our student must...be a master in his own specialty.
    SS 7.6 8 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...
    Grts 8.307 5 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him, while it makes him more important and necessary to society. We call this specialty the bias of each individual.

species, n. (21)

    MN 1.216 24 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    MR 1.238 5 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies...
    Hist 2.13 16 Genius detects...through countless individuals the fixed species;...
    Hist 2.13 17 Genius detects...through many species the genus;...
    Mrs1 3.142 25 The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of derision on what we say.
    PPh 4.50 7 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...unconnected with unrealities, with name, species and the rest...
    NMW 4.244 25 ...every species of merit was sought and advanced under [Napoleon's] government.
    ET6 5.104 11 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his chop and every species of convenience...
    ET11 5.195 1 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation...
    F 6.8 3 Without...counting how many species of parasites hang on a bombyx...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Ctr 6.134 7 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...
    DL 7.106 15 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys, and with a pleasing terror he watches at his gate for the passing of those varieties of each species.
    Boks 7.211 5 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist...
    OA 7.329 14 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty.
    PI 8.23 13 Good poetry...heightens every species of force in Nature...
    Res 8.152 11 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    Comc 8.157 2 A taste for fun is all but universal in our species...
    Dem1 10.7 7 ...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];...
    CL 12.145 26 [The pear] accepts every species of nourishment...
    MLit 12.310 20 [The library of the Present Age] can hardly be characterized by any species of book...
    WSL 12.342 27 It is vain to call [the literary spirit] a luxury, and as saints and reformers are apt to do, decry it as a species of day-dreaming.

specific, adj. (7)

    Hist 2.33 18 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.
    Comp 2.103 9 The specific stripes may follow late after the offence...
    SL 2.154 26 The permanence of all books is fixed...by their own specific gravity...
    OS 2.275 11 This is the law of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues.
    ET14 5.248 16 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it by specific gravity or levity...
    War 11.152 23 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war]...shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the place its specific gravity assigns it.
    PPr 12.388 1 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].

specific, n. (3)

    NER 3.265 10 ...to [the men of less faith], concert appears the sole specific of strength.
    NER 3.265 25 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him. Thus concert was the specific in all cases.
    War 11.170 6 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms,-the universal specific of modern politics;...

specifications, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.104 6 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look very short.

specified, adj. (1)

    MN 1.215 11 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...

specified, v. (1)

    Art2 7.44 24 There is a still larger deduction to be made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified.

specifies, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.161 24 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./

specify, v. (3)

    Nat 1.39 22 Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature, we must not omit to specify two.
    UGM 4.23 23 ...I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service.
    GoW 4.277 19 ...I cannot omit to specify [Goethe's] Wilhelm Meister.

specifying, v. (2)

    Nat 1.14 12 ...there is no need of specifying particulars in this class of uses [of the useful arts].
    LS 11.9 17 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony, specifying the twelve great works done by God for the deliverance of their fathers out of Egypt.

specimen, n. (11)

    MN 1.202 12 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...
    Pol1 3.209 17 The vice of our leading parties in this country (which may be cited as a fair specimen of these societies of opinion) is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
    ShP 4.199 26 Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language.
    ET16 5.284 14 [Wilton Hall]...is esteemed a noble specimen of the English manor-hall.
    Boks 7.211 15 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
    PI 8.58 3 A favorable specimen is Taliessin's Invocation of the Wind at the door of Castle Teganwy...
    MMEm 10.407 2 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius.
    MMEm 10.407 7 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
    Thor 10.467 9 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of...in...the specimen of a squirrel or a bird in brandy.
    JBS 11.279 4 [John Brown] grew up...a fair specimen of the best stock of New England;...
    EurB 12.376 7 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...

specimens, n. (9)

    Mrs1 3.148 1 ...although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage [of the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe], in particulars we should detect offence.
    Elo2 8.125 21 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at Charlestown, one at Gettysburg--in the two best specimens of eloquence we have had in this country.
    PPo 8.237 5 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets...
    PPo 8.243 20 Take, as specimens of these [Persian] gnomic verses, the following...
    PPo 8.261 16 We add to these fragments of Hafiz a few specimens from other poets.
    LLNE 10.339 11 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
    EWI 11.141 2 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
    EurB 12.372 21 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia...
    PPr 12.389 26 We have in literature few specimens of magnificence.

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