Speck to Spiridion

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

speck, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.210 6 What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches that...now have perished away till they are a speck of whitewash on the wall?

speckled, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.10 12 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...

specks, n. (1)

    Ill 6.310 22 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.

spectacle, n. (25)

    Nat 1.17 2 I see the spectacle of morning...with emotions which an angel might share.
    Nat 1.51 16 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle...
    Nat 1.51 20 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that whilst the world is a spectacle, something in himself is stable.
    AmS 1.85 3 The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle [of nature] most engages.
    YA 1.380 17 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth...
    SR 2.53 5 My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
    Fdsp 2.209 15 Treat your friend as a spectacle.
    OS 2.269 14 ...the seer and the spectacle...are one.
    Art1 2.351 16 ...the same power which sees through [the painter's] eyes is seen in that spectacle [of nature];...
    Chr1 3.93 3 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...for the intellectual pastime which the spectacle of so much ability affords.
    SwM 4.146 3 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
    MoS 4.161 13 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own;...
    ET1 5.14 18 As I might have foreseen, the visit [with Coleridge] was rather a spectacle than a conversation...
    Bhr 6.195 2 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners!
    Cour 7.256 20 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
    Insp 8.288 8 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples,-so sudden, so slight, so spiritual, that it was more like the rippling of the Aurora Borealis at night than any spectacle of day.
    PerF 10.75 22 [Labor] is...in every spectacle, in odors, in flavors...
    Edc1 10.138 12 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies.
    EWI 11.127 17 It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful people [the English].
    HCom 11.341 7 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    PLT 12.24 3 ...the spectacle of vigor of any kind...wonderfully arms and recruits us.
    CL 12.154 5 The seeing so excellent a spectacle [as the sea] is a certificate to the mind that all imaginable good shall yet be realized.
    MAng1 12.216 22 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not...the great spectacle of morn and evening which shut and open the most disastrous day, want observers.
    MAng1 12.231 9 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
    MLit 12.325 7 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the amphitheatre, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street;...

spectacles, n. (7)

    Pt1 3.18 9 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
    Mrs1 3.135 19 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
    ET7 5.120 7 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures, but only games, fireworks and spectacles,--no prosperity could support it;...
    Ctr 6.149 24 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed...to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    WD 7.169 21 ...a thousand spectacles [the variable wind] brings...
    OA 7.316 10 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in the...wig, spectacles and padded chair of Age.
    Dem1 10.13 4 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed in...spectacles we see not...

spectant, v. (1)

    PC 8.225 24 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

spectator, n. (11)

    MN 1.218 11 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator...
    OS 2.268 14 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I...not a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water;...
    CbW 6.246 4 The judge...hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community; but is only an advocate after all. And so is all life a timid and unskilful spectator.
    Elo1 7.86 21 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Cour 7.268 14 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry, each cheering the mind of the spectator or receiver as by true strokes of genius...
    Cour 7.269 8 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.
    PI 8.42 14 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending...from the part of a spectator to the part of a maker.
    Comc 8.161 14 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy the joke. At the same time he is to that degree under the Reason that it does not amuse him as much as it amuses another spectator.
    Aris 10.47 4 ...while each [exerts his faculty], he excludes hard thoughts from the spectator.
    MMEm 10.425 3 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    Trag 12.416 23 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune, and so converts the sufferer into a spectator and his pain into poetry.

spectators, n. (8)

    LT 1.266 20 ...we are not permitted to stand as spectators of the pageant which the times exhibit;...
    OS 2.287 16 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without, as spectators merely...
    Mrs1 3.152 14 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    ShP 4.193 18 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way. We have few readers, many spectators and hearers.
    Elo1 7.73 7 ...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.
    Boks 7.210 20 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air; the spectators stood dumb, when the hammer fell.
    Suc 7.293 5 [Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing prematurely to a showy feat that shall...satisfy spectators.
    Dem1 10.27 3 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where...the actors and spectators have no conscience or reflection...

spectral, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.137 24 The snow-storm was real, the preacher merely spectral...
    Exp 3.43 8 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the inventor of the game/ Omnipresent without name;--/...
    PI 8.50 26 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.
    Dem1 10.4 15 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...

spectre, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.238 16 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night...

spectres, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.213 24 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims...before whom the vulgar great show as spectres and shadows merely.
    Prch 10.222 4 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation? To him, it is no creation; to him, these fair creatures are hapless spectres...
    Plu 10.300 26 ...twilights, shadows, omens and spectres have a charm for [Plutarch].

spectroscope, n. (3)

    WD 7.158 8 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived...
    PC 8.208 7 Who does not prefer the age...of coal, petroleum, cotton, steam, electricity, and the spectroscope?
    Grts 8.305 13 Others find a charm...in the elements of which the whole world is made. These lately have stimulus to their study through the extraordinary revelations of the spectroscope that the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.

spectrum, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.146 23 ...the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
    Mrs1 3.146 24 ...the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

speculate, v. (6)

    AmS 1.94 11 The so-called practical men sneer at speculative men, as if, because they speculate or see, they could do nothing.
    AmS 1.96 10 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in the air. Not so...with the business which we now have in hand. On this we are quite unable to speculate.
    Exp 3.79 13 Saints are sad, because they behold sin (even when they speculate) from the point of view of the conscience...
    MoS 4.180 25 [Some minds] may well give themselves leave to speculate, for they are secure of a return.
    ET4 5.54 3 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions...
    F 6.3 16 'T is fine for us to speculate and elect our course...

speculating, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.114 23 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade,--philosophy speculating on its own breath, taste, learning and all...

speculation, n. (22)

    LT 1.275 16 See how daring is the reading, the speculation, the experimenting of the time.
    Pt1 3.14 11 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place...
    NER 3.260 8 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...
    PPh 4.39 10 There was never such range of speculation [as in Plato].
    PPh 4.51 7 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
    PPh 4.52 9 A too rapid unification, and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars, are the twin dangers of speculation.
    PNR 4.86 15 [Plato] has indicated every eminent point in speculation.
    SwM 4.102 23 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation...almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    MoS 4.162 6 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    NMW 4.249 19 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
    GoW 4.273 8 There is a heart-cheering freedom in [Goethe's] speculation.
    ET14 5.243 15 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels; the loss of wings; no high speculation.
    ET18 5.306 10 [The English] are right in their feeling, though wrong in their speculation.
    F 6.12 27 I find the coincidence of the extremes of Eastern and Western speculation in the daring statement of Schelling...
    F 6.45 15 If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will run...into his speculation...
    Imtl 8.344 22 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real. Here is the emphasis of conscience and experience; this is no speculation, but the most practical of doctrines.
    EzRy 10.393 13 ...with states of enthusiasm or enlarged speculation, [Ezra Ripley] had no sympathy...
    War 11.165 2 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    AsSu 11.250 13 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness... nor speculation...
    PLT 12.48 14 There is some incompatibility of good speculation and practice...
    MLit 12.312 15 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn...
    Let 12.402 25 ...speculation is no succedaneum for life.

speculations, n. (5)

    SL 2.132 7 No man need be perplexed in his speculations.
    NER 3.267 21 ...the speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
    SwM 4.136 18 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    ET14 5.241 11 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
    Let 12.392 14 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.

speculative, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.4 15 ...speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous.
    Nat 1.59 27 [The ideal theory] is...the view which Reason, both speculative and practical...take.
    AmS 1.94 10 The so-called practical men sneer at speculative men...
    MR 1.229 1 What if some of the objections whereby our institutions are assailed are extreme and speculative...
    Tran 1.355 16 ...we are tempted to smile, and we flee from the working to the speculative reformer, to escape that same slight ridicule.
    SR 2.77 8 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...in their speculative views.
    SwM 4.123 24 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...a theoretic or speculative man, but whom no practical man in the universe could affect to scorn.
    ShP 4.204 11 It was not until the nineteenth century, whose speculative genius is a sort of living Hamlet, that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    GoW 4.264 17 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar.
    GoW 4.267 20 ...in...actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    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 4.268 2 That man seeth, who seeth that the speculative and the practical doctrines are one [say the Hindoos].
    GoW 4.268 12 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class...have too much sympathy with the speculative class.
    ET14 5.241 3 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    Wth 6.94 6 This speculative genius is the madness of a few for the gain of the world.
    Aris 10.39 21 I wish...men...who would find their fellows in persons of real elevation of whatever kind of speculative or practical ability.
    Schr 10.274 1 The speculative man, the scholar, is the right hero.
    EzRy 10.395 3 Not speculative, but affectionate;...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...

speculators, n. (6)

    LT 1.285 10 ...I own I like the speculators best.
    Wth 6.94 11 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators as hot as he.
    Farm 7.140 2 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man; not by scheming speculators...
    SlHr 10.446 20 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar] .Yet when politicians or speculators approached him, these memories left no scar;...
    CL 12.135 6 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors.
    CL 12.159 24 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad...

sped, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.172 5 What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment [of love]?
    UGM 4.21 20 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs: they are sped, but so is the day.
    LLNE 10.345 25 ...we were curious to know how [the pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor...

Speech, English, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.194 17 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].

speech, n. (214)

    Nat 1.32 13 Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    Nat 1.32 25 Parts of speech are metaphors...
    AmS 1.94 17 I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men [the clergy] do not hear, but only a mincing and diluted speech.
    AmS 1.95 13 I...take my place in the ring...taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.
    AmS 1.98 10 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech.
    AmS 1.101 9 Long [the scholar] must stammer in his speech;...
    DSA 1.121 27 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    DSA 1.150 25 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching, - the speech of man to men...
    LE 1.166 8 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    LE 1.166 11 Presently [the listener's] own emotion rises to his lips, and overflows in speech.
    MN 1.218 23 ...when Genius arrives, its speech is like a river;...
    LT 1.265 23 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear; men...of persuasive speech;...
    LT 1.272 10 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching...that term where speech becomes silence...
    Tran 1.346 24 There is no compliment, no smooth speech with [youths];...
    Tran 1.359 18 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim by silence as well as by speech...shall abide in beauty and strength...
    Hist 2.25 10 Throughout [Xenophon's] army exists a boundless liberty of speech.
    SL 2.140 7 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.152 23 ...a public oration is...not a speech...
    Fdsp 2.191 14 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...
    Hsm1 2.250 1 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech...
    Hsm1 2.262 16 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob, for the rights of free speech and opinion...
    OS 2.270 1 Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind.
    OS 2.273 20 In common speech we refer all things to time...
    OS 2.275 27 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands...speech and poetry...
    OS 2.286 23 If [a man] have not found his home in God...his forms of speech...will involuntarily confess it...
    Cir 2.307 21 Rich, noble and great [persons called high and worthy] are by the liberality of our speech...
    Int 2.346 25 Well assured that their speech is intelligible...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
    Art1 2.352 9 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is his speech...but a still finer success...
    Pt1 3.6 12 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to...compel the reproduction of themselves in speech.
    Pt1 3.21 1 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life, and so his speech flows with the flowing of nature.
    Pt1 3.24 6 So far the bard taught me, using his freer speech.
    Pt1 3.26 27 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder...
    Pt1 3.40 5 Hence the necessity of speech and song;...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.
    Exp 3.74 18 [Just persons] believe that we communicate without speech and above speech...
    Mrs1 3.154 16 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    Nat2 3.189 15 A man can only speak so long as he does not feel his speech to be partial and inadequate.
    Nat2 3.191 27 [The rich] are like one who has interrupted the conversation of a company to make his speech, and now has forgotten what he went to say.
    NR 3.244 27 ...I would have...no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.
    NR 3.245 8 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech.
    NR 3.245 12 ...Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech;...
    NER 3.254 25 ...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
    NER 3.263 1 ...the street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
    NER 3.270 4 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar...the power of speech...
    NER 3.282 22 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech...
    UGM 4.27 16 They cry up the virtues of George Washington,--Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation.
    PPh 4.46 1 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women... blunder and quarrel...their speech if full of oaths.
    PPh 4.60 14 Such as his perception, was [Plato's] speech...
    PPh 4.71 27 [Socrates] was plain as a Quaker in habit and speech...
    PNR 4.87 5 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation;...
    SwM 4.133 17 All [Swedenborg's] figures speak one speech.
    MoS 4.168 14 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work...
    MoS 4.168 18 ...blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech;...
    ShP 4.193 14 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays], inserting a speech or a whole scene...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ShP 4.214 18 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings...
    NMW 4.226 11 Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention and heard Mirabeau make a speech.
    NMW 4.227 5 ...a man of Napoleon's stamp almost ceases to have a private speech and opinion.
    GoW 4.282 14 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
    ET4 5.54 17 I found plenty of well-marked English types...robust men, with...a strong island speech and accent;...
    ET4 5.54 21 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form; and their speech was much less marked and their thought much less bound.
    ET4 5.58 17 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with...wise speech...
    ET5 5.89 26 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate...
    ET5 5.90 4 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies, confining himself to the House of Commons, where a measure can be carried by a speech.
    ET5 5.100 4 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses...
    ET8 5.127 8 [The English], too, believe that where there is no enjoyment of life there can be no vigor and art in speech or thought;...
    ET8 5.135 7 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart, whose speech is a brash of bitter waters...
    ET8 5.141 26 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
    ET13 5.227 4 Brougham, in a speech in the House of Commons on the Irish elective franchise, said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    ET14 5.233 24 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English.
    ET14 5.234 1 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech.
    ET14 5.234 26 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired; or iron raised to white heat. The marriage of the two qualities is in their speech.
    ET14 5.236 19 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it...in proverbs and forms of speech.
    ET14 5.255 1 [The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity;...
    ET17 5.292 5 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart which lubricated all his speech and action with fine jets of mead.
    ET18 5.303 9 ...[Englishmen's] speech seems destined to be the universal language of men.
    ET19 5.309 13 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech.
    F 6.45 11 ...a hump in the shoulder will appear in the speech and handiwork.
    Pow 6.67 16 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech.
    Ctr 6.139 18 The city breeds one kind of speech and manners;...
    Ctr 6.150 18 [The man of the world] does not make a speech...
    Ctr 6.152 5 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
    Bhr 6.169 4 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
    Bhr 6.169 17 What are [manners] but thought...controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behavior?
    Bhr 6.182 20 A calm and resolute bearing, a polished speech...are essential to the courtier;...
    Bhr 6.190 13 ...the persuasion of [men's] speech is not in what they say...
    Wsp 6.213 11 There is a principle...which all speech aims to say...
    CbW 6.243 23 The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is cordial speech/...
    Bty 6.303 26 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    SS 7.4 2 [My new friend] envied every drover and lumberman in the tavern their manly speech.
    SS 7.14 1 Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in our own garb and speech...
    Civ 7.33 26 ...if there be...a country...where speech is not free;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.38 10 Speech is a great pleasure...
    Art2 7.38 14 The utterance of thought and emotion in speech and action may be conscious or unconscious.
    Art2 7.38 22 The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art.
    Elo1 7.67 24 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.
    Elo1 7.68 21 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...
    Elo1 7.68 25 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech...
    Elo1 7.72 16 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly,--few but very sweet words, since he was not talkative nor superfluous in speech...
    Elo1 7.73 2 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses at first with this power of overcoming all opposition by the blandishments of speech.
    Elo1 7.73 12 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo1 7.73 18 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits.
    Elo1 7.76 2 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    Elo1 7.77 9 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
    Elo1 7.81 14 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence...
    Elo1 7.81 23 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly human...
    Elo1 7.83 16 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    Elo1 7.88 27 This, indeed, is what speech is for,--to make the statement;...
    Elo1 7.97 6 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see that his speech is not differenced from action;...
    Elo1 7.99 11 [Eloquence] is the best speech of the best soul.
    Elo1 7.100 5 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country...or liberty of speech or of the press...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    Boks 7.204 14 I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech...
    Clbs 7.232 26 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them; rather, as soon as their own speech is done, they take their hats.
    Suc 7.306 26 What delights, what emancipates...is wise and good in speech and in the arts.
    OA 7.315 7 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect. He replied to these compliments in a speech...
    OA 7.315 19 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    OA 7.329 23 We have a heroic speech from Rome or Greece, but cannot fix it on the man who said it.
    OA 7.330 10 The day comes...when the brave speech returns straight to the hero who said it;...
    PI 8.12 5 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
    PI 8.17 21 The term genius, when used with emphasis, implies imagination; use of symbols, figurative speech.
    PI 8.20 26 Poetry, if perfected...is the speech of man after the real, and not after the apparent.
    PI 8.43 26 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet...
    PI 8.52 16 ...when we rise into the world of thought...speech refines into order and harmony.
    PI 8.60 25 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke... through which he could not pass; and this impediment made him so wrathful that it deprived him of speech.
    PI 8.68 22 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws, so that he easily...uses the ecstatic or poetic speech.
    SA 8.92 17 Speech is power...
    SA 8.92 17 ...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
    SA 8.93 3 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women...
    SA 8.93 24 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of pure German speech of his wife.
    SA 8.95 20 A right speech is not well to be distinguished from action.
    SA 8.97 5 ...there are...people on whom speech makes no impression;...
    Elo2 8.113 8 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Elo2 8.115 21 [The orator's] speech must be just ahead of the assembly...
    Elo2 8.115 23 [The orator's] speech is not to be distinguished from action.
    Elo2 8.118 21 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly, and even his speech was a bad excuse;...
    Elo2 8.120 12 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...
    Elo2 8.122 7 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by...the caresses of his speech;...
    Elo2 8.122 24 ...a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
    Elo2 8.125 2 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong...
    Elo2 8.125 12 The power of [the men in the street's] speech is, that it is perfectly understood by all;...
    Elo2 8.129 6 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    Elo2 8.129 23 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
    Elo2 8.132 18 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...
    QO 8.184 6 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument...
    QO 8.184 20 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat. But this speech is also D'Argenson's...
    QO 8.199 22 Our benefactors are as many as the children who invented speech...
    QO 8.202 7 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech which the immanence of the oracle bestowed...
    PPo 8.256 29 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    Insp 8.280 5 Sydney Smith said: You will never break down in a speech on the day when you have walked twelve miles.
    Aris 10.54 7 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than any speech can;...
    Aris 10.62 5 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    Aris 10.63 26 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of pitiless selfishness...
    Edc1 10.158 18 ...if the boy [in your school] stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
    Supl 10.164 5 ...the positive is the sinew of speech...
    Supl 10.166 24 How impatient we are...of looseness and intemperance in speech!
    Supl 10.169 6 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
    Supl 10.172 13 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    Supl 10.172 14 The objection to unmeasured speech is its lie.
    Supl 10.174 1 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech salt and biting, would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    Supl 10.176 14 In the temperate climates there is a temperate speech...
    SovE 10.186 7 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    Plu 10.303 19 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias...
    Plu 10.321 17 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer; but it is the speech of business and conversation...
    LLNE 10.333 16 All [Everett's] speech was music...
    EzRy 10.388 10 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
    EzRy 10.392 4 ...often...[Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous, draggle-tail periods of other speakers.
    EzRy 10.394 4 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...and whatever relief to the conscience of both parties plain speech could effect was sure to be procured.
    EzRy 10.394 16 This intimate knowledge of families, and this skill of speech...made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    MMEm 10.397 13 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./
    SlHr 10.439 8 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man of simple tastes, plain and true in speech...
    SlHr 10.441 16 ...[Samuel Hoar] disdained any arts in his speech...
    SlHr 10.443 16 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature, where his presence and speech, of course, secured the rebuilding;...
    LVB 11.92 15 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States, if only in its coarsest form, a regard to the speech of men,-forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    EWI 11.100 3 ...by speech and by silence;...[emancipation] goes forward.
    EWI 11.120 25 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of Jamaica]...
    EWI 11.134 4 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams]...who singly has defended the freedom of speech, and the rights of the free, against the usurpation of the slave-holder.
    FSLN 11.219 4 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.219 17 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...men of eloquent speech, but men without self-respect...
    FSLN 11.221 25 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill] was a place for behavior more than for speech...
    FSLN 11.223 2 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
    FSLN 11.225 2 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    FSLN 11.225 7 ...though I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism,-yet the secondary merits of a speech, namely, its logic, its illustrations, its points, etc., are not here in question.
    FSLN 11.225 10 Nobody doubts that Daniel Webster could make a good speech.
    FSLN 11.226 14 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...
    FSLN 11.226 22 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
    AKan 11.261 15 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about. A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens...
    TPar 11.292 2 ...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;...
    ALin 11.334 2 ...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
    ALin 11.334 4 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...
    ALin 11.334 6 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...
    EdAd 11.385 12 There is no speech heard but that of auctioneers, newsboys, and the caucus.
    RBur 11.442 18 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech...
    RBur 11.442 25 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.
    Shak1 11.450 9 ...such [is] the charm of [Shakespeare's] speech, that he still agitates the heart in age as in youth...
    Shak1 11.451 15 The unaffected joy of the comedy...contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy...where [Shakespeare's] speech is a Delphi...
    PLT 12.25 13 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me...
    PLT 12.35 6 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth, disdaining speech, disdaining particulars;...
    PLT 12.57 6 We have a juvenile love...of showy speech.
    II 12.69 8 The whole art of man has been...to provoke, to extort speech from the drowsy genius.
    CL 12.141 21 You shall never break down in a speech, said Sydney Smith, on the day on which you have walked twelve miles.
    CL 12.142 11 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    CL 12.148 22 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They are the generators of speech.
    Milt1 12.259 4 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
    Milt1 12.271 9 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom;...freedom of speech, freedom of the press;...
    ACri 12.284 14 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better;...
    ACri 12.289 16 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...in the popular mind, the Devil is a malignant person. Yet all our speech expresses the first sense.
    ACri 12.292 5 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...arts of writing, and arts of speech and song,-but is used as if it meant descriptive...
    ACri 12.292 13 'T is the worst praise you can give a speech that it is as if written.
    ACri 12.294 2 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...
    ACri 12.295 24 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
    ACri 12.297 2 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing. This flower of speech is accompanied with an assurance of fame.
    MLit 12.328 14 ...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    WSL 12.337 4 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...
    WSL 12.339 16 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...
    PPr 12.382 19 ...[a man's] speech is a perpetual and public instrument;...
    Trag 12.412 26 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet...by irregular, faltering, disturbed speech...

Speech, n. (1)

    NR 3.245 11 ...Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech;...

Speech, Queen's, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 8 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...the President's Message, the Queen's Speech, have not mentioned it;...

speeches, n. (21)

    Mrs1 3.148 18 [Scott's] lords brave each other in smart epigrammatic speeches...
    NR 3.230 8 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women,--and not anywhere the Englishman who made the good speeches...
    ShP 4.214 21 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
    ET15 5.262 24 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...
    Elo1 7.78 18 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...
    QO 8.194 6 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
    Plu 10.301 20 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports, as one having a native right to admire and recount these stirring deeds and speeches.
    Thor 10.466 3 ...what accusing silences, and what searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can remember!
    War 11.170 17 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
    FSLC 11.194 18 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.202 4 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney.
    FSLC 11.205 5 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others;...
    FSLN 11.224 1 ...[Webster] wanted that deep source of inspiration. Hence... the want of generalization in his speeches...
    FSLN 11.224 25 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed. His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.
    AsSu 11.250 2 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...
    AsSu 11.250 24 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken;...
    JBB 11.269 6 [John Brown's] own speeches to the court have interested the nation in him.
    JBS 11.277 9 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented...
    ALin 11.333 23 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    CW 12.174 6 [A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that...even the trees make little speeches or hint them.
    Milt1 12.249 2 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.

speechless, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.264 26 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./

speed, n. (38)

    SR 2.44 4 Wintered with the hawk and fox,/ Power and speed be hands and feet./
    SL 2.158 5 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Fdsp 2.202 8 ...all the speed in that contest [of friendship] depends on intrinsic nobleness...
    Prd1 2.235 7 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes, good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it passes them off.
    Prd1 2.235 13 In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
    NR 3.242 21 ...the points come in succession to the meridian, and by the speed of rotation a new whole is formed.
    NER 3.274 7 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They know the speed with which they come straight through the thin masquerade...
    NMW 4.231 2 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...with the speed and spring of a tiger in action;...
    NMW 4.234 20 ...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    ET2 5.26 24 The good ship darts through the water...quivering with speed...
    ET2 5.27 26 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater; but the speed is safety...
    ET2 5.28 18 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...had mended her speed...
    ET2 5.32 12 Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart...
    ET2 5.33 12 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    ET3 5.35 3 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...at near twice the speed of our trains;...
    ET5 5.89 2 [The English] have no running for luck, and no immoderate speed.
    ET10 5.157 27 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible speed...
    ET12 5.207 19 The men [English students] have learned accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
    Ctr 6.159 24 ...we say of Niagara that it falls without speed.
    CbW 6.259 15 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...gives us a good start and speed...
    Elo1 7.74 16 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Clbs 7.231 13 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
    OA 7.329 16 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year fills some blanks, and with accelerating speed as he becomes knowing and known.
    PC 8.212 18 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    PC 8.215 6 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...
    PC 8.226 17 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact.
    PPo 8.245 18 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance; hence it is that the horseman of life urges on his courser at headlong speed.
    Insp 8.272 9 Rarey can tame a wild horse; but if he could give speed to a dull horse, were not that better?
    Insp 8.277 26 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Grts 8.314 14 Napoleon commands our respect...by the speed and security of his action in the premises, always new.
    Dem1 10.5 3 There is a strange wilfulness in the speed with which [a dream] disperses and baffles our grasp.
    SovE 10.197 25 ...if I violate myself...the lightning loiters by the speed of retribution...
    Plu 10.298 3 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the poet in the...speed of his mental associations...
    HDC 11.42 17 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    SHC 11.434 18 ...when I think of the mystery of life...the speed of the changes of that glittering dream we call existence,-I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insea of foot-paths;...
    PLT 12.49 19 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's.
    PLT 12.49 23 ...I speak of [Talent] in quite another sense, namely, in the habitual speed of combination of thought.
    PLT 12.56 6 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the broken country. Immense speed, but only in one direction.

speed, v. (3)

    Int 2.323 1 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;/...
    Civ 7.17 19 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again/...
    JBB 11.266 17 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...

speedier, adj. (1)

    DL 7.104 19 ...chiefly...the young American studies new and speedier modes of transportation.

speediest, adj. (1)

    F 6.14 8 On the whole, [weighing] would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote...

speedily, adv. (20)

    Tran 1.349 6 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop...
    SR 2.80 5 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification...passes for the end and not for a speedily exhaustible means...
    Comp 2.98 21 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    Comp 2.111 7 All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished.
    Mrs1 3.135 20 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles. Napoleon remarked them, and speedily managed to rally them off...
    SwM 4.121 16 Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves.
    ET14 5.249 27 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated; the one comfort was, that they were all going speedily into the abyss together.
    Ctr 6.133 19 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished...
    Wsp 6.205 11 These [prophetic souls] announce absolute truths, which...are speedily dragged down into a savage interpretation.
    Elo1 7.83 9 ...if one of [the debaters] have anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will find vent for it...
    Res 8.150 4 ...every power in energy speedily arrives at its limits...
    Chr2 10.104 18 Every particular instruction is speedily embodied in a ritual...
    Edc1 10.152 22 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily...
    LLNE 10.350 3 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue...the pestilential tracts;...
    SlHr 10.444 4 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    HDC 11.44 26 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen, and very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them.
    HDC 11.46 17 [The Massachusetts Bay towns'] powers were speedily settled by obvious convenience...
    HDC 11.56 21 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
    ACiv 11.309 4 ...this measure [emancipation], to be effectual, must come speedily.
    EurB 12.374 15 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...

speeds, v. (1)

    CInt 12.116 1 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the telegraph which speeds the local news over the land.

speedy, adj. (11)

    Hsm1 2.264 3 Who does not sometimes...await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
    Cir 2.307 19 I know and see too well...the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
    Exp 3.77 3 ...the longest love or aversion has a speedy term.
    UGM 4.27 21 There is...a speedy limit to the use of heroes.
    MoS 4.153 24 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
    Comc 8.174 1 ...the Comic also has its own speedy limits.
    Aris 10.38 4 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe they were all such speedy shadows as we;...
    PerF 10.87 5 There is a speedy limit to profligate politics.
    Prch 10.221 20 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...
    LS 11.15 16 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    HDC 11.73 14 Eight hundred British soldiers...at Lexington had fired upon the brave handful of militia, for which a speedy revenge was reaped by the same militia in the afternoon.

speken, v. (2)

    PI 8.9 22 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/...
    Aris 10.29 1 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./

spell, n. (7)

    OS 2.265 7 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/...
    Pol1 3.216 20 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    NER 3.259 20 Some intelligent persons said or thought, Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with...
    Suc 7.292 21 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...society is under a spell...
    OA 7.313 4 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
    JBS 11.276 4 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./
    PPr 12.386 14 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...

spell, v. (4)

    Cour 7.279 24 What thoughts were in [the bear's] mind/ It would be hard to spell:/ What thoughts were in George Nidiver/ I rather guess than tell./
    HDC 11.84 7 The old town clerks did not spell very correctly...
    Scot 11.463 20 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815,-my own and my school-fellows' joy in the book. Marmion and The Lay had gone before, but we were then learning to spell.
    Milt1 12.270 8 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English...will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.

spellbound, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.77 6 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity.

spells, n. (3)

    Nat 1.32 5 ...with these forms, the spells of persuasion...are put into [the poet's] hands.
    Nat2 3.170 14 The anciently-reported spells of these places [the woods] creep on us.
    UGM 4.17 10 Foremost among these activities [of the intellect] are the summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination.

spells, v. (1)

    SR 2.58 12 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;-read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Spence, Joseph, n. (1)

    MoS 4.152 21 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day...

Spence, Thomas, n. (1)

    WSL 12.342 2 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame... to...Aubrey and Spence.

Spencer, George John, n. (4)

    Boks 7.209 25 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
    Boks 7.210 1 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer.
    Boks 7.210 8 Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent general of useless bloodshed and waste of powder...
    Boks 7.210 14 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together, and Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds!

Spencer, John Charles [Lor (1)

    Boks 7.210 11 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side...

Spencer, W., n. (1)

    HDC 11.41 18 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr. Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.

Spence's, Thomas, n. (1)

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

spend, v. (53)

    MR 1.239 25 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to his ends...
    MR 1.244 2 We spend our incomes for paint and paper...and not for the things of a man.
    MR 1.252 9 The money we spend for courts and prisons is very ill laid out.
    LT 1.271 17 We arraign our daily employments. They appear to us... unworthy of the faculties we spend on them.
    YA 1.383 25 Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself.
    SR 2.52 2 ...we cannot spend the day in explanation.
    Lov1 2.187 25 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Prd1 2.221 7 I have no skill to make money spend well...
    Int 2.339 26 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art...
    Exp 3.65 7 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden, and spend your earnings as a waif or godsend to all serene and beautiful purposes.
    Mrs1 3.140 20 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...perhaps because such a person seems to reserve himself for the best of the game, and not spend himself on surfaces;...
    NER 3.276 19 ...the swift moments we spend with [those who love us] are a compensation for a great deal of misery;...
    UGM 4.12 12 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...
    MoS 4.155 26 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream;...
    NMW 4.257 23 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward,--they could not spend what they had earned...they deserted [Napoleon].
    ET5 5.89 2 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return.
    ET7 5.119 15 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
    ET13 5.226 5 The wise legislator will spend on temples, schools, libraries, colleges...
    ET16 5.273 21 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire, in which he is wont to spend a part of every summer, made the way short.
    F 6.46 22 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
    Wth 6.91 26 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning;...
    Wth 6.102 6 I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it only for real bread;...
    Wth 6.112 3 As long as your genius buys, the investment is safe, though you spend like a monarch.
    Wth 6.112 27 Spend for your expense, and retrench the expense which is not yours.
    Wth 6.113 14 ...the man who has found what he can do, can spend on that and leave all other spending.
    Wth 6.116 25 Spend after your genius, and by system.
    Wth 6.125 22 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is to spend for power and not for pleasure.
    Wth 6.126 6 Will [the man] spend his income, or will he invest?
    Wth 6.126 9 [A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored. Will he spend for pleasure?
    Wth 6.126 11 Will [a man] not spend but hoard for power?
    Wth 6.126 22 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane;...
    Wth 6.126 24 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest...that he may spend in spiritual creation...
    Wsp 6.223 14 If you spend for show...it will so appear.
    Wsp 6.233 12 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    CbW 6.266 23 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    CbW 6.270 24 How to live with unfit companions?...experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence, namely...to...let their madness spend itself unopposed.
    DL 7.110 20 We must not make believe with our money, but spend heartily...
    DL 7.130 19 If by love and nobleness we take up into ourselves the beauty we admire, we shall spend it again on all around us.
    Suc 7.294 23 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    PI 8.55 6 Hence, all ye vain delights,/ As short as are the nights/ In which you spend your folly!/
    SA 8.105 3 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity...
    Imtl 8.328 22 ...spend yourself on the work before you...
    Edc1 10.129 6 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts. Thus a man may well spend many years of life in trade.
    HDC 11.84 24 ...the town must save that the State may spend.
    SHC 11.432 20 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery;...
    CPL 11.506 20 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...
    CL 12.135 12 The capable and generous, let them spend their talent on the land.
    CW 12.174 2 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day therein [in his wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without remorse of wasting time.
    Bost 12.185 22 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.187 14 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
    Bost 12.202 18 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries.
    MLit 12.332 10 [Goethe] was content to...spend on common aims his splendid endowments...
    AgMs 12.361 12 ...our [New England] people...do not wish to spend too much on their buildings.

spender, n. (1)

    YA 1.383 26 Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

spending, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.96 4 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.

spending, n. (2)

    MoS 4.153 24 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
    Wth 6.117 9 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster...

spending, v. (18)

    Mrs1 3.137 7 We should meet each morning as from foreign countries, and, spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign countries.
    Mrs1 3.144 23 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square...
    ET11 5.193 24 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year. The spending is for a great part in servants...
    ET16 5.283 20 After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...
    Wth 6.106 13 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Wth 6.112 8 ...[each man's] native determination guides his labor and his spending.
    Wth 6.112 15 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
    Wth 6.112 17 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
    Wth 6.113 14 ...the man who has found what he can do, can spend on that and leave all other spending.
    Wth 6.117 3 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic family from ruin, nor will bigger incomes make free spending safe.
    Farm 7.139 15 [The farmer's] entertainments, his liberties and his spending must be on a farmer's scale, and not on a merchant's.
    Farm 7.141 1 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...
    Farm 7.146 1 Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a hoarding to check the spending...
    Res 8.139 17 Measure by barrels the spending of the brook that runs through your field.
    AsSu 11.247 14 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    Mem 12.109 1 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CL 12.155 7 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned.
    Pray 12.352 7 ...soon I am weary of spending my time causelessly and unimproved...

spends, v. (13)

    Hsm1 2.243 2 ...Sugar spends to fatten slaves/...
    ET13 5.223 17 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money in music and building...
    ET16 5.289 17 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year, that were meant for the poor, and spends a pittance on this small-beer and crumbs.
    Ctr 6.155 12 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that saves on superfluities, and spends on essentials;...
    Suc 7.294 21 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    Chr2 10.110 2 Paganism...carries the bag, spends the treasure...
    HDC 11.78 11 [Concord] spends profusely, affectionately, in the service [of the American Revolution].
    HDC 11.82 18 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.
    FRep 11.525 24 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races.
    PLT 12.30 22 When, moved by love, a man...spends himself for his friend... it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.35 12 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic, and spends its omniscience on the lowest wants.
    CW 12.174 9 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.
    AgMs 12.362 14 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources;...

spendthrift, adj. (1)

    YA 1.381 22 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...

spendthrift, n. (2)

    F 6.38 9 Nature is no spendthrift...
    EzRy 10.393 24 Was a man a sot, or a spendthrift...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...

Spens, Sir Patrick [Ballad (1)

    PI 8.25 18 Give [people]...Sir Andrew Barton, or Sir Patrick Spens...and they like these well enough.

Spenser, Edmund, n. (13)

    OS 2.288 24 Humanity shines...in Spenser...
    Pt1 3.14 1 The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches...
    ShP 4.203 20 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw,--Shakspeare, Spenser...
    ET14 5.234 12 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in their loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.
    ET14 5.238 17 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Browne, Donne, Spenser...
    ET14 5.239 24 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists...
    Art2 7.47 2 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it.
    Boks 7.207 5 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare, Spenser...
    PI 8.49 27 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly for weapons...
    Res 8.151 24 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of the ash, for nothing ill.
    Shak1 11.452 15 [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.
    Scot 11.464 20 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser...
    II 12.71 16 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem- say Spenser...

Spenserian, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.188 14 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Howard and Spenserian libraries...
    PI 8.49 18 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt conventional metre, as the Spenserian...) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...

Spenser's, Edmund, n. (1)

    ET14 5.242 2 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Spenser's creed that soul is form, and doth the body make;...

spent, adj. (3)

    Nat2 3.196 8 The reality is more excellent than the report. Here is...no spent ball.
    ET2 5.26 4 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment...when I was a little spent by some unusual studies.
    CL 12.155 18 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...

spent, v. (53)

    AmS 1.98 2 Years are well spent in country labors;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    LE 1.173 7 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,- wisdom teaching man...that he shall not bewail himself, as if...thought was spent...
    MN 1.201 26 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article..
    MN 1.209 4 The ends...are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent.
    Con 1.315 20 ...we will tell you, good Father, how we spent the last evening.
    Hist 2.21 18 ...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
    Cir 2.306 1 ...presently, all its energy spent, [the new statement] pales and dwindles before the revelation of the new hour.
    Art1 2.367 26 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Pt1 3.11 5 I had fancied that...nature had spent her fires;...
    Chr1 3.104 13 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    GoW 4.282 22 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
    ET1 5.6 1 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work;...
    ET1 5.16 6 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET4 5.70 10 [The English] think...with the Arabs, that the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life.
    ET5 5.86 12 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
    ET8 5.127 14 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.
    ET12 5.204 8 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
    Wth 6.106 19 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot, but what is gone out of these is not wasted, but well spent, if it nourish [a man's] body and enable him to finish his task;...
    Ctr 6.132 6 The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales, weighing his food.
    Wsp 6.207 19 ...the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.
    Wsp 6.235 15 I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in the country.
    CbW 6.263 24 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying.
    CbW 6.264 24 ...so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
    CbW 6.270 21 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent;...
    CbW 6.275 2 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    Ill 6.309 2 Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
    WD 7.170 26 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...are given immeasurably to all.
    Boks 7.220 12 These are a few of the books which the old and the later times have yielded us, which will reward the time spent on them.
    Clbs 7.235 22 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors. The seven wise masters at Periander's banquet spent their time in answering them.
    Clbs 7.236 3 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people on life and duty...
    Clbs 7.236 8 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...and at least silencing those who were not generous enough to accept his thoughts. Luther spent his life so;...
    OA 7.334 24 We spent about an hour in [John Adams's] room.
    OA 7.335 20 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare...
    SA 8.105 4 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity...
    Elo2 8.116 7 ...[the people] have spent their money once or twice very freely.
    Insp 8.280 1 The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days spent in the chase...
    Insp 8.280 13 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...
    Imtl 8.325 7 The labor of races was spent [in Egypt] on the excavation of catacombs.
    Imtl 8.331 21 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily... spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul...
    LLNE 10.341 17 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation.
    LLNE 10.368 20 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years.
    LLNE 10.369 15 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    CSC 10.373 9 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath...
    SlHr 10.446 27 [Samuel Hoar]...spent all his energy in creating purity of manners and careful education.
    HDC 11.41 15 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate...
    EWI 11.115 5 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder. With far different thoughts, the negroes spent the hour in their huts and chapels.
    EWI 11.115 20 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday. The day was chiefly spent by the great mass of the negroes in the churches and chapels.
    JBS 11.279 11 Our farmers...had learned that life...was to be spent in loving and serving mankind.
    EPro 11.322 10 Is it feared that taxes will check immigration? That depends on what the taxes are spent for.
    Wom 11.417 2 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject;...
    FRep 11.528 19 America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent...
    ACri 12.293 1 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...balance for remainder-spent the balance of his life;...
    Pray 12.354 1 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./

spermaceti, n. (1)

    Bty 6.295 6 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...

spermatic, adj. (2)

    Boks 7.197 2 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic...
    Insp 8.294 16 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.

sperm-mills, n. (1)

    ET5 5.95 7 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding makes sperm-mills of the cattle...

sphagnum, n. (1)

    Farm 7.143 3 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...and accumulated the sphagnum whose decays made the peat of his meadow.

spheral, adj. (4)

    Int 2.340 27 ...the poet, whose verses are to be spheral and complete, is one whom Nature cannot deceive...
    NR 3.241 25 ...there is somewhat spheral and infinite in every man...
    Ill 6.311 6 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...
    Suc 7.300 2 ...the sand floor is held by spheral gravity...

sphere, n. (62)

    Nat 1.22 4 A virtuous man...makes the central figure of the visible sphere.
    Nat 1.44 21 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere...
    Nat 1.49 19 [To the senses] Things are ultimates, and they never look beyond their sphere.
    Nat 1.69 1 [Man] is in little all the sphere./
    MN 1.195 24 The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe.
    YA 1.372 10 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...
    Hist 2.2 1 I am owner of the sphere/...
    SR 2.58 9 ...the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.
    SL 2.151 26 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens...
    Lov1 2.179 14 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to a quite other and unattainable sphere...
    Prd1 2.219 5 Grandeur of the perfect sphere/ Thanks the atoms that cohere./
    OS 2.273 22 ...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere.
    Cir 2.299 4 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...
    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.
    Pt1 3.19 17 ...no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.
    Exp 3.49 25 We may have the sphere for our cricket-ball...
    Exp 3.80 25 What imports it whether it is Kepler and the sphere...or puss with her tail?
    Mrs1 3.132 26 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him...
    NR 3.223 9 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they wake,/ And each with novel life his sphere/ Fills for his proper sake./
    NR 3.245 13 ...every atom has a sphere of repulsion;...
    UGM 4.6 10 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...
    UGM 4.11 2 We speak now only of our acquaintance with [the sciences] in their own sphere...
    UGM 4.11 9 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere...
    UGM 4.32 3 Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere...
    PNR 4.86 23 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a district or an island, in intellectual geography, but...Plato first drew the sphere.
    PNR 4.87 20 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...
    SwM 4.98 26 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water...
    ShP 4.196 18 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.
    GoW 4.278 8 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many unexpected glimpses into a higher sphere...
    ET14 5.233 16 When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery into the mental sphere.
    ET14 5.234 19 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton.
    F 6.27 1 'T is the majesty into which we have suddenly mounted...the sphere of laws, that engage us.
    F 6.28 6 Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
    F 6.31 11 ...[men] think...that it would be a practical blunder to transfer the method and way of working of one sphere into the other.
    F 6.41 16 Each creature puts forth from itself its own condition and sphere...
    Wth 6.93 17 Columbus thinks that the sphere is a problem for practical navigation as well as for closet geometry...
    Wth 6.125 3 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in [a man' s] body which is not repeated as in a celestial sphere in his mind;...
    Wth 6.125 5 ...there is nothing in [a man's] brain which is not repeated in a higher sphere in his moral system.
    Ctr 6.161 15 Burke descended from a higher sphere when he would influence human affairs.
    Bty 6.279 14 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./
    Ill 6.325 9 Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
    Clbs 7.241 17 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to share with him the sphere of freedom and the simplicity of truth.
    PI 8.24 13 [The intellect] compares, distributes, generalizes and uplifts [surface facts] into its own sphere.
    PI 8.40 24 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...
    Res 8.150 3 ...we learn that our doctrine of resources must be carried into higher application, namely, to the intellectual sphere.
    PC 8.223 3 Shall we study the mathematics of the sphere, and not its causal essence also?
    PC 8.223 8 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    Imtl 8.337 8 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us...
    Dem1 10.4 24 When newly awaked from lively dreams, we are so near them, still agitated by them, still in their sphere,-give us one syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
    Dem1 10.23 20 ...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will follow.
    Chr2 10.89 4 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to the sphere:/ Wait a little, you shall see/ The portraiture of things to be./
    Edc1 10.149 27 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind.
    Prch 10.221 7 The understanding presumes in things above its sphere...
    Carl 10.493 21 The literary, the fashionable, the political man, each fresh from triumphs in his own sphere, comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed...and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    SMC 11.356 21 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men who...found sphere at last for their superabundant energy;...
    Wom 11.414 13 ...in the East, where Woman occupies, nationally, a lower sphere...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    FRO1 11.480 25 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
    II 12.87 25 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    Bost 12.200 27 European and American are each ridiculous out of his sphere.
    MLit 12.323 27 [Goethe] thought it necessary to dot round with his own pen the entire sphere of knowables;...
    WSL 12.341 18 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have...entered that crystal sphere in which everything in the world of matter reappears, but transfigured and immortal.
    PPr 12.388 9 [Carlyle] has the dignity of a man of letters, who...never deviates from his sphere;...

Sphere, Theory of the [Arch (1)

    SS 7.6 15 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and no Principia.

sphered, adj. (1)

    SS 7.1 26 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,/ And he the bard, a crystal soul,/ Sphered and concentric with the whole./

spheres, n. (7)

    Exp 3.77 24 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and whilst they remain in contact all other points of each of the spheres are inert;...
    Exp 3.82 18 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.
    PI 8.22 5 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts. We live in both spheres...
    PC 8.206 4 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears,/ The heroes on their horses,/ The gods upon their spheres./
    Aris 10.56 23 The nearer my friend...the more diameter our spheres have.
    PLT 12.36 7 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe,- silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of the spheres...
    EurB 12.366 15 ...[the poet's] verses must be spheres and cubes...

spherical, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.55 14 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical.
    SwM 4.115 14 The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters... have a spherical surface for centre;...
    PI 8.53 4 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... spherical as the world, instead of a few drops of soap and water.

sphericity, n. (3)

    Tran 1.332 1 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which rounds off to an almost perfect sphericity...
    Exp 3.80 11 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed. But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity.
    PLT 12.18 4 [Thoughts or intellections] again all mimic in their sphericity the first mind...

spherules, n. (1)

    PI 8.4 22 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should not find cubes, or prisms, or atoms, at all, but spherules of force.

sphinx, n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge]. The old sphinx put our petty differences of nationality out of sight.

Sphinx, n. (6)

    Nat 1.34 17 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side...
    Hist 2.4 8 The Sphinx must solve her own riddle.
    Hist 2.32 20 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx...
    Hist 2.32 23 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger. If the man could not answer, she swallowed him alive. If he could solve the riddle, the Sphinx was slain.
    Clbs 7.235 19 ...he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man. This was the meaning of the story of the Sphinx.
    PI 8.51 15 Time...is now dominant and sitteth upon a Sphinx...

sphinxes, n. (2)

    Hist 2.11 20 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...
    Trag 12.411 26 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

Spic Park, England, n. (1)

    ET10 5.165 10 Sir Edward Boynton, at Spic Park at Cadenham, on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.

spice, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.185 10 ...without this violence of direction which men and women have, without a spice of bigot and fanatic, no excitement, no efficiency.
    GoW 4.288 23 There is a slight blush of shame on the cheek of good men and aspiring men, and a spice of caricature.
    Elo1 7.75 2 A spice of malice...will do [the member of Congress] no harm with his audience.

spiced, adj. (1)

    LT 1.274 6 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after...some well spiced bruage...his religion walks abroad at eight...

spiced, v. (2)

    OS 2.288 27 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    MMEm 10.421 17 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It is sauced and spiced with our complexity of arts and inventions...

spices, n. (2)

    MR 1.246 12 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...
    Supl 10.177 24 ...the Orientals excel...in spices, in dyes and drugs...

spiculae, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.179 17 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spiculae through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries...
    SwM 4.106 4 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...

spicy, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.94 25 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./

spider, n. (4)

    NER 3.257 22 We are afraid...of a spider.
    SwM 4.118 17 ...there is no comet...spider...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    ShP 4.189 3 If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
    F 6.7 4 The habit of snake and spider...these are in the system...

spider-like, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.409 21 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...

spiders, n. (4)

    Nat 1.76 22 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances, swine, spiders...vanish;...
    ET10 5.157 5 The headlong bias to utility [in England]...if possible will teach spiders to weave silk stockings.
    ET10 5.167 8 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner,--far on the way to be spiders and needles.
    PPo 8.249 17 We do not wish to strew sugar on bottled spiders...

spider's, n. [spiders',] (2)

    Pt1 3.19 7 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web.
    WD 7.183 1 [The savant's] performance is a memoir to the Academy on fish-worms, tadpoles, or spiders' legs;...

spider-web, n. (1)

    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.

spies, n. (2)

    QO 8.189 25 Shall we converse as spies?
    Edc1 10.152 25 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...bribes, spies, wrath...

Spikenard, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 22 Plant...Haemony, Moly, Spikenard, Amomum.

spikes, n. (1)

    Hist 2.21 1 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced its... spikes of flowers...

spill, v. (1)

    Trag 12.407 19 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you count ten stars you will fall down dead; if you spill the salt;...

spilled, v. (4)

    AmS 1.83 13 ...this fountain of power...has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out, that it is spilled into drops...
    NMW 4.241 27 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries, which was spilled by the killing of the Duc d'Enghien, [Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
    Supl 10.162 2 For Art, for Music overthrilled,/ The wine-cup shakes, the wine is spilled./
    Mem 12.102 12 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not always those which memory can retain. This water once spilled cannot be gathered.

spilt, v. (1)

    ET11 5.180 25 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents.

spin, v. (4)

    NER 3.272 26 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly...these immovable statues will begin to spin and revolve.
    ET6 5.106 12 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...
    Ctr 6.132 26 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    PI 8.70 10 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.

spinach, n. (1)

    ET16 5.287 25 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.

spindle, n. (2)

    PPh 4.58 22 ...[Plato] beholds...the Fates...and hears the intoxicating hum of their spindle.
    Farm 7.147 11 Set out a pine-tree, and it dies in the first year, or lives a poor spindle.

spindle, v. (1)

    Pow 6.73 22 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs.

spindles, n. (1)

    GoW 4.266 14 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.

spine, n. (15)

    Con 1.300 18 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell, each node and spine marks one year of the fish's life;...
    Hist 2.18 1 ...every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the secreting organs of the fish.
    SwM 4.107 18 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae...
    SwM 4.107 20 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine...
    SwM 4.107 21 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine, with a limited power of modifying its form,--spine on spine, to the end of the world.
    SwM 4.108 1 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 2 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms;...
    SwM 4.108 6 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine...
    SwM 4.108 12 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth. This new spine is destined to high uses.
    GoW 4.275 11 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
    F 6.9 1 The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate;...
    F 6.34 26 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...spine...all the vices of a Saxon...race...
    Bty 6.301 9 If a man...can enlarge knowledge,--'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    DL 7.127 11 We see heads that turn on the pivot of the spine,--no more;...
    Aris 10.47 16 The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.

spines, n. (3)

    SwM 4.108 3 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms;...
    SwM 4.108 4 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms; at the end of the arms, new spines, as hands;...
    ET6 5.111 18 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.

spinner, n. (5)

    ET5 5.82 8 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered; Who is to pay the taxes? What will you do for trade? What for corn? What for the spinner?
    ET10 5.158 21 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before.
    ET10 5.159 3 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...
    ET10 5.159 16 As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spinning, so Roberts destroyed the factory spinner.
    ET10 5.167 7 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner...

spinners, n. (2)

    PPh 4.53 7 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of...spinners...
    ET10 5.158 27 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by...the emigration of the spinners to Belgium and the United States.

spinning, n. (1)

    ET10 5.159 16 As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spinning, so Roberts destroyed the factory spinner.

spinning, v. (4)

    Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it...
    MoS 4.155 16 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge, you are spinning like bubbles in a river...
    CbW 6.259 13 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which sets our human atoms spinning...
    MMEm 10.407 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] had the misfortune of spinning with a greater velocity than any of the other tops.

spinning-jenny, n. (2)

    ET10 5.158 16 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very properly has, for a frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny...
    ET10 5.158 18 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse.

Spinoza, Baruch, n. (8)

    LE 1.162 1 Plotinus too, and Spinoza...that which they have written out... makes me bold.
    OS 2.287 8 The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Int 2.344 26 The Bacon, the Spinoza...is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
    Int 2.345 9 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try. If Plato cannot, perhaps Spinoza will. If Spinoza cannot, then perhaps Kant.
    QO 8.181 3 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...
    Chr2 10.110 12 ...Spinoza has come to be revered.
    Plu 10.306 11 We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect well. We expect it from the philosopher,-from Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza and Kant;...
    MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Saint Augustine, Spinoza, Chapman...beside its own riches?

spins, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.205 14 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he spins his thread too fine...
    NR 3.245 27 ...our earth, whilst it spins on its own axis, spins all the time around the sun...
    GoW 4.274 8 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself...

spiracle, n. (1)

    SL 2.142 21 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your character and aims.

spiral, adj. (5)

    YA 1.393 19 ...there is no end to the wheels within wheels of this spiral heaven [English aristocracy].
    SwM 4.106 12 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
    SwM 4.115 12 The form above [the circular] is the spiral, parent and measure of circular forms...
    Bty 6.281 1 The spiral tendency of vegetation infects education also.
    WD 7.158 15 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus. We had the compass, the printing-press, watches, the spiral spring, the barometer, the telescope.

spiral, n. (2)

    SwM 4.104 13 ...Descartes, taught by Gilbert's magnet, with its vortex, spiral and polarity, had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    SwM 4.112 6 [Swedenborg] saw nature wreathing through an everlasting spiral...

spire, n. (3)

    ET6 5.111 18 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.
    ET16 5.285 16 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air, and its spire is the highest in England.
    Ctr 6.138 17 [Your man of genius's] head runs up into a spire...

spires, n. (4)

    Nat 1.1 6 And, striving to be man, the worm/ Mounts through all the spires of form./
    Nat 1.18 3 The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset...
    RBur 11.443 19 ...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in all cities repeat [Burns's songs], and the chimes of bells ring them in the spires.
    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...

Spiridion [George Sand], n. (1)

    CInt 12.125 11 In the romance Spiridion a few years ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...

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