Start to Steads

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

start, n. (6)

    CbW 6.259 15 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...gives us a good start and speed...
    Bty 6.299 12 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches...a misfit from the start.
    Civ 7.17 27 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./
    SA 8.79 17 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    Edc1 10.125 14 We have already taken...the initial step...thus deciding at the start the destiny of this country,-this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    FRep 11.528 19 America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent, and so the people made a good start.

start, v. (7)

    AmS 1.89 9 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent, that is, who start wrong...
    LT 1.262 24 How [persons] make the tears start...
    NER 3.278 4 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    OA 7.324 6 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause, these sleeping seeds start and open.
    ALin 11.332 2 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
    Mem 12.109 3 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.
    MAng1 12.232 2 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.

started, v. (4)

    Elo1 7.66 13 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede;...
    PPo 8.242 18 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance of the King of Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a spear.
    SMC 11.364 19 [George Prescott writes] We started and marched two miles without stopping to rest...
    CL 12.136 27 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and eggs. These parties started at seven in the morning...

starting, v. (5)

    LE 1.171 3 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
    Nat2 3.187 2 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...starting at sight of a snake...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    Wsp 6.229 24 ...now sciences of broader scope are starting up behind [physiognomy and phrenology].
    CbW 6.268 22 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities. They are just starting for Wisconsin;...
    MLit 12.315 3 [The great man's] own affection is in Nature...and, of course, all his communication leads outward to it, starting from whatsoever point.

startled, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.238 5 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...

startled, v. (4)

    PI 8.6 13 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...
    Dem1 10.8 12 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this phantasmagoria.
    Chr2 10.101 17 A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us by its large scope.
    War 11.160 15 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?

startling, adj. (7)

    SwM 4.111 14 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history.
    Bty 6.291 27 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Dem1 10.6 1 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    SovE 10.207 20 The mystic or theist is never scared by any startling materialism.
    PLT 12.22 18 Is it not a little startling to see with what genius some people take to hunting...
    CL 12.161 17 How startling are the hints of wit we detect in the horse and dog...
    Trag 12.409 9 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a power of the imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in startling array.

startling, v. (2)

    Hist 2.15 27 [Nature]...delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters.
    SwM 4.110 14 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...

starts, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.260 6 All men have...fits and starts of generosity.
    SS 7.5 14 [My friend]...walked miles and miles to get...the starts and shrugs out of his arms and shoulders.
    Civ 7.20 20 The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.
    MLit 12.317 23 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the countenance and passionate exclamations;...

starts, v. (2)

    Nat 1.72 1 ...sometimes [man] starts in his slumber...
    EdAd 11.392 22 A God starts up behind cotton bales also.

starve, v. (8)

    LT 1.260 17 ...to whom I will, will I give; and whom I will, I will exclude and starve: so says Conservatism;...
    Exp 3.58 18 If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
    Ctr 6.138 25 Each animal out of its habitat would starve.
    SA 8.85 7 ...work and starve a little longer.
    Carl 10.492 12 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament gathers up six millions of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
    FSLC 11.193 11 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
    Bost 12.189 23 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere; and if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve.
    AgMs 12.362 10 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...

starved, adj. (3)

    YA 1.392 26 Would [our youths and maidens] like...threatening, starved weavers...
    ET4 5.69 16 ...in their caricatures [the English] represent the Frenchman as a poor, starved body.
    Mem 12.94 21 Late in life we live by memory, and in our solstices or periods of stagnation; as the starved camel in the desert lives on his humps.

starved, v. (3)

    Insp 8.280 13 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...
    HDC 11.60 21 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    FSLC 11.188 1 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...starved to death...to get away from his driver...

starves, v. (5)

    ShP 4.212 22 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part...
    Wth 6.88 10 ...[nature] starves, taunts and torments [a man]...until he has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Boks 7.213 11 Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.
    PLT 12.28 25 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint and uses her goods she speaks no word; if he blunders and starves she says nothing.
    PLT 12.52 2 ...[Nature] feeds one faculty and starves all the rest.

starving, adj. (1)

    CL 12.153 8 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped! Can we not learn here a generous eloquence? This was the lesson our starving poverty wanted.

starving, v. (5)

    MR 1.246 17 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want, they need, and whatever can be suggested more than these they crave also, as if it was the bread which should keep them from starving;...
    ET5 5.99 3 ...three or four days' rain will reduce hundreds to starving in London.
    PI 8.70 14 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...starving for symbols...
    Aris 10.56 15 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment.
    Edc1 10.125 17 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...

state, adj. (8)

    YA 1.388 8 I find no expression in our state papers or legislative debate...of a high national feeling...
    ET16 5.284 17 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube...
    PI 8.54 6 Poetry will never be a simple means, as when...laureate odes on state occasions are written.
    Supl 10.170 11 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries...
    EzRy 10.388 18 When Put Merriam, after his release from the state prison, had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    AsSu 11.249 5 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    JBB 11.271 18 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances;...
    ALin 11.334 26 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...

State, adj. (2)

    FSLN 11.226 12 [Webster] listened to State reasons and hopes...
    FSLN 11.233 18 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens.

State, American, n. (2)

    AKan 11.258 21 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...
    Bost 12.207 15 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...

State, City, n. (1)

    Bost 12.207 16 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State (Kossuth called it the City State)...

State, Commissioners, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.363 16 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners.

State, Department of, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 16 The good husband finds method as efficient...in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in...the files of the Department of State.

State, English, n. (3)

    ET14 5.249 8 ...as Burke had striven to idealize the English State, so Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    ET14 5.260 16 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    PPr 12.387 26 ...the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...

State Fair, n. (1)

    Ill 6.314 10 At the State Fair a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear...

State, Head of the, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.310 22 All thanks and honor to the Head of the State!

State House, n. (1)

    Bost 12.191 1 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

State Kansas Committee, Ma (1)

    GSt 10.502 5 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee...

state, n. (313)

    Nat 1.9 13 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind...
    Nat 1.18 19 The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week.
    Nat 1.26 15 Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind...
    Nat 1.26 16 ...that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
    Nat 1.53 6 [Shakspeare's] passion...swells, as he speaks, to a city, or a state.
    Nat 1.63 15 Let [the ideal theory] stand then, in the present state of our knowledge, merely as a useful introductory hypothesis...
    AmS 1.83 3 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals...
    AmS 1.83 14 The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk...
    AmS 1.84 5 In the right state [the scholar] is Man Thinking.
    AmS 1.84 6 In the degenerate state...[the scholar] tends to become a mere thinker...
    AmS 1.96 22 In its grub state, [the new deed] cannot fly...
    AmS 1.101 18 ...[the scholar] takes...the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand to society...
    AmS 1.105 14 Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
    AmS 1.106 17 ...in a millenium...one or two approximations to the right state of every man.
    AmS 1.110 1 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...
    AmS 1.110 2 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they...regret the coming state as untried;...
    AmS 1.110 17 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already...through church and state.
    AmS 1.110 20 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    AmS 1.113 17 ...man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state...
    AmS 1.113 18 ...man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state...
    DSA 1.127 12 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become... hurtful. Then falls...the state...
    LE 1.166 9 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in the man addressing an assembly;-a state of being and power how unlike his own!
    LE 1.170 23 The moment a man of genius pronounces the name...of the Roman people, we see their state under a new aspect.
    MN 1.210 9 [A man's] health and greatness consist...in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.
    MN 1.211 16 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard to the whole, and not to the parts;...
    MR 1.228 19 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state...
    MR 1.235 25 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state?
    MR 1.247 10 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    LT 1.259 2 ...the present aspects of our social state...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    LT 1.268 9 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation...
    LT 1.279 7 ...the state, the church...are phantasms...beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    LT 1.279 27 ...the man of ideas...judges of the commonwealth from the state of his own mind.
    LT 1.280 10 [This denouncing philanthropist] is the state of Georgia... walking here on our north-eastern shores.
    LT 1.286 11 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...in all possible applications to the state of man...
    Con 1.295 1 The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old...
    Con 1.295 9 The battle...of parent state and colony...reappears in all countries and times.
    Con 1.298 2 The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.
    Con 1.298 3 The project of innovation is the best possible state of things.
    Con 1.317 13 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...and a very good state and condition are you for gentlemen and ladies to live under;...
    Con 1.322 19 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man;...
    Con 1.323 1 A state of war or anarchy...is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    Con 1.323 15 ...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
    Tran 1.332 9 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... And this wild balloon...is a just symbol of his whole state and faculty.
    Tran 1.336 1 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...in all possible applications to the state of man...
    Tran 1.353 19 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little...whether we turn a grindstone...or govern the state.
    Tran 1.358 8 Possibly some benefit may yet accrue from [Transcendentalists] to the state.
    YA 1.363 3 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another. This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected.
    YA 1.364 24 The bountiful continent is ours, state on state...
    YA 1.372 12 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator; a form flowing necessarily from the fluid state...
    YA 1.373 1 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
    YA 1.379 27 In consequence of the revolution in the state of society wrought by trade, Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.
    YA 1.385 12 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen;...
    YA 1.390 23 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power, and not to rely on our money, and on the state because it is the guard of money.
    YA 1.395 14 ...we shall quickly enough advance...into a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded.
    Hist 2.8 12 There is no age or state of society...to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
    Hist 2.10 16 Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all.
    Hist 2.11 27 ...we apply ourselves to the history of [the Gothic cathedral's] production. We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder.
    Hist 2.17 2 In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works.
    Hist 2.21 27 Agriculture [in Asia and Africa]...was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
    Hist 2.24 5 The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature...
    Hist 2.30 27 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    Hist 2.35 15 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry.
    SR 2.62 19 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man...
    SR 2.69 12 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances...
    SR 2.69 17 Power...resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state...
    SR 2.72 9 ...keep thy state;...
    SR 2.72 17 ...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden...
    SR 2.75 16 We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state...
    Comp 2.115 21 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which stand as manifest in the footing of the shop-bill as in the history of a state,--do recommend to him his trade...
    SL 2.140 14 ...that which I call heaven...is the state or circumstance desirable to my constitution;...
    SL 2.145 14 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right.
    SL 2.145 16 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right. All the secrets of that state of mind he can compel.
    SL 2.152 6 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...
    SL 2.157 8 This is that law whereby a work of art...sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he made it.
    Lov1 2.180 14 Concerning [poetry] Landor inquires whether it is not to be referred to some purer state of sensation and existence.
    Lov1 2.185 25 The union which is thus effected [by love]...is yet a temporary state.
    Lov1 2.188 10 We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
    Fdsp 2.197 27 Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
    Prd1 2.234 23 ...beer, if not brewed in the right state of the atmosphere, will sour;...
    Hsm1 2.249 21 Let [a man] hear in season that he is born into the state of war...
    Hsm1 2.251 27 [Heroism] is the state of the soul at war...
    Hsm1 2.258 22 ...[many extraordinary young men] seem to throw contempt on our entire polity and social state;...
    OS 2.274 20 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...but rather by ascension of state...
    OS 2.281 21 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual...
    OS 2.283 16 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner...
    Cir 2.303 15 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
    Cir 2.307 25 Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly state.
    Cir 2.310 4 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    Int 2.340 12 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its greatness and best state to operate every moment.
    Int 2.345 12 ...you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.
    Pt1 3.15 1 ...the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.
    Pt1 3.33 12 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
    Exp 3.51 14 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on...the state of the blood?
    Exp 3.55 3 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science]. We...cannot again contract ourselves to so base a state.
    Exp 3.65 18 ...know that thy life is a flitting state...
    Gts 3.159 1 It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy;...
    Gts 3.161 25 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    Nat2 3.170 20 Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
    Nat2 3.196 13 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought.
    Pol1 3.220 18 We live in a very low state of the world...
    UGM 4.27 20 We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the state depends on the see-saw.
    PPh 4.66 11 Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you embrace it.
    PPh 4.66 12 Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you embrace it.
    PPh 4.76 2 ...expounding the laws of the state...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    PNR 4.82 25 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state;...
    PNR 4.82 26 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state;...
    SwM 4.113 1 [Swedenborg] noted that in [nature] proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass...
    SwM 4.119 21 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state...
    SwM 4.125 18 [To Swedenborg] Every one makes his own house and state.
    SwM 4.127 14 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated...with that scope for ascension of state which the nature of things requires.
    MoS 4.158 10 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius?
    MoS 4.171 10 The nonconformist and the rebel...discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
    MoS 4.171 11 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    MoS 4.178 13 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    ShP 4.210 3 What king has [Shakespeare] not taught state...
    NMW 4.242 7 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...holding the ideas and superstitions of a long-forgotten state of society.
    GoW 4.271 18 ...[Goethe] lived...in a petty state...
    GoW 4.271 19 ...[Goethe] lived...in a defeated state...
    ET1 5.20 5 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important. That comes of the pioneer state of things.
    ET5 5.94 6 Bacon said, Rome was a state not subject to paradoxes;...
    ET7 5.117 9 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where strength could be afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth, as truth is the foundation of the social state.
    ET8 5.139 17 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
    ET10 5.162 3 A sporting duke [in England] may fancy that the state depends on the House of Lords...
    ET11 5.172 1 The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
    ET11 5.185 2 For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead in matters of state and expense;...
    ET11 5.189 19 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
    ET11 5.192 7 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.
    ET13 5.216 6 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races.
    ET15 5.263 3 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions...
    ET18 5.300 16 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state...
    ET18 5.304 11 [The English] mind is in a state of arrested development...
    F 6.12 26 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    Pow 6.64 27 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
    Pow 6.71 24 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    Wth 6.88 8 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
    Wth 6.96 26 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!--and a true economy in a state or an individual will forget its frugality in behalf of claims like these.
    Wth 6.103 26 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts; and every acre in the state is more worth, in the hour of his action.
    Ctr 6.132 11 I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
    Ctr 6.158 10 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis.
    Ctr 6.162 10 When the state is unquiet, personal qualities are more than ever decisive.
    Bhr 6.171 13 The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture.
    Bhr 6.171 23 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we return to the indolent state...
    Bhr 6.172 18 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped state;...
    Bhr 6.175 23 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life...in chairs of state without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    Wsp 6.203 3 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web.
    Wsp 6.204 22 ...the whole state of man is a state of culture;...
    Wsp 6.205 2 ...the religion cannot rise above the state of the votary.
    Wsp 6.217 17 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease...
    Wsp 6.217 18 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease, which is the controlling state...
    Wsp 6.223 13 If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it.
    Wsp 6.225 27 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake; and the state and the world is happy that has the most of such finishers.
    Wsp 6.233 2 ...[the will] penetrates the body and puts it in a state of activity which repels all hurtful influences;...
    Bty 6.298 10 That Beauty is the normal state is shown by the perpetual effort of nature to attain it.
    Ill 6.312 21 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society;...
    Civ 7.19 2 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...is called Civilization.
    Art2 7.51 17 ...the contemplation of a work of great art draws us into a state of mind which may be called religious.
    Elo1 7.72 2 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...who was reared in the state of craggy Ithaca...
    Elo1 7.86 27 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner...
    DL 7.116 3 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian.
    DL 7.119 18 There was...never any [country in the world] where the state has made such efficient provision for popular education...
    DL 7.122 16 I honor that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the state or the army...but to be a master of living well...
    DL 7.133 9 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in any good degree attained, can the state...yield anything better, or half as good"
    Farm 7.141 18 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    WD 7.162 19 This thousand-handed art has introduced a new element into the state.
    Boks 7.213 27 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated...they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    Boks 7.216 2 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way...to conventionalism, to the actual state and doings of men and women.
    Clbs 7.242 27 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square,--the ground-floor being resigned to offices and stables, and the floors above to rooms of state and to lodging-rooms,--were rebuilt with new purpose.
    Cour 7.266 5 ...there is no separate essence called courage...but it is the right or healthy state of every man...
    Cour 7.270 20 ...the right men will give a permanent direction to the fortunes of a state.
    Suc 7.303 21 ...what is specially true of love is that it is a state of extreme impressionability;...
    Suc 7.308 2 The searching tests to apply to every new pretender are amount and quality,--what does he add? and what is the state of mind he leaves me in?
    OA 7.320 3 Age is comely...in chairs of state and ceremony...
    SA 8.95 2 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight.
    SA 8.101 7 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments. Every country wishes this, and each has taken its own method to secure such service to the state.
    SA 8.102 1 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories. These needs gave their character to the public debates in every village and state.
    Elo2 8.109 3 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    Elo2 8.117 20 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests, whether of state or property, crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    Elo2 8.118 5 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions, and in the state with seats in the cabinet...
    Elo2 8.120 23 The voice...is a delicate index of the state of mind.
    Res 8.140 17 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
    Res 8.141 14 We Americans have got suppled into the state of melioration.
    QO 8.201 20 ...[Genius] knows that...that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything.
    PC 8.210 24 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true nobles, by which the self-respect of each town and state is enriched.
    PC 8.218 12 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
    Imtl 8.323 20 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it.
    Imtl 8.330 25 The healthy state of mind is the love of life.
    Imtl 8.331 3 ...what is called great and powerful life-the administration of large affairs, in commerce, in the courts, in the state,-is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
    Imtl 8.339 6 Franklin said, Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life.
    Imtl 8.347 15 Future state is an illusion for the ever-present state.
    Imtl 8.347 16 Future state is an illusion for the ever-present state.
    Imtl 8.349 5 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the farthest east and west.
    Imtl 8.350 23 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven...for the like of them are not to be gained by men. I will give them to thee, but do not ask the question of the state of the soul after death.
    Dem1 10.11 23 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Dem1 10.24 6 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    Aris 10.33 6 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit...
    Aris 10.36 12 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities. In science...in social discourse, as in the state, it is the same thing.
    Aris 10.49 4 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed.
    PerF 10.83 19 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man]...that he is to deal absolutely in the world, as if he alone were a system and a state...
    Chr2 10.120 21 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them.
    Edc1 10.126 12 ...when one and the same man passes out of the torpid into the perceiving state...all limits disappear.
    Edc1 10.129 2 Every one has a trust of power,-every man, every boy a jurisdiction, whether it be over a cow...or the laws of a state.
    Supl 10.170 13 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade.
    SovE 10.194 24 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he has lost all private interests and regards...
    SovE 10.202 13 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul;...
    SovE 10.206 26 We in America are charged...that...we look at and will bear nothing above us in the state...
    Prch 10.225 5 ...it is clear...is it not, that...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give...not more facts, nor new combinations, but divination, or direct intuition of the state of men and things?
    Prch 10.233 21 Inspiration will have...the ascending state;...
    Plu 10.314 7 [Plutarch] believes that the souls of infants pass immediately into a better and more divine state.
    Plu 10.317 13 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss.
    LLNE 10.350 12 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good Fourier knew what those creatures should have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere;...
    LLNE 10.357 22 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society;...
    MMEm 10.403 22 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards...
    MMEm 10.412 16 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    MMEm 10.416 4 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome. Oh, could this state of mind continue, death would not be longed for.
    MMEm 10.425 15 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    MMEm 10.426 3 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had...applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor element.
    SlHr 10.441 9 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man, answering as sovereign state to sovereign state;...
    SlHr 10.441 10 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man, answering as sovereign state to sovereign state;...
    GSt 10.505 6 ...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    HDC 11.28 4 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./
    HDC 11.45 15 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...
    HDC 11.70 16 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope, should the state of our public affairs require it, that they will still remain watchful and persevering;...
    HDC 11.71 5 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
    HDC 11.80 4 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...
    LVB 11.96 7 I write thus, sir [Van Buren], to inform you of the state of mind these Indian tidings have awakened here...
    EWI 11.110 25 In the [West Indian] islands was an ominous state of cruel and licentious society;...
    EWI 11.121 4 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are as free...as any that we know of in any country.
    EWI 11.126 7 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that if the state of things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    EWI 11.139 4 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.
    EWI 11.139 12 What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.
    EWI 11.141 23 ...the white has, for ages, done what he could to keep the negro in that hoggish state.
    War 11.152 16 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed in God's name, too, when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    War 11.156 24 Nothing is plainer than that the sympathy with war is a juvenile and temporary state.
    War 11.162 21 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    War 11.163 27 ...always we are daunted by the appearances; not seeing that their whole value lies at bottom in the state of mind.
    War 11.164 5 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
    War 11.164 6 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to...their state of thought.
    War 11.165 11 ...when a truth appears...it will plant a colony, a state, nations and half a globe full of men.
    War 11.166 25 War and peace thus resolve themselves into a mercury of the state of cultivation.
    War 11.171 7 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    War 11.171 8 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    War 11.171 27 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man] should not ask of the state protection;...
    War 11.172 1 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should ask nothing of the state;...
    War 11.172 2 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...
    War 11.173 9 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    FSLC 11.179 16 I have lived all my life in this state [Massachusetts], and never had any experience of personal inconvenience from the laws, until now.
    FSLC 11.179 23 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation and of the same state of public feeling, as the barometer is of the weight of the air...
    FSLC 11.198 16 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken, necessary functionaries...in a state, but to whom the dislike and the ban of society universally attaches.
    FSLC 11.206 26 I pass to say a few words to the question, What shall we do? 1. What in our federal capacity is our relation to the nation? 2. And what as citizens of a state?
    FSLC 11.210 27 Massachusetts is a little state: countries have been great by ideas.
    FSLC 11.212 21 We must make a small state great, by making every man in it true.
    AsSu 11.247 6 I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one state.
    AsSu 11.247 9 Life has not parity of value in the free state and in the slave state.
    AsSu 11.248 7 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    AKan 11.257 14 We must have aid [for Kansas] from individuals,-we must also have aid from the state.
    JBB 11.272 5 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    ACiv 11.298 23 The state of the country fills us with anxiety and stern duties.
    ACiv 11.298 26 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.299 1 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.299 6 ...the rude and early state of society does not work well with the later...
    ACiv 11.301 6 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.
    ACiv 11.301 10 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners.
    ACiv 11.302 20 [Government] has, of necessity, in any crisis of the state, the absolute powers of a dictator.
    ACiv 11.309 20 We want a state of things in which crime shall not pay.
    ACiv 11.310 11 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.
    ALin 11.334 9 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph of the good sense of mankind...
    HCom 11.344 2 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    SMC 11.352 23 ...only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    SMC 11.365 25 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard Barrett received a commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
    EdAd 11.387 4 We have no sympathy with that boyish egotism, hoarse with cheering for one side, for one state, for one town...
    Koss 11.399 25 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...that it is a state of war;...
    Wom 11.410 10 ...[Women] are always making...that state of art, of decoration...in which they best appear.
    Scot 11.465 25 [Scott] saw...in the historical aristocracy the benefits to the state which Burke claimed for it;...
    ChiE 11.472 27 [Confucius's] morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day.
    CPL 11.502 23 ...it is our own state of mind at any time that makes our estimate of life and the world.
    CPL 11.508 1 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are...only used in the off-hours, only in the pause, and, as it were, the sleep, or passive state of the mind.
    FRep 11.509 1 There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
    FRep 11.519 12 Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to the state.
    FRep 11.520 3 Our politics are full of adventurers, who having by education and social innocence a good repute in the state, break away from the law of honesty...
    FRep 11.541 1 We want a state of things in which crime will not pay;...
    FRep 11.541 2 We want...a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
    FRep 11.543 18 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures the foundations of the state...
    PLT 12.23 25 ...A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.
    PLT 12.24 20 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function, the germination, growth, state of melioration...in short, all the accidents of the plant.
    PLT 12.48 10 ...the whole ponderous machinery of the state has really for its aim just to place this skill of each.
    PLT 12.60 19 The truest state of mind rested in becomes false.
    II 12.68 22 ...what is Inspiration? It is this Instinct, whose normal state is passive, at last put in action.
    II 12.72 4 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    II 12.77 16 ...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.
    II 12.78 1 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...
    Mem 12.107 1 When the body is in a quiescent state...it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.
    CInt 12.127 5 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.
    CL 12.140 21 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part...to undergo a change of state.
    CL 12.143 13 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. The depth and subtlety of the eyes varies exceedingly with the state of the stomach...
    CL 12.143 21 There is no good walk in that state [Illinois].
    Bost 12.202 11 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state...
    Bost 12.205 18 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is...the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.
    MAng1 12.216 26 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, Beauty; a name which, in our artificial state of society, sounds fanciful and impertinent.
    MAng1 12.236 18 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    Milt1 12.251 18 [Milton's Areopagitica]...plainly presupposes a very peculiar state of society.
    Milt1 12.251 19 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...
    Milt1 12.268 1 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task, by which he might serve the state daily...
    Milt1 12.271 9 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom; of freedom in the house, in the state, in the church;...
    Milt1 12.278 20 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against, though their end was hostile to the state; so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    MLit 12.309 2 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
    AgMs 12.360 22 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men. But in that case, the state should not be taxed to pay for it.
    AgMs 12.363 9 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have reared a family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
    EurB 12.365 18 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe...
    EurB 12.376 23 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property...should pay its full tax to the state.
    PPr 12.381 16 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the state shall provide at least schoolmaster's education for all the citizens;...
    Let 12.396 8 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves, that our people are busied with these projects of a better social state...
    Let 12.398 7 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...
    Trag 12.414 1 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose, which only revealed to him his vagabond state.

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    MR 1.248 3 We are to revise the whole of our social structure, the State, the school...
    MR 1.253 25 The State must consider the poor man...
    LT 1.284 25 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.
    Con 1.321 27 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry...do not weaken the State...
    YA 1.376 1 I am the State, said the French Louis.
    YA 1.380 27 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground;...
    YA 1.389 5 I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.
    YA 1.391 4 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that he imparts strength to the State...
    YA 1.391 10 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals, who, like the Roman or the Spartan, lent his own spirit to the State and made it great.
    YA 1.391 14 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike ephemeral.
    YA 1.391 20 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    Chr1 3.92 9 There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war, or the State, or letters;...
    Nat2 3.174 7 I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the State with these dangerous auxiliaries [of nature].
    Pol1 3.197 10 Fear, Craft and Avarice/ Cannot rear a State./
    Pol1 3.197 25 When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Pol1 3.199 1 In dealing with the State we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal...
    Pol1 3.200 9 ...the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen;...
    Pol1 3.201 14 The history of the State sketches in coarse outline the progress of thought...
    Pol1 3.204 10 ...there is an instinctive sense...that truly the only interest for the consideration of the State is persons;...
    Pol1 3.208 3 Every actual State is corrupt.
    Pol1 3.208 7 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?
    Pol1 3.208 11 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties, into which each State divides itself, of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.
    Pol1 3.216 6 To educate the wise man the State exists...
    Pol1 3.216 7 ...with the appearance of the wise man the State expires.
    Pol1 3.216 8 The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary.
    Pol1 3.216 9 The wise man is the State.
    Pol1 3.219 23 The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
    Pol1 3.221 4 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    Pol1 3.221 8 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who have pretended this design...have admitted in some manner the supremacy of the bad State.
    NR 3.240 5 ...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
    NER 3.255 27 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who reply to the assessor and to the clerk of court that they do not know the State...
    NER 3.279 19 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church, of his equality to the State, and of his equality to every other man.
    NER 3.280 20 ...as a man is equal to the Church and equal to the State, so he is equal to every other man.
    MoS 4.151 8 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models. So did the Church, the State, college, court, social circle, and all the institutions.
    MoS 4.157 24 Is not the State a question?
    MoS 4.157 26 All society is divided in opinion on the subject of the State.
    MoS 4.176 18 I like not the French celerity,--a new Church and State once a week.
    ET3 5.37 15 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    ET10 5.154 16 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
    F 6.34 22 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society...have contrived to make of this terror the most harmless and energetic form of a State.
    Civ 7.23 7 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Civ 7.23 25 Right position of woman in the State is another index [of civilization].
    Civ 7.34 2 ...if there be...a country...where public debts and private debts outside of the State are repudiated;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Civ 7.34 23 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    DL 7.133 12 Beside these aims [of the household], Society is weak and the State an instrusion.
    Cour 7.261 13 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State.
    OA 7.315 23 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...heroic with Stoical precepts, with a Roman eye to the claims of the State;...
    PerF 10.86 22 The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us and we do not know enough to be free. I hope better of the State.
    Chr2 10.91 19 ...we say in our modern politics...that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Chr2 10.112 1 We...want power to drive the ponderous State.
    Edc1 10.125 24 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
    Prch 10.218 24 ...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things. No Church, no State emerges;...
    Plu 10.310 25 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    LLNE 10.325 16 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
    LLNE 10.326 9 The former generations...sacrificed uniformly the citizen to the State.
    SlHr 10.438 16 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.438 26 ...when the votes of the Free States, as shown in the recent election in the State of Pennsylvania, had disappointed the hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    Thor 10.454 9 ...[Thoreau] refused to pay a tax to the State;...
    Thor 10.466 15 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...
    GSt 10.507 9 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is not a town in the remote State of Kansas that will not weep with you at the loss of its founder;...
    GSt 10.507 11 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed...
    HDC 11.42 21 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.
    HDC 11.44 1 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    HDC 11.81 22 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    HDC 11.81 26 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord], and asked the town whether they would have it for the law of the State?
    HDC 11.82 1 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts], proposed by the Convention chosen for that purpose, was accepted by the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.84 24 ...the town must save that the State may spend.
    LVB 11.90 4 Even in our distant State some good rumor of [the Cherokees'] worth and civility has arrived.
    EWI 11.130 25 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has...rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    EWI 11.131 12 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
    EWI 11.131 17 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
    EWI 11.131 26 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
    EWI 11.132 7 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.133 9 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    EWI 11.134 26 ...let the citizens in their primary capacity...say to the government of the State, and of the Union, that government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party;...
    FSLC 11.185 6 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity, and the health and honor of their native State, but canting fanaticism...
    FSLC 11.187 26 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending in our own State, on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being shot...to get away from his driver...
    FSLN 11.219 26 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide...
    EdAd 11.390 1 The State, like the individual, should rest on an ideal basis.
    EdAd 11.390 12 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
    Wom 11.420 7 ...all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.

State of Carolina, n. (1)

    EWI 11.133 3 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?

State of Massachusetts, n. (2)

    EWI 11.133 2 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?
    FSLN 11.226 15 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...

State Street, Boston, Mass (6)

    MR 1.230 12 Behold, State Street thinks...
    Wth 6.103 27 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    SA 8.88 4 There are always slovens in State Street or Wall Street, who are not less considered.
    Insp 8.288 27 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem.
    EWI 11.131 23 The rich men may walk in State Street, but they walk without honor;...
    CInt 12.126 7 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.

State Street, n. (2)

    MoL 10.246 17 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues...
    LLNE 10.344 27 State Street had an instinct that [the Transcendentalists] invalidated contracts and threatened the stability of stocks;...

state, v. (18)

    Nat 1.67 5 ...the problems to be solved are precisely those which the physiologist and the naturalist omit to state.
    MN 1.198 19 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    Hist 2.39 19 ...it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
    MoS 4.156 18 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them?
    MoS 4.178 18 Or shall I state it thus?--The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.
    GoW 4.281 17 There must be a man behind the book; a personality...which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise;...
    F 6.5 3 ...let us honestly state the facts.
    Art2 7.40 13 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
    Elo1 7.85 17 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...
    SA 8.86 18 State your opinion without apology.
    PC 8.224 19 State the sun, and you state the planets, and conversely.
    SlHr 10.445 2 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case. He soon possessed it, and he never possessed it better, and he was equally ready at any moment to state the facts.
    LS 11.5 3 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do. I shall now endeavor to state distinctly my reasons for these two opinions.
    LS 11.16 22 I proceed to state a few objections that in my judgment lie against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
    LVB 11.93 5 ...would it not be a higher indecorum coldly to argue a matter like [the relocation of the Cherokees]? We only state the fact that a crime is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude...
    LVB 11.95 20 I will at least state to you [Van Buren] this fact, and show you how plain and humane people...regard the policy of the government...
    TPar 11.286 6 Theodore Parker was...a man of study, fit for a man of the world; with decided opinions and plenty of power to state them;...
    PPr 12.385 17 We are at some loss how to state what strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...

statecraft, n. (2)

    ET8 5.141 15 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France...of Schleswig Holstein, though overborne by the statecraft of the rulers at last.
    GSt 10.504 9 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker baffles all statecraft...

stated, v. (30)

    DSA 1.121 21 These [divine] laws refuse to be adequately stated.
    LT 1.260 23 Let [Conservatism's] side be fairly stated.
    LT 1.268 12 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation, and stand on no argument but possession. They have reason also, and, as I think, better reason than is commonly stated.
    SR 2.57 4 Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place?
    Comp 2.93 21 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    SL 2.131 22 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might.
    SwM 4.116 24 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied in all poetry...
    SwM 4.127 12 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated without Gothicism...
    ET5 5.83 3 This [English] common-sense is a perception...of laws that can be stated, and of laws than cannot be stated...
    ET5 5.83 4 This [English] common-sense is a perception...of laws that can be stated, and of laws than cannot be stated...
    ET7 5.125 3 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel...
    ET10 5.160 18 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.
    Wsp 6.202 4 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    Art2 7.48 6 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay...
    WD 7.162 22 Malthus, when he stated that the mouths went on multiplying geometrically and the food only arithmetically, forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    Clbs 7.230 11 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated.
    SA 8.100 14 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
    Elo2 8.116 13 The silence and coldness after the meeting is opened and the purpose of it stated, are not encouraging.
    PC 8.222 4 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were found already prepared for it. The fact stated accorded with the auguries or divinations of the human mind.
    EzRy 10.381 5 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving nineteen children...
    EzRy 10.383 9 To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own diary, and stated nearly in his own words, I can only add a few traits from memory.
    Thor 10.458 15 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
    Thor 10.458 22 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
    LS 11.13 27 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.
    FSLC 11.202 26 [Webster] saw things as they were, and he stated them so.
    FSLN 11.222 16 ...in his argument [Webster] was intellectual,-stated his fact pure of all personality...
    ACiv 11.304 11 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation. It has been stated with great ability by several of its leading advocates.
    FRO2 11.488 9 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical. I think that to be, as Mr. Abbot has stated it in his form, the one difference remaining.
    PLT 12.40 20 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition;...
    MLit 12.313 19 We say, in accordance with the general view I have stated, that the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...

state-house, n. (5)

    Pol1 3.197 24 When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    DL 7.107 14 If a man wishes to acquaint himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.
    FSLC 11.199 2 [Webster's] final settlement has dislocated the foundations. The state-house shakes like a tent.
    AKan 11.258 5 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them hang the halls of the state-house with black crape...
    TPar 11.288 9 It will not be...in the state-house, the proclamations of governors...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...

State-House, n. (1)

    EWI 11.131 19 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler; the State-House in Boston is a play-house;...if they make laws which they cannot execute.

stateliest, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.6 15 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...

state-line, n. (2)

    SMC 11.353 20 Once we were patriots up to the town-bounds, or the state-line.
    SMC 11.353 23 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...

stateliness, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.136 25 I prefer a tendency to stateliness to an excess of fellowship.
    RBur 11.439 22 ...We are here to hold our parliament [the Burns Festival] with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages. Those famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness and better singers than we...but they could not have better reason.

stately, adj. (10)

    Hist 2.31 10 The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism. Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.
    Hsm1 2.256 26 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
    Exp 3.58 26 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    ET13 5.216 27 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...at once domestical and stately.
    SS 7.1 8 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/...
    Elo1 7.71 25 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. ... He seems to me like a stately ram, who goes as a master of the flock.
    Boks 7.196 9 Dr. Johnson said he always went into stately shops;...
    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].
    MLit 12.312 22 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...of Hardiknute, Stately stept he east the wa,/ And stately stept he west,/...
    MLit 12.312 23 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...of Hardiknute, Stately stept he east the wa,/ And stately stept he west,/...

statement, n. (79)

    Nat 1.61 4 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...
    MN 1.198 5 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of scientific statement?
    MN 1.213 20 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact...
    Con 1.305 25 On these and the like grounds of general statement, conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
    Hist 2.38 10 I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency.
    SR 2.65 14 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions...
    Comp 2.96 10 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    SL 2.153 18 That statement only is fit to be made public which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.
    Cir 2.305 23 The new statement is always hated by the old...
    Cir 2.309 26 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus...
    Cir 2.310 1 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact that all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
    Cir 2.314 12 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft...who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
    Cir 2.314 16 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost? Yet is that statement approximate also, and not final.
    Exp 3.75 11 The new statement will comprise the scepticisms as well as the faiths of society...
    Exp 3.75 15 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement...
    NR 3.241 6 To embroil the confusion and make it impossible to arrive at any general statement,--when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    PPh 4.55 13 [Plato]...is resolved that the two poles of thought shall appear in his statement.
    SwM 4.105 20 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence. His statement of these doctrines deserves to be studied in his books.
    SwM 4.117 11 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement...
    MoS 4.165 3 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted...
    MoS 4.170 15 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line...dispirits us.
    MoS 4.182 14 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
    NMW 4.256 15 ...I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men of business, against the stationary or conservative party. I omitted then to say, what is material to the statement, namely that these two parties differ only as young and old.
    GoW 4.287 7 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET8 5.134 1 No man can claim...to put upon the company with the loud statement of his crotchets or personalities.
    ET12 5.205 2 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year. But this plausible statement may deceive a reader unacquainted with the fact that the principal teaching relied on is private tuition.
    ET13 5.225 20 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day.
    ET14 5.242 15 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the identity-philosophy of Schelling, couched in the statement that all difference is quantitative.
    ET15 5.268 21 A statement of fact in The [London] Times is as reliable as a citation from Hansard.
    F 6.13 1 I find the coincidence of the extremes of Eastern and Western speculation in the daring statement of Schelling...
    F 6.35 19 No statement of the Universe can have any soundness which does not admit [Fate's] ascending effort.
    Wth 6.115 6 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to...get a juster statement of his thought, in the garden-walk.
    Ctr 6.161 7 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Wsp 6.229 26 ...for ourselves it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make...
    Ill 6.324 19 The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope...
    Elo1 7.85 10 ...[the orator] must have power of statement...
    Elo1 7.86 14 That is what we go to the court-house for,--the statement of the fact...
    Elo1 7.88 6 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law...
    Elo1 7.88 7 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law...
    Elo1 7.89 1 This, indeed, is what speech is for,--to make the statement;...
    Elo1 7.90 15 A popular assembly...is commanded by these two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Elo1 7.90 20 Statement, method, imagery...are keys which the orator holds;...
    Elo1 7.91 24 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive...
    Elo1 7.91 25 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it...
    Elo1 7.93 26 ...first and last, [eloquence] must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.
    Suc 7.294 8 ...I gain all points, if I can reach my companion with any statement which teaches him his own worth.
    PI 8.12 11 A figurative statement arrests attention...
    Elo2 8.117 12 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    Elo2 8.129 26 ...we must come to the main matter [of eloquence], of power of statement...
    QO 8.179 15 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.
    PPo 8.239 11 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos...whom no people have surpassed in the grandeur of their ethical statement.
    Imtl 8.332 27 One argument of future life is...our pain at every skeptical statement.
    Imtl 8.345 23 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
    Dem1 10.12 19 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Edc1 10.152 1 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action...
    Supl 10.167 13 The English mind...likes literal statement;...
    Supl 10.168 25 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was the power of plain statement...
    SovE 10.202 2 [A man] may throw himself upon some sharp statement of one fact...with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    Prch 10.218 7 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...
    Prch 10.223 25 ...there is a statement of religion possible which makes all skepticism absurd.
    Prch 10.227 24 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language. Their statement is grown as fabulous as Dante's Inferno.
    Plu 10.320 17 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
    LLNE 10.352 25 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order externized...
    SlHr 10.441 25 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might...
    SlHr 10.444 26 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case.
    Thor 10.467 18 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence, yet appeared in gravest statement...
    Thor 10.479 7 The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every statement in a paradox.
    LS 11.19 13 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    EWI 11.121 23 The legislature [of Jamaica], in their reply, echo the governor's statement...
    War 11.159 1 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
    FSLC 11.202 22 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight statement...
    FSLN 11.222 12 In [Webster's] statement things lay in daylight;...
    TPar 11.290 21 By the incessant power of his statement, [Theodore Parker] made and held a party.
    EPro 11.324 11 The popular statement of the opponents of the [Civil] war abroad is the impossibility of our success.
    ChiE 11.474 12 ...I have read in the journals a statement from an English source, that Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    FRO2 11.485 9 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks, instead of the more extensive statement which I had hoped to offer them.
    PLT 12.6 18 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations;...
    PLT 12.40 21 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition; and contrariwise, that every general statement is poetical again by being particularized or impersonated.
    AgMs 12.364 4 ...so much wisdom seemed to lie under all [Edmund Hosmer's] statement that it deserved a record.

statements, n. (13)

    MN 1.198 22 Statements of the infinite are usually felt to be unjust to the finite...
    LT 1.276 6 [These reforms] are the simplest statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong.
    Con 1.299 22 ...whilst we do not go beyond general statements, it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
    Comp 2.109 1 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations, which are always...the statements of an absolute truth without qualification.
    Elo1 7.85 22 In a court of justice...[the audience] really wish to sift the statements and know what the truth is.
    Imtl 8.345 19 There is a drawback to the value of all statements of the doctrine [of immortality]...
    Dem1 10.8 19 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements...
    Chr2 10.93 8 If from these external statements we seek to come a little nearer to the fact, our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr2 10.97 27 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.
    Schr 10.285 23 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...
    Plu 10.310 8 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    SlHr 10.441 21 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
    FSLC 11.202 27 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in Congress...

state-paper, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.310 18 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act...

States, Eastern, n. (1)

    ALin 11.330 25 Mr. Seward...was the favorite of the Eastern States.

States, Free, n. (2)

    SlHr 10.438 25 ...when the votes of the Free States, as shown in the recent election in the State of Pennsylvania, had disappointed the hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    FSLN 11.233 19 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens.

States, Grecian, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.79 9 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man. It was men of this stamp that the Grecian States used to ask of Sparta for generals.

States, Middle, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 12 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together, from all parts of New England and also from the Middle States, men of every shade of opinion...

states, n. (77)

    Tran 1.353 3 These two states of thought diverge every moment, and stand in wild contrast.
    YA 1.369 25 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have been commercial...
    YA 1.371 17 From Washington...through all its...states...[America] is a country of beginnings...
    YA 1.390 26 ...the terror of old people and of vicious people is lest the Union of these states be destroyed;...
    Hist 2.23 17 Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind...
    Comp 2.115 13 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    Cir 2.320 11 Of lower states...we can tell somewhat;...
    Int 2.331 3 This instinctive action...becomes richer and more frequent in its informations through all states of culture.
    Int 2.336 19 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Int 2.337 18 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
    Art1 2.358 11 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...that they restore to us the simplest states of mind, and are religious.
    Exp 3.72 13 ...there is that in us which...ranks all sensations and states of mind.
    Pol1 3.207 9 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...and nowise transferable to other states of society.
    Pol1 3.207 19 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form, but to other states of society, in which religion consecrated the monarchical, that and not this was expedient.
    Pol1 3.211 7 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...
    SwM 4.125 11 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states...
    MoS 4.166 27 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate the dry fact, as I see it;...
    MoS 4.176 20 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.
    MoS 4.176 23 What is the mean of many states; of all the states?
    MoS 4.184 22 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor deserted by his states...
    ET12 5.209 19 Oxford, which equals in wealth several of the smaller European states, shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET15 5.261 18 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned. Thus England rids herself of those incrustations which have been the ruin of old states.
    Wth 6.99 5 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer.
    Wth 6.109 27 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity...the building of cities and of states...
    Wth 6.112 18 The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work;...
    Civ 7.31 5 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself and to every city, village and hamlet in the states, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
    Civ 7.31 22 I see the immense material prosperity...states on states...
    Elo1 7.88 2 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...
    DL 7.129 6 ...when men shall meet as they should, as states meet...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    Farm 7.139 18 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy.
    Farm 7.141 19 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    PI 8.38 19 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded.
    PI 8.68 23 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted.
    Insp 8.294 23 We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of contemplation and continuous thought.
    MoL 10.250 20 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas, the subtle force which creates Nature and men and states;...
    Schr 10.282 4 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...
    EzRy 10.393 12 With extraordinary states of mind...[Ezra Ripley] had no sympathy...
    EzRy 10.393 12 ...with states of enthusiasm or enlarged speculation, [Ezra Ripley] had no sympathy...
    MMEm 10.426 13 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life! Even Fame which lives in other states of Virtue, palls.
    GSt 10.505 11 When one remembers...[George Stearns's] journeys and residences in many states;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    FSLC 11.207 7 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states...
    FSLC 11.208 6 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].
    FSLC 11.208 17 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    FSLC 11.211 18 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean...Massachusetts, as she is the mother of all the New England states...
    FSLC 11.212 10 Let the attitude of the states be firm.
    FSLN 11.234 2 [Official papers] are no guaranty to the free states.
    FSLN 11.234 3 [Official papers] are a guaranty to the slave states that, as they have hitherto met with no repulse, they shall meet with none.
    FSLN 11.244 20 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it.
    FSLN 11.244 21 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it.
    AKan 11.260 27 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery.
    JBB 11.270 13 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...the sympathizers with him in all the states;...
    JBB 11.270 18 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man...who sees what a tiger's thirst threatens him in the malignity of public sentiment in the slave states.
    ACiv 11.298 25 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization...
    ACiv 11.299 4 ...a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy: we have attempted to hold these two states of society under one law.
    ACiv 11.303 15 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...
    ACiv 11.303 18 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded. The free states yielded...
    ACiv 11.305 3 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    ACiv 11.306 3 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    EPro 11.315 1 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    EPro 11.318 3 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated...the secession of three states...
    EPro 11.321 26 Every acre in the free states gained substantial value on the twenty-second of September.
    EPro 11.323 9 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession impossible...
    EPro 11.323 26 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
    EPro 11.325 1 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper...
    EPro 11.325 18 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.
    ALin 11.329 21 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    EdAd 11.389 12 ...the retributions of armed states are not less sure and signal than those which come to private felons.
    RBur 11.439 17 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race, in all its kingdoms, colonies and states...to keep the festival.
    Humb 11.456 3 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    FRep 11.543 27 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral which...has the force to draw men and states and planets to their good.
    PLT 12.18 27 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...the codes and heraldry of states;...
    PLT 12.23 26 ...if one remembers how contagious are the moral states of men, how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...
    PLT 12.44 1 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    II 12.77 23 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states;...
    CL 12.144 25 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    Bost 12.200 5 America is growing like a cloud...states on states;...
    Let 12.398 21 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...

States, n. (11)

    YA 1.380 21 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth, besides several others undertaken by citizens of Massachusetts within the territory of other States.
    YA 1.387 25 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity... Which should be that nation but these States?
    Pol1 3.204 26 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age. With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors can not go.
    Pow 6.81 13 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    HDC 11.50 4 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one.
    EWI 11.130 6 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.131 14 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
    EWI 11.134 9 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    FSLC 11.208 9 We shall one day bring the States shoulder to shoulder and the citizens man to man to exterminate slavery.
    FSLN 11.227 8 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from them that this truth was the foundation of States.
    JBB 11.268 27 [John Brown] believes in the Union of the States...

States, Northern, n. (1)

    AKan 11.259 21 ...Union is a conspiracy against the Northern States which the Northern States are to have the privilege of paying for;...

States, Slave, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.233 21 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States...

States, Southern, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.146 24 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.
    EPro 11.324 25 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...

States, United, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.199 6 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets...

States, United, Constitutio (2)

    HDC 11.82 6 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States...
    EWI 11.131 11 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.

States, United, Court, n. (1)

    JBB 11.272 19 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?

States, United, n. (16)

    YA 1.363 13 Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in the United States?
    ET10 5.159 1 ...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.
    Elo1 7.69 4 ...neither can the Southerner in the United States, nor the Irish, compare [in eloquence] with the lively inhabitant of the south of Europe.
    SA 8.91 17 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...
    Elo2 8.132 16 If there ever was a country where eloquence was a power, it is the United States.
    LVB 11.91 3 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    LVB 11.91 11 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...
    LVB 11.92 14 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    LVB 11.92 22 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad?
    FSLN 11.219 16 ...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 high station, a President of the United States...but men without self-respect...
    AsSu 11.250 19 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    AKan 11.259 2 Who doubts that Kansas would have been very well settled, if the United States had let it alone?
    JBB 11.271 7 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner.
    JBB 11.271 11 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...
    FRep 11.531 3 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...
    FRep 11.539 14 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.

States, United, of America, (1)

    ET4 5.45 3 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...

States, United, Senate, n. (4)

    Elo2 8.122 26 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams, at that time a member of the United States Senate at Washington, was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    Imtl 8.331 11 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate...
    Imtl 8.331 18 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues...
    GSt 10.504 4 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...

states, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.264 13 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.

States, Western, n. (1)

    HCom 11.343 23 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States...I think the little state bigger than I knew.

statesman, n. (15)

    AmS 1.83 2 Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
    MR 1.250 25 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses...
    Pol1 3.197 21 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Pol1 3.199 14 ...the old statesman knows that society is fluid;...
    NR 3.241 13 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less.
    ET13 5.225 27 The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail...
    Bhr 6.175 21 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life in courts...without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    PC 8.210 1 Mark...the large resources of a statesman...in this age.
    Imtl 8.339 10 Every really able man...a statesman, an orator...considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    EWI 11.137 8 ...every liberal mind, poet, preacher, moralist, statesman, has had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    FSLC 11.201 25 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored, as the manly statesman to whom the choicest gifts of Nature had been accorded, disown him...
    FSLC 11.207 17 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?
    ACiv 11.301 5 A democratic statesman said to me, long since, that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.
    ACiv 11.308 5 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    Humb 11.459 4 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...

statesmen, n. (26)

    MR 1.254 13 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast the vain diplomacy of statesmen...would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    SR 2.57 18 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...
    SL 2.145 17 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right. All the secrets of that state of mind he can compel. This is a law which statesmen use in practice.
    Pol1 3.204 23 The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    ET6 5.111 10 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen learn the irresistibility of the tide of custom...
    ET9 5.148 20 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    Elo1 7.75 13 One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
    Elo1 7.75 16 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    OA 7.323 2 We still feel the force...of Franklin, Jefferson and Adams, the wise and heroic statesmen;...
    PC 8.209 23 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian charity proposed by statesmen...
    PC 8.230 27 Around that immovable persistency of yours, statesmen, legislatures, must revolve...
    MoL 10.241 6 You go to be teachers, to become...statesmen, naturalists, philanthropists;...
    MoL 10.257 22 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.
    MMEm 10.423 6 A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians and statesmen such as the papers bring.
    LVB 11.95 1 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    EWI 11.138 20 Up to this day we have allowed to statesmen a paramount social standing...
    War 11.153 20 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece, and infusing a new and more enlarged public spirit into the councils of their statesmen.
    FSLN 11.227 6 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from them that this truth was the foundation of States.
    FSLN 11.240 12 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    FSLN 11.242 16 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.
    FSLN 11.242 19 ...if audiences forget themselves, statesmen do not.
    AKan 11.259 15 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...and we free statesmen, as accomplices to the guilt, ever in the power of the grand offender.
    JBS 11.281 16 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
    ALin 11.336 6 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen...the proverbial ingratitude of statesmen;...
    EdAd 11.389 18 ...we should think our pains well bestowed if we could cure the infatuation of statesmen...
    FRep 11.543 3 Happily we are under better guidance than of statesmen.

State-Street, Boston, Mass (1)

    Prd1 2.234 14 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the State-Street prudence of buying by the acre to sell by the foot;...

State-street, n. (1)

    GoW 4.268 21 [A man] must be good of his kind. That is...all that State-street, all that the common-sense of mankind asks.

stating, v. (3)

    AmS 1.106 7 I might not carry with me the feeling of my audience in stating my own belief.
    F 6.4 24 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
    LS 11.24 12 I have no hostility to this institution [the Lord's Supper]; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it.

station, n. (7)

    Comp 2.122 14 [The soul's] life is a progress, and not a station.
    OS 2.276 12 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world...
    ET11 5.184 14 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet; and their weight of property and station gives them a virtual nomination of the other half;...
    Wsp 6.230 8 ...cleave to the truth...and you gain a station from which you cannot be dislodged.
    MMEm 10.413 17 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station;...
    FSLN 11.219 15 ...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 high station...but men without self-respect...
    Bost 12.188 13 [Boston] is...not...a railroad station...grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...

Station, Rappahannock, Virg (1)

    SMC 11.371 2 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service at Rappahannock Station;...

stationariness, n. (1)

    DSA 1.144 11 The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.

stationary, adj. (7)

    LT 1.268 22 Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    Exp 3.55 9 When at night I look at the moon and stars, I seem stationary, and they to hurry.
    NMW 4.256 13 ...Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men of business, against the stationary or conservative party.
    Pow 6.57 17 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Ill 6.311 11 Once we fancied the earth a plane, and stationary.
    Res 8.140 14 The marked events in history...the arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    AgMs 12.361 9 ...our [New England] people are not stationary...

stationer, n. (1)

    ET11 5.191 23 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the linen-draper and the stationer were out of pocket and refusing to trust him...

stationing, v. (1)

    ET5 5.86 17 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling, or stationing his ships one on the outer bow and another on the outer quarter of each of the enemy's, were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.

stations, n. (2)

    PLT 12.49 17 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation...and plenteous stopping at little stations?
    Milt1 12.265 9 ...[Milton] replies to the...calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with...labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render...obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations.

statist, n. (1)

    Suc 7.303 12 The keen statist reckons by tens and hundreds;...

Statistics, Industrial, n. (1)

    YA 1.380 14 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the whole Industrial Statistics, so called.

statistics, n. (8)

    PPh 4.56 9 Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories.
    ET14 5.252 8 Nothing comes to the [English] book-shops but politics, travels, statistics, tabulation and engineering;...
    ET15 5.265 21 The statistics [on the London Times] are now quite out of date...
    Res 8.150 10 I should like to have the statistics of bold experimenting on the husbandry of mental power.
    FSLC 11.199 14 There is not a clerk but recites [slavery's] statistics;...
    ACiv 11.300 19 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery. To what purpose make more big books of these statistics?
    FRO1 11.478 21 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    Bost 12.208 6 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.

Statistics, n. (1)

    F 6.17 4 One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

statists, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.206 3 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    SwM 4.109 21 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    NMW 4.227 12 All distinguished engineers, savans, statists, report to [a man of Napoleon's stamp]...
    NMW 4.253 1 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.

Statius, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 26 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.

statuary, n. (1)

    ET16 5.284 25 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...

statue, n. (49)

    Nat 1.5 11 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the same things [unchanged essences], as in...a statue...
    AmS 1.88 27 ...love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
    MN 1.206 10 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own; if not into...a statue...why, then, into a trade...
    SR 2.62 4 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
    Comp 2.108 2 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...
    SL 2.155 2 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor;...
    Lov1 2.179 26 The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible...
    Art1 2.349 9 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
    Art1 2.355 14 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet...a statue...
    Art1 2.357 21 There is no statue like this living man...
    Art1 2.365 2 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which needs to roll through all things...
    Art1 2.365 15 A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action.
    Art1 2.366 16 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and...convey their better sense in an oratorio, a statue, or a picture.
    Art1 2.367 8 Now men do not see nature to be beautiful, and they go to make a statue which shall be.
    Pt1 3.24 10 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden.
    Pt1 3.31 12 ...Proclus calls the universe the statue of the intellect;...
    NER 3.266 1 All the men in the world cannot make a statue walk and speak...
    MoS 4.151 4 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
    ShP 4.194 22 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ShP 4.194 22 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
    F 6.15 22 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms, in which she has only blocked her future statue...
    Pow 6.58 18 ...Thorwaldsen's statue is finished by stone-cutters;...
    Wth 6.92 17 The statue is so beautiful that it contracts no stain from the market...
    Ctr 6.143 23 Provided always the boy is teachable (for we are not proposing to make a statue out of punk), football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...
    Bhr 6.169 6 A statue has no tongue, and needs none.
    Wsp 6.223 12 If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it.
    Art2 7.40 7 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    Art2 7.44 15 The art [in sculpture and architecture] resides in the model, in the plan; for it is on that the genius of the artist is expended, not on the statue or the temple.
    Art2 7.44 17 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Art2 7.45 7 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 8 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...
    Art2 7.45 17 ...how much is there that is not original...in every statue...
    Art2 7.45 22 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as...the custom of draping a statue in classical costume.
    Art2 7.47 24 Nature...carves the best part of the statue...
    Cour 7.272 20 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...not in the statue or the Parthenon...
    Cour 7.272 25 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius.
    PerF 10.70 13 ...the marble column, the brazen statue burn under the daylight...
    Edc1 10.155 14 [the naturalist's] secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.
    MoL 10.254 3 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    Wom 11.410 3 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...a statue should stand in the air;...
    PLT 12.27 24 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.
    CInt 12.113 18 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue of Caesar or Pompey...
    Bost 12.187 26 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia.
    MAng1 12.221 12 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton;...
    MAng1 12.221 15 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.
    MAng1 12.229 13 In sculpture, [Michelangelo's] greatest work is the statue of Moses in the Church of Pietro in Vincolo, in Rome.
    MAng1 12.229 15 [Michelangelo's Moses] is a sitting statue of colossal size...
    MAng1 12.233 2 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work. For this reason he only blocked his statue.
    MAng1 12.243 13 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. Do you see that statue of Saint George? Michael Angelo asked it why it did not speak.

statues, n. (33)

    LT 1.290 8 ...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment]...statues, tombs, churches, built to its honor;...
    Hist 2.20 4 What would statues of the usual size...have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...
    Hist 2.26 3 [The Greeks] made vases, tragedies and statues, such as healthy senses should,--that is, in good taste.
    Cir 2.302 10 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice;...
    Cir 2.311 8 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god and converts the statues into fiery men...
    Art1 2.357 15 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Art1 2.359 13 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    Art1 2.363 19 ...[art] is impatient...of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are.
    Pt1 3.9 18 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house, adorned with fountains and statues...
    Mrs1 3.149 5 ...[a beautiful behavior] gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;...
    Pol1 3.212 17 Human nature expresses itself in [laws] as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads;...
    NER 3.272 25 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.
    UGM 4.21 3 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
    PPh 4.73 2 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    NMW 4.225 26 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined enjoyments of pictures, statues...
    Wth 6.92 9 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done. No matter whether he makes shoes, or statues, or laws.
    Wth 6.98 17 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    Bhr 6.174 12 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes.
    Bhr 6.174 24 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...
    DL 7.130 26 I do not undervalue the fine instruction which statues and pictures give.
    Cour 7.258 7 Lord Wellington said...When my journal appears many statues must come down.
    Suc 7.284 12 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    PI 8.25 20 [People] like to see statues;...
    PI 8.45 26 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
    SA 8.85 24 Why have you statues in your hall, but to teach you that, when the door-bell rings, you shall sit like them.
    Insp 8.280 22 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/...
    Chr2 10.105 9 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
    Edc1 10.146 12 ...[Fellowes]...brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    MoL 10.254 5 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but the temples themselves...
    MAng1 12.222 19 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to...the paintings and statues of Michael Angelo...
    MAng1 12.230 3 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo, with the grand statues of Night and Day, and Aurora and Twilight.
    MAng1 12.230 4 Several statues [by Michelangelo] of less fame, and bas-reliefs, are in Rome and Florence and Paris.
    WSL 12.349 3 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and gold-dust.

statue's, n. (1)

    ET16 5.290 16 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...

statuesque, adj. (2)

    Cir 2.311 4 In common hours, society sits cold and statuesque.
    GoW 4.285 9 ...his penetration of every secret of the fine arts will make Goethe still more statuesque.

stature, n. (11)

    AmS 1.106 21 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being, - ripened; yes, and are content to be less, so that may attain to its full stature.
    SL 2.142 11 Until he can manage to communicate himself to others in his full stature and proportion, [a man] does not yet find his vocation.
    Art1 2.360 11 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands, and will allow an adequate communication of himself, in his full stature and proportion.
    NER 3.265 7 ...in the hour in which [a man] mortgages himself to two or ten or twenty, he dwarfs himself below the stature of one.
    ET3 5.38 21 Here [in England] is...a temperature which...allows the attainment of the largest stature.
    ET4 5.47 1 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
    DL 7.123 17 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model.
    Suc 7.287 22 These boasted arts are of very recent origin. They...do not really add to our stature.
    OA 7.319 11 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time]...lose their stature, strength, beauty and senses...
    QO 8.178 13 ...he that uses [the understanding] of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
    Thor 10.461 10 [Thoreau] was of short stature, firmly built...

status, n. (3)

    PC 8.208 17 The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.
    PC 8.208 19 The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.
    PC 8.217 12 Culture alters the political status of an individual.

statute, adj. (6)

    YA 1.379 19 ...the office of statute law should be to express and not to impede the mind of mankind.
    ET18 5.301 17 At home [the English] have a certain statute hospitality.
    ET18 5.302 1 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war, or when they shall be of any nation at war with us. It is a statute and obliged hospitality and peremptorily maintained.
    F 6.23 14 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like...the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    Civ 7.33 26 ...if there be...a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    FSLC 11.205 22 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas. I hold it to be a real and not a statute union.

statute, n. (31)

    MR 1.228 25 ...not a kingdom, town, statute, rite, calling, man, or woman, but is threatened by the new spirit.
    Tran 1.359 3 ...when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    Pol1 3.200 17 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat...
    Pol1 3.200 19 The statute stands there to say, Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day?
    Pol1 3.200 21 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait...
    Pol1 3.206 19 ...by a higher law, the property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property.
    ET5 5.97 7 [English] social classes are made by statute.
    Ctr 6.132 9 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
    OA 7.328 10 What to the youth is only a guess or a hope, is in the veteran a digested statute.
    PI 8.32 1 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.
    PPo 8.248 26 A law or statute is to [Hafiz] what a fence is to a nimble school-boy,-a temptation for a jump.
    Aris 10.49 21 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating families to hereditary distinction...
    Edc1 10.151 3 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?
    FSLC 11.186 16 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    FSLC 11.186 25 ...virtue is the very self of every man. It is therefore a principle of law that an immoral contract is void, and that an immoral statute is void.
    FSLC 11.187 12 Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] which enacts the crime of kidnapping...
    FSLC 11.187 17 Pains seem to have been taken to give us in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture of right.
    FSLC 11.188 4 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch...
    FSLC 11.188 16 I had thought, I confess, what must come at last would come at first, a banding of all men against the authority of this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.194 6 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
    FSLC 11.194 20 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 11.198 19 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute...
    FSLC 11.202 11 ...passing from the ethical to the political view, I wish to place this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FSLC 11.206 2 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express; as much disunion as there is, no statute can long conceal.
    FSLC 11.211 26 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it. They avail themselves of the known probity and honor of Massachusetts, to endorse the statute.
    FSLC 11.214 1 ...there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.225 25 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    AKan 11.261 4 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law, in direct opposition to the known foundation of all law, that every immoral statute is void.
    CInt 12.123 6 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful; he works...by statute, by bribes.
    Bost 12.195 24 Many and rich are the fruits of that simple statute [establishing schools in Massachusetts].
    PPr 12.385 4 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...and yet not a word is punishable by statute.

Statute, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.195 5 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment. And thus it happens here [with the Fugitive Slave Law]: Statute fights against Statute.

statute-book, n. (6)

    AmS 1.84 2 ...the attorney [becomes] a statute-book;...
    LT 1.264 5 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than in the statute-book...
    Pol1 3.216 15 [The wise man] needs...no statute-book, for he has the lawgiver;...
    MMEm 10.408 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no statute-book of practical commandments...
    FSLC 11.206 18 ...he who writes a crime into the statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine...
    FSLC 11.212 19 [The Fugitive Slave Law] must be abrogated and wiped out of the statute-book;...

statutes, n. (9)

    Chr1 3.112 5 Could we not deal with a few persons,--with one person,-- after the unwritten statutes...
    ET4 5.64 11 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst...
    ET9 5.144 12 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living, which he pushes to folly, and the decided sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes and chancellors and horse-guards.
    ET12 5.201 25 [Oxford] is still governed by the statutes of Archbishop Laud.
    CbW 6.267 10 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or statutes...
    PI 8.63 22 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears, and think lightly of histories and statutes.
    FSLC 11.195 1 ...the sentiments, of course, write the statutes.
    FSLC 11.206 1 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express;...
    AKan 11.261 20 The President is a lawyer, and should know the statutes of the land.

Statutes, Revised, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.445 26 Had you read Swedenborg or Plotinus to [Samuel Hoar], he would have waited till you had done, and answered you out of the Revised Statutes.

staunch, adj. (1)

    YA 1.363 18 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch...

stave, v. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 20 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...

staved, v. (1)

    Schr 10.284 11 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off.

stay, v. (35)

    SR 2.71 16 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home...
    SR 2.82 12 Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.
    Comp 2.126 3 We cannot stay amid the ruins.
    Hsm1 2.246 7 Dor. Stay, Sophocles,--with this tie up my sight;/...
    Exp 3.65 14 ...stay there in thy closet and toil until the rest are agreed what to do about it.
    Exp 3.70 7 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    Mrs1 3.132 6 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...stay or go...in a new and aboriginal way;...
    NER 3.262 25 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes.
    ET2 5.30 24 The mate avers that this is the history of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys; and adds that all of them are sick of the sea, but stay in it out of pride.
    ET13 5.230 23 Where dwells the religion [of England]? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought, or gesture. They do not dwell or stay at all.
    ET18 5.301 24 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England, and to stay there...
    SS 7.8 2 If I stay, said Dante, when there was question of going to Rome, who will go? and if I go, who will stay?
    SS 7.8 4 If I stay, said Dante, when there was question of going to Rome, who will go? and if I go, who will stay?
    Cour 7.260 19 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay;...
    Cour 7.260 20 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay; but what you do with the gun will stay so.
    Suc 7.285 27 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...
    Suc 7.301 8 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities... and woo them to stay and make their home with us.
    OA 7.324 13 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July; they stay a fortnight later in mine.
    PI 8.4 7 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...
    PI 8.16 1 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye or ear...agitates us, and is not forgotten.
    SA 8.99 4 Stay at home in your mind.
    Elo2 8.116 20 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power, but...we are tired of being pushed into patriotism by people who stay at home.
    Res 8.140 6 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker, reducing it to the lowest possible terms, and there it must stay,--improves the national tongue.
    Dem1 10.20 10 Dreams retain the infirmities of our character. The good genius may be there or not, our evil genius is sure to stay.
    Aris 10.63 14 If [the man of honor] cannot vote with the poor, he should stay by himself.
    EzRy 10.388 25 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
    GSt 10.499 2 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    AKan 11.263 16 Come home and stay at home, while there is a country to save.
    ACiv 11.305 25 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates, and must stay there...
    SMC 11.361 8 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...tell [Mother] not to worry about me, for I know she would not have had me stay at home...
    CPL 11.499 14 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder, and would stay until she had looked over all his volumes which were to her taste.
    FRep 11.523 4 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good!
    FRep 11.523 14 ...if [Americans] should come to be interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the election than from their own counting-room...
    Pray 12.352 18 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them. I am tired to stay long, because my mind is not free...
    EurB 12.377 21 [The Vivian Greys] never sleep, go nowhere, stay nowhere, eat nothing, and know nobody...

stayed, v. (7)

    PPh 4.44 7 [Plato] travelled into Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time;...
    MoS 4.166 9 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick;...
    Wsp 6.214 20 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds...
    AKan 11.255 8 ...I had been wiser to have stayed at home, unskilled as I am to address a political meeting...
    JBS 11.278 13 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    Shak1 11.453 17 Had [Shakespeare's plays] been published earlier, our forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home to read them.
    CL 12.136 27 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and eggs. These parties...stayed out till nine in the evening;...

staying, v. (7)

    Comp 2.113 25 Beware of too much good staying in your hand.
    PPh 4.55 24 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    ET5 5.98 3 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.
    ET16 5.275 7 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of manfully staying in London...
    ET17 5.296 24 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
    Insp 8.289 12 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    SlHr 10.437 22 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... whilst staying in Charleston...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...

stays, n. (5)

    MoS 4.158 9 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius?
    Ill 6.322 19 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations.
    OA 7.325 2 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler resources.
    Grts 8.316 14 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
    Chr2 10.118 21 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...

stays, v. (5)

    MR 1.244 22 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the house...
    SR 2.81 3 ...the wise man stays at home...
    Fdsp 2.189 4 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./
    Imtl 8.323 14 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm;...
    FSLN 11.244 23 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it. But...whoever comes or stays away, I hope we have reached the end of our unbelief...

stead, n. (3)

    Comc 8.164 12 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    Comc 8.165 26 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/...
    SovE 10.204 12 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch...

stead, v. (2)

    OS 2.279 8 In my dealing with my child...my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing;...
    Comc 8.166 23 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./

steadfast, adj. (7)

    Hist 2.13 17 Genius detects...through all genera the steadfast type;...
    Chr2 10.102 7 Lucifer's wager in the old drama was, There is no steadfast man on earth.
    Prch 10.220 4 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns. The senses instantly transfer the reverence from the vanishing Spirit to this steadfast form.
    War 11.163 4 It is the tendency of the true interest of man to become his desire and steadfast aim.
    JBB 11.266 1 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./
    ALin 11.328 9 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    MLit 12.313 3 ...a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.

steadfastness, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.102 12 This steadfastness we indicate when we praise character.

steadied, v. (1)

    MN 1.203 3 ...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...

steadily, adv. (31)

    MN 1.197 19 We may...safely study the mind in nature, because we cannot steadily gaze on it in mind;...
    Comp 2.104 23 This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted.
    OS 2.274 10 The soul looketh steadily forwards...
    Pt1 3.35 7 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
    Pol1 3.205 10 [Persons and property] exert their power, as steadily as matter its attraction.
    Pol1 3.221 9 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
    UGM 4.28 23 ...whilst every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature, Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other.
    GoW 4.281 9 ...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end?
    ET2 5.30 3 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind, steadily and insensibly.
    ET13 5.226 17 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
    ET14 5.245 16 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied.
    CbW 6.278 17 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...
    Elo1 7.98 24 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard...
    Farm 7.142 4 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say...solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.
    SA 8.87 24 [The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed; and silently and steadily his behavior mends.
    PerF 10.79 2 The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.
    SovE 10.186 5 ...in mature life the moral element steadily rises in the regard of all reasonable men.
    SovE 10.208 15 The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
    SovE 10.214 4 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    EWI 11.139 18 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on his merits...
    War 11.158 1 By all these means, war has been steadily on the decline;...
    FRep 11.514 21 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.
    PLT 12.21 24 ...there is development...from lower to superior function... steadily ascending to man.
    Mem 12.101 12 If new impressions sometimes efface old ones, yet we steadily gain insight;...
    Bost 12.190 23 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...
    Bost 12.199 24 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until...a man should be found who should sail steadily west fixty-eight days from the port of Palos to find it...should have its happy ports...
    MAng1 12.231 10 ...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...
    MAng1 12.236 10 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.
    Milt1 12.252 2 ...by his own innate worth this man [Milton] has steadily risen in the world's reverence...
    ACri 12.287 6 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...and steadily kept this coarseness to flavor a dish else too luscious.
    MLit 12.320 15 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered...with what limited poetic talents his great and steadily growing dominion has been established.

steadiness, n. (6)

    AmS 1.102 26 ...in steadiness...let [the scholar] hold by himself;...
    GoW 4.289 27 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest... worked on for eighty years with the steadiness of his first zeal.
    ET4 5.58 17 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with... steadiness...
    ET15 5.267 20 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
    F 6.16 3 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition of strata.
    Elo1 7.77 17 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler, who, by steadiness of carriage, duped those who should have known better.

steads, v. (4)

    LE 1.171 21 Translate, collate, distil all the systems, it steads you nothing;...
    F 6.5 15 On two days, it steads not to run from thy grave/...
    Insp 8.271 15 ...[the man] can see and do this or that cheap task, at will, but it steads him not beyond.
    Schr 10.276 17 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons;...

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