Steady to Stimulus

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

steady, adj. (24)

    Nat 1.12 15 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight...
    MN 1.200 28 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends without the least emphasis or preference to any, but the steady degradation of each to the success of all, allows the understanding no place to work.
    Pt1 3.11 27 Man...still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.
    Mrs1 3.121 6 ...the steady interest of mankind in [the name gentleman] must be attributed to the valuable properties which it designates.
    NER 3.255 6 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England]...a steady tendency of the thoughtful and virtuous to a deeper belief and reliance on spiritual facts.
    ET5 5.84 3 [The English] apply themselves...to manufacture of indispensable staples...and by their steady combinations they succeed.
    ET9 5.147 16 The English have a steady courage that fits them for great attempts and endurance...
    Wth 6.117 7 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    CbW 6.269 27 ...the steady wrongheadedness of one perverse person irritates the best;...
    Elo2 8.116 24 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things but only of the inspiration of his to-day's feeling, surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event...
    Imtl 8.336 26 Nature never moves by jumps, but always in steady and supported advances.
    SovE 10.188 20 We see the steady aim of Benefit in view from the first.
    SovE 10.209 21 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.
    SovE 10.210 8 If these [public actions] are tokens of the steady currents of thought and will in these directions, one might well anticipate a new nation.
    LLNE 10.366 2 Good people are as bad as rogues if steady performance is claimed;...
    LLNE 10.370 4 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is...normal... and so inspires the hope of steady strength advancing on itself...
    HDC 11.70 18 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering; with a steady zeal to espy out everything that shall have a tendency to subvert our happy constitution.
    EWI 11.101 22 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right...
    FRep 11.523 10 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.
    FRep 11.527 7 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.
    CL 12.151 27 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts, maples and hickories;...
    Bost 12.211 8 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    MLit 12.310 6 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
    Trag 12.409 17 ...it is natures...not of quick and steady perceptions, but imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

steal, v. (17)

    Nat 1.21 8 Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great actions.
    Hist 2.31 6 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against...a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous. It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator...
    SR 2.61 25 Let [a man] not peep or steal...
    Exp 3.79 11 If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?
    UGM 4.14 14 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland, who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.
    ShP 4.198 14 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    NMW 4.255 11 [Napoleon] would steal, slander, assassinate, drown and poison, as his interest dictated.
    GoW 4.267 19 ...in...actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    ET2 5.31 15 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    Wth 6.97 10 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot...they seem to steal their own dividends.
    Civ 7.30 17 Let us not lie and steal.
    Chr2 10.120 25 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them. Confucius said, If you, sir, were not covetous, although you should reward them to do it, they would not steal.
    LVB 11.94 26 Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?-We ask triumphantly.
    FSLC 11.213 17 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal...
    FSLN 11.237 9 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...
    ChiE 11.473 8 ...to the governor who complained of thieves, [Confucius] said, If you, sir, were not covetous, though you should reward them for it, they would not steal.
    Pray 12.352 23 ...O my Father...thou dost not steal my time by foolishness.

stealing, n. (4)

    EWI 11.107 12 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.
    FSLC 11.213 18 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal, and let us not call stealing by any fine name, as Union or Patriotism.
    FSLN 11.237 14 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons...to say, Nothing is good but stealing.
    AKan 11.260 1 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...

stealing, v. (13)

    YA 1.389 11 Stealing is a suicidal business;...
    Comp 2.107 10 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares...
    Exp 3.79 10 All stealing is comparative.
    NMW 4.253 23 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
    ET1 5.20 20 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons!
    Wth 6.118 22 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
    DL 7.120 2 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother...
    PI 8.5 16 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form...
    FSLC 11.196 16 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing men.
    ACiv 11.297 9 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing of men and setting them to work...
    ACiv 11.297 10 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing of men and setting them to work, stealing their labor, and the thief sitting idle himself;...
    Wom 11.420 14 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be hanged for stealing, or hanged at all;...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    SHC 11.428 8 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place/...

steals, v. (9)

    Nat 1.54 14 The charm dissolves apace/ And, as the morning steals upon the night,/...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    LT 1.267 11 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants are now society...
    Con 1.317 15 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...but every one of these goods steals away a drop of my blood.
    Comp 2.114 14 The thief steals from himself.
    ShP 4.198 8 [Chaucer] steals by this apology,--that what he takes has no worth where he finds it and the greatest where he leaves it.
    Elo1 7.70 4 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away his feet, that he shall not depart;...
    FSLN 11.237 19 A man who steals another man's labor steals away his own faculties;...
    MLit 12.331 12 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets before sunrise, or after sunset, or on a rare holiday, to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...

stealth, n. (1)

    MoS 4.165 12 ...if there be any virtue in him, [Montaigne] says, it got in by stealth.

stealthy, adj. (1)

    F 6.8 24 ...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy power of other laws which act on us daily.

steam, adj. (2)

    Dem1 10.20 26 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery...are of this kind.
    Aris 10.40 11 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?

steam, n. (59)

    Nat 1.13 20 ...by means of steam, [man] realizes the fable of Aeolus's bag...
    Nat 1.72 19 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use of...steam...
    Con 1.311 25 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    YA 1.369 27 ...now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    Cir 2.302 25 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...sails, by steam; steam, by electricity.
    UGM 4.9 17 Justice has already been done to steam, to iron...
    ET5 5.76 4 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links, against a cotton-spinner with steam in his mill;...
    ET5 5.83 20 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
    ET5 5.95 24 The latest step was to call in the aid of steam to agriculture [in England].
    ET5 5.95 25 Steam is almost an Englishman.
    ET10 5.158 12 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam.
    ET10 5.159 20 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET10 5.160 6 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET10 5.161 1 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...
    ET10 5.161 10 ...another machine more potent in England than steam is the Bank.
    ET10 5.161 15 By dint of steam and of money, war and commerce are changed.
    ET10 5.161 19 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under.
    ET10 5.162 12 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture...
    ET10 5.168 12 Steam from the first hissed and screamed to warn him; it was dreadful with its explosion, and crushed the engineer.
    ET11 5.178 7 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these ancient rules.
    ET11 5.196 7 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
    ET13 5.222 13 I suspect that there is in an Englishman's brain a valve that can be closed at pleasure, as an engineer shuts off steam.
    F 6.31 7 ...in dealing with steam and climate...[men] think they come under another [dominion];...
    F 6.32 20 ...the secrets of water and steam...are awaiting you.
    F 6.33 12 Man moves in all modes...by steam...
    F 6.33 16 Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded.
    F 6.34 7 It has not fared much otherwise with higher kinds of steam.
    Pow 6.68 7 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle force. Shall he then renounce steam, fire and electricity...
    Wth 6.84 15 ...New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream,/ Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam./
    Wth 6.86 13 Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago; but is put to better use.
    Wth 6.86 16 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam;...
    Wth 6.86 19 The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England.
    Wth 6.89 20 Fire, steam, lightning, gravity...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Ctr 6.137 10 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only...on steam...
    Bty 6.301 6 If a man...can subdue steam...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Civ 7.24 21 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam;...
    Civ 7.28 27 The forces of steam...galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    Art2 7.42 18 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument, or the elastic force of steam...
    WD 7.158 6 ...we pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism...
    WD 7.159 7 Why need I speak of steam...
    WD 7.159 13 Steam is an apt scholar and a strong-shouldered fellow...
    WD 7.164 8 Tantalus begins to think steam a delusion...
    WD 7.164 11 ...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
    Cour 7.263 17 The sailor loses fear as fast as he acquires command of sails and spars and steam;...
    Suc 7.293 27 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    PI 8.6 24 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.73 11 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer postponed than was...the finding of steam or of the galvanic battery.
    Res 8.139 14 Is there any load which water cannot lift? If there be, try steam;...
    Res 8.141 11 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who...have the secret of steam, of electricity;...
    PC 8.208 6 Who does not prefer the age...of coal, petroleum, cotton, steam, electricity, and the spectroscope?
    PC 8.219 5 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments and steam, is worth many hundred men...
    Insp 8.272 16 Every youth should know the way to prophecy as surely as the miller understands how to let on the water or the engineer the steam.
    Dem1 10.12 5 For Pancrates write Watt or Fulton, and for magical words write steam; and do they not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    PerF 10.72 23 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
    Edc1 10.153 23 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind and to govern by steam.
    MoL 10.248 17 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature,-as Roger Bacon...with his secret of the balloon and of steam;...
    FSLC 11.193 19 Will you...blame the air for rushing in where a vacuum is made or the boiler for exploding under pressure of steam?
    FSLC 11.209 22 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused; the sinews of man being relieved by sinews of steam.
    ChiE 11.471 12 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph.

Steam, n. (1)

    Wth 6.86 19 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan. Then he cunningly screws on the steam-pipe to the wheat-crop. Puff now, O Steam!

steamboat, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.132 27 ...the event of each moment, the shower, the steamboat disaster...are all tests to try our theory [of life]...

steamboat, n. (9)

    LE 1.164 7 Say to the man of letters that he cannot...build a steamboat...and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    YA 1.364 1 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    Art1 2.368 24 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat...is a step of man into harmony with nature.
    PPh 4.53 20 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective;...
    ET1 5.22 26 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music; the first to the circumstance of its being visited by the promiscuous company of the steamboat.
    ET2 5.27 25 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater;...
    F 6.31 16 ...in a steamboat...[men] believe a malignant energy rules.
    Supl 10.170 4 Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said, Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.
    Schr 10.270 2 The engineer in the locomotive is waiting for [the poet]; the steamboat is hissing at the wharf...

steam-chamber, n. (1)

    ET5 5.93 6 The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.

steam-coach, n. (2)

    PPh 4.53 20 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective;...
    Suc 7.287 25 Newton was a great man, without...steam-coach, or rubber shoes...

steam-engine, n. (8)

    MoS 4.151 5 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
    NMW 4.245 26 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...this strong steam-engine does our work.
    ET5 5.98 20 The rapid doubling of the population [in England] dates from Watt's steam-engine.
    Wsp 6.208 17 There is faith...in the steam-engine, galvanic battery...but not in divine causes.
    PerF 10.74 23 [Man] is...a machinist, a musician, a steam-engine...and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Prch 10.226 10 The poet Wordsworth greeted even the steam-engine and railroads;...
    Schr 10.273 25 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil... the steam-engine will reprimand...him;...
    LLNE 10.344 23 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.

steamer, n. (3)

    ET2 5.27 8 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps...
    ET2 5.28 16 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now, at night, seems to hear the steamer behind her, which left Boston to-day at two;...
    Civ 7.25 13 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school and a manufactory of honest men out of rogues, as the steamer made fresh water out of salt,--these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.

steamers, n. (3)

    ET10 5.156 7 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    Wth 6.102 25 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to...steamers...
    EPro 11.325 23 It was well to delay the steamers at the wharves until this edict [the Emancipation Proclamation] could be put on board.

steam-ferry, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.383 11 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the telescope, the telegraph, the railroad, steamship, steam-ferry, steam-mill;...

steam-hammer, n. (3)

    ET10 5.162 22 Scandinavian Thor...in England...lends Miollnir to Birmingham for a steam-hammer.
    ET12 5.207 24 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...
    Pow 6.57 21 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees, with...heads full of steam-hammer, pulley, crank and toothed wheel,--and everything begins to shine with values.

steaming, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.172 17 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming, odorous south wind...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.

steam-made, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.533 17 We import trifles...manuels of Gothic architecture, steam-made ornaments.

steam-mill, n. (2)

    PPh 4.53 19 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective;...
    EdAd 11.383 12 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the telescope, the telegraph, the railroad, steamship, steam-ferry, steam-mill;...

steam-pipe, n. (4)

    ET10 5.160 10 The steam-pipe has added to [England's] population and wealth the equivalent of four or five Englands.
    ET14 5.233 6 [The Englishman] loves the axe, the spade, the oar, the gun, the steam-pipe;...
    Wth 6.86 18 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan. Then he cunningly screws on the steam-pipe to the wheat-crop.
    Schr 10.273 25 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil... the steam-pipe will hiss at him;...

steam-piston, n. (1)

    ET10 5.162 5 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land...

steam-plough, n. (1)

    ET6 5.103 10 ...railroads, steam-pump, steam-plough...have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.

steam-power, n. (1)

    Civ 7.33 10 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which... elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of steam-power or gas-light...

steam-pump, n. (1)

    ET6 5.103 10 ...railroads, steam-pump, steam-plough...have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.

steamship, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.383 11 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the telescope, the telegraph, the railroad, steamship, steam-ferry, steam-mill;...

steam-whistle, n. (3)

    ET13 5.225 11 The chatter of French politics, the steam-whistle...had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
    ET14 5.251 23 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle...
    EdAd 11.383 24 At the screams of the steam-whistle, the train quits city and suburbs...

Stearns, George L., n. (2)

    GSt 10.501 11 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    GSt 10.502 14 Mr. [George] Stearns made himself at once necessary to Captain Brown as one who respected his inspirations...

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, n (1)

    JBB 11.266 24 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

steeds, n. (3)

    NER 3.274 12 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home, of raging riders, who drive their steeds so hard, in the violence of living to forget its illusion: they would know the worst...
    PPh 4.58 17 Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high insight], [Plato] sweeps the dim regions...
    F 6.33 10 [The torrent, the beasts, the chemic explosions] are now the steeds on which [man] rides.

steel, adj. (3)

    Bhr 6.177 3 If [the human body] were made of glass, or of air, and the thoughts were written on steel tablets within, it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
    PI 8.13 6 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings...
    Insp 8.290 8 Even a steel pen is a nuisance to some writers.

steel, n. (20)

    YA 1.389 23 ...we want justice, with heart of steel, to fight down the proud.
    SL 2.144 10 [A man] is...like the loadstone amongst splinters of steel.
    MoS 4.160 19 We want some coat woven of elastic steel...
    ShP 4.207 4 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/
    ET5 5.89 8 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    ET5 5.101 16 In politics and in war [the English] hold together as by hooks of steel.
    ET10 5.159 2 Iron and steel are very obedient.
    ET12 5.204 14 Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet and Sheffield grinds steel.
    F 6.20 19 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel or with the weight of mountains...
    Pow 6.82 10 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not...fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.
    SS 7.1 6 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke,/ Ring of axe or hum of wheel/ Or gleam which use can paint on steel/...
    Cour 7.254 3 Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...
    PI 8.33 2 Shakspeare is made up of important passages...like Damascus steel made up of old nails.
    PI 8.53 8 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant: the iron becomes steel.
    PC 8.208 5 Who does not prefer the age of steel...
    PPo 8.259 5 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Grts 8.306 12 ...whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in other substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
    Aris 10.36 20 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love which ought to reside in every man. This is the steel that is hid under gauze and lace...
    Thor 10.476 24 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism...
    ALin 11.328 21 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./

steel, v. (1)

    ET4 5.60 8 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.

Steele, Richard, n. (1)

    SA 8.93 10 Steele said of his mistress, that to have loved her was a liberal education.

steel-filing, n. (1)

    NR 3.228 21 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one! what heart-drawings I feel to thee!...

steel-filings, n. (1)

    NR 3.228 19 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings.

steel-trap, n. (1)

    Mem 12.97 20 A knife with a good spring...a steel-trap...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

steely, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.426 2 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.

steep, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.20 21 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopylae;...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Int 2.333 17 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority;...
    ET4 5.73 20 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    ET6 5.114 21 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...
    ET18 5.306 11 The feudal system survives [in England] in the steep inequality of property and privilege...
    Ctr 6.163 4 Steep and craggy, said Porphyry, is the path of the gods.
    Cour 7.278 14 One day as through the cleft/ Between two mountains steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...
    QO 8.193 7 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always some steep transition...betrays the foreign interpolation.
    Aris 10.46 9 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...
    PLT 12.17 22 It is a steep stair down from the essence of Intellect pure to thoughts and intellections.
    Let 12.402 3 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class must be freely admitted...

steep, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 12 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./

steep, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.151 7 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks...

steeped, v. (11)

    Cir 2.313 10 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Mrs1 3.144 24 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square, being steeped in Cologne water...
    ET4 5.71 13 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature, steeped in ale and good cheer...
    ET5 5.88 14 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
    ET8 5.130 9 [The English] are...in all things very much steeped in their temperament...
    ET16 5.288 18 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night, steeped in dews and rains, which it loves;...
    PI 8.5 3 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought...
    PI 8.53 6 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
    Elo2 8.114 27 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...and be steeped and ennobled in the new wine of this eloquence!
    Chr2 10.111 13 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.
    MLit 12.334 21 Are we not evermore whipped by thoughts? In sorrow steeped, and steeped in love/ Of thoughts not yet incarnated./

steepest, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.235 11 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads, climbing by graded galleries their steepest precipices...

steeps, n. (1)

    SA 8.94 24 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;--of thunder-storm, of steeps, of mud, of danger, they knew nothing;...

steer, n. (1)

    Mem 12.105 23 One of my neighbors, a grazier, told me that he should know again every cow, ox, or steer that he ever saw.

steer, v. (9)

    Con 1.320 12 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sit on the world and steer it;...
    ET10 5.157 25 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them.
    Pow 6.55 19 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    PC 8.215 5 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do, nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer;...
    SovE 10.196 12 ...we are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.
    MMEm 10.405 12 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    Wom 11.407 5 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail: when Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
    PLT 12.29 22 ...every man is furnished, if he will heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat...
    CL 12.161 19 By what compass the geese steer, and the herring migrate, we would so gladly know.

steered, v. (1)

    Civ 7.24 19 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship steered by compass and chart...

steering, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.221 5 My prudence consists...not in adroit steering...
    ET2 5.27 13 Our good master...by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.

steering, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.359 11 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself...steering clear, though in the dark, of those dangers which might have shipwrecked him.

Steers, George, n. (1)

    PC 8.219 25 McKay, the shipbuilder, thinks of George Steers; and Steers, of Pook, the naval constructor.

steers, v. (1)

    PLT 12.29 24 ...every man is furnished, if he will heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat,-if he will not look away from his own to see how his neighbor steers his.

steersman, n. (1)

    Comp 2.110 16 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.

Steffens, Heinrich, n. (1)

    PC 8.211 11 Steffens said, The religious opinions of men rest on their views of Nature.

Steinbach, Erwin of, n. (2)

    Hist 2.17 24 Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach.
    Suc 7.284 2 ...Erwin of Steinbach could build a minster;...

stellar, adj. (2)

    Chr1 3.90 9 ...character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.
    PPh 4.47 2 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.

Stellaria, n. (1)

    Thor 10.468 21 [Thoreau] says, [Weeds] have brave names, too,- Ambrosia, Stellaria, Amelanchier, Amaranth, etc.

stellas, n. (1)

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

stem, n. (12)

    Nat 1.18 6 ...every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.
    AmS 1.85 24 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
    MN 1.203 23 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the whole tree,-root, stem, leaf, flower, and seed...
    Con 1.300 24 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Hist 2.21 14 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...
    Comp 2.103 12 Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
    Fdsp 2.196 25 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science, though for chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short.
    PPh 4.70 27 Socrates, a man of humble stem, but honest enough;...
    ET2 5.28 5 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet; the length of the deck from stem to stern, 155.
    ET4 5.51 11 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived.
    F 6.41 4 Thus events grow on the same stem with persons;...
    SovE 10.195 21 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem;...

stem, v. (1)

    PPo 8.235 1 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./

stems, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.170 15 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
    Farm 7.147 22 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
    Farm 7.149 1 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside...

stench, n. (2)

    Wom 11.423 15 ...there is contamination enough [in politics], but it rots the men now, and fills the air with stench.
    Trag 12.415 19 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings. They exchange a cannibal war for the stench of the hold.

stenographs, n. (1)

    ET15 5.266 8 ...I saw the reporters' room [of the London Times], in which they redact their hasty stenographs...

stenography, n. (1)

    GoW 4.264 9 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature, but is mere stenography.

step, n. (111)

    AmS 1.103 5 Success treads on every right step.
    DSA 1.122 23 A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step so downward, is a step upward.
    DSA 1.148 22 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that it is taken for granted that the right, the brave, the generous step will be taken by it...
    MN 1.192 12 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step...
    MN 1.192 13 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short series of steps, taken; that act or step is the spiritual act;...
    LT 1.282 20 We mistrust every step we take.
    Hist 2.29 11 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Lov1 2.184 7 ...the step backward from the higher to the lower relations is impossible.
    Fdsp 2.201 15 Not one step has man taken toward the solution of the problem of his destiny.
    Hsm1 2.257 10 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...
    Hsm1 2.262 9 [Culture] will not now run against an axe at the first step out of the beaten track of opinion.
    Cir 2.305 18 Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder;...
    Cir 2.308 10 Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts...
    Cir 2.308 15 By going one step farther back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled...
    Art1 2.368 27 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat...is a step of man into harmony with nature.
    Pt1 3.14 27 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics;...
    Pt1 3.20 22 ...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step nearer to things...
    Pt1 3.22 12 ...the poet names the thing because he...comes one step nearer to it than any other.
    Exp 3.49 11 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
    Exp 3.57 2 [Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take the single step that would bring them there.
    Exp 3.58 15 Our young people have thought and written much on labor and reform, and for all that they have written, neither the world nor themselves have got on a step.
    Exp 3.60 6 ...to find the journey's end in every step of the road...is wisdom.
    Nat2 3.169 24 The knapsack of custom falls off [the man of the world's] back with the first step he takes into these precincts [of the forest].
    NER 3.269 8 ...even one step farther our infidelity has gone.
    UGM 4.13 9 We must not be sacks and stomachs. To ascend one step,--we are better served through our sympathy.
    UGM 4.26 16 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. ... But we stop where they stop. Very hardly can we take another step.
    PPh 4.51 25 ...if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher, and name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    SwM 4.115 21 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg] should take the last step also, should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
    ShP 4.217 9 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    GoW 4.273 4 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far; and one step farther he hazarded, and brought himself safe back.
    ET1 5.9 25 An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more [to Landor] than all the censures.
    ET1 5.18 10 ...[Carlyle]...did not like to place himself where no step can be taken.
    ET5 5.75 12 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed.
    ET5 5.78 25 In [the English] parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government by a pitiless attack;...
    ET5 5.95 23 The latest step was to call in the aid of steam to agriculture [in England].
    ET10 5.169 17 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting. But the question recurs, does she take the step beyond...
    ET11 5.185 14 [English nobility's] institution is one step in the progress of society.
    ET14 5.239 8 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class...
    ET14 5.253 17 The poet only sees [the reptile or the mollusk] as an inevitable step in the path of the Creator.
    F 6.16 13 We follow the step of the Jew...
    Pow 6.65 17 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against the unanimous declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear; they proceed from step to step...
    Pow 6.74 14 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing.
    Pow 6.74 16 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
    Pow 6.74 17 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
    Wth 6.102 14 Every step of civil advancement makes every man's dollar worth more.
    Wth 6.123 13 Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns to take his counsel. From step to step he comes at last to surrender at discretion.
    Bhr 6.186 19 ...[some men]...walk through life with a timid step.
    Bhr 6.192 5 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing...
    Wsp 6.206 5 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was...voluntarily to take a step backwards towards the baboon...
    Wsp 6.214 5 ...the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.
    Wsp 6.226 19 ...the divine assessors who came up with [a man] into life... walk with him, step for step...
    CbW 6.273 26 We know that all our training is to fit us for [friendship], and we do not take the step towards it.
    CbW 6.276 22 ...begin at the beginning, proceed in order, step by step.
    CbW 6.276 27 Wherever there is failure, there is...some step omitted...
    Bty 6.288 12 ...the first step into thought lifts this mountain of necessity.
    Bty 6.293 2 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode...
    Civ 7.22 8 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture.
    Civ 7.22 12 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.
    Elo1 7.78 2 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
    WD 7.165 8 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer...
    Cour 7.264 15 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered. These once seen, he... cheerily proceeds a step farther.
    Suc 7.298 20 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods]; and his eye and step are tempted on by what hazy distances to happier solitudes.
    Suc 7.310 18 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age.
    PI 8.10 15 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.
    PI 8.38 24 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation...
    PC 8.208 21 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    PC 8.209 12 A silent revolution has impelled, step by step, all this activity [in America].
    PC 8.220 24 ...the next step in the series is the equivalence of the soul to Nature.
    Insp 8.271 17 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step by mechanical means.
    Insp 8.271 18 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step by mechanical means. It cannot so be done. That ulterior step is to be also by inspiration;...
    Insp 8.271 20 Every real step is by what a poet called lyrical glances...
    Imtl 8.327 3 The most remarkable step in the religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg...
    Dem1 10.11 11 A man reveals himself in every glance and step and movement and rest...
    PerF 10.83 5 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    Edc1 10.125 12 We have already taken...the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    LLNE 10.349 11 [Brisbane's plan]...strode about nature with a giant's step...
    LLNE 10.352 2 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    MMEm 10.407 27 [Mary Moody Emerson] could keep step with no human being.
    HDC 11.32 15 The grant of the General Court was but a preliminary step.
    HDC 11.33 14 Some of [the pilgrims], having no leggins, have had the blood trickle down at every step.
    EWI 11.107 24 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    War 11.173 24 ...the man who...without any notice of his action abroad, expecting none, takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    War 11.174 15 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero...but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life;...
    War 11.175 23 ...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    FSLC 11.212 9 [Boston] should have placed obstruction [to the Fugitive Slave Law] at every step.
    AsSu 11.249 4 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
    ACiv 11.305 1 ...as long as we fight without any affirmative step taken by the government...[the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    ACiv 11.305 27 There can be no safety until this step [emancipation] is taken.
    ACiv 11.308 2 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility...
    EPro 11.315 8 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day...take a step forward in the direction of catholic and universal interests.
    EPro 11.315 9 Every step in the history of political liberty is a sally of the human mind into the untried Future...
    ALin 11.335 15 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...
    SMC 11.348 4 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ In household faces waiting at the door/ Their evening step should lighten up no more?/
    Wom 11.415 23 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg...
    Wom 11.416 3 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.
    CPL 11.498 20 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book, and thence the step was easy for active minds to an acquaintance with history and with poetry.
    FRep 11.523 6 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good! Or they take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm!...
    FRep 11.537 7 We want...men...who can live in the moment and take a step forward.
    PLT 12.25 23 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    PLT 12.25 24 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step.
    PLT 12.25 25 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enchance immensely the value of your first.
    PLT 12.35 20 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being; then ascends step by step to suggestions which are when expressed the intellectual and moral laws.
    PLT 12.42 3 I am bewildered by the immense variety of attractions and cannot take a step;...
    PLT 12.43 23 Thought must take the stupendous step of passing into realization.
    II 12.68 18 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth... and then ascends, step by step, to suggestions, which are, when expressed, the intellectual and moral laws.
    II 12.68 19 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth... and then ascends, step by step, to suggestions, which are, when expressed, the intellectual and moral laws.
    II 12.84 12 [Men] are not timed each to the other: they cannot keep step...
    Mem 12.102 4 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures...to which every step in the march of the soul adds a more sublime perspective.
    CInt 12.128 7 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage from the centre forth, step by step...
    MAng1 12.234 1 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.

step, v. (7)

    ShP 4.208 8 [Shakespeare] cannot step from off his tripod...
    ET9 5.144 6 The king cannot step on an acre [in England] which the peasant refuses to sell.
    Wth 6.99 13 ...in America...the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Cour 7.263 8 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
    Cour 7.275 8 There are degrees of courage, and each step upward makes us acquainted with a higher virtue.
    CL 12.143 26 ...you have [in Illinois] the monotony of Holland, and when you step out of the door can see all that you will have seen when you come home.
    CL 12.157 13 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.

Stephenson, George, n. (6)

    ET5 5.76 6 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants, for whom Stephenson and Brunel are contriving locomotives and a tubular bridge?
    ET5 5.93 7 The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.
    ET10 5.158 11 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam.
    Wth 6.87 3 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
    Wth 6.122 2 Mr. Stephenson on the contrary...followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    Supl 10.178 22 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by Stephenson...

stepped, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.237 22 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    ET2 5.30 13 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    ET11 5.183 12 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity, out of which you have stepped aside.
    Res 8.144 6 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward...
    LLNE 10.328 5 The stockholder has stepped into the place of the warlike baron.

stepping, v. (2)

    F 6.27 2 Once we were stepping a little this way and a little that way;...
    PI 8.10 22 The poet gives us the eminent experiences only,--a god stepping from peak to peak...

stepping-stones, n. (1)

    PLT 12.42 9 The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones across the gulfs of space in every direction.

steps, n. (65)

    Nat 1.21 25 Willingly does [nature] follow [man's] steps with the rose and the violet...
    Nat 1.38 25 The first steps in Agriculture...teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    Nat 1.38 26 The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take), teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    Nat 1.63 19 ...when, following the invisible steps of thought, we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us...
    AmS 1.91 19 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    LE 1.158 20 A divine pilgrim in nature, all things attend [the scholar's] steps.
    MN 1.192 13 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short series of steps, taken;...
    Con 1.308 15 ...I should be more unworthy if I did not tell you why I cannot walk in your steps.
    Hist 2.11 2 ...we aim to master intellectually the steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
    SR 2.61 10 ...posterity seem to follow [a true man's] steps as a train of clients.
    SR 2.63 6 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    Lov1 2.178 16 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.
    Lov1 2.183 1 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends...to the love and knowledge of the Divinity, by steps on this ladder of created souls.
    Fdsp 2.193 17 How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
    Cir 2.305 19 Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder; the steps are actions...
    Cir 2.312 21 In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps...
    Int 2.325 13 ...what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries of that transparent essence [Intellect]?
    Art1 2.356 24 When [dancing] has educated the frame...to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...
    NR 3.244 16 ...we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals...
    SwM 4.113 8 ...it is necessary to take science as a guide in pursuing [nature' s] steps.
    SwM 4.145 22 By the science of experiment and use, [Swedenborg] made his first steps...
    ShP 4.201 16 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET3 5.38 11 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster; yet all the intermediate steps may still be traced in this all-preserving island [England].
    ET4 5.60 10 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    ET5 5.79 15 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. They are the steps by which we walk in all our businesses.
    ET5 5.80 9 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule.
    ET5 5.80 24 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...
    ET14 5.243 21 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus, on which they had once walked with echoing steps...
    F 6.3 19 In our first steps to gain our wishes we come upon immovable limitations.
    CbW 6.276 25 'T is as easy...to boil granite as to boil water, if you take all the steps in order.
    Bty 6.292 19 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained.
    Bty 6.298 20 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner;...
    Bty 6.306 18 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Civ 7.32 27 In strictness, the vital refinements are the moral and intellectual steps.
    Boks 7.202 12 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    Boks 7.210 11 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side...
    Boks 7.214 14 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination...
    Clbs 7.226 15 Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps...
    Clbs 7.226 16 Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps...
    Cour 7.264 13 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered.
    Suc 7.290 21 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got...a crime which calls for another crime, and another devil behind that; these are steps to suicide, infamy and the harming of mankind.
    PI 8.6 7 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir, from his first tottering steps...does not like to be practised upon...
    PI 8.48 10 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
    Aris 10.34 17 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.44 20 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he foresees...all the steps of the process...
    Aris 10.44 25 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series.
    Aris 10.59 18 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor, to be entered only by long and real service and patient climbing up all the steps.
    Chr2 10.120 1 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.
    Edc1 10.127 2 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages who made no steps of advance in art or skill beyond the necessity of being fed and warmed.
    Edc1 10.147 23 By many steps...the stammering boy...in the school debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    Edc1 10.148 1 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly, with a fulness of power that makes all the steps forgotten.
    MoL 10.251 17 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do. Who blacks your shoes? I do. It was so in every room. These are first steps to power.
    MMEm 10.407 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,- disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
    Thor 10.481 7 ...[Thoreau] could not bear to hear the sound of his own steps...
    GSt 10.503 10 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...
    LS 11.22 15 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    HDC 11.39 6 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
    HDC 11.85 26 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps of Winthrop and Dudley;...
    LVB 11.95 6 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other so fast...that the millions of virtuous citizens...have no place to interpose...
    EWI 11.111 18 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries, following in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies, had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    War 11.151 2 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy to indicate the steps of human progress...
    ALin 11.330 19 How slowly, and yet by happily prepared steps, [Lincoln] came to his place.
    EdAd 11.388 21 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor...to have given a true direction to the first steps of a nation, we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    Koss 11.397 15 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
    PLT 12.17 17 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect], these steps on the heavenly stair...

steps, v. (3)

    Con 1.308 20 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
    GoW 4.261 16 Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints...a map of its march.
    ChiE 11.471 7 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.

stept, v. (2)

    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,/...

stereoscope, n. (2)

    Res 8.148 23 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the cuckoo-clock, the stereoscope...
    ACri 12.298 7 ...the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.

stereoscopic, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.286 20 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose...

stereoscoping, v. (1)

    ACri 12.299 5 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes...

stereotype, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.299 1 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...

stereotype, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.472 4 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe; and block-printing or stereotype...

stereotype, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.170 10 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned, into a mode.

stereotyped, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.132 9 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.

stereotyped, v. (3)

    Con 1.319 17 Now that a vicious system of trade has existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born.
    NER 3.258 24 These things [Latin, Greek, Mathematics] became stereotyped as education...
    Pray 12.351 5 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion, which is immediately caught and stereotyped in the prayers of their church and nation.

sterile, adj. (9)

    SwM 4.104 4 The robust Aristotelian method...shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    ET5 5.83 8 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile.
    ET17 5.297 26 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry...
    Boks 7.217 17 If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men...
    SA 8.77 1 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world complete./
    Res 8.141 23 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    SovE 10.208 11 We are thrown back on rectitude...to mend one; that is all we can do. But that the zealot stigmatizes as a sterile chimney-corner philosophy.
    Shak1 11.449 8 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which...in sterile periods, keeps up the credit of the human mind.
    PLT 12.28 27 To the idle blockhead Nature is poor, sterile, inhospitable.

steriles, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.233 3 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle;...then the heady men...the steriles...

sterility, n. (7)

    ET8 5.135 18 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...removing the reproach of sterility from English art...
    PPo 8.247 16 An air of sterility...belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
    SovE 10.198 22 ...it is not any sterility or defect in ethics, but our negligence of these fine monitors, of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
    Schr 10.278 4 I think there is no more intellectual people than ours. They are very apprehensive and curious. But there is a sterility of talent.
    FSLN 11.223 27 ...[Webster] wanted that deep source of inspiration. Hence a sterility of thought...
    EdAd 11.385 6 At least as far as the purpose and genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no genius.
    ACri 12.290 18 What the poet omits exalts every syllable that he writes. In good hands it will never become sterility.

sterling, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.72 6 [Man] perceives that...if his word is sterling yet in nature...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    ET10 5.160 16 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    ET13 5.224 9 [England] believes in a Providence which does not treat with levity a pound sterling.
    Supl 10.172 20 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
    Plu 10.322 20 ...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    EWI 11.113 14 The Ministers...estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.113 17 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...

Sterling, Edward, n. (1)

    ET15 5.266 12 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter, Sterling, Bacon...have contributed to its renown...

Sterling, John, n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 4 ...I became acquainted with an accomplished English poet, John Sterling;...

sterling, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.118 2 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.

Sterling's, John, n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 11 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's...Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].

stern, adj. (36)

    DSA 1.126 27 ...[this moral truth] is guarded by one stern condition; this, namely; it is an intuition.
    DSA 1.142 6 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline...
    DSA 1.145 6 None assayeth the stern ambition to be the Self of the nation and of nature...
    LE 1.162 27 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it?...the stern decisions...
    LE 1.187 2 You will not fear that I am enjoining too stern an asceticism.
    SR 2.74 19 I have my own stern claims...
    SR 2.82 1 I...at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact...
    Comp 2.115 17 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his chisel-edge...do recommend to him his trade...
    Cir 2.309 22 ...[idealism's] countenance waxes stern and grand...
    Gts 3.159 18 These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature...
    NMW 4.255 2 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character pleases me: he is stern and resolute...
    GoW 4.289 18 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    ET2 5.27 5 ...they say at sea a stern chase is a long race...
    Pow 6.71 16 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
    Ctr 6.155 25 Solitude...is, to genius, the stern friend...
    Wsp 6.203 25 The stern old faiths have all pulverized.
    Wsp 6.241 18 Was never stoicism so stern and exigent as this [new church founded on moral science] shall be.
    Clbs 7.250 12 ...[Nature's] great gifts have something serious and stern.
    Imtl 8.348 7 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of personal immortality].
    Aris 10.59 15 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor...
    Chr2 10.108 21 ...the stern determination to do justly, to speak the truth... was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    Plu 10.314 18 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to his stern delight in heroism;...
    LLNE 10.346 2 ...[the pilgrim] had the courage which so stern a return to Arcadian manners required...
    HDC 11.38 27 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
    FSLN 11.240 4 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit...
    FSLN 11.240 23 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted, stern trials met...before [man] dare say, I am free.
    TPar 11.290 27 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
    ACiv 11.298 24 The state of the country fills us with anxiety and stern duties.
    ALin 11.337 11 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...
    HCom 11.340 23 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    SMC 11.359 20 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion; and the [Civil] war showed him still equal, however stern and terrible the occasion grew...
    PLT 12.9 20 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    Bost 12.194 19 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    MAng1 12.230 17 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    Milt1 12.269 10 Milton...was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
    EurB 12.370 12 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.

stern, n. (2)

    ET2 5.28 5 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet; the length of the deck from stem to stern, 155.
    PI 8.67 9 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...

Sterne, Laurence, n. (2)

    Boks 7.208 27 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Sterne;...
    Scot 11.466 24 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as...Sterne and Fielding;...

sterner, adj. (1)

    AgMs 12.360 19 [Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey]; they have sterner teachers;...

sternest, adj. (2)

    YA 1.373 4 This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest administration...
    MMEm 10.421 2 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.

sternly, adv. (2)

    AmS 1.91 10 Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated.
    Suc 7.308 25 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately, sternly fit for all his functions;...

stertorous, adj. (2)

    ET13 5.228 9 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
    Comc 8.167 26 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen;...breathing stertorous...

stevedore, n. (1)

    Hist 2.40 19 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates]...for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

stevedores, n. (1)

    ET5 5.76 22 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons...

steward, n. (1)

    Pow 6.66 5 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

stewards, n. (2)

    ET13 5.226 14 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
    EWI 11.130 3 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, 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...

Stewart, Dugald, n. (2)

    OS 2.287 9 The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Scot 11.467 23 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Playfair, Dugald Stewart, Sydney Smith...

Stewart, Dugald,n. (1)

    MMEm 10.402 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later...Stewart, Coleridge, Cousin...

Stewart, Robert [Viscount (2)

    ET5 5.90 12 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh...are soon worked to death.
    ET7 5.123 3 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the King's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.

Stewart's [Stuart's], James (1)

    ET1 5.16 20 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.

stewing, adj. (1)

    ET2 5.29 8 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil.

stick, n. (8)

    Nat 1.8 12 It is this [integrity of impression] which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter from the tree of the poet.
    Bty 6.291 24 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.
    Civ 7.27 18 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe; that is to say, the planet itself splits his stick.
    Farm 7.146 24 On the prairie you wander a hundred miles and hardly find a stick or a stone.
    Farm 7.151 18 ...[the first planter] scratches with a sharp stick...
    Cour 7.257 1 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth.
    Cour 7.257 2 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth. Cut off his head, and the teeth will not let go the stick.
    Res 8.145 12 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.

stick, v. (20)

    Prd1 2.234 16 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the thrift of the agriculturist, to stick a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he sleeps;...
    Exp 3.65 2 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task...
    UGM 4.29 17 Serve the great. Stick at no humiliation.
    ET2 5.33 1 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    ET5 5.81 17 [The English] are bound to see their measure carried, and stick to it through ages of defeat.
    ET10 5.168 2 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish...nor glue stick.
    ET16 5.281 23 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world, and... does not stick to say, the Deity who made the world by the scheme of Stonehenge.
    Pow 6.75 27 Stick to one business, young man [said Rothschild].
    Pow 6.75 27 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London.
    CbW 6.277 9 ...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:-- but will you stick?
    Ill 6.317 5 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors, which I had not thought of. Then at once I will daub with this new paint; but it will not stick.
    Elo1 7.78 5 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has...settled it with himself that he will no longer stick at anything.
    Elo1 7.86 1 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all parties, and stick there, and determine the cause.
    Cour 7.270 8 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram...
    Grts 8.303 26 Stick to your own;...
    War 11.168 5 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance when your strong-box is broken open...
    FSLC 11.182 27 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed that men would not stick to what they had said...
    FSLC 11.183 9 A man of a greedy and unscrupulous selfishness may maintain morals when they are in fashion: but he will not stick.
    AKan 11.258 9 We stick at the technical difficulties.
    PLT 12.53 17 When [a man] speaks out of another's mind, we detect it. He can't make any paint stick but his own.

sticking, v. (4)

    SR 2.80 27 They who made...Greece, venerable in the imagination, did so by sticking fast where they were...
    Ctr 6.165 16 We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.
    Res 8.142 2 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    MMEm 10.423 18 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?

sticking-plaster, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.202 26 The whole creation is made of hooks and eyes...of sticking-plaster;...

stickler, n. (1)

    Supl 10.166 9 Among these glorifiers, the coldest stickler for names and dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.

sticks, n. (2)

    Wth 6.87 20 Wealth begins...in dry sticks to burn...
    Shak1 11.451 9 The real Elizabeths, Jameses and Louises were painted sticks before this magician [Shakespeare].

sticks, v. (6)

    SwM 4.133 25 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
    MoS 4.151 27 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist: no, but sticks to cotton, sugar, wool and salt.
    ET4 5.59 7 If a [Norse] farmer has so much as a hay-fork, he sticks it into a King Dag.
    ET9 5.146 21 [The Englishman] sticks to his traditions and usages...
    ET15 5.268 10 [The London Times]...sticks to what it says.
    Trag 12.407 20 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt; if your fork sticks upright in the floor;...

stiff, adj. (6)

    MoS 4.160 16 The Spartan and Stoic schemes are too stark and stiff for our occasion.
    Ctr 6.160 11 I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
    LLNE 10.327 3 The new race is stiff, heady and rebellious;...
    LS 11.20 4 I will...not pay [Jesus] a stiff sign of respect, as men do those whom they fear.
    FRep 11.527 4 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...understanding his own rights and stiff to maintain them...
    AgMs 12.364 1 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions...

stiffer, adv. (1)

    F 6.20 24 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held him; the more he spurned it the stiffer it drew.

stiffest, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.521 2 ...the stiffest patriots falter and compromise;...

stiffly, adv. (1)

    FSLN 11.231 2 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood stiffly on conservatism... only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice.

stifle, v. (3)

    ET6 5.111 3 ...the cockneys stifle the curiosity of the foreigner on the reason of any practice with Lord, sir, it was always so.
    Bhr 6.172 21 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression...
    Clbs 7.240 14 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate?

stifled, v. (1)

    CInt 12.126 19 ...all the youth come out [of Harvard College] decrepit citizens; not a prophet, not a poet, not a daimon, but is gagged and stifled or driven away.

stifles, v. (1)

    MoL 10.257 11 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom stifles this discussion as sentimental...

stigma, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.114 15 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with...no stigma on race;...

stigmatize, v. (2)

    Ill 6.317 24 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as dragon-ridden...
    PLT 12.50 21 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...

stigmatizes, v. (2)

    Supl 10.167 13 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian...
    SovE 10.208 10 We are thrown back on rectitude...to mend one; that is all we can do. But that the zealot stigmatizes as a sterile chimney-corner philosophy.

still, adj. (35)

    Nat 1.19 12 The shows of day...shadows in still water...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    MR 1.247 18 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    LT 1.283 9 The inadequacy of the work to the faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still.
    Hist 2.9 11 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.
    SL 2.156 5 ...if you sit still...you show [character].
    SL 2.158 16 Pretension may sit still, but cannot act.
    SL 2.162 16 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest still.
    SL 2.162 18 I see action to be good, when the need is, and sitting still to be also good.
    SL 2.162 20 Epaminondas...would have sat still with joy and peace, if his lot had been mine.
    Nat2 3.172 10 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    SwM 4.133 7 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie...cold and still.
    NMW 4.224 1 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave... and the interests of living labor...
    Wth 6.119 12 A master in each art is required, because the practice is never with still or dead subjects...
    Ctr 6.147 18 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Elo1 7.72 20 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward, but held it still...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Cour 7.279 11 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./
    PI 8.4 12 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    PI 8.24 7 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
    PI 8.55 21 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./
    Insp 8.288 5 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples...
    Chr2 10.97 3 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force; as...the Comforter, the Daemon, the still, small voice...
    Edc1 10.155 14 [the naturalist's] secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still;...
    Edc1 10.155 17 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still, reptile, fish...begin to return.
    Edc1 10.155 19 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon.
    SovE 10.203 11 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks...in still, small voices...
    Prch 10.219 9 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity,-solstices when we...stand still,-will occur.
    EWI 11.116 3 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased. The hum of business was still...
    SMC 11.361 4 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written...in the saddle, and have to stop because the horse will not stand still.
    SHC 11.428 18 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...
    ChiE 11.471 15 We had said of China, as the old prophet said of Egypt, Her strength is to sit still.
    PLT 12.18 12 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time...
    Mem 12.94 10 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them for months and years that they should lie so still...never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    PPr 12.382 5 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...
    Trag 12.412 10 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...verifying the primeval sentence of history on the permanency of that people, Their strength is to sit still.
    Trag 12.414 25 Nature will not sit still;...

still, adv. (406)

    Nat 1.9 2 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
    Nat 1.22 13 There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be viewed...
    Nat 1.44 26 The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions.
    Nat 1.49 6 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    Nat 1.71 23 [Man] sees that the structure still fits him...
    Nat 1.72 4 [Man] perceives that if his law is still paramount...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    Nat 1.72 5 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    AmS 1.84 8 ...[the scholar] tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
    AmS 1.99 11 [The great soul] can still fall back on this elemental force of living [his truths].
    AmS 1.101 3 ...[the scholar]...correcting still his old records; must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    AmS 1.104 16 So is the danger a danger still;...
    DSA 1.120 27 That which [man] venerates is still his own...
    DSA 1.126 11 The sentences of the oldest time, which ejaculate this piety, are still fresh and fragrant.
    DSA 1.141 9 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the genuine impulses of virtue, and so still command our love and awe...
    DSA 1.141 14 ...it is still true that tradition characterizes the preaching of this country;...
    LE 1.161 4 Still more do we owe to biography the fortification of our hope.
    LE 1.170 6 ...[every man's] own conversation with nature is still unsung.
    LE 1.174 26 The poets who have lived in cities have been hermits still.
    MN 1.195 13 The Intellect still asks that a man may be born.
    MN 1.196 11 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made...you still find him with new words in the old place...
    MN 1.197 17 When man curses, nature still testifies to truth and love.
    MN 1.199 20 If anything could stand still, it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted...
    MN 1.200 12 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    MN 1.210 3 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught... then the voice grows faint...
    MN 1.215 12 Is it that [the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...and afterward found himself still as wicked...in that abstinence as he had been in the abuse?
    MN 1.220 4 What a debt is ours to that old religion, which, in the childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the country of New England...
    MR 1.250 4 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth who is still under the dominion of his own wild thoughts...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    MR 1.255 5 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.
    LT 1.270 18 ...it is well if government and our social order can extricate themselves from these alembics and find themselves still government and social order.
    Con 1.295 16 ...now [Conservatism], now [Innovation] gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time...
    Con 1.319 3 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    Con 1.322 11 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party...has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Con 1.323 26 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    Tran 1.354 9 Patience, then, is for us, is it not? Patience, and still patience.
    Tran 1.355 12 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.
    YA 1.378 5 Feudalism is not ended yet. Our governments still partake largely of that element.
    YA 1.392 3 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    YA 1.395 11 If only the men are employed in conspiring with the designs of the Spirit who led us hither and is leading us still, we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    Hist 2.14 2 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
    Hist 2.19 19 The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
    Hist 2.20 12 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them.
    Hist 2.20 27 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns...
    Hist 2.22 3 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...
    Hist 2.26 15 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek...
    SR 2.43 6 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still./
    SR 2.58 12 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;-read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    SR 2.73 10 If you cannot [love me for what I am], I will still seek to deserve that you should.
    SR 2.81 6 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he is at home still...
    Comp 2.102 17 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, not more nor less, still returns to you.
    Comp 2.108 26 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations...
    Comp 2.124 7 If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors...I can still receive;...
    SL 2.140 3 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself...
    SL 2.153 26 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise...it still needs fuel to make fire.
    SL 2.156 11 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Lov1 2.175 27 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough...
    Lov1 2.177 26 In giving [the lover] to another [love] still more gives him to himself.
    Fdsp 2.195 2 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...hymn, ode and epic, poetry still flowing...
    Fdsp 2.195 3 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...Apollo and the Muses chanting still.
    Fdsp 2.209 21 To a great heart [your friend] will still be a stranger in a thousand particulars...
    Prd1 2.226 3 ...we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
    Hsm1 2.255 3 Better still is the temperance of King David...
    OS 2.290 16 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know; still further on perhaps the gorgeous landscape...they enjoyed yesterday...
    Cir 2.308 18 ...we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
    Cir 2.315 3 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent still;...
    Cir 2.321 17 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...see how completely I have triumphed over these black events. Not if they still remind me of the black event.
    Int 2.334 1 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Int 2.334 16 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood...
    Art1 2.352 10 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of nature, but a still finer success...
    Pt1 3.11 3 These stony moments are still sparkling and animated!
    Pt1 3.11 25 Man...still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.
    Pt1 3.12 19 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as it were from cloud to cloud, still affirming that he is bound heavenward;...
    Exp 3.55 22 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare...but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius.
    Exp 3.72 24 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause...
    Chr1 3.102 2 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried out into the fields, and was the city still...
    Chr1 3.102 8 We shall still postpone our existence...whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us.
    Chr1 3.103 10 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted, its granary emptied, still cheers and enriches...
    Chr1 3.106 23 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing. Could they dream on still...and not wake to comparisons and to be flattered!
    Mrs1 3.119 22 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves...
    Mrs1 3.123 14 ...personal force never goes out of fashion. That is still paramount to-day...
    Mrs1 3.145 27 There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes...
    Mrs1 3.146 3 ...there is still some absurd inventor of charities;...
    Nat2 3.181 5 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff...
    Nat2 3.181 15 ...the artist still goes back for materials...
    Nat2 3.182 1 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated: the maples and ferns are still uncorrupt;...
    Nat2 3.185 3 Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse;...
    Nat2 3.188 19 This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe.
    Nat2 3.192 21 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature. Nature is still elsewhere.
    Pol1 3.206 14 The law may do what it will with the owner of property; its just power will still attach to the cent.
    Pol1 3.207 14 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people, which they still express with sufficient fidelity...
    NR 3.244 4 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation, and though still in his immediate neighborhood, he does not suspect its presence.
    NER 3.259 5 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world. But in a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common-sense still goes on.
    NER 3.259 12 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand.
    NER 3.269 26 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated, which must still be fed but was never satisfied...
    NER 3.275 21 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    UGM 4.4 27 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
    UGM 4.9 21 The mass of creatures and of qualities are still hid and expectant.
    UGM 4.34 7 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery; but the sense of the pictures is sacred, and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world.
    PPh 4.39 12 Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
    PPh 4.42 18 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he traveled into Italy...
    PPh 4.42 21 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled...into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East...
    PPh 4.46 7 If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
    PPh 4.46 27 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    PPh 4.48 11 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause, diving still into the profound...
    PPh 4.60 1 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.
    PPh 4.65 14 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds, which, though disturbed when compared with the others that are uniform, are still allied to their circulations;...
    PPh 4.79 5 ...it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.
    PNR 4.86 13 ...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real...
    SwM 4.107 15 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end...
    SwM 4.107 19 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine...
    SwM 4.110 26 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.
    SwM 4.119 17 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
    SwM 4.121 24 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.137 9 [Swedenborg] is...like Dante, who avenged, in vindictive melodies, all his private wrongs; or perhaps still more like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
    MoS 4.149 10 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game, because there is still a slight shudder of astonishment at the exhibition of the other face...
    MoS 4.157 22 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable...
    MoS 4.163 7 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau, still standing near Castellan, in Perigord...
    MoS 4.164 2 Other coincidences...concurred to make this old Gascon [Montaigne] still new and immortal for me.
    MoS 4.174 17 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
    MoS 4.184 24 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...and still the sirens sang, The attractions are proportioned to the destinies.
    ShP 4.194 16 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building...
    ShP 4.194 21 ...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 4.210 14 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
    ShP 4.212 2 A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's. We are still out of doors.
    ShP 4.219 13 The world still wants its poet-priest...
    NMW 4.226 22 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow...
    NMW 4.228 17 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity; since what was an impassable bar to us, and still is to others, becomes a convenient weapon for our purposes;...
    NMW 4.237 12 [Napoleon's] idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party.
    NMW 4.256 26 The counter-revolution, the counter-party, still waits for its organ and representative...
    GoW 4.264 2 Whatever can be thought can be spoken, and still rises for utterance...
    GoW 4.269 5 Still the writer does not stand with us on any commanding ground.
    GoW 4.272 19 Still [Goethe] is a poet...
    GoW 4.276 15 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing. The same measure will still serve [with the Devil]...
    GoW 4.277 25 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is a book over which some veil is still drawn.
    GoW 4.282 27 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects: the student, out of the lecture-room, still broods on the lessons;...
    GoW 4.285 8 ...his penetration of every secret of the fine arts will make Goethe still more statuesque.
    GoW 4.288 2 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place.
    ET1 5.4 10 If Goethe had been still living I might have wandered into Germany also.
    ET1 5.10 4 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
    ET1 5.14 7 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...
    ET1 5.16 10 ...[Carlyle] still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet...
    ET1 5.17 17 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...
    ET2 5.27 6 [The good ship] has...left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown, which were far east of us at morn...and still we fly for our lives.
    ET3 5.36 15 Every book we read...is still English history and manners.
    ET3 5.38 12 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster; yet all the intermediate steps may still be traced in this all-preserving island [England].
    ET4 5.46 5 ...[the English] are still aggressive and propagandist...
    ET4 5.52 19 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
    ET4 5.52 21 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean; the Briton in the blood hugs the homestead still.
    ET4 5.55 6 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family, of whose beginning there is no memory, and their end is likely to be still more remote in the future;...
    ET4 5.62 24 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.
    ET4 5.69 7 The old [English] men are...still handsome.
    ET4 5.72 11 The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.
    ET5 5.89 16 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men. The same question is still put to the posterity of Thor.
    ET5 5.90 26 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte, one after the other defeated, and still renewed...
    ET6 5.109 24 The Middle Ages still lurk in the streets of London.
    ET9 5.150 19 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.168 17 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money...
    ET11 5.175 25 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    ET11 5.181 15 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the city [London], a few noble houses which still withstand...the encroachment of streets.
    ET11 5.190 10 Penshurst still shines for us, and its Christmas revels...
    ET11 5.192 26 ...gaming, racing, drinking and mistresses bring [the English aristocracy] down, and the democrat can still gather scandals, if he will.
    ET12 5.200 16 Still more descriptive is the fact that out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford]...a duel has never occurred.
    ET12 5.201 24 [Oxford] is still governed by the statutes of Archbishop Laud.
    ET12 5.201 26 The books in Merton Library [Oxford] are still chained to the wall.
    ET12 5.202 8 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the Ptolemaic astronomy does not still hold its ground against the novelties of Copernicus.
    ET13 5.220 4 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their backs on no man. Their architecture still glows with faith in immortality.
    ET13 5.225 6 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not...
    ET14 5.246 6 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius.
    ET14 5.246 17 Dickens...with patriotic and still enlarging generosity, writes London tracts.
    ET14 5.256 14 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    ET15 5.269 9 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty. The Bench of Bishops is still less safe.
    ET16 5.275 3 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English...
    ET16 5.277 13 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of Homer...
    ET16 5.280 20 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the dog-cart...in which we were to be sent to Wilton.
    ET16 5.284 26 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]... yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET16 5.288 23 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    ET17 5.293 21 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which Mr. [Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself through the Hunterian Museum.
    ET18 5.306 14 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste, and still more in the submissive ideas pervading these people.
    ET19 5.313 19 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
    ET19 5.313 22 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations, mother of heroes, with strength still equal to the time;...
    ET19 5.313 22 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    F 6.4 2 We must begin our reform earlier still,-at generation...
    F 6.14 18 ...all that the primary power or spasm operates is still vesicles, vesicles.
    F 6.17 21 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain...
    Pow 6.69 24 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces, which are best in the savage, which...is still in reception of the milk from the teats of Nature.
    Pow 6.71 7 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
    Pow 6.71 11 Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Pow 6.71 13 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Wth 6.84 20 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law/...
    Wth 6.88 14 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then, less peremptorily but still with sting enough, she urges him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
    Wth 6.102 10 ...still more curious is [the dollar's] susceptibility to metaphysical changes.
    Wth 6.109 2 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm, with its hard fare still fresh in his remembrance, boards at a first-class hotel...
    Wth 6.114 12 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last;...
    Wth 6.117 23 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time.
    Wth 6.125 26 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras...of its life, and still to ascend in its investment.
    Wth 6.126 18 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance.
    Ctr 6.135 15 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Ctr 6.151 22 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
    Ctr 6.161 27 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Ctr 6.165 15 We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.
    Bhr 6.186 7 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second is still more effective...
    CbW 6.266 4 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    CbW 6.278 7 The man,--it is his attitude...in repose alike as in energy, still formidable and not to be disposed of.
    Bty 6.301 25 Still, Beauty rides on her lion, as before.
    Bty 6.301 26 Still, it was for beauty that the world was made.
    Bty 6.302 15 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Bty 6.303 2 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis.
    Ill 6.310 8 ...I...still chiefly remember that the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
    Ill 6.312 1 We fancy that our civilization has got on far, but we still come back to our primers.
    Ill 6.316 26 I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...
    Ill 6.320 5 One after the other we accept the mental laws, still resisting those which follow...
    Ill 6.323 8 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...
    Ill 6.325 26 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
    SS 7.8 9 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on all the rest.
    Civ 7.25 11 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    Civ 7.28 17 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
    Art2 7.44 22 There is a still larger deduction to be made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified.
    Elo1 7.87 14 ...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    Elo1 7.92 10 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required...
    Elo1 7.93 25 ...first and last, [eloquence] must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.
    DL 7.124 26 We never come to be citizens of the world, but are still villagers...
    Farm 7.139 25 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession.
    WD 7.163 27 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful. Things have an ugly look still.
    WD 7.167 3 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun, still recognizable through the modifications of our vernacular words...
    WD 7.168 6 ...if [Czar Alexander] had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still.
    WD 7.168 26 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...
    WD 7.170 3 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven, as of a world just created and still becoming...
    Boks 7.197 16 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry.
    Boks 7.206 10 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by the useful Robertson, is still the key of the following age.
    Boks 7.214 17 ...how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is!
    Clbs 7.228 21 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded! What a motive had then our solitary days! How the countenance of our friend still left some light after he had gone!
    Clbs 7.236 10 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic works...but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.
    Clbs 7.238 11 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known...
    Clbs 7.238 12 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth;...
    Cour 7.271 4 'T is still observed those men most valiant are/ Who are most modest ere they came to war./
    Cour 7.279 15 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    OA 7.322 12 We still feel the force of Socrates...
    OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect and worthy of his fame.
    PI 8.14 11 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
    PI 8.45 19 Shadows please us as still finer rhymes.
    PI 8.65 23 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
    SA 8.85 22 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.
    SA 8.87 4 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    SA 8.91 9 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    SA 8.101 17 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons, and still less surely heroic grandsons;...
    SA 8.101 25 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.
    SA 8.107 17 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here, and, we hope, in the next generation will still more abound.
    Res 8.147 9 ...what danger soever there may be, there is still one way or other to get off...
    Res 8.148 6 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob.
    Res 8.149 11 ...when the mind has exhausted its energies for one employment, it is still fresh and capable of a different task.
    Comc 8.162 5 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.
    Comc 8.172 22 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I am Caliph...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept.
    QO 8.177 11 In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
    PC 8.207 5 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
    PC 8.212 11 Our towns are still rude...
    PC 8.214 3 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names more distant...
    PC 8.214 9 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish...
    PC 8.215 8 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
    PC 8.222 21 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    PPo 8.236 6 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
    PPo 8.246 8 There resides in the grieving/ A poison to kill;/ Beware to go near them/ 'T is pestilent still./
    PPo 8.254 17 And with still more vigor in the following lines: Oft have I said,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    Insp 8.293 13 ...two men of good mind will excite each other's activity, each attempting still to cap the other's thought.
    Grts 8.300 3 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Imtl 8.326 17 ...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
    Imtl 8.338 24 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope; and why not, after millions of years, on the verge of still newer existence?...
    Imtl 8.339 3 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform,- suggesting a design still to be carried out;...
    Dem1 10.4 24 When newly awaked from lively dreams, we are so near them, still agitated by them, still in their sphere,-give us one syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
    Dem1 10.14 20 ...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur called out to them to stand still...
    Aris 10.35 18 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
    PerF 10.74 10 If a straw be held still in the direction of the ocean-current, the sea will pour through it as through Gibraltar.
    Chr2 10.89 2 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/...
    Chr2 10.98 22 If all things are taken away, I have still all things in my relation to the Eternal.
    Chr2 10.107 1 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon died,-still a sermon...
    Chr2 10.110 1 Paganism has only taken the oath of allegiance, taken the cross, but is Paganism still...
    Edc1 10.134 16 Why always coast on the surface and never open the interior of Nature, not by science, which is surface still, but by poetry?
    Edc1 10.138 10 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
    Edc1 10.148 18 The natural method [of education] forever confutes our experiments, and we must still come back to it.
    Edc1 10.155 24 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...resume their haunts and their ordinary labors and manners...
    SovE 10.184 1 ...this unity exists in the organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...
    SovE 10.201 18 The house in which we were born...is still haunted by parents and progenitors.
    SovE 10.208 13 ...natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    Prch 10.237 4 The old intellect still lives...
    MoL 10.242 25 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers; still the need was more.
    Schr 10.262 7 We have strayed from the territorial monuments of Attica, but here still are wheat and olives and the vine.
    Schr 10.274 21 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...gag him he can still write it;...
    Schr 10.274 23 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.
    Schr 10.284 2 ...manners, temper, lion-heart, are all good things, and if [the scholar] has none of them, he can still manage, if he have the main-mast,- if he is anything.
    Schr 10.287 12 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities...
    Plu 10.295 22 Still earlier, Rabelais cites [Plutarch] with due respect.
    Plu 10.303 5 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...
    Plu 10.311 26 Seneca was still more a man of the world than Plutarch;...
    LLNE 10.333 2 In the pulpit...with an infantine simplicity still, of manner, [Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    LLNE 10.335 5 ...works of genius in their first and slightest form are still wholes.
    LLNE 10.337 1 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    LLNE 10.339 19 ...we then thought, if we do not still think, that [Channing] left no successor in the pulpit.
    EzRy 10.390 8 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    EzRy 10.394 16 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    EzRy 10.395 1 By education, and still more by temperament, [Ezra Ripley] was engaged to the old forms of the New England Church.
    MMEm 10.428 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud, and death still refusing to come...wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
    SlHr 10.441 8 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...
    SlHr 10.442 11 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    Thor 10.454 20 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
    Thor 10.462 2 ...the relation of body to mind [in Thoreau] was still finer than we have indicated.
    Thor 10.467 7 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of its dimensions on an inch-rule...
    Thor 10.476 4 [Thoreau] had...an unwillingness to exhibit to profane eyes what was still sacred in his own...
    Thor 10.476 10 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail.
    Thor 10.477 8 [Thoreau's] thought makes all his poetry a hymn to...the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own:-I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./ And still more in these religious lines...
    Thor 10.479 1 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau, as if he spoke when silent, and was still present when he had departed.
    Thor 10.480 23 Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, is it still only beans!
    LS 11.2 4 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    LS 11.2 5 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    LS 11.5 15 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark...the same words are recorded, and still with no intimation that the occasion was to be remembered.
    LS 11.6 24 Still we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    LS 11.9 20 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat.
    HDC 11.30 13 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord].
    HDC 11.36 10 The moose was still trotting in the country...
    HDC 11.36 12 Of the pith elder, that still grows beside our brooks, [the Indians] made their arrow.
    HDC 11.53 9 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...but would be...Indians still;...
    HDC 11.58 24 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
    HDC 11.68 27 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
    HDC 11.69 2 Resolved, That these colonies have been and still are illegally taxed by the British parliament...
    HDC 11.70 17 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering;...
    HDC 11.73 7 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    EWI 11.101 17 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.121 22 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required, and adds that more are still demanded.
    EWI 11.124 26 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    War 11.159 26 All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation: the doctrine of the right of war still remains.
    War 11.167 3 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...
    FSLC 11.210 21 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument... none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLC 11.211 8 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
    FSLC 11.211 26 The ancient maxim still holds that never was any injustice effected except by the help of justice.
    FSLN 11.215 4 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save power remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
    JBB 11.270 11 ...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 fugitives still hunted in the mountains of Virginia and Pennsylvania;...
    TPar 11.287 13 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    ACiv 11.300 4 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the blows it aims...
    ACiv 11.303 5 Better the war...should threaten fracture in what is still whole...and so...exasperate our nationality.
    ACiv 11.305 6 ...if we conquer the enemy [the South],-what then? We shall still have to keep him under...
    ALin 11.328 23 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...
    SMC 11.359 19 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion; and the [Civil] war showed him still equal...
    EdAd 11.383 20 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    RBur 11.442 6 ...[Burns's] love-songs still woo and melt the youths and maids;...
    RBur 11.442 8 ...the farm-work, the country holiday, the fishing-cobble are still [Burns's] debtors to-day.
    Shak1 11.447 2 'T is not our fault if we have not made this evening's circle still richer than it is.
    Shak1 11.450 9 ...[Shakespeare] still agitates the heart in age as in youth...
    Scot 11.463 21 ...we still claim that [Scott's] poetry is the delight of boys.
    Scot 11.467 18 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in the best company, and still found himself the best of the best!
    FRO1 11.479 2 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    FRO2 11.488 5 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    CPL 11.495 8 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have an adequate town hall, good churches...
    FRep 11.520 13 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    PLT 12.9 17 What with egotism on one side and levity on the other, we shall have no Olympus. But there is still another hindrance, namely, practicality.
    PLT 12.11 12 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so delusive. We have had so many guides and so many failures. And now the world is still uncertain whether the pool has been sounded or not.
    PLT 12.14 20 ...philosophy is still rude and elementary.
    PLT 12.22 20 Is it not a little startling to see...with what genius some people fish,-what knowledge they still have of the creature they hunt?
    PLT 12.22 26 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...
    PLT 12.59 3 ...becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature, and death the penalty of standing still.
    II 12.86 9 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to an excess, to partiality, to individualism? Follow it still.
    Mem 12.96 19 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought; and still another deals with laws and perceptions that are the theory of the world.
    Mem 12.101 23 ...the Past will not sleep, it works still.
    Mem 12.103 24 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not;...
    Mem 12.103 25 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life...
    CInt 12.120 9 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...
    CInt 12.121 22 Here are still perverse millions full of passion, crime and blood.
    CL 12.133 7 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./
    CL 12.166 17 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better.
    CW 12.171 21 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...
    Bost 12.187 27 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia. With still more reason, they praised Athens, the Violet City.
    Bost 12.192 5 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell, still earlier, Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the same coast;...
    Bost 12.192 26 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    Bost 12.193 14 ...these Englishmen [who settled Massachusetts], with the Middle Ages still obscuring their reason, were filled with Christian thought.
    MAng1 12.213 5 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block; yet it therein shall find/ Only the hand secure and bold/ Which still obeys the mind./ Michael Angelo's Sonnets.
    MAng1 12.221 2 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
    MAng1 12.226 17 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built, in 1557, and is still called the Broken Bridge.
    MAng1 12.232 24 ...contemplating ever with love the idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his own work.
    MAng1 12.243 9 The city of Florence...still treasures the fame of this man [Michelangelo].
    Milt1 12.248 2 [New criticism] implied merit [in Milton] indisputable and illustrious; yet so near to the modern mind as to be still alive and life-giving.
    Milt1 12.251 13 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica]...is still a magazine of reasons for the freedom of the press.
    Milt1 12.253 20 ...no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.
    Milt1 12.253 27 Milton stands erect...still visible as a man among men...
    Milt1 12.255 25 In Germany, the greatest writers are still too recent to institute a comparison [with Milton];...
    Milt1 12.264 3 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    Milt1 12.267 1 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.
    Milt1 12.268 16 ...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts, and so are still read with delight.
    Milt1 12.275 2 Milton's sublimest song...is the voice of Milton still.
    Milt1 12.275 5 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's life, still reappearing.
    ACri 12.281 3 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
    ACri 12.289 7 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation. Ye aiblins might, I dinna ken,/ Still have a stake./
    ACri 12.295 6 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow, and still to seek..is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
    ACri 12.301 19 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank. And the town? There are still the sixty houses, but when I passed it, one owl was the only inhabitant.
    MLit 12.318 12 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    MLit 12.326 4 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better.
    MLit 12.329 8 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual, as, after years of dreams, it will still appear and reappear to wise men.
    MLit 12.332 21 Humanity must wait for its physician still at the side of the road...
    WSL 12.340 12 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...
    Pray 12.353 3 ...I will not forget that joy has been, and may still be.
    Pray 12.353 4 If there is no hour of solitude granted me, still I will commune with thee [My Father].
    Pray 12.355 12 ...thou art my Father, and I will love thee, for thou didst first love me, and lovest me still.
    AgMs 12.358 12 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
    AgMs 12.359 3 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...and here he stands, with Atlantic strength and cheer, invincible still.
    EurB 12.372 8 Fortune will still have her part in every victory...
    EurB 12.377 13 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims.
    PPr 12.380 11 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...firmly holds up to daylight the absurdities still tolerated in the English and European system.
    Let 12.399 22 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany, whose tone is still so familiar that we were somewhat mortified to find that it was written in 1799.
    Let 12.400 16 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius...
    Trag 12.412 2 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...as they will still sit when the Turk, the Frenchman and the Englishman, who visit them now, shall have passed by...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...
    Trag 12.417 2 ...higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are not distinguished from each other...

still-living, adj. (1)

    CSC 10.375 2 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...

stillness, n. (3)

    LE 1.169 11 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its coat of vapor with the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    Int 2.331 25 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.
    Nat2 3.192 27 The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.

stills, v. (1)

    PPr 12.383 8 Time stills the loud noise of opinions...

stilted, v. (1)

    Tran 1.356 25 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and stilted;...

stilts, n. (4)

    Bhr 6.184 25 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air; it spoiled the best persons; it put all on stilts.
    Bty 6.298 22 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts again put him at perpetual disadvantage...
    WD 7.183 2 ...[the savant] is on stilts at a microscope...
    WD 7.183 12 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality,--no stilts, no tiptoe;...

stimulants, n. (1)

    Boks 7.203 3 The imaginative scholar will find few stimulants to his brain like these writers [the Platonists].

stimulate, v. (9)

    Nat 1.30 12 In due time...words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
    Nat 1.35 9 ...the images of garment, scoriae, mirror, etc., may stimulate the fancy...
    Pt1 3.27 15 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature;...
    Pt1 3.29 24 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Exp 3.51 5 Of what use [is genius], if...the man does not care enough for results to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it?...
    UGM 4.14 26 ...in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful manners.
    Art2 7.44 8 In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are harmonized into a landscape.
    Cour 7.264 21 The general must stimulate the mind of his soldiers to the perception that they are men, and the enemy is no more.
    Res 8.141 22 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land,--as if to stimulate our energy, on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...

stimulated, v. (12)

    Nat 1.50 4 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
    YA 1.363 10 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?
    Hist 2.7 15 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated wherever he moves, as by personal allusions.
    Hist 2.23 14 The home-keeping wit...has its own perils of monotony and deterioration, if not stimulated by foreign infusions.
    Int 2.329 13 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    ET10 5.161 11 [The Bank of England] votes an issue of bills, population is stimulated and cities rise;...
    Ill 6.324 19 The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope...
    Boks 7.200 14 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited by lyric verses...
    Supl 10.179 2 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...
    Prch 10.223 15 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait of heroism...
    LLNE 10.332 2 ...all [Everett's] learning was available for purposes of the hour. It was all new learning, that wonderfully took and stimulated the young men.
    GSt 10.504 18 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a man whom disasters, which dishearten other men, only stimulated to new courage and endeavor.

stimulates, v. (5)

    Nat 1.24 10 The poet...the architect, seek...each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
    Bty 6.292 18 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry...
    Elo1 7.61 18 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates all the rest...
    PI 8.20 12 A symbol always stimulates the intellect;...
    PPr 12.386 4 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates.

stimulating, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.126 19 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
    Nat2 3.170 13 The tempered light of the woods...is stimulating and heroic.
    NER 3.272 20 In the circle of the rankest tories...let a powerful and stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...

stimulating, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.32 6 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    GoW 4.280 5 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is highly stimulating to intellect and courage.
    ET7 5.124 26 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months, the newspapers now and then, at his instance, stimulating the attention of the adepts;...

stimulus, n. (9)

    Nat 1.15 20 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
    Lov1 2.184 16 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    ET3 5.43 12 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by...sea-risks and the stimulus of gain.
    Art2 7.46 8 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it...
    Grts 8.305 12 Others find a charm...in the elements of which the whole world is made. These lately have stimulus to their study through the extraordinary revelations of the spectroscope that the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Supl 10.172 1 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    Prch 10.234 19 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman] except as furnishing a needed stimulus.
    Bost 12.186 9 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generates by the air of that place...whereby...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find no less stimulus in our native air;...
    EurB 12.373 5 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.

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