Strangled to Strondes

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

strangled, v. (1)

    PPh 4.77 23 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled. He falls abroad in the attempt; and biting, gets strangled...

strangulation, n. (1)

    PLT 12.33 8 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,- congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

strap, n. (1)

    F 6.5 25 Wise men feel that there is...a strap or belt which girds the world...

straps, n. (2)

    LE 1.156 21 Men looked, when all feudal straps and bandages were snapped asunder, that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    WD 7.172 25 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...

Strasburg Cathedral, German (1)

    Hist 2.17 23 Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach.

strata, n. (20)

    Nat 1.67 13 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    MN 1.195 27 ...our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata...
    LT 1.289 16 ...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest mountains, and, if we dig down, we find it below the superficial strata...
    Hist 2.16 5 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit, and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock.
    ET3 5.41 10 It is not down in the books,--it is written only in the geologic strata,--that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
    ET5 5.100 22 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...
    ET10 5.161 3 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...and vies with the volcanic forces which twisted the strata.
    F 6.16 6 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition of strata.
    F 6.21 25 Thus we trace Fate...in retardations of strata...
    F 6.34 10 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society...
    Ctr 6.165 10 The fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Bhr 6.176 6 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic strata every fact of his history...
    Bty 6.281 10 The geologist lays bare the strata...
    WD 7.159 13 Why need I speak of steam...which...vies with the forces which upheaved and doubled over the geologic strata?
    WD 7.171 1 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man, which all strata go to form...are given immeasurably to all.
    WD 7.176 12 The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil strata.
    PerF 10.70 25 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    SovE 10.187 6 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher...
    FSLC 11.202 23 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight statement, simple force; the facts lay like the strata of a cloud...
    PLT 12.8 10 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...

stratagem, n. (2)

    NMW 4.252 7 [Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention...as well as a stratagem in a campaign.
    SovE 10.193 2 If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

stratagems, n. (1)

    Comc 8.158 3 With the trifling exception of the stratagems of a few beasts and birds, there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.

strategem, n. (1)

    ET5 5.87 7 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...

Stratford upon Avon, Englan (4)

    ShP 4.192 21 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ShP 4.205 9 It appears...that [Shakespeare] lived in the best house in Stratford;...
    ShP 4.205 14 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers, in the borough-court at Stratford, for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    ShP 4.207 15 Did Shakspeare confide to any...sacristan, or surrogate in Stratford, the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's Dream]?

stratification, n. (1)

    Grts 8.312 10 ...the stratification of crusts in geology is not more precise than the degrees of rank in minds.

stratum, n. (6)

    Nat 1.68 11 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself...in every mountain stratum...
    SwM 4.142 14 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who...visits doleful hells as a stratum of chalk or hornblende!
    ShP 4.195 20 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
    GoW 4.261 13 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...the animal its bones in the stratum;...
    Farm 7.135 7 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
    Bost 12.183 13 ...from every stratum a different aroma and air according to its quality.

straunge, adj. (1)

    CL 12.136 10 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

straw, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.469 24 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...

straw, n. (7)

    SR 2.58 20 The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
    ET10 5.161 2 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths, as easily as it braids straw...
    CbW 6.276 24 'T is as easy to twist iron anchors and braid cannons as to braid straw;...
    Cour 7.274 20 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...
    Res 8.146 14 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    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.
    PPr 12.388 26 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

strawberries, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.240 22 ...strawberries lose their flavor in garden-beds.
    PLT 12.29 1 To the gardener [Nature's] loam is all strawberries, pears, pineapples.

Strawberry Hill, England. (1)

    ET10 5.165 13 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks;...

straw-huts, n. (1)

    LE 1.172 22 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away before it all our little architecture of wit and memory, as straws and straw-huts before the torrent.

straws, n. (5)

    LE 1.172 22 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away before it all our little architecture of wit and memory, as straws and straw-huts before the torrent.
    MoS 4.167 8 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...what meats I eat and what drinks I prefer, and a hundred straws just as ridiculous...
    DL 7.124 22 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The same jokes pleased, the same straws tickled;...
    Cour 7.279 10 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    FSLC 11.182 22 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed what stuff reputations are made of, what straws we dignify by office and title...

stray, adj. (2)

    F 6.11 26 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain...some stray taste or talent for flowers...
    MoL 10.243 8 ...stray clergymen kept the bar in saloons [in California];...

stray, v. (2)

    PPo 8.254 19 Oft have I said, I say it once more,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    CL 12.133 8 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./

strayed, v. (2)

    Boks 7.211 7 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist, in observing into what strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed, to infer our opulence.
    Schr 10.262 6 We have strayed from the territorial monuments of Attica...

stream, n. (37)

    Nat 1.27 2 Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
    AmS 1.99 8 The stream retreats to its source.
    LE 1.183 12 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...nowise emitting a continuous stream of light...
    MN 1.199 8 The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? That rushing stream will not stop to be observed.
    SL 2.139 20 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...
    SL 2.155 18 [The things the great man did] are the demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature; they show the direction of the stream. But the stream is blood; every drop is alive.
    OS 2.268 2 Man is a stream whose source is hidden.
    Int 2.339 9 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils, but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    Art1 2.363 4 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power; billows or ripples they are of the stream of tendency;...
    Exp 3.46 3 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream...
    Nat2 3.179 1 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire...
    NR 3.225 7 Could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he pretends to be!
    NER 3.277 13 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be...melted and carried away in the great stream of good will.
    SwM 4.110 2 What we call gravitation, and fancy ultimate, is one fork of a mightier stream for which we have yet no name.
    ET10 5.170 8 [England] too is in the stream of fate...
    ET14 5.238 26 ...[Bacon] drinks of a diviner stream, and marks the influx of idealism into England.
    ET16 5.285 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones, over a stream of which the gardener did not know the name...
    ET19 5.314 4 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    Pow 6.70 23 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.
    Pow 6.77 10 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark...
    Bhr 6.180 19 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet, if in sympathy with the society, he shall not have a sense of this fact, such a stream of life has been flowing into him and out from him through the eyes.
    WD 7.163 21 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    PI 8.21 9 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the celestial stream...
    Res 8.148 15 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill, with a stop-cock by his chair from which he could discharge a stream that would knock down an ox...
    QO 8.179 20 The stream of affection flows broad and strong;...
    PPo 8.242 12 The crocodile in the rolling stream had no safety from Afrasiyab.
    Thor 10.466 27 ...the birds which frequent the stream [the Concord River], heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey;...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    HDC 11.86 7 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided. But even more sacred influences than these have mingled here with the stream of human life.
    EWI 11.139 8 The stream of human affairs flows its own way...
    PLT 12.12 15 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought. That is upstream, and what a stream!
    PLT 12.16 15 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream...
    PLT 12.16 22 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream.
    II 12.70 25 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you, and perpetually to divert attention from himself, by the stream of thoughts, laws and images.
    Mem 12.103 24 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not;...
    CL 12.156 8 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea...
    MLit 12.315 13 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident... with the stream of laborers in the street...
    Trag 12.415 6 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.

stream, v. (9)

    Nat 1.3 11 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    LE 1.158 21 Over [the scholar] stream the flying constellations;...
    LT 1.267 17 We...stand in the light of Ideas, whose rays stream through us to those younger and more in the dark.
    NER 3.278 3 ...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
    F 6.43 19 To a subtle force [the wall] will stream into new forms...
    CbW 6.247 25 The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.
    Civ 7.17 12 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Suc 7.300 25 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which stream through things...
    PLT 12.21 13 The life of the All must stream through us to make the man and the moment great.

streamed, v. (2)

    LLNE 10.340 27 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...
    II 12.65 22 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed...

streaming, adj. (2)

    ET1 5.15 15 [Carlyle] was...full of lively anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon.
    PPo 8.256 28 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./

streaming, v. (6)

    Comp 2.120 1 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
    Pt1 3.11 7 ...behold! all night, from every pore, these fine auroras have been streaming.
    MoS 4.152 3 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings. Hot life is streaming in a single direction.
    Bty 6.293 25 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has;...
    PI 8.4 15 ...the creation is...in transit, always...streaming into something higher;...
    CInt 12.127 26 ...I thought...a college was to teach you...chemistry, botany, zoology, the streaming of thought into form, and the precipitation of atoms which Nature is.

streamlets, n. (1)

    Wth 6.119 18 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it, stops every leak, turns all the streamlets to one reservoir and decants wine;...

streams, n. (15)

    Con 1.304 14 The respect for the old names of places, of mountains and streams, is universal.
    Con 1.324 13 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me, shall of me acquire healing virtue...
    OS 2.268 12 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner;...
    Wth 6.86 10 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Wth 6.121 24 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...through mountains, over streams...
    Ill 6.309 15 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...crossed the streams Lethe and Styx;...
    PI 8.70 4 ...when life is true to the poles of Nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
    Elo2 8.114 12 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman, whilst he pours out the abundant streams of his thought through a language all glittering and fiery with imagination;...
    QO 8.186 5 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    Insp 8.267 2 That flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me.
    PerF 10.76 17 ...[man's] his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.
    CPL 11.502 2 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man. Shall not they who received the largest streams spread abroad the healing waters?
    CL 12.144 17 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that...the traveller had nothing for it but to wade in the streams.
    Bost 12.187 8 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid, and should be corrected by copious infusions of these provincial streams.
    Milt1 12.276 9 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they did not appropriate...

streams, v. (8)

    LE 1.158 22 ...over [the scholar] streams Time...
    Hist 2.13 25 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it...
    Nat2 3.194 18 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts...
    MoS 4.186 3 ...through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    Bty 6.292 4 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded, but only what streams with life...
    PI 8.42 15 ...as everything streams and advances...there is no limit to [the poet's] hope.
    EWI 11.123 16 The national aim and employment streams into our ways of thinking...
    Bost 12.183 11 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night, from every flower and leaf...

street, adj. (13)

    PPh 4.43 14 [Great geniuses] lived in their writings, and so their house and street life was trivial and commonplace.
    PPh 4.75 6 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    SwM 4.141 8 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded...
    MoS 4.166 8 ...[Montaigne] will talk with sailors and gipsies, use flash and street ballads;...
    ShP 4.217 23 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
    ET14 5.246 16 Dickens, with preternatural apprehension of the language of manners and the varieties of street life;...writes London tracts.
    Ctr 6.142 26 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk;...
    Bhr 6.177 19 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.
    Civ 7.33 15 These arts [of invention] add a comfort and smoothness to house and street life;...
    Grts 8.319 26 The good botanist will find flowers between the street pavements...
    Edc1 10.140 22 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative, cheered with so much humor and street rhetoric, should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    LLNE 10.337 14 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show.
    FRep 11.524 19 Whilst each cabal...at last brings, with cheers and street demonstrations, men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...

Street, Audley, London, En (1)

    ET11 5.181 26 Chesterfield House remains in Audley Street.

Street, Broad, Boston, Mas (1)

    Bost 12.208 5 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.

Street, Chardon, Chapel, n. (1)

    CSC 10.373 3 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...

Street, Chardon, Convention (5)

    CSC 10.373 7 The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...
    CSC 10.373 17 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
    CSC 10.373 18 This Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...
    CSC 10.376 19 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
    CSC 10.377 1 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...

Street, Chestnut, Philadelp (1)

    ET3 5.40 27 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street.

Street, Court, Boston, Mas (1)

    YA 1.386 8 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him...in Court Street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...

Street, Grub, London, Engl (1)

    Boks 7.196 16 Now and then, by rarest luck, is some foolish Grub Street is the gem we want.

Street, Milk, Boston, Mass (1)

    Wth 6.122 15 When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...

street, n. (97)

    Nat 1.16 22 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
    Nat 1.50 23 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.
    AmS 1.111 3 The literature of the poor...the philosophy of the street...are the topics of the time.
    AmS 1.111 16 The meal in the firkin;...the ballad in the street;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    DSA 1.140 23 In the street, what has [the poor preacher] to say to the bold village blasphemer?
    LE 1.161 22 In spite of all the rueful abortions that squeak and gibber in the street...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    LE 1.174 17 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those... divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    LE 1.176 20 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons...a piece of the street...
    MN 1.206 17 ...when the genius comes...it is...the power of transferring the affair in the street into oils and colors.
    YA 1.388 26 ...who announces to us in journal, or in pulpit, or in the street, the secret of heroism?
    SR 2.56 3 The by-standers look askance on [the nonconformist] in the public street...
    SR 2.62 1 ...the man in the street...feels poor when he looks on [towers and statues].
    SR 2.62 13 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...symbolizes...the state of man...
    SR 2.85 12 ...the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
    Comp 2.93 10 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the transactions of the street, the farm, and the dwelling-house;...
    Fdsp 2.191 8 How many we see in the street...whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be wth!
    Art1 2.349 5 ...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet/...
    Art1 2.357 6 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street...
    Pt1 3.41 4 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.
    Exp 3.63 4 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of Nature's pictures in every street...
    Exp 3.67 5 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    Exp 3.76 9 The street is full of humiliations to the proud.
    Exp 3.76 15 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    Mrs1 3.149 24 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
    NER 3.262 26 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? the street is as false as the church...
    UGM 4.15 13 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to...Lamartine. Hear the shouts in the street!
    MoS 4.149 15 [A man] drives his bargain in the street; but it occurs that he also is bought and sold.
    MoS 4.155 6 [The skeptic] sees the one-sidedness of these men of the street;...
    NMW 4.225 14 The man in the street finds in [Napoleon] the qualities and powers of other men in the street.
    NMW 4.225 16 The man in the street finds in [Napoleon] the qualities and powers of other men in the street.
    NMW 4.255 22 ...[Napoleon]...listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street...
    ET1 5.12 11 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    ET1 5.16 22 [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.
    ET4 5.65 10 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
    ET4 5.70 17 The French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight before them like mad dogs.
    ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic; the people in the street best understand the best words.
    ET12 5.212 23 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    F 6.10 15 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger in the facial angle...
    F 6.11 13 Who meets [a man], or who meets [a woman], in the street, sees that they are ripe to be each other's victim.
    Pow 6.75 9 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen...
    Pow 6.75 10 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen, the street which led to the market-place and the council house.
    Ctr 6.137 22 We must leave our pets at home when we go into the street...
    Ctr 6.152 22 ...I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo the street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
    Wsp 6.211 2 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade. Well, says the man in the street, Cobden got a stipend out of it.
    Wsp 6.237 4 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street?
    Wsp 6.237 6 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street.
    CbW 6.247 4 Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
    CbW 6.248 10 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to the man who can will. Is that necessary? That shall be:--this is the only law of success. Whoever said it, this is in the right key. But this is not the tone and genius of the men in the street.
    Bty 6.286 21 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than angels or redeemers...
    Ill 6.311 22 ...the fop in the street, the hunter in the woods...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    SS 7.4 17 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
    SS 7.4 27 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London. In all the variety of costumes...to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who wore anything like his own dress.
    SS 7.9 18 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know! Nor dare they tell what they think of each other when they meet in the street.
    SS 7.10 26 If you would learn to write, 't is in the street you must learn it.
    SS 7.15 21 We require such a solitude as shall hold us to its revelations when we are in the street and in palaces;...
    Art2 7.54 27 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    DL 7.106 9 The street is old as Nature;...
    DL 7.111 8 Take off all the roofs, from street to street, and we shall seldom find the temple of any higher god than Prudence.
    DL 7.123 19 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself; neither do the people in the street;...
    Boks 7.196 8 Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.
    Cour 7.275 26 Scholars and thinkers...shrink if a coarser shout comes up from the street...
    Suc 7.301 25 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
    Suc 7.310 11 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty, in all the street full of eager and rosy faces, but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    OA 7.319 26 ...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.
    OA 7.320 15 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.
    OA 7.322 3 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them...
    PI 8.39 10 Men in the courts or in the street think themselves logical and the poet whimsical.
    SA 8.82 9 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal, in their games and in their house-talk and in the street...
    SA 8.94 9 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac! the street in Paris in which her house stood.
    SA 8.101 21 In America, the necessity of...laying out town and street... exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    Elo2 8.124 22 Every one has felt how superior in force is the language of the street to that of the academy.
    Elo2 8.124 23 The street must be one of [the orator's] schools.
    Elo2 8.125 2 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong...
    Comc 8.171 4 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one whose bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
    QO 8.204 3 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
    PC 8.209 26 The fop is unable to cut the patriot in the street;...
    Insp 8.269 15 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best. But we don't know where the shop is. If Watt knew, he forgot to tell us the number of the street.
    Aris 10.61 12 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
    Edc1 10.138 15 I like boys, the masters of the playground and of the street...
    Edc1 10.149 15 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.
    Plu 10.315 25 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    Plu 10.321 13 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in the street, the market...
    FSLN 11.233 4 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.
    TPar 11.284 11 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street/...
    RBur 11.442 26 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.
    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...
    Mem 12.93 19 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes;...
    CInt 12.123 2 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends, to daily life in house and street.
    CW 12.171 10 ...[the Musketaquid River] runs parallel with the village street...
    CW 12.171 11 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank...
    ACri 12.287 10 ...all able men have known how to import the petulance of the street into correct discourse.
    ACri 12.288 1 Who has not heard in the street how forcible is bosh, gammon and gas.
    ACri 12.288 4 The language of the street is always strong.
    ACri 12.293 25 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself...on the scene...
    MLit 12.315 13 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident... with the stream of laborers in the street...
    MLit 12.317 9 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    MLit 12.325 7 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the amphitheatre, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street;...

Street, North, n. (1)

    ACri 12.288 23 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard...

Street, State, Boston, Mas [Street,] (6)

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

Street, State, n. (2)

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

Street, Tremont, No. 2000, (1)

    Clbs 7.244 18 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.

Street, Wall, New York Ci (3)

    MR 1.230 13 ...Wall Street doubts, and begins to prophesy'
    Wth 6.91 1 ...Wall Street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word...
    SA 8.88 4 There are always slovens in State Street or Wall Street, who are not less considered.

street-ballads, n. (1)

    ShP 4.193 27 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which [Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.

street-bible, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.450 3 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.

street-cries, n. (1)

    ACri 12.295 25 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...street-cries and war-cries;...

street-posts, n. (1)

    War 11.166 12 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the cannon would become street-posts;...

streets, n. (58)

    Nat 1.7 11 Seen in the streets of cities, how great [the stars] are!
    Nat 1.10 17 In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.
    Nat 1.21 16 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city...
    MR 1.252 20 See this wide society of laboring men and women. We allow ourselves to be served by them, we...meet them without a salute in the streets.
    Hist 2.24 11 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities...
    Lov1 2.176 14 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence, and all the men and women running to and fro in the streets, mere pictures.
    Hsm1 2.258 3 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread, and London streets for the feet of Milton.
    Chr1 3.115 5 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical and treat such a visitant with the jabber and suspicion of the streets, argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    Chr1 3.115 25 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    Mrs1 3.153 4 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely.
    NER 3.267 6 [The union of men] is the union of friends who live in different streets or towns.
    NER 3.280 4 It only needs that a just man should walk in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a contrivance is our legislation.
    PPh 4.61 15 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities to the Atlantis.
    MoS 4.151 24 The trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes...
    GoW 4.274 4 [Goethe] sought [Proteus] in public squares and main streets...
    GoW 4.276 20 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...and walk in the streets...
    ET1 5.3 6 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London at the Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning; there were few people in the streets...
    ET1 5.3 14 ...we could no longer speak aloud in the streets without being understood.
    ET4 5.63 11 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting...and in the readiness for a set-to in the streets...
    ET4 5.63 13 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing...
    ET4 5.66 13 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please...mainly by that uncorrupt youth in the face of manhood, which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET4 5.71 26 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully...
    ET6 5.109 24 The Middle Ages still lurk in the streets of London.
    ET11 5.181 8 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...
    ET11 5.181 16 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 in all their amplitude the encroachment of streets.
    Wth 6.119 22 So is it with granite streets or timber townships as with fruit or flowers.
    CbW 6.248 11 In the streets we grow cynical.
    Ill 6.312 14 Even the prose of the streets is full of refractions.
    Civ 7.31 27 ...it is not New York streets...that make the real estimation.
    Elo1 7.73 24 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets...
    WD 7.171 24 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now, as I trudge the streets on my affairs.
    WD 7.174 12 ...every man in moments of deeper thought is apprised that he is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or Byzantium.
    Boks 7.201 20 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of Athens...
    Cour 7.259 16 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with burglars and ruffians in the streets...that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    OA 7.318 26 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
    Elo2 8.111 20 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose...on this miscellaneous assembly gathered from the streets,--all are invisible and unknown.
    Res 8.152 5 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must leave the house, the streets and the club...
    Insp 8.290 13 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers...against the license of the organ-grinders, who infested the streets near their houses...
    Imtl 8.325 3 ...the polity of the Egyptians, the by-laws of towns, of streets and houses, respected burial.
    Imtl 8.332 20 ...you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the streets...
    PerF 10.86 26 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Prch 10.236 7 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst our feet walk in the streets of a little town...
    Prch 10.236 12 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion, which streets can never give...
    SlHr 10.438 3 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him...to take his daily walk... in the streets of the city.
    SlHr 10.438 9 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that...he had rather the boys should troll his old head like a football in their streets, than that he should hide it.
    SlHr 10.438 13 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.444 4 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    LVB 11.92 2 Men and women with pale and perplexed faces meet one another in the streets and churches here, and ask if this [relocation of the Cherokees] be so.
    EWI 11.130 21 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city...
    FSLC 11.199 7 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets...
    TPar 11.292 13 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave; the winds of America over these bereaved streets;...
    Mem 12.103 19 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
    CL 12.137 4 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...
    CL 12.154 25 ...[Samuel Johnson] loved the sweet security of streets.
    Bost 12.201 14 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...
    Bost 12.206 25 From...the Quaker women who for a testimony walked naked into the streets...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
    MAng1 12.237 4 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...not of the simple inhabitants of lowly streets or humble cottages, but of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    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...

street-talk, n. (1)

    ACri 12.285 22 ...much of the raw material of the street-talk is absolutely untranslatable into print...

street-word, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.75 7 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than...the vituperative style well described in the street-word jawing.

strength, n. (275)

    Nat 1.53 13 In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to [Shakspeare] recent and transitory.
    AmS 1.81 4 We do not meet for games of strength or skill...
    AmS 1.97 11 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
    AmS 1.99 24 What is lost in seemliness is gained in strength.
    DSA 1.124 16 Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong by the whole strength of nature.
    DSA 1.132 9 The divine bards are the friends...of my strength.
    LE 1.180 14 ...Bonaparte's army partook of this double strength of the captain;...
    LE 1.182 17 From [infinite Reason], [the man of genius] must draw his strength;...
    MN 1.194 23 ...the wit of man, his strength...is the grace and presence of God.
    MR 1.256 2 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength...
    LT 1.276 12 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...
    Con 1.305 10 The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread you would break up the oven.
    Con 1.311 24 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces with every security for strength...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    Con 1.322 22 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man; to...tax the strength of his character?
    Tran 1.356 6 These persons [Transcendentalists] are of unequal strength, and do not all prosper.
    Tran 1.356 9 [Transcendentalists] complain that everything around them must be denied; and if feeble, it takes all their strength to deny...
    Tran 1.357 3 [The Transcendentalist's] strength and spirits are wasted in rejection.
    Tran 1.359 20 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... not only by what they did, but by what they forbore to do, shall abide in beauty and strength...
    YA 1.377 26 [Trade] displaces physical strength...
    YA 1.391 3 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that he imparts strength to the State...
    Hist 2.24 21 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities; courage...strength...
    Hist 2.31 16 ...every time [Antaeus] touched his mother-earth his strength was renewed.
    SR 2.48 5 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    SR 2.75 24 We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born.
    SR 2.84 26 ...the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.
    Comp 2.102 9 That soul which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; but there in history we can see its fatal strength.
    Comp 2.116 27 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
    Comp 2.117 21 Our strength grows out of our weakness.
    Comp 2.118 18 ...the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself...
    Comp 2.118 20 ...we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
    SL 2.132 25 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom. This requires rare gifts. Yet without this self-knowledge there may be a sylvan strength and integrity in that which he is.
    SL 2.137 16 All our manual labor and works of strength...are done by dint of continual falling...
    SL 2.158 5 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Lov1 2.186 18 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties, to...acquaint each with the strength and weakness of the other.
    OS 2.279 12 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will against mine...and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength.
    OS 2.288 12 ...[scholars' and authors'] talent is...some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.
    OS 2.296 6 ...in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of [the saints' and demigods'] memory...
    Cir 2.322 2 The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas...
    Exp 3.64 13 If we will be strong with [nature's] strength we must not harbor such disconsolate consciences...
    Chr1 3.90 12 What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism. Half his strength he put not forth.
    Chr1 3.94 1 The excess of physical strength is paralyzed by [character].
    Mrs1 3.140 17 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...
    Pol1 3.214 10 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...
    NER 3.265 10 ...to [the men of less faith], concert appears the sole specific of strength.
    UGM 4.28 16 ...the law of individuality collects its secret strength: you are you, and I am I, and so we remain.
    PPh 4.45 21 The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength.
    PPh 4.51 18 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...strength; the other, pleasure...
    PPh 4.55 18 Our strength is transitional, alternating;...
    PPh 4.57 21 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    PPh 4.59 2 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet...
    SwM 4.103 4 There is...strength of a host, as well as of a hero;...
    SwM 4.107 3 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor, with the heart and strength of the rudest Viking that his rough Sweden ever sent to battle.
    MoS 4.152 5 ...to the animal strength and spirits...the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
    MoS 4.156 7 [The skeptic says] I know that human strength is not in extremes, but in avoiding extremes.
    MoS 4.158 18 It is from the poor man's hut alone that strength and virtue come...
    MoS 4.182 26 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief, without losing a jot of strength.
    MoS 4.184 20 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.
    ShP 4.194 8 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    ShP 4.199 27 Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language.
    ShP 4.212 24 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part, consulting not the fitness of the thing, but his fitness and strength.
    NMW 4.235 16 [Napoleon] put out all his strength.
    NMW 4.241 19 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims...
    NMW 4.251 20 [Bonaparte] has the good-nature of strength and conscious superiority.
    GoW 4.271 16 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind...easily able by his subtlety...to draw his strength from nature...
    GoW 4.272 23 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes...strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    ET1 5.6 1 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work;...
    ET1 5.20 28 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the physical strength of the people...
    ET2 5.29 11 The sea is masculine, the type of active strength.
    ET3 5.37 23 The innumerable details [in England]...the military strength and splendor...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET3 5.38 20 Here [in England] is...a temperature which makes no exhausting demand on human strength...
    ET3 5.43 2 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET4 5.62 15 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat. There will be time enough to mellow this strength into civility and religion.
    ET4 5.63 17 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength...
    ET4 5.68 27 ...the brutal strength which lies at the bottom of society...[the English] know how to wake up.
    ET5 5.85 2 [The English] put the expense in the right place, as in their sea-steamers, in the solidity of the machinery and the strength of the boat.
    ET5 5.87 3 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand; where the victory lies with the strength, courage and endurance of the individual combatants.
    ET5 5.92 11 ...every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the English government.
    ET5 5.99 25 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat, and this strength of affection makes the romance of their heroes.
    ET6 5.104 16 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in his manners, in...the inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;--all significant of burly strength.
    ET7 5.117 4 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning, as a compensation for strength withheld;...
    ET7 5.117 7 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where strength could be afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth...
    ET8 5.130 15 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
    ET8 5.132 10 [Young Englishmen]...cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding, hunting, swimming and fencing...
    ET8 5.132 26 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
    ET8 5.138 25 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid; but, later, do them justice as people who...hide their strength.
    ET8 5.140 22 Half [the Englishmen's] strength they put not forth.
    ET10 5.166 17 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of each individual,--that he has waste strength...
    ET10 5.167 10 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit and versatility...
    ET12 5.208 27 [An English gentleman] should...have bodily activity and strength...
    ET13 5.215 5 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    ET13 5.217 9 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church. Hence its strength in the agricultural districts.
    ET14 5.232 3 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to thought...
    ET14 5.235 4 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly; nor is a sentence made of Roman words alone, without loss of strength.
    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;...
    Pow 6.55 7 During...trials of strength...a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
    Pow 6.55 9 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries, the maintenance of bodily strength requiring it...
    Pow 6.56 13 The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events and strong with their strength.
    Pow 6.59 8 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Pow 6.59 11 When a new boy comes into school...there is at once a trial of strength...and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader. So now, there is a measuring of strength...and an acquiescence thenceforward when these two meet.
    Pow 6.61 25 ...[a timid man] discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Pow 6.62 7 ...the rancor of the disease attests the strength of the constitution.
    Pow 6.65 1 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
    Pow 6.71 2 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty...
    Pow 6.75 1 Concentration is the secret of strength in politics...
    Wth 6.112 11 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent. And to save on this point were to neutralize the special strength and helpfulness of each mind.
    Wth 6.116 14 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks; the other is diffuse strength;...
    Wth 6.126 16 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits;...
    Ctr 6.144 13 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not; the refined, on rude strength;...
    Bhr 6.181 27 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you... how [the nose's] forms express strength or weakness of will...
    Bhr 6.183 23 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal on his terms. Now they must fight the battle out on their private strength.
    Bhr 6.194 26 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields. It is natural that at forty he should not feel toward you as he did at twelve. But his feelings toward you have greater truth and strength.
    Wsp 6.202 18 The strength of that principle [Faith] is not measured in ounces and pounds;...
    Wsp 6.213 1 ...the moral sense reappears to-day with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.
    Wsp 6.221 10 In us, [the law] is inspiration; out there in nature we see its fatal strength.
    Wsp 6.235 12 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    CbW 6.246 11 ...not by strength of ours, or of the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the youth] must stand or fall.
    CbW 6.246 12 ...not by strength of ours, or of the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the youth] must stand or fall.
    CbW 6.255 1 We acquire the strength we have overcome.
    CbW 6.258 7 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    CbW 6.264 13 The joy of the spirit indicates its strength.
    Bty 6.294 10 The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
    Bty 6.294 12 ...the bone or the quill of the bird gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
    Bty 6.294 21 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
    Civ 7.27 9 ...all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
    Art2 7.42 13 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers, and he is no longer free. But if we work within this limit, she yields us all her strength.
    Art2 7.42 16 We do not grind corn or lift the loom by our own strength...
    Art2 7.44 4 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the physical strength...
    Art2 7.49 5 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
    Elo1 7.69 12 ...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the physical strength exerted in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
    Elo1 7.94 26 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character...
    Elo1 7.95 27 [The woods and mountains] send us every year some piece of aboriginal strength...
    Farm 7.138 2 ...[the countryman's] independence and his pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the face and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.139 8 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...patience...with the parsimony of our strength...
    WD 7.159 8 Why need I speak of steam...with its enormous strength and delicate applicability...
    Clbs 7.225 16 ...our tonics, our luxuries, are force-pumps which exhaust the strength they pretend to supply;...
    Cour 7.259 10 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys, who, without strength, wish to keep up the appearance of strength.
    Cour 7.259 11 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys, who, without strength, wish to keep up the appearance of strength.
    Cour 7.260 5 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs...
    Cour 7.260 7 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs, and dissuading all resistance, as if to make this strength greater.
    Cour 7.260 9 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him?
    Cour 7.264 19 Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
    Cour 7.266 14 On organic action all strength depends.
    Suc 7.283 19 ...we value ourselves on all these feats. 'T is the way of the world; 't is the law of youth, and of unfolding strength.
    Suc 7.289 14 Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men...
    Suc 7.295 24 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength.
    OA 7.319 11 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time]...lose their stature, strength, beauty and senses...
    OA 7.324 26 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst...
    OA 7.335 21 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk...
    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 8.31 12 ...[the amateur] draws the bow with his fingers and the [poet] with the strength of his body;...
    PI 8.36 13 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    SA 8.86 25 You have in you there a noisy, sensual savage, which you are to keep down, and turn all his strength to beauty.
    Res 8.137 17 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature; by seeing that wisdom is better than strength;...
    Res 8.145 10 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it.
    Res 8.149 3 [The good aunt] relies on the same principle that makes the strength of Newton,--alternation of employment.
    PC 8.207 9 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence, and thrills with the vast augmentation of strength which it draws from this proof.
    PC 8.207 11 The storm which has been resisted is a crown of honor and a pledge of strength to the ship.
    PC 8.232 22 We are a complaisant, forgiving people, presuming, perhaps, on a feeling of strength.
    Insp 8.271 22 Every real step is...by lyrical facility, and never by main strength and ignorance.
    Insp 8.291 13 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who, having received from the fairy an enchantment of six hours of growing strength every day, took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Insp 8.291 14 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Insp 8.291 15 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased; since from noon to night his strength abated.
    Grts 8.304 27 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Imtl 8.325 20 [The Greek]...made [death] bright with games of strength and skill...
    Aris 10.37 6 The game of the world is a perpetual trial of strength between man and events.
    Aris 10.42 18 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength.
    Aris 10.43 4 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which yields a stock of strength and spirits for all the needs of the day...
    Aris 10.57 23 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round, as for a tower of strength, on some self-dependent mind...
    PerF 10.70 7 See what your robust neighbor, who never feared to live in [the air], has got from it; strength, cheerfulness...
    PerF 10.74 12 If [man] should measure strength with [natural forces], if he should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...
    PerF 10.77 9 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence. Then the knowledge unutterable of our private strength...
    PerF 10.77 23 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is not his land or his money or body's strength, but his thoughts...
    PerF 10.78 18 By [our mental forces'] strength we are strong...
    PerF 10.79 5 The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He...increases his skill and strength...
    PerF 10.87 22 ...we presume strength of him or them who deny [the moral sentiment].
    Chr2 10.112 8 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions. Now that their religions are outgrown, the empires lack strength.
    Chr2 10.113 20 ...whoever feels any love or skill for ethical studies may safely lay out all his strength and genius in working in that mine.
    Edc1 10.123 2 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Edc1 10.135 12 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength...
    Edc1 10.152 26 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance...
    Supl 10.176 21 ...[Nature] appoints us to keep within the sharp boundaries of form as the condition of our strength...
    SovE 10.192 21 Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
    SovE 10.192 23 The strength of the animal to eat and to be luxurious and to usurp is rudeness and imbecility.
    Prch 10.234 16 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    MoL 10.247 4 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force. I wish him to rely on the spiritual arm; to live by his strength, not by his weakness.
    MoL 10.253 3 Does any one doubt between the strength of a thought and that of an institution?
    MoL 10.257 9 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once.
    MoL 10.258 2 The times develop the strength they need.
    Schr 10.274 14 Let [men of thought] fight by their strength, not by their weakness.
    Schr 10.279 26 What is the use of strength or cunning or beauty...to a maniac?
    Schr 10.280 4 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac, with birth, breeding, beauty, cunning, strength and money.
    LLNE 10.329 13 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone;...
    LLNE 10.344 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.
    LLNE 10.352 23 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world.
    LLNE 10.353 27 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding;...
    LLNE 10.366 12 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
    LLNE 10.369 13 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    LLNE 10.369 21 I please myself with the thought that our American mind is not now eccentric or rude in its strength...
    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...
    CSC 10.375 9 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness...
    EzRy 10.383 17 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans, which...in the heyday of its strength had planted and liberated America.
    MMEm 10.419 13 I [Mary Moody Emerson] praise Him, though when my strength of body falters, it is a trial not easily described.
    SlHr 10.437 16 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords. So did not [Samuel Hoar] feel any call to make it a contest of personal strength with mobs or nations;...
    SlHr 10.440 22 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind...
    SlHr 10.440 27 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left...the strength of a chief united to the modesty of a child.
    SlHr 10.443 23 [Samuel Hoar] retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form, and not less the full strength of his mind.
    SlHr 10.447 29 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability, with whom he had often occasion to try his strength at the bar...
    SlHr 10.448 12 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved (and this when in his best strength)...
    Carl 10.493 11 It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness (the source of all strength) in his companions.
    Carl 10.494 20 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring from the intrinsic nature of the actor. He humors this into the idolatry of strength.
    GSt 10.506 22 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him, overtasked his strength...
    HDC 11.40 8 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest; if to strength, we are the weakest;...
    HDC 11.62 5 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken.
    HDC 11.68 20 ...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...
    EWI 11.144 6 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
    War 11.172 27 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping, defy the world, so confident are they of their courage and strength...
    FSLC 11.178 8 ...[Eternal Rights] reach no term, they never sleep,/ In equal strength through space abide;/...
    FSLN 11.217 15 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these...with the natural movement and total strength of their nature and talent...
    FSLN 11.226 19 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    FSLN 11.230 21 [Reasonably men] answered that they had no confidence in their strength to resist the Democratic party;...
    FSLN 11.231 9 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength...
    FSLN 11.240 25 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...dangers, healed by a quarantine of calamities to measure his strength, before [man] dare say, I am free.
    FSLN 11.241 10 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power...
    AsSu 11.248 19 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...
    ACiv 11.297 20 ...a man coins himself into his labor; turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
    EPro 11.321 6 Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and follow up his stroke [the Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation will add its irresistible strength.
    EPro 11.324 13 If you could add, say [foreign critics], to your strength the whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of people to come under this government against their will.
    ALin 11.328 9 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    ALin 11.337 3 The kindness of kings consists in justice and strength.
    SMC 11.354 8 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;-the strength is now to be tested by the eternal facts.
    Koss 11.399 17 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in all centuries and in all parties only the men of heart. I do not know but you will have the million yet. Then, may your strength be equal to your day.
    Wom 11.406 26 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed that [women] have their own strength;...
    Wom 11.415 6 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.
    Wom 11.416 19 ...one right is an accession of strength to take more.
    RBur 11.442 18 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech...
    Shak1 11.446 2 England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than before;/...
    Scot 11.465 9 The tone of strength in Waverley at once announced the master...
    Scot 11.466 25 ...Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every figure in his crowded company.
    ChiE 11.471 15 We had said of China, as the old prophet said of Egypt, Her strength is to sit still.
    FRO1 11.481 3 The interests that grow out of a meeting like this [of the Free Religious Association] should bind us with new strength to the old eternal duties.
    CPL 11.498 9 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest; if to strength, we are the weakest;...
    FRep 11.522 10 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a country of such native strength...
    FRep 11.534 20 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West...
    PLT 12.49 14 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...
    PLT 12.54 13 What strength belongs to every plant and animal in Nature.
    PLT 12.54 26 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution.
    PLT 12.61 25 Strength enters as the moral element enters.
    II 12.76 3 ...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    II 12.80 6 We must live by our strength, not by our weakness.
    II 12.85 21 In persistency, [man] knows the strength of Nature, and the immortality of man to lie.
    Mem 12.91 7 Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms;...
    Mem 12.99 3 ...there is strength in the wild horse which is never regained when he is once broken by training...
    Mem 12.102 27 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    CInt 12.113 14 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.
    CInt 12.120 8 ...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.
    CL 12.148 22 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... I praise their sportive resistless strength.
    CL 12.153 26 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste strength to account...
    CL 12.153 26 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle...
    MAng1 12.223 26 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture], with all the details of economy and strength.
    MAng1 12.228 1 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
    Milt1 12.254 20 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.
    Milt1 12.267 13 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures... strength by suffering...
    Milt1 12.271 5 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell those about him the entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his strength and faculties in the defence of liberty...
    Milt1 12.273 26 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
    Milt1 12.279 11 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity, without any abatement of its strength?
    ACri 12.291 6 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished; as when you break up a prose wall, and leave all the strength in the poetry of columns.
    ACri 12.293 22 Shakspeare might be studied for his dexterity in the use of these weapons [of rhetoric], if it were not for his heroic strength.
    ACri 12.296 19 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of...and took his level, so that he had all his strength, the easiness of strength;...
    ACri 12.300 7 The power of the poet is...in measuring his strength by the facility with which he makes the mood of mind give its color to things.
    Pray 12.355 13 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption.
    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.
    PPr 12.383 5 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of...the waste of strength in gathering unripe fruits.
    Trag 12.410 5 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our strength,/ And we teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./
    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 12.415 26 This self-adapting strength [of our human being] is especially seen in disease.

strengthen, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.103 13 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house to adorn the landscape and strengthen the laws.

strengthened, v. (1)

    Nat 1.56 27 ...[Ideas] were there;...when [the Supreme Being] strengthened the fountains of the deep.

strengthening, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.212 8 Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

strengthens, v. (2)

    MN 1.201 8 Each effect strengthens every other.
    ET10 5.170 18 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth.

strengths, n. (3)

    UGM 4.5 15 We have social strengths.
    Wth 6.84 22 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law,/ Which bind the strengths of Nature wild/ To the conscience of a child./
    Ctr 6.156 9 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras;...that [nature's] favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought.

strenuous, adj. (6)

    Cir 2.307 2 Alas for...this will not strenuous...
    Int 2.336 23 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought...with a strenuous exercise of choice.
    ET4 5.61 13 England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and was the receptacle into which all the mettle of that strenuous population was poured.
    PC 8.231 20 A strenuous soul hates cheap successes.
    Dem1 10.4 14 ...[in dreams] we seem busied...in earnest dialogues, strenuous actions for nothings...
    Edc1 10.159 1 According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.

stress, n. (6)

    LE 1.162 14 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...
    PPh 4.66 1 [Plato's] patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions of birth.
    PPh 4.66 18 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages...
    PNR 4.84 23 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... This second sight explains the stress laid on geometry.
    SwM 4.102 14 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries...
    Milt1 12.266 11 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws, and...laying its chief stress on humility.

stretch, n. (1)

    OA 7.333 9 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do not know; it has been very much on the stretch, ever since he was born.

stretch, v. (6)

    OS 2.272 22 The spirit sports with time,--Can crowd eternity into an hour,/ Or stretch an hour to eternity./
    Cir 2.303 18 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide...
    PI 8.1 6 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him/...
    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./
    CInt 12.130 1 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    Bost 12.190 24 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

stretched, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.13 14 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    Chr1 3.93 5 This immensely stretched trade...centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
    Art2 7.43 24 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound...

stretched, v. (5)

    SL 2.132 2 ...the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
    ET11 5.194 21 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    Wsp 6.228 11 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
    WD 7.184 26 Apollo stretched his bow and shot his arrow into the extreme west.
    MMEm 10.424 17 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...

stretches, v. (5)

    Nat 1.21 22 Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man...
    ET3 5.37 16 As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    ET16 5.281 25 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...
    OA 7.317 24 The mind stretches an hour to a century...
    PC 8.224 5 Here stretches out of sight...this vast Nature...

stretching, v. (3)

    ET11 5.182 14 The Duke of Sutherland owns the County of Sutherland, stretching across Scotland from sea to sea.
    Civ 7.32 2 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching out towards Philadelphia until they touch it...that make the real estimation.
    SovE 10.190 22 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...stretching her dark warp across the universe?

strew, v. (3)

    Wth 6.83 15 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
    PPo 8.249 16 We do not wish to strew sugar on bottled spiders...
    PPo 8.260 15 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./

strewed, v. (2)

    JBS 11.276 22 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    CPL 11.504 21 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them, and strewed the highway with pamphlets.

strewn, v. (3)

    AmS 1.107 23 Here are the materials strewn along the ground.
    Insp 8.296 18 ...poppy-leaves are strewn when a generalization is made;...
    LLNE 10.328 1 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week.

strew'st, v. (1)

    Int 2.323 4 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;--/ The sower scatters broad his seed;/ The wheat thou strew'st be souls./

stricken, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.139 18 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul...

stricken, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.98 2 Everything hostile is stricken down in the presence of the [moral] sentiments;...

strict, adj. (38)

    DSA 1.141 1 I know and honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy.
    LT 1.272 7 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the inner boundaries of thought...
    YA 1.367 22 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts and yet remain in strict intercourse with the centres of trade and population.
    Hist 2.24 8 The Grecian state is the era...of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body.
    Fdsp 2.196 15 In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness.
    Fdsp 2.205 24 The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined;...
    Fdsp 2.205 25 The end of friendship is a commerce...more strict than any of which we have experience.
    Fdsp 2.206 21 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms...
    Int 2.341 3 [The poet] feels a strict consanguinity [with Nature]...
    Chr1 3.111 3 What is so excellent as strict relations of amity, when they spring from this deep root?
    Mrs1 3.127 18 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles.
    Pol1 3.218 24 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could enter into strict relations with the best persons...could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    NER 3.258 20 Once...Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.281 25 ...man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested.
    ET2 5.32 22 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years claimed the strict sovereignty of the sea...
    ET11 5.180 15 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    ET11 5.189 22 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance with the traditions.
    Pow 6.54 9 A belief in causality, or strict connection between every pulse-beat and the principle of being...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Ctr 6.142 16 You like the strict rules and the long terms [of the Latin class]; and [your boy] finds his best leading in a by-way of his own...
    Wsp 6.216 15 ...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities with as strict a grasp as that of the hands on the sword...
    Ill 6.322 20 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations. There is none but a strict and faithful dealing at home...
    SS 7.7 9 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can...his incapacity for strict association.
    SS 7.9 21 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
    Art2 7.55 21 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    DL 7.132 5 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty, but in strict connection therewith, the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
    Suc 7.304 17 ...in complacencies nowise so strict as this of the passion [of love], the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child's voice fully addressed to him...
    PI 8.67 23 We must be a little strict also, and ask whether, if we sit down at home, and do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will come to us?...
    SA 8.87 8 It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control.
    Edc1 10.152 17 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case...shows...the strict conditions of the hours, on one side, and the number of tasks, on the other.
    Plu 10.309 6 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict, sincere and affectionate.
    LLNE 10.353 21 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    Thor 10.478 5 A truth-speaker [Thoreau], capable of the most deep and strict conversation;...
    HDC 11.46 15 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston...
    EWI 11.99 18 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you; which ought rather to be done by a strict cooperation of many well-advised persons;...
    JBB 11.268 26 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country. There is a Unionist, there is a strict constructionist for you.
    EdAd 11.386 8 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered...by...strict economists, quite empty of all superstition.
    PLT 12.27 13 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics, strict as any department of human duty...
    Pray 12.352 26 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a solitude as strict and sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...

stricter, adj. (2)

    NER 3.267 9 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion; and the stricter the union the smaller and more pitiful he is.
    SwM 4.140 23 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents...

strictest, adj. (5)

    Con 1.314 3 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. Then the principle of love and truth reappears in the strictest courts of fashion and property.
    PPh 4.72 20 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live...usually, in the strictest sense, on bread and water...
    Supl 10.175 5 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw...a talking fish, but ever the strictest regard to rule...
    Schr 10.261 10 ...the society of lettered men is a university which...gathers in the distant and solitary student into its strictest amity.
    EWI 11.132 20 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime, and should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons...may now be.

strictly, adv. (28)

    Nat 1.4 24 Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    Nat 1.55 18 Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?
    LE 1.164 26 The growth of the intellect is strictly analogous in all individuals.
    LE 1.180 15 ...[Napoleon's army was] strictly supplied in all its appointments...
    Hist 2.35 25 ...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world,--in which he is not less strictly implicated.
    SL 2.132 7 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him...
    Nat2 3.182 3 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
    Nat2 3.182 10 Things are so strictly related, that according to the skill of the eye, from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.
    SwM 4.106 21 ...[Swedenborg] saw that the human body was strictly universal...
    SwM 4.124 15 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
    SwM 4.140 12 Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes...
    MoS 4.165 20 When I the most strictly and religiously confess myself, [says Montaigne,] I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...
    ET1 5.6 23 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
    ET7 5.116 11 The [English] government strictly performs its engagements.
    ET15 5.267 1 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    Wth 6.103 6 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Art2 7.40 25 ...Art must be a complement to Nature, strictly subsidiary.
    Art2 7.48 9 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature...
    Suc 7.293 1 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution...
    QO 8.184 12 ...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that ran in the author more strictly...
    QO 8.202 2 ...if the thinker feels that the thought most strictly his own is not his own...the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    PerF 10.73 1 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    EzRy 10.393 16 [Ezra Ripley's] conversation was strictly personal and apt to the party and the occasion.
    Thor 10.483 19 We are strictly confined to our men to whom we give liberty.
    GSt 10.504 27 A man of the people, in strictly private life, girt with family ties;...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    EWI 11.107 1 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost; and in a case so odious as the condition of slaves, must be taken strictly...
    EPro 11.317 2 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    CL 12.159 11 Nature...deals strictly with us;...

strictly-blended, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.48 23 These strictly-blended elements [Unity and Variety] it is the problem of thought to separate and to reconcile.

strictness, n. (8)

    Fdsp 2.196 14 In strictness, the soul does not respect men as it respects itself.
    Mrs1 3.123 24 ...whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name [gentleman] will be found to point at original energy.
    UGM 4.8 5 ...in strictness, we are not much cognizant of direct serving.
    Civ 7.32 26 In strictness, the vital refinements are the moral and intellectual steps.
    SA 8.91 14 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit. There is inconvenience in such strictness, but vast inconvenience in the want of it.
    Aris 10.52 18 Genius, what is so called in strictness...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    SlHr 10.445 14 In strictness, the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's] understanding was directed on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
    SlHr 10.446 26 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town, where the old religion existed in strictness...

stride, n. (5)

    AmS 1.111 4 The literature of the poor...the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride.
    ET11 5.197 20 Another stride that has been taken [in England] appears in the perishing of heraldry.
    Wth 6.113 7 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man...has sunk the necessity for false expenses.
    WD 7.185 1 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    Thor 10.462 3 [Thoreau] said he wanted every stride his legs made.

strides, n. (6)

    Con 1.300 14 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself, so that when you remember what he was, and see what he is, you say, What strides! what a disparity is here!
    ET10 5.158 13 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. The great strides were all taken within the last hundred years.
    DL 7.127 19 We read in [our companion's] brow, on meeting him after many years, that he is where we left him, or that he has made great strides.
    PC 8.211 12 Great strides have been made [in Natural Science] within the present century.
    War 11.153 9 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides.
    FRep 11.517 19 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection. They have made great strides in that direction since.

strides, v. (1)

    SA 8.91 20 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...until the gossip's immeasurable legs are tired of sitting; then he strides out and the nation is relieved.

striding, n. (1)

    ET14 5.254 9 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student, no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law...

strife, n. (15)

    MN 1.204 23 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    Pol1 3.211 3 In the strife of ferocious parties, human nature always finds itself cherished;...
    Pol1 3.217 14 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth. I think the very strife of trade and ambition is confession of this divinity;...
    UGM 4.7 23 ...the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his own shoes.
    ET8 5.136 15 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession...
    ET14 5.238 10 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies;...
    Civ 7.17 23 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone/...
    WD 7.184 21 It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
    Boks 7.210 18 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio].
    MMEm 10.423 10 War is...no worse than the strife with poverty, malice and ignorance.
    HDC 11.48 26 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records], as proof...that if the results of our history are approved as wise and good, it was yet a free strife;...
    JBB 11.266 5 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
    SMC 11.353 11 War, says the poet,...is the arduous strife,/ To which the triumph of all good is given./
    PLT 12.56 19 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular. They are in perpetual balance and strife.
    CInt 12.113 13 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.

strifes, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.220 1 ...look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

strike, n. (1)

    ET15 5.270 19 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of...every strike in the mills...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.

strike, v. (33)

    SR 2.84 27 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
    Fdsp 2.213 14 Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
    Prd1 2.235 1 Strike, says the smith, the iron is white;...
    Hsm1 2.246 29 Mar. Strike, strike, Valerius,/ Or Martius' heart will leap out at his mouth./
    Hsm1 2.259 27 ...O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
    Gts 3.164 19 We can rarely strike a direct stroke...
    Pol1 3.211 21 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom;...
    NER 3.275 8 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart, to strike a good stroke...
    ShP 4.216 19 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude...we seek to strike the balance?
    NMW 4.232 26 The weavers strike for bread, and the king and his ministers...meet them with bayonets.
    ET1 5.13 3 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order. Yet the passage would no doubt strike you more in the quotation than in the original, for I have filtered it.
    ET5 5.82 9 This singular fairness [of the English] and its results strike the French with surprise.
    ET10 5.158 24 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom was improved further. But the men would sometimes strike for wages and combine against the masters...
    ET10 5.159 4 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor strike for wages...
    ET15 5.270 26 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch...
    ET18 5.307 10 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
    ET19 5.312 19 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen's] virtues did not come out until they quarrelled; they did not strike twelve the first time;...
    Wth 6.108 25 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.
    Bty 6.293 7 It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...
    Art2 7.51 24 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Cour 7.270 10 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram, heedless of the siege and sack of the city; and the Roman soldier his faculty to strike at Archimedes.
    Res 8.152 26 ...every passenger may strike off a twig [of willow] with his cane;...
    PPo 8.251 14 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./
    Dem1 10.8 8 If I strike, I am struck; if I chase, I am pursued.
    Supl 10.172 7 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage, and 't was common to strike seals and porpoises in the hold.
    MoL 10.250 12 [Nature says to the American] Other things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.
    Schr 10.278 6 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to strike fear into kings...rarely appear [in America].
    MMEm 10.403 17 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so fertile, and only used to strike, that she never used it for display...
    HDC 11.34 17 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth standing stoutly to his labors...
    EWI 11.145 8 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    EPro 11.319 8 ...the hour will strike, and all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
    Shak1 11.453 5 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company. It would strike you as comic, if I should give my own customary examples of this elasticity...
    PPr 12.382 1 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters...

striker, n. (2)

    PC 8.221 24 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth...the soundness and health of things, against which no blow can be struck but it recoils on the striker;...
    Chr2 10.92 14 It were an unspeakable calamity if any one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others. That is the part of a striker, an assassin.

strikes, n. (1)

    ET4 5.49 5 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...strikes;...

strikes, v. (22)

    MN 1.207 9 ...what strikes us in the fine genius is that which belongs of right to every one.
    YA 1.367 7 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
    Cir 2.310 22 When each new speaker [in a conversation] strikes a new light...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    Int 2.337 11 A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly...
    Art1 2.358 1 Now one thought strikes [the artist], now another...
    Nat2 3.188 27 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation, with easy transition, which strikes the other party with astonishment and vexation.
    Nat2 3.192 1 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society...
    GoW 4.272 22 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes...strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    Bhr 6.178 13 When a thought strikes us, the eyes fix and remain gazing at a distance;...
    Wsp 6.225 11 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    Wsp 6.225 13 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    Bty 6.295 19 ...see how surely a beautiful form strikes the fancy of men...
    SA 8.93 17 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
    Insp 8.296 11 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Imtl 8.333 26 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    PerF 10.87 15 The illusion that strikes me as the masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
    SovE 10.191 25 [Man] imputes the stroke to fortune, which in reality himself strikes.
    Carl 10.491 5 Young men...press to see [Carlyle], but it strikes me like being hot to see the mathematical or Greek professor before they have got their lesson.
    Carl 10.493 25 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill and hesitation.
    FRO1 11.479 25 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    Milt1 12.265 25 There is a forbearance even in [Milton's] polemics. He opens the war and strikes the first blow.
    PPr 12.385 17 We are at some loss how to state what strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...

striking, adj. (14)

    Comp 2.108 26 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations...
    OS 2.282 10 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    PNR 4.83 21 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... More striking examples are his moral conclusions.
    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...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
    ShP 4.205 20 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers.
    ET2 5.32 23 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years...exacted toll and the striking sail from the ships of all other peoples.
    ET11 5.179 17 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American...
    MoL 10.246 24 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent;...
    Plu 10.300 21 No poet could illustrate his thought with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does Plutarch].
    MMEm 10.407 7 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
    LS 11.8 17 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.8 19 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    War 11.166 9 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...
    Shak1 11.453 7 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company. It would strike you as comic, if I should give my own customary examples of this elasticity, though striking enough to me.

striking, v. (7)

    Tran 1.341 11 [Many intelligent and religious persons] are striking work, and crying out for somewhat worthy to do!
    NMW 4.255 27 [Napoleon] had the habit...pulling the ears and whiskers of men, and of striking and horse-play with them...
    F 6.21 9 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator...always striking soon or late when justice is not done.
    PC 8.210 4 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note.
    ACiv 11.300 5 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still...abstain from striking at the cause.
    CL 12.166 18 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better. Striking the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Bost 12.209 5 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges, striking deep roots...

string, n. (12)

    SR 2.47 13 Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
    Exp 3.50 5 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads...
    ShP 4.193 4 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.
    ShP 4.212 16 ...[Shakespeare's] talents never seduced him into an ostentation, nor did he harp on one string.
    F 6.4 13 ...by harping...on each string, we learn at last its power.
    Ctr 6.132 17 ...worse than the harping on one string, nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Art2 7.43 24 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound...
    PI 8.16 5 ...the sole question is how many strokes vibrate on this mystic string,--how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    PPo 8.243 11 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East; and if the poem is long, it is only a string of unconnected verses.
    Imtl 8.344 26 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... which threads the globes as beads on a string...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    ACiv 11.301 4 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review pounded on that string...forty years ago.
    CInt 12.129 21 Is it so important whether a man wears a shoe-buckle or ties his shoe-lappet with a string?

stringency, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.193 10 ...it is absurd...to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.

stringent, adj. (6)

    Hist 2.22 16 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    Boks 7.190 5 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative...
    MoL 10.244 23 Now it is agreed...that with universal cheap education we have stringent theology, but religion is low.
    Carl 10.492 8 [Young men] go for free institutions...and only giving opportunity and motive to every man; [Carlyle] for stringent government...
    EWI 11.130 10 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    II 12.88 4 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.

strings, n. (11)

    MoS 4.156 15 [The skeptic says] Why be an angel before your time? These strings, wound up too high, will snap.
    Boks 7.212 1 ...[sentences] are good only as strings of suggestive words.
    Elo2 8.121 15 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor; he also is a sharer of the higher wind that blows over his strings.
    Res 8.137 7 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck;...
    Insp 8.278 6 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature is out of all proportion to our taught and ascertained faculty...
    Insp 8.287 16 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival.
    Aris 10.37 12 We like cool people, who...seem to have many strings to their bow...
    Plu 10.315 9 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight...with vices, effeminacy and indolence, is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.
    CInt 12.119 14 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song, just as a powerful note of an organ sets all tuned strings in its neighborhood in accordant vibration...
    CL 12.149 18 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed...or root of spruce, black or white, for strings;...
    Trag 12.406 11 Melancholy cleaves to the English mind in both hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.

strings, v. (1)

    PI 8.70 22 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought.

strip, n. (1)

    AKan 11.262 12 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars, on the edge of your strip;...

strip, v. (4)

    Farm 7.143 15 You cannot...strip off from [an atom] the electricity, gravitation, chemic affinity...
    Aris 10.56 6 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values.
    EWI 11.111 3 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.
    PPr 12.379 22 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the desire...to strip the worst mischiefs of their plausibility.

stripe, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.173 16 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus, who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist; the monotones; in short, every stripe of absurdity;...

striped, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.12 22 What angels invented...this striped coat of climates...

stripes, n. (3)

    LT 1.260 13 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its crosses, and crescents, and stars and stripes...over every rood of the planet...
    Comp 2.103 9 The specific stripes may follow late after the offence...
    EWI 11.111 9 [The West Indian slave] suffered insult, stripes, mutilation at the humor of the master...

Stripes, Stars and, n. (1)

    SMC 11.363 23 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes.

stripling, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.131 23 Instead of the timid stripling he was, [man] is to be the stalwart Archimedes...of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.

stripped, v. (3)

    GoW 4.276 23 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear...
    Supl 10.173 24 Gardens of roses must be stripped to make a few drops of otto.
    MAng1 12.220 4 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...

stripping, v. (4)

    WD 7.183 14 In stripping time of its illusions...we come to the quality of the moment...
    Aris 10.46 13 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...like the freaks of the wind, heaping the snow-drift in gorges, stripping the plain;...
    Chr2 10.119 8 ...this rude stripping [the infant soul] of all support drives him inward, and he finds himself unhurt;...
    TPar 11.286 22 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts, a rapid eye for their historic relations, and a skill in stripping them of traditional lustres.

strips, n. (3)

    Insp 8.288 20 At home, the day is cut into short strips.
    AKan 11.262 9 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide...
    SMC 11.360 27 Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of old bills, some on brown paper, or strips of newspaper;...

strips, v. (3)

    Cour 7.269 5 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair. Perseverance strips it of all peculiarity...
    Carl 10.495 10 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    Let 12.398 3 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which strips them of all manly aims...

stript, v. (1)

    ET19 5.313 2 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm?

strive, v. (14)

    MN 1.203 11 The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of new stars.
    Pt1 3.40 12 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive...
    NR 3.246 17 There is nothing we cherish and strive to draw to us but in some hour we turn and rend it.
    Wth 6.123 27 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance. 'T is in vain that genius or virtue or energy of character strive and cry against it.
    CbW 6.243 4 Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/ Usurp the seats for which all strive;/...
    Clbs 7.228 4 A certain truth possesses us which we in all ways strive to utter.
    Clbs 7.232 25 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
    HDC 11.40 6 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor... but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
    HDC 11.40 14 ...[The Concord settler's pastor said] if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we, therefore, herein to excel...
    ACiv 11.307 2 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair administration of the government...
    CPL 11.498 7 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley] to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if not in holiness?
    CPL 11.498 16 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we therefore herein to excel...
    II 12.78 26 ...we must hope and strive, for despair is no muse...
    CL 12.146 15 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees...

striven, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.196 4 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    ET14 5.249 8 ...as Burke had striven to idealize the English State, so Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.

strives, v. (9)

    Nat 1.62 10 [Nature] is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it.
    MN 1.206 6 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
    Comp 2.104 10 The soul strives amain to live and work through all things.
    SL 2.133 19 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
    NR 3.223 2 In countless upward-striving waves/ The moon-drawn tide-wave strives/...
    UGM 4.28 19 ...every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe...
    GoW 4.262 4 ...nature strives upward;...
    CPL 11.505 10 A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
    PLT 12.20 4 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit.

striving, n. (3)

    Ill 6.319 23 The intellect sees...that, in the endless striving and ascents, the metamorphosis is entire...
    Chr2 10.110 20 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...without offence: since, at bottom, those men mean honestly, their polemics proceed out of a religious striving...
    MLit 12.318 15 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.

striving, v. (7)

    Nat 1.1 5 And, striving to be man, the worm/ Mounts through all the spires of form./
    Comp 2.110 25 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut others out.
    GoW 4.264 7 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature...
    SovE 10.212 12 ...the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson, which we lose while our eyes are reverted and striving to perpetuate the old.
    MMEm 10.421 14 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence, perhaps striving to beautify one individual of God's creation.
    ACiv 11.298 4 All honest men are daily striving to earn their bread by their industry.
    MLit 12.321 9 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself.

strivings, n. (1)

    MR 1.233 14 ...all such ingenuous souls as feel within themselves the irrepressible strivings of a noble aim...find these ways of trade unfit for them...

strode, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 10 [Brisbane's plan]...strode about nature with a giant's step...

stroke, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.81 27 ...if we go to the regatta, we forget the bowler for the stroke oar;...

stroke, n. (36)

    SR 2.78 1 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...
    Comp 2.119 9 Every stroke shall be repaid.
    Prd1 2.226 17 ...not one stroke can labor lay to without some new acquaintance with nature...
    Hsm1 2.247 27 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic] stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.
    Art1 2.352 13 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success...the spirit or moral of it contracted into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil?
    Art1 2.353 26 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
    Pt1 3.22 1 ...each word was at first a stroke of genius...
    Exp 3.68 16 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely and not by the direct stroke;...
    Gts 3.164 20 We can rarely strike a direct stroke...
    Nat2 3.172 26 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I leave the village politics and personalities... behind...
    NER 3.275 8 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart, to strike a good stroke...
    ET8 5.129 11 Was it then a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg... that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves?
    ET10 5.162 5 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land...
    F 6.25 5 If there be omnipotence in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil.
    Pow 6.74 6 Everything is good which...drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
    Pow 6.77 22 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off. He fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst. Now which stroke broke the trunnion?
    Pow 6.77 23 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off. He fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst. Now which stroke broke the trunnion? Every stroke.
    Wth 6.116 17 An engraver, whose hands must be of an exquisite delicacy of stroke, should not lay stone walls.
    Bhr 6.169 20 Manners are the happy way of doing things; each, once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
    Bhr 6.178 7 ...[a farmer's] eye-beam is like the stroke of a staff.
    Bhr 6.194 16 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph...
    Bty 6.304 24 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
    Elo1 7.80 20 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism. Each auditor puts a final stroke to the discourse by exclaiming, Can he mesmerize me?
    Boks 7.210 21 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air; the spectators stood dumb, when the hammer fell. The stroke of its fall sounded on the farthest shores of Italy.
    Cour 7.265 10 ...the threat is sometimes more formidable than the stroke...
    Suc 7.300 12 [Color] is the last stroke of Nature;...
    OA 7.331 6 Many of [Goethe's] works hung on the easel from youth to age, and received a stroke in every month or year.
    Comc 8.161 20 We have no deeper interest than...that we should be made aware by joke and by stroke of any lie we entertain.
    PerF 10.82 13 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of its power on a keener sense. It is a stroke on a loose or tense cord.
    SovE 10.191 24 [Man] imputes the stroke to fortune, which in reality himself strikes.
    TPar 11.284 8 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak/...
    ACiv 11.307 21 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South...
    ACiv 11.307 27 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race...
    ACiv 11.308 19 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
    EPro 11.321 5 Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and follow up his stroke [the Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation will add its irresistible strength.
    MAng1 12.232 5 Every stroke of [Michelangelo's] pencil moved the pencil in Raphael's hand.

stroke-oar, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.139 18 [Boys] don't pass for swimmers until they can swim, nor for stroke-oar until they can row...

strokes, n. (23)

    Nat 1.51 23 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    DSA 1.148 11 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude...
    Hist 2.6 20 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home.
    Lov1 2.182 2 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Prd1 2.234 18 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool...
    Int 2.337 1 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed...
    Exp 3.49 26 Direct strokes [nature] never gave us power to make;...
    NER 3.271 27 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look...
    NER 3.274 2 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain.
    GoW 4.263 16 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    GoW 4.279 19 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws; the persons so truly and subtly drawn, and with such few strokes...that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    ET1 5.16 8 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    F 6.8 21 ...so long as these strokes [of Nature] are not to be parried by us they must be feared.
    Wth 6.85 18 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the last secrets of art.
    Wth 6.101 23 The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents.
    Elo1 7.98 11 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs...
    Boks 7.215 3 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Cour 7.268 14 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry, each cheering the mind of the spectator or receiver as by true strokes of genius...
    PI 8.16 4 ...the sole question is how many strokes vibrate on this mystic string,--how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    Res 8.149 26 Whether larger or less, these strokes and all exploits rest at last on the wonderful structure of the mind.
    Prch 10.234 5 Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.
    LLNE 10.359 5 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
    CInt 12.129 23 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.

stroking, v. (1)

    OA 7.330 24 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...ever restlessly stroking his leg...

strolled, v. (1)

    Con 1.316 24 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer who strolled...in the infancy and barbarism of the old world;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.

strolling, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.191 24 ...extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready theatres of strolling players.

strondes, n. (1)

    CL 12.136 10 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

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