Strong to Subduing

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

strong, adj. (254)

    Nat 1.72 13 ...he that works most in [the world] is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong...his mind is imbruted...
    AmS 1.92 24 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page. I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.
    AmS 1.99 9 A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
    AmS 1.99 10 A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
    DSA 1.124 16 Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong by the whole strength of nature.
    MN 1.195 10 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.
    MN 1.196 8 ...behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...as if some strong wind took everything off its feet...
    MN 1.197 11 ...our arm is no more as strong as the frost...
    MN 1.216 9 What is strong but goodness...
    MR 1.239 13 ...instead of those strong and learned hands...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.242 19 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    LT 1.263 11 There is no interest or institution so poor and withered, but if a new strong man could be born into it, he would immediately redeem and replace it.
    LT 1.264 4 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts...
    LT 1.265 23 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear; men...of strong hand...
    Con 1.313 27 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
    Con 1.314 6 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    Con 1.322 17 How will every strong and generous mind choose its ground...
    Con 1.325 17 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
    Tran 1.338 5 ...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
    Tran 1.357 4 ...the strong spirits overpower those around them without effort.
    YA 1.366 10 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.371 12 ...new-born, free, healthful, strong...[America] should speak for the human race.
    YA 1.377 22 Trade was the strong man that broke [Feudalism] down...
    YA 1.391 11 ...only by the supernatural is a man strong;...
    Hist 2.34 4 The universal nature, too strong for the petty nature of the bard, sits on his neck and writes through his hand;...
    SR 2.67 18 [Man] cannot be happy and strong...
    SR 2.67 22 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself...
    SR 2.68 9 It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
    SR 2.68 10 It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
    SR 2.71 1 The genesis and maturation of a planet...the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    SR 2.75 5 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
    SR 2.89 4 It is only as a man...stands alone that I see him to be strong...
    Comp 2.92 2 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine,/ Stanch and strong the tendrils twine/...
    Comp 2.98 27 Is a man too strong and fierce for society...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    Comp 2.103 25 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair;...
    Comp 2.105 1 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...power out of strong things, as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    SL 2.132 26 A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
    SL 2.138 26 ...only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong...
    SL 2.139 6 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice...
    Lov1 2.172 1 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
    Prd1 2.238 5 Every man is actually weak and apparently strong.
    Hsm1. 2.252 23 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...laying traps for sweet food and strong wine...
    Cir 2.304 12 ...if the soul is quick and strong it bursts over that boundary on all sides...
    Int 2.339 17 I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon.
    Exp 3.43 18 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Dearest Nature, strong and kind,/ Whispered, Darling, never mind!/ To-morrow they will wear another face,/ The founder thou! these are thy race!/
    Exp 3.55 7 This onward trick of nature is too strong for us...
    Exp 3.64 12 If we will be strong with [nature's] strength we must not harbor such disconsolate consciences...
    Exp 3.64 15 We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors of wrath...
    Exp 3.80 7 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
    Chr1 3.94 13 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him, a torrent of strong sad light...
    Chr1 3.94 20 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici; and the answer was, Only that influence which every strong mind has over a weak one.
    Chr1 3.113 17 Poetry is joyful and strong as it draws its inspiration thence [from character].
    Mrs1 3.125 9 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type;...
    Mrs1 3.127 21 The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion...
    Mrs1 3.129 11 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    Mrs1 3.129 25 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Mrs1 3.132 10 ...strong will is always in fashion...
    Mrs1 3.147 9 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty.../
    Nat2 3.174 5 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their...parks and preserves, to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.
    Nat2 3.187 24 The strong, self-complacent Luther declares with an emphasis not to be mistaken, that God himself cannot do without wise men.
    Nat2 3.194 6 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve.
    Pol1 3.199 19 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus or Cromwell, does for a time...
    NR 3.230 2 England, strong, punctual, practical, well-spoken England I should not find if I should go to the island to seek it.
    PPh 4.61 12 [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...
    SwM 4.134 12 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his virtues;...
    ShP 4.213 3 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong...
    ShP 4.213 4 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong...
    NMW 4.232 9 [Bonaparte] is strong in the right manner, namely by insight.
    NMW 4.245 12 The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
    NMW 4.245 26 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...this strong steam-engine does our work.
    NMW 4.247 1 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    GoW 4.267 2 Men's actions are too strong for them.
    ET1 5.5 4 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...
    ET1 5.13 9 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
    ET4 5.54 16 I found plenty of well-marked English types...robust men, with...a strong island speech and accent;...
    ET5 5.75 23 The power of the Saxon-Danes...stood on the strong personality of these people.
    ET5 5.77 11 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him. The strong survived...
    ET8 5.134 11 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...
    ET8 5.139 27 Haldor was very stout and strong and remarkably handsome in appearances.
    ET10 5.164 17 The Bank [of England] is a strong box to which the king has no key.
    ET10 5.166 15 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong...
    ET11 5.179 15 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on...
    ET14 5.232 1 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    ET14 5.232 9 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...
    ET14 5.233 24 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English.
    ET14 5.249 6 Even in [Coleridge], the traditional Englishman was too strong for the philosopher...
    ET14 5.254 4 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans...
    ET16 5.275 27 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England...must one day be contented...to be strong only in her children.
    ET17 5.297 19 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of the few...
    ET18 5.300 7 In England, the strong classes check the weaker.
    ET19 5.311 22 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races...
    F 6.6 2 The Destinee.../ So strong it is/...Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
    F 6.13 21 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots...
    F 6.15 9 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like the locomotive, strong enough on its track, but which can do nothing but mischief off of it;...
    F 6.26 6 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind...seeing its invincibility, he says, I am strong.
    F 6.28 17 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization...
    F 6.28 21 There is no manufacturing a strong will.
    F 6.45 20 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
    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 6.56 21 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
    Pow 6.58 27 The strong man sees the possible houses and farms.
    Pow 6.63 18 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with...with our own malcontent members, than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Pow 6.69 22 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces...
    Wth 6.83 10 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wth 6.90 9 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as...the degree in which he takes up things into himself. The strong race is strong on these terms.
    Wth 6.100 5 The right merchant is...a man of a strong affinity for facts...
    Wth 6.111 24 The rabble are corrupted by their means; the means are too strong for them...
    Ctr 6.134 4 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...
    Ctr 6.140 1 ...in all human action those faculties will be strong which are used.
    Bhr 6.175 20 Tender men sometimes have strong wills.
    Bhr 6.178 6 A farmer looks out at you as strong as the horse;...
    Bhr 6.186 27 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    Bhr 6.188 1 Strong will and keen perception overpower old manners and create new;...
    Bhr 6.190 17 A man already strong is listened to...
    Wsp 6.201 7 Some of my friends have complained...that we ran Cudworth' s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong that he could not answer it.
    Wsp 6.220 10 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
    Wsp 6.224 3 He is a strong man who can hold down his opinion.
    CbW 6.259 6 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness;...
    CbW 6.262 4 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    Bty 6.279 18 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through/...
    Civ 7.22 3 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    Civ 7.28 26 That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements.
    Civ 7.30 10 Gibraltar may be strong, but ideas are impregnable...
    Elo1 7.82 5 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
    Elo1 7.87 25 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch. The government was well enough represented. It was stupid, but it had a strong will and possession...
    DL 7.103 11 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler, strong in his weakness...
    Farm 7.135 18 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
    Farm 7.145 4 ...Nature is as subtle as she is strong.
    Farm 7.148 14 The wall that keeps off the strong wind keeps off the cold wind.
    Farm 7.152 10 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...
    WD 7.174 2 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...
    WD 7.181 26 We do not want factitious men, who can...turn their ability indifferently in any particular direction by the strong effort of will.
    Boks 7.207 17 The [scholar's] task is aided by the strong mutual light which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
    Cour 7.266 12 ...to be really strong we must adhere to our own means.
    Cour 7.270 11 Each is strong, relying on his own [courage]...
    Suc 7.302 7 We are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness.
    OA 7.319 25 ...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.
    PI 8.6 21 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 8.30 10 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight: and the perception creates the strong expression of it...
    PI 8.58 6 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the beginning;/...
    PI 8.61 24 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...never other person will be able to discover this place...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...
    PI 8.61 27 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is...made by enchantment so strong that it can never be demolished while the world lasts;...
    SA 8.97 17 Here is...strong understanding...
    Elo2 8.124 26 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    Elo2 8.125 3 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong...
    QO 8.179 21 The stream of affection flows broad and strong;...
    PC 8.218 10 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
    PC 8.231 25 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times...
    PC 8.234 14 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe. I think their hands are strong enough to hold up the Republic.
    PPo 8.242 8 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab, strong as an elephant...
    PPo 8.262 11 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Insp 8.293 23 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...each catches by the mane one of these strong coursers...
    Grts 8.302 13 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but wisdom and civility...
    Grts 8.302 16 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art. These...and not the strong arm and brave heart...
    Grts 8.307 20 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he finds [his bias], keeps it;...
    Grts 8.317 19 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    Grts 8.320 13 With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
    Imtl 8.332 18 ...though men of good minds, [the two friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and way of life.
    Imtl 8.347 26 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear.
    Dem1 10.14 17 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam, a brave and strong man...
    Aris 10.41 6 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
    Aris 10.43 3 ...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...
    PerF 10.69 13 Never was any man too strong for his proper work.
    PerF 10.72 10 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements, the sources of them, and much more rapid and strong;...
    PerF 10.78 19 By [our mental forces'] strength we are strong...
    PerF 10.78 22 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person strong for his duty...
    Chr2 10.102 20 We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
    Edc1 10.134 10 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a strong commander...society has need of all these.
    Supl 10.169 14 The low expression is strong and agreeable.
    Prch 10.219 2 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters, clear and strong...
    Schr 10.262 1 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that the spiritual nature is too strong for us;...
    Schr 10.266 4 ...Nature is too strong for us;...
    LLNE 10.343 7 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships...
    EzRy 10.385 17 The same faith [in particular providence] made what was strong and what was weak in Dr. Ripley and his associates.
    EzRy 10.389 7 [Ezra Ripley's] partiality for ladies was always strong...
    MMEm 10.430 12 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    SlHr 10.439 10 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong understanding...
    SlHr 10.439 24 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in farms...
    SlHr 10.448 17 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    Thor 10.451 6 [Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this [French] blood, in singular combination with a very strong Saxon genius.
    Thor 10.452 10 At this time, a strong, healthy youth, fresh from college, whilst all his companions were choosing their profession...it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    Thor 10.461 11 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes...
    Thor 10.461 14 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools.
    Thor 10.462 7 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense...
    Thor 10.464 7 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    Thor 10.469 24 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...
    Thor 10.470 1 ...[Thoreau's] strong legs were no insignificant part of his armor.
    Thor 10.482 10 Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
    Carl 10.489 19 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people.
    Carl 10.494 20 A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle]...
    GSt 10.503 24 [George Stearns] gave to each [patriotic measure] his strong support...
    LS 11.19 3 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
    HDC 11.33 17 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.
    HDC 11.76 10 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
    LVB 11.96 10 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    EWI 11.124 22 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born...with a sense of justice, as well as a taste for strong drink.
    EWI 11.124 25 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    EWI 11.134 21 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no strong vote to cast at the elections;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.135 2 ...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
    EWI 11.140 3 ...the strong and healthy yeomen and husbands of the land... fear no competition or superiority.
    War 11.153 4 The strong tribe...attack and conquer their neighbors...
    War 11.157 15 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...
    FSLC 11.193 6 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it. The man would be too strong for the partisan.
    FSLC 11.212 13 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude. Massachusetts is as strong as the Universe, when it does that.
    FSLN 11.215 4 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save power remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
    FSLN 11.226 11 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that...when [the aspect of the institution] was strong, aggressive, and threatening an illimitable increase.
    FSLN 11.235 27 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...
    FSLN 11.239 20 The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong and selfish.
    AKan 11.262 23 ...the hour is coming when the strongest will not be strong enough.
    JBB 11.268 6 [John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father, as a man of strong character...
    JBS 11.281 6 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood? What but to protect the weak and lowly against the strong oppressor?
    JBS 11.281 20 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will need...a very strong force to root it out.
    TPar 11.285 17 ...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.
    TPar 11.286 2 Theodore Parker was...strong, eager, inquisitive of knowledge...
    TPar 11.286 20 [Theodore Parker] had a strong understanding...
    ACiv 11.303 26 The one power that has legs long enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...
    ACiv 11.303 27 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
    ACiv 11.310 20 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act, done under a strong sense of duty.
    EPro 11.314 16 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./
    EPro 11.320 21 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the strong arms of the mechanic, the endurance of farmers... all rally to its support.
    ALin 11.331 20 ...[Lincoln] had a strong sense of duty...
    SMC 11.356 20 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs...men for whom pleasure was not strong enough, but who wanted pain...
    SMC 11.359 21 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott] a strong good sense...
    Wom 11.406 26 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that women are strong by sentiment;...
    Wom 11.421 1 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves...strong with their new insight...
    Wom 11.425 8 ...a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.
    Wom 11.425 14 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write...the strong investitures;...
    Scot 11.466 27 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him from the faults and foibles incident to poets...
    CPL 11.496 8 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...offering a strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit down here.
    CPL 11.507 17 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it, and not give it more or less emphasis than they do. Yet the strong character does not need this sameness of culture.
    FRep 11.523 1 [Americans] feel strong and irresistible.
    FRep 11.543 10 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner.
    FRep 11.543 24 ...the course of events is quite too strong for any helmsman...
    PLT 12.30 9 I acquiesce to be that I am, but I wish no one to be civil to me. Strong men understand this very well.
    PLT 12.39 7 A man of talent has only to name any form or fact with which we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it enhances it to all eyes.
    PLT 12.46 15 He alone is strong and happy who has a will.
    II 12.68 26 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
    II 12.82 4 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension. 'T is a strong paddy, who, with his burly elbows, is making place and way for him.
    II 12.82 13 [A man] is strong by his genius...
    II 12.82 23 [A man] is strong by his genius...
    II 12.83 15 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
    II 12.84 7 This determination of Genius in each is so strong that, if it were not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society impossible.
    II 12.88 12 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    Mem 12.97 24 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    CInt 12.120 7 ...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.
    CInt 12.120 24 You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the high privilege of thought.
    CL 12.152 1 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts, maples and hickories;...
    CL 12.167 4 Nature is vast and strong...
    ACri 12.285 12 Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
    ACri 12.288 5 The language of the street is always strong.
    MLit 12.316 25 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that I, as a man, may claim and appropriate whatever of true or fair or good or strong has anywhere been exhibited;...literature is far the best expression.
    Pray 12.352 13 I hunger with strong hope and affection for thee...
    AgMs 12.359 5 These slight and useless city limbs of ours will come to shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer]...
    Trag 12.409 23 There are people who have an appetite for grief, pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain...

strong, adv. (2)

    LT 1.282 19 [The men of other periods] planted their foot strong, and doubted nothing.
    WSL 12.337 10 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach, he speaks quick and strong;...

strong, n. (9)

    Comp 2.98 25 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down...the strong...substantially on the same ground with all others.
    Exp 3.64 9 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful, are not children of our law;...
    Pol1 3.218 5 [What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but does not...give us the tranquillity of the strong when we walk abroad.
    NER 3.264 22 ...it may easily be questioned...whether such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed, rather than a field to the strong;...
    Pow 6.54 26 This gives force to the strong,--that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
    Imtl 8.336 1 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?
    War 11.152 5 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    FSLC 11.178 10 ...Though, feigning dwarfs, [Eternal Rights] crouch and creep,/ The strong they slay, the swift outstride;/...
    CInt 12.117 8 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school;...and instead of overawing the strong, and upholding the good, it is a hospital for decayed tutors.

strong [strong-based], adj. (1)

    Nat 1.54 4 Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake.../

strong-bodied, adj. (1)

    War 11.151 22 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided by such wild, passionate, needy, ungoverned, strong-bodied creatures.

strongbox, n. [strong-box,] (2)

    ET11 5.188 5 ...[the English nobility] are they who make England that strongbox and museum it is;...
    War 11.168 6 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance when your strong-box is broken open...

stronger, adj. (27)

    YA 1.374 3 ...that which expresses itself in our will is stronger than our will.
    SR 2.88 24 ...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    SR 2.89 16 ...a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.
    OS 2.289 16 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Mrs1 3.128 26 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons...must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors with keener eyes and stronger frames.
    UGM 4.5 24 The stronger the nature, the more it is reactive.
    ET1 5.20 2 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.
    ET10 5.161 25 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    F 6.11 16 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker.
    F 6.43 24 The granite was reluctant, but [man's] hands were stronger...
    Pow 6.55 20 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail six hundred... miles further...
    Wth 6.86 9 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 6.86 13 Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago; but is put to better use.
    Ill 6.313 16 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion...is stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo.
    Art2 7.41 9 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface...
    Farm 7.147 25 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger...
    Clbs 7.233 19 Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
    PI 8.27 19 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
    PI 8.27 20 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
    SA 8.81 4 Manners are stronger than laws.
    QO 8.182 15 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.
    PC 8.229 4 Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force...
    FSLC 11.210 2 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work, and are every moment stronger.
    FSLN 11.230 3 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    II 12.75 13 How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I control them? Philosophy replies, Nature is stronger than your will...
    II 12.81 26 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them, and one related to yours. A stronger idea will subordinate them.
    EurB 12.374 6 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.

strongest, adj. (27)

    LE 1.177 1 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language,-the... strongest...of man's creations...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    LT 1.276 27 I think that the soul of reform;...the feeling that then are we strongest when most private and alone.
    SL 2.146 3 ...a man may come to find that the strongest of defences and of ties,--that he has been understood;...
    Pol1 3.200 11 ...the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of;...
    PPh 4.54 16 ...primarily there is not only no presumption against [admirable souls], but the strongest persumption in favor of their appearance.
    PPh 4.57 17 ...the birds of highest flight have the strongest alar bones.
    PPh 4.71 15 [Socrates] can drink, too; has the strongest head in Athens;...
    ShP 4.191 27 ...we could not hope to suppress newspapers now,--no, not by the strongest party...
    ET1 5.4 5 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey, and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals, Carlyle;...
    ET3 5.43 4 Let buffalo gore buffalo, and the pasture to the strongest!
    ET5 5.85 20 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;...
    ET11 5.198 l8 ...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings could command.
    F 6.13 27 The strongest idea incarnates itself in majorities and nations...
    F 6.28 9 ...he whose thought is deepest will be the strongest character.
    Civ 7.23 21 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    Elo1 7.86 25 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the commonwealth.
    DL 7.105 1 On the strongest shoulders [the child] rides...
    Suc 7.288 22 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...after the Napoleon rule, to be the strongest to-day...
    Prch 10.225 11 [The moral sentiment] is that, which being...strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of Men.
    HDC 11.47 17 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead...always turned by the last and strongest breath.
    EWI 11.122 7 ...that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age...
    EWI 11.123 5 Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations...
    FSLC 11.183 22 I question the value of our civilization, when I see that the public mind had never less hold of the strongest of all truths.
    EPro 11.322 4 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery] which the purest winds and strongest sunshine could not penetrate and purge.
    SMC 11.354 5 As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.
    FRep 11.541 24 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best.
    CL 12.140 10 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...maturing plants which require strongest sunshine...

strongest, n. (2)

    F 6.14 1 The strongest idea incarnates itself...in the healthiest and strongest.
    AKan 11.262 22 ...the hour is coming when the strongest will not be strong enough.

stronghold, n. (1)

    EurB 12.369 23 In this country [Wordsworth's influence] very early found a stronghold...

strongly, adv. (14)

    Hist 2.39 19 ...it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
    SR 2.73 13 ...I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me...
    Exp 3.45 10 ...the Genius which...gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Exp 3.55 26 How strongly I have felt of pictures that when you have seen one well, you must take your leave of it;...
    ET4 5.57 4 [The Heimskringla's] portraits, like Homer's, are strongly individualized.
    CbW 6.246 22 ...whatever makes us either think or feel strongly, adds to our power...
    PI 8.62 4 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly...
    MMEm 10.401 4 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson]...
    MMEm 10.421 10 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...
    EWI 11.121 8 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as strongly sensible of the blessings of liberty, as any that we know of in any country.
    FSLC 11.207 1 ...I strongly share the hope of mankind in the power, and therefore, in the duties of the Union;...
    ACri 12.284 23 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic, so strongly rooted in the German soil, that they are the terror of translators...
    ACri 12.297 11 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes hard hits all the time. There's more character than intellect in every sentence-herein strongly resembling Samuel Johnson.
    AgMs 12.359 23 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man of a strongly intellectual taste...

strong-minded, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.200 19 The nervous language of the Common Law...and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    Cour 7.270 16 ...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...

strong-natured, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.29 20 It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer...

strong-shouldered, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.84 15 ...New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream,/ Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam./
    WD 7.159 14 Steam is an apt scholar and a strong-shouldered fellow...

strove, v. (7)

    Tran 1.354 14 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence, nor once strove to repair it with hypocrisy or false heat of any kind.
    Tran 1.359 17 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim by silence as well as by speech...shall abide in beauty and strength...
    Pt1 3.24 17 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity...
    Nat2 3.174 16 In [the stars'] soft glances I see what men strove to realize in some Versailles...
    EzRy 10.392 14 Sage and savage strove harder in [Ezra Ripley] than in any of my acquaintances...
    SMC 11.348 14 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    MAng1 12.216 11 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means, and in poetry by words, he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.

strown, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.228 2 Let a man keep the law,--any law,--and his way will be strown with satisfactions.
    Pt1 3.21 12 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...

struck, v. (49)

    DSA 1.140 3 We are struck with pity, rather, at the swift retribution of [the negligent servant's] sloth.
    MR 1.251 17 The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.
    Hist 2.7 1 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...or the blow was struck, for us...
    Hist 2.20 15 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove...
    SR 2.85 2 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch...
    Art1 2.367 18 ...[art] stands in the imagination as somewhat...struck with death from the first.
    Exp 3.70 4 The ancients, struck with this irreducibleness of the elements of human life to calculation, exalted Chance into a divinity;...
    Mrs1 3.129 21 You may keep this [aristocratic, fashionable] minority out of sight and out of mind, but it...is one of the estates of the realm. I am the more struck with this tenacity, when I see its work.
    Mrs1 3.136 10 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy, and am struck with nothing more agreeably than the self-respecting fashions of the time.
    NR 3.232 17 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
    NER 3.251 7 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    NER 3.273 12 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
    PPh 4.45 2 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit.
    PPh 4.75 8 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...
    PNR 4.81 7 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive.
    NMW 4.226 11 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration...
    GoW 4.263 17 ...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.
    ET5 5.91 18 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom.
    ET14 5.258 6 The best office of the best poets has been to show...that only once or twice they have struck the high chord.
    ET14 5.258 26 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings, who had been struck with the grand style of thinking in the Indian writings, deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    ET16 5.285 18 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry...
    DL 7.126 8 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature...
    Farm 7.144 5 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now--when in our immense day the hour is at last struck--take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    OA 7.318 14 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.
    OA 7.325 25 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and defiance which vastly became him.
    PI 8.41 6 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment, when once their hour is struck...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    Res 8.137 7 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck;...
    PC 8.215 13 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.
    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;...
    Dem1 10.8 9 If I strike, I am struck; if I chase, I am pursued.
    Edc1 10.145 26 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...was struck with the beauty of the sculptured ornaments...
    Supl 10.169 12 I am daily struck with the forcible understatement of people who have no literary habit.
    Prch 10.223 14 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait of heroism...
    LLNE 10.329 19 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone; another hour had struck and other forms arose.
    LLNE 10.349 16 One could not but be struck with strange coincidences betwixt Fourier and Swedenborg.
    Carl 10.493 23 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed, sure of a welcome, and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    HDC 11.74 15 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck by the first ball);...
    EWI 11.114 23 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight, when the clock struck twelve, on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...
    War 11.166 10 ...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 tents would be struck;...
    FSLN 11.237 4 The terror which the Marseillaise struck into oppression, it thunders again to-day...
    AsSu 11.248 10 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    JBS 11.277 1 Mr. Chairman: I have been struck with one fact, that the best orators who have added their praise to his fame...have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
    ALin 11.329 16 In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb... as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].
    SMC 11.373 8 ...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
    RBur 11.440 20 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    ACri 12.297 6 In Carlyle as in Byron one is more struck with the rhetoric than with the matter.
    MLit 12.310 18 In looking at the library of the Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense miscellany.
    PPr 12.381 5 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...
    Let 12.399 21 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...

structural, adj. (3)

    UGM 4.4 23 Our colossal theologies of Judaism...Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
    MoS 4.175 19 The beliefs and unbeliefs appear to be structural;...
    Ill 6.319 5 There are...the structural, beneficent illusions of sentiment and of the intellect.

structure, n. (69)

    Nat 1.15 11 By the mutual action of [the eye's] structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced...
    Nat 1.48 24 It is a natural consequence of this structure [of man], that...we resist...any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    Nat 1.71 23 [Man] sees that the structure still fits him...
    MN 1.195 26 The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe.
    MR 1.248 3 We are to revise the whole of our social structure...
    Tran 1.331 25 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last, not on a cube corresponding to the angles of his structure, but on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    YA 1.368 27 In Europe, where society has an aristocratic structure, the land is full of men of the best stock...
    Hist 2.17 1 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
    Exp 3.50 17 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament.
    Mrs1 3.130 22 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    Mrs1 3.130 23 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    Pol1 3.204 2 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the poor...
    NER 3.258 13 The ancient languages, with great beauty of structure, contain wonderful remains of genius...
    PPh 4.78 20 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
    PNR 4.87 25 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure...
    SwM 4.95 16 The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
    SwM 4.96 27 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law.
    SwM 4.116 26 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language.
    SwM 4.123 17 [Swedenborg] saw things...in likeness of function, not of structure.
    SwM 4.126 20 [Swedenborg] almost justifies his claim to preternatural vision, by strange insights of the structure of the human body and mind.
    GoW 4.274 11 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of...every institution, utensil and means, home to its origin in the structure of man.
    GoW 4.290 2 ...the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    ET1 5.6 18 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site;...
    ET4 5.62 23 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.
    ET7 5.117 15 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal structure...
    ET9 5.150 24 The English dislike the American structure of society...
    ET10 5.166 24 Man...is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure...
    ET14 5.239 13 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held of the analogists...
    ET14 5.250 4 The necessities of mental structure force all minds into a few categories;...
    ET14 5.252 10 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...
    ET16 5.278 26 We are not yet too late to learn much more than is known of this structure [Stonehenge].
    F 6.17 19 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure...
    F 6.45 14 If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will run...into the structure of his fable...
    Wsp 6.240 23 When [man's] mind is illuminated...he...does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
    Bty 6.290 6 Elegance of form...marks some excellence of structure...
    Ill 6.311 9 The senses...mix their own structure with all they report of.
    SS 7.6 3 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as iron and salt...
    SS 7.12 27 ...[animal spirits'] feats are like the structure of a pyramid.
    Art2 7.41 10 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface, getting his hint from the structure of the shin-bone.
    Elo1 7.98 14 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    Farm 7.143 13 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure.
    WD 7.157 2 Our nineteenth century is the age of tools. They grew out of our structure.
    WD 7.171 7 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...and the answering brain and nervous structure replying to these;...are given immeasurably to all.
    PI 8.48 24 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man;...
    PI 8.53 15 Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches,--but the beauty and soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    Res 8.149 27 Whether larger or less, these strokes and all exploits rest at last on the wonderful structure of the mind.
    Comc 8.161 23 ...a perception of the Comic seems to be a balance-wheel in our metaphysical structure.
    Insp 8.270 22 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
    Grts 8.311 2 Let the student...sedulously wait every morning for the news concerning the structure of the world which the spirit will give him.
    Imtl 8.333 22 When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
    Imtl 8.337 5 ...the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature...
    Dem1 10.3 7 [Dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic]...shed light on our structure.
    Dem1 10.25 27 [Mesmerism] is a low curiosity or lust of structure...
    PerF 10.70 15 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.
    PerF 10.83 27 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...the strain made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure.
    Chr2 10.99 5 When the Master of the Universe has ends to fulfil, he impresses his will on the structure of minds.
    EzRy 10.392 1 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable;...
    SlHr 10.446 7 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
    HDC 11.42 24 Each of the parts of that perfect structure grew out of the necessities of an instant occasion.
    ALin 11.330 17 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in the rural legislature of Illinois;-on such modest foundations the broad structure of his fame was laid.
    EdAd 11.391 21 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
    Wom 11.412 8 There is no gift of Nature without some drawback. So, to women, this exquisite structure could not exist without its own penalty.
    Wom 11.417 14 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    PLT 12.20 5 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit.
    PLT 12.33 14 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, and which, by its qualities and structure, determines both the nature of the waters and the direction in which they flow.
    II 12.65 6 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, which by its qualities and structure determines both the nature of the waters, and the direction in which they flow.
    CL 12.140 16 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
    MAng1 12.236 19 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    MAng1 12.239 11 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's...with fit design for a vast structure.

structures, n. (14)

    Nat 1.68 3 The American...is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    ET3 5.34 11 The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
    ET13 5.223 16 [The Anglican Church] keeps the old structures in repair...
    ET16 5.276 23 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    ET16 5.277 5 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
    F 6.45 8 I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive;...
    Bty 6.294 15 There is not a particle to spare in natural structures.
    Art2 7.40 27 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    DL 7.127 2 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
    SovE 10.183 13 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    SovE 10.183 18 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    LLNE 10.327 22 The structures of old faith in every department of society a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
    CL 12.160 23 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
    CW 12.177 4 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Wyman wishes to find new anatomic structures or fossil remains;...

struggle, n. (12)

    SL 2.133 15 People represent virtue as a struggle...
    MoS 4.185 16 Although knaves win in every political struggle...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    Suc 7.287 15 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/...
    Elo2 8.119 6 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...and after a mad struggle or two they find their poise...
    HDC 11.59 8 We know beforehand who must conquer in that unequal struggle [with the Indian].
    EWI 11.146 7 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history...when it seemed doubtful whether brute force would not triumph in the eternal struggle.
    War 11.155 4 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle to be...
    War 11.155 9 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being; and to each creature these objects are made so dear that it risks its life continually in the struggle for these ends.
    ACiv 11.309 16 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    FRep 11.540 24 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    PLT 12.14 23 ...[the poet] is believing; the philosopher, after some struggle, having only reasons for believing.
    Trag 12.405 10 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All...

struggle, v. (3)

    SL 2.139 8 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands are glued to our sides...
    Bost 12.186 3 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession; whereby all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not remain in the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like themselves...
    MLit 12.318 12 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

struggled, v. (2)

    HDC 11.39 23 The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but [the settlers of Concord] read the word of God by it.
    TPar 11.284 5 ...Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...

struggler, n. (1)

    DL 7.103 11 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...

struggles, n. (5)

    SL 2.135 9 ...there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs...
    Exp 3.54 27 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science].
    ET15 5.270 21 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement...
    Elo2 8.124 8 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    SMC 11.358 19 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it, cost him what struggles it might.

struggles, v. (2)

    Art2 7.38 1 ...every plant, in the moment of germination, struggles up to light.
    Art2 7.38 10 What is in, will out. It struggles to the birth.

struggling, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.233 20 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    F 6.19 15 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see men overboard struggling in the waves...
    Bty 6.279 18 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through/...

strung, v. (7)

    Exp 3.50 19 Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung.
    MoS 4.170 11 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things: all worlds are strung on it...
    PI 8.5 19 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws, on which all is strung.
    Imtl 8.329 3 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung...
    PLT 12.42 7 ...I hear a whisper, which I dare trust, that [perception] is the thread on which the earth and the heaven of heavens are strung.
    Mem 12.90 5 ...[memory] is the thread on which the beads of man are strung...
    Pray 12.356 5 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.

strut, n. (1)

    F 6.47 17 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a strut in his gait and a conceit in his affection;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...

strut, v. (5)

    AmS 1.83 16 The state of society is one in which the members...strut about so many walking monsters...
    MN 1.203 15 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons...
    Mrs1 3.148 21 In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle...
    NMW 4.257 24 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward,--they could not...strut in their chateaux,--they deserted [Napoleon].
    ET9 5.151 25 Nature trips us up when we strut;...

strychnine, n. (1)

    OA 7.319 3 ...prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.

Stuart, Charles [Charles I (1)

    Milt1 12.250 20 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?

Stuarts, n. (2)

    ET10 5.160 14 The yield of wheat [in England] has gone on from 2,000, 000 quarters in the time of the Stuarts, to 13,000,000 in 1854.
    Milt1 12.268 27 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.

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

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

stubble, n. (3)

    Nat 1.18 6 ...every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.
    EPro 11.320 15 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/ And earth's base built on stubble./
    RBur 11.441 27 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them,-bleak leagues of pasture and stubble...

stubborn, adj. (5)

    Con 1.308 6 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor...
    Prd1 2.225 7 ...here lies stubborn matter...
    ET8 5.129 15 [The English] are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic and stubborn,--and as mild, sweet and sensible.
    Elo1 7.85 25 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...
    AgMs 12.363 9 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have... reduced a stubborn soil to a good farm...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

stubbornness, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.92 7 When a man, through stubbornness, insists to do this or that... only because he will, he is weak;...

Stubbs, n. (1)

    SS 7.14 23 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched.

stub-hoe, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.96 10 ...[the sturdy countryman] is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bushwhacker;...

stuck, v. (3)

    Hist 2.9 17 This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt, Greece...as with so many flowers...
    MAng1 12.237 26 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...
    EurB 12.371 24 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck with boughs of hemlock and sweetbriar...

studding-sails, n. (1)

    ET2 5.27 12 Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft...

student, n. (60)

    Nat 1.66 8 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
    Nat 1.66 19 ...there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility;...
    AmS 1.84 14 Is not indeed every man a student...
    LE 1.157 24 ...the scholar is the student of the world;...
    LE 1.173 25 And why must the student be solitary and silent?
    LE 1.182 25 The student...is great only by being passive to the superincumbent spirit.
    LT 1.270 19 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    Tran 1.341 20 ...every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these [Transcendentalists] must. The question which a wise man and a student of modern history will ask, is, what that kind is?
    Hist 2.7 27 The student is to read history actively and not passively;...
    Hist 2.27 8 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry...
    Int 2.339 20 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    NR 3.225 10 The genius of the Platonists is intoxicating to the student...
    UGM 4.4 24 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets.
    UGM 4.19 20 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a student of fishes...
    PPh 4.52 3 Each student adheres, by temperament and by habit, to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind [unity or diversity].
    PNR 4.80 10 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    SwM 4.105 25 [Swedenborg's] writings would be a sufficient library to a lonely and athletic student;...
    MoS 4.172 1 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
    GoW 4.282 26 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects: the student, out of the lecture-room, still broods on the lessons;...
    ET12 5.200 15 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].
    ET12 5.202 12 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some article of plate;...
    ET14 5.246 24 Bulwer...appeals to the worldly ambition of the student.
    ET14 5.254 8 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student...
    F 6.8 15 ...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific benefactor [Providence] in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
    Ctr 6.134 16 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit invincible by his culture...
    Ctr 6.134 24 Our student must have a style and determination...
    Wsp 6.233 19 Thus can the faithful student reverse all the warnings of his early instinct...
    Bty 6.298 4 We observe [women's] intellectual influence on the most serious student.
    Elo1 7.69 21 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes, the most laborious student in that kind, signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
    Boks 7.194 7 [The best rule of reading] holds each student to a pursuit of his native aim...
    Boks 7.194 22 With this pilot of his own genius, let the student read one, or let him read many, he will read advantageously.
    Boks 7.198 26 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see both sides...he shall be contented also.
    Boks 7.204 21 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.
    Clbs 7.228 1 Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
    Clbs 7.229 11 ...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no thoughts. What a barren-witted pate is mine! the student says;...
    Suc 7.301 17 A deep sympathy is what we require for any student of the mind;...
    PI 8.9 5 While the student ponders this immense unity, he observes that all things...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PC 8.220 5 Often the master is a hidden man, but not to the true student;...
    Insp 8.291 10 ...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;...
    Grts 8.311 1 Let the student mind his own charge;...
    Grts 8.315 7 We perhaps look on [intellect's] crimes as experiments of a universal student;...
    Aris 10.63 13 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these...are full of murder, and the student recoils,-and joins the rich.
    SovE 10.191 25 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...
    Schr 10.261 10 ...the society of lettered men is a university which...gathers in the distant and solitary student into its strictest amity.
    Plu 10.306 22 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.
    LLNE 10.362 23 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher...
    LLNE 10.363 22 Rev. William Henry Channing...was from the first a student of Socialism in France and England...
    War 11.152 12 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    FSLC 11.199 25 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has...made every citizen a student of natural law.
    Shak1 11.450 6 The student finds the solitariest place not solitary enough to read [Shakespeare];...
    FRO1 11.478 15 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    CPL 11.500 5 Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has made all of us grateful to his memory as a careful student and chronicler;...
    PLT 12.3 16 ...I thought-could not a similar [scientific] enumeration be made of the laws and powers of the Intellect, and possess the same claims on the student?
    PLT 12.4 18 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working...after the laws of the human mind.
    PLT 12.6 12 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...
    PLT 12.8 16 ...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...and poor Nature and the sublime law, which is all that our student cares to hear of, are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.
    PLT 12.23 14 ...it is the common remark of the student, Could I only have begun with the same fire which I had on the last day, I should have done something.
    CL 12.163 15 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know. And the study of them awakens the like truth and elegance in the student.
    MAng1 12.222 17 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    MLit 12.328 9 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...

students, n. (27)

    LE 1.160 26 In view of these students, the soul seems to whisper, There is a better way than this indolent learning of another.
    MN 1.221 8 The lovers of goodness have been one class, the students of wisdom another;...
    LT 1.268 24 ...the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.
    LT 1.281 21 ...let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
    Art1 2.354 9 We carve and paint...as students of the mystery of Form.
    NER 3.257 12 We are students of words...
    SwM 4.102 9 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in magnetism, some important experiments and conclusions of later students;...
    ET12 5.200 25 In the reign of Edward I., it is pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students;...
    ET12 5.205 10 The number of students and of residents [at English universities]...justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET12 5.205 26 This aristocracy [at Oxford]...fills places, as they fall vacant, from the body of students.
    DL 7.121 10 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of Nature and of man!...
    Elo2 8.123 2 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806, not only the students heard him with delight...
    QO 8.183 22 In our own college days we remember hearing other pieces of Mr. Webster's advice to students...
    Dem1 10.25 5 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
    Dem1 10.25 7 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
    Prch 10.230 17 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    Schr 10.268 26 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.
    LLNE 10.344 1 ...[The Dial] was rather a work of friendship among the narrow circle of students than the organ of any party.
    EzRy 10.382 18 Many of the students [at Harvard] entered the [Revolutionary] army...
    FSLN 11.217 22 My own habitual view is to the well-being of students or scholars.
    FSLN 11.218 6 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    SMC 11.355 25 The invasion of Northern...tradesmen, lawyers and students did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    Wom 11.416 10 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar. He was a terrible metaphysician. He was a jurist, a poet, a divine. Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such students.
    PLT 12.55 12 There is in all students a distrust of truth...
    CInt 12.116 15 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.
    CL 12.137 2 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students...
    Milt1 12.255 12 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.

student's, n. (1)

    AmS 1.84 15 ...do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

studied, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.113 3 ...[the English] use a studied plainness.

studied, v. (21)

    LT 1.259 17 The Times...are to be studied as omens,...
    YA 1.365 11 The arts of engineering and of architecture are studied;...
    Prd1 2.224 15 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
    Prd1 2.236 15 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Prd1 2.236 16 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Nat2 3.179 3 Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade.
    SwM 4.105 21 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence. His statement of these doctrines deserves to be studied in his books.
    SwM 4.106 1 [Swedenborg] had studied spars and metals to some purpose.
    ET14 5.240 19 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
    DL 7.118 4 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    Suc 7.285 1 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber...
    Edc1 10.146 5 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...
    Supl 10.167 5 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said...I have studied his character, and I believe him capable of virtue.
    EzRy 10.393 9 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    SlHr 10.445 22 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison...
    EdAd 11.382 1 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
    CL 12.138 2 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber...
    MAng1 12.219 5 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature...
    Milt1 12.270 14 [Milton] studied with care the character of his countrymen...
    ACri 12.293 20 Shakspeare might be studied for his dexterity in the use of these weapons [of rhetoric], if it were not for his heroic strength.
    MLit 12.324 12 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being.

studies, n. (54)

    AmS 1.105 24 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...
    YA 1.387 13 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by elegant studies...
    SL 2.133 3 The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
    Lov1 2.185 2 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    NER 3.259 17 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?
    UGM 4.5 11 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    UGM 4.32 16 One gracious fact emerges from these studies,--that there is true ascension in our love.
    PPh 4.65 22 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
    SwM 4.105 9 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? It is easy to see, in these minds, the origin of Swedenborg's studies...
    SwM 4.145 11 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave choice [of goodness].
    ET2 5.26 4 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment...when I was a little spent by some unusual studies.
    ET5 5.100 23 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion.
    ET8 5.142 9 ...[the English] hold in esteem the barrister engaged in the severer studies of the law.
    ET14 5.240 15 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    ET14 5.243 22 [Locke's] countrymen...disused the studies once so beloved;...
    ET14 5.250 26 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions and give his present studies always the same high place.
    Ctr 6.158 27 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn of Lord Fairfax, the Long Parliament's general, his passion for antiquarian studies;...
    Art2 7.53 24 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men. Viewed from this point the history of Art becomes...one of the most agreeable studies.
    Boks 7.203 23 ...Pythagoras was...nowise a man of abstract studies alone.
    Clbs 7.244 20 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.
    OA 7.331 4 Goethe himself carried this completion of studies to the highest point.
    Comc 8.167 5 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.
    Insp 8.269 18 [The intellect's] supplies are found without much thought as to studies.
    Insp 8.286 19 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Grts 8.318 10 ...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies...
    Aris 10.61 19 ...by original studies...[the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world;...
    Chr2 10.113 19 ...whoever feels any love or skill for ethical studies may safely lay out all his strength and genius in working in that mine.
    MoL 10.253 20 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon, which led the way to all the subsequent studies of the English and German scholars on that foundation.
    Plu 10.304 2 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter; but...he leaves the reader with a relish and a necessity for completing his studies.
    Plu 10.306 13 ...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers.
    LLNE 10.335 25 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
    LLNE 10.341 12 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between [this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.
    LLNE 10.342 27 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise...their studies were solitary.
    LLNE 10.343 15 From that time meetings were held for conversation...of people engaged in studies...
    LLNE 10.368 27 ...what studies of character...many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    EzRy 10.382 17 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town. The studies were much broken up.
    EzRy 10.390 24 ...[Ezra Ripley] had no studies, no occupations, which company could interrupt.
    SlHr 10.439 14 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    Thor 10.452 5 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies...
    Thor 10.453 23 [Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds, and helped his studies of Nature.
    Thor 10.464 24 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
    Thor 10.484 22 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity...
    EWI 11.99 14 I might well hesitate, coming from other studies...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    TPar 11.286 7 Theodore Parker was...a man of study...rapidly pushing his studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
    EdAd 11.385 19 ...there is a fatal incuriosity and disinclination in our educated men to new studies and the interrogation of Nature.
    CPL 11.501 9 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken.
    PLT 12.14 26 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.
    II 12.87 27 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.
    Mem 12.108 2 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object, instead of on our will. We shall do as we do with all our studies, prize the fact or the name of the person by that predominance it takes in our mind after near acquaintance.
    CInt 12.114 1 Hiero the king reproached [Archimedes] with his barren studies.
    MAng1 12.221 15 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.
    MLit 12.311 25 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    MLit 12.327 17 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...in an endless variety of studies...
    EurB 12.371 3 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as studies in poetry...

studies, v. (11)

    Nat 1.27 23 ...man...studies relations in all objects.
    Hist 2.13 8 Genius studies the causal thought...
    SR 2.76 1 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    Art1 2.359 19 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...
    NMW 4.225 9 Every one of the million readers of anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.
    ET14 5.251 16 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers. So, at this moment, every ambitious young man studies geology...
    DL 7.104 12 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power...
    DL 7.104 19 ...chiefly...the young American studies new and speedier modes of transportation.
    Cour 7.257 18 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
    Imtl 8.341 14 [The thinker] studies in his walking...even in his sleep.
    CL 12.165 1 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.

studio, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.8 2 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter...
    Insp 8.291 3 Allston rarely left his studio by day.

studious, adj. (17)

    AmS 1.94 19 As far as this is true of the studious classes, it is not just and wise.
    Lov1 2.175 14 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage;...
    OS 2.278 5 The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom.
    Mrs1 3.137 21 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running...
    PPh 4.56 17 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato... studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    MoS 4.155 20 The studious class are their own victims;...
    MoS 4.164 7 Though [Montaigne] had been a man of pleasure and sometimes a courtier, his studious habits now grew on him...
    ET11 5.175 27 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    ET14 5.258 15 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the salient and curative influence of intellectual action, studious of truth without a by-end.
    ET14 5.260 9 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...
    DL 7.105 11 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents, studious of the witchcraft of curls and dimples and broken words--the little talker grows to a boy.
    DL 7.112 22 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
    WD 7.180 6 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America, studious of Greece and Rome...will take off its dusty shoes...
    SA 8.80 27 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress...
    Thor 10.452 8 ...though very studious of natural facts, [Thoreau] was incurious of technical and textual science.
    AsSu 11.249 10 In Congress, [Charles Sumner] did not rush into party position. He sat long silent and studious.
    FRep 11.518 23 Instead of character, there is a studious exclusion of character.

study, n. (101)

    Nat 1.34 13 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began;...
    Nat 1.60 11 ...the soul holds itself off from a too trivial and microscopic study of the universal tablet.
    Nat 1.70 6 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
    Nat 1.74 15 Is not prayer also a study of truth...
    Nat 1.74 25 It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects.
    AmS 1.115 8 ...for work the study and the communication of principles...
    AmS 1.115 21 The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity...
    MR 1.236 24 Manual labor is the study of the external world.
    MR 1.241 12 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea of...men of study generally;...
    Con 1.325 5 Wherever there are men, are the objects of my study and love.
    YA 1.393 6 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy, we commend to the study of the travelling American.
    SR 2.80 3 It will happen for a time that the pupil will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his master's mind.
    SR 2.81 13 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes...of study...
    SR 2.83 20 Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare.
    Comp 2.108 13 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find...
    Comp 2.108 14 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find, but in the study of many you would abstract as the spirit of them all.
    Lov1 2.175 23 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object... make the study of midnight...
    Int 2.335 7 [The thought] is...always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or incessant study can ever familiarize...
    Pt1 3.3 11 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars...
    Pt1 3.26 6 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study...
    NER 3.257 25 The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.
    NER 3.258 17 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...in all countries, to their study;...
    NER 3.258 18 ...by a wonderful drowsiness of usage [the ancient languages] had exacted the study of all men.
    UGM 4.33 3 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region wherein the individual is lost...
    PPh 4.56 20 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    PPh 4.63 5 [Dialectic] is of that rank [said Plato] that no intellectual man will enter on any study for its own sake...
    PPh 4.78 25 [Plato's] sense deepens, his merits multiply, with study.
    SwM 4.115 4 The hardihood and thoroughness of [Swedenborg's] study of nature required a theory of forms also.
    SwM 4.123 2 [Swedenborg's] disciples allege that their intellect is invigorated by the study of his books.
    SwM 4.136 5 My learning is such as God gave me...in the delight and study of my eyes...
    GoW 4.283 9 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
    ET2 5.31 13 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET10 5.166 6 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for access to means of science or study...
    ET12 5.205 14 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET12 5.205 22 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study...
    ET12 5.210 19 ...in general, here [at Oxford] was proof of a more searching study in the appointed directions...
    ET14 5.235 27 The ardor and endurance of [English] study, the boldness and facility of their mental construction...astonish...
    ET14 5.242 12 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's study of civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought;...
    ET14 5.243 5 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
    Bty 6.286 10 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Bty 6.290 14 The lesson taught by the study of Greek...art...was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...
    Art2 7.51 12 ...a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
    Elo1 7.62 27 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that...out of which, by genius and study, the most wonderful effects can be drawn.
    DL 7.120 1 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...hastening into the sitting-room to the study of to-morrow's merciless lesson...
    DL 7.122 12 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came, not so much for repose as study...
    WD 7.166 27 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...
    WD 7.167 23 ...[Hesiod] has not pushed his study of days into such inquiry and analysis as they invite.
    Boks 7.193 24 ...I can seldom go there [to the Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
    Boks 7.194 20 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...through the profounder study so drawn to those wonderful minds.
    Suc 7.290 12 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn...skill without study...
    Suc 7.294 23 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    Suc 7.310 24 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study...
    PI 8.14 10 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
    PI 8.36 26 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...emancipation from other men's questions and glad study of his own;...
    Elo2 8.127 7 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other. This fault is very incident to men of study...
    PC 8.211 10 A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and successful study of Natural Science.
    Grts 8.301 12 [Greatness] is a fruitful study.
    Grts 8.305 12 Others find a charm...in the elements of which the whole world is made. These lately have stimulus to their study through the extraordinary revelations of the spectroscope that the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Imtl 8.334 10 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment...of a moss, to its wants, growth and perpetuation; all these adjustments becoming perfectly intelligible to our study,-and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Imtl 8.341 17 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    Dem1 10.24 15 ...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...
    Edc1 10.129 12 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is...a study of the issues of one and another course of action...
    Prch 10.226 27 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of men.
    MoL 10.252 3 Where there is no vision, the people perish. The fault lies with...the men of study and thought.
    Schr 10.264 21 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study...talk hard and worldly...
    Plu 10.311 4 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good.
    LLNE 10.335 8 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer, no marks of late hours and anxious, unfinished study...
    CSC 10.374 27 The faces [at the Chardon Street Convention] were a study.
    EzRy 10.385 7 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion?
    EzRy 10.390 26 [Ezra Ripley's] friends were his study...
    Thor 10.458 1 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study.
    Thor 10.480 27 [Thoreau's] study of Nature was a perpetual ornament to him...
    EWI 11.106 3 [Granville] Sharpe instantly sat down and gave himself to the study of English law for more than two years...
    War 11.151 1 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy to indicate the steps of human progress...
    War 11.175 1 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.182 1 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    TPar 11.286 5 Theodore Parker was...a man of study, fit for a man of the world;...
    FRO2 11.490 16 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements, the identities, in all the religions of men.
    CPL 11.504 27 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    CPL 11.505 3 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life...
    CPL 11.505 9 Patience is the chiefest fruit of study.
    PLT 12.12 18 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see;...
    PLT 12.12 24 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
    PLT 12.13 1 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth; but a study in the opposite direction had a damaging effect on the mind.
    PLT 12.20 19 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature...
    PLT 12.20 24 ...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
    PLT 12.26 12 Scholars say that if they return to the study of a new language after some intermission, the intelligence of it is more and not less.
    CInt 12.114 8 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...
    CInt 12.114 20 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CInt 12.131 18 Study for eternity smiled on me, says Van Helmont.
    CInt 12.131 21 ...it were a good rule to read some lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or task, but of study for eternity.
    CL 12.161 4 ...Goethe, whose whole life was a study of the theory of art, said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
    CL 12.163 14 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know. And the study of them awakens the like truth and elegance in the student.
    MAng1 12.217 10 In considering a life dedicated to the study of Beauty, it is natural to inquire, what is Beauty?
    MAng1 12.221 3 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years;...
    MAng1 12.230 14 Every one of these pieces [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling]...is a study of anatomy and design.
    MAng1 12.233 27 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    Milt1 12.254 25 Many philosophers in England, France and Germany have formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...
    Milt1 12.258 6 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton] doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.
    ACri 12.289 11 As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is curious...
    Let 12.400 6 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart, and not with this cold study...

study, v. (36)

    AmS 1.87 9 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
    DSA 1.120 18 I would study...
    DSA 1.148 10 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude...
    LE 1.175 9 Let the youth study the uses of solitude and of society.
    MN 1.197 18 We may...safely study the mind in nature...
    MN 1.198 20 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    MN 1.208 3 [A man] need not study where to stand...
    MN 1.212 1 Is it [man's] work in the world to study nature, or the laws of the world?
    SR 2.82 26 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    SL 2.156 22 No man need be deceived who will study the changes of expression.
    Lov1 2.171 6 ...we must...study the sentiment [of love] as it appeared in hope...
    Fdsp 2.215 12 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.
    Int 2.341 16 ...every man is a receiver of this descending holy ghost, and may well study the laws of its influx.
    Pt1 3.5 16 In love...in games, we study to utter our painful secret.
    Pt1 3.32 27 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
    Mrs1 3.151 27 [Lilla] did not study the Persian grammar...
    NR 3.234 22 We obey the same intellectual integrity when we study in exceptions the law of the world.
    ET5 5.84 12 [The English] study use and fitness in their building...
    F 6.4 21 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...
    Bhr 6.197 6 An old man...said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    Bty 6.286 16 [Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners, the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence] are facts of a science which we study without book...
    Bty 6.287 9 Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.
    SS 7.5 22 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions: It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.
    WD 7.174 17 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
    Boks 7.196 27 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
    Boks 7.214 27 The young study noble behavior;...
    Boks 7.221 1 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...
    PC 8.223 2 Shall we study the mathematics of the sphere, and not its causal essence also?
    Edc1 10.142 9 Let [the solitary man] study the art of solitude...
    LLNE 10.359 4 ...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.
    TPar 11.288 12 It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...
    FRep 11.536 23 Of no use are the men who study to do exactly as was done before...
    CL 12.135 13 Plant [the land], adorn it, study it, it will develop in the cultivator the talent it requires.
    CL 12.164 24 ...as man is the object of Nature, what we study in Nature is man.
    CW 12.177 6 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines;...
    MAng1 12.221 20 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.

study-hours, n. (1)

    CW 12.177 19 ...physicians or naturalists are the only professional men who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...

studying, v. (4)

    Hist 2.16 20 A painter told me that nobody could...draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely...
    SR 2.76 14 [A sturdy lad from Vermont]...feels no shame in not studying a profession...
    PNR 4.82 25 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state;...
    ET6 5.106 8 ...[the Englishman's] bearing, on being introduced, is cold, even though he...is studying how he shall serve you.

studying-mills, n. (1)

    ET12 5.207 22 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...

stuff, n. (22)

    Comp 2.101 5 Every thing is made of one hidden stuff;...
    Prd1 2.241 3 ...the world of manners and actions is wrought of one stuff...
    Nat2 3.181 2 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff,--but one stuff with its two ends, to serve up all her dream-like variety.
    Nat2 3.181 5 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff...
    NR 3.237 1 Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful, coarser or finer according to its stuff.
    UGM 4.4 27 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
    PPh 4.49 18 The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff;...
    PPh 4.49 19 ...the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff; and the stuff is such and so much that the variations of form are unimportant.
    Pow 6.56 14 One man is made of the same stuff of which events are made;...
    Ctr 6.145 24 The stuff of all countries is just the same.
    CbW 6.258 24 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers, and especially generals and leaders of colonies, mainly rely on this stuff...
    Ill 6.324 7 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with one another.
    SS 7.9 4 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons...
    Art2 7.43 16 ...in each [of the fine arts] the creating intellect is crippled in some degree by the stuff on which it works.
    DL 7.114 2 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff.
    WD 7.173 4 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls and the pupil is permitted to see that all is one stuff...
    LLNE 10.323 4 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
    HDC 11.32 26 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams, with their women and children and their household stuff...
    HDC 11.35 20 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
    FSLC 11.182 21 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed what stuff reputations are made of...
    ALin 11.328 8 ...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./
    EurB 12.366 23 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff.

stuffed, adj. (1)

    OA 7.332 11 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair...

stuffed, v. (3)

    PPh 4.63 23 The misery of man is to be baulked of the sight of essence and to be stuffed with conjectures;...
    ET3 5.38 7 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    Elo1 7.74 4 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but...the wax which Ulysses stuffed into the ears of his sailors to pass the Sirens safely.

stuffs, n. (4)

    Gts 3.161 26 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    F 6.43 27 Wood...stuffs...were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.
    CbW 6.243 13 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear/...
    Supl 10.177 23 ...the Orientals excel...in weaving on hand-looms costly stuffs from silk and wool...

Stukeley, William, n. (2)

    ET16 5.281 18 Of all the writers [on Stonehenge], Stukeley is the best.
    ET16 5.283 3 On hints like these, Stukeley builds again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...

stultified, v. (1)

    AKan 11.258 10 I think there never was a people so choked and stultified by forms.

stultify, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.187 1 ...it is not to be presumed that [laws] can so stultify themselves as to command injustice.

stumble, v. (1)

    QO 8.180 21 Read in Plato and you shall...stumble on our evangelical phrases.

stumbling-blocks, n. (1)

    YA 1.390 18 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist...

stump, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.29 19 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Civ 7.21 24 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump.

/Stumping it through New En (1)

    n [years] trained W ndell Phillips.

stumping, v. (2)

    Pow 6.78 6 Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater.
    Pow 6.78 8 Stumping it through New England for twice seven [years] trained Wendell Phillips.

stump-oratory, n. (1)

    Carl 10.493 4 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.

stumps, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.37 25 Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics...are yet unsung.
    ET14 5.243 8 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient fertility to tillage...
    Schr 10.274 24 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.

stun, v. (1)

    SR 2.71 6 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.

stung, v. (7)

    Comp 2.117 24 The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed.
    Int 2.341 5 We are stung by the desire for new thought;...
    CbW 6.261 7 ...this man [who is to be wise for many] must be stung.
    Elo2 8.123 21 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends, which showed how much it had stung him...
    Schr 10.262 13 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...
    Wom 11.419 12 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Bost 12.191 26 John Smith was stung near to death by the most poisonous tail of a fish, called a sting-ray.

stunning, adj. (2)

    Comp 2.121 19 There is no stunning confutation of [the criminal's] nonsense before men and angels.
    MoS 4.179 16 Shall I add, as one juggle of this enchantment, the stunning non-intercourse law which makes co-operation impossible?

stuns, v. (1)

    Insp 8.289 4 What untunes is as bad as what cripples or stuns me.

stunted, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.66 1 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky...few tall, slender figures of flowing shape, but stunted and thickset persons.

stupefaction, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 26 In this country the like stupefaction was in the air...

stupefied, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.181 8 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun...
    PPh 4.49 26 Men contemplate distinctions, because they are stupefied with ignorance.
    Bost 12.210 7 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.

stupefies, v. (3)

    Exp 3.69 2 There is a certain magic about [a man's] properest action which stupefies your powers of observation...
    Pol1 3.212 9 Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
    Ctr 6.157 5 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their very presence stupefies me.

stupefying, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.7 22 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive, with bad jokes and conceit and stupefying individualism, that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.

stupendous, adj. (8)

    MoS 4.175 12 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy...
    F 6.22 13 Man is...a stupendous antagonism...
    Dem1 10.12 12 One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction.
    SovE 10.200 6 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee...heedless of the stupendous fact of his own personality.
    HCom 11.341 7 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    PLT 12.10 20 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity...
    PLT 12.43 22 Thought must take the stupendous step of passing into realization.
    MLit 12.327 22 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.

stupid, adj. (22)

    MN 1.192 20 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    Hist 2.36 21 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    Prd1 2.228 23 If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
    Int 2.335 8 [The thought] is...always a miracle...which must always leave the inquirer stupid with wonder.
    NR 3.239 26 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities!
    PPh 4.67 17 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be; if not...you will only annoy me. I shall seem to you stupid...
    ET8 5.138 23 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid;...
    Wth 6.104 14 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would begin to mistrust something.
    Ill 6.322 15 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures...
    Elo1 7.87 24 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch. The government was well enough represented. It was stupid, but it had a strong will and possession...
    PPo 8.246 18 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
    Grts 8.316 24 Intellect at least is not stupid...
    Aris 10.53 26 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village, good and bad, bright and stupid, in his facts;...
    Aris 10.54 2 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...the stupid had discovered that they were not stupid;...
    PerF 10.80 24 I knew a stupid young farmer, churlish, living only for his gains...
    Edc1 10.126 9 When a man stupid becomes a man inspired...all limits disappear.
    EWI 11.100 14 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts.
    FSLN 11.241 10 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power...
    EdAd 11.390 17 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us, stupid with perplexity, is dumbly exploring.
    Bost 12.197 19 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which makes the elegance of wealth look stupid...
    EurB 12.377 27 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women, though the greatest and fairest, are stupid things;...
    Let 12.404 25 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

stupid, n. (2)

    UGM 4.14 18 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent...
    Aris 10.54 1 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...the stupid had discovered that they were not stupid;...

stupider, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.104 21 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar, which is not much stupider than an apple-tree, presently find it out?

stupidities, n. (1)

    NR 3.239 27 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities!

stupidity, n. (6)

    Cir 2.319 7 ...old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one. We call it by many names,--fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime;...
    NMW 4.245 19 ...in the prevalence of sense and spirit over stupidity and malversation, all reasonable men have an interest;...
    ET8 5.138 20 A saving stupidity masks and protects [Englishmen's] perception...
    LLNE 10.351 14 Poverty shall be abolished [by Fourierism]; deformity, stupidity and crime shall be no more.
    EWI 11.137 12 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...all manner of rage and stupidity;...
    EWI 11.142 3 If before, [the negro] was taxed with such stupidity, or such defective vision, that he could not set a table square to the walls of an apartment, he is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...

stupor, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.126 12 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.

sturdiest, adj. (4)

    MN 1.193 22 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air...
    Prd1 2.238 9 ...the sturdiest offender of your peace and of the neighborhood, if you rip up his claims, is as thin and timid as any...
    PI 8.52 5 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent.
    SovE 10.199 7 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is something by itself;...

sturdiness, n. (1)

    ET11 5.174 20 The foundations of these [noble English] families lie deep in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.

sturdy, adj. (11)

    Tran 1.331 21 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house]...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    SR 2.76 6 A sturdy lad from New Hampshire...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Cir 2.303 23 Sturdy and defying though he looks, [a man] has a helm which he obeys...
    Exp 3.59 17 Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy.
    ET14 5.236 20 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone.
    ET18 5.305 23 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour. It hides in their sturdy will.
    Elo1 7.96 4 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money, nor politeness...make any impression.
    Aris 10.37 27 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those Merovingians, Guelphs...of the old warlike ages!
    Prch 10.223 23 I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion...men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for others.
    EWI 11.124 4 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows...
    MLit 12.323 10 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have...seconded [Goethe's] sturdy determination to see things for what they are.

Sturge, Joseph, n. (1)

    EWI 11.142 10 The recent testimonies of Sturge, of Thome and Kimball... are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...

Sturleson, Snorre, n. (1)

    ACri 12.295 15 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...the Scandinavians with their Snorre Sturleson;...

Sturleson [Sturluson], Snor (1)

    Boks 7.206 22 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of Snorro Sturleson...

Sturluson [Sturleson], Snor (2)

    ET4 5.57 2 The Heimskringla...collected by Snorro Sturleson, is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history.
    Boks 7.206 22 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of Snorro Sturleson...

stuttering, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.40 11 Stand there, [O poet,]...stammering and stuttering...stand and strive...

stutters, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.85 20 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...though he stutters and screams.

sty, n. (1)

    Exp 3.54 19 On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism...

Stygian, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.327 26 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable, though always clothed in somewhat sad and Stygian colors.

Style, Low, n. (1)

    ACri 12.299 25 After Low Style and Compression what the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.

style, n. (113)

    AmS 1.112 8 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic.
    DSA 1.131 3 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of friendship...
    MN 1.218 9 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within...
    Comp 2.126 20 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living...
    Fdsp 2.213 1 The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
    Pt1 3.11 12 We know that the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not. A mountain ramble, a new style of face...may put the key into our hands.
    Nat2 3.180 2 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
    NR 3.239 15 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick, which may be soon learned by an acute person, and then that particular style continued indefinitely.
    PPh 4.45 3 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit.
    PPh 4.57 23 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    PPh 4.78 27 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys...
    SwM 4.106 3 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...
    SwM 4.106 8 The grandeur of the topics makes the grandeur of [Swedenborg's] style.
    SwM 4.112 3 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
    SwM 4.133 24 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...and all gather one grimness of hue and style.
    MoS 4.169 11 In speaking of [Socrates], for once [Montaigne's] cheek flushes and his style rises to passion.
    ShP 4.194 19 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ShP 4.216 15 [Shakespeare] touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.
    ET1 5.9 22 [Landor] has a wonderful brain...in which there is not a style nor a tint not known to him...
    ET10 5.165 26 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners, gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which belong to that rank.
    ET11 5.173 26 [The English people] are proud...of the language and symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is used in any language to designate a patrician.
    ET11 5.190 9 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET12 5.207 17 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore. They prune his orations and point his pen. Hence the style and tone of English journalism.
    ET14 5.232 13 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.
    ET14 5.233 25 A taste for plain strong speech, what is called a biblical style, marks the English.
    ET14 5.236 17 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people...
    ET14 5.237 16 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson, full of heroic sentiment in a manly style, were received with favor.
    ET14 5.246 20 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style, and local in his aims.
    ET14 5.258 5 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
    ET14 5.258 26 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings, who had been struck with the grand style of thinking in the Indian writings, deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    ET16 5.281 16 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun...
    ET17 5.295 11 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    Pow 6.62 12 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.
    Wth 6.90 16 ...no clanship, no patriarchal style of living by the revenues of a chief...suits [the Saxons];...
    Ctr 6.134 24 Our student must have a style and determination...
    Ctr 6.139 19 The city breeds one kind of speech and manners; the back country a different style;...
    Bhr 6.188 9 ...nothing is more charming than to recognize the great style which runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
    CbW 6.260 26 ...a West End householder, is not the highest style of man;...
    Bty 6.298 9 ...we fear to fatigue [women], and acquire a facility of expression which passes from conversation into habit of style.
    Ill 6.317 1 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...
    Elo1 7.62 4 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence.
    Elo1 7.67 8 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...
    Elo1 7.68 3 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue...
    Elo1 7.70 16 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators...in our translations of the Arabian Nights.
    Elo1 7.71 15 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator, in the largest style...
    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.
    Elo1 7.89 22 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
    PI 8.33 8 Style betrays you...
    PI 8.35 23 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature.
    PI 8.44 17 This power [of characterization] appears not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors, but also in the bearing and behavior and style of each individual.
    PI 8.53 26 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style...
    PI 8.56 2 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day...
    PI 8.69 24 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but sanity;...
    SA 8.82 24 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar...exhibits the best style of manners.
    SA 8.102 20 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation;...
    Elo2 8.122 2 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...
    Elo2 8.125 25 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete...
    Elo2 8.126 2 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood...
    QO 8.193 16 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style of pictures...on us.
    QO 8.198 11 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could have written it? Was it not...at the least, Professor Maximilian? Yes, he could detect in the style that fine Roman hand.
    QO 8.202 7 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech which the immanence of the oracle bestowed...
    Grts 8.308 3 ...to each his own method, style, wit, eloquence.
    Grts 8.318 14 A great style of hero draws equally all classes...
    Imtl 8.332 24 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking.
    Imtl 8.338 5 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be...in the great style of his works.
    Imtl 8.338 7 The future must be up to the style of our faculties...
    Dem1 10.12 26 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us. But we should look for the style of the great artist in it...
    Aris 10.38 13 ...they only prosper or they prosper best...who engineer in sword and cannon style...
    Aris 10.59 20 A grand style of culture...does not exist...
    PerF 10.72 10 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements...a new style and series, the spiritual.
    Edc1 10.156 10 ...he is,-every child, a new style of man;...
    Supl 10.168 7 Ever a low style is best.
    Plu 10.300 22 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied;...
    Plu 10.301 4 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style...
    Plu 10.304 10 In treating of the style of the Pythian Oracle, [Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...
    Plu 10.321 2 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style.
    Plu 10.321 6 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language at a period of singular vigor and freedom of style.
    LLNE 10.331 8 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person, of a classic style...
    LLNE 10.332 14 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical discourses in the style of Voss and Wolff and Ruhnken...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.332 25 In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.
    LLNE 10.339 16 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...immediately fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of Journalism.
    SlHr 10.447 14 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away...
    EWI 11.123 4 Our civility, England determines the style of...
    EWI 11.143 8 The grand style of Nature, her great periods, is all we observe in them.
    War 11.172 13 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    War 11.172 21 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.
    FSLN 11.221 6 [Webster's] countenance, his figure, and his manners were all in so grand a style, that he was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
    ACiv 11.310 21 [Lincoln] speaks his own thought in his own style.
    Wom 11.411 12 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
    Scot 11.464 20 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser...
    FRep 11.523 26 ...a certain style of living fast becomes necessary;...
    CL 12.164 1 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style...
    MAng1 12.221 9 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood;...
    MAng1 12.229 11 The style of [Michelangelo's] paintings is monumental;...
    MAng1 12.232 4 The impulse of [Michelangelo's] grand style was instantaneous upon his contemporaries.
    Milt1 12.277 25 Of [Milton's] prose in general, not the style alone but the argument also is poetic;...
    ACri 12.284 5 There is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete...
    ACri 12.284 9 This [national] style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life...
    ACri 12.285 1 Le style c'est l'homme, said Buffon;...
    ACri 12.287 1 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.
    ACri 12.287 20 Not only low style, but the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments;...
    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...
    ACri 12.290 4 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style...also the sculpture of compression.
    ACri 12.293 22 There is no such master of low style as [Shakespeare]...
    ACri 12.296 9 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style.
    ACri 12.296 26 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style...
    WSL 12.348 3 [Landor] knows the wide difference between compression and an obscure elliptical style.
    EurB 12.365 14 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception, but not that of deft poetic execution. How would Milton curl his lip at such slipshod newspaper style.
    EurB 12.375 3 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance, which is the old style...
    EurB 12.378 4 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures...
    PPr 12.389 26 One word more respecting [Carlyle's] remarkable style.
    PPr 12.390 10 Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with its infinity of details, into style.
    PPr 12.390 16 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long.

Style, New, n. (1)

    HDC 11.32 7 ...on the 2d of September, 1635, corresponding in New Style to 12th September...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.

Style, Old, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.381 2 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O. S.)...

style, v. (1)

    Con 1.305 13 However men please to style themselves, I see no other than a conservative party.

styled, v. (5)

    YA 1.373 6 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled a cruel kindness...
    NER 3.259 8 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University, as it is ludicrously styled, he shuts those books for the last time.
    NMW 4.231 16 ...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as the people, when he styled himself the Child of Destiny.
    NMW 4.239 18 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt...for the hereditary asses, as he coarsely styled the Bourbons.
    EPro 11.321 19 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind. We shall cease to be hypocrites and pretenders, but what we have styled our free institutions will be such.

styles, n. (6)

    NR 3.239 9 ...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking up all styles and tricks...
    ET14 5.260 5 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise...
    EWI 11.122 2 There are many styles of civilization...
    Milt1 12.253 2 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the perception and enjoyment of...his perfect fusion of the classic and the English styles.
    EurB 12.368 12 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris...
    EurB 12.371 4 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as... sketches after the styles of sundry old masters.

styles, v. (1)

    SwM 4.121 27 Swedenborg styles himself in the title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...

Stylite, n. (1)

    Hist 2.28 15 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...

Styx River, Mammoth Cave, (1)

    Ill 6.309 15 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...crossed the streams Lethe and Styx;...

Styx River, n. (2)

    MoL 10.251 3 I wish the youth to be...a man dipped in the Styx of human experience, and made invulnerable so,-self-helping.
    Carl 10.496 5 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men, as the Styx hardened Achilles...

suasion, n. (2)

    Carl 10.491 20 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.
    JBB 11.270 24 ...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he believed in putting the thing through.

subaltern, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.353 7 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    Prd1 2.222 12 ...a true prudence or law of shows...knows that its own office is subaltern;...
    WD 7.179 26 These passing fifteen minutes, men think...are low and subaltern...

subaltern, n. (1)

    ET9 5.152 20 Amerigo Vespucci...who went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...

subalterns, n. (2)

    NR 3.235 19 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns...
    Pow 6.58 15 ...the geologist reports the surveys of his subalterns;...

subdivide, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.205 12 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly, divide and subdivide it;...it will always weigh a pound;...

subdivided, v. (2)

    Nat 1.17 22 The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes...
    AmS 1.83 12 ...this fountain of power...has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out, that it is spilled into drops...

subdivision, n. (1)

    PPh 4.53 4 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes...

subdivisions, n. (1)

    HDC 11.42 21 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

subdue, v. (10)

    DSA 1.120 3 ...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.132 15 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards], inviting me...to subdue the world;...
    YA 1.375 22 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling, which all their love and pride in the powers of their children cannot subdue, becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    Bty 6.301 5 If a man...can subdue steam...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    DL 7.118 15 [The great]...subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury;...
    DL 7.133 17 He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    Res 8.141 18 We have seen the railroad and telegraph subdue our enormous geography;...
    PerF 10.74 2 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    Schr 10.288 16 ...[the scholar] is to subdue and keep down his methods;...
    LLNE 10.350 3 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue...the pestilential tracts;...

subdued, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.145 7 ...in the great anthem which we call history...after playing a long time a very low and subdued accompaniment, [the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...

subdued, v. (17)

    AmS 1.91 11 Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.
    LE 1.168 23 ...[when I see the daybreak] I feel perhaps the pain of an alien world; a world not yet subdued by the thought;...
    LE 1.181 20 ...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
    Hist 2.21 4 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
    Int 2.330 26 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men, and especially of those classes whose minds have not been subdued by the drill of school education.
    ET15 5.269 26 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
    ET16 5.279 15 My philosopher [Carlyle] was subdued and gentle [at Stonehenge].
    Ctr 6.134 19 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of intercourse, but is never subdued and lost in them.
    Wsp 6.204 17 ...the public and the private element...cannot be subdued except the soul is dissipated.
    CbW 6.255 26 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way...
    CbW 6.278 1 Farm 7.144 21 Air is matter subdued by heat.
    Prch 10.228 12 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine...
    MMEm 10.414 9 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself...
    Thor 10.455 26 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature, not to be subdued...
    FSLC 11.209 19 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted;...
    CInt 12.117 15 ...sanity consists in not being subdued by your means.

subdues, v. (1)

    DL 7.105 20 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing it;...

subduing, v. (3)

    Hist 2.34 17 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power of subduing the elements...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    Farm 7.153 3 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry; but their influence somewhat resembles that which the same Nature has on the child,--of subduing and silencing him.
    PI 8.65 27 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself, or which it rarely reaches;--the subduing mankind to order and virtue.

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