Subject to Suetonius

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

subject, adj. (21)

    AmS 1.83 27 The tradesman...is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul is subject to dollars.
    DSA 1.122 10 [The laws of the soul] are...not subject to circumstance.
    Hist 2.29 21 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    Cir 2.313 18 Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him...
    Int 2.326 27 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought...are subject to change...
    Pt1 3.23 6 This atom of seed is thrown into a new place, not subject to the accidents which destroyed its parent two rods off.
    ET5 5.94 6 Bacon said, Rome was a state not subject to paradoxes;...
    ET8 5.138 14 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage...
    Bhr 6.179 12 The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will.
    OA 7.330 7 Time, yes, that is...the unweariable explorer, not subject to casualties...
    Imtl 8.351 11 Believing this world exists, and not the other, the careless youth is subject to my [Death's] sway.
    Chr2 10.114 12 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...not subject to doubtful interpretation...
    Schr 10.280 2 ...society, in which we live, is subject to fits of frenzy;...
    HDC 11.69 4 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    EWI 11.112 11 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain conditions.
    EdAd 11.388 7 ...we believe politics to be...subject to the same laws with trees, earths and acids.
    FRO1 11.477 7 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...and I supposed myself no longer subject to your call when I saw this house.
    PLT 12.45 20 ...the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
    CInt 12.120 1 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...subject to genius, subject to the total and native sentiment of the man...
    CL 12.138 10 [Linnaeus] found that the gout, to which he was subject, was cured by wood-strawberries.
    CL 12.147 10 ...the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....when the owner sleeps or travels, and it is subject to no enemy but fire.

subject, n. (135)

    Nat 1.74 14 ...there are patient naturalists, but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understanding.
    LE 1.158 5 What I have to say on that doctrine [of Literary Ethics] distributes itself under the topics of the resources, the subject, and the discipline of the scholar.
    LE 1.166 24 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad.
    LE 1.173 11 ...the thing whereon [thought] shines...is a new subject with countless relations.
    LE 1.173 14 Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.
    MN 1.198 8 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MN 1.223 10 What man seeing this [great reality] can...entertain a meaner subject?
    MR 1.255 19 He who would help himself and others should not be a subject of irregular and interrupted impulses of virtue...
    LT 1.261 18 ...the subject of the Times is not an abstract question.
    LT 1.274 21 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage.
    Con 1.295 5 This quarrel [between Conservatism and Innovation] is the subject of civil history.
    Con 1.296 6 There is a fragment of old fable...which may deserve attention, as it appears to relate to this subject.
    Tran 1.356 20 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject...
    SR 2.45 4 The soul always hears an admonition in such [original] lines, let the subject be what it may.
    SR 2.68 16 ...the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid;...
    Comp 2.93 4 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation] life was ahead of theology...
    SL 2.153 21 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    Fdsp 2.201 3 The attractions of this subject [friendship] are not to be resisted...
    Prd1 2.224 10 The spurious prudence, making the senses final...is the subject of all comedy.
    OS 2.269 14 ...the subject and the object, are one.
    Int 2.326 22 The making a fact the subject of thought raises it.
    Int 2.327 6 ...a truth, separated by the intellect, is no longer a subject of destiny.
    Int 2.335 21 The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
    Int 2.337 9 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing or heard any conversation on the subject...
    Int 2.337 12 A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject...
    Int 2.345 15 I will not, though the subject might provoke it, speak to the open question between Truth and Love.
    Exp 3.77 8 Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
    Exp 3.77 9 The subject is the receiver of Godhead...
    Exp 3.77 16 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever in every subject.
    Exp 3.79 24 Thus inevitably does...every object fall successively into the subject itself.
    Exp 3.79 24 The subject exists, the subject enlarges;...
    Exp 3.80 21 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete...
    Nat2 3.176 27 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess. It is as easy to broach in mixed companies what is called the subject of religion.
    UGM 4.32 20 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals.
    SwM 4.112 4 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and repulsive.
    SwM 4.115 25 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world? In the first volume of the Animal Kingdom, he broaches the subject in a remarkable note...
    SwM 4.128 23 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
    MoS 4.157 25 All society is divided in opinion on the subject of the State.
    MoS 4.174 26 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ShP 4.218 19 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who gave to the science of the mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed...that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    NMW 4.249 26 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
    NMW 4.251 25 I admire...[Bonaparte's] own equality as a writer to his varying subject.
    ET1 5.18 26 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET5 5.99 22 Though not military, yet every common subject [in England] by the poll is fit to make a soldier of.
    ET7 5.123 24 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled...by the French popular legends on the subject of perfidious Albion.
    ET9 5.149 15 ...[the English] feel themselves at liberty to assume the most extraordinary tone on the subject of English merits.
    ET14 5.234 5 How realistic or materialistic in treatment of his subject is Swift.
    ET14 5.241 5 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this.
    ET14 5.255 3 [The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity; they laugh you down, or they change the subject.
    ET14 5.257 24 ...[Tennyson] wants a subject...
    F 6.3 7 ...the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season.
    Pow 6.80 21 ...[spirit] is as much a subject of exact law and arithmetic as fluids and gases are;...
    Wth 6.90 24 The subject of economy mixes itself with morals...
    Wth 6.111 12 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it...
    Ctr 6.149 16 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.
    Ctr 6.165 4 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Bhr 6.172 11 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
    CbW 6.245 3 ...life is rather a subject of wonder than of didactics.
    Civ 7.19 9 Mr. Guizot, writing a book on the subject [Civilization], does not [attempt a definition].
    Art2 7.49 12 So much as we can...bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    Art2 7.50 17 The whole language of men...in reference to this subject, points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Elo1 7.85 12 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
    Elo1 7.92 26 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself...
    DL 7.130 21 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for the sculptor...
    Boks 7.191 14 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value; if you do not know these, you are not entitled to give any opinion on the subject.
    Boks 7.201 4 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind,--being a repertory of the wisdom of the ancients on the subject of love;...
    Clbs 7.250 3 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.
    Cour 7.265 1 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis;...
    OA 7.316 1 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject;...
    OA 7.321 1 ...he who has accomplished something in any department alone deserves to be heard on that subject.
    PI 8.33 26 If your subject do not appear to you the flower of the world at this moment, you have not rightly chosen it.
    PI 8.34 8 The subject [of poetry]...is indifferent.
    PI 8.37 5 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet]...
    SA 8.79 6 ...the subject of manners has a constant interest to thoughtful persons.
    SA 8.103 1 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago, with my eyes directed on this subject, to fall in with an American to be proud of.
    Res 8.151 2 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars...cannot satisfy.
    QO 8.184 5 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument...
    QO 8.184 8 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book;...
    QO 8.203 4 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the subject to which it has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
    QO 8.203 23 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse...
    PPo 8.251 5 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success...
    PPo 8.252 8 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    Insp 8.296 5 The deep book, no matter how remote the subject, helps us best.
    Imtl 8.346 7 ...Wordsworth's Ode is the best modern essay on the subject [of immortality].
    Edc1 10.136 6 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.
    Supl 10.171 9 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.
    Schr 10.265 2 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness. They all chime in, and are as inexorable as bankers on the subject of real life.
    Plu 10.305 27 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    LLNE 10.328 21 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    CSC 10.373 14 In March [1841], accordingly, a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church...
    CSC 10.373 18 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
    MMEm 10.402 24 What a subject is [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind and life for the finest novel!
    LS 11.3 3 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper.
    LS 11.4 25 Having recently given particular attention to this subject [the Lord's Supper], I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.16 2 One general remark before quitting this branch of this subject [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.16 11 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
    HDC 11.77 16 The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers...
    EWI 11.100 6 The subject [emancipation] is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
    EWI 11.107 2 ...(tracing the subject to natural principles, the claim of slavery never can be supported).
    EWI 11.108 9 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will?
    EWI 11.110 2 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...
    EWI 11.145 18 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens...
    War 11.154 12 ...[war] is the subject of all history;...
    War 11.161 7 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
    FSLC 11.199 9 A measure of pacification and union. What is [the Fugitive Slave Law's] effect? To make one sole subject for conversation and painful thought throughout the continent, namely, slavery.
    FSLC 11.208 13 Why in the name of common sense and the peace of mankind is not [abolition] made the subject of instant negotiation and settlement?
    FSLN 11.228 7 [Webster] told the people at Boston...that agitation of the subject of Slavery must be suppressed.
    FSLN 11.240 3 ...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.
    Wom 11.417 2 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject;...
    PLT 12.8 6 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...
    PLT 12.11 8 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect]...
    PLT 12.26 14 A subject of thought to which we return from month to month...has always some ripeness of which we can give no account.
    PLT 12.44 23 Affection blends, intellect disjoins subject and object.
    II 12.78 21 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
    Mem 12.105 3 The memory of all men is robust on the subject of a debt due to them...
    Mem 12.105 7 Every artist is alive on the subject of his art.
    Mem 12.106 25 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory. And yet we have some hints from experience on this subject.
    CInt 12.118 18 ...I note that we had a vast self-esteem on the subject of Bunker Hill, Yorktown and New Orleans.
    CL 12.140 16 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
    CL 12.165 18 ...it is only our ineradicable belief that the world answers to man, and part to part, that gives any interest in the subject.
    MAng1 12.240 26 [Condivi wrote] As for me, I am ignorant what Plato has said upon this subject [love]; but this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    MAng1 12.241 23 A fine melancholy, not unrelieved by his habitual heroism, pervades [Michelangelo's] thoughts on this subject [death].
    MAng1 12.242 3 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
    Milt1 12.247 24 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago, from any that had been bestowed on the same subject before.
    Milt1 12.249 24 The reader [of a tract by Milton]...is not yet master of the subject.
    Milt1 12.255 13 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.
    Milt1 12.274 2 Was there not a fitness in the undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject of Adam...
    ACri 12.289 10 ...George Sand finds a whole nation...in which [the Devil] is really the subject of a covert worship.
    ACri 12.292 9 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    ACri 12.295 4 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...who has thrown an accidental lustre over his time and subject.
    ACri 12.296 12 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood...
    ACri 12.296 15 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that his subject cost him nothing...
    MLit 12.313 1 ...[the poet] now revolves...what are the birds to me? and what is Hardiknute to me? and what am I? And this is called subjectiveness, as the eye is withdrawn from the object and fixed on the subject or mind.
    EurB 12.372 24 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia, of which no special merit it can possess equals the total merit of having selected such a subject in such a spirit.
    Let 12.397 24 More letters we have on the subject of the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.

subject, v. (1)

    Art2 7.49 16 The poet aims...to subject to thought things seen without (voluntary) thought.

subjected, v. (2)

    Nat 1.65 3 [The world] is not, like [the body], now subjected to the human will.
    NER 3.280 16 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...

subjection, n. (1)

    NER 3.284 22 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority...

subjective, adj. (12)

    Tran 1.333 12 Nature, literature, history, are only subjective phenomena.
    Tran 1.334 7 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence...
    Hist 2.10 1 All history becomes subjective;...
    Comp 2.97 7 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as...subjective, objective;...
    Exp 3.76 8 Nature and literature are subjective phenomena;...
    Exp 3.79 21 The conscience must feel [sin] as essence, essential evil. This it is not; it has an objective existence, but no subjective.
    SwM 4.124 26 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character. It is subjective...
    Dem1 10.8 3 [Dreams] have a double consciousness, at once sub-and ob-jective.
    MLit 12.313 18 There is a pernicious ambiguity in the use of the term subjective.
    MLit 12.313 24 ...the single soul feels its right...to summon all facts and parties before its tribunal. And in this sense the age is subjective.
    MLit 12.316 18 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.
    PPr 12.387 17 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects;...

Subjective, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.293 10 We are now offended with Standpoint, Myth, Subjective, the Good and the True and the Cause.

subjectiveness, n. (6)

    MLit 12.312 27 ...[the poet] now revolves...what are the birds to me? and what is Hardiknute to me? and what am I? And this is called subjectiveness...
    MLit 12.314 10 ...this habit of intellectual selfishness has acquired in our day the fine name of subjectiveness.
    MLit 12.314 18 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism. Nor need a man have a vicious subjectiveness because he deals in abstract propositions.
    MLit 12.319 15 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. The only unity is in the subjectiveness and the aspiration common to the three writers.
    MLit 12.324 7 [Goethe] shared...the subjectiveness of the age...
    MLit 12.325 13 ...that other vicious subjectiveness, the vice of the time, infected [Goethe] also.

Subjectiveness, n. (1)

    Exp 3.82 26 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are threads on the loom of time...

subject-lenses, n. (1)

    Exp 3.76 1 Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power;...

subject-matter, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.332 22 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.

subjects, n. (27)

    YA 1.375 25 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when...the emperor of an empire, deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    Pol1 3.205 27 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    SwM 4.101 26 No one man is perhaps able to judge of the merits of [Swedenborg's] works on so many subjects.
    GoW 4.282 26 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects...
    ET4 5.46 4 [The English] have assimilating force, since they are imitated by their foreign subjects;...
    ET7 5.116 12 The [English] government strictly performs its engagements. The subjects do not understand trifling on its part.
    ET14 5.236 4 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...the enterprise or accosting of new subjects...astonish...
    ET14 5.243 27 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision from few subjects...
    ET17 5.298 3 ...[Wordsworth] had egotistic puerilities in the choice and treatment of his subjects;...
    Wth 6.119 12 A master in each art is required, because the practice is never with still or dead subjects...
    Ctr 6.151 8 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers...
    Bty 6.286 17 [Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners, the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence] are facts of a science...whose teachers and subjects are always near us.
    Farm 7.145 5 [Nature]...deals never with dead, but ever with quick subjects.
    Suc 7.308 18 I do not find...grisly photographs of the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet pictures.
    Suc 7.308 20 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    OA 7.335 25 ...the central wisdom...dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
    PI 8.36 10 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
    Comc 8.171 12 More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the man himself.
    Dem1 10.24 5 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    PerF 10.82 11 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are the effects on dull subjects...
    HDC 11.69 27 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we...will... with the same resolution, as [George III's] freeborn subjects in this country, to the utmost of our power, defend all our rights inviolate to the latest posterity.
    LVB 11.89 9 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature...
    PLT 12.43 10 My measure for all subjects of science as of events is their impression on the soul.
    CInt 12.121 24 Here are bad governors and bad subjects.
    Bost 12.189 7 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.
    Milt1 12.272 17 [Milton's] opinions on all subjects are formed for man as he ought to be...
    AgMs 12.363 12 The true men of skill, the poor farmers...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

subjoin, v. (1)

    Thor 10.482 6 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts...

subjugated, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.247 15 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    Hsm1 2.263 26 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington...that he was laid sweet in his grave, the hope of humanity not yet subjugated in him?
    ET4 5.66 27 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch, wherein the old mineral force shall be subjugated at last by humanity...

sublime, adj. (98)

    Nat 1.29 2 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
    Nat 1.56 6 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
    AmS 1.82 24 The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime;...
    AmS 1.111 19 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    DSA 1.123 25 These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...
    DSA 1.125 2 [The religious sentiment] makes the sky and the hills sublime...
    DSA 1.129 1 [Jesus] said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, I am divine.
    DSA 1.146 25 ...all men have sublime thoughts;...
    LE 1.161 14 I console myself...in the malignity and dulness of the nations, by falling back on these sublime recollections...
    LE 1.180 6 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...
    LE 1.180 21 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working, if, in all else, the day was lost. Here he was sublime.
    MN 1.194 22 I cannot,-nor can any man,-speak precisely of things so sublime...
    MN 1.210 18 It is sublime to receive, sublime to love...
    MN 1.222 5 If you ask, How can any rules be given for the attainment of gifts so sublime? I shall only remark that the solicitations of this spirit...are never forborne.
    MR 1.256 5 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man...
    LT 1.271 7 Seen in this their natural connection, [reforms] are sublime.
    LT 1.279 1 ...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
    Tran 1.348 13 The popular literary creed seems to be, I am a sublime genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
    YA 1.371 20 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...
    Hist 2.15 26 Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works...
    Hist 2.21 12 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sublime.
    Comp 2.115 12 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    SL 2.160 9 ...with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I AM.
    Fdsp 2.208 27 That high office [friendship] requires great and sublime parts.
    Fdsp 2.213 5 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart...
    OS 2.283 19 Never a moment did that sublime spirit [Jesus] speak in [men' s] patois.
    Cir 2.320 4 No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow...
    Art1 2.362 12 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise...
    Art1 2.369 3 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.
    Pt1 3.28 24 The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.
    Chr1 3.87 5 ...matched his sufferance sublime/ The taciturnity of time./
    Nat2 3.171 24 There is...the wood-fire to which the chilled traveller rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
    Nat2 3.196 2 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    UGM 4.15 3 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
    PPh 4.49 15 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea, and they rise to pure and sublime strains in celebrating it.
    SwM 4.112 13 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the synthetic method;...
    SwM 4.119 18 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
    SwM 4.144 22 ...in [Swedenborg's] immolation of genius and fame at the shrine of conscience, is a merit sublime beyond praise.
    ET4 5.55 15 [The Celts] had...priestly culture and a sublime creed.
    ET8 5.140 23 [The English] are capable of a sublime resolution...
    ET13 5.217 23 [The English Church] has the seal of...a sublime architecture;...
    ET13 5.219 1 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.
    ET14 5.241 10 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
    ET14 5.254 8 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student...
    F 6.29 6 I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations...of a terrific force.
    Pow 6.80 8 ...there are sublime considerations which limit the value of talent and superficial success.
    Pow 6.81 5 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach, and has its own sublime economies by which it may be attained.
    Wth 6.106 11 The sublime laws play indifferently through atoms and galaxies.
    Ctr 6.159 1 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 the French regicide Carnot, his sublime genius in mathematics;...
    Bhr 6.192 27 It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet or speak or write to him;...
    Wsp 6.226 22 To make our word or act sublime, we must make it real.
    Wsp 6.240 21 When [man's] mind is illuminated...he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order...
    CbW 6.256 7 In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not...
    CbW 6.272 23 There is a sublime attraction in [a friend] to whatever virtue is in us.
    Bty 6.292 9 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they...become tender or sublime with expression.
    Bty 6.306 10 ...the woman who has shared with us the moral sentiment,-- her locks must appear to us sublime.
    Ill 6.322 26 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
    Art2 7.37 6 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...
    WD 7.185 18 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which values one moment as another...
    SA 8.104 7 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people... they are sublime;...
    Comc 8.164 8 ...the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...
    Comc 8.164 15 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it...
    PC 8.209 21 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense in now in power, and that resting...on perceptions less and less dim of laws the most sublime.
    PC 8.211 16 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...
    PC 8.225 25 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man.
    Insp 8.283 10 The power of the will is sometimes sublime;...
    Grts 8.316 16 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting, and yet the opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are often close at hand.
    Imtl 8.346 21 ...only by rare integrity...can the vision of [immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    Dem1 10.27 22 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature, inexhaustible and sublime...
    SovE 10.188 26 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    SovE 10.203 8 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace.
    SovE 10.214 2 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    Prch 10.218 20 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being, and make him sublime, it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
    Prch 10.226 20 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
    Plu 10.311 16 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca...though he keep a sublime path, is less interesting, because less humane;...
    Plu 10.318 19 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.
    EWI 11.141 8 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind...
    War 11.160 15 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?
    War 11.175 3 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLN 11.241 2 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the patience it requires is almost too sublime for mortals...
    JBB 11.268 14 ...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime courage.
    Wom 11.413 2 The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it. All these affections are only introductory to that which is beyond, and to that which is sublime.
    Wom 11.415 24 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...
    SHC 11.436 6 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul? Here will burn for us...the sublime belief.
    SHC 11.436 19 The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime as confidence in truth is no mushroom.
    FRep 11.538 24 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
    PLT 12.8 15 ...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...are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.
    Mem 12.102 5 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures...to which every step in the march of the soul adds a more sublime perspective.
    Mem 12.109 25 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CW 12.171 4 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...
    Bost 12.197 23 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...nourishes itself...on whatever is pure and sublime in art...
    MAng1 12.215 20 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated, being addressed for the most part to the eye; the results, sublime and all innocent.
    MAng1 12.220 26 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling;...
    Milt1 12.247 12 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius...
    Milt1 12.274 11 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./
    ACri 12.303 14 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm...
    EurB 12.368 9 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...
    Trag 12.411 25 ...the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances of sublime tranquillity.

sublime, n. (9)

    Nat 1.7 11 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
    Nat 1.51 18 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    AmS 1.110 22 Instead of the sublime and beautiful, the near...was explored and poetized.
    DSA 1.131 26 The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
    DSA 1.141 22 ...historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man; where the sublime is...
    OS 2.281 3 These [announcements of the soul] are always attended by the emotion of the sublime.
    ET1 5.9 4 Landor despised entomology, yet, in the same breath, said, the sublime was in a grain of dust.
    LLNE 10.349 1 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...
    SMC 11.376 4 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good, lifting private sacrifice to the sublime, that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.

sublimely, adv. (2)

    F 6.13 5 To say it less sublimely,-in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition...
    MMEm 10.404 25 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...

sublimest, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.125 25 In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted...
    Milt1 12.274 27 Milton's sublimest song...is the voice of Milton still.

subliming, v. (1)

    Prch 10.238 5 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.

sublimities, n. (4)

    LE 1.176 15 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...bring up out of secular darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
    Ill 6.310 26 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick.
    PerF 10.72 15 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.
    Chr2 10.119 25 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.

sublimity, n. (8)

    ET14 5.259 14 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to...passages elevated to a tract of sublimity into which our habits of judgment will find it difficult to pursue them.
    Wsp 6.209 15 ...[Christ's personality] recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
    PC 8.225 21 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    MMEm 10.406 11 ...sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive...
    MMEm 10.406 12 ...sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive...
    MAng1 12.226 21 ...besides the sublimity and even extravagance of Michael Angelo, he possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.
    MAng1 12.234 3 The sublimity of [Michelangelo's] art is in his life.
    Milt1 12.259 2 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.

submarine, adj. (1)

    Res 8.137 13 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.

sub-mind, n. (1)

    ET14 5.252 18 [The English]...may be said to live and act in a sub-mind.

sub-miraculous, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.16 4 We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.

submission, n. (8)

    OS 2.268 26 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that common heart...to which all right action is submission;...
    Elo1 7.87 2 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner... reducing him to silence, but not to submission.
    SA 8.88 23 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Comc 8.171 7 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress;...
    PPo 8.239 3 [The religion of the East] distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment. Courage and absolute submission to what is appointed him are his virtues.
    Prch 10.218 19 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being...it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
    Schr 10.286 12 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...
    HDC 11.51 13 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett, made a formal submission to the English government, and intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...

submissive, adj. (2)

    ET18 5.306 15 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste, and still more in the submissive ideas pervading these people.
    SHC 11.428 16 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...

submit, v. (8)

    LE 1.184 9 If, with a high trust, [the scholar] can thus submit himself, he will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom...
    Schr 10.287 11 [The scholar] shall not submit to degradation...
    MMEm 10.409 12 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage. I submit with delight...
    Thor 10.469 19 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him. One must submit abjectly to such a guide...
    AKan 11.257 18 ...I submit that, in a case like this...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.257 27 ...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    FRO2 11.489 24 I submit that in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for friendship...
    PPr 12.391 16 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.

submits, v. (2)

    Int 2.342 10 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion...
    ET5 5.98 14 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy.

submitted, v. (1)

    Art2 7.40 18 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

submitting, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.232 23 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...

subordinate, adj. (9)

    AmS 1.94 21 Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential.
    LE 1.158 19 When [the scholar] has seen that [the intellectual power]...is the soul which made the world...he will know that he...may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.
    Fdsp 2.201 5 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship]...
    Prd1 2.224 16 ...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.
    Exp 3.54 12 When virtue is in presence, all subordinate powers sleep.
    ShP 4.214 27 ...every subordinate invention, by which [Shakespeare] helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.
    ET11 5.184 16 ...[the English peers] have their share in the subordinate offices, as a school of training.
    Schr 10.288 18 ...[the scholar's] use of books is occasional, and infinitely subordinate;...
    ACri 12.283 4 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things; and yet I am far from thinking this subordinate service unimportant.

subordinate, v. (4)

    DSA 1.131 22 ...you must subordinate your nature to Christ's nature;...
    Mrs1 3.134 15 I may easily go into a great household where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    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.
    Milt1 12.249 18 Eager to do fit justice to each thought, [Milton] does not subordinate it so as to project the main argument.

subordinated, v. (8)

    AmS 1.91 10 Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated.
    Art2 7.48 9 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature...
    Art2 7.48 13 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature...
    Elo1 7.91 14 ...these talents [of oratory] are quite something else when they are subordinated and serve [the man];...
    Elo1 7.99 25 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally,--yet subordinated all means;...
    Schr 10.279 24 These gifts, these senses, these facilities are excellent as long as subordinated;...
    PLT 12.50 19 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
    Milt1 12.262 20 [Milton's] gifts are subordinated to his moral sentiments;...

subordinately, adv. (1)

    ShP 4.213 2 ...the great [Shakespeare] tells greatly; the small subordinately.

subordinates, v. (3)

    Nat 1.60 3 ...seen in the light of thought...virtue subordinates [the world] to the mind.
    Suc 7.295 11 ...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack...is the central intelligence which subordinates and uses all talents;...
    Comc 8.171 1 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much; but the countenance of the celestial messenger subordinates it, and we see it not.

subordinating, v. (5)

    Nat 1.52 14 Shakspeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression...
    SR 2.79 25 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    Pt1 3.25 27 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song, subordinating how many admirably executed parts.
    NMW 4.224 25 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... subordinating all intellectual and spiritual forces into means to a material success.
    Edc1 10.131 7 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating them to a bright reason of its own...

subordination, n. (5)

    ShP 4.194 12 Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece grew up in subordination to architecture.
    ET5 5.85 12 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    Art2 7.43 3 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end, that is, the productions of the Fine Arts. Here again the prominent fact is subordination of man.
    QO 8.204 7 ...the sole terms on which [the Past] can become ours are its subordination to the Present.
    Aris 10.37 1 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct...the insane subordination of the end to the means.

subordinations, n. (1)

    SwM 4.112 27 [Swedenborg] noted that in [nature] proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass...

sub-persons, n. (1)

    F 6.41 5 Thus events grow on the same stem with persons; are sub-persons.

sub-religion, n. (1)

    ET11 5.186 26 Loyalty is in the English a sub-religion.

subscribe, v. (2)

    Wth 6.94 1 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey,--the monomaniacs who talk up their project in marts and offices and entreat men to subscribe...
    DL 7.110 1 Let [a man]...never subscribe at others' instance...

subscribed, v. (3)

    Pow 6.67 20 ...[Boniface] subscribed for the fountains, the gas, and the telegraph;...
    EzRy 10.391 10 [Ezra Ripley] subscribed to all charities...
    HDC 11.57 8 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the support of Harvard College.

subscribers, n. (2)

    GoW 4.266 13 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.
    EWI 11.142 17 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received as subscribers to the Exchange...

subscribes, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.223 15 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence...which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends...

subscription, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.528 26 ...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to the subscription ball.

subscription, n. (3)

    Tran 1.359 3 ...when every voice is raised for a new road...or a subscription of stock;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    Chr1 3.103 16 We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
    HDC 11.82 20 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools; besides about 1200 dollars which are paid, by subscription, for private schools.

subscriptions, n. (2)

    GSt 10.502 27 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients, and to furnish them money and arms in advance of the subscriptions which he obtained.
    EWI 11.144 25 All the songs and newspapers and money subscriptions and vituperation of such as do not think with us, will avail nothing against a fact.

subsequent, adj. (2)

    OS 2.267 3 There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect.
    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.

subserved, v. (1)

    SovE 10.183 14 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...

subserves, v. (2)

    Nat 1.25 2 Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man.
    Ctr 6.134 5 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...

subservient, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.289 15 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country... taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET5 5.78 7 The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its possessor subservient to the will of others.

subside, v. (4)

    GoW 4.262 12 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside and others shine;...
    F 6.39 13 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and crystallize...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    Boks 7.213 26 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated...they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    Cour 7.265 25 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we, like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive how short is the longest arm of malice...

subsided, v. (2)

    OA 7.328 2 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.
    Milt1 12.247 10 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided...

subsides, v. (3)

    SwM 4.124 12 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must...have its tides, before it subsides into a permanent amount.
    ET11 5.188 18 In these [English] manors, after the frenzy of war and destruction subsides a little, the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar... without so much as a new layer of dust...
    PerF 10.73 18 ...as the reflective faculties open, [temperament] subsides.

subsidiary, adj. (1)

    Art2 7.40 26 ...Art must be a complement to Nature, strictly subsidiary.

subsidies, n. (1)

    CbW 6.253 23 To obtain subsidies, [Edward I] paid in privileges.

subsiding, v. (1)

    PPh 4.47 9 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy, gradually subsiding through the partial insight of single teachers.

subsidize, v. (1)

    ET8 5.137 4 [The English] subsidize other nations, and are not subsidized.

subsidized, v. (1)

    ET8 5.137 4 [The English] subsidize other nations, and are not subsidized.

subsidizing, v. (1)

    ET10 5.155 24 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they...by dint of enormous taxes were subsidizing all the continent against France, the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.

subsist, v. (14)

    Fdsp 2.204 18 ...we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in another as to draw us by love.
    Fdsp 2.206 18 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two.
    Chr1 3.111 11 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    NR 3.242 26 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die...
    NR 3.243 24 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist...
    SwM 4.96 24 ...by being assimilated to the original soul, by whom and after whom all things subsist, the soul of man does then easily flow into all things...
    SwM 4.114 7 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    GoW 4.281 20 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow.
    ET4 5.69 10 [The English] use a plentiful and nutritious diet. The operative cannot subsist on water-cresses.
    Wth 6.85 20 Intimate ties subsist between thought and all production;...
    Wth 6.114 4 ...pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that is seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Suc 7.307 15 Truth and goodness subsist forevermore.
    Dem1 10.27 27 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist between his character and his fortunes...
    Schr 10.285 17 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...which first subsist, and then resist unweariably forevermore all that opposes.

subsisted, v. (2)

    Con 1.300 10 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself...
    LS 11.7 13 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.

subsistence, n. (4)

    NER 3.258 1 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events...
    Wth 6.85 15 Nor can [a man] do justice to his genius without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence.
    PPo 8.238 15 The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].
    PPo 8.239 5 The favor of the climate, making subsistence easy...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...

subsisting, v. (1)

    PNR 4.85 19 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...as respects either of them in itself, and subsisting by its own power in the soul of the possessor...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.

subsists, v. (13)

    Nat 1.68 7 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    LT 1.276 4 ...[these reforms] only name the relation which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to rectify.
    SL 2.146 19 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen. Hence the perfect intelligence that subsists between wise men of remote ages.
    Fdsp 2.206 25 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women...between whom subsists a lofty intelligence.
    PPh 4.69 25 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    SwM 4.94 5 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.106 20 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the centrality of man in nature, and the connection that subsists throughout all things...
    SwM 4.118 2 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    ET5 5.94 7 ...England subsists by antagonisms and contradictions.
    PI 8.17 9 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always flowing away, whilst the spirit or necessity which causes it subsists.
    Chr2 10.91 16 ...it is for benefit, that all subsists.
    FRep 11.539 19 ...liberty...like all power subsists only by new rallyings on the source of inspiration.
    PLT 12.16 7 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature. The wonder subsists...

sub-soil, n. [subsoil,] (3)

    ET5 5.83 27 [The English] apply themselves...to resisting encroachments of sea, wind, travelling sands, cold and wet sub-soil;...
    Farm 7.149 23 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil...
    Farm 7.150 4 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know...

substance, n. (36)

    Nat 1.42 2 [The moral law] is the pith and marrow of every substance...
    Nat 1.49 11 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon, not a substance;...
    Nat 1.62 20 Idealism saith: matter is a phenomenon, not a substance.
    MN 1.216 12 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.
    Tran 1.334 20 All that you call the world is the shadow of that substance which you are...
    Hist 2.12 24 Every chemical substance...teaches the unity of cause...
    Hist 2.37 1 [Talbot's] substance is not here./
    SL 2.161 4 Common men are apologies for men; they...accumulate appearances because the substance is not.
    Lov1 2.186 13 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance.
    Int 2.325 1 Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables...
    Exp 3.72 23 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
    Exp 3.77 13 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt;...
    Chr1 3.101 2 Our action should rest mathematically on our substance.
    Mrs1 3.122 24 ...our words intimate well enough the popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.
    Mrs1 3.134 12 I may easily go into a great household where there is much substance...and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    UGM 4.33 23 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals, and know that they are made of the substance which ordaineth and doeth.
    SwM 4.140 15 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is to carry the law of surface into the plane of substance...
    MoS 4.178 13 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    Bty 6.287 19 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed; on an evil man, resting on his head; in a good man, mixed with his substance.
    DL 7.112 10 See, in families where there is both substance and taste, at what expense any favorite punctuality is maintained.
    PI 8.9 26 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
    PI 8.53 1 Substance [in poetry] is much, but so are mode and form much.
    PI 8.53 21 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...the sky spoke. This is the substance, and this treatment always attempts a metrical grace.
    QO 8.201 9 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution...
    Grts 8.306 15 ...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity.
    Chr2 10.96 2 Truth, Power, Goodness, Beauty, are...faces of one substance...
    Supl 10.173 22 The talent sucks the substance of the man.
    Schr 10.259 10 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold,/ Melting matter into dreams,/ Panoramas which I saw,/ And whatever glows or seems/ Into substance, into Law./
    Plu 10.313 17 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    LS 11.22 11 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form. I seem to lose the substance in seeking the shadow.
    War 11.173 5 [Shakespeare's lords] are not shams, but the substance of which that age and world is made.
    JBB 11.272 17 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    PLT 12.10 25 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.
    II 12.80 22 Nineteen twentieths of their substance do trees draw from the air.
    Bost 12.184 11 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.
    MAng1 12.241 13 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...from which, in substance, the views of Radici are taken.

substances, n. (7)

    Comp 2.115 26 The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor.
    Comp 2.116 12 The laws and substances of nature...become penalties to the thief.
    Mrs1 3.151 20 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
    SS 7.5 27 Few substances are found pure in nature.
    PI 8.23 4 The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols;...
    Grts 8.306 13 ...whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in other substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
    Chr2 10.91 5 [Morals] is the science of substances, not of shows.

substantial, adj. (34)

    Nat 1.35 3 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
    Nat 1.48 6 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me.
    Nat 1.51 2 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach], or, at least...seen as apparent, not substantial beings.
    Con 1.310 3 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...substantial justice was somehow done;...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.312 14 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims, when these substantial advantages have been secured to you?
    Comp 2.99 18 ...do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius?
    Chr1 3.92 5 Our frank countrymen of the west and south...like to know whether the New Englander is a substantial man...
    NER 3.270 1 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge...never took the character of substantial, humane truth...
    UGM 4.5 13 We must not...deny the substantial existence of other people.
    PPh 4.60 1 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.
    ShP 4.200 17 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.
    ET4 5.57 21 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are substantial farmers whom the rough times have forced to defend their properties.
    ET4 5.65 17 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial, respectable, grandfatherly figures...
    ET5 5.84 20 [The English] have diffused the taste for plain substantial hats, shoes and coats through Europe.
    ET18 5.304 4 Canada and Australia have been contented with substantial independence.
    ET18 5.306 25 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done.
    Pow 6.76 21 The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible for the guidance of suitors.
    Elo1 7.67 27 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 substantial cordial man...
    Elo1 7.85 8 The orator...must be a substantial personality.
    Imtl 8.347 5 Let any master simply recite to you the substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
    Dem1 10.9 16 However monstrous and grotesque [dreams'] apparitions, they have a substantial truth.
    Aris 10.51 11 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind;...
    Aris 10.61 21 ...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world; stands there a real, substantial, unprecedented person...
    Chr2 10.115 3 ...I find in the eminent experiences in all times a substantial agreement.
    Prch 10.236 26 The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age, but the substantial benefit endures.
    EzRy 10.387 26 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place...
    FSLC 11.202 12 ...we must use the introducer and substantial author of the [Fugitive Slave] bill as an illustration of the history.
    FSLN 11.229 27 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
    JBB 11.271 21 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances; but there are worse evils than collision; namely, the doing substantial injustice.
    EPro 11.321 26 Every acre in the free states gained substantial value on the twenty-second of September.
    EdAd 11.384 14 ...[the traveller in America] exclaims, What a negro-fine royalty is that of Jamschid and Solomon. What a substantial sovereignty does my townsman possess!
    EdAd 11.389 27 ...men of a solid genius are only interested in substantial things.
    Milt1 12.271 17 [Milton] proposed to establish a republic, of which...the substantial power should remain with primary assemblies.
    EurB 12.371 13 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We must not make our bread of pure sugar. These delicacies and splendors are then legitimate when they are the excess of substantial and necessary expenditure.

substantiality, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.189 1 ...men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances: and...this tie makes the substantiality of life...

substantially, adv. (5)

    Comp 2.98 26 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down...the fortunate, substantially on the same ground with all others.
    NMW 4.244 25 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.
    Chr2 10.108 23 ...the stern determination...to be chaste and humble, was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    RBur 11.441 1 [Burns] is so substantially a reformer that I find his grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters...
    CL 12.160 4 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true.

substantiate, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.194 13 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation...
    Fdsp 2.205 15 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he...does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity.

substantiated, v. (2)

    UGM 4.28 4 The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself. It has something unreal for his companion until he too has substantiated it.
    MoS 4.151 17 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were already substantiated.

substantive, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.63 8 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the affections in denying substantive being to men and women.

substitute, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.217 21 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    Pow 6.77 7 The second substitute for temperament is drill...
    Aris 10.59 23 A grand style of culture...does not exist, and there is no substitute.

substitute, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.8 10 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own...
    SwM 4.136 7 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own...seems the most needless.
    PLT 12.55 5 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...

substituted, v. (2)

    SwM 4.116 22 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    Suc 7.297 25 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out, and artificial arrangements substituted.

substitutes, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.28 3 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar...

substituting, v. (2)

    YA 1.382 16 [The Associations]...proposed to amend the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.
    Thor 10.479 10 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric...of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.

substitution, n. (1)

    SL 2.160 8 [Virtue] consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming...

substructs, v. (2)

    PPh 4.54 7 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base.
    SwM 4.131 14 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new crew of offenders.

substructure, n. (2)

    ET16 5.283 12 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
    SlHr 10.446 1 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable...

substructures, n. (1)

    II 12.70 9 Even those we call great men build substructures...

subterranean, adj. (5)

    LE 1.169 12 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its coat of vapor with the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    Hist 2.19 20 The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
    Lov1 2.183 8 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages...
    Cir 2.314 18 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart...
    Exp 3.67 19 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will; namely the subterranean and invisible tunnels and channels of life.

subtile, adj. (13)

    Nat 1.40 9 [Man] forges the subtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words...
    Nat 1.44 8 ...the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents;...
    Nat 1.52 21 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by a subtile spiritual connection.
    Nat 1.68 9 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart...
    Fdsp 2.216 4 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them. But they shall not hold me by any relations less subtile and pure.
    OS 2.271 20 Language cannot paint [this pure nature] with [man's] colors. It is too subtile.
    ET1 5.18 12 ...[Carlyle] was...cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together...
    Wth 6.89 27 ...all grand and subtile things...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Bhr 6.169 5 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech. This silent and subtile language is Manners;...
    Wsp 6.219 6 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    PI 8.21 25 The poet has a logic, though it be subtile.
    PI 8.34 26 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    SovE 10.213 16 [The man of this age] must not be one who can be surprised and shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word which malignant and acute men may utter in his hearing...

subtilest, adj. (3)

    ShP 4.212 6 [Shakespeare] was...the subtilest of authors...
    PI 8.7 1 Such currents...exist in thoughts, those finest and subtilest of all waters, that as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    ACri 12.283 10 Writing is the greatest of arts, the subtilest, and of most miraculous effect;...

subtility, n. (2)

    Thor 10.476 24 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism, and the intellectual subtility it could animate.
    Milt1 12.249 15 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for...the subtility and pomp of the language;...

subtilizer, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 15 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...this subtilizer and irresistible upward force...

subtilty, n. (1)

    Tran 1.356 5 ...there will be subtilty and moonshine.

subtle, adj. (49)

    Nat 1.1 1 A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next unto the farthest brings;/...
    Nat 1.26 21 ...a snake is subtle spite;...
    DSA 1.126 22 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind...is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    LT 1.265 24 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...subtle thinkers...
    Tran 1.349 8 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop, where the article, let it have been at first never so subtle and ethereal, is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
    Hist 2.13 24 Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.
    SL 2.165 17 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...wit as subtle...these all are his...
    SL 2.166 14 We are the photometers...that measure the accumulations of the subtle element.
    Fdsp 2.199 13 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms...
    Cir 2.314 18 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart...
    Pt1 3.9 4 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics, a man of subtle mind...
    Nat2 3.177 16 ...ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy for so subtle a topic, or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
    NER 3.282 13 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality, so subtle, so quiet...
    UGM 4.14 10 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was...of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp...of Falkland...
    PPh 4.57 19 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance, edged by an irony so subtle that it stings and paralyzes, adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    SwM 4.101 19 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle science;...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    SwM 4.112 23 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg]...
    MoS 4.157 7 [The skeptic says] Why pretend that life is so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?
    MoS 4.174 6 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
    GoW 4.263 3 Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes... commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
    ET7 5.125 24 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous...
    ET11 5.185 13 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago. Some of these are easily enumerated, others more subtle make a part of unconscious history.
    ET14 5.241 3 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    F 6.43 19 To a subtle force [the wall] will stream into new forms...
    Pow 6.68 6 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle force.
    Ill 6.318 5 We begin low with coarse masks and rise to the most subtle and beautiful.
    DL 7.107 15 If a man wishes to acquaint himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room. The subtle spirit of life must be sought in facts nearer.
    Farm 7.145 3 ...Nature is as subtle as she is strong.
    PI 8.4 25 It was whispered that the globes of the universe were precipitates of something more subtle;...
    PI 8.72 17 Music seems to you sufficient, or the subtle and delicate scent of lavender;...
    QO 8.188 4 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
    Imtl 8.346 4 The real evidence [of immortality] is too subtle...
    Imtl 8.350 2 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods; for it is not easy to understand it. Subtle is its nature.
    Imtl 8.351 25 ...subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting [the soul] goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere.
    Chr2 10.120 26 [Character's] methods are subtle, it works without means.
    Edc1 10.157 13 Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative [than will, the male power].
    MoL 10.243 17 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    MoL 10.250 19 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas, the subtle force which creates Nature and men and states;...
    Schr 10.265 10 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the sound of some subtle word that falls from the lips of an imaginative person...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    LLNE 10.363 6 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius...
    SMC 11.352 15 It turned out that this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison...
    CPL 11.502 18 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words...
    PLT 12.6 13 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student...shall learn [the mind's] subtle but immense power...
    PLT 12.10 26 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.
    II 12.77 21 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true; and by faithful serving, we shall complete our noviciate to this subtle art.
    MLit 12.321 7 Here [in the First Book of Wordsworth's The Excursion] was...a sure index where the subtle muse was about to pitch her tent and find the argument of her song.
    MLit 12.326 10 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions...
    WSL 12.345 10 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons...
    Let 12.395 12 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate.

subtler, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.35 10 ...we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make [the doctrine] plain.
    Mrs1 3.126 24 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate;...
    Imtl 8.351 25 ...subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting [the soul] goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere.
    MLit 12.332 15 [Goethe] has written better than other poets only as his talent was subtler...
    EurB 12.374 5 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.

subtlest, adj. (5)

    LE 1.176 27 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language,-the subtlest...of man's creations...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    LT 1.287 12 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society...which explores the subtlest and most universal problems?
    Int 2.325 7 ...the intellect dissolves...the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    LLNE 10.362 15 I recall one youth of the subtlest mind...I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.362 16 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...

subtleties, n. (2)

    SwM 4.93 16 Then, also, the philosopher has his value, who flatters the intellect of this laborer by engaging him with subtleties which instruct him in new faculties.
    Plu 10.306 23 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.

subtlety, n. (9)

    PNR 4.88 20 [Plato's] subtlety commended him to men of thought.
    ShP 4.212 5 [Shakespeare] was the farthest reach of subtlety compatible with an individual self...
    GoW 4.271 15 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted, easily able by his subtlety to pierce these...
    ET5 5.78 15 [The English] hate craft and subtlety.
    EWI 11.137 5 All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in the West Indies];...
    FSLC 11.200 5 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy; what subtlety, what logic, what learning...
    CL 12.143 12 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. The depth and subtlety of the eyes varies exceedingly with the state of the stomach...
    CW 12.171 24 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through for their learning, or subtlety, or active or patriotic power...
    EurB 12.370 3 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

subtly, adv. (2)

    SwM 4.112 23 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg], or expressed more subtly her goings.
    GoW 4.279 18 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws; the persons so truly and subtly drawn...that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...

subtraction, n. (2)

    Nat 1.66 14 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any...subtraction...of known quantities...
    Int 2.339 25 The world refuses to be analyzed by addition and subtraction.

suburb, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.114 18 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...and battle oft rumored to be marching up to her walls and suburb trenches,-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...

suburb, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.227 27 One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
    NER 3.249 1 In the suburb, in the town,/ On the railway, in the square,/ Came a beam of goodness down/ Doubling daylight everywhere/...
    PC 8.212 3 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    FSLN 11.218 15 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city...

suburban, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.223 18 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Boks 7.199 13 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and suburban landscape.

suburbs, n. (6)

    Nat 1.61 11 ...to the suburbs and outskirts of things, [nature] is faithful to the cause whence it had its origin.
    AmS 1.111 21 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    SR 2.76 3 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the...suburbs of Boston... it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    ET11 5.181 27 Sion House and Holland House are in the suburbs [of London].
    FSLC 11.181 9 It looked as if in the city [Boston] and the suburbs all were involved in one hot haste of terror...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    EdAd 11.383 24 At the screams of the steam-whistle, the train quits city and suburbs...

subversion, n. (1)

    Int 2.343 21 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living.

subversive, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.266 9 Ideas are subversive of social order and comfort...

subvert, v. (2)

    HDC 11.70 19 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering; with a steady zeal to espy out everything that shall have a tendency to subvert our happy constitution.
    EdAd 11.383 4 The material basis [of America] is of such extent that no folly of man can quite subvert it;...

subverter, n. (1)

    NMW 4.252 19 [Napoleon] was...the subverter of monopoly and abuse.

subverting, v. (1)

    PPh 4.74 16 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul...

subverts, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.78 23 With a serene face, [Caesar] subverts a kingdom.

succedanea, n. (1)

    Pow 6.73 16 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits.

succedaneum, n. (1)

    Let 12.402 25 ...speculation is no succedaneum for life.

succeed, v. (19)

    Nat 1.22 21 The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other...
    YA 1.384 13 ...aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times...will be prosecuted until they succeed.
    NER 3.284 15 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing. They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning themselves, and will certainly succeed.
    NMW 4.228 13 An Italian proverb...declares that if you would succeed, you must not be too good.
    GoW 4.265 14 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    ET5 5.84 4 [The English] apply themselves...to manufacture of indispensable staples...and by their steady combinations they succeed.
    ET7 5.126 8 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That English treasons never can succeed;/...
    CbW 6.248 3 Mirabeau said, Why should we feel ourselves to be men, unless it be to succeed in everything, everywhere.
    Bty 6.293 10 ...many a good experiment, born of good sense and destined to succeed, fails only because it is offensively sudden.
    Farm 7.138 6 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society.
    Suc 7.289 2 I have heard that Nelson used to say, Never mind the justice or the impudence, only let me succeed.
    Insp 8.279 4 [Bonaparte said] I am like a woman with child, and when my resolution is taken, all is forgot except whatever can make it succeed.
    Chr2 10.122 1 ...[Character] can do without what is called success; it cannot but succeed.
    Supl 10.175 12 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one; and if you omit the smallest condition, the experiment will not succeed.
    Schr 10.265 26 ...if [the poet] is to succeed, his achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...
    LLNE 10.358 6 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
    EzRy 10.387 20 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family. He mentioned to me on the way his fears that the oldest son, who was now to succeed to the farm, was becoming intemperate.
    Wom 11.404 8 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    PLT 12.39 22 [The intellectual man] not only wishes to succeed in life, but he wishes in thought to know the history and destiny of a man;...

succeeded, v. (16)

    MN 1.201 23 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
    Lov1 2.188 26 That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
    Int 2.345 6 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
    Int 2.345 8 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try.
    Exp 3.85 14 ...there never was a right endeavor but it succeeded.
    Mrs1 3.155 13 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse, as fast as the days succeeded each other.
    ET10 5.159 9 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...
    Suc 7.286 25 We respect ourselves more if we have succeeded.
    PerF 10.79 19 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
    SovE 10.205 4 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
    MMEm 10.400 27 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married again,- married the minister who succeeded her husband in the parish at Concord...
    Thor 10.456 27 Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad.
    HDC 11.66 4 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss...
    HDC 11.68 24 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
    FSLC 11.212 4 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
    MLit 12.320 19 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been...that of the idea which he shared with his coevals, and which he has rarely succeeded in adequately expressing.

succeeding, adj. (5)

    AmS 1.88 18 Each age...must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
    Pt1 3.41 15 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...
    Art2 7.54 11 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and...is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding generation.
    Farm 7.151 5 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best; and each succeeding wave of population is driven to poorer...
    LS 11.16 11 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.

succeeding, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.170 24 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape, absorbed by new pictures and by thoughts fast succeeding each other, until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...

succeeds, v. (6)

    Chr1 3.92 13 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you will know as easily why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his fortune.
    Elo1 7.77 13 A man succeeds because he has more power of eye than another...
    WD 7.164 23 A man makes a picture or a book, and, if it succeeds, 't is often the worse for him.
    EWI 11.118 24 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again.
    Bost 12.195 26 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...
    ACri 12.281 2 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./

succes, n. (1)

    Suc 7.289 6 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes.

success, n. (180)

    AmS 1.103 4 Success treads on every right step.
    AmS 1.112 8 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. This idea they have...followed...with various success.
    LE 1.178 18 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the life of the great actor of this age, and affords the explanation of his success.
    LE 1.181 6 ...though the success of the market is in the reward, true success is the doing;...
    LE 1.181 7 ...though the success of the market is in the reward, true success is the doing;...
    LE 1.183 2 [The student's] success has its perils too.
    MN 1.200 28 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends without the least emphasis or preference to any, but the steady degradation of each to the success of all, allows the understanding no place to work.
    MN 1.203 19 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    MN 1.204 19 There is virtue, there is genius, there is success, or there is not.
    MN 1.220 14 How all that is called talents and success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness!
    MR 1.233 24 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success.
    MR 1.255 4 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success.
    MR 1.256 17 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave...their best means and skill of procuring a present success...
    LT 1.284 22 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life.
    Con 1.298 13 ...innovation is always...sure of final success.
    Con 1.310 19 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
    YA 1.382 23 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations]...
    YA 1.384 7 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
    Comp 2.95 12 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
    Comp 2.95 16 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of... announcing...the omnipotence of the will; and so establishing the standard... of success and falsehood.
    Comp 2.104 25 This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted. Up to this day it must be owned no projector has had the smallest success.
    Comp 2.118 13 As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success.
    SL 2.134 11 Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, Not unto us, not unto us.
    SL 2.134 15 [Men of extraordinary success's] success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought...
    Lov1 2.180 10 ...of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies...
    Fdsp 2.197 4 [A man who stands united in his thought] is conscious of a universal success...
    Hsm1 2.251 24 ...[every heroic act] finds its own success at last...
    Hsm1 2.255 22 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    Cir 2.301 22 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...at once the inspirer and the condemner of every success, may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Cir 2.321 9 When we see the conqueror we do not think much of any one battle or success.
    Art1 2.352 6 What is a man but nature's finer success in self-explication?
    Art1 2.352 10 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of nature, but a still finer success...
    Pt1 3.32 23 That also is the best success in conversation, the magic of liberty...
    Exp 3.67 8 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    Exp 3.68 25 ...for practical success, there must not be too much design.
    Exp 3.69 7 ...every thing [is] impossible until we see a success.
    Exp 3.69 16 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
    Exp 3.85 9 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Mrs1 3.141 7 The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
    Nat2 3.190 6 Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere.
    NR 3.238 25 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance...he is delighted with his success...
    NER 3.283 11 Pitiless, [the Law] avails itself of our success when we obey it, and of our ruin when we contravene it.
    UGM 4.32 7 ...[the heroes of the hour] are such in whom, at the moment of success, a quality is ripe which is then in request.
    PPh 4.78 11 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.
    PNR 4.88 21 The secret of [Plato's] popular success is the moral aim which endeared him to mankind.
    SwM 4.127 4 Of this book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success.
    SwM 4.130 11 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...
    MoS 4.149 13 A man is flushed with success, and bethinks himself what this good luck signifies.
    MoS 4.158 7 ...shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
    MoS 4.161 17 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof that he has played with skill and success;...
    ShP 4.201 23 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    NMW 4.224 21 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and most various means to that end;...
    NMW 4.224 26 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... subordinating all intellectual and spiritual forces into means to a material success.
    NMW 4.230 24 Nature must have far the greatest share in every success, and so in [Bonaparte's].
    NMW 4.238 13 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success...
    NMW 4.245 16 ...there is something in the success of grand talent which enlists an universal sympathy.
    GoW 4.286 9 ...the clouds of egotists drifting about [the intellectual man] are only interested in a low success.
    ET1 5.4 22 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power...
    ET3 5.35 12 If there be one test of national genius universally accepted, it is success;...
    ET4 5.46 9 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate...
    ET7 5.119 26 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty.
    ET10 5.170 17 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth.
    ET10 5.170 21 Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom...when English success has grown out of the very renunciation of principles...
    ET11 5.175 17 Our success in France, says the historian [Thomas Fuller], lived and died with [Richard Beauchamp].
    ET14 5.258 3 There are all degrees in poetry, and we must be thankful for every beautiful talent. But it is only a first success, when the ear is gained.
    ET15 5.267 13 [The London Times's] consummate discretion and success exhibit the English skill of combination.
    ET16 5.275 13 I told Carlyle that...I saw everywhere in the country [England] proofs of sense and spirit, and success of every sort...
    ET18 5.305 27 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
    Pow 6.55 1 We must reckon success a constitutional trait.
    Pow 6.71 20 We say that success is constitutional;...
    Pow 6.73 8 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    Pow 6.73 11 Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive power...
    Pow 6.80 10 ...there are sublime considerations which limit the value of talent and superficial success.
    Pow 6.81 3 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Pow 6.81 8 Success has no more eccentricity than the gingham and muslin we weave in our mills.
    Wth 6.101 11 Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world...
    Wth 6.117 4 The secret of success lies never in the amount of money...
    Wth 6.124 9 Friendship buys friendship;...military merit, military success.
    Ctr 6.131 4 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power...culture corrects the theory of success.
    Ctr 6.131 11 [Culture] watches success.
    Ctr 6.132 14 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
    Ctr 6.141 13 ...all success is hazardous and rare;...
    Ctr 6.159 2 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 a living banker, his success in poetry;...
    Ctr 6.159 25 A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough.
    Ctr 6.164 10 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    Bhr 6.192 17 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that...the greatest success is confidence...
    Bhr 6.194 5 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit, but with no better success;...
    Bhr 6.197 17 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor? The chances seem infinite against success; and yet success is continually attained.
    Bhr 6.197 18 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor? The chances seem infinite against success; and yet success is continually attained.
    Wsp 6.225 16 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply...
    Wsp 6.238 5 Talent and success interest me but moderately.
    CbW 6.245 11 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul; if of two, if of ten, 't is a signal success.
    CbW 6.245 16 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    CbW 6.248 8 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to the man who can will. Is that necessary? That shall be:--this is the only law of success.
    CbW 6.271 4 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...and the like.
    CbW 6.278 3 ...to the grand interests, superficial success is of no account.
    Civ 7.22 22 Another success is the post-office...
    Civ 7.27 10 ...all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
    Elo1 7.99 5 One thought the philosophers of Demosthenes's own time found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue secures its own success.
    DL 7.111 25 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
    WD 7.175 16 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns. HE lurks, he hides, he who is success, reality, joy and power.
    WD 7.184 7 There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
    Boks 7.216 18 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a cloying success...
    Cour 7.254 11 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...such that the best generals and admirals, when all is done, see that they must thank him for success;...
    Suc 7.286 22 For success, to be sure we esteem it a test in other people, since we do first in ourselves.
    Suc 7.287 12 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/...
    Suc 7.287 13 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/...
    Suc 7.287 14 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,/...
    Suc 7.289 10 Our success takes from all what it gives to one.
    Suc 7.290 4 The passion for sudden success is rude and puerile...
    Suc 7.291 10 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success...
    Suc 7.292 25 Self-trust is the first secret of success...
    Suc 7.293 7 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    Suc 7.293 8 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    Suc 7.307 8 One more trait of true success.
    Suc 7.308 7 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    Suc 7.308 9 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    Suc 7.310 22 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...blundered where they were most ambitious of success?...
    OA 7.325 13 I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
    PI 8.70 23 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought. The success with which this is done can alone determine how genuine is the inspiration.
    SA 8.93 10 ...[women's] presence and inspiration are essential to [conversation's] success.
    Elo2 8.118 4 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions...
    PC 8.208 23 The war gave us...the success of the Sanitary Commission...
    PC 8.231 16 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    PPo 8.251 5 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success...
    Insp 8.289 2 All the conditions must be right for my success...
    Grts 8.301 7 ...every aspirant, by his success in the pursuit [of greatness], does not hinder but helps his competitors.
    Imtl 8.343 3 ...we are always balked of a complete success...
    Dem1 10.15 16 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Dem1 10.15 26 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...
    Dem1 10.19 2 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing.
    Dem1 10.19 23 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...
    Dem1 10.19 24 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods; that they foster a success to you which is not a success at all;...
    Dem1 10.19 25 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods; that they foster a success to you which is not a success at all;...
    Dem1 10.22 9 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success evinces the presence of rare agents;...
    Aris 10.31 21 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but...the success of the manly character, they find in the idea of gentleman.
    Aris 10.58 6 The noble mind is here to teach us that failure is a part of success.
    Aris 10.58 8 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures...
    Aris 10.58 26 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
    Aris 10.59 1 ...to the grand interests, a superficial success is of no account.
    PerF 10.88 9 Wrath and petulance may have their short success...
    Chr2 10.122 1 ...[Character] can do without what is called success; it cannot but succeed.
    Edc1 10.129 25 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all work actively upon our being...
    Supl 10.166 25 Our measure of success is the moderation and low level of an individual's judgment.
    MoL 10.254 15 ...[the scholar] should open all the prizes of success and all the roads of Nature to free competition.
    Schr 10.265 17 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
    Schr 10.265 23 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
    Plu 10.295 7 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's] Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.
    LLNE 10.337 23 ...a certain success attended [Mesmerism], against all expectation.
    LLNE 10.362 2 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man formerly engaged through many years in the fisheries with success...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    LLNE 10.363 26 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell, was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm], and more or less directly interested in the leaders and the success.
    MMEm 10.405 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] delighted in success, in youth, in beauty...
    Thor 10.462 20 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink; which experiment we tried with success.
    Thor 10.478 22 [Thoreau] had a disgust at crime, and no worldly success would cover it.
    GSt 10.503 7 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas],-a pledge kept until the success he wrought and prayed for was consummated.
    HDC 11.42 18 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.54 10 Such was...the success of the general enterprise [conversion of the Indians], that, in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.68 27 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
    EWI 11.135 4 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.142 12 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...
    FSLN 11.221 27 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill] was a place for behavior more than for speech, and Mr. Webster walked through his part with entire success.
    EPro 11.317 24 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay. In the extreme embarrassments of his part, call these endurance, wisdom, magnanimity; illuminated, as they now are, by this dazzling success [the Emancipation Proclamation].
    EPro 11.320 9 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right.
    EPro 11.324 12 The popular statement of the opponents of the [Civil] war abroad is the impossibility of our success.
    SMC 11.372 4 On the twenty-third, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the North Anna, and achieved a great success.
    Scot 11.465 7 If the success of [Scott's] poems, however large, was partial, that of his novels was complete.
    Scot 11.466 25 ...Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every figure in his crowded company.
    FRep 11.517 21 [The American people] are now proceeding, instructed by their success and by their many failures, to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
    FRep 11.532 14 [Our people] follow a fact; they follow success...
    FRep 11.532 15 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...
    FRep 11.536 11 A man for success must not be pure idealist, then he will practically fail;...
    FRep 11.541 23 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best.
    PLT 12.39 25 ...the cloud of egotists drifting about are only interested in a success to their egotism.
    Milt1 12.255 13 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students, with very unlike temper and success, of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton' s inspirations.
    MLit 12.320 16 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been not his own but that of the idea which he shared with his coevals...
    MLit 12.329 19 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.
    WSL 12.345 7 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative, which not only has very few examples to exhibit of any success, but very few competitors in the attempt.
    EurB 12.373 22 ...[Bulwer's] novels are marked...with a courage of experiment which in each instance had its degree of success.
    EurB 12.377 11 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume, because the aim is purely external success.
    PPr 12.380 10 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history, a very rare success...

Success, n. (1)

    Suc 7.281 2 One thing is forever good;/ That one thing is Success,--/ Dear to the Eumenides,/ And to all the heavenly brood./

successes, n. (10)

    LE 1.155 18 [The scholar's] successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men.
    Pol1 3.217 16 ...successes in those fields [of trade and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed soul attempts to hide its nakedness.
    NMW 4.234 1 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes;...
    GoW 4.286 5 An intellectual man can see himself as a third person; therefore his faults and delusions interest him equally with his successes.
    ET13 5.221 11 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them, and that it would become their magnanimity, after so great successes, to take order that a proper acknowledgement be made.
    PI 8.40 19 These successes are not less admirable and astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience.
    PC 8.231 21 A strenuous soul hates cheap successes.
    SovE 10.203 13 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks in trifles...as efficiently as in our proclamations and successes.
    ACiv 11.310 13 In the recent series of national successes, this message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the best.
    PLT 12.39 21 ...[an intellectual man's] defects and delusions interest him as much as his successes.

successful, adj. (25)

    LE 1.162 11 ...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    Comp 2.94 8 [The preacher] assumed...that the wicked are successful;...
    Comp 2.95 6 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was...You sin now, we shall sin by and by; we would sin now, if we could; not being successful we expect our revenge to-morrow.
    Comp 2.95 9 The fallacy lay in the immense concession that the bad are successful;...
    Exp 3.57 9 ...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
    Exp 3.60 20 Men live in their fancy, like drunkards whose hands are too soft and tremulous for successful labor.
    Exp 3.73 5 The Chinese Mencius has not been the least successful in his generalization.
    ET3 5.35 13 ...if there be one successful country in the universe for the last millennium, that country is England.
    ET9 5.148 20 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    Pow 6.54 4 All successful men have agreed in one thing,--they were causationists.
    Wth 6.90 5 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...
    Bhr 6.183 24 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
    Elo1 7.63 19 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
    Boks 7.195 8 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
    Suc 7.293 3 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.
    SA 8.100 15 ...If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with whip in hand to get them, I will do so.
    SA 8.100 18 As the search [for riches] may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.
    Elo2 8.120 26 I have heard an eminent preacher say that he learns from the first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a successful day.
    PC 8.211 10 A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and successful study of Natural Science.
    PC 8.230 6 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
    Insp 8.283 21 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion, and my attempt is successful.
    Insp 8.291 24 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.
    TPar 11.289 26 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...successful fraud...it is a hypocrisy...
    FRep 11.531 22 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism...
    MAng1 12.224 24 After an active and successful service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.

successfully, adv. (5)

    ET10 5.171 1 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects. Hardly the bravest among them have the manliness to resist it successfully.
    CbW 6.257 10 ...[the gentleman] replied that he knew so much mischief when he was a boy, and had turned out on the whole so successfully, that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    Bty 6.300 5 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    WD 7.160 16 In Massachusetts we fight the sea successfully with beach-grass and broom...
    PC 8.213 12 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy, working as hard and as successfully as Newton...

succession, n. (27)

    Nat 1.18 21 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides... will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    MN 1.200 10 ...in graceful succession...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    Con 1.301 23 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession...
    Hist 2.34 3 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy...by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise.
    Fdsp 2.194 13 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation...
    OS 2.269 6 We live in succession...
    Int 2.343 12 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers...
    Art1 2.356 7 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last the immensity of the world...
    Exp 3.55 5 The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects.
    Exp 3.70 16 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered...
    NR 3.242 20 ...the points come in succession to the meridian...
    NR 3.243 7 ...according to our nature [things and persons] act on us not at once but in succession...
    PPh 4.39 17 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    PNR 4.81 12 ...the succession of individual men is fatal and beautiful...
    NMW 4.257 27 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it...
    ET3 5.37 20 The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET16 5.279 21 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle]...the succession of religions.
    F 6.12 6 At last these hints and tendencies are fixed in one or in a succession.
    Pow 6.77 22 [Colonel Buford] fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst.
    Ill 6.313 18 Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
    Ill 6.319 18 ...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
    Ill 6.322 6 If life seem a succession of dreams, yet poetic justice is done in dreams also.
    Imtl 8.335 25 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...and will make a shift to eke out a sort of eternity by succession...
    Koss 11.397 2 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits, in such unbroken succession as may compare with the toils of a campaign, forbid us to detain you long.
    Mem 12.90 8 Without [memory] all life and thought were an unrelated succession.
    Bost 12.211 9 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    MLit 12.326 23 ...[Goethe's] thinking is...not a succession of summits, but a high Asiatic table-land.

Succession, n. (2)

    Exp 3.43 8 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the inventor of the game/ Omnipresent without name;--/...
    Exp 3.82 25 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are threads on the loom of time...

successions, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.421 23 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...a few successions of acts...

successive, adj. (19)

    Nat 1.39 25 From the child's successive possession of his several senses... he is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    AmS 1.109 2 Historically, there is thought to be a difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs...
    YA 1.379 16 Our part is plainly...to watch the uprise of successive mornings...
    SR 2.76 11 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...in successive years...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Cir 2.307 13 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
    Nat2 3.191 1 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life...
    PNR 4.81 22 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms...
    SwM 4.107 9 [Identity-philosophy] is this, that Nature iterates her means perpetually on successive planes.
    F 6.14 13 All we know of the egg, from each successive discovery, is, another vesicle;...
    F 6.25 11 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old...
    Art2 7.50 21 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed...
    Elo1 7.67 14 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    PI 8.15 1 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
    PI 8.68 22 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted.
    PI 8.72 6 The number of successive saltations the nimble thought can make, measures the difference between the highest and lowest of mankind.
    Imtl 8.334 5 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 weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    SovE 10.187 9 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
    PLT 12.52 24 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work, which, though successive in the mind of the master, were primarily combined in his piece.
    MAng1 12.230 8 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments...

successively, adv. (14)

    DSA 1.126 2 This [religious] sentiment...successively creates all forms of worship.
    Exp 3.76 6 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
    Exp 3.79 23 Thus inevitably does...every object fall successively into the subject itself.
    Exp 3.85 3 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous.
    SwM 4.121 13 The central identity enables any one symbol to express successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
    ShP 4.200 25 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.
    CbW 6.266 27 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever? Each nation has asked successively, What are they here for?...
    Elo1 7.67 7 ...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;...
    Clbs 7.240 17 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    Res 8.149 22 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...
    Chr2 10.99 18 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself.
    CSC 10.374 24 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all came successively to the top [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    HDC 11.41 9 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals...
    SMC 11.371 4 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...at Baltimore, in Virginia, where they were drawn up in battle order for ten days successively...

successor, n. (7)

    UGM 4.19 15 When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor;...
    SwM 4.100 16 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII., by whom he was much consulted and honored. The like favor was continued to him by his successor.
    SwM 4.122 4 ...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last Father in the Church, and is not likely to have a successor.
    NMW 4.227 2 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity...
    ET11 5.176 7 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.
    PC 8.218 5 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip, or the successor of Philip...and Demosthenes...
    LLNE 10.339 19 ...we then thought, if we do not still think, that [Channing] left no successor in the pulpit.

successors, n. (4)

    LT 1.269 12 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    Pow 6.72 26 [Michel Angelo] surpassed his successors in rough vigor, as much as in purity of intellect and refinement.
    Wth 6.93 23 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it.
    PI 8.57 22 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.

succinctly, adv. (1)

    Elo1 7.72 14 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...

succor, n. (10)

    YA 1.390 3 If a humane measure is propounded...for the succor of the poor; that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
    Hist 2.40 17 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates] for the Esquimaux seal-hunter...
    Exp 3.54 26 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor...
    NR 3.247 14 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine, put as if the ark of God were carried forward some furlongs, and planted there for the succor of the world, shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    MoS 4.185 4 The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor...
    ET14 5.251 8 ...the artificial succor which marks all English performance appears in letters also...
    ET15 5.261 5 In England...[the power of the newspaper] is all the more beneficent succor against the secretive tendencies of a monarchy.
    Wsp 6.223 9 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    PC 8.233 26 ...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...
    Edc1 10.146 8 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he called in the succor of Sir Humphrey Davy to analyze the pigments;...

succor, v. (10)

    YA 1.390 6 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood, to succor the helpless and oppressed;...
    Mrs1 3.153 23 What is rich? Are you rich enough...to succor the unfashionable and the eccentric?...
    UGM 4.14 25 ...in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful manners.
    ET10 5.163 6 ...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the intelligent middle class...is in open market [in England].
    ET15 5.270 27 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch, astonish those whom they succor as much as those whom they desert...
    Ctr 6.137 4 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself.
    Cour 7.274 1 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish to succor some partial and temporary interest...it is not imparted...
    Imtl 8.322 3 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    AKan 11.254 1 And ye shall succor men;/ 'T is nobleness to serve;/...
    PPr 12.384 1 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.

succors, n. (2)

    DL 7.115 7 We owe to man higher succors than food and fire.
    Aris 10.42 27 ...the body is the pipe through which we tap all the succors and virtues of the material world...

succors, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.114 1 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it.
    PerF 10.85 23 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends, in the belief that Heaven always succors us in working for these.

succour, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.186 1 You borrow the succour of the devil and he must have his fee.

succumb, v. (6)

    SR 2.52 18 ...I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar...
    Comp 2.118 17 In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
    Wth 6.92 6 The brave workman, who might betray his feeling of it in his manners, if he do not succumb in his practice, must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wsp 6.208 4 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    PC 8.217 18 [Culture] creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.
    FRep 11.519 24 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...

succumbing, v. (1)

    ET13 5.228 5 ...this succumbing [to conformity] has grave penalties.

succumbs, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 19 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.

suck, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.194 4 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...

suck, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.199 6 ...we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness.
    Fdsp 2.209 25 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure...
    Prd1 2.240 12 Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.

sucked, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.136 3 New York is a sucked orange.

sucked, v. (3)

    NMW 4.242 3 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied and the land sucked of its nourishment, by a small class of legitimates...
    ET10 5.163 1 All things precious, or useful, or amusing, or intoxicating, are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.
    Wsp 6.210 5 What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches that once sucked the roots of right and wrong...

Sucker, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 3 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves, Hoosier, Sucker, Wolverine, Badger...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.

Suckers, n. (2)

    ET4 5.48 11 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods.
    Pow 6.65 12 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition.

sucking, adj. (1)

    Art2 7.38 15 The sucking child is an unconscious actor.

sucking, v. (2)

    ET10 5.169 10 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin. The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and mechanics.
    CW 12.178 8 We knew the root was sucking juices from the ground. But the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.

sucking-pipe, n. (1)

    QO 8.188 26 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat,-an excellent sucking-pipe to tap another animal...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...

suckle, v. (1)

    SR 2.44 2 Cast the bantling on the rocks,/ Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat/...

suckled, v. (1)

    DSA 1.131 12 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right...

sucks, v. (4)

    Farm 7.142 18 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks;...
    Res 8.139 10 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;...and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings. This pump never sucks; these screws are never loose;...
    Supl 10.173 22 The talent sucks the substance of the man.
    II 12.72 15 [Inspiration] is a tap-root that sucks all the juices of the earth.

suction, n. (1)

    QO 8.177 5 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...

suction-pipe, n. (1)

    Farm 7.144 15 The plant is all suction-pipe...

Sudbury, Massachusetts, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.387 9 [Ezra Ripley] used to tell the story of one of his old friends, the minister of Sudbury...
    EzRy 10.387 15 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.

sudden, adj. (48)

    Fdsp 2.199 7 ...we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness.
    Fdsp 2.199 23 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by sudden, unseasonable apathies...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
    Cir 2.315 14 ...the highest prudence is the lowest prudence. Is this too sudden a rushing from the centre to the verge of our orbit?
    Exp 3.71 14 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose...
    Mrs1 3.124 16 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons. But memory is a base mendicant with basket and badge, in the presence of these sudden masters.
    Nat2 3.187 3 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...starting at sight of a snake or at a sudden noise, protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    NR 3.228 8 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience...to dissuade a too sudden surrender to the brilliant qualities of persons.
    ET4 5.46 10 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate...
    ET4 5.56 5 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was, causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of his galleys.
    ET5 5.88 21 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
    ET14 5.242 19 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind...
    F 6.48 3 A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
    Wth 6.118 7 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    Wsp 6.213 18 To this [moral] sentiment belong vast and sudden enlargements of power.
    Bty 6.293 11 ...many a good experiment, born of good sense and destined to succeed, fails only because it is offensively sudden.
    Ill 6.322 1 A sudden rise in the road shows us the system of mountains...
    WD 7.161 6 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind....
    Suc 7.290 4 The passion for sudden success is rude and puerile...
    Suc 7.290 25 ...excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
    Suc 7.303 27 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    PI 8.50 25 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Elo2 8.113 12 ...recall the delight that sudden eloquence gives...
    Elo2 8.126 26 ...we have all of us known men who lose...their fancy, at any sudden call.
    Res 8.145 3 A sudden shower cannot wet [the old forester], if he cares to be dry;...
    Res 8.153 7 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    QO 8.193 8 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always...some sudden alteration of temperature...betrays the foreign interpolation.
    PPo 8.238 14 The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].
    Insp 8.278 1 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it, for it comes and goes as a sudden shower.
    Insp 8.288 6 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples,-so sudden, so slight, so spiritual...
    Grts 8.317 12 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.
    EzRy 10.392 16 Sage and savage strove harder in [Ezra Ripley] than in any of my acquaintances, each getting the mastery by turns, and pretty sudden turns...
    EzRy 10.392 18 ...Save us from the extremity of cold and these violent sudden changes.
    MMEm 10.406 1 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies...
    MMEm 10.420 10 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...
    Thor 10.484 24 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity, and we were the less prepared for his sudden disappearance.
    GSt 10.506 3 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    EWI 11.141 27 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
    JBB 11.267 8 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
    TPar 11.292 21 The sudden and singular eminence of Mr. Parker, the importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to his virtues.
    SMC 11.373 27 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works before Petersburg. On the fourth of February, sudden orders came to move next morning at daylight.
    EdAd 11.386 25 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which...this sudden creation of enormous values is made?
    RBur 11.439 16 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
    FRO1 11.479 25 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    CPL 11.495 22 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...
    FRep 11.525 14 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...
    CL 12.150 16 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night.
    Milt1 12.247 3 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.
    Milt1 12.278 12 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time, overjoyed...with the sudden victories it had gained...

sudden, n. (1)

    Insp 8.274 24 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a life according to the things themselves. Then a light...will on a sudden be enkindled...

suddenly, adv. (40)

    AmS 1.96 23 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly... the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings...
    AmS 1.110 27 That which had been negligently trodden under foot...is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    MR 1.247 13 If we suddenly plant our foot and say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
    MR 1.255 27 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which...hinders [the motion] from falling unequally and suddenly in destructive shocks.
    SL 2.166 8 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form...
    OS 2.275 22 Speak to his heart, and the man becomes suddenly virtuous.
    Pt1 3.14 10 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place...
    Chr1 3.113 6 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...
    Pol1 3.199 16 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement...
    NR 3.243 26 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it...
    MoS 4.176 2 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
    ShP 4.192 12 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field;...
    ET16 5.277 23 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge], and soon knew as much as any man can suddenly know of the inscrutable temple.
    ET17 5.294 16 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He was at first silent and indisposed, as an old man suddenly waked before he had ended his nap;...
    ET19 5.313 9 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed as she now is to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
    F 6.25 24 ...if truth come to our mind we suddenly expand to its dimensions...
    F 6.26 26 'T is the majesty into which we have suddenly mounted, the impersonality...that engage us.
    Bhr 6.195 23 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty...
    Bty 6.304 9 Facts which had never before left their stark common sense suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.
    Ill 6.321 24 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes. Suddenly the mist rolls up and reveals them...
    Elo1 7.75 18 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    Clbs 7.247 6 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years, and which they suddenly and unwittingly offer you.
    Cour 7.261 7 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    Suc 7.298 12 [The city boy in the October woods] is suddenly initiated into a pomp and glory that brings to pass for him the dreams of romance.
    OA 7.330 15 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
    PI 8.53 6 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
    SA 8.104 25 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;...
    Elo2 8.132 12 ...the great ideas that suddenly expand at some moment the mind of mankind, indicate themselves by orators.
    Res 8.141 24 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    Dem1 10.4 16 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...
    Chr2 10.89 3 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to the sphere:/ Wait a little, you shall see/ The portraiture of things to be./
    Edc1 10.159 8 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt...
    Schr 10.262 16 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing.
    LLNE 10.355 24 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find that civilization crowed too soon;...
    EzRy 10.386 19 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor suddenly remembering the season, rejected his offer with some humor...
    EPro 11.316 17 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... suddenly, lending himself to some happy inspiration, announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    EPro 11.319 13 It is by no means necessary that this measure [Emancipation] should be suddenly marked by any signal results on the negroes or on the rebel masters.
    ChiE 11.471 7 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    II 12.76 13 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
    CL 12.158 23 No man is suddenly a good walker.

sues, v. (1)

    ShP 4.205 13 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...

Suetonius, n. (1)

    Plu 10.294 10 ...though the contemporary...of Quintilian, Martial, Tacitus, Suetonius...[Plutarch] does not cite them...

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