Surprises to Sweeps

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

surprises, v. (1)

    Mem 12.98 3 The way in which...any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.

surcharge, n. (1)

    Pow 6.68 11 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood cannot live on nuts, herb-tea, and elegies;...

surcharge, v. (1)

    PLT 12.25 1 Surcharge [the mind] with thoughts in which it delights and it becomes active.

surcharged, v. (3)

    OS 2.265 10 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and hour./
    Exp 3.82 23 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity. The god is surcharged with his divine destiny.
    Pow 6.64 12 The longer the drought lasts the more is the atmosphere surcharged with water.

sure, adj. (180)

    Nat 1.39 2 ...in [Nature's] heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
    AmS 1.100 25 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars...and... honor is sure.
    AmS 1.103 6 ...the instinct is sure, that prompts [the scholar] to tell his brother what he thinks.
    DSA 1.123 3 [The moral sentiment's] operation in life...is at last as sure as in the soul.
    DSA 1.139 3 The good hearer is sure he has been touched sometimes;...
    DSA 1.139 4 The good hearer...is sure there is somewhat to be reached...
    MN 1.196 25 ...this invincible hope of a more adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.
    MR 1.237 23 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent...then should I be sure of my hands and feet;...
    MR 1.256 7 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...sure of more to come than is yet seen,-postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    LT 1.263 21 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would;...
    LT 1.265 27 To be sure, there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough...
    LT 1.289 26 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs.
    Con 1.298 12 ...innovation is always...sure of final success.
    Con 1.321 7 Such hints, be sure, are too valuable to be lost.
    Tran 1.342 17 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to find their tasks and amusements in solitude. Society to be sure, does not like this very well;...
    Tran 1.343 6 Like the young Mozart, [Transcendentalists] are rather ready to cry ten times a day, But are you sure you love me?
    Tran 1.354 26 A reference to Beauty in action sounds, to be sure, a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
    SR 2.48 23 The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner...is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    SR 2.57 25 Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
    SR 2.85 10 ...being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
    Comp 2.126 12 ...the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
    SL 2.133 11 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
    SL 2.150 15 Persons approach us, famous for their beauty...with very imperfect result. To be sure it would be ungrateful in us not to praise them loudly.
    Fdsp 2.198 14 ...Dear Friend, If I was sure of thee, sure of thy capacity, sure to match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    Fdsp 2.209 7 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is sure that greatness and goodness are always economy;...
    Fdsp 2.214 2 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...
    Fdsp 2.214 6 We are sure that we have all in us.
    Prd1 2.241 4 ...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments.
    OS 2.293 6 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought...adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles.
    OS 2.293 8 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.
    Int 2.334 14 Our history, we are sure, is quite tame...
    Chr1 3.108 11 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune; a result which he is sure to disappoint.
    Chr1 3.111 13 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend.
    Nat2 3.187 14 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which nature had taken to heart.
    NR 3.241 10 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor, and a very generous treatment is sure to be repaid.
    NER 3.276 6 [A man] is sure that the soul which gives the lie to all things will tell none.
    NER 3.280 26 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    PPh 4.41 13 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    PPh 4.71 5 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others:--the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally, which was sure to be paid.
    SwM 4.124 17 The world has a sure chemistry...
    SwM 4.145 17 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    MoS 4.153 24 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
    MoS 4.154 23 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world lives by humbug, and so will I.
    MoS 4.167 17 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One cannot be sure of himself and his fortune an hour...
    NMW 4.229 6 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...
    NMW 4.233 13 [Napoleon] is firm, sure, self-denying, self-postponing...
    NMW 4.245 2 Natural power was sure to be well received at [Napoleon's] court.
    ET1 5.7 17 To be sure, [Landor] is decided in his opinions...
    ET3 5.37 6 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard; if only by means of the very impatience which English forms are sure to awaken in independent minds.
    ET3 5.41 24 ...these Britons...are sure of a market for all the goods they can manufacture.
    ET6 5.107 2 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal... loving truth and religion, to be sure, but inexorable on points of form.
    ET6 5.107 6 All the world praises the comfort and private appointments of an English inn, and of English households. You are sure of neatness and of personal decorum.
    ET6 5.114 8 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection: the stories are so good that one is sure they must have been often told before...
    ET7 5.123 18 [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 democratic whimsy in this country...that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery...
    ET9 5.149 26 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out, and the Englishman, to make sure not to hit any body, fired up the chimney,--and brought down the Frenchman.
    ET11 5.188 23 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...keeping the series of history unbroken and waiting for its interpreter, who is sure to arrive.
    ET13 5.223 5 They say here [in England], that if you talk with a clergyman, you are sure to find him well-bred, informed and candid...
    ET13 5.228 20 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such men [the educated class] from the church became complete. Nature, to be sure, had her remedy.
    ET15 5.271 1 ...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...and make the victory sure.
    ET17 5.295 11 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    ET19 5.310 23 I am...here...to speak of that which I am sure interests these gentlemen more than their own praises;...
    F 6.4 16 We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty...
    F 6.9 11 ...the cab-man is phrenologist so far, he looks in your face to see if his shilling is sure.
    F 6.35 1 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down...
    F 6.38 20 You may be sure the new-born man is not inert.
    F 6.47 2 ...hence the high caution, that since we are sure of having what we wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
    Pow 6.63 25 This power [in American politics], to be sure, is not clothed in satin.
    Pow 6.65 24 The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
    Pow 6.75 18 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Pow 6.75 19 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Wth 6.100 16 [The right merchant]...likes small and sure gains.
    Wth 6.122 12 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail, which is sure to be the easiest possible pass through the ridge.
    Ctr 6.141 17 ...though we must not omit any jot of our system, we can seldom be sure that it has availed much...
    Ctr 6.148 12 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...
    Ctr 6.152 7 To be sure, in old, dense countries, among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no distinction...
    Bhr 6.180 21 There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
    Bhr 6.188 27 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression...
    Wsp 6.201 12 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me...
    Wsp 6.213 6 The religion of the cultivated class now, to be sure, consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
    Wsp 6.236 5 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it.
    Wsp 6.239 1 Of immortality, the soul when well employed is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure it will be well.
    Bty 6.288 2 We know [our friends] have intervals of folly...but wait there appearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.
    Ill 6.313 23 We wake from one dream into another dream. The toys to be sure are various...
    SS 7.9 19 We have a fine right, to be sure, to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!
    DL 7.108 6 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted? These facts are, to be sure, harder to read.
    DL 7.108 16 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks...
    DL 7.126 18 In our experience, to be sure, beauty is not...the dower of man and of woman as invariably as sensation.
    Farm 7.140 5 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done...by men of endurance,--deep-chested, long-winded, tough, slow and sure, and timely.
    WD 7.158 13 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus.
    Boks 7.196 5 Be sure...to read no mean books.
    Boks 7.205 13 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his Memoirs of Himself...
    Clbs 7.231 25 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were;...
    Clbs 7.244 18 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.
    Cour 7.263 19 ...the frontiersman [loses fear], when he has a perfect rifle and has acquired a sure aim.
    Cour 7.278 3 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you should see./
    Suc 7.285 25 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
    Suc 7.286 22 For success, to be sure we esteem it a test in other people, since we do first in ourselves.
    Suc 7.288 10 These [American] feats have to be sure great difference of merit...
    Suc 7.291 8 ...I am by no means sure that the reader will assent to all my propositions...
    PI 8.39 13 To be sure, we demand of [the poet] what he demands of himself,--veracity, first of all.
    SA 8.80 11 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates, quite sure and compact...
    SA 8.87 10 ...[Lord Chesterfield] says, I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.
    SA 8.92 6 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other:--they were sure to be drawn together as by gravitation.
    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 8.102 10 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals. I am sure each one of my readers has a parallel experience.
    Elo2 8.120 9 To be sure there are physical advantages,--some eminently leading to this art [of eloquence].
    Elo2 8.128 7 ...it would be easy to point to many masters [of eloquence] whose readiness is sure;...
    Res 8.140 19 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
    PC 8.231 11 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs.
    Insp 8.279 5 There are, to be sure, certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive perception...
    Dem1 10.20 10 Dreams retain the infirmities of our character. The good genius may be there or not, our evil genius is sure to stay.
    Dem1 10.27 23 [Man] is sure no book, no man has told him all.
    Dem1 10.27 24 [Man] is sure the great Instinct...has not been searched.
    Dem1 10.27 26 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist between his character and his fortunes...
    Aris 10.46 26 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that, and is sure to bring home the opportunity to every one.
    Aris 10.48 18 Ennobling of one family is good for one generation; not sure beyond.
    Aris 10.60 22 [Self-reliance] is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested.
    Chr2 10.111 11 I am not sure that the English religion is not all quoted.
    Edc1 10.145 3 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there: the thought is dim but it is sure...
    Edc1 10.153 9 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school...
    Supl 10.173 1 The arithmetic of Newton...the inspiration of Shakspeare, are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    SovE 10.185 25 To be sure, we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited;...
    SovE 10.203 9 [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...
    SovE 10.212 17 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will, and veneration...
    Prch 10.236 10 We shall find one result, I am sure,-a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
    Schr 10.284 6 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day in which nothing is remitted or excused...
    Schr 10.287 23 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse.
    LLNE 10.350 20 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got a good joiner, a good cook...and so on.
    LLNE 10.355 20 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers...
    LLNE 10.365 21 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction;...
    CSC 10.376 22 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...
    EzRy 10.383 19 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
    EzRy 10.390 4 ...I am not sure that [Ezra Ripley] did not die in the belief in the reality of Major Downing.
    EzRy 10.394 4 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...and whatever relief to the conscience of both parties plain speech could effect was sure to be procured.
    MMEm 10.402 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people who pleased her...was sure to make her arrival in each house a holiday.
    MMEm 10.429 19 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...
    MMEm 10.432 8 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once thought and felt so sure of...
    Carl 10.493 23 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed, sure of a welcome, and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    HDC 11.46 16 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston, and sure of advice and aid, on every emergency.
    EWI 11.109 18 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack.
    EWI 11.147 3 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].
    War 11.161 18 ...a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism...
    War 11.172 8 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...because he is sure of himself...
    FSLC 11.179 22 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air...
    FSLC 11.183 23 The sense of injustice is blunted,-a sure sign of the shallowness of our intellect.
    FSLC 11.206 1 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express;...
    FSLC 11.206 11 If [the North and the South] continue to have a binding interest, they will be pretty sure to find it out...
    FSLN 11.222 25 [Webster] worked with...the same quiet and sure feeling of right to his place that an oak or a mountain have to theirs.
    FSLN 11.224 23 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
    FSLN 11.240 13 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    FSLN 11.241 9 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power...
    ACiv 11.305 15 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then...to capture a regiment of rebels? But one weapon we hold which is sure.
    ACiv 11.311 6 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,- but, we are sure, not more or better than he hoped in his heart...
    ALin 11.333 16 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...
    SMC 11.375 9 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War].
    EdAd 11.389 12 ...the retributions of armed states are not less sure and signal than those which come to private felons.
    Wom 11.408 5 Sappho, to be sure, in the Olympic Games, gained the crown over Pindar.
    Wom 11.420 19 We may ask, to be sure,-Why need you [women] vote?
    Wom 11.422 19 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure, of the expediency...
    ChiE 11.473 15 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    ChiE 11.474 16 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
    CPL 11.496 10 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not be a little envious...
    CPL 11.507 6 ...the book is a sure friend...
    FRep 11.517 3 The wilder the paradox, the more sure is Punch to put it in the pillory.
    FRep 11.520 8 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
    FRep 11.526 12 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work, when labor is sure to pay.
    PLT 12.3 9 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist; sure of admiration for his facts...
    PLT 12.3 10 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist; sure of admiration for his facts, sure of their sufficiency.
    PLT 12.34 8 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages; and we are sure that it can do more than ever was done.
    II 12.89 8 ...the universe understands itself, and all the parts play with a sure harmony.
    CInt 12.122 24 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages, and we are sure we can do more than ever was done.
    CW 12.178 11 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere. This is a highwayman, to be sure.
    Bost 12.206 15 ...youth and health like a stirring town, above a torpid place where nothing is doing. In Boston they were sure to see something going forward before the year was out.
    MLit 12.314 4 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them...to prolong or to sweeten life, is sure of their interest; and nothing else.
    MLit 12.321 6 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.
    WSL 12.340 13 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...
    WSL 12.340 16 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find free and sustained thought...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    WSL 12.343 25 ...wherever freedom and justice are threatened...[Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
    PPr 12.385 20 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.
    PPr 12.391 22 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return with deeper tones and weightier import...

sure, adv. (1)

    Cour 7.280 1 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./

sure-footed, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.328 19 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./

surely, adv. (38)

    Nat 1.48 14 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory...as if it affected the stability of nature. It surely does not.
    Nat 1.59 21 ...with culture this faith [that the external world is appearance] will as surely arise on the mind as did the first.
    YA 1.382 8 ...surely the poverty is real.
    Hist 2.11 24 A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us. Surely it was by man, but we find it not in our man.
    SR 2.84 2 ...if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice;...
    OS 2.294 5 ...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
    Nat2 3.180 15 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul. Yet all must come, as surely as the first atom has two sides.
    Pol1 3.219 2 Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.
    NER 3.277 16 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine...
    ET11 5.185 16 ...a race yields a nobility in some form...as surely as it yields women.
    ET14 5.239 20 Locke is as surely the influx of decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
    ET15 5.261 20 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted;...
    ET16 5.275 17 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    Wth 6.106 7 The level of the sea is not more surely kept than is the equilibrium of value in society by the demand and supply;...
    Bhr 6.187 9 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...
    Wsp 6.241 6 There is surely enough for the heart and imagination in the religion itself.
    CbW 6.249 1 Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
    Bty 6.295 19 ...see how surely a beautiful form strikes the fancy of men...
    Civ 7.23 9 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers; and they, creating demand by the very temptation of their productions, are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale...
    Elo1 7.81 21 [Personal ascendency] is as surely felt as a mountain or a planet;...
    WD 7.174 5 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...who can know surely that one will be like another to the end of the world...
    PI 8.64 3 The poetic gift we want...surely not cold spying and authorship.
    SA 8.101 17 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons...
    SA 8.101 18 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons, and still less surely heroic grandsons;...
    Insp 8.272 14 Every youth should know the way to prophecy as surely as the miller understands how to let on the water...
    Grts 8.302 12 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
    Grts 8.312 14 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it, and neither you nor I can help or hinder me. Surely, then, I need not fret myself to guard my own dignity.
    Imtl 8.335 17 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it does not help the matter adding numbers, if we see that it has an end, which it will reach just as surely as the shortest.
    Chr2 10.91 14 Surely it is not to prove or show the truth of things...no, it is for benefit, that all subsists.
    FSLN 11.238 26 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages, and will tax the faith of short-lived men. Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely.
    EdAd 11.390 6 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof...
    PLT 12.16 2 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    PLT 12.56 14 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so natural...will surely lead us out safely;...
    II 12.69 11 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...
    II 12.88 26 ...there is surely enough for the heart and the imagination in the [universal] religion itself.
    ACri 12.299 20 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely.
    PD 12.307 4 The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
    Trag 12.405 11 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All, which threatens surely to engulf us soon...

sureness, n. (3)

    DSA 1.141 26 What a cruel injustice it is to...that Law whose fatal sureness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate; - that it is travestied and depreciated...
    Comp 2.116 15 ...the law holds with equal sureness for all right action.
    UGM 4.10 8 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...the sureness of affinity...

surer, adj. (5)

    YA 1.374 13 ...the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
    Fdsp 2.216 26 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it...feels rid of so much earth and feels its independency the surer.
    SS 7.15 9 One would think that the affinities would pronounce themselves with a surer reciprocity.
    OA 7.323 19 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    CL 12.160 15 It does not need a barometer to find the height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...

surer, adv. (1)

    Elo2 8.109 7 Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,/ Than [the patriot] to common sense and common good/...

surest, adj. (4)

    ET14 5.249 16 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
    ET15 5.263 13 [The London Times] has ears everywhere, and its information is earliest, completest and surest.
    OA 7.319 4 ...the surest poison is time.
    EdAd 11.385 4 Where [in America] are the works of the imagination,-the surest test of a national genius?

surf, n. (2)

    WD 7.181 5 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf...
    MMEm 10.397 26 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./

surface, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.37 26 ...Property...is the surface action of internal machinery...
    MN 1.196 16 ...the thunder is a surface phenomenon...
    Hist 2.12 19 The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences.
    Farm 7.149 20 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 allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
    WD 7.183 18 It is the depth at which we live and not at all the surface extension that imports.
    Suc 7.297 5 Is all life a surface affair?
    PI 8.24 8 The senses collect the surface facts of matter.

surface, n. (51)

    Nat 1.49 27 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression.
    LE 1.167 20 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things; that he has conversed with the mere surface and show of them all;...
    LE 1.176 4 We live in the sun and on the surface...
    LT 1.289 13 ...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest mountains...
    LT 1.289 18 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface...
    Hist 2.14 13 There is, at the surface [of history], infinite variety of things;...
    Comp 2.104 1 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
    Prd1 2.222 13 ...a true prudence or law of shows...knows that it is surface and not centre where it works.
    Cir 2.299 3 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...
    Cir 2.314 2 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
    Exp 3.48 16 [Grief], like all the rest, plays about the surface...
    Nat2 3.180 20 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
    NR 3.236 6 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as...a fleet of ripples which the wind drives over the surface of the water.
    PPh 4.55 27 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    SwM 4.115 14 The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters... have a spherical surface for centre;...
    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 4.181 5 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass, and it shuts down to the surface of the earth.
    ET3 5.42 11 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe...
    ET13 5.218 3 The carved and pictured chapel--its entire surface animated with image and emblem--made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
    ET16 5.278 20 I...was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another. Only the good beasts must have known how...to smooth the surface of some of the stones.
    Pow 6.64 9 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being to-day background;--what was surface, playing now a not less effective part as basis.
    Wth 6.86 24 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.
    Wth 6.96 23 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface.
    Bhr 6.187 27 'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty painting of the how. The core will come to the surface.
    Bhr 6.191 23 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part of life more worthily.
    DL 7.127 8 The first glance we meet may satisfy us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
    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...
    WD 7.183 20 We pierce to the eternity, of which time is the flitting surface;...
    Suc 7.307 6 The edge of every surface is tinged with prismatic rays.
    PI 8.16 1 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye or ear...agitates us, and is not forgotten.
    PI 8.28 24 Fancy relates to surface...
    PI 8.58 15 ...[The wind] is always of the same age with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the earth./
    PC 8.223 11 I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates, as well as the surface and soil of the globe.
    Insp 8.289 15 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible,-these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Grts 8.314 12 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter...
    Edc1 10.134 14 Why always coast on the surface...
    Edc1 10.134 15 Why always coast on the surface and never open the interior of Nature, not by science, which is surface still, but by poetry?
    SovE 10.211 24 The credence of men it is that moulds them, and creates at will one or another surface.
    Prch 10.222 15 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning; every thought loses all its depth and has become mere surface.
    Prch 10.227 23 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language.
    SMC 11.350 17 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough,-a few slabs of granite, dug just below the surface of the soil, and laid upon the top of it;...
    SHC 11.434 12 What is the Earth itself but a surface scooped into nooks and caves of slumber...
    PLT 12.35 19 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth...
    II 12.68 17 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth...
    CL 12.154 13 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of men over the surface...
    Bost 12.184 21 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
    MAng1 12.219 16 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests.
    MAng1 12.219 18 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface...
    MAng1 12.220 4 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface.
    MLit 12.324 11 ...[Goethe] never stopped at surface...
    Trag 12.405 4 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.

Surface, n. (2)

    Exp 3.43 7 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...

surface-action, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.189 13 So deep are the sources of this surface-action that even the size of your companion seems to vary with his freedom of thought.
    Prch 10.224 10 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent surface-action...

surface-edges, n. (1)

    OA 7.318 8 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time, which always begin at the surface-edges.

surface-play, n. (1)

    Bty 6.283 13 We do not think heroes can exert any more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.

surfaces, n. (18)

    Nat 1.49 26 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Nat 1.50 5 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
    LT 1.289 22 The granite is curiously concealed under a thousand formations and surfaces...
    Art1 2.358 24 The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces... can ever teach...
    Exp 3.48 4 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces;...
    Exp 3.59 25 We live amid surfaces...
    Mrs1 3.140 20 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...perhaps because such a person seems to reserve himself for the best of the game, and not spend himself on surfaces;...
    NR 3.235 22 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that...life will be simpler when we live at the centre and flout the surfaces.
    NR 3.242 13 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal;...
    NER 3.284 1 As soon as a man is wonted to look beyond surfaces...he settles himself into serenity.
    PPh 4.49 4 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble... when we contemplate the one, the true, the good,--as in the surfaces and extremities of matter.
    MoS 4.150 6 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with facts and surfaces...
    CbW 6.271 9 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces...
    Bty 6.288 18 The question of Beauty takes us out of surfaces to thinking of the foundations of things.
    Res 8.139 19 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.
    Prch 10.224 2 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent from surfaces to solids;...
    Prch 10.237 15 The lower eyes see only surfaces and effects...
    PPr 12.387 23 ...the sun and stars affect us only grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say, Is that all?

surface-seeking, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.54 1 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join...

surfeit, n. (1)

    UGM 4.18 8 Even these feasts [of the intellect] have their surfeit.

surfeited, v. (1)

    ET4 5.59 10 Never was a poor gentleman so surfeited with life...as the Northman.

surfeits, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.264 23 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring...

surgeon, n. (4)

    Nat 1.72 20 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the repairs of the human body by the dentist and surgeon.
    Wth 6.121 16 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
    Ctr 6.140 15 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. They are past the help of surgeon or clergy.
    EWI 11.105 16 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon...

surgeon's, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.393 22 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.

surges, n. (4)

    OS 2.281 6 [Revelation] is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.
    OS 2.285 5 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    OS 2.296 24 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me...
    ChiE 11.471 20 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...

surges, v. (1)

    PLT 12.15 15 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...which surges and washes hither and thither...

surgical, adj. (3)

    Edc1 10.149 13 See how far a young doctor will ride or walk to witness a new surgical operation.
    EzRy 10.393 23 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.
    PLT 12.14 13 There is something surgical in metaphysics as we treat it.

surging, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.189 2 A ruddy drop of manly blood/ The surging sea outweighs;/...

surly, adj. (7)

    ET8 5.130 24 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
    ET10 5.164 18 Whatever surly sweetness possession can give, is tasted in England to the dregs.
    F 6.6 24 We must see that the world is rough and surly...
    Wth 6.108 4 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same simple and surly market?
    Boks 7.189 20 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.
    Aris 10.53 20 Here [in a village] are classes which day by day have no intercourse, nothing beyond perhaps a surly nod in passing.
    PLT 12.35 7 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth...lurking, surly, invincible...

surmise, n. (2)

    Nat 1.70 1 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect...
    DSA 1.138 12 ...yet was there not a surmise...in all the discourse, that [the preacher] had ever lived at all.

surmise, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.217 3 [Friendship] must not surmise or provide for infirmity.

surmised, v. (1)

    ET15 5.270 3 Who would care for [the London Times], if it surmised, or dared to confess...

surmount, v. (5)

    AmS 1.113 1 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time. Such an attempt of course must have difficulty which no genius could surmount.
    CbW 6.257 23 We see those who surmount...obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    Cour 7.276 21 He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
    MoL 10.252 25 There is no mass which [intellect] cannot surmount and dispose of.
    PLT 12.55 22 We see those who surmount by dint of egotism or infatuation obstacles from which the prudent recoil.

surmounted, v. (5)

    DSA 1.125 26 In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted...
    Pt1 3.7 3 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty. ... Each is that which he is, essentially, so that he cannot be surmounted or analyzed...
    ET4 5.68 9 ...[Admiral Rodney] declared himself very sensible to fear, which he surmounted only by considerations of honor and public duty.
    PC 8.231 14 Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
    FSLN 11.240 22 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...before [man] dare say, I am free.

surmounting, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.231 12 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...surmounting by the dignity of his purposes all obstacles and all enmities...

surmounts, v. (2)

    Cour 7.262 23 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast as he precisely understands the peril...
    PPr 12.383 16 ...to bring out the truth for beauty, and as literature, surmounts the powers of art.

surpass, v. (6)

    Mrs1 3.151 26 ...no princess could surpass [Lilla's] clear and erect demeanor on each occasion.
    ET7 5.120 26 In the power of saying rude truth...no men surpass [the English].
    Grts 8.308 1 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent;-not to imitate or surpass a particular man in his way, but to bring out your own new way;...
    Grts 8.316 4 I do not wish you to surpass others in any narrow or professional or monkish way.
    Grts 8.318 6 The Greeks surpass all men till they face the Romans...
    Humb 11.458 13 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history, who surpass all others in industry, space and endurance.

surpassed, v. (7)

    Hist 2.26 8 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages...but, as a class, from their superior organization, [the Greeks] have surpassed all.
    Pow 6.72 26 [Michel Angelo] surpassed his successors in rough vigor, as much as in purity of intellect and refinement.
    PC 8.214 8 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...
    PPo 8.239 10 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos...whom no people have surpassed in the grandeur of their ethical statement.
    ALin 11.334 3 ...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
    SMC 11.371 13 ...the campaign in the Wilderness surpassed all their worst experience hitherto of the soldier's life.
    Milt1 12.268 27 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts. No period has surpassed that in the general activity of mind.

surpasses, v. (5)

    PPh 4.61 2 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
    ET5 5.89 20 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in that; not content unless he has something in which he thinks he surpasses all other men.
    PC 8.207 20 Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology...
    Thor 10.477 24 ...One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.
    Milt1 12.253 24 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...

surpassing, adj. (3)

    LE 1.177 13 Itself of surpassing value, [human life] is also the richest material for [the scholar's] creations.
    PLT 12.45 5 Goethe, the surpassing intellect of modern times, apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.
    MAng1 12.222 11 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.

surpassing, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.174 22 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft, surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth, to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    OA 7.319 5 ...the surest poison is time. This cup which Nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught.
    Wom 11.413 7 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./

surpliced, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.226 27 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant.

surplus, adj. (3)

    ET10 5.169 20 We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
    Wth 6.93 5 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of surplus capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks, presently.
    Wth 6.97 3 ...it is each man's interest that...wealth or surplus product should exist somewhere...

surplusage, n. (2)

    Comp 2.97 21 A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
    EPro 11.317 11 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it, without inflation or surplusage,-all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

surprise, n. (51)

    Nat 1.10 27 The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise...
    AmS 1.92 5 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet...says that which lies close to my own soul...
    YA 1.367 8 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
    Hist 2.34 3 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy...by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise.
    Lov1 2.186 7 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other. Hence arise surprise, expostulation and pain.
    Fdsp 2.193 2 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...so that they who sit by...shall feel a lively surprise at our unusual powers.
    Exp 3.68 20 In the thought of genius there is always a surprise;...
    SwM 4.103 14 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature;...
    SwM 4.103 19 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise...
    ET5 5.82 10 This singular fairness [of the English] and its results strike the French with surprise.
    ET9 5.147 7 ...the fact that British commerce was to be re-created by the independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.
    ET12 5.213 8 England is the land of mixture and surprise...
    ET13 5.231 2 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret...
    Wsp 6.199 18 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own,/ Yet greeted in another's eyes,/ Disconcerts with glad surprise./
    Wsp 6.236 11 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and met him on the way; but he expressed no surprise at any coincidences.
    Elo1 7.88 24 ...I read without surprise that the black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at [Lord Mansfield's] equitable decisions...
    Farm 7.154 7 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise...
    Boks 7.189 20 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.
    Cour 7.255 3 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...and leads them in glad surprise to the very point where they would be...
    Suc 7.303 26 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 8.13 4 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.15 25 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise.
    PI 8.45 3 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;... they speak to us, and we listen with surprise to what they say.
    PI 8.71 27 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    SA 8.82 27 An intellectual man...is instantly reinforced by being put into the company of scholars, and, to the surprise of everybody, becomes a lawgiver.
    SA 8.94 24 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;...
    Elo2 8.111 6 ...[an anecdote of eloquence] has a beautiful and prodigious surprise in it.
    Elo2 8.113 12 ...recall the delight that sudden eloquence gives,--the surprise that the moment is so rich.
    PC 8.222 3 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...
    Insp 8.289 4 Novelty, surprise, change of scene, refresh the artist...
    PerF 10.80 14 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company;...
    Chr2 10.105 8 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
    Prch 10.220 20 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect, the surprise of the results and the sense of power, we are like hunters on the scent...
    Schr 10.261 20 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise that learning and truth and beauty have not let us go;...
    Plu 10.299 24 ...Montaigne excelled his master [Plutarch] in the point and surprise of his sentences.
    LLNE 10.357 12 [Thoreau said] I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world...
    Carl 10.490 19 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons...
    GSt 10.501 9 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    ACiv 11.300 13 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower...
    EPro 11.317 8 ...so fair a mind...so reticent that his decision has taken all parties by surprise...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    ALin 11.330 21 All of us remember...the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    Shak1 11.448 13 What shocks of surprise and sympathetic power, this battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to every fine mind that is born!
    ChiE 11.471 5 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    ChiE 11.471 13 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph. It is the more welcome for the surprise.
    FRep 11.518 11 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain, to the surprise of the people, equivocal, interested and vicious measures.
    II 12.71 25 The poet works to an end above his will, and by means, too, which are out of his will. Every part of the poem is therefore a true surprise to the reader...
    CInt 12.118 5 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice...
    CL 12.163 22 This [principle of levity] is forever a surprise...
    CL 12.164 7 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
    CW 12.179 1 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each, that which is constitutional to him only. This is forever a surprise...
    MAng1 12.220 22 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins;...

Surprise, n. (2)

    Exp 3.43 6 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 26 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are threads on the loom of time...

surprise, v. (9)

    MN 1.199 9 We can never surprise nature in a corner;...
    UGM 4.3 4 If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes...it would not surprise us.
    ET1 5.7 18 ...[Landor]...likes to surprise...
    ET17 5.292 9 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England], until the sincerity of English kindness ceased to surprise.
    Art2 7.52 6 ...[the ancient sculptures in Naples and Rome] surprise you with a moral admonition...
    Elo2 8.118 10 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
    PC 8.228 17 ...[science] does not surprise the moral sentiment.
    Dem1 10.12 25 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
    Dem1 10.13 1 Nature never works like a conjuror, to surprise...

surprised, adj. (4)

    OS 2.268 14 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I...not a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water;...
    Nat2 3.169 20 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...

surprised, v. (47)

    Nat 1.68 1 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    AmS 1.112 11 Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.
    MN 1.215 2 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    MN 1.224 1 [The soul] is not to be surprised by any communication.
    Tran 1.352 13 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which surprised me in the highway or in the market...
    Hist 2.35 2 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...
    Fdsp 2.196 9 ...in the golden hour of friendship we are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief.
    Prd1 2.231 10 ...when by chance we espy a coincidence between reason and the phenomena, we are surprised.
    Cir 2.321 22 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to be surprised out of our propriety...
    Nat2 3.176 20 Nature cannot be surprised in undress.
    SwM 4.122 9 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper...is surprised to find himself a party to the whole of his religion.
    SwM 4.130 21 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg] surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...
    ET1 5.24 19 ...[Wordsworth] surprised by the hard limits of his thought.
    ET9 5.146 16 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
    ET9 5.150 14 ...in books of science, one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    ET11 5.183 13 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords.
    ET12 5.202 26 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds.
    ET14 5.232 6 [The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty word...
    ET14 5.235 23 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost. The English mind flowered in every faculty. The common sense was surprised and inspired.
    ET14 5.258 24 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    Wth 6.100 25 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Ctr 6.150 25 ...[the man of the world] allows himself to be surprised into thought...
    Bhr 6.188 6 In persons of character we do not remark manners, because of their instantaneousness. We are surprised by the thing done, out of all power to watch the way of it.
    Bhr 6.197 25 ...we are continually surprised [in the young girl] with graces and felicities not only unteachable but undescribable.
    CbW 6.245 18 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. If the patient mends he is glad and surprised.
    Ill 6.313 18 Few have overheard the gods or surprised their secret.
    Art2 7.46 23 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    Art2 7.47 16 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo...
    Clbs 7.245 16 [A club] requires people who are not surprised and shocked...
    Insp 8.277 2 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.
    Aris 10.32 12 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a chapter on Education.
    Chr2 10.95 2 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/...
    SovE 10.213 15 [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...
    LLNE 10.343 1 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect...
    LLNE 10.367 2 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
    MMEm 10.406 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] surprised, attracted, chided and denounced her companion by turns...
    Thor 10.461 1 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully, by many with a sympathy that surprised themselves.
    FSLC 11.190 4 I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of Law to be discredited.
    JBS 11.280 13 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    EPro 11.316 21 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;-the bravos and wits who greeted him loudly thus far are surprised and overawed;...
    FRep 11.535 2 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are the people for an emergency. They are not to be surprised...
    PLT 12.13 11 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the record of some law whose working was surprised by the observer in natural action.
    PLT 12.22 15 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...
    Mem 12.109 4 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    MAng1 12.221 19 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
    ACri 12.285 7 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.
    ACri 12.287 15 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered...

surprises, n. (8)

    OS 2.270 10 If we consider what happens...in surprises...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Cir 2.320 8 Life is a series of surprises.
    Exp 3.67 23 Life is a series of surprises...
    Nat2 3.183 13 This guiding identity [in nature] runs through all the surprises and contrasts of the piece...
    PPh 4.59 11 ...[Plato] abounds in the surprises of a literary master.
    Supl 10.175 6 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw...a talking fish, but ever the strictest regard to rule, and an absence of all surprises.
    Schr 10.261 15 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like. We are used to these surprises.
    CL 12.139 21 Our climate is a series of surprises...

surprises, v. (12)

    Nat 1.35 20 A new interest surprises us, whilst...we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...
    Int 2.330 11 What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced.
    ET18 5.306 20 ...any forbearance from [an Englishman's] superiors surprises him...
    Wsp 6.234 10 In the greatest destitution and calamity [the moral] surprises man with a feeling of elasticity which makes nothing of loss.
    Cour 7.274 5 ...[the religious sentiment] is always new, leads and surprises...
    PI 8.29 8 Fancy...surprises and amuses the idle...
    Elo2 8.116 23 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things but only of the inspiration of his to-day's feeling, surprises [the people] with his tidings...
    Elo2 8.120 6 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
    Elo2 8.121 13 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor;...
    PerF 10.75 12 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees clean of caterpillars and borers...
    PerF 10.84 6 Obedience alone gives the right to command. It is like the village operator who taps the telegraph-wire and surprises the secrets of empires as they pass to the capital.
    PerF 10.88 1 Every new asserter of the right surprises us...

surprising, adj. (12)

    Art1 2.360 27 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be...some surprising combination of color and form;...
    Pt1 3.19 12 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit. Though you add millions, and never so surprising, the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight.
    NER 3.254 15 Every project in the history of reform, no matter how violent and surprising, is good when it is the dictate of a man's genius and constitution...
    ET1 5.22 27 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising...that I at first was near to laugh;...
    Pow 6.72 14 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
    Elo2 8.114 26 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence, and to share this surprising emanation...
    QO 8.182 23 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    PerF 10.75 27 ...surprising and admirable effects follow [man] like a creator.
    Plu 10.301 9 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics.
    Carl 10.489 7 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman...and then only accidentally and by a surprising addition, the admirable scholar and writer he is.
    FRep 11.520 21 Parties...exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity...
    CL 12.144 11 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts, undulating, rocky, broken and surprising...

surprising, v. (4)

    SS 7.8 9 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on all the rest.
    WD 7.162 2 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems.
    PPo 8.245 3 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us...
    Wom 11.419 7 Providence is always surprising us with new and unlikely instruments.

surrender, n. (11)

    MN 1.213 14 ...[the poet's] will in [his inspiration must be] only the surrender of will to the Universal Power...
    Pol1 3.220 7 ...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
    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.
    GoW 4.289 2 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. ... The surrender to the torrent of poetic inspiration is higher;...
    ET5 5.83 8 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.
    ET14 5.255 16 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
    Comc 8.169 8 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;...
    JBB 11.268 4 ...our Captain John Brown...with his father was present and witnessed the surrender of General Hull.
    ACiv 11.303 18 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded. The free states yielded, and every compromise was surrender...
    SMC 11.374 11 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which...forced the surrender of Lee.
    SMC 11.374 16 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.

surrender, v. (5)

    Tran 1.357 7 ...[the strong spirits] surrender themselves with glad heart to the heavenly guide...
    SR 2.50 3 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
    Chr1 3.104 26 A word warm from the heart enriches me. I surrender at discretion.
    Wth 6.123 13 Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns to take his counsel. From step to step he comes at last to surrender at discretion.
    Schr 10.265 18 ...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.

surrendered, adj. (1)

    LT 1.266 11 Now and then comes...a more surrendered soul, more informed and led by God...

surrendered, v. (7)

    Cour 7.262 26 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. ... Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.
    PC 8.229 26 When the will is absolutely surrendered to the moral sentiment, that is virtue;...
    PC 8.230 1 ...when the wit is surrendered to intellectual truth, that is genius.
    MoL 10.242 13 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind.
    HDC 11.58 2 Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in Taunton Meeting-house...
    ACiv 11.308 12 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done...
    ALin 11.336 13 [Lincoln] had seen Savannah, Charleston and Richmond surrendered;...

surrenders, n. (1)

    SovE 10.195 24 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship...

Surrey, Lord [Charles Howa (1)

    ET11 5.178 14 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...

surrogate, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 15 Did Shakspeare confide to any...sacristan, or surrogate in Stratford, the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's dream]?

surround, v. (14)

    Nat 1.45 13 When [the human form] appears among so many that surround it, the spirit prefers it to all others.
    AmS 1.113 14 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual, - to surround him with barriers of natural respect...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    SR 2.67 17 ...man...heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
    NR 3.243 12 ...if we saw all things that really surround us we should be imprisoned and unable to move.
    SwM 4.133 15 Every thought [in Swedenborg's system of the world] comes into each mind by influence from a society of spirits that surround it...
    ET6 5.106 24 The power and possession which surround [the English] are their own creation...
    SA 8.81 22 Who teaches manners...of grace, of humility,--who but the adoring aunts and cousins that surround a young child?
    SA 8.91 25 ...in the effort to unfold our thought to a friend we...surround it with illustrations that help and delight us.
    Insp 8.279 1 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful. That does not prevent me from appearing quite serene to the persons who surround me.
    Chr2 10.98 20 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...yet knowing that it is not in the power of all who surround me to take from me the smallest thread I call mine.
    War 11.164 3 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
    War 11.165 13 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things...
    Mem 12.104 5 In low or bad company you...recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
    WSL 12.337 8 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal...his very slight esteem for the persons and the country that surround him.

surrounded, v. (23)

    DSA 1.130 24 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which were once sallies of admiration and love...
    Hist 2.12 27 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature... why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
    Cir 2.311 6 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys.
    Exp 3.80 14 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
    MoS 4.185 4 The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor, elastic, not to be surrounded.
    ET5 5.76 19 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls...
    ET9 5.150 18 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.166 13 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves;...
    ET17 5.291 15 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    Bhr 6.187 14 Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects...
    Farm 7.141 19 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.148 8 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens.
    Boks 7.191 25 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...
    Clbs 7.244 9 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he...
    QO 8.190 1 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he...
    QO 8.199 3 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
    PerF 10.69 5 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour; so man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can accept harder stints than these...
    PerF 10.75 1 We are surrounded by human thought and labor.
    Plu 10.298 16 ...eminently social, [Plutarch]...surrounded himself with select friends...
    LLNE 10.358 23 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he...
    EWI 11.130 1 ...I see very poor, very ill-clothed, very ignorant men, not surrounded by happy friends...yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.146 9 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro, when jumping over the ship's sides to escape from the white devils who surrounded him, has believed there was no vindication of right;...
    Wom 11.411 1 [Man] invented marriage; and surrounded by religion...the union of the sexes.

surrounding, adj. (15)

    Nat 1.18 19 The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week.
    LE 1.162 23 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese...
    LT 1.271 3 There is a perfect chain...of reforms emerging from the surrounding darkness...
    Tran 1.359 24 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength, to reorganize themselves in nature...in fuller union with the surrounding system.
    YA 1.369 6 ...these [European estates]...are a constant education to the eye of the surrounding population.
    Int 2.327 26 In the period of infancy [the mind] accepted and disposed of all impressions from the surrounding creation after its own way.
    GoW 4.262 9 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass, which, having received the images of surrounding objects, is touched with life...
    ET3 5.39 7 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish;...
    Farm 7.139 27 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession. And the like fact holds in the surrounding towns.
    WD 7.171 3 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the surrounding plastic natures;...are given immeasurably to all.
    LLNE 10.352 24 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world.
    SMC 11.351 21 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature...
    EdAd 11.386 18 ...who can see the continent with its inland and surrounding waters...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    CInt 12.115 7 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of...a tan-yard or some other undoubted conveniency for the surrounding population.
    EurB 12.366 9 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.

surrounding, v. (2)

    Hist 2.19 12 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture...
    MAng1 12.224 11 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...

surroundings, n. (3)

    OA 7.320 1 Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.
    Insp 8.295 5 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...some book which lifts me quite out of prosaic surroundings...
    Wom 11.411 21 [Women] should be found in fit surroundings...

surrounds, v. (3)

    SR 2.89 9 ...thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
    Mrs1 3.134 26 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house...
    SovE 10.197 21 How came this creation so magically woven...that an invisible fence surrounds my being which screens me from all harm that I will to resist?

surtout, adv. (1)

    SA 8.85 22 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.

Surtur, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.237 25 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what plain lies between the gods and Surtur, their adversary...

Survey, Agricultural, of the (1)

    AgMs 12.360 4 [Edmund Hosmer] had been reading the report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth...

survey, n. (6)

    Hist 2.16 26 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
    Grts 8.305 6 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks, a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes. Give such, first a course in chemistry, and then a geological survey.
    Aris 10.40 19 Every survey of the dignified classes...imprints universal lessons...
    PerF 10.85 13 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation...
    Thor 10.466 14 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...
    Humb 11.457 16 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos. There is no other such survey or surveyor.

survey, v. (5)

    ET11 5.186 6 [English nobility] survey society as from the top of St. Paul' s...
    Wth 6.93 26 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey...
    Elo1 7.63 7 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in fire human thought...
    Suc 7.283 8 ...we survey our map...
    CL 12.163 3 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to survey his possessions...

surveyed, v. (1)

    LT 1.287 5 ...it is only when surveyed from inferior points of view that great varieties of character appear.

surveying, v. (3)

    YA 1.365 1 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    PPh 4.65 10 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
    Thor 10.453 5 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as...planting, grafting, surveying or other short work...

Surveyor, Agricultural, n. (2)

    AgMs 12.362 27 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I [Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes. What does the Agricultural Surveyor know of all this?
    AgMs 12.363 24 [Edmund Hosmer] had a good opinion of the [Agricultural] Surveyor...

surveyor, n. (4)

    WD 7.157 17 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.
    Thor 10.454 1 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor...
    Thor 10.473 2 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill...
    Humb 11.457 16 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos. There is no other such survey or surveyor.

surveyors, n. (2)

    Wth 6.122 7 We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
    CPL 11.500 11 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our farmers as the most skilful of surveyors...

surveyor's, n. (2)

    YA 1.364 23 ...[the railroad] has great value as a sort of yard-stick and surveyor's line.
    Res 8.137 12 ...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.

surveys, n. (2)

    Pow 6.58 15 ...the geologist reports the surveys of his subalterns;...
    EdAd 11.384 23 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population, these surveys and inventions...

surveys, v. (1)

    Cour 7.275 17 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero [who]...measures these penalties against the good which his thought surveys, these terrors vanish as darkness at sunrise.

survival, n. (1)

    AmS 1.81 11 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters...

survive, v. (6)

    PC 8.214 3 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names more distant...
    Aris 10.37 13 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough if stock should rise or fall...
    SovE 10.208 22 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend, but in the moral sentiment and the metaphysical fact which the legends enclosed-and these survive.
    Plu 10.302 26 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages...
    MMEm 10.399 6 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive.
    EWI 11.144 7 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element...he will survive and play his part.

survived, v. (4)

    NMW 4.241 1 The principal works that have survived [Napoleon] are his magnificent roads.
    ET5 5.77 11 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him. The strong survived...
    CbW 6.266 4 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    EzRy 10.390 8 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.

survives, v. (9)

    NR 3.223 4 In thousand far-transplanted grafts/ The parent fruit survives;/...
    ET6 5.107 19 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is...filled with good furniture. 'T is a passion which survives all others, to deck and improve it.
    ET6 5.109 27 The Knights of the Bath take oath to defend injured ladies; the gold-stick-in-waiting survives.
    ET18 5.306 11 The feudal system survives [in England] in the steep inequality of property and privilege...
    QO 8.181 14 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    HDC 11.30 10 ...the race survives whilst the individual dies.
    HDC 11.86 25 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
    II 12.88 19 ...there is a religion which survives immutably all persons and fashions...
    MLit 12.317 16 ...these low customary ways are not all that survives in human beings.

surviving, v. (1)

    Mem 12.103 6 A thought takes its true rank in the memory by surviving other thoughts that were once preferred.

survivor, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.394 15 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are possessed by any survivor.

Susa, Persia, n. (1)

    Hist 2.21 18 ...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.

susceptibility, n. (11)

    Nat 1.17 19 Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm...of a January sunset.
    SL 2.143 27 A man's genius...the susceptibility to one class of influences... determines for him the character of the universe.
    Art1 2.358 18 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Mrs1 3.153 2 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four, will commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
    ET14 5.253 9 The eye of the naturalist must have...a susceptibility to all impressions...
    Wth 6.102 11 ...still more curious is [the dollar's] susceptibility to metaphysical changes.
    Ill 6.321 18 How can we penetrate the law of our shifting moods and susceptibility?
    PerF 10.82 17 By this wondrous susceptibility to all the impressions of Nature the man finds himself the receptacle of celestial thoughts...
    FRO2 11.486 26 ...a man of religious susceptibility...can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
    CL 12.158 16 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye...retains more susceptibility than the lower...
    Milt1 12.257 25 With these keen perceptions, [Milton] naturally received... a rare susceptibility to impressions from external beauty.

susceptible, adj. (15)

    Tran 1.343 3 ...[Transcendentalists] are not stockish or brute,-but joyous, susceptible, affectionate;...
    Prd1 2.224 20 ...our existence...so susceptible to climate and to country... reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Hsm1 2.263 12 It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
    Pt1 3.15 12 ...if you please, every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these enchantments of nature;...
    Nat2 3.176 27 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity...
    ShP 4.209 13 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the confusion of sentiments in the most susceptible, and, at the same time, the most intellectual of men?
    ET11 5.180 14 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    F 6.44 21 ...women, as the most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
    Elo1 7.61 17 ...because every man is an orator...an assembly of men is so much more susceptible.
    Comc 8.162 11 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
    Aris 10.43 27 ...when the well-mixed man is born...capable of impressions from all things, and not too susceptible,-then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    LLNE 10.345 4 Society always values...inoffensive people, susceptible of conventional polish.
    EWI 11.141 25 It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization.
    CL 12.155 2 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides. But this is not the experience...of men with good eyes and susceptible organizations.
    Milt1 12.269 15 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions of historical prescription...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

susceptible, n. (1)

    MLit 12.318 3 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent with the limits of our municipal life...

suspect, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.53 3 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect/...
    CInt 12.126 16 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of. On the contrary, every generosity of thought is suspect and gets a bad name.

suspect, v. (22)

    LT 1.271 14 Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy.
    Con 1.298 10 ...conservatism...must...suspect and stone the prophet;...
    Fdsp 2.208 1 Unrelated men...will never suspect the latent powers of each.
    Int 2.334 19 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    Exp 3.75 22 It is very unhappy...the discovery we have made that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments.
    Nat2 3.189 2 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation, with easy transition, which strikes the other party with astonishment and vexation. He cannot suspect the writing itself.
    NR 3.243 25 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist, and does not once suspect their being.
    NR 3.244 5 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation, and though still in his immediate neighborhood, he does not suspect its presence.
    NER 3.257 3 I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury.
    PPh 4.79 2 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic, I suspect, is no better.
    ET8 5.130 17 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...
    ET13 5.222 11 I suspect that there is in an Englishman's brain a valve that can be closed at pleasure...
    Bhr 6.186 10 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth...
    Wsp 6.224 13 ...if we misbehave we suspect others.
    Elo1 7.94 14 The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein; I suspect then that no man does.
    SA 8.106 10 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist. I think each might begin to suspect that something was wrong.
    Res 8.148 25 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect how much design goes to it...
    Comc 8.168 5 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society.
    Grts 8.300 3 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Chr2 10.108 14 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
    Milt1 12.257 3 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
    Trag 12.410 1 [People with an appetite for grief] mis-hear and mis-behold, they suspect and dread.

suspected, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.174 22 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief to the suspected and reviled Intellect....

suspected, v. (23)

    AmS 1.114 12 The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid...
    Exp 3.51 13 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
    Chr1 3.101 15 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit.
    Pol1 3.217 5 ...as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, [character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    UGM 4.10 24 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
    PNR 4.81 9 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive. Then periods must pass before the motion of the earth can be suspected;...
    ShP 4.202 20 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race;...
    ShP 4.204 1 It took a century to make [Shakespeare's genius] suspected;...
    ET8 5.139 20 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    ET12 5.205 16 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America, where his college is half suspected by the Freshman to be insignificant in the scale beside trade and politics.
    Ctr 6.161 27 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Bhr 6.171 15 Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected...
    PI 8.15 7 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected.
    PI 8.24 2 It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected.
    PI 8.66 22 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which...Nature had been suspected and pagan.
    Elo2 8.112 25 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...
    Imtl 8.331 9 There is a profound melancholy at the base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
    PerF 10.70 20 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is, and in a manner so quiet that the presence of these tremendous powers is not ordinarily suspected.
    SovE 10.204 17 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    EzRy 10.393 24 Was a man a sot...or suspected of some hidden crime...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    TPar 11.287 27 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    FRep 11.518 13 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures. The men themselves are suspected and charged with lobbying and being lobbied.
    FRep 11.532 17 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him; already they remember that they long ago suspected his judgment...

suspecting, v. (3)

    QO 8.200 22 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things: wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties and experience.
    Edc1 10.138 21 I like...boys...known to have no money in their pockets, and themselves not suspecting the value of this poverty;...
    MMEm 10.408 19 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.

suspects, v. (5)

    Nat2 3.189 5 [The young person] suspects the intelligence or the heart of his friend.
    PI 8.6 8 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some one is doing him...
    SA 8.103 19 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    QO 8.203 17 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
    Wom 11.412 23 ...who suspects, in [love's] blushes and tremors, what tragedies, heroisms and immortalities are beyond it?

suspend, v. (6)

    Chr1 3.103 21 ...when [your friends]...must suspend their judgment for years to come, you may begin to hope.
    Chr1 3.115 15 Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I will keep sabbath or holy time, and suspend my gloom and my folly and jokes.
    MoS 4.156 20 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgment?
    ET5 5.81 27 ...the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.
    HDC 11.70 25 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...
    Koss 11.400 10 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College). We admit you to the same degree, without new trial. We suspend all rules before so paramount a merit.

suspended, v. (11)

    Hist 2.18 13 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward;...
    Nat2 3.183 16 Man carries...the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought.
    ET16 5.282 16 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form, before it was suspended on a pin.
    HDC 11.31 7 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    War 11.157 20 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees, during which all hostilities were suspended throughout Christendom...
    PLT 12.26 11 ...our mental processes go forward even when they seem suspended.
    Mem 12.96 17 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note;...on the next the banks suspended payment.
    Mem 12.107 9 ...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation...when our will is suspended,'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    CInt 12.129 8 Is chemistry suspended?
    MAng1 12.224 20 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.
    MAng1 12.226 26 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.

suspenders, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 10 [The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the tongue...and suspenders hold up pantaloons;...

suspending, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.231 5 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.

suspense, n. (1)

    Int 2.342 10 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion...

suspension, n. (1)

    Comp 2.112 7 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.

suspicion, n. (13)

    Nat 1.53 1 ...the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament;...
    Fdsp 2.196 10 ...in the golden hour of friendship we are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief.
    Chr1 3.115 4 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical and treat such a visitant with the jabber and suspicion of the streets, argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    ShP 4.202 27 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    ET7 5.123 24 ...suspicion will make fools of nations as of citizens.
    Grts 8.316 10 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Dem1 10.6 5 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room...
    LLNE 10.330 9 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity...
    HDC 11.50 19 The interest of the Puritans in the natives was heightened by a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes of Israel.
    ALin 11.331 18 [Lincoln] had a face and manner which disarmed suspicion...
    SMC 11.358 18 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it...
    PLT 12.16 20 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley so does this mystic stream.
    Let 12.399 7 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who, whilst they regard these young Athenians with suspicion and dislike, educate their own children in the same courses...

suspicions, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.132 3 If [nature] creates a policeman like Fouche, he is made up of suspicions and of plots to circumvent them.
    Edc1 10.153 13 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet, sore with suspicions;...
    Trag 12.409 14 ...suspicions, half-knowledge and mistakes, darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

suspicious, adj. (5)

    Fdsp 2.201 7 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common...
    Exp 3.85 16 We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time.
    NER 3.254 17 Every project in the history of reform...is...very dull and suspicious when adopted from another.
    EzRy 10.393 27 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    Milt1 12.264 20 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...

suspiciously, adv. (2)

    Wsp 6.217 1 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. I think we listen suspiciously and very slowly to any evidence to that point.
    SA 8.92 23 If you are suspiciously and dryly on your guard, so is he or she.

Sussex, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 19 The Duke of Norfolk's park in Sussex is fifteen miles in circuit.

sustain, v. (6)

    LT 1.267 19 What further relations we sustain...is now unknown.
    Comp 2.123 14 ...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me...
    GoW 4.269 22 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad government...
    Imtl 8.342 9 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence, when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
    FSLN 11.241 20 We should not forgive...the Government, if it sustain the mob against the laws.
    CL 12.156 26 The mountains in the horizon acquaint us with finer relations to our friends than any we sustain.

sustained, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.105 27 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which, by the sustained dignity of thinking, is an honor to the human race.
    Bost 12.206 1 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    WSL 12.340 16 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find free and sustained thought...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

sustained, v. (5)

    YA 1.374 9 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.
    Insp 8.283 14 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father, who could not have sustained such a blow as my death, restrained me;...
    FSLC 11.211 11 ...these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...
    Bost 12.196 3 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...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained...
    MAng1 12.236 13 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.

sustains, v. (2)

    Edc1 10.129 4 ...what activity the desire of power inspires! What toils it sustains!
    PPr 12.388 10 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.

sustenance, n. (1)

    NER 3.269 20 [The scholar]...became a showman, turning his gifts to a marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth.

Sutherland County, Scotland (1)

    ET11 5.182 13 The Duke of Sutherland owns the County of Sutherland...

Sutherland, Duke of [G. Le (2)

    ET11 5.182 12 The Duke of Sutherland owns the County of Sutherland...
    ET11 5.189 5 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...

sutler, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.205 13 ...we cannot find the god under this disguise of a sutler...

swaddle, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.145 26 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not... swaddle the infants...

swagger, n. (1)

    FRep 11.521 19 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...

swaggering, v. (1)

    Supl 10.175 2 You shall not catch [Nature]...swaggering into any monsters.

swainish, adj. (3)

    PI 8.1 14 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
    SA 8.97 6 ...there are...swainish, morose people, who must be kept down and quieted as you would those who are a little tipsy;...
    SA 8.97 8 ...there are people...who are not only swainish, but are prompt to take oath that swainishness is the only culture;...

swainishness, n. (1)

    SA 8.97 9 ...there are people...who are not only swainish, but are prompt to take oath that swainishness is the only culture;...

swallow, n. (3)

    Nat 1.13 27 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts... from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air.
    SR 2.58 19 The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
    Imtl 8.326 6 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.

swallow, v. (4)

    Prd1 2.233 17 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
    DL 7.103 17 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child,--the face all liquid grief, as he tries to swallow his vexation,--soften all hearts to pity...
    Edc1 10.135 24 ...I am very far from wishing that [the moral nature of man] should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    Let 12.395 5 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

swallowed, v. (3)

    Hist 2.32 22 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger. If the man could not answer, she swallowed him alive.
    Cir 2.319 26 In nature...the past is always swallowed and forgotten;...
    Ill 6.318 26 The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities and men were swallowed up...

swallowing, v. (2)

    Con 1.319 13 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...swallowing pills and herb-tea.
    Comp 2.121 4 Being is the vast affirmative...swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself.

swallows, v. (1)

    F 6.6 26 We must see that the world...swallows your ship like a grain of dust.

swam, v. (4)

    ET4 5.64 22 From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water, they swam like fishes...
    Thor 10.472 6 ...the fishes swam into [Thoreau's] hand, and he took them out of the water;...
    HDC 11.60 13 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and having girt the saddle on, she mounted, swam across the Nashua River, and rode through the forest to her home.
    CPL 11.504 12 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life...took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.

Swammerdam, Jan, n. (1)

    SwM 4.104 22 Unrivalled dissectors, Swammerdam, Leuwenhock...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

Swamp, Becky Stow's, n. (1)

    Thor 10.480 10 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never saw...Becky Stow's Swamp;...

Swamp, Dismal, n. (3)

    Farm 7.150 18 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp.
    EPro 11.322 11 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    PLT 12.47 23 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.

swamp, n. (16)

    LE 1.169 14 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller, amid the repulsive plants that are native in the swamp, thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    Elo1 7.96 11 ...[the sturdy countryman]...knows all the secrets of swamp and snow-bank...
    Farm 7.141 8 He who...reclaims a swamp...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.151 17 [The first planter] cannot plough, or fell trees, or drain the rich swamp.
    WD 7.169 8 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...
    Elo2 8.113 27 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned...in scrambling...through the swamp and river for his game.
    Comc 8.165 16 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    PerF 10.75 6 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.
    SovE 10.188 8 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine...
    Thor 10.470 12 [Thoreau] thought that, if waked up from a trance, in this swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of the year it was within two days.
    Thor 10.472 12 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to his most prized botanical swamp...
    HDC 11.60 22 Hunted by Captain [Benjamin] Church, [King Philip] fled from one swamp to another;...
    FSLC 11.185 13 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy, whom the fame of Boston had reached in the recesses of a vile swamp...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
    CL 12.150 25 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...
    CW 12.172 5 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...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... skilled in turning a swamp or a sand-bank into a fruitful field...
    Bost 12.202 5 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf and famine than that anybody should give himself airs here in the swamp.

swamp, v. (1)

    PerF 10.74 15 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...

swamps, n. (5)

    ET16 5.288 18 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night...
    HDC 11.32 27 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...forced to make long circuits too, to avoid hills and swamps.
    EWI 11.104 12 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills;...we too should wince.
    FRep 11.542 21 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet, drains swamps...
    CL 12.136 19 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable of yielding immense benefit.

Swan Inn, England, n. (1)

    ET17 5.296 26 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter;...

swans, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.14 3 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as sacred...

swarm, n. (3)

    PPh 4.54 20 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    PI 8.44 12 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images...
    AKan 11.262 21 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is...a citizen... and links himself naturally to his brothers, as bees hook themselves to one another and to their queen in a loyal swarm.

swarm, v. (2)

    Pt1 3.23 25 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them;...
    Bost 12.207 21 We [New Englanders] are willing to see our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm.

swarming, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.236 2 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written, amidst a swarming population, let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    HCom 11.344 2 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.

swarming, v. (3)

    Con 1.312 4 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    CbW 6.275 26 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.
    Res 8.141 21 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...

swarms, n. (3)

    LE 1.168 6 ...the fall of swarms of flies...the angry hiss of the wood-birds;... all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    ET18 5.303 19 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    Pow 6.62 4 We prosper with such vigor that...we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.

swarms, v. (2)

    Nat 1.19 4 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with yellow butterflies...
    WD 7.170 15 Yesterday...the world was barren, peaked and pining: to-day ' t is inconceivably populous; creation swarms and meliorates.

swart, adj. (2)

    SL 2.129 11 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/ Forging, through swart arms of Offence,/ The silver seat of Innocence./
    LLNE 10.329 13 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone;...

swarthy, adj. (3)

    Chr1 3.95 1 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains.
    Mrs1 3.153 26 Are you...rich enough to make...the swarthy Italian with his few broken words of English...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Pow 6.71 7 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.

swarving, v. (1)

    ET5 5.79 17 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. Whatsoever he doth, swarving from this work, he doth as deficient from the nature of man;...

sway, n. (5)

    MR 1.229 10 Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society...and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    Pol1 3.205 9 Under any forms, persons and property must and will have their just sway.
    ET9 5.151 7 The English sway of their colonies has no root of kindness.
    Imtl 8.351 11 Believing this world exists, and not the other, the careless youth is subject to my [Death's] sway.
    LLNE 10.365 2 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.

sways, v. (3)

    SR 2.51 7 Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right.
    NMW 4.223 16 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if Napoleon is Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    Ill 6.325 15 [The young mortal] fancies himself in a vast crowd which sways this way and that...

swear, v. (6)

    Nat2 3.182 3 ...no doubt when [the maples and ferns] come to consciousness they too will curse and swear.
    SwM 4.116 5 ...one would swear [says Swedenborg] that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    ET1 5.9 11 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece, standing before which he said he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a Domenichino.
    SMC 11.362 26 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday;...
    SMC 11.363 6 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to.
    ACri 12.288 11 ...some men swear with genius.

swearing, n. (1)

    MoS 4.166 7 ...[Montaigne] will indulge himself with a little cursing and swearing;...

swearing, v. (2)

    Supl 10.163 17 [Those who share the superlative temerpament] go tearing, convulsed through life,-wailing, praying, exclaiming, swearing.
    SMC 11.362 17 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to such talk.

swears, v. (1)

    LT 1.280 17 I am not mortified by our vice;...it curses and swears, and I can see to the end of it;...

sweat, n. (7)

    LE 1.181 27 The good scholar will not refuse...to make his own hands acquainted with...the sweat that goes before comfort and luxury.
    Comp 2.122 24 Material good...if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me...
    Nat2 3.191 23 ...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury nowhere;...
    ET5 5.77 3 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain, and turn the sweat of their face to power and renown.
    Grts 8.311 19 Let us make [our day-labor] an honest sweat.
    Dem1 10.25 18 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness that were to satisfy the uttermost wish of the senses without danger or a drop of sweat.
    AgMs 12.363 6 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who, by the sweat of their face, without an inheritance and without offence to their conscience have reared a family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

sweats, v. (1)

    F 6.41 17 ...the slug sweats out its slimy house on the pear-leaf...

Swede, n. (1)

    ShP 4.218 27 ...other men...Israelite, German and Swede, beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]...

Sweden, n. (9)

    UGM 4.23 4 I like...Charles XII., of Sweden;...
    SwM 4.100 19 In Sweden [Swedenborg] appears to have attracted a marked regard.
    SwM 4.107 4 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor, with the heart and strength of the rudest Viking that his rough Sweden ever sent to battle.
    ET4 5.59 16 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden;...
    ET4 5.59 17 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand...
    ET4 5.61 14 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
    ET4 5.62 7 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.
    Cour 7.267 6 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know what that was which others called fear...
    Suc 7.284 26 ...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.

Swedenborg, Emanuel, n. (96)

    Nat 1.34 17 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians...to that...of Swedenborg.
    Nat 1.73 7 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the miracles of enthusiasm, as those reported of Swedenborg...
    AmS 1.112 22 There is one man of genius...whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated; - I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
    MN 1.222 13 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    MR 1.228 17 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...
    SL 2.157 12 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    OS 2.279 24 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    OS 2.282 7 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the illumination of Swedenborg, are of this kind.
    OS 2.295 8 ...when I burn with pure love, what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?
    Int 2.343 23 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...seemed to many young men in this country.
    Pt1 3.4 15 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Plutarch, Dante, Swedenborg...
    Pt1 3.32 18 All the value which attaches to...Swedenborg...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    Pt1 3.35 16 Swedenborg...stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought.
    NER 3.279 26 A religious man, like...Swedenborg, is not irritated by wanting the sanction of the Church...
    UGM 4.8 19 Behmen and Swedenborg saw that things were representative.
    UGM 4.10 2 A magnet must be made man in some...Swedenborg...
    UGM 4.18 3 The eyes of Plato, Shakspeare, Swedenborg, Goethe, never shut on either of these laws [of identity and of reaction].
    PPh 4.40 4 St. Augustine...Swedenborg...are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    PNR 4.88 18 Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of Conjugal Love, is a Platonist.
    SwM 4.94 6 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 4.97 11 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind.
    SwM 4.98 12 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg...
    SwM 4.103 5 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
    SwM 4.103 20 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...
    SwM 4.103 26 Swedenborg was born into an atmosphere of great ideas.
    SwM 4.104 16 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.
    SwM 4.105 13 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    SwM 4.110 17 These grand rhymes or returns in nature...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    SwM 4.111 3 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...
    SwM 4.111 15 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history.
    SwM 4.114 5 The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...is a favorite thought of Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.117 10 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement...
    SwM 4.118 21 ...Swedenborg was not content with the culinary use of the world.
    SwM 4.120 8 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods; and Swedenborg added that they used the earth symbolically;...
    SwM 4.121 27 Swedenborg styles himself in the title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...
    SwM 4.124 4 The moral insight of Swedenborg, the correction of popular errors...take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    SwM 4.128 1 ...Swedenborg, after his mode, pinned his theory [of marriage] to a temporary form.
    SwM 4.130 10 Possibly Swedenborg paid the penalty of introverted faculties.
    SwM 4.132 19 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    SwM 4.134 4 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth...it is plain theologic Swedenborg like the rest.
    SwM 4.135 4 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
    SwM 4.135 10 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol...
    SwM 4.137 12 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with the pains of Melancthon and Luther and Wolfius...
    SwM 4.138 9 Swedenborg has devils.
    SwM 4.138 19 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
    SwM 4.142 6 These angels that Swedenborg paints give us no very high idea of their discipline and culture...
    SwM 4.143 4 Swedenborg is disagreeably wise...
    SwM 4.143 9 Swedenborg is retrospective...
    SwM 4.145 19 Swedenborg has rendered a double service to mankind...
    ShP 4.219 16 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle...nor shall grope in graves, with Swedenborg the mourner;...
    ET3 5.43 20 It is a singular coincidence to this geographic centrality [of England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to the people.
    ET8 5.129 11 Was it...a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg...that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves?
    ET9 5.145 2 Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the English...
    ET14 5.242 10 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Swedenborg...that the man makes his heaven and hell;...
    ET14 5.250 12 Wilkinson, the editor of Swedenborg...has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
    SS 7.6 19 Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection...is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    WD 7.176 10 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts; it was the maxim of Aristotle and Lucretius; and, in modern times, of Swedenborg and of Hahnemann.
    Cour 7.267 4 Swedenborg has left this record of his king...
    PI 8.16 13 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
    PI 8.18 14 ...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg.
    PI 8.20 4 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    PI 8.20 18 All that is wondrous in Swedenborg is not his invention, but his extraordinary perception;...
    PI 8.27 15 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach which compels our wonder, as in Behmen, Swedenborg and William Blake the painter.
    PI 8.29 19 ...Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth, are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
    PI 8.34 27 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity...
    PI 8.66 17 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy...
    SA 8.98 5 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
    QO 8.181 3 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...
    QO 8.195 8 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg, and wonders at the wisdom...
    QO 8.198 24 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world...
    PC 8.216 6 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...Daedalus, Hermes, Zoroaster, even Swedenborg and Shakspeare.
    PC 8.228 25 It was the conviction...of Swedenborg, that piety is an essential condition of science...
    PC 8.233 4 There is a text in Swedenborg which tells in figure the plain truth.
    Insp 8.275 8 ...Swedenborg must solve the problems that haunt him, though he be crazed or killed.
    Grts 8.307 9 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Swedenborg called it the proprium...
    Grts 8.311 24 [The scholar's] courage is to...criticise Kant and Swedenborg...
    Imtl 8.327 4 The most remarkable step in the religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg...
    Imtl 8.327 11 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven...
    Imtl 8.327 19 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg...
    Imtl 8.327 24 Swedenborg had a vast genius...
    Imtl 8.347 4 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities. Read St. Augustine, Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant.
    Dem1 10.12 8 Nature, said Swedenborg, makes almost as much demand on our faith as miracles do.
    Chr2 10.121 14 Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
    SovE 10.200 16 A fatal disservice does this Swedenborg or other who offers to do my thinking for me.
    SovE 10.203 23 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the mystics, Behmen and Swedenborg;...
    SovE 10.208 22 A new Socrates, or Zeno, or Swedenborg...may be born in this age...
    MoL 10.248 23 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Swedenborg, with his spiritual world.
    Schr 10.289 1 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius; to become, not a reader of poetry, but...Shakspeare, Swedenborg...
    LLNE 10.330 7 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...and then...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...
    LLNE 10.349 17 One could not but be struck with strange coincidences betwixt Fourier and Swedenborg.
    LLNE 10.363 12 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life;...hating intellect with the ferocity of a Swedenborg.
    SlHr 10.445 24 Had you read Swedenborg or Plotinus to [Samuel Hoar], he would have waited till you had done, and answered you out of the Revised Statutes.
    TPar 11.290 6 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...the truth is not in you; and no love...of dreams of Swedenborg...can save you from the Satan which you are.
    EdAd 11.391 5 The name of Swedenborg has in this very time acquired new honors...
    Wom 11.415 24 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg...
    CL 12.165 10 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried to decipher this hieroglyphic [of Nature]...

Swedenborgianism, n. (1)

    SR 2.79 23 ...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of...man's relation to the Highest. Such is...Swedenborgianism.

Swedenborgism, n. (2)

    NR 3.235 3 So with Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church; they are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
    Imtl 8.329 10 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system, as Calvinism, Romanism or Swedenborgism...

Swedenborgize, v. (1)

    SwM 4.133 18 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize.

Swedenborg's, Emanuel, n. (9)

    DSA 1.145 12 Once...take secondary knowledge, as...Swedenborg's, and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    SwM 4.105 8 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? It is easy to see, in these minds, the origin of Swedenborg's studies...
    SwM 4.124 25 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    SwM 4.133 1 Swedenborg's system of the world wants central spontaneity;...
    SwM 4.134 21 The vice of Swedenborg's mind is its theologic determination.
    SwM 4.136 13 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. Swedenborg's history points the remark.
    SwM 4.140 12 Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes...
    NMW 4.223 7 It is Swedenborg's theory that every organ is made up of homogeneous particles;...
    Insp 8.277 5 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...

Swedish, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.136 15 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    SwM 4.137 1 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of a Swedish polemic...

sweep, n. (4)

    PI 8.21 8 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the celestial stream...
    Dem1 10.3 16 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Prch 10.233 11 The author...sees the sweep of a more comprehensive tendency than others are aware of;...
    PLT 12.58 9 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...

sweep, v. (5)

    SL 2.166 3 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors...
    SL 2.166 5 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...
    NR 3.229 18 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    ET14 5.254 25 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
    Boks 7.192 26 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear...whose eyes sweep the whole horizon of learning.

sweeping, v. (1)

    PPo 8.237 16 Many qualities go to make a good telescope,-as the...facility of sweeping the meridian...

sweeps, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.230 24 If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
    ACiv 11.301 15 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.

sweeps, v. (7)

    LE 1.172 20 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away before it all our little architecture of wit and memory...
    SL 2.141 2 ...[each man] sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.
    SL 2.144 6 [A man] takes only his own out of the multiplicity that sweeps and circles round him.
    OS 2.293 11 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    PPh 4.58 17 Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high insight], [Plato] sweeps the dim regions...
    Ill 6.319 1 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
    PC 8.228 13 Science...sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms...

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