Sweet to Systole

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

sweet, adj. (97)

    Nat 1.46 20 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    AmS 1.107 26 The private life of one man shall be...more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.
    DSA 1.119 5 The air is...sweet with the breath of the pine...
    DSA 1.120 21 A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
    DSA 1.133 6 ...the gift of God to the soul is...a sweet, natural goodness...
    MN 1.216 25 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    Hist 2.7 19 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation, not of himself, but, more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
    SR 2.53 9 I wish [my life] to be sound and sweet...
    SR 2.56 7 ...the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause...
    SR 2.68 14 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook...
    Comp 2.103 25 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair;...
    Comp 2.103 26 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair;...
    Comp 2.104 21 [Men] think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.
    Comp 2.126 1 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful.
    Lov1 2.173 24 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate...
    Lov1 2.177 8 [The lover] is a palace of sweet sounds and sights;...
    Fdsp 2.195 13 It is almost dangerous to me to crush the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
    Fdsp 2.201 18 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
    Hsm1. 2.252 23 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...laying traps for sweet food and strong wine...
    Hsm1 2.263 25 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington...that he was laid sweet in his grave...
    OS 2.270 2 Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind.
    OS 2.295 4 He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never counts his company.
    Art1 2.349 6 ...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet/...
    Art1 2.362 12 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise...
    Exp 3.65 25 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept if we would have it sweet and sound.
    Chr1 3.87 9 His action won such reverence sweet,/ As hid all measure of the feat./
    Mrs1 3.137 14 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion. This is myrrh and rosemary to keep the other sweet.
    Gts 3.160 5 ...what am I to whom these sweet hints [flowers] are addressed?
    Nat2 3.185 25 The child with his sweet pranks...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    NR 3.234 18 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it.
    UGM 4.3 8 In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet.
    UGM 4.3 13 Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society [of good men];...
    UGM 4.6 6 It is easy to sugar to be sweet...
    SwM 4.142 4 Shall the archangels be less majestic and sweet than the figures that have actually walked the earth?
    MoS 4.166 17 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere. Whatever you get here shall smack of the earth and of real life, sweet, or smart, or stinging.
    ShP 4.189 17 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...
    ShP 4.212 14 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions. And they spoke in language as sweet as it was fit.
    ET8 5.129 15 [The English] are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic and stubborn,--and as mild, sweet and sensible.
    ET11 5.195 12 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city, learning receipts to make perfumes, sweet powders, pomanders, antidotes...preparing for a private life thereafter...
    F 6.32 11 ...learn to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion.
    Wth 6.87 18 Wealth begins...in a good pump that yields you plenty of sweet water;...
    Ctr 6.155 12 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that keeps the earth sweet;...
    Ctr 6.164 5 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite? And who that dares do it can keep his temper sweet...
    Bhr 6.167 5 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/...
    Bhr 6.185 16 Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always that she demanded the heart.
    Wsp 6.207 10 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    CbW 6.249 15 I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only...
    Bty 6.279 2 Was never form and never face/ So sweet to Seyd as only grace/ Which did not slumber like a stone/ But hovered gleaming and was gone./
    Bty 6.287 1 ...the sweet seriousness of sixteen...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Ill 6.311 18 Life is sweet as nitrous oxide;...
    Ill 6.312 6 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy!...
    Art2 7.43 25 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound...
    Elo1 7.72 15 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly,--few but very sweet words...
    DL 7.113 14 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for sweet bread and warm lodging...
    Farm 7.150 16 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable;...
    Clbs 7.226 24 ...opinion native to the speaker is sweet and refreshing...
    Clbs 7.228 15 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...
    PI 8.29 20 ...Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth, are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
    PI 8.55 7 There's naught in this life sweet,/ If men were wise to see 't,/ But only melancholy./
    SA 8.105 7 No matter what the object is, so it be good, this flame of desire makes life sweet and tolerable.
    Res 8.153 2 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...
    PPo 8.254 15 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
    PPo 8.257 19 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
    PPo 8.260 3 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    PPo 8.260 27 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./
    Insp 8.284 22 Often in deep midnights/ I called on the sweet muses./
    Insp 8.285 15 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/...
    Insp 8.285 25 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
    Insp 8.285 31 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
    Insp 8.287 4 Solitary converse with Nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries.
    PerF 10.75 22 [Labor] is...in every spectacle, in odors, in flavors, in sweet sounds...
    Prch 10.228 1 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity, wholesome, sweet and poetic?
    Schr 10.263 20 The scholar is here...to keep men spiritual and sweet.
    Plu 10.314 11 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
    LLNE 10.333 20 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton, and with such sweet modulation that he seemed to give as much beauty as he borrowed;...
    MMEm 10.412 7 There is a sweet pleasure in bending to circumstances while superior to them.
    MMEm 10.429 12 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.
    MMEm 10.429 13 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet.
    Thor 10.482 22 Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
    HDC 11.33 16 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.
    HDC 11.59 21 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    HDC 11.86 11 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    LVB 11.93 16 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees]; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.
    ALin 11.328 6 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    HCom 11.340 23 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    SMC 11.348 13 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    EdAd 11.382 20 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
    SHC 11.435 18 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence;...
    Mem 12.104 8 ...Passing sweet are the domains of tender memory/.
    Mem 12.104 16 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.
    CL 12.154 24 ...[Samuel Johnson] loved the sweet security of streets.
    CL 12.157 21 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.
    Bost 12.207 11 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy; as they had come so far for the sweet satisfaction of resisting the Bishops and the King.
    Milt1 12.257 21 ...[Milton's] voice, we are told, was delicately sweet and harmonious.
    Milt1 12.269 22 [Milton's] muse was brave and humane, as well as sweet.
    MLit 12.331 14 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...
    WSL 12.342 11 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature...

sweet, n. (7)

    LE 1.177 26 Why should [the scholar]...not know...[human life's] sweet and smart?
    Comp 2.98 8 Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.
    Cir 2.307 8 The sweet of nature is love;...
    Art1 2.359 27 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart of personal relations...
    UGM 4.10 10 ...sweet and sour...circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    PI 8.55 22 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./ Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy./
    PI 8.72 20 ...mark the equality of Shakspeare to the comic, the tender and sweet, and to the grand and terrible.

sweetbriar, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 25 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck with boughs of hemlock and sweetbriar...

sweeten, adj. (1)

    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.

sweeten, v. (2)

    ET4 5.62 27 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature, which centuries of churching and civilizing have not been able to sweeten.
    ET10 5.168 1 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish, nor sugar sweeten...

sweetened, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.426 20 Number the waste places of the journey...the bitter dregs of the cup,-and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.

sweeter, adj. (9)

    DSA 1.137 11 ...we can make...a far better, holier, sweeter [Sabbath], for ourselves.
    LT 1.261 26 We do not think the sky will be bluer, or honey sweeter...
    Lov1 2.175 17 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Lov1 2.185 25 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for it...bathes the soul in a new and sweeter element--is yet a temporary state.
    Wsp 6.217 6 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others; are bathed by sweeter waters;...
    Art2 7.47 15 Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows...
    PI 8.10 17 The Indian, the hunter, the boy with his pets, have sweeter knowledge of these [animal forms] than the savant.
    PPo 8.253 2 This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,/ Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!/
    Thor 10.469 5 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.

sweetest, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.53 4 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect,/ A crow which flies in heaven's sweetest air./
    Art1 2.365 8 The sweetest music is...in the human voice...
    PPh 4.75 7 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    PI 8.55 10 There's naught in this life sweet,/ If men were wise to see 't,/ But only melancholy./ Oh! sweetest melancholy!/
    MLit 12.329 26 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery??

sweetfern, n. (2)

    Bost 12.192 4 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;...
    Bost 12.192 14 [The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays or by the sweetfern or by the fox-grapes;...

sweetheart, n. (1)

    PPo 8.256 21 Cumber thee not for the world, and this my precept forget not,/ 'Tis but a toy that a vagabond sweetheart has left us./

sweetly, adv. (2)

    Nat 1.53 18 Take those lips away/ Which so sweetly were forsworn;/...
    ShP 4.206 22 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.

sweetmeat, n. (1)

    Ill 6.314 19 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.

sweetmeats, n. (1)

    DL 7.111 16 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine;...

sweetness, n. (37)

    Nat 1.17 24 ...the air had so much life and sweetness that it was a pain to come within doors.
    LE 1.163 16 I am tasting the self-same life,-its sweetness...which I so admire in other men.
    YA 1.394 4 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    SR 2.54 3 ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    SL 2.160 3 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it to sweetness of peace...
    Lov1 2.179 15 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness...
    Fdsp 2.191 21 ...[the emotions of benevolence and complacency] make the sweetness of life.
    Fdsp 2.199 7 ...we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness.
    Prd1 2.228 8 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
    Prd1 2.240 12 Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.
    Hsm1 2.263 5 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind, and with what sweetness of temper he can...
    Chr1 3.106 4 I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own; hence this sweetness;...
    Pol1 3.218 26 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    NER 3.276 11 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    GoW 4.278 3 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
    ET10 5.164 18 Whatever surly sweetness possession can give, is tasted in England to the dregs.
    ET17 5.292 3 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
    ET18 5.302 8 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts no sweetness into [Englishmen's] unaccommodating manners...
    Ill 6.311 26 Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
    DL 7.128 5 Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
    WD 7.183 11 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality...
    QO 8.177 9 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed...with equal impatience of interruption, indicating the sweetness of the act.
    SovE 10.194 11 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars take sweetness and grandeur...
    Prch 10.235 3 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid!
    Plu 10.311 20 There is a certain violence in [Seneca's] opinions, and want of sweetness.
    Plu 10.320 8 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play, and by that external noise destroy all the sweetness that was proper and his own.
    SlHr 10.446 22 ...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an unalterable tranquillity and sweetness;...
    GSt 10.506 14 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
    HDC 11.40 19 [The settlers of Concord's] religion was sweetness and peace amidst toil and tears.
    EWI 11.134 8 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    HCom 11.340 18 ...They followed [Truth] and found her/ Where all may hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mind,/ But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her./
    PLT 12.64 7 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness...
    CL 12.143 15 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    Bost 12.193 26 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
    Milt1 12.261 12 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/...
    AgMs 12.359 22 [Edmund Hosmer's] laugh rings with the sweetness and hilarity of a child;...
    Let 12.401 23 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed, the sweetness of life is gone...

sweets, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.243 7 ...The hero is not fed on sweets/...
    Nat2 3.173 24 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    ShP 4.211 17 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind...

sweet-tempered, adj. (2)

    CbW 6.264 14 All healthy things are sweet-tempered.
    AgMs 12.358 7 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so sweet-tempered...

sweet-voiced, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.253 5 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!

Sweitzer, Acting-Brigadier- (1)

    SMC 11.370 27 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully. It was said that Colonel Prescott's reply, when reported, pleased the Acting-Brigadier-General Sweitzer mightily.

swell, n. (3)

    SwM 4.123 22 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]... without one swell of vanity...
    Insp 8.287 26 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an Aeolian harp?
    Supl 10.174 23 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock...

swell, v. (6)

    Nat 1.54 19 Their understanding/ Begins to swell.../
    Prd1 2.238 14 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten;...
    Chr1 3.113 9 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...now pause, now possession is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart.
    GoW 4.271 20 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...
    Supl 10.169 7 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.
    EWI 11.124 10 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound.

swelled, v. (2)

    YA 1.372 11 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...
    Boks 7.209 4 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor; and De Quincey;--a list, of course, that may easily be swelled...

swelling, adj. (1)

    YA 1.380 7 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner.

swelling, v. (2)

    PC 8.230 22 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians swelling with self-esteem...
    EWI 11.133 17 There is a scandalous rumor that has been swelling louder of late years...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.

swells, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.471 19 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...

swells, v. (4)

    Nat 1.53 5 [Shakspeare's] passion...swells, as he speaks, to a city...
    MN 1.209 25 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...the sound swells to a ravishing music...
    Comp 2.98 18 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature...swells the estate, but kills the owner.
    PI 8.2 8 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/...

sweltered, v. (1)

    Comc 8.169 25 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat when his companions threw off theirs, but sweltered on;...

swept, v. (8)

    Lov1 2.188 20 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
    PNR 4.87 24 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure...
    NMW 4.236 7 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers until it was swept out of existence.
    ET11 5.191 26 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer. Meantime the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet...
    Elo1 7.83 27 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...swept away all the impertinence of private sorrow with his hosannas and songs of praise.
    Boks 7.210 19 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air;...
    MoL 10.257 6 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war...
    MMEm 10.421 1 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.

swerve, v. (4)

    Prd1 2.225 7 ...here lies stubborn matter, and will not swerve from its chemical routine.
    MoS 4.168 21 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence,...and swerve from the matter to the expression.
    Civ 7.29 23 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained paths...
    AKan 11.254 4 ...Help them who cannot help again:/ Beware from right to swerve./

swerved, v. (2)

    SwM 4.145 11 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave choice [of goodness].
    SMC 11.359 25 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a serious devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved...

swift, adj. (27)

    DSA 1.140 4 We are struck with pity, rather, at the swift retribution of [the negligent servant's] sloth.
    YA 1.390 21 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist, the philanthropist; as the organs of influence and opinion are swift to do.
    SR 2.49 3 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...in the swift, summary way of boys...
    SR 2.79 2 To the persevering mortal, said Zoroaster, the blessed Immortals are swift.
    SL 2.165 17 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...motions as swift...these all are his...
    Fdsp 2.191 17 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more swift...are these fine inward irradiations.
    Fdsp 2.199 6 ...we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit...
    Fdsp 2.209 8 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is not swift to intermeddle with his fortunes.
    Prd1 2.235 10 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    Cir 2.311 19 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations and dance before our eyes. And yet here again see the swift circumscription!
    Exp 3.43 8 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the inventor of the game/ Omnipresent without name;--/...
    Mrs1 3.126 21 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. ... By swift consent everything superfluous is dropped...
    NER 3.276 19 ...the swift moments we spend with [those who love us] are a compensation for a great deal of misery;...
    ET5 5.76 23 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons, swift to reward every kindness done them...
    ET19 5.313 23 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    Pow 6.77 21 [Colonel Buford] fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst.
    Bhr 6.186 3 Society is very swift in its instincts...
    Cour 7.280 2 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    QO 8.202 25 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...
    Insp 8.283 23 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift.
    Aris 10.34 6 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    Edc1 10.138 27 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company, the merits of every engine and of every man at the brakes, how to work it, and are swift to try their hand at every part;...
    War 11.152 19 War...brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
    ACiv 11.300 9 The telegraph has been swift enough to announce our disasters.
    EPro 11.314 15 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./
    PLT 12.18 9 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men, like armed soldiers, ready and swift to go out to resist and conquer all the armies of error...
    PLT 12.32 22 Perhaps creatures live with us which we never see, because their motion is too swift for our vision.

swift, adv. (1)

    Nat2 3.195 22 ...man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.

Swift, Jonathan, n. (11)

    SwM 4.132 2 Except Rabelais and Dean Swift nobody ever had such science of filth and corruption [as did Swedenborg].
    MoS 4.150 18 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters;...
    ET14 5.234 5 How realistic or materialistic in treatment of his subject is Swift.
    QO 8.196 8 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...as Cicero, Cowley, Swift, Landor and Carlyle have done.
    Grts 8.317 5 It is noted of some scholars, like Swift and Gibbon and Donne, that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.
    Schr 10.271 1 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for...Swift or Burke...
    Scot 11.467 6 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott], as of...Swift or Byron.
    Mem 12.97 25 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception, like Franklin or Swift...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Milt1 12.248 27 [Milton's tracts] are not effective, like similar productions of Swift and Burke;...
    ACri 12.286 12 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...among the writers, Swift, De Foe, Carlyle.
    ACri 12.291 18 ...a man has a right to pass, like Jonathan Swift, for a worse man than he is, but not for a better.

swift, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 10 ...Though, feigning dwarfs, [Eternal Rights] crouch and creep,/ The strong they slay, the swift outstride;/...

swifter, adj. (3)

    ET8 5.138 22 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid;...
    ET10 5.156 8 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    CbW 6.253 22 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.

swiftly, adv. (10)

    Con 1.316 2 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...
    Pt1 3.37 24 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away.
    UGM 4.33 20 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
    Cour 7.271 18 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown. As they confer, they understand each other swiftly;...
    Suc 7.284 6 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower...
    Suc 7.284 7 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower, turn round swiftly and come back;...
    Chr2 10.113 2 The creed, the legend, forms of worship, swiftly decay.
    Supl 10.163 12 There is a superlative temperament which...swiftly oscillates from the freezing to the boiling point...
    Thor 10.474 13 ...I know not any genius who so swiftly inferred universal law from the single fact [as did Thoreau].
    Let 12.396 12 It is not for nothing...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed, how swiftly shrinking from the examination of practical men, let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

swiftness, n. (6)

    Hist 2.24 21 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities; courage...swiftness...
    Hist 2.34 16 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    DL 7.123 24 [Every man] observes the swiftness with which life culminates...
    Dem1 10.25 15 [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...
    EWI 11.110 16 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    Mem 12.95 7 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...

swim, v. (20)

    AmS 1.110 4 ...a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim.
    Con 1.311 25 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    Comp 2.92 13 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
    Cir 2.308 7 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday... a sea to swim in;...
    Exp 3.45 14 All things swim and glitter.
    NER 3.257 20 It is well if we can swim and skate.
    UGM 4.20 10 We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions...
    ET2 5.27 1 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;...
    F 6.32 5 ...learn to swim, trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be cloven by it...
    CbW 6.243 18 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/ Drink the wild air's salubrity/...
    CbW 6.257 13 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top.
    SS 7.11 19 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;--as easy as it is to the lover to swim to his maiden through waves so grim before.
    PI 8.7 4 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off--swim we merrily--in a direction self-chosen...
    SA 8.81 8 Though the person so clothed [in manners]...swim with you...he is yet a thousand miles off...
    Edc1 10.139 17 [Boys] don't pass for swimmers until they can swim...
    Edc1 10.155 12 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away...
    War 11.154 21 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
    CPL 11.504 10 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life, did not gather his gold, but took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
    PLT 12.12 15 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought. That is upstream, and what a stream! Can you swim up Niagara Falls?
    CInt 12.122 22 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build...or play chess, or ride, or swim.

swimmer, n. (4)

    Exp 3.81 22 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men...
    MoS 4.185 24 ...the world-spirit is a good swimmer...
    Bty 6.298 26 Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.
    Thor 10.461 26 [Thoreau] was a good swimmer, runner, skater, boatman...

swimmers, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.139 17 [Boys] don't pass for swimmers until they can swim...

swimming, adj. (2)

    Comp 2.101 7 ...the naturalist...regards a horse as a running man, a fish as a swimming man...
    Prd1 2.229 23 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity, and have a certain swimming and oscillating appearance.

swimming, v. (8)

    ET8 5.132 10 [Young Englishmen]...cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding, hunting, swimming and fencing...
    Pow 6.69 11 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...swimming Hellesponts;...
    Ctr 6.143 24 ...archery, swimming...are lessons in the art of power...
    WD 7.181 6 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming out again...
    Boks 7.204 16 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    Elo2 8.119 2 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming...
    PPo 8.241 12 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming.
    Edc1 10.155 23 By and by the curiosity [of the creatures of nature] masters the fear, and they come swimming, creeping and flying towards [the naturalist];...

swimming-school, n. (2)

    UGM 4.16 21 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body;...
    Ctr 6.148 16 In town [a man] can find the swimming-school, the gymnasium...

swims, v. (7)

    ET2 5.28 8 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say...she swims like a duck;...
    Bty 6.303 4 Proclus says, [Beauty] swims on the light of forms.
    Elo1 7.59 10 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
    Suc 7.303 17 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia...and swims in the seas of Polynesia.
    PPo 8.252 23 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    MLit 12.309 20 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    Pray 12.356 19 Neither was [the light of the soul] so above my understanding, as oil swims above water...

swindle, v. (1)

    Pow 6.82 3 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?

swindler, n. (5)

    Comp 2.114 15 The swindler swindles himself.
    F 6.45 23 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...
    Pow 6.67 12 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.
    Elo1 7.77 17 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler...
    Carl 10.496 23 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.

swindlers, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.77 19 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers...

swindles, v. (1)

    Comp 2.114 15 The swindler swindles himself.

swine, n. (5)

    Nat 1.76 22 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances, swine, spiders...vanish;...
    SL 2.143 5 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and Landseer out of swine...
    NR 3.237 25 ...the frugal farmer takes care that...swine shall eat the waste of his house...
    ET4 5.61 7 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
    HDC 11.35 11 The great cost of cattle...the loss of [the pilgrims'] sheep and swine by wolves;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].

swing, n. (8)

    Wsp 6.201 16 A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism.
    Boks 7.213 3 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power lying coiled and cramped here...
    PI 8.15 6 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.
    PPo 8.247 25 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies, and we should be willing to die when our time comes, having had our swing and gratification.
    Schr 10.267 26 ...I do not wish to check your impulses to action: I would not hinder you of one swing of your arm.
    LLNE 10.342 7 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke. One declared that It seemed to him like going to heaven in a swing;...
    MMEm 10.406 1 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies...
    Bost 12.200 19 ...a gold-mine, a new country...offer swing and play to the confined powers.

swing, v. (8)

    LT 1.284 27 The canker worms have crawled to the topmost bough of the wild elm, and swing down from that.
    Prd1 2.230 9 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life. Let them stand on their feet, and not float and swing.
    ET8 5.132 16 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas;...
    Pow 6.74 22 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not.
    Dem1 10.23 17 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...
    LLNE 10.355 23 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way...
    FRep 11.537 19 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms; farther pierce his eyes;...than the Englishman's...
    PLT 12.38 11 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back.

swinging, adj. (1)

    EurB 12.370 14 Amid swinging censers and perfumed lamps...we long for rain and frost.

swinging, v. (3)

    ET6 5.105 10 An Englishman walks in a pouring rain, swinging his closed umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is made.
    ET16 5.283 13 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns...
    War 11.169 3 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation; I shall not find them defenceless, with idle hands swinging at their sides.

swings, v. (1)

    WD 7.157 21 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...

swinish, adj. (2)

    SL 2.159 20 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion, a swinish look...all blab.
    MAng1 12.222 8 ...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.

Swiss, adj. (2)

    Thor 10.484 14 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter, tempted...by his love (for it is immensely valued by the Swiss maidens), climbs the cliffs to gather...
    Bost 12.201 6 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!

Swiss, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.206 5 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as...the Swiss...have done.
    Thor 10.484 18 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains... It is called by botanists the Gnaphalium leontopodium, but by the Swiss Edelweisse...

switchman, n. (1)

    Ill 6.311 20 ...the fisherman dripping all day over a cold pond, the switchman at the railway intersection...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.

switchman's, n. (1)

    CInt 12.129 12 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch...on a cobbler's lapstone or a switchman's turntable as on the moon's orbit?

Switzerland, n. (3)

    YA 1.380 12 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the Communism of France, Germany, and Switzerland;...
    ET3 5.42 18 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland...
    MLit 12.325 22 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...

swollen, v. (1)

    CL 12.150 25 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...

sword, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.38 12 ...they only prosper or they prosper best...who engineer in sword and cannon style...

sword, n. (33)

    MR 1.251 19 The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.
    Con 1.323 14 Those who rise above war, and those who fall below it, it easily discriminates, as well as those who, accepting its rude conditions, keep their own head by their own sword.
    Hist 2.34 16 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    Comp 2.107 26 ...the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell.
    Hsm1 2.255 8 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
    OS 2.280 8 To the bad thought which I find in [the book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away.
    Mrs1 3.126 27 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword...
    UGM 4.23 10 Sword and staff...carry on the work of the world.
    SwM 4.101 13 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full velvet dress...
    ET4 5.58 25 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body...
    F 6.7 21 ...the sword of the climate in the west of Africa...cut off men like a massacre.
    Wsp 6.216 16 ...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities with as strict a grasp as that of the hands on the sword...
    Wsp 6.224 24 [Every creature's] work is sword and shield.
    Cour 7.264 27 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
    Suc 7.281 7 Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and masters the sword./
    Res 8.137 11 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam, the sword of Caesar...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Dem1 10.25 16 [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...
    Aris 10.37 26 How is it that the sword runs away with all the fame from the spade and the wheel?
    Aris 10.42 22 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast. Richard can sever the iron bolt with his sword.
    Edc1 10.134 5 ...if [a man] be capable of dividing men by the trenchant sword of his thought, education should unsheathe and sharpen it;...
    SovE 10.206 18 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy.
    MoL 10.257 19 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.
    Schr 10.274 5 I cannot manage sword and rifle; can I not therefore be brave?
    LLNE 10.326 16 This perception [that the individual is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before.
    HDC 11.36 20 [The Indians'] physical powers...before yet the English alcohol had proved more fatal to them than the English sword, astonished the white men.
    EWI 11.131 17 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State; he bears the sword in vain.
    War 11.166 17 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence;...
    JBS 11.276 17 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./
    PLT 12.42 16 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line, narrow as the edge of a sword...it were a wide prairie.
    Milt1 12.264 10 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur, the laying of a sword upon his shoulder, to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.
    Milt1 12.265 16 [Milton's native honor] refined his amusements, which consisted in gardening, in exercise with the sword, and in playing on the organ.
    Milt1 12.269 6 Questions that involve all social and personal rights were hasting to be decided by the sword...
    PPr 12.385 6 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

sword-blade, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.41 7 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures, and not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer.
    PPo 8.245 11 ...[Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences which might be engraved on a sword-blade and almost on a ring.

sword-blades, n. (1)

    ET10 5.161 5 [Steam] can...make sword-blades that will cut gun-barrels in two.

sworded, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.257 24 The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded tongue to the smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./

sword-hilt, n. (1)

    Pow 6.71 12 Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...

sword-like, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.23 11 Sword and staff, or talents sword-like or staff-like, carry on the work of the world.

swords, n. (7)

    Hist 2.6 6 ...instinctively we at first hold to [property] with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations.
    Comp 2.107 22 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    UGM 4.16 5 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment, with their medals, swords and armorial coats, like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    SlHr 10.437 14 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords.
    FSLC 11.199 6 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets...
    FSLN 11.236 9 ...our education is...to know that Paradise is under the shadow of swords;...
    CInt 12.113 12 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.

swore, v. (2)

    SL 2.164 16 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.
    JBS 11.278 18 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in [John Brown] that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived.

sworn, v. (2)

    ET5 5.93 21 [The English] are a family to which a destiny attaches, and the Banshee has sworn that a male heir shall never be wanting.
    ET11 5.184 5 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that...men of rank were sworn special constables with the rest.

sworne, v. (1)

    F 6.6 2 The Destinee.../ So strong it is, that though the world had sworne/ The contrary of a thing by yea or nay,/ Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...

swum, v. (1)

    ET2 5.26 13 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847. On Friday at noon we had only made one hundred and thirty-four miles. A nimble Indian would have swum as far;...

swung, v. (1)

    Int 2.342 9 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] will...recognize all the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung.

Sybarites, n. (1)

    CInt 12.111 1 By Sybarites beguiled,/ He shall no task decline;/...

sycamore-spoons, n. (1)

    PPh 4.72 2 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from...soup-pans and sycamore-spoons...

sycophancy, n. (1)

    ET11 5.192 7 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.

sycophant, n. (2)

    GoW 4.269 20 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant...
    CInt 12.116 27 ...[the scholars]...played the sycophant to presidents and generals and members of Congress...

sycophantic, adj. (1)

    SR 2.62 22 Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic.

sycophants, n. (1)

    MoL 10.249 13 Down with these dapper trimmers and sycophants!...

Sydenham, Thomas, n. (1)

    PPh 4.40 20 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas More...Syndenham...

Sydney, Philip, n. (1)

    Plu 10.318 7 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Robert Bruce, Sydney...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

syllable, n. (19)

    AmS 1.94 2 Gowns and pecuniary foundations...can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.
    OS 2.283 27 Jesus...never...uttered a syllable concerning the duration of the soul.
    Nat2 3.194 4 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain. Alas! the same sorcery has spoiled his skill; no syllable can he shape on his lips.
    NR 3.247 11 ...the Truth sits veiled there on the Bench, and never interposes an adamantine syllable;...
    SwM 4.140 21 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of mortals.
    Bty 6.305 17 ...[we do not know] why one word or syllable intoxicates;...
    Elo1 7.59 5 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/...
    Elo1 7.93 13 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness, which...never utters a premature syllable...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    WD 7.184 18 What [the hero] is will appear in every gesture and syllable.
    Clbs 7.240 5 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    PPo 8.247 8 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature... which...make [the poet] an object of interest and his every phrase and syllable significant, are in Hafiz...
    Insp 8.296 11 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion, or perhaps one kind of sounding word or syllable, strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Dem1 10.4 25 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us one syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
    Edc1 10.147 20 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read...
    Plu 10.314 25 [Plutarch] thinks that the inhabitants of Asia came to be vassals to one, only for not having been able to pronounce one syllable; which is, No.
    MMEm 10.415 17 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
    CL 12.134 1 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./
    ACri 12.290 16 What the poet omits exalts every syllable that he writes.
    MLit 12.327 6 It is all design with [Goethe]...but of Shakspeare and the transcendent muse, no syllable.

syllable, v. (1)

    PLT 12.64 8 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is that no tongue shall syllable it without leave;...

syllables, n. (4)

    OS 2.289 22 Why...should I make account of Hamlet and Lear, as if we had not the soul from which they fell as syllables from the tongue?
    PI 8.66 2 He is the true Orpheus who writes his ode, not with syllables, but men.
    MLit 12.324 4 He does not say so in syllables, yet a sort of conscientious feeling [Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology for many of [his stories].
    WSL 12.344 11 [Landor]...values his pedigree, his acres and the syllables of his name;...

syllabuses, n. (1)

    CInt 12.131 3 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that, and you may find facilities, translations, syllabuses and tutors here or there to coach you through, but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...

syllogism, n. (3)

    PNR 4.81 15 Plato's fame does not stand on a syllogism...
    ET5 5.80 11 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule. Neither do they reckon better a syllogism that ends in syllogism.
    ET5 5.80 20 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...

syllogisms, n. (6)

    ET5 5.79 13 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
    ET7 5.120 13 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...believing in his countrymen and their syllogisms above all the rhodomontade of Europe.
    Ctr 6.138 15 We can spare...your syllogisms.
    Imtl 8.346 8 We cannot prove our faith [in immortality] by syllogisms.
    FSLN 11.225 13 Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things to be said on the part of the South. But this is not a question of ingenuity, not a question of syllogisms, but of sides. How came [Webster] there?
    PLT 12.13 21 I want...the man who can humanize this [metaphysical] logic, these syllogisms, and give me the results.

sylvan, adj. (3)

    SL 2.132 25 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom. This requires rare gifts. Yet without this self-knowledge there may be a sylvan strength and integrity in that which he is.
    Mrs1 3.143 13 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    CSC 10.375 9 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness...

Sylvina, n. (3)

    Suc 7.304 25 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
    Suc 7.304 26 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated;...
    Suc 7.305 4 ...'t is plain to the visitor that 't is of no importance at all about Odoacer and 't is a great deal of importance about Sylvina...

symbol, n. (56)

    Nat 1.25 8 Nature is the symbol of spirit.
    Nat 1.26 14 Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
    Nat 1.29 23 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends on the simplicity of his character...
    MR 1.254 26 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head? It is the symbol of the power of kindness.
    Tran 1.332 9 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it... And this wild balloon...is a just symbol of his whole state and faculty.
    Tran 1.333 21 [The idealist] does not respect...the products of labor, namely property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol...
    SR 2.63 11 [The world] has been taught by this colossal symbol [of kings] the mutual reverence that is due from man to man.
    Fdsp 2.203 19 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing, and...what symbol of truth he had, he did certainly show him.
    Prd1 2.222 21 One class live to the utility of the symbol...
    Prd1 2.222 23 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol...
    Prd1 2.222 26 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
    Prd1 2.223 4 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...
    Art1 2.360 22 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Pt1 3.13 19 Things admit of being used as symbols because nature is a symbol...
    Pt1 3.15 15 I find that the fascination resides in the symbol.
    Pt1 3.16 6 It is nature the symbol...which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    Pt1 3.17 12 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs... disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
    Pt1 3.20 16 [The poet] perceives the independence of the thought on the symbol...
    Pt1 3.20 18 [The poet] perceives...the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the symbol.
    Pt1 3.34 13 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Pt1 3.34 21 Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
    Pt1 3.34 27 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child...
    Pt1 3.35 8 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
    Pt1 3.35 13 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    Exp 3.72 27 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol...
    Chr1 3.111 21 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol...
    Chr1 3.113 16 The ages are opening this moral force [of character]. All force is the shadow or symbol of that.
    Chr1 3.114 12 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind.
    Nat2 3.195 18 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors...
    NER 3.280 11 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    PPh 4.56 6 Thought seeks to know unity in unity; poetry to show it by variety; that is, always by an object or symbol.
    SwM 4.121 7 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense.
    SwM 4.121 9 In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts...
    SwM 4.121 12 The central identity enables any one symbol to express successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
    SwM 4.132 26 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held...as a quite arbitrary and accidental picture of the truth,--not as the truth. Any other symbol would be as good; then this is safely seen.
    SwM 4.135 12 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol...
    ET11 5.173 25 The taste of the [English] people is conservative. They are proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry.
    ET14 5.233 18 [The Englishman's] mind must stand on a fact. He will not be baffled, or catch at clouds, but the mind must have a symbol palpable and resisting.
    Wth 6.125 21 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy.
    Bhr 6.179 13 [The communication by the glance] is the bodily symbol of identity of nature.
    Wsp 6.241 16 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will have...science for symbol and illustration;...
    Elo1 7.90 5 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
    DL 7.129 11 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship...
    PI 8.13 14 A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just.
    PI 8.13 16 I had rather have a good symbol of my thought...than the suffrage of Kant or Plato.
    PI 8.13 22 ...a good symbol is the best argument...
    PI 8.13 27 There is no more welcome gift to men than a new symbol.
    PI 8.20 12 A symbol always stimulates the intellect;...
    SovE 10.212 9 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment in which it was a happy type or symbol of the Power;...
    Thor 10.464 12 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol.
    Thor 10.475 26 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol.
    Scot 11.465 24 [Scott] saw in the English Church the symbol and seal of all social order;...
    CL 12.157 16 The gulf between our seeing and our doing is a symbol of that between faith and experience.
    ACri 12.300 7 The power of the poet is...in using every fact in Nature...as a fluent symbol...
    PPr 12.390 26 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent, and, stooping here and there, pounce on a fact as a symbol which was never a symbol before.
    PPr 12.390 27 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent, and, stooping here and there, pounce on a fact as a symbol which was never a symbol before.

symbolic, adj. (9)

    YA 1.393 22 ...the baldest life is symbolic.
    Prd1 2.222 9 The world of the senses...has a symbolic character;...
    Pt1 3.17 3 Beyond this universality of the symbolic language, we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Mrs1 3.142 27 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.
    SwM 4.136 22 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he sees with eyes and in the richest symbolic forms the awful truth of things...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    Bty 6.304 21 ...there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic character of a fact...
    PI 8.27 5 As a power [poetry] is the perception of the symbolic character of things...
    Schr 10.287 27 He that would sacrifice at [the Muse's] altar must not leave...some symbolic gift.
    ACri 12.300 2 Idealism regards the world as symbolic...

symbolical, adj. (9)

    Gts 3.161 26 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    PPh 4.68 13 All things are symbolical;...
    SwM 4.115 27 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical resemblances...
    SwM 4.116 6 ...one would swear [says Swedenborg] that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    Edc1 10.132 15 We learn nothing rightly until we learn the symbolical character of life.
    LS 11.10 10 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions.
    LS 11.11 6 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
    LS 11.19 8 We are not accustomed to express our thoughts or emotions by symbolical actions.
    CPL 11.502 4 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun...

symbolically, adv. (1)

    SwM 4.120 9 [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;...

symbolism, n. (3)

    SwM 4.116 22 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted. This symbolism pervades the living body.
    SwM 4.117 25 ...literature has no book in which the symbolism of things is scientifically opened.
    PI 8.10 8 Sonnets of lovers...are valuable to the philosopher...for their potent symbolism.

symbolization, n. (1)

    Wth 6.106 22 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy;...

symbolize, v. (4)

    Hist 2.32 2 I can symbolize my thought by using the name of any creature, of any fact...
    Pol1 3.213 23 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government...
    Art2 7.56 4 Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
    DL 7.129 10 ...when men shall meet as they should...it shall be the festival of Nature, which all things symbolize;...

symbolized, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.22 2 ...each word...obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer.
    PI 8.71 5 In good society...is not everything spoken in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the sense? All is symbolized.
    EurB 12.376 20 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property should be cleared of privilege,

symbolizer, n. (2)

    PI 8.71 17 The poet is representative,--whole man, diamond-merchant, symbolizer, emancipator;...
    ACri 12.295 2 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...

symbolizes, v. (3)

    SR 2.62 18 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man...
    Cir 2.301 19 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    PPh 4.70 7 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.

symbols, n. (54)

    Nat 1.25 6 Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts.
    Nat 1.29 9 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when...all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols.
    Nat 1.29 9 The same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages.
    Nat 1.31 26 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre, as fit symbols and words of the thoughts which the passing events shall awaken.
    Nat 1.52 4 Possessed himself by a heroic passion, [the poet] uses matter as symbols of it.
    Hist 2.40 10 ...every history should be written in a wisdom which...looked at facts as symbols.
    SL 2.144 14 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness...
    Cir 2.311 6 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys.
    Cir 2.311 7 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys.
    Art1 2.352 5 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols.
    Art1 2.352 15 ...the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day...
    Pt1 3.13 18 Things admit of being used as symbols because nature is a symbol...
    Pt1 3.16 12 The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their symbols than the populace with theirs.
    Pt1 3.17 22 Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols.
    Pt1 3.18 11 We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use.
    Pt1 3.20 5 ...all men are intelligent of the symbols through which [life] is named;...
    Pt1 3.20 6 We are symbols and inhabit symbols;...
    Pt1 3.20 7 We are symbols and inhabit symbols;...
    Pt1 3.20 9 ...we sympathize with the symbols...
    Pt1 3.21 4 All the facts of the animal economy...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...
    Pt1 3.30 4 The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
    Pt1 3.34 16 ...all symbols are fluxional;...
    Pt1 3.35 11 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have... universal signs, instead of these village symbols,--and we shall both be gainers.
    Chr1 3.111 22 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love.
    SwM 4.121 23 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written.
    SwM 4.143 18 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    ShP 4.217 11 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    Elo1 7.93 23 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color...
    DL 7.129 12 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
    WD 7.175 4 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    Boks 7.212 20 We must have symbols.
    PI 8.17 20 The term genius, when used with emphasis, implies imagination; use of symbols, figurative speech.
    PI 8.18 1 ...[as soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it] he can now find symbols of universal significance...
    PI 8.23 4 The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols;...
    PI 8.34 17 The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those [superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    PI 8.34 25 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    PI 8.35 7 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation, the conversion of daily bread into the holiest symbols;...
    PI 8.38 14 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    PI 8.64 16 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to men of new images and symbols...
    PI 8.68 21 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws, so that he easily expresses his meaning by natural symbols...
    PI 8.70 14 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...starving for symbols...
    PI 8.74 18 O yes, poets we shall have, mythology, symbols, religion, of our own.
    PPo 8.248 14 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
    Insp 8.274 12 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...and make the world transparent, so that they can read the symbols of Nature?
    Imtl 8.336 6 These long-lived or long-enduring objects are to us, as we see them, only symbols of somewhat in us far longer-lived.
    SovE 10.191 8 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom, virtuous examples, symbols of useful and generous arts...
    MMEm 10.425 24 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.
    LS 11.9 27 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols.
    LS 11.12 18 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread and drank wine as symbols.
    PLT 12.19 12 Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities, whilst they are properly symbols only;...
    PLT 12.43 4 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    II 12.71 3 In the healthy mind, the thought...paints itself in wonderful symbols...
    ACri 12.300 3 Idealism regards the world as symbolic, and all these symbols or forms as fugitive and convertible expressions.
    ACri 12.300 5 The power of the poet is in controlling these symbols;...

Symmes, Captain, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 6 ...here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain; and Captain Symmes, from the interior of the earth;...

symmetric, adj. (1)

    PI 8.45 22 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows, or in wings; gardens by the symmetric contrasts of the beds and walks.

symmetrical, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.15 17 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
    Hist 2.19 1 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth, supported on either side by wide-stretched symmetrical wings.
    Hist 2.24 14 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and symmetrical features...
    SR 2.58 16 ...let me record day by day my honest thought...and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical...
    Prd1 2.236 13 Human nature loves no contradictions, but is symmetrical.
    Art1 2.368 4 In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is therefore useful because it is symmetrical and fair.
    Nat2 3.186 9 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions...
    NR 3.226 16 Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
    WD 7.166 19 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is in veins and spots. But the great, equal, symmetrical brain...you shall not find.
    PI 8.8 22 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe...
    Humb 11.457 8 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time...a universal man, not only possessed of great particular talents, but they were symmetrical...
    PLT 12.20 5 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit.

symmetrically, adv. (3)

    Pt1 3.39 1 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    NR 3.227 1 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature, and finish the portrait symmetrically;...
    PLT 12.52 17 It is much to write sentences; it is more to add method and write out the spirit of your life symmetrically.

symmetries, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.179 18 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spiculae through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries...
    Schr 10.262 25 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...detectors and delineators of occult symmetries and unpublished beauties;...

symmetry, n. (19)

    Nat 1.68 19 Man is all symmetry/...
    Pt1 3.26 1 Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these [aspects of nature], glide into our spirits...
    Exp 3.57 19 Of course it needs the whole society to give the symmetry we seek.
    Mrs1 3.130 21 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    Mrs1 3.130 23 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    PPh 4.39 8 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    PNR 4.86 17 ...all things have symmetry in [Plato's] tablet.
    ET4 5.47 2 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
    Ctr 6.131 22 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias, sacrificing his symmetry to his working power.
    Bty 6.292 15 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form, if the form can move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
    Bty 6.292 17 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form, if the form can move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
    Bty 6.292 19 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry...
    Bty 6.302 9 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Civ 7.32 22 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue and in the symmetry and force of their qualities,--I see what cubic values America has...
    SA 8.83 27 Manners are...the betrayers of any disproportion or want of symmetry in mind and character.
    Aris 10.43 8 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
    PLT 12.37 4 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men...
    PLT 12.52 9 [Imbalance of faculties] makes inconvenience in society, for we presume symmetry...
    WSL 12.348 22 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last, not...on the symmetry of any of his historical portraits...

sympathetic, adj. (21)

    Pt1 3.13 25 ...a perception of beauty should be sympathetic, or proper only to the good.
    Pt1 3.15 25 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talk with him he holds these at as slight a rate as you. His worship is sympathetic;...
    Exp 3.81 21 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men...
    SwM 4.96 26 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law.
    ShP 4.208 8 Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us, that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.
    ET11 5.189 11 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...
    Pow 6.53 5 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions carry nations with them...
    Wth 6.113 5 We are sympathetic, and...want everything we see.
    Ctr 6.149 12 A great part of our education is sympathetic and social.
    Elo1 7.64 25 Young men...are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence [of eloquence]..
    Boks 7.190 26 [Books] impart sympathetic activity to the moral power.
    PI 8.70 26 The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred.
    Comc 8.159 25 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
    PC 8.211 25 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind, and imparts a sympathetic enlargement to its inventions and method.
    EzRy 10.390 11 [Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic...that he was very justly appreciated in this community.
    EWI 11.145 24 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members.
    Shak1 11.448 14 What shocks of surprise and sympathetic power, this battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to every fine mind that is born!
    FRO1 11.479 27 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends,-separated but sympathetic... was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    CInt 12.119 13 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...
    WSL 12.346 2 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character], evanescing before any but the most sympathetic vision, that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.
    EurB 12.367 6 ...Wordsworth, though satisfied if he can suggest to a sympathetic mind his own mood...is really a master of the English language...

sympathetically, adv. (4)

    MN 1.213 17 ...[the poet's] will in [his inspiration must be] only the surrender of will to the Universal Power, which...must be received and sympathetically known.
    Hist 2.39 23 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. What do I know sympathetically, morally, of either of these worlds of life?
    Bhr 6.192 5 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], [the boy's] climbing...
    Suc 7.300 24 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which stream through things...

sympathies, n. (17)

    DSA 1.148 15 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness and appeal to sympathies far in advance;...
    Fdsp 2.215 16 It would...give me a certain household joy to...come down to warm sympathies with you;...
    ET1 5.21 27 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body.
    Wsp 6.229 17 An anatomical observer remarks that the sympathies of the chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face...
    Ill 6.315 3 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold...
    SS 7.13 17 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies;...
    Comc 8.160 16 The activity of our sympathies may for a time hinder our perceiving the fact intellectually...
    Comc 8.160 20 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous.
    Comc 8.164 12 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead. To the sympathies this is shocking...
    Comc 8.168 22 ...the same confusion of the sympathies because a pretension is not made good, points the perpetual satire against poverty...
    Chr2 10.98 17 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...
    Prch 10.227 5 What is essential to the theologian is, that whilst he is... severe in his search for truth, he shall be broad in his sympathies,-not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    MMEm 10.404 14 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool.
    ALin 11.334 13 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph...of the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class president, at last. Yes, in manners and sympathies, but not in powers, for his powers were superior.
    Scot 11.462 2 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
    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;...
    PPr 12.383 26 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.

sympathize, v. (13)

    Nat 1.22 7 The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
    Con 1.320 19 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    Hist 2.6 23 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...for us...
    Pt1 3.20 9 ...we sympathize with the symbols...
    Gts 3.163 16 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    SwM 4.124 15 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
    MMEm 10.413 14 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
    EWI 11.103 27 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter...
    AsSu 11.247 1 Mr. Chairman: I sympathize heartily with the spirit of the resolutions.
    JBS 11.280 16 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.
    JBS 11.280 20 ...all people, in proportion to their sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
    CPL 11.508 24 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
    CL 12.140 20 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...

sympathized, v. (3)

    ET13 5.216 17 The priest came out of the people and sympathized with his class.
    EzRy 10.393 9 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all, and sympathized so well in these that he was excellent company and counsel to all...
    TPar 11.287 9 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity, and sympathized with the pain of many good people in his auditory...

sympathizers, n. (1)

    JBB 11.270 13 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...the sympathizers with him in all the states;...

sympathizes, v. (6)

    Lov1 2.176 24 ...nature soothes and sympathizes [with the lover].
    PI 8.71 20 The free spirit sympathizes not only with the actual form, but with the power or possible forms;...
    Comc 8.160 5 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.
    Comc 8.161 9 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it...
    Chr2 10.101 8 In [the man of profound moral sentiment's] presence, or within his influence, every one believes in the immortality of the soul. They feel that the invisible world sympathizes with him.
    Koss 11.400 23 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction from selfishness, indifference, or from property (which always sympathizes with possession) you may encounter, we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...

sympathizing, adj. (3)

    QO 8.198 16 [The man] carried the journal [containing the review of his pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda...
    LLNE 10.342 8 ...a sympathizing Englishman with a squeaking voice interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
    ACri 12.298 16 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...

sympathizing, v. (4)

    ET15 5.270 15 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    Comc 8.160 4 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.
    MMEm 10.431 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I indulge the delight of sympathizing with great virtues,-blessing their Original...
    MMEm 10.431 15 While I [Mary Moody Emerson] am sympathizing in the government of God over the world, perhaps I lose nearer views.

Sympathy [Henry Thoreau], n (1)

    Thor 10.476 22 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism...

sympathy, n. (168)

    Nat 1.67 24 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    Nat 1.70 25 We distrust and deny inwardly our sympathy with nature.
    AmS 1.86 18 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein.
    DSA 1.130 27 The manner in which [Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which...are now petrified into official titles, kills all generous sympathy and liking.
    DSA 1.149 18 So it is...in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.
    LE 1.184 17 ...[the scholar] can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.215 19 You shall love...sympathy and usefulness...
    LT 1.265 24 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...men of wide sympathy...
    LT 1.266 13 Now and then comes...a...soul, more informed and led by God...which is much in advance of the rest, quite beyond their sympathy...
    Con 1.318 8 These considerations...must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.
    Con 1.322 14 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Hist 2.28 24 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but... even much sympathy with the tyranny,--is a familiar fact...
    SR 2.49 12 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds...
    SR 2.78 13 Our sympathy is just as base.
    Comp 2.99 24 Has [the man of genius] light? he must...always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction...
    Comp 2.107 22 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    Lov1 2.169 14 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... carries him with a new sympathy into nature...
    Fdsp 2.208 17 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
    Prd1 2.230 27 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same;...
    Prd1 2.240 3 We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.
    Prd1 2.240 4 We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.
    Hsm1 2.260 11 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
    Hsm1 2.260 12 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
    OS 2.275 7 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.
    Exp 3.61 7 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment...is a more satisfying echo to the heart than... the casual sympathy of admirable persons.
    Exp 3.61 14 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority, if they have not a sympathy...
    Exp 3.61 22 I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental...
    Exp 3.77 21 All private sympathy is partial.
    Mrs1 3.126 12 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in fellowship with crowds...
    Mrs1 3.137 23 Not less I dislike a low sympathy of each with his neighbor' s needs.
    Mrs1 3.141 8 The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
    Mrs1 3.151 23 [Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
    Mrs1 3.152 4 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy...
    Nat2 3.176 22 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
    UGM 4.13 10 We must not be sacks and stomachs. To ascend one step,-- we are better served through our sympathy.
    UGM 4.26 13 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy...
    SwM 4.134 14 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his virtues;--sinks into entire sympathy with his society.
    SwM 4.142 15 [Swedenborg] has no sympathy.
    MoS 4.161 22 ...the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
    MoS 4.179 21 [The young spirit] did not expect a sympathy with his thought from the village...
    ShP 4.190 23 ...[every master's] power lay in his sympathy with his people...
    NMW 4.229 4 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things.
    NMW 4.245 17 ...there is something in the success of grand talent which enlists an universal sympathy.
    GoW 4.268 12 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class...have too much sympathy with the speculative class.
    ET1 5.24 26 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET4 5.73 14 The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
    ET9 5.144 10 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living, which he pushes to folly, and the decided sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes and chancellors and horse-guards.
    ET11 5.190 18 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written, and the company nobly bred which performed it with knowledge and sympathy.
    ET12 5.205 13 ...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...
    ET13 5.223 8 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise.
    ET13 5.223 9 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the sympathy is at an end...
    ET14 5.245 18 Hallam is uniformly polite, but with deficient sympathy;...
    ET15 5.264 8 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England...
    ET18 5.301 10 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the ambassador, which usually puts him in sympathy with the continental Courts.
    F 6.28 27 ...the pure sympathy with universal ends is an infinite force...
    Pow 6.56 15 One man...is in sympathy with the course of things;...
    Ctr 6.133 4 One of [egotism's] annoying forms is a craving for sympathy.
    Ctr 6.137 7 Culture...puts [a man] among his equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy...
    Bhr 6.180 17 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet, if in sympathy with the society, he shall not have a sense of this fact...
    Wsp 6.201 19 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.
    Wsp 6.203 9 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    Wsp 6.211 4 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    Wsp 6.237 24 Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
    CbW 6.246 9 We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
    CbW 6.260 22 ...by loss of sympathy...learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    CbW 6.265 27 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of...cravers of sympathy...
    CbW 6.269 12 ...when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise...
    Bty 6.281 18 The want of sympathy makes [the ornithologist's] record a dull dictionary.
    Bty 6.284 6 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him.
    SS 7.4 4 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite, believing that he whose sympathy goes lowest is the man from whom kings have the most to fear.
    SS 7.11 13 ...through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance.
    SS 7.13 16 We sink as easily as we rise, through sympathy.
    SS 7.15 18 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.
    SS 7.16 1 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...
    Civ 7.20 27 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them. Of course he must...have the sympathy, language and gods of those he would inform.
    Art2 7.46 9 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it,--to the magic of sympathy...
    Elo1 7.63 2 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social organism...
    Elo1 7.76 15 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy, organs and...good fortune in the cause.
    DL 7.105 8 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
    DL 7.120 6 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other in schoolyard...with scraps of poetry or song...
    WD 7.157 19 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    Clbs 7.228 1 Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. The affection or sympathy helps.
    Clbs 7.233 9 The greatest sufferers are often...men of a delicate sympathy, who are dumb in mixed company.
    Clbs 7.235 26 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue, whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society.
    Suc 7.301 14 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    Suc 7.301 16 A deep sympathy is what we require for any student of the mind;...
    PI 8.67 4 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it the wise and generous souls...and, through their sympathy, really publishing itself.
    SA 8.103 19 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects, with his sympathy for men...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Elo2 8.118 23 ...deep interest or sympathy thaws the ice...
    Elo2 8.121 12 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;...
    Elo2 8.123 10 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Comc 8.162 1 The perception of the Comic is a tie of sympathy with other men...
    PC 8.226 24 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is sympathy, love of the same things...
    PPo 8.250 2 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    Insp 8.277 1 See how the passions augment our force,-anger, love, ambition!-sometimes sympathy, and the expectation of men.
    Insp 8.288 24 At home, I remember in my library the wants of the farm, and have all too much sympathy.
    Insp 8.293 1 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right conditions...
    Insp 8.293 17 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence...
    Grts 8.313 4 [Fame] is that sympathy...by which the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
    Dem1 10.6 20 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood.
    Aris 10.32 21 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so little in sympathy with the predominant politics of nations, that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    Aris 10.55 7 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
    Chr2 10.101 10 The Arabians delight in expressing the sympathy of the unseen world with holy men.
    Edc1 10.157 10 Sympathy, the female force, which they must use who have not the first [will, the male power]...is more subtle and lasting and creative.
    Supl 10.166 15 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance...
    SovE 10.211 5 Man does not live by bread alone, but by faith, by admiration, by sympathy.
    Prch 10.221 22 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;-no, the bird...would disclaim his sympathy...
    Prch 10.234 26 ...though I observe the deafness to counsel among men, yet the power of sympathy is always great;...
    Schr 10.262 16 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing.
    Plu 10.297 27 [Plutarch] had that universal sympathy with genius which makes all its victories his own;...
    Plu 10.304 7 ...[Plutarch]...cleaves to the security of prose narrative, and only shows his intellectual sympathy with [the poet and the orator];...
    Plu 10.311 21 [Seneca] lacks the sympathy of Plutarch.
    LLNE 10.341 12 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between [this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.
    LLNE 10.342 24 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy.
    LLNE 10.362 7 Margaret Fuller, with her joyful conversation and large sympathy, was often a guest [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.363 23 Rev. William Henry Channing...was...in perfect sympathy with this experiment [at Brook Farm].
    CSC 10.374 7 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
    EzRy 10.393 13 ...with states of enthusiasm or enlarged speculation, [Ezra Ripley] had no sympathy...
    EzRy 10.394 16 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    MMEm 10.402 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people who pleased her was almost passionate...
    MMEm 10.403 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep sympathy with genius.
    MMEm 10.404 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] calls herself the puny pilgrim, whose sole talent is sympathy.
    MMEm 10.405 23 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once, by sympathy, by flattery, by raillery...
    MMEm 10.417 11 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] could hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any but a rarely-found partner.
    MMEm 10.430 5 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would...make no grimace of affected sympathy...
    MMEm 10.430 11 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    Thor 10.456 19 ...[Thoreau] was really fond of sympathy...
    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.
    GSt 10.502 2 [George Stearns] was an early laborer in the resistance to slavery. This brought him into sympathy with the people of Kansas.
    GSt 10.503 22 Every important patriotic measure in this region has had [George Stearns's] sympathy...
    LS 11.24 13 I have no hostility to this institution [the Lord's Supper]; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it.
    HDC 11.66 11 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
    LVB 11.90 10 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    War 11.156 23 Nothing is plainer than that the sympathy with war is a juvenile and temporary state.
    JBB 11.267 1 Mr. Chairman, and fellow citizens: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together.
    JBB 11.269 19 Nothing can resist the sympathy which all elevated minds must feel with [John] Brown...
    JBB 11.273 7 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember...all who are in sympathy with him...
    JBS 11.280 22 ...it is impossible to see courage, and disinterestedness, and the love that casts out fear, without sympathy.
    JBS 11.281 9 Nothing is more absurd than to complain of this sympathy [with John Brown]...
    TPar 11.289 9 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...to speak tart truth, when that was peremptory and when there were few to say it. But his sympathy for goodness was not less energetic.
    TPar 11.291 3 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy.
    TPar 11.291 5 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy.
    TPar 11.291 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy...
    EPro 11.316 9 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know.
    EPro 11.320 23 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the passionate conscience of women, the sympathy of distant nations,-all rally to its support.
    SMC 11.349 11 ...we can hardly expect a wide sympathy for the names and anecdotes which we delight to record.
    SMC 11.350 10 ...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
    EdAd 11.387 3 We have no sympathy with that boyish egotism, hoarse with cheering for one side, for one state, for one town...
    Koss 11.398 18 ...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
    Wom 11.407 2 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that the same mental height which [women's] husbands attain by toil, they attain by sympathy with their husbands.
    Wom 11.408 13 So much sympathy as [women] have makes them inestimable as the mediators between those who have knowledge and those who want it...
    Wom 11.419 1 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this: that...they are asked for by people who intellectually seek them, but who have not the support or sympathy of the truest women;...
    Scot 11.466 18 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and beggar's dog...
    FRO2 11.488 27 We cannot spare the vision nor the virtue of the saints; but let it be by pure sympathy...
    CPL 11.506 19 In books I have the history or the energy of the past. Angels they are to us of entertainment, sympathy and provocation.
    FRep 11.525 1 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...with the deepest sympathy in all that concerns the public...
    FRep 11.539 16 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this...requires docility, sympathy, and religious receiving from higher principles;...
    PLT 12.31 19 [A man's aptitude] is...an organic sympathy with the whole frame of things.
    PLT 12.53 5 I must think this keen sympathy...with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.
    CInt 12.124 5 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is an order that corresponds to that in [a young man's] own mind...
    CInt 12.125 2 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CInt 12.130 14 ...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister...is the profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.
    CL 12.151 1 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
    MAng1 12.238 20 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy.
    Milt1 12.274 3 By his sympathy with all Nature;...[Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.
    WSL 12.340 8 ...we love the man [Landor], from sympathy as well as for reasons to be assigned;...
    PPr 12.385 10 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy...
    Let 12.403 25 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is a wood-pile in the yard...

symphony, n. (1)

    NR 3.226 23 ...the power which drew my respect is not supported by the total symphony of [a man's] talents.

Symposiaca [Plutarch], n. (1)

    Plu 10.309 25 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.

Symposiacs [Plutarch], n. (1)

    Plu 10.309 25 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.

Symposium [Banquet], [Plato (2)

    PPh 4.70 4 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for than immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    SwM 4.127 5 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...

symptom, n. (3)

    SR 2.82 7 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness...
    MoS 4.173 27 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect;...
    HDC 11.48 22 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...

symptomatic, adj. (4)

    UGM 4.32 23 The history of the universe is symptomatic...
    PC 8.223 23 ...the universe at last is only prophetic, or, shall we say, symptomatic...
    LLNE 10.369 18 I recall these few selected facts, none of them of much independent interest, but symptomatic of the times and country.
    II 12.78 11 ...before the good we aim at, all history is symptomatic...

symptoms, n. (10)

    Con 1.309 14 ...I know your ways; I know the symptoms of the disease.
    Exp 3.81 27 Charity would be wasted on this poor waiting on the symptoms.
    UGM 4.19 11 We are tendencies, or rather, symptoms...
    ET18 5.302 13 What we must say about a nation is a superficial dealing with symptoms.
    Ctr 6.141 2 What we call our root-and-branch reforms...is only medicating the symptoms.
    Elo1 7.62 7 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...
    Comc 8.167 26 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen;...all the symptoms perfect.
    Dem1 10.9 1 Why...should not symptoms, auguries, forebodings be...
    PLT 12.24 8 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...
    MAng1 12.219 25 The symptoms disclose the constitution to the physician;...

synchronously, adv. (1)

    PLT 12.52 1 Not sufficing to feed all the faculties synchronously, [Nature] feeds one faculty and starves all the rest.

synes, Auld lang, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 4 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!

Synesius, n. (4)

    Int 2.346 9 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat... so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Boks 7.202 16 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists...Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Synesius, Jamblichus.
    Boks 7.202 24 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    Plu 10.319 7 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Synesius, Posidonius...

synods, n. (2)

    DSA 1.135 11 ...the man who aims to speak...as synods use...babbles.
    Con 1.295 13 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation] rages not only...in national councils and ecclesiastical synods...

synonym, n. (1)

    PLT 12.61 2 ...each [mind and heart] is easily exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become the synonym of God...

synonymous, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.75 21 The power of the Saxon-Danes, so thoroughly beaten in the war that the name of English and villein were synonymous......stood on the strong personality of these people.
    Ctr 6.147 1 ...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.

synthesis, n. (11)

    PPh 4.42 18 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he traveled into Italy...
    PPh 4.54 23 The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.55 17 Every great artist has been such by synthesis.
    PPh 4.57 6 The synthesis which makes the character of [Plato's] mind appears in all his talents.
    PPh 4.70 26 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
    PPh 4.75 16 The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the synthesis in the mind of Plato.
    PPh 4.75 17 The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the synthesis in the mind of Plato.
    SwM 4.112 16 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
    SwM 4.130 23 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg] surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...
    PI 8.54 24 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman.
    Thor 10.472 22 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed; none in a more large and religious synthesis.

synthetic, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.112 14 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the synthetic method;...

Syracuse, New York, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.224 26 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed. His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.

Syracuse, Sicily, n. (4)

    OA 7.322 14 We still feel the force...of Archimedes, holding Syracuse against the Romans by his wit...
    CPL 11.497 19 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833, growing wild at Syracuse, in Sicily...
    CInt 12.114 5 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them, and he conducted the defence of Syracuse against the Romans.
    CInt 12.114 7 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...

Syria, n. (1)

    Bost 12.185 12 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.

Syrian, adj. (2)

    Hsm1 2.257 27 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine.
    Chr2 10.101 13 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./

system, n. (189)

    Nat 1.58 2 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
    AmS 1.85 11 Far too as her splendors shine, system on system...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    AmS 1.85 12 Far too as her splendors shine, system on system...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    AmS 1.90 3 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    AmS 1.92 16 I would not be hurried by any love of system...to underrate the Book.
    DSA 1.150 4 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...
    LE 1.172 3 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall...dispose of your world-containing system as a very little unit.
    MN 1.203 7 ...planet, system, constellation, total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...
    MR 1.232 13 ...the general system of our trade...is a system of selfishness;...
    MR 1.232 16 ...the general system of our trade...is a system of selfishness;...
    MR 1.232 20 ...the general system of our trade...is a system of distrust...
    LT 1.266 26 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us...
    LT 1.269 10 ...the agitators on the system of Education and the laws of Property, are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    Con 1.304 5 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
    Con 1.304 22 ...so deep is the foundation of the existing social system, that it leaves no one out of it.
    Con 1.307 18 [The youth says] I do not wish to enter into your complex social system.
    Con 1.319 16 Now that a vicious system of trade has existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born.
    Con 1.326 13 It is much that this old and vituperated system of things has borne so fair a child.
    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 1.382 18 It was a noble thought of Fourier, which gives a favorable idea of his system, to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
    YA 1.385 27 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
    YA 1.390 11 That is [the hero's] nobility...always to throw himself...on the liberal, on the expansive side, never on the defensive, the conserving, the timorous, the lock-and-bolt system.
    YA 1.391 18 ...the development of our American internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    YA 1.394 15 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...
    YA 1.394 22 ...the system [of English aristocracy] is an invasion of the sentiment of justice and the native rights of men...
    Hist 2.37 10 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.
    SR 2.79 15 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men, and lo! a new system.
    SR 2.80 6 ...the walls of the system blend to [unbalanced mind's] eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe;...
    SR 2.82 10 ...our system of education fosters restlessness.
    Comp 2.97 10 The entire system of things gets represented in every particle.
    Comp 2.101 12 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part...all the...whole system of every other.
    Comp 2.124 22 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things...
    Cir 2.310 12 A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire system of human pursuits.
    Cir 2.313 27 The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles...
    Pt1 3.6 21 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...
    Exp 3.51 27 Temperament also enters fully into the system of illusions...
    Chr1 3.97 10 Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north. It shares the magnetic currents of the system.
    Nat2 3.181 19 If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a system in transition.
    Nat2 3.184 24 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system...
    Nat2 3.190 4 We live in a system of approximations.
    Pol1 3.199 18 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it;...
    Pol1 3.208 27 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and...throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    Pol1 3.220 8 ...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
    Pol1 3.220 26 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system;...
    NR 3.228 14 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. The genius is all. The man,--it is his system...
    NR 3.232 1 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered!
    NER 3.252 22 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture...
    NER 3.261 9 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
    NER 3.267 24 In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of the deadness of its details.
    NER 3.267 27 ...[our system of education] is a system of despair.
    NER 3.268 22 We do not believe that...any system of philosophy...will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
    UGM 4.22 19 ...our system is one of war...
    UGM 4.22 21 Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system;...
    PPh 4.52 23 European civility is...the extension of system...
    PPh 4.67 12 As if [Socrates] had said, I have no system.
    PPh 4.76 17 ...[Plato] has not a system.
    SwM 4.121 11 In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts, as each particle of matter circulates in turn through every system.
    SwM 4.133 1 Swedenborg's system of the world wants central spontaneity;...
    SwM 4.134 15 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his virtues;--sinks into entire sympathy with his society. This want reacts to the centre of the system.
    SwM 4.135 27 The more coherent and elaborate the system, the less I like it.
    MoS 4.184 15 Each man woke in the morning with an appetite that could eat the solar system like a cake;...
    NMW 4.227 10 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] makes the system of weights and measures;...
    NMW 4.233 20 To be hurried away by every event is to have no political system at all.
    NMW 4.242 22 ...those who smarted under the immediate rigors of the new monarch [Napoleon], pardoned them as the necessary severities of the military system which had driven out the oppressor.
    ET1 5.21 9 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration.
    ET2 5.33 9 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side. In every man's thought arises now a new system...
    ET5 5.85 12 The spirit of system, attention to details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET5 5.97 4 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system.
    ET5 5.98 4 [The English] system of education is factitious.
    ET5 5.101 7 Every man [in England] carries the English system in his brain...
    ET10 5.161 15 By these new agents [steam and money] our social system is moulded.
    ET13 5.216 25 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
    ET13 5.219 10 The [English] universities also are parcel of the ecclesiastical system...
    ET14 5.253 16 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain; whilst reptile or mollusk only exists in system, in relation.
    ET14 5.254 26 ...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.
    ET15 5.261 3 The power of the newspaper is familiar in America, and in accordance with our political system.
    ET15 5.263 26 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law system, and almost alone lifted it through.
    ET15 5.265 2 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times, and had gradually arranged the whole materiel of it in perfect system.
    ET18 5.306 11 The feudal system survives [in England] in the steep inequality of property and privilege...
    ET18 5.306 22 ...the feudal system can be seen with less pain on large historical grounds.
    ET18 5.307 14 The American system is more democratic [than the English]...
    F 6.7 7 ...the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,- these are in the system...
    F 6.19 4 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    F 6.49 10 In astronomy is vast space but no foreign system;...
    Wth 6.90 17 ...no system of clientship suits [the Saxons];...
    Wth 6.96 24 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!...
    Wth 6.106 25 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.110 10 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.
    Wth 6.113 11 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries...
    Wth 6.116 25 Spend after your genius, and by system.
    Wth 6.116 27 There must be system in the economies.
    Wth 6.118 14 A system must be in every economy...
    Wth 6.123 23 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...
    Wth 6.125 5 ...there is nothing in [a man's] brain which is not repeated in a higher sphere in his moral system.
    Ctr 6.132 20 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.141 17 ...we must not omit any jot of our system...
    Ctr 6.141 19 ...though we must not omit any jot of our system, we can seldom be sure that...as much good would not have accrued from a different system.
    Wsp 6.202 12 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation...
    Wsp 6.205 8 In all ages, souls...are born, who are rather related to the system of the world than to their particular age and locality.
    Wsp 6.209 25 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late King of Naples, It has been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of government.
    Wsp 6.214 6 Heaven deals with us on no representative system.
    Wsp 6.226 23 It is our system that counts...
    CbW 6.254 22 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    Bty 6.282 8 Astrology interested us, for it tied man to the system.
    Bty 6.283 4 All the elements pour through [a man's] system;...
    Bty 6.283 10 ...a right and perfect man would be felt to the centre of the Copernican system.
    Ill 6.322 1 A sudden rise in the road shows us the system of mountains...
    Ill 6.325 8 All is system and gradation.
    SS 7.5 8 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to...put diameters of the solar system and sidereal orbits between me and all souls...
    SS 7.8 10 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on all the rest.
    Civ 7.26 2 Where the banana grows the animal system is indolent...
    Elo1 7.80 14 ...among our cool and calculating people...where heats and panics and abandonments are quite out of the system, there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    DL 7.115 4 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.
    DL 7.116 26 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must correct the whole system of our social living.
    DL 7.117 8 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping]...we shall soon give up in despair.
    Clbs 7.225 14 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    Suc 7.286 5 Leverrier carried the Copernican system in his head...
    Suc 7.307 3 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet, so that the whole system is inundated with the tides of joy.
    Suc 7.307 10 Our system is one of poverty.
    OA 7.329 4 Linnaeus projects his system...before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    OA 7.329 12 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    PI 8.10 13 Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system...
    PI 8.39 19 Is the solar system good art and architecture?...
    SA 8.84 26 ...just in proportion to the morality of a people will be the expansion of the credit system.
    SA 8.101 11 ...in the last age, this system [of hereditary nobility] has been on its trial...
    Res 8.140 22 By his machines man...can see the system of the universe like Uriel...
    PC 8.223 6 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    PC 8.223 24 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    Insp 8.288 17 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders, though I bar out by system all I can...
    Imtl 8.327 7 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
    Imtl 8.327 27 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day...
    Imtl 8.329 9 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...
    PerF 10.83 18 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man]...that he is to deal absolutely in the world, as if he alone were a system and a state...
    PerF 10.83 24 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...
    Chr2 10.109 14 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Edc1 10.133 25 ...a convention for education, a lecture, a system, affects us with slight paralysis...
    Edc1 10.136 24 I call our system [of education] a system of despair...
    Edc1 10.154 2 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    SovE 10.189 12 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
    SovE 10.192 16 The idea of right...lays itself out...in the equalities and periods of our system...
    SovE 10.193 18 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    SovE 10.196 25 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living.
    Schr 10.272 5 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him. He knew the motley system in its egg.
    Schr 10.279 9 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth...
    LLNE 10.336 10 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system...
    LLNE 10.347 4 [Robert Owen] said that Fourier learned of him all the truth he had; the rest of his system was imagination, and the imagination of a banker.
    LLNE 10.349 2 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance.
    LLNE 10.349 5 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was that it was a system;...
    LLNE 10.350 7 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...
    LLNE 10.350 10 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...
    LLNE 10.352 17 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life, which spawns and scorns system and system-makers;...
    LLNE 10.352 25 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. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order externized...
    LLNE 10.354 5 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent...
    LLNE 10.355 2 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
    MMEm 10.408 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no...orderly digest of any system of philosophy...
    LS 11.21 1 ...the reason why [Christianity] is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that it is a moral system;...
    EWI 11.113 23 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham...
    EWI 11.114 14 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    EWI 11.114 15 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature... adopted absolute emancipation. In the other islands the system of the Ministry was accepted.
    EWI 11.117 2 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...
    War 11.163 12 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...
    FSLC 11.205 21 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas.
    FSLN 11.227 14 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be...a piece of money? Whether this system...shall be upheld and enlarged?
    FSLN 11.238 9 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...
    EPro 11.324 27 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    EdAd 11.391 11 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame; a nebula to dim eyes, but which great telescopes may yet resolve into a magnificent system.
    Humb 11.458 10 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system...
    FRep 11.525 4 Faults in the working appear in our system, as in all...
    FRep 11.529 7 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
    PLT 12.5 9 In astronomy, vast distance, but we never go into a foreign system.
    PLT 12.11 27 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows a system also,-a system as grand as any other...
    PLT 12.12 10 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
    PLT 12.17 24 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...
    PLT 12.27 13 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics...
    PLT 12.33 2 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system.
    PLT 12.59 9 We are passing into new heavens in fact by the movement of our solar system...
    Mem 12.109 23 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection as a planet in its orbit (every other orb, or the law or system of which it is a part, being a perpetual reminder),-we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an
    CInt 12.123 22 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading, so that presently all is wrong, talent is mistaken for genius, dogma or system for truth.
    CInt 12.124 19 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied.
    CInt 12.125 14 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education, and not falling into the system and the little parties in the convent...it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
    CInt 12.129 5 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery outside of the system and connection of things...
    MAng1 12.217 27 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
    MAng1 12.218 21 ...all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...
    PPr 12.379 18 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a...thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...until such daily and nightly meditation has grown into a great connection, if not a system of thoughts;...
    PPr 12.380 12 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...firmly holds up to daylight the absurdities still tolerated in the English and European system.
    PPr 12.390 9 Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with its infinity of details, into style.
    Let 12.393 15 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...and the total inadequacy of the present system of defence, that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.395 21 It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this particular, if that were our system...
    Trag 12.407 10 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration. They must perish, and there is no overgod to stop or to mollify this hideous enginery that...snatches them up into its terrific system.

System of Natural Theology (1)

    MMEm 10.425 7 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.

systematic, adj. (9)

    SwM 4.103 21 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...
    NMW 4.244 7 ...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
    ET12 5.211 17 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
    Ctr 6.139 22 We know...that by systematic discipline all men may be made heroes...
    Edc1 10.150 15 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors, of accurate and systematic mind, rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    SovE 10.210 1 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...
    AKan 11.257 25 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where...the whole world knows that this is...a systematic war to the knife...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    PLT 12.11 20 I cannot myself use that systematic form which is reckoned essential in treating the science of the mind.
    Mem 12.93 12 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind, alphabetic, systematic...

systematically, adv. (2)

    LE 1.187 3 Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that systematically retreats?...
    CbW 6.274 20 You cannot deal systematically with this fine element of society...

system-makers, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.352 17 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life, which spawns and scorns system and system-makers;...

systems, n. (17)

    Nat 1.37 16 The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of debt and credit.
    Nat 1.70 4 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    AmS 1.99 25 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant...to build the new...
    LE 1.171 11 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems...
    LE 1.171 20 Translate, collate, distil all the systems, it steads you nothing;...
    YA 1.374 15 We concoct eleemosynary systems, and it turns out that our charity increases pauperism.
    Hist 2.40 16 What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being?
    Int 2.335 1 The constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems.
    Pt1 3.33 2 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear...
    F 6.42 13 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now he plays a part in colossal systems...
    DL 7.108 15 The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and mechanical systems enough...
    LS 11.20 27 ...the reason why [Christianity] is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that it is a moral system;...
    Humb 11.457 21 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his encyclopaedic paragraphs!
    II 12.82 8 Trust entirely the thought. Lean upon it, it will bear up...society, and systems, like a scrap of down.
    II 12.88 5 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.
    CL 12.166 6 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems.
    PPr 12.380 25 Though...more than most philosophers a believer in political systems, Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...

systole, n. (2)

    Comp 2.96 22 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the systole and diastole of the heart;...
    Fdsp 2.196 3 ...the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.

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