See to Seek'st
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
see, v. (1056)
Nat 1.8 23 To speak truly, few adult persons can see
nature.
Nat 1.8 24 Most persons do not see the sun.
Nat 1.10 9 I become a transparent eyeball;...I see
all;...
Nat 1.16 26 We are never tired, so long as we can see
far enough.
Nat 1.17 2 I see the spectacle of morning...with
emotions which an angel
might share.
Nat 1.19 14 Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't
is mere tinsel;...
Nat 1.30 16 Hundreds of writers may be
found...who...believe...that they
see and utter truths...
Nat 1.32 18 ...we see that [nature] always stands ready
to clothe what we
would say...
Nat 1.39 1 Man is greater that he can see [that the
beauty of nature shines
in his own breast]...
Nat 1.62 12 ...we see that the views already presented
do not include the
whole circumference of man.
Nat 1.66 12 ...the best read naturalist who lends an
entire and devout
attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his
relation to
the world...
Nat 1.69 6 Nothing we see, but means our good/...
Nat 1.73 24 The ruin or the blank that we see when we
look at nature, is in
our own eye.
Nat 1.74 20 ...when a faithful thinker, resolute to
detach every object from
personal relations and see it in the light of thought, shall...kindle
science
with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
Nat 1.74 26 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the
miraculous in the
common.
Nat 1.76 9 What we are, that only can we see.
AmS 1.84 20 Let us see [the scholar] in his school...
AmS 1.85 18 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two
things and see in
them one nature;...
AmS 1.86 24 ...when he has learned...to see that the
natural philosophy that
now is, is only the first gropings of [the soul's] gigantic hand, [the
scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a
becoming
creator.
AmS 1.86 27 [The scholar] shall see that nature is the
opposite of the soul...
AmS 1.90 1 I had better never see a book than to be
warped by its attraction
clean out of my own orbit...
AmS 1.92 15 ...[insects] lay up food before death for
the young grub they
shall never see.
AmS 1.93 7 We then see...that as the seer's hour of
vision is short and rare... so is its record...the least part of his
volume.
AmS 1.94 11 The so-called practical men sneer at
speculative men, as if, because they speculate or see, they could do
nothing.
AmS 1.94 25 ...we cannot even see [the world's] beauty.
AmS 1.95 19 I do not see how any man can afford...to
spare any action in
which he can partake.
AmS 1.104 19 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye
and...see the
whelping of this lion...
AmS 1.104 25 The world is his who can see through its
pretension.
AmS 1.105 1 ...what overgrown error you behold is there
only by
sufferance, - by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have
already
dealt it its mortal blow.
AmS 1.107 4 [The poor and the low] are content to be
brushed like flies
from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him
to that
common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and
glorified.
AmS 1.109 19 ...we see with our feet;...
AmS 1.111 22 ...let me see every trifle bristling with
the polarity that
ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...
AmS 1.114 15 The scholar is...complaisant. See already
the tragic
consequence.
AmS 1.114 27 [The young men] did not yet see...that if
the single man
plant himself indomitably on his instincts...the huge world will come
round
to him.
AmS 1.115 2 ...thousands of young men...do not yet see,
that if the single
man plant himself indomitably on his instincts...the huge world will
come
round to him.
DSA 1.120 15 Behold these out-running laws, which our
imperfect
apprehension can see tend this way and that...
DSA 1.122 26 See how this rapid intrinsic energy
worketh everywhere...
DSA 1.123 17 See again the perfection of the Law as it
applies itself to the
affections...
DSA 1.129 3 [Jesus] said...Would you see God, see me;
DSA 1.129 4 [Jesus] said...Would you see God, see me;
or see thee...
DSA 1.132 25 ...[the simple] have not yet drunk so
deeply of [the great soul'
s] sense as to see that only by coming again to themselves...can they
grow
forevermore.
DSA 1.133 4 ...all men will see that the gift of God to
the soul is not a
vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...
DSA 1.133 11 The preachers do not see that they make
[Jesus's] gospel not
glad...
DSA 1.133 14 When I see a majestic Epaminondas...I see
beauty that is to
be desired.
DSA 1.133 15 ...when I see among my contemporaries a
true orator...I see
beauty that is to be desired.
DSA 1.133 18 ...when I vibrate to the melody and fancy
of a poem; I see
beauty that is to be desired.
DSA 1.144 25 [Men] cannot see in secret;...
DSA 1.145 1 See how nations and races flit by on the
sea of time...
DSA 1.146 10 Look to it...that fashion, custom,
authority, pleasure, and
money...are not bandages over your eyes, that you cannot see...
DSA 1.151 17 I look for the new Teacher that shall
follow so far those
shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
DSA 1.151 18 I look for the new Teacher that shall
follow so far those
shining laws that he...shall see their rounding complete grace;...
DSA 1.151 19 I look for the new Teacher that shall
follow so far those
shining laws that he...shall see the world to be the mirror of the
soul;...
DSA 1.151 20 I look for the new Teacher that shall
follow so far those
shining laws that he...shall see the identity of the law of gravitation
with
purity of heart;...
LE 1.161 6 ...see how much you would impoverish the
world if you could
take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
LE 1.161 10 ...see how much you would impoverish the
world if you could
take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and
Plato...and
cause them not to be. See you not how much less the power of man would
be?
LE 1.162 17 The youth, intoxicated with his admiration
of a hero, fails to
see that it is only a projection of his own soul which he admires.
LE 1.168 19 ...when I see the daybreak I am not
reminded of these
Homeric...pictures.
LE 1.169 8 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods,
where...from year to
year, the eagle and the crow see no intruder;...this beauty...has never
been
recorded by art...
LE 1.170 16 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see
that no history
that we have is safe...
LE 1.170 22 The moment a man of genius pronounces the
name...of the
Roman people, we see their state under a new aspect.
LE 1.174 3 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place,
hankering for the
crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...he does not see;...
LE 1.186 3 ...see that you hold yourself fast by the
intellect.
MN 1.193 4 If I see nothing to admire in the unit,
shall I admire a million
units?
MN 1.196 10 ...if you come month after month to see
what progress our
reformer has made,-not an inch has he pierced...
MN 1.197 25 Let us see [the method of nature], as
nearly as we can...
MN 1.201 22 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause
of the world is to
make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
MN 1.202 6 When we...shorten the sight to look into
this court of Louis
Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...one can hardly help
asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space
with so
poor an article.
MN 1.205 15 See the play of thoughts!...
MN 1.207 7 Follow the great man, and you shall see what
the world has at
heart in these ages.
MN 1.209 12 I conceive a man as always spoken to from
behind, and
unable to turn his head and see the speaker.
MN 1.223 18 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities
which house to-day
in this mortal frame...have before had a natural history like that of
this body
you see before you;...
MR 1.235 14 I see no instant prospect of a virtuous
revolution;...
MR 1.235 21 Who could regret to see a high
conscience...exercising a
sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
MR 1.235 26 Who could regret to see...a purer
taste...thinning the ranks of
competition in the labors...of state? It is easy to see that the
inconvenience
would last but a short time.
MR 1.245 23 Much of the economy which we see in houses
is of a base
origin...
MR 1.248 5 ...we are to see that the world not only
fitted the former men, but fits us...
MR 1.250 7 ...I see at once how paltry is all this
generation of unbelievers...
MR 1.250 10 ...I see at once how paltry is all this
generation of unbelievers, and what a house of cards their institutions
are, and I see what one brave
man...might effect.
MR 1.250 12 I see that the reason of the distrust of
the practical man in all
theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work.
MR 1.252 17 See this wide society of laboring men and
women.
MR 1.252 26 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble
and king from the
foundation of the world. See, this tree always bears one fruit.
MR 1.254 7 I am to see to it that the world is the
better for me...
MR 1.254 12 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast
the vain diplomacy
of statesmen...would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
LT 1.268 1 Let us not see the foundations of
nations...with...an attention
preoccupied with trifles.
LT 1.271 2 There is a perfect chain,-see it, or see it
not,-of reforms
emerging from the surrounding darkness...
LT 1.271 3 There is a perfect chain,-see it, or see it
not,-of reforms
emerging from the surrounding darkness...
LT 1.274 22 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on
the subject of
Marriage. They wish to see the character represented also in that
covenant.
LT 1.275 15 See how daring is the reading...of the
time.
LT 1.277 5 The young men who have been vexing society
for these last
years with regenerative methods...all failed to see that the Reform of
Reforms must be accomplished without means.
LT 1.279 14 The great majority of men...are not aware
of the evil that is
around them until they see it in some gross form...
LT 1.280 17 I am not mortified by our vice;...it curses
and swears, and I
can see to the end of it;...
LT 1.281 20 ...let us turn to see how it stands with
the other class of which
we spoke, namely, the students.
LT 1.282 18 The men [of other periods] did not see
beyond the need of the
hour.
LT 1.290 20 You will absolve me from the charge of
flippancy...when you
see that reality is all we prize...
Con 1.296 27 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus], thou
art in league with
Night...
Con 1.297 27 ...[conservatism] will not open its eyes
to see a better fact.
Con 1.300 13 ...the superior beauty is with...the man
who has subsisted for
years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself, so that
when
you remember what he was, and see what he is, you say, What strides!
what
a disparity is here!
Con 1.301 9 If we see [the world] from the side of
Will, or the Moral
Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present...
Con 1.301 18 ...men are...very foolish children,
who...see everything in the
most absurd manner...
Con 1.305 14 However men please to style themselves, I
see no other than
a conservative party.
Con 1.311 1 ...if in any one respect [existing
institutions] have come short, see what ample retribution of good they
have made.
Con 1.313 26 ...see you not how every personal
character reacts on the
form, and makes it new?
Con 1.318 11 ...beside that charity which
should...engage [adult persons] to
see that [the youth] has a free field and fair play on his entrance
into life, we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a
part, does not
permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of
mankind.
Con 1.318 13 ...we are bound to see that the society of
which we compose a
part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor
and
welfare of mankind.
Tran 1.330 22 [The idealist] does not deny the sensuous
fact...but he will
not see that alone.
Tran 1.338 1 You will see by this sketch that there is
no such thing as a
Transcendental party;...
Tran 1.345 11 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to life
in his profession
and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors? Do you not see that all
are
young men?
Tran 1.348 21 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from
the rest...as if they
thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers,
attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock
to
them.
Tran 1.349 17 As to the general course of living, and
the daily
employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in
these...
YA 1.365 8 ...prudent men have begun to see that every
American should
be educated with a view to the values of land.
YA 1.374 20 It is easy to see that the existing
generation are conspiring
with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations,
sacrifices
the passing one;...
YA 1.375 16 The patriarchal form of government readily
becomes despotic, as each person may see in his own family.
YA 1.376 14 It is easy to see that this patriarchal or
family management
gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...
YA 1.378 19 ...the historian will see that trade was
the principle of
Liberty;...
YA 1.387 10 I think I see place and duties for a
nobleman in every
society;...
YA 1.392 19 ...it is not strange that our youths and
maidens should burn to
see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
Hist 2.5 21 ...I can see my own vices without heat in
the distant persons of
Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
Hist 2.8 17 [Each man] should see that he can live all
history in his own
person.
Hist 2.10 5 Every mind must know the whole lesson for
itself,--must go
over the whole ground. What it does not see...it will not know.
Hist 2.10 18 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact...
Hist 2.10 19 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be.
Hist 2.11 12 Belzoni digs and measures in the
mummy-pits and pyramids
of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the
monstrous
work and himself.
Hist 2.16 17 If any one will but take pains to observe
the variety of actions
to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to
which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
Hist 2.17 27 In the man, could we lay him open, we
should see the reason
for the last flourish and tendril of his work;...
Hist 2.19 14 By surrounding ourselves with the original
circumstances we
invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture, as we see how
each people merely decorated its primitive abodes.
Hist 2.20 19 In the woods in a winter afternoon one
will see as readily the
origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky
seen
through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
Hist 2.25 14 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is
a gang of great
boys...
Hist 2.27 21 I see that men of God have from time to
time walked among
men...
Hist 2.31 27 ...what see I on any side but the
transmigrations of Proteus?
Hist 2.33 14 See in Goethe's Helena the same desire
that every word
should be a thing.
Hist 2.36 24 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex
interests and antagonist
power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such
a
profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
Hist 2.37 2 [Talbot's] substance is not here./ For what
you see is but the
smallest part/...
Hist 2.38 8 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling a
new object shall
unlock, any more than he can draw to-day the face of a person whom he
shall see to-morrow for the first time.
Hist 2.39 21 ...see the lizard on the fence...
Hist 2.40 11 I am ashamed to see what a shallow village
tale our so-called
History is.
SR 2.58 17 ...let me record day by day my honest
thought...and, I cannot
doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it
not.
SR 2.58 24 Men...do not see that virtue or vice emit a
breath every moment.
SR 2.59 6 See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient
distance, and it straightens
itself to the average tendency.
SR 2.64 17 We first share the life by which things
exist and afterwards see
them as appearances in nature...
SR 2.65 17 [Thoughtless people] fancy that I choose to
see this or that thing.
SR 2.65 18 If I see a trait, my children will see it
after me...
SR 2.65 19 If I see a trait, my children will see it
after me...
SR 2.67 21 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet
hear God himself...
SR 2.68 2 We are like children who repeat by rote the
sentences of...tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men
of...character they chance to see...
SR 2.68 9 If we live truly, we shall see truly.
SR 2.68 24 ...when you have life in yourself...you
shall not see the face of
man;...
SR 2.70 7 We do not yet see that virtue is Height...
SR 2.70 22 I see the same law working in nature for
conservation and
growth.
SR 2.75 8 If any man consider the present aspects of
what is called by
distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics.
SR 2.75 16 ...we see that most natures are insolvent...
SR 2.77 3 It is easy to see that a greater
self-reliance must work a
revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
SR 2.77 25 [Man] will [as soon as he is at one with
God] then see prayer in
all action.
SR 2.80 11 [The unbalanced mind] cannot imagine how you
aliens have
any right to see...
SR 2.80 11 [The unbalanced mind] cannot imagine how you
aliens have
any right to see,--how you can see;...
SR 2.84 25 ...you shall see that the white man has lost
his aboriginal
strength.
SR 2.86 22 It is curious to see the periodical disuse
and perishing of means
and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or
centuries before.
SR 2.88 3 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he
has if he see that it
is accidental...
SR 2.89 3 It is only as a man...stands alone that I see
him to be strong...
Comp 2.102 8 That soul which within us is a sentiment,
outside of us is a
law. We feel its inspiration; but there in history we can see its fatal
strength.
Comp 2.102 23 If you see smoke, there must be fire.
Comp 2.102 23 If you see a hand or a limb, you know
that the trunk to
which it belongs is there behind.
Comp 2.105 24 ...when the disease began in the will, of
rebellion and
separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man ceases
to see
God whole in each object...
Comp 2.105 25 ...when the disease began in the will, of
rebellion and
separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man...is
able to see
the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt;...
Comp 2.105 26 ...when the disease began in the will, of
rebellion and
separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man...is
able to see
the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt;...
Comp 2.108 20 We are to see that which man was tending
to do in a given
period...
Comp 2.110 21 The exclusive in fashionable life does
not see that he
excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.
Comp 2.110 24 The exclusionist in religion does not see
that he shuts the
door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut others out.
Comp 2.111 25 [Fear] is a carrion crow, and though you
see not well what
he hovers for, there is death somewhere.
Comp 2.113 2 [The borrower] may soon come to see that
he had better
have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's
coach...
Comp 2.121 25 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the
malignity and the lie
with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a
demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but, should we
not
see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.
Comp 2.122 8 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world;
I...see the darkness
receding on the limits of the horizon.
Comp 2.123 27 ...see the facts nearly and these
mountainous inequalities
vanish.
Comp 2.125 18 We do not see that [our angels] only go
out that archangels
may come in.
SL 2.133 26 When we see a soul whose acts are all
regal, graceful and
pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
SL 2.143 1 We...do not see that Paganini can extract
rapture from a catgut...
SL 2.147 7 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see
things that stare us in
the face...
SL 2.148 1 [A man] may see what he maketh.
SL 2.148 5 We see our evil affections embodied in bad
physiognomies.
SL 2.148 12 My children, said an old man to his boys
scared by a figure in
the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than
yourselves.
SL 2.149 4 What can we see or acquire but what we are?
SL 2.151 25 [The world] will certainly accept your own
measure of your
doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave
sphere of the heavens...
SL 2.152 12 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will
deliver an oration on
the Fourth of July...
SL 2.159 18 A man may play the fool in the drifts of a
desert, but every
grain of sand shall seem to see.
SL 2.160 22 Let [your friend] feel that the highest
love has come to see
him, in thee its lowest organ.
SL 2.161 9 We...do not see that [an institution] is
founded on a thought
which we have.
SL 2.162 17 I see action to be good, when the need
is...
Lov1 2.172 13 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before
and never shall
meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance...and we are no
longer
strangers.
Lov1 2.174 14 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or
comparison and
putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty
years...
Lov1 2.181 9 ...[the ancient writers] said that the
soul of man, embodied
here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun, and
unable
to see any other objects than those of this world...
Lov1 2.185 8 Does that other [lover] see the same
star...that now delights
me?
Fdsp 2.191 8 How many we see in the street...whom,
though silently, we
warmly rejoice to be wth!
Fdsp 2.192 5 See, in any house where virtue and
self-respect abide, the
palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.
Fdsp 2.194 6 ...I am not so ungrateful as not to see
the wise, the lovely and
the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.
Fdsp 2.196 20 Shall I not be as real as the things I
see?
Fdsp 2.197 13 ...I see well that, for all his purple
cloaks, I shall not like [the
party you praise], unless he is at least a poor Greek like me.
Fdsp 2.204 7 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature.
I...who see nothing in
nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own,
behold
now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
Fdsp 2.212 13 We see the noble afar off and they repel
us;...
Fdsp 2.213 13 Only be admonished by what you already
see, not to strike
leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
Fdsp 2.216 21 ...the great will see that true love
cannot be unrequited.
Prd1 2.229 7 I have seen a criticism on some paintings,
of which I am
reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to
their senses.
Prd1 2.234 7 Let [a man] see that as much wisdom may be
expended on a
private economy as on an empire...
Prd1 2.240 9 Scarcely can we say we see new men, new
women, approaching us.
Hsm1 2.246 10 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/
And lose her gentler
sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
Hsm1 2.251 16 ...every man must be supposed to see a
little farther on his
own proper path than any one else.
Hsm1 2.251 19 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the
hero's] act, until
after some little time be past; then they see it to be in unison with
their acts.
Hsm1 2.251 21 All prudent men see that the [heroic]
action is clean
contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
Hsm1 2.256 24 Simple hearts...would appear, could we
see the human race
assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...
Hsm1 2.257 21 See to it only that thyself is here...
Hsm1 2.258 19 We have seen or heard of many
extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not
extraordinary. When we see their
air and mien...we admire their superiority;...
Hsm1 2.262 18 I see not any road of perfect peace which
a man can walk, but after the counsel of his own bosom.
Hsm1 2.263 12 It may calm the apprehension of calamity
in the most
susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost
infliction of malice.
OS 2.268 12 When I watch that flowing river, which, out
of regions I see
not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a
pensioner;...
OS 2.268 13 When I watch that flowing river, which, out
of regions I see
not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a
pensioner;...
OS 2.269 15 We see the world piece by piece...
OS 2.270 11 If we consider what happens...in the
instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in
masquerade...we shall catch many hints
that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
OS 2.271 24 A wise old proverb says, God comes to see
us without bell;...
OS 2.272 4 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom,
Power.
OS 2.273 10 See how the deep divine thought reduces
centuries and
millenniums...
OS 2.276 14 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal
sentiment we have
come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to
the
centre of the world, where...we see causes, and anticipate the
universe...
OS 2.276 22 I live...with persons who...express a
certain obedience to the
great instincts to which I live. I see its presence to them.
OS 2.277 4 Childhood and youth see all the world in
[persons].
OS 2.279 17 We know truth when we see it...
OS 2.279 22 We know truth when we see it, from opinion,
as we know
when we are awake that we are awake.
OS 2.280 10 If we...see how the thing stands in God, we
know the
particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
OS 2.281 12 In these communications [of the soul] the
power to see is not
separated from the will to do...
OS 2.285 6 By the same fire...which burns until it
shall dissolve all things
into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each
other...
OS 2.290 1 When we see those whom [the soul] inhabits,
we are apprised
of new degrees of greatness.
OS 2.291 23 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go
to see Cromwell
and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand
Turk.
OS 2.297 3 ...man will come to see that the world is
the perennial miracle
which the soul worketh...
Cir 2.302 11 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as
if it had been
statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining,
as we
see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in
June
and July.
Cir 2.302 21 See the investment of capital in
aqueducts, made useless by
hydraulics;...
Cir 2.306 13 Every man supposes himself not to be fully
understood; and... I see not how it can be otherwise.
Cir 2.306 20 I see no reason why I should not have the
same thought...to-morrow.
Cir 2.306 25 ...yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in
this direction in which
now I see so much;...
Cir 2.307 18 I know and see too well...the speedy
limits of persons called
high and worthy.
Cir 2.308 9 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a
man] to you yesterday... a sea to swim in; now, you have found his
shores, found it a pond, and you
care not if you never see it again.
Cir 2.308 14 A wise man will see that Aristotle
platonizes.
Cir 2.309 19 ...we see in the heyday of youth and
poetry that [idealism] may be true...
Cir 2.309 22 ...[idealism's] countenance waxes stern
and grand, and we see
that it must be true.
Cir 2.311 19 ...literatures, cities, climates,
religions, leave their foundations
and dance before our eyes. And yet here again see the swift
circumscription!
Cir 2.312 8 We...install ourselves the best we can...in
Roman houses, only
that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes
of living.
Cir 2.312 10 ...we see literature best from the midst
of wild nature...
Cir 2.313 6 We can never see Christianity from the
catechism...
Cir 2.315 1 ...it behooves each to see, when he
sacrifices prudence, to what
god he devotes it;...
Cir 2.319 10 We grizzle every day. I see no need of it.
Cir 2.321 6 Character makes...a cheerful, determined
hour, which fortifies
all the company by making them see that much is possible and excellent
that was not thought of.
Cir 2.321 8 When we see the conqueror we do not think
much of any one
battle or success.
Cir 2.321 10 When we see the conqueror we do not think
much of any one
battle or success. We see that we had exaggerated the difficulty.
Cir 2.321 14 People say sometimes, See what I have
overcome; see how
cheerful I am;...
Cir 2.321 15 People say sometimes, See what I have
overcome;...see how
completely I have triumphed over these black events.
Int 2.326 16 He who is immersed in what concerns person
or place cannot
see the problem of existence.
Int 2.328 25 We do not determine what we will think. We
only...clear away
as we can all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to
see.
Int 2.331 16 I seem to know what he meant who said, No
man can see God
face to face and live.
Int 2.332 12 ...now you must labor with your brains,
and now you must
forbear your activity and see what the great Soul showeth.
Int 2.333 22 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to
produce anything
like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense
knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
Int 2.334 1 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within
doors, and shut your
eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the
corn-flags...
Int 2.337 18 ...as soon as we let our will go and let
the unconscious states
ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
Int 2.339 16 I cannot see what you see, because I am
caught up by a strong
wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of
your
horizon.
Int 2.342 23 The suggestions are thousand-fold that I
hear and see.
Art1 2.356 27 ...as I see many pictures and higher
genius in the art [of
painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
Art1 2.357 1 ...as I see many pictures and higher
genius in the art [of
painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
Art1 2.357 18 I...see that painting and sculpture are
gymnastics of the eye...
Art1 2.361 4 ...in my younger days...I fancied the
great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold...
I was to see and acquire I knew
not what.
Art1 2.367 7 Now men do not see nature to be
beautiful...
Pt1 3.12 6 ...from the heaven of truth I shall see and
comprehend my
relations.
Pt1 3.12 8 That will reconcile me to life and renovate
nature, to see trifles
animated by a tendency...
Pt1 3.12 10 ...now I shall see men and women...
Pt1 3.16 5 A beauty not explicable is dearer than a
beauty which we can see
to the end of.
Pt1 3.16 15 See the great ball which they roll from
Baltimore to Bunker
Hill!
Pt1 3.16 21 See the power of national emblems.
Pt1 3.19 1 Readers of poetry see the factory-village
and the railway, and
fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;...
Pt1 3.19 20 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for
the first time, and the
complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not
that he
does not see all the fine houses...
Pt1 3.20 19 ...the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see
through the earth...
Pt1 3.36 7 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions,
seen in heavenly
light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other
they
appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin,
they complained of the darkness, and were compelled to shut the window
that they might see.
Pt1 3.38 23 Art is the path of the creator to his work.
The paths or methods
are ideal and eternal, though few men ever see them;...
Exp 3.43 12 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I
saw them pass,/ In their
own guise,/ .../ Some to see, some to be guessed,/ They marched from
east
to west/...
Exp 3.50 9 From the mountain you see the mountain.
Exp 3.50 10 ...we see only what we animate.
Exp 3.50 11 Nature and books belong to the eyes that
see them.
Exp 3.50 13 It depends on the mood of the man whether
he shall see the
sunset or the fine poem.
Exp 3.51 22 We see young men who owe us a new
world...but they never
acquit the debt;...
Exp 3.52 2 Temperament...shuts us in a prison of glass
which we cannot
see.
Exp 3.54 14 I see not, if one be once caught in this
trap of so-called
sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of
physical
necessity.
Exp 3.56 3 How strongly I have felt of pictures that
when you have seen
one well, you must take your leave of it; you shall never see it again.
Exp 3.63 3 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of
Saint Jerome, and
what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the
Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...
Exp 3.66 7 You who see the artist, the orator, the
poet, too near...conclude
very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
Exp 3.69 6 ...every thing [is] impossible until we see
a success.
Exp 3.69 16 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or
failure, than more or
less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
Exp 3.75 23 ...we do not see directly, but mediately...
Exp 3.79 26 As I am, so I see;...
Exp 3.80 12 Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily
her own tail?
Exp 3.80 14 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes
you might see her
surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
Chr1 3.90 20 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I
might see him offer
battle...
Chr1 3.92 12 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you
will know as easily
why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his
fortune.
Chr1 3.92 13 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you
will know as easily
why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his
fortune.
Chr1 3.92 19 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon
as you see the
natural merchant...
Chr1 3.93 9 In his parlor I see very well that [the
natural merchant] has
been at hard work this morning...
Chr1 3.93 13 In his parlor I see very well that [the
natural merchant] has
been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled
humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see
plainly
how many firm acts have been done;...
Chr1 3.93 16 I see [in the natural merchant]...the
consciousness of being an
agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
Chr1 3.96 27 [Impure men] cannot see the action until
it is done.
Chr1 3.99 20 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall
think myself poorly
entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and
etiquette;...
Chr1 3.100 19 Acquiescence in the establishment and
appeal to the public, indicate...heads...which must see a house built
before they can comprehend
the plan of it.
Chr1 3.102 7 It is not enough that the intellect should
see the evils and
their remedy.
Chr1 3.108 8 When we see a great man we fancy a
resemblance to some
historical person...
Chr1 3.113 25 We shall one day see that the most
private is the most public
energy...
Chr1 3.115 12 Is there any religion but this, to know
that wherever in the
wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a
flower, it blooms for me? if none sees it, I see it;...
Mrs1 3.128 17 The class of power, the working
heroes...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration
of such as they;...
Mrs1 3.129 21 You may keep this [aristocratic,
fashionable] minority out
of sight and out of mind, but it...is one of the estates of the realm.
I am the
more struck with this tenacity, when I see its work.
Mrs1 3.130 3 ...come from year to year and see how
permanent [the
distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of
man...
Mrs1 3.133 5 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his
tail on!--
Mrs1 3.134 17 I may go into a cottage, and find a
farmer who feels that he
is the man I have come to see...
Mrs1 3.140 21 Society loves...sleepy languishing
manners, so that they
cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and
inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the
sensitive.
Mrs1 3.151 3 ...are there not women...who anoint our
eyes and we see?
Mrs1 3.155 3 It is easy to see that what is called by
distinction society and
fashion has good laws as well as bad...
Gts 3.160 19 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat
bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...
Gts 3.163 1 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I
should be ashamed
that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity,
and
not him.
Gts 3.165 7 ...I like to see that we cannot be bought
and sold.
Nat2 3.167 1 The rounded world is fair to see/...
Nat2 3.170 7 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap
us in their bosom.
Nat2 3.174 15 In [the stars'] soft glances I see what
men strove to realize in
some Versailles...
Nat2 3.177 3 A susceptible person does not like to
indulge his tastes in this
kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity:
he
goes to see a wood-lot...
Nat2 3.178 25 We see the foaming brook with
compunction...
Nat2 3.182 13 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone
from the city wall
would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as
the city.
Nat2 3.189 17 A man can only speak so long as he does
not feel his speech
to be partial and inadequate. It is partial, but he does not see it to
be so
whilst he utters it.
Pol1 3.214 19 I can see well enough a great difference
between my setting
myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act
after my views;...
Pol1 3.214 25 ...when a quarter of the human race
assume to tell me what I
must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so
clearly
the absurdity of their command.
Pol1 3.215 4 If I put myself in the place of my child,
and we stand in one
thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law
for him
and me.
Pol1 3.220 13 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure
the code of force
they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...can be
answered.
NR 3.229 5 ...you see [a personal influence], and you
see it not, by turns;...
NR 3.229 6 ...you see [a personal influence], and you
see it not, by turns;...
NR 3.230 5 In the parliament, in the play-house, at
dinner-tables [in
England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read,
conventional, proud men...
NR 3.233 16 It is a greater joy to see the author's
author, than himself.
NR 3.236 12 It is all idle talking: as much as a man is
a whole, so is he also
a part; and it were partial not to see it.
NR 3.237 6 We like to come to a height of land and see
the landscape...
NR 3.243 10 All persons, all things which we have
known, are here
present, and many more than we see;...
NR 3.243 16 ...though nothing is impassable to the
soul...yet this is only
whilst the soul does not see them.
NR 3.244 17 If we cannot make voluntary and conscious
steps in the
admirable science of universals, let us see the parts wisely...
NR 3.248 23 Could [my good men] but once understand
that I...heartily
wished them God-speed, yet, out of my poverty of life and thought, had
no
word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great
satisfaction.
NER 3.254 21 It is right and beautiful in any man to
say, I will take this
coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see
the
act to be original...
NER 3.255 9 In politics...it is easy to see the
progress of dissent.
NER 3.262 17 ...you must make me feel that you...by
your natural and
supernatural advantages do easily see to the end of [the
institution]...
NER 3.262 18 ...you must make me feel that you...by
your natural and
supernatural advantages do...see how man can do without [the
institution].
NER 3.263 2 When we see an eager assailant of one of
these wrongs...we
feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue?
NER 3.277 9 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be
lifted to some
higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the
transalpine
good...
NER 3.280 27 When two persons sit and converse in a
thoroughly good
understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed
about words!
NER 3.283 18 Work, [the Law] saith to man, in every
hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work...
NER 3.284 1 As soon as a man is wonted...to see how
this high will
prevails without an exception or an interval, he settles himself into
serenity.
NER 3.285 13 It is so wonderful to our neurologists
that a man can see
without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that it is just as
wonderful
that he should see with them;...
NER 3.285 15 It is so wonderful to our neurologists
that a man can see
without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that it is just as
wonderful
that he should see with them;...
UGM 4.6 12 I count him a great man who inhabits a
higher sphere of
thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light...
UGM 4.15 14 The people cannot see [the hero] enough.
UGM 4.16 22 We go to the gymnasium and the
swimming-school to see
the power and beauty of the body;...
UGM 4.18 7 Little minds are little through failure to
see [the laws of
identity and of reaction].
UGM 4.19 4 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with
assurances that we could
not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of
condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty...
UGM 4.25 14 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our
eyes from egotism
and enable us to see other people and their works.
UGM 4.31 19 ...if any appear never to assume the chair,
but always to
stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a
sufficiently
long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
UGM 4.32 13 Ask the great man if there be none greater.
His companions
are; and not the less great but the more that society cannot see them.
PPh 4.46 3 As soon as, with culture...[men and women]
see [things] no
longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from
that
weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
PPh 4.54 22 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his
lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was
born.
PPh 4.61 6 ...men see in [Plato] their own dreams and
glimpses are made
available and made to pass for what they are.
PNR 4.87 20 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the
centre that we see the
sphere illuminated...
PNR 4.89 24 I am sorry to see [Plato], after such noble
superiorities, permitting [in The Republic] the lie to governors.
SwM 4.95 25 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the
mystic, and Abu Ali
Seena, the philosopher, conferred together; and, on parting, the
philosopher
said, All that he sees, I know; and the mystic said, All that he knows,
I see.
SwM 4.98 26 ...it is easier to see the reflection of
the great sphere in large
globes...than in drops of water...
SwM 4.105 7 What was left for a genius of the largest
calibre but to go
over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? It is easy to
see, in
these minds, the origin of Swedenborg's studies...
SwM 4.117 22 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions,
philosophies, and yet
had failed to see the correspondence of meaning between every part and
every other part.
SwM 4.128 7 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do
you see the
same truth?
MoS 4.149 7 Nothing so thin but has these two faces
[sensation and
morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over
to see
the reverse.
MoS 4.150 22 It is easy to see how this arrogance [of
the literary class] comes.
MoS 4.155 25 If you come near [the studious classes]
and see what conceits
they entertain,--they are abstractionists...
MoS 4.156 6 ...I see plainly, [the skeptic] says, that
I cannot see.
MoS 4.161 12 Every thing that is excellent in
mankind...every one skilful
to play and win,--[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
MoS 4.167 2 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite
the title-page, I
seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all
the states
and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate
the dry fact, as I see it;...
MoS 4.179 3 A method in the world we do not see...
MoS 4.180 27 Once admitted to the heaven of thought,
[some minds] see
no relapse into night...
MoS 4.182 2 These particular griefs and crimes are the
foliage and fruit of
such trees as we see growing.
MoS 4.185 22 We see, now, events forced on which seem
to retard or
retrograde the civility of ages.
ShP 4.195 19 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the
cropping out of the
original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
ShP 4.195 24 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII]
was written by a
superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and
know
well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene
with
Cromwell...
ShP 4.199 22 It is easy to see that what is best
written or done by genius in
the world, was no man's work...
ShP 4.203 27 You cannot see the mountain near.
ShP 4.204 16 [Shakespeare's] mind is the horizon beyond
which, at
present, we do not see.
ShP 4.206 24 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a
famed performer...
ShP 4.219 17 The world still wants its poet-priest, a
reconciler...who shall
see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration.
NMW 4.235 20 We like to see every thing do its office
after its kind...
NMW 4.249 11 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies
are two bodies
which meet and endeavor to frighten each other;...
GoW 4.263 19 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes
of eloquence, they
might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some
Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in
the
muscles of the neck.
GoW 4.264 13 ...nature has more splendid endowments for
those whom she
elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who
see
connection where the multitude see fragments...
GoW 4.272 21 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this
plague of microscopes (for he seems to see out of every pore of his
skin), strikes the harp with a
hero's strength and grace.
GoW 4.276 2 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over
again some old wife's
fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He
may
as well see if it is true as another.
GoW 4.281 16 There must be a man behind the book; a
personality...which
exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise;...
GoW 4.281 24 If [the writer] can not rightly express
himself to-day, the
same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the
burden on his mind...and it constitutes his business and calling in the
world
to see those facts through...
GoW 4.286 3 An intellectual man can see himself as a
third person;...
GoW 4.288 20 We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or
afraid to live.
ET1 5.4 3 ...my narrow and desultory reading had
inspired the wish to see
the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor,
DeQuincey...
ET1 5.9 12 I was more curious to see [Landor's]
library...
ET1 5.10 12 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote
a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It
was near noon. Mr
Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed, but if I would call
after
one o'clock he would see me.
ET1 5.12 27 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought
[the Independent's
pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work.
ET1 5.14 4 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture
of Allston's, and
told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and
glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it
the
work of an old master;...
ET1 5.22 12 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit
to Staffa, and
within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave, and was
composing a fourth when he was called in to see me.
ET1 5.23 5 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus
far to see a poet and
he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I
was
wrong...
ET2 5.33 17 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like
some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches,
harvests;...
ET3 5.36 13 See what books fill our libraries.
ET3 5.38 3 ...to see England well needs a hundred
years;...
ET3 5.41 19 It is not down in the books...that
fortunate day when a wave of
the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall
to
France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the
harvests of the
continent...
ET4 5.49 18 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races as
we see them is a
weak argument for the eternity of these frail boundaries...
ET4 5.50 5 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and
Tartar should mix, when
we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form...
ET4 5.62 17 It is a medical fact that the children of
the blind see;...
ET5 5.81 16 [The English] are bound to see their
measure carried...
ET5 5.81 21 Into this English logic...an infusion of
justice enters, not so
apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides, and
the
resolution to see fair play.
ET7 5.122 1 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one
hundred and twenty-seven
all voting like sheep...
ET7 5.125 13 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the
opera to see
Malibran.
ET8 5.131 27 [The English] are good at storming
redoubts...but not, I
think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at
the word
of a czar. Being both vascular and highly organized, so as to be very
sensible of pain; and intellectual, so as to see reason and glory in a
matter.
ET8 5.139 2 To understand the power of performance that
is in their finest
wits...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
ET9 5.145 15 A much older traveller...says... ...
...whenever [the English] see a handsome foreigner, they say he looks
like an Englishman...
ET10 5.163 14 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in
fountain, garden, or
grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at
home.
ET11 5.177 23 [The English aristocracy] have often no
residence in
London, and only go thither a short time, during the season, to see the
opera;...
ET11 5.186 8 ...if [English nobility] never hear plain
truth from men, they
see the best of everything...
ET11 5.186 9 ...[English nobility] see things so
grouped and amassed as to
infer easily the sum and genius...
ET12 5.199 6 I regret that I had but a single day
wherein to see King's
College Chapel [Cambridge]...
ET13 5.220 24 When you see on the continent the
well-dressed Englishman
come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer
into his
smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride
prays
with him...
ET13 5.227 1 ...a bishop [in England] is only a
surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of
the shopman's coat glitter.
ET14 5.238 11 'T is a very old strife between those who
elect to see
identity and those who elect to see discrepancies;...
ET14 5.238 12 'T is a very old strife between those who
elect to see
identity and those who elect to see discrepancies;...
ET15 5.262 4 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of
Northumberland; mark
my words; you and I shall not live to see it...but...these newspapers
will
most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
ET15 5.266 9 ...the editor's room [of the London
Times], I did not see...
ET15 5.269 1 When I see [the English] reading [the
London Times's] columns, they seem to me becoming every moment more
British.
ET15 5.270 24 ...when [the editors of the London Times]
see that [authors
of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in
with
the voice of a monarch...
ET15 5.271 2 ...the aspirants see that The [London]
Times is one of the
goods of fortune...
ET16 5.274 16 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the
British Museum in
silence, and thinks a sincere man will see something and say nothing.
ET16 5.277 4 It was pleasant to see that just this
simplest of all simple
structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
ET16 5.279 26 [Carlyle] can see, as he reads [the Acta
Sanctorum], the old
Saint of Iona sitting there and writing, a man to men.
ET16 5.283 11 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work
on the
substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
ET16 5.286 15 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the
train Clarendon
Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood...
ET16 5.287 15 I can easily see the bankruptcy of the
vulgar musket-worship...
ET17 5.297 24 [Wordsworth] lived long enough to witness
the revolution
he had wrought, and to see what he foresaw.
ET18 5.299 4 ...[England] is an old pile built in
different ages, with repairs, additions and makeshifts; but you see the
poor best you have got.
ET18 5.299 19 [Englishmen] cannot readily see beyond
England.
ET18 5.299 22 [Englishmen] cannot see beyond England...
ET18 5.303 17 ...who would see the uncoiling of that
tremendous spring... must follow the swarms which pouring out now for
two hundred years from
the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted
through all
climates...
ET19 5.309 22 On being introduced to the meeting
[Manchester
Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant
to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to
see
the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
ET19 5.311 1 That which lures a solitary American in
the woods with the
wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race...
ET19 5.313 12 I see [England] not dispirited, not
weak...
ET19 5.313 17 I see [England] in her old age, not
decrepit, but young and
still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
F 6.6 24 We must see that the world is rough and
surly...
F 6.9 11 ...the cab-man is phrenologist so far, he
looks in your face to see if
his shilling is sure.
F 6.10 6 We sometimes see a change of expression in our
companion...
F 6.16 7 We see the English, French, and Germans
planting themselves on
every shore and market of America and Australia...
F 6.16 14 We see how much will has been expended to
extinguish the Jew, in vain.
F 6.16 22 See the shades of the picture.
F 6.19 15 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see
men overboard
struggling in the waves...
F 6.25 20 This beatitude dips from on high down on us
and we see.
F 6.25 23 If the light come to our eyes, we see; else
not.
F 6.27 24 ...I see that when souls reach a certain
clearness of perception
they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
F 6.28 14 ...we can see that with the perception of
truth is joined the desire
that it shall prevail;...
F 6.36 16 ...to see how fate slides into freedom and
freedom into fate, observe how far the roots of every creature run...
F 6.42 9 A man will see his character emitted in the
events that seem to
meet...him.
F 6.42 23 ...in each town there is some man who is...an
explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town. If you
do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a little
puzzled;...
F 6.42 23 ...in each town there is some man who is...an
explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town. If you
do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a little
puzzled; if you see him it will become
plain.
Pow 6.58 25 A feeble man can see the farms that are
fenced and tilled...
Pow 6.65 14 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against
the unanimous
declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
Pow 6.68 26 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood's]
friends and
governors must see that some vent for their explosive complexion is
provided.
Pow 6.81 20 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he
be equal to it.
Pow 6.81 21 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he
be equal to it. Let
machine confront machine, and see how they come out.
Wth 6.94 24 To be rich is...to see galleries,
libraries, arsenals, manufactories.
Wth 6.98 1 Every man wishes to see the ring of
Saturn...yet how few can
buy a telescope!...
Wth 6.108 13 You may not see that the fine pear costs
you a shilling, but it
costs the community so much.
Wth 6.113 7 We are sympathetic, and, like children,
want everything we
see.
Ctr 6.134 6 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among
notable persons
that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;
such
as we see in the sexual attraction.
Ctr 6.134 27 [Our student] must have...a power to see
with a free and
disengaged look every object.
Ctr 6.158 15 I must have children...I must have a
social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or
basis. But to give these
accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions,
which
pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in
scholars, as a matter of course;...
Bhr 6.171 3 We send girls of a timid, retreating
disposition...to the ball-room... where they may learn address, and see
it near at hand.
Bhr 6.172 10 ...when we think...what high lessons and
inspiring tokens of
character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
Bhr 6.174 6 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly
undertook the reformation
of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the
lesson... held bad manners up, so that the churls could see the
deformity.
Bhr 6.174 20 If you look at the pictures of patricians
and of peasants of
different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the
same
classes in our towns.
Bhr 6.175 2 A keen eye...will see nice gradations of
rank...
Bhr 6.175 2 A keen eye...will...see in the manners the
degree of homage the
party is wont to receive.
Bhr 6.177 23 In Siberia a late traveller found men who
could see the
satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
Bhr 6.181 18 The reason why men do not obey us is
because they see the
mud at the bottom of our eye.
Bhr 6.183 26 What is the talent of that character so
common--the
successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
Manners:...sense to see his advantage, and manners up to it.
Bhr 6.183 27 See [the successful man of the world]
approach his man.
Bhr 6.185 6 Look on this woman. There is not
beauty...nor distinguished
power to serve you; but all see her gladly;...
Bhr 6.194 1 ...even good angels came from far to see
[the monk Basle]...
Wsp 6.202 1 I see not why we should give ourselves such
sanctified airs.
Wsp 6.211 8 See what allowance vice finds in the
respectable and well-conditioned
class.
Wsp 6.217 6 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment]
are nearer to the
secret of God than others;...they see visions, where others are vacant.
Wsp 6.219 18 Religion or worship is the attitude of
those who see this
unity, intimacy and sincerity [in nature];...
Wsp 6.219 19 Religion or worship is the attitude of
those...who see that
against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right
forever.
Wsp 6.220 13 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The man was born to
do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed;
and by
looking narrowly you shall see there was no luck in the matter;...
Wsp 6.220 20 A man does not see that as he eats, so he
thinks;...
Wsp 6.220 22 ...[a man] does not see that his son is
the son of his thoughts
and of his actions;...
Wsp 6.221 9 In us, [the law] is inspiration; out there
in nature we see its
fatal strength.
Wsp 6.224 10 People seem not to see that their opinion
of the world is also
a confession of character.
Wsp 6.224 12 We can only see what we are...
Wsp 6.225 25 In every variety of human
employment...there are...those
who love work, and love to see it rightly done;...
Wsp 6.226 15 I cannot see without awe that no man
thinks alone and no
man acts alone...
Wsp 6.230 21 That only which we have within, can we see
without.
Wsp 6.231 12 He is great whose eyes are opened to see
that the reward of
actions cannot be escaped...
CbW 6.243 10 ...wilt thou measure all thy road,/ See
thou lift the lightest
load./
CbW 6.247 25 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries
man carries with
him...
CbW 6.249 18 If government knew how, I should like to
see it check...the
population.
CbW 6.257 23 We see those who surmount...obstacles from
which the
prudent recoil.
CbW 6.257 27 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man,
who, because he
does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and
exaggeration...
CbW 6.261 9 A rich man was never in danger from cold,
or hunger, or war
or ruffians,--and you can see he was not, from the moderation of his
ideas.
CbW 6.265 15 I know those miserable fellows...who see a
black star
always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky
overhead;...
CbW 6.268 23 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of
friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities. They are just
starting for Wisconsin; have letters from Bremen;--see you again, soon.
CbW 6.271 22 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they
have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us.
CbW 6.274 10 ...see the overpowering importance of
neighborhood in all
association.
Bty 6.284 3 The motive of science was the extension of
man...till his hands
should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth...
Bty 6.285 3 See how happy, [Tisso] said, these browsing
elks are!
Bty 6.288 6 ...everybody knows people...who, with all
degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency. They
know it too, and peep
with their eyes to see if you detect their sad plight.
Bty 6.289 16 We say love is blind, and the figure of
Cupid is drawn with a
bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he
does
not like;...
Bty 6.295 18 ...see how surely a beautiful form strikes
the fancy of men...
Bty 6.297 12 ...even the noble crowd in the
drawing-room clambered on
chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton]. There are mobs
at
their doors to see them get into their chairs...
Bty 6.297 15 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere,
flock to see the
Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to
see her
get into her post-chaise next morning.
Bty 6.297 17 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere,
flock to see the
Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to
see her
get into her post-chaise next morning.
Bty 6.298 13 ...we see faces every day which have a
good type but have
been marred in the casting;...
Bty 6.300 5 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after
a world of pains have
been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in
sentiment
takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of
ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ill 6.307 14 House you were born in,/ Friends of your
spring-time,/ Old
man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all
vanishing, /
Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./ See the stars through them,/
Through
treacherous marbles./
Ill 6.310 14 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth
Cave], I saw or seemed
to see the night heaven thick with stars...
Ill 6.315 26 [Women] see through Claude-Lorraines.
Ill 6.321 13 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all
humility and as well as we
can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some
galaxy
which we braided...
Ill 6.321 22 ...we cannot even see what or where our
stars of destiny are.
Ill 6.324 2 We see God face to face every hour...
SS 7.3 10 Do you not see, [my new friend] said, the
penalty of learning...
Civ 7.23 20 We see insurmountable multitudes
obeying...the restraints of a
power which they scarcely perceive...
Civ 7.27 15 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground,
dressing his timber under
him.
Civ 7.28 25 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every
instance of his labor, to
hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods
themselves.
Civ 7.31 18 I see the vast advantages of this
country...
Civ 7.31 20 I see the immense material prosperity...
Civ 7.32 8 ...when I look over this constellation of
cities which animate and
illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with
their
daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
Civ 7.32 17 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person...lives
affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic
values
America has...
Civ 7.32 23 ...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...
Art2 7.53 24 We see how each work of art sprang
irresistibly from
necessity...
Art2 7.54 18 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any
stone wall, on a
fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have
resisted
the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
Art2 7.54 25 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its
origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight,
sickness, or
odd appearance in the street.
Art2 7.54 26 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its
origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight,
sickness, or
odd appearance in the street.
Elo1 7.66 10 There are many audiences in every public
assembly, each one
of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you
shall see
the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
Elo1 7.71 17 See with what care and pleasure the poet
[Homer] brings [Ulysses] on the stage.
Elo1 7.88 3 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a
task beyond his
preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent
a great
reality,--the justice of states, which we could well enough see
beetling over
his head...
Elo1 7.89 13 The orator possesses no information which
his hearers have
not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes.
Elo1 7.90 18 Put the argument...into an image,--some
hard phrase...which [the assembly] can see and handle...and the cause
is half won.
Elo1 7.91 16 ...we...might well go round the world, to
see...a man who, in
prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of
representing his ideas...
Elo1 7.92 5 The listener cannot hide from himself that
something has been
shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see;...
Elo1 7.93 11 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences
uttered
by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which
he
sees and which he means that you shall see.
Elo1 7.97 6 He who will train himself to mastery in
this science of
persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and
insight. Let him see that his speech is not differenced from action;...
DL 7.109 4 An increased consciousness of the soul, you
say, characterizes
the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the
circumference, but the atoms at the core.
DL 7.109 6 Do you see the man...in his economy?
DL 7.112 9 See, in families where there is both
substance and taste, at what
expense any favorite punctuality is maintained.
DL 7.113 8 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes
the best good will to
remove it, than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no
beauty;...
DL 7.116 15 I see not how serious labor...is to be
avoided;...
DL 7.119 25 ...who can see unmoved...the eager,
blushing boys discharging
as they can their household chores...
DL 7.125 14 The men we see in each other do not give us
the image and
likeness of man.
DL 7.125 16 The men we see are whipped through the
world;...
DL 7.127 10 We see heads that turn on the pivot of the
spine,--no more;...
DL 7.127 11 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a
pivot as deep as the axle
of the world...
DL 7.127 14 We see on the lip of our companion the
presence or absence of
the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.
DL 7.131 2 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the
Vatican the
Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
DL 7.131 5 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand
sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
DL 7.131 18 I wish to find in my own town a library and
museum which is
the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure
[engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets], where I and my
children can see it from time to time...
DL 7.132 11 Will not man one day open his eyes and see
how dear he is to
the soul of Nature...
DL 7.132 13 Will [man] not see, through all he miscalls
accident, that Law
prevails for ever and ever;...
Farm 7.149 15 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles...
Farm 7.153 4 We see the farmer with pleasure and
respect when we think
what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
WD 7.165 1 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet
of drawers for
shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds. It was easy to see that he
was
amusing himself with making pretty links for his own limbs.
WD 7.169 8 In college terms, and in years that
followed, the young
graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were
in a swamp, would see a festive light...
WD 7.173 4 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion]
falls and the pupil is
permitted to see that all is one stuff...
WD 7.174 3 He is a strong man who can look [these
passing hours] in the
eye, see through this juggle...
WD 7.181 12 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon
and stars, but
they seem to measure my tasks...
Boks 7.198 27 ...every fresh suggestion of modern
humanity, is there [in
Plato]. If the student wish to see both sides...he shall be contented
also.
Boks 7.215 6 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the
French novel in the
courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
Clbs 7.227 17 See how Nature has secured the
communication of
knowledge.
Clbs 7.229 24 ...I prize the good invention whereby
everybody is provided
with somebody who is glad to see him.
Clbs 7.234 18 ...the ground of our indignation is our
conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises
on himself. He
checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk.
Yes, and
we look into his eye, and see that he knows it and hides his eye from
ours.
Clbs 7.246 19 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and
shipmasters meet, see how much they have to say...
Cour 7.253 12 ...when [men] see [the preference to the
general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life
itself, there is no limit
to their admiration.
Cour 7.254 10 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in
his closet, can lay out
the plans of a campaign...such that the best generals and admirals,
when all
is done, see that they must thank him for success;...
Cour 7.258 18 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls
who had been run
away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to
rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
Cour 7.258 21 Cowardice...shuts the eyes so that we
cannot see the horse
that is running away with us;...
Cour 7.260 26 ...the only title I can have to your help
is when I have
manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being
overborne
by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair
play.
Cour 7.266 10 The thoughtful man says...do you not see
that I cannot think
or act otherwise than I do?...
Cour 7.269 10 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the
daring was only
an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well
fortified
and safe. You may see the same dealing in criticism;...
Cour 7.272 1 See too what good contagion belongs to
[courage].
Cour 7.273 14 The meal and water that are the
commissariat of the forlorn
hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy
Grail, or
as if one had eyes to see in chemistry the fuel that is rushing to feed
the sun.
Cour 7.277 3 If you...see only an adamantine fate
coiling its folds about
Nature and man, then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us
courage...
Cour 7.278 4 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold
was he [George
Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you should see./
Cour 7.278 17 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With
hunger fierce and fell/
Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
Suc 7.288 16 Men see the reward which the inventor
enjoys, and they think, How shall we win that?
Suc 7.293 17 It is the dulness of the multitude that
they cannot see the
house in the ground-plan;...
Suc 7.296 21 The light by which we see in this world
comes out from the
soul of the observer.
Suc 7.302 14 This sensibility appears...when we see
eyes that are a
compliment to the human race...
Suc 7.304 20 ...the man of sensibility counts it a
delight...to see the
beautiful manners of the youth of either sex.
Suc 7.308 26 Nature lays the ground-plan of each
creature accurately...then
veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton.
Suc 7.308 27 Nature lays the ground-plan of each
creature accurately...then
veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton.
The eye
shall not see it; the sun shall not shine on it.
OA 7.319 1 ...seen from the streets and markets and the
haunts of pleasure
and gain, the estimate of age is low, melancholy and skeptical. Frankly
face
the facts, and see the result.
OA 7.332 20 [John Adams said]...I am astonished that I
have lived to see
and know of this event.
OA 7.333 17 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to
see Mr. [John
Quincy] Adams.
OA 7.333 20 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to
see Mr. [John
Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but
to my funeral. It would be a great satisfaction to me to see him...
PI 8.1 4 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor
thanks God his daily
praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
PI 8.5 19 ...we see that things wear different names and
faces, but belong to
one family;...
PI 8.9 27 Every correspondence we observe in mind and
matter suggests a
substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see
the
law gleaming through...
PI 8.17 7 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see
that the object is always
flowing away...
PI 8.18 19 ...I see that a devouring unity changes all
into that which
changes not.
PI 8.20 20 All that is wondrous in Swedenborg is not
his invention, but his
extraordinary perception;--that he was necessitated so to see.
PI 8.25 20 [People] like to see statues;...
PI 8.25 23 See how tenacious we are of the old names.
PI 8.26 3 [People] like to see sunsets on the hills...
PI 8.27 21 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not
imagine in
stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than
his
perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
PI 8.30 22 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the
main problem of
the tragedy...
PI 8.38 15 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh
Bards;--these all deal with
Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such
guides [men] begin to see that what they had called pictures are
realities...
PI 8.41 19 That only can we see which we are, and which
we make.
PI 8.42 4 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble
instruments of
noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks...
PI 8.45 12 Every one may see, as he rides on the
highway through an
uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the
monotony...
PI 8.50 1 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see
how wide they fly
for weapons...
PI 8.53 9 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see
poesy go on other feet
than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
PI 8.55 8 There's naught in this life sweet,/ If men
were wise to see 't,/ But
only melancholy./
PI 8.60 22 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of
one groaning on his
right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of
smoke...
PI 8.61 17 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine], you
will never see me
more...
PI 8.62 16 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be
borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...
PI 8.68 17 The poet should rejoice...if he has so moved
us as...to open the
eye of the intellect to see farther and better.
PI 8.71 7 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but
related. Wait a little and
we see the return of the remote hyperbolic curve.
PI 8.71 13 You must have eyes of science to see in the
seed its nodes;...
PI 8.72 22 A little more or less skill in whistling is
of no account. See those
weary pentameter tales of Dryden and others.
SA 8.81 18 See how [Nature] has prepared for [manners].
SA 8.83 24 There is the same difference between heavy
and genial manners
as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls
who
see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
SA 8.92 14 ...we are easily great with the loved and
honored associate. We... see the great dome arching over us;...
SA 8.92 15 ...we are easily great with the loved and
honored associate. We... see zenith above and the nadir under us.
SA 8.94 13 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not
for respect to human
opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the
first time...
SA 8.96 2 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all
your
logic and learning. ... Then you can see the real and the
counterfeit...
SA 8.96 15 When people come to see us, we foolishly
prattle, lest we be
inhospitable.
SA 8.98 11 ...On the day of resurrection, those who
have indulged in
ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in
their faces
when they reach it. Again, on their turning back, they will be called
to
another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against
them...
SA 8.99 5 See how it lies there in you;...
SA 8.99 20 Manners first, then conversation. Later, we
see that as life was
not in manners, so it is not in talk.
SA 8.106 20 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and
necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before
me.
Elo2 8.111 7 ...all can see and understand the means by
which a battle is
gained...
Elo2 8.111 8 ...all can see and understand the means by
which a battle is
gained...they see the cannon, the musketry, the cavalry...
Elo2 8.116 10 [The people] have sent their best
men;...and it is not easy to
see who else can be spared or can be induced to go.
Elo2 8.118 7 ...it is easy to see that the great and
daily growing interests at
stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen
and
defenders.
Elo2 8.130 7 He who would convince the worthy Mr.
Dunderhead of any
truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master of his art.
Elo2 8.132 5 ...it was said that no member of either
house of the British
Parliament will be ranked among the orators, whom Lord North did not
see, or who did not see Lord North.
Res 8.137 21 We like to see the inexhaustible riches of
Nature...
Res 8.139 1 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who,
coming...for the
first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to
see
something which there was enough of.
Res 8.140 1 See how children build up a language;...
Res 8.140 21 By his machines man...can see atoms like a
gnat;...
Res 8.140 22 By his machines man...can see the system
of the universe like
Uriel...
Res 8.143 13 See how nations of customers are formed.
Res 8.144 25 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by
tucking them up
under a blanket of ice...
Res 8.147 2 ...one man whose eye commands the end in
view and the
means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do
not
see the issue and the means.
Res 8.147 15 ...when fear has once possessed you, God
ye good even! You
think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the
prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes, as
drunkards
who see a thousand candles at once.
Res 8.148 19 See the dexterity of the good aunt in
keeping the young
people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
Res 8.149 4 See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting
from the
profound researches of the calculus by astronomy;...
Res 8.149 17 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the
torches which each
traveller carries...serve no purpose but to see the ground.
Res 8.153 5 When I see in these brave plants [the
willows] this vigor and
immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in
observing
the mighty law of vegetation...
Res 8.153 12 It is easy to see that there is no limit
to the chapter of
Resources.
Comc 8.165 9 The Society in London which had
contributed their means to
convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the Keokuks, Black
Hawks... converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered
the gallant
rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the
conversion of the Indians...
Comc 8.169 12 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender
of the man to his
appearance;... It affects us oddly, as to see things turned upside
down...
Comc 8.169 12 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrencer
of the man to his
appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind
run after
his hat, which is always droll.
Comc 8.171 1 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from
the Temple, the
crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary
energy of
the face, it would draw the eye too much; but the countenance of the
celestial messenger subordinates it, and we see it not.
Comc 8.171 4 ...among the women in the street, you
shall see one whose
bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
Comc 8.172 27 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast
only seen thy face
once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast
wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?
Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his
melancholy patient'
s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He
replied, I
am Carlini.
QO 8.177 7 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see
the same function [of suction] of a higher plane...
QO 8.180 5 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is
easy to see that the
debt is immense to past thought.
QO 8.181 2 ...if we knew Rabelais's reading we should
see the rill of the
Rabelais river.
QO 8.185 13 Rabelais's dying words, I am going to see
the great Perhaps... only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the
temple at Delphi.
QO 8.201 23 [Originality] is...reporting accurately
what we see and are.
PC 8.213 13 ...it were ignorance not to see that each
nation and period has
done its full part to make up the result of existing civility.
PC 8.214 17 [The Middle Ages] are seen to be...the eyes
with which we see.
PC 8.218 25 Even manners are a distinction which, we
sometimes see, are
not to be overborne by rank or official power...
PC 8.220 7 All [the true student's] own work and
culture form the eye to
see the master.
PC 8.225 3 Look out into the July night and see the
broad belt of silver
flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
PC 8.229 4 Great men are they who see that spiritual is
stronger than any
material force...
PC 8.229 17 ...when we see creation we also begin to
create.
PC 8.230 18 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists...amidst fools
and blind, to see the right done;...
PC 8.231 4 We wish...to offer liberty instead of
chains, and see whether
liberty will not disclose its proper checks;...
PPo 8.245 5 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always
surprising us:-See
how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames
come
up with us,/ We perish with desire./
PPo 8.248 9 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who
are sufficient to see that
the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it
entangles...
PPo 8.262 4 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be
all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/
But thee the people
prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
PPo 8.265 7 Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat
grasp with his teeth/
The body of the elephant?/
PPo 8.265 10 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is
He not./ The
valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie
under our treatment/ And among our properties./
Insp 8.267 1 That flowing river, which, out of regions
I see not, pours for a
season its streams into me.
Insp 8.271 3 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon
which does not
express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
Insp 8.271 14 ...[the man] can see and do this or that
cheap task, at will, but
it steads him not beyond.
Insp 8.273 14 ...this quick ebb of power,-as if life
were a thunder-storm
wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your
hand,-tantalizes us.
Insp 8.273 15 ...this quick ebb of power,-as if life
were a thunder-storm
wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your
hand,-tantalizes us.
Insp 8.276 26 See how the passions augment our force...
Insp 8.293 18 By sympathy, each [party in good
conversation] opens to the
eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind.
Insp 8.293 20 By sympathy, each [party in good
conversation] opens to the
eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all
lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...
Grts 8.303 11 You say of some new person, That man will
go far,-for you
see in his manners that the recognition of him by others is not
necessary to
him.
Grts 8.304 3 A sensible person will soon see the folly
and wickedness of
thinking to please.
Grts 8.305 27 'T is gratifying to see this adaptation
of man to the world...
Grts 8.315 18 How many men, detested in contemporary
hostile history, of
whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them
as, on
the whole, instruments of great benefit.
Grts 8.316 24 Intellect...will see the force of morals
over men, if it does not
itself obey.
Grts 8.317 26 Goethe, in his correspondence with his
Grand Duke of
Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of
the Olympian genius.
Grts 8.319 24 It is not examples of greatness, but
sensibility to see them, that is wanting.
Imtl 8.326 4 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask
that they may be
buried where the sun can see them...
Imtl 8.329 21 I think all sound minds rest on a certain
preliminary
conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life
shall
continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not; and we, if
we saw the
whole, should of course see that it was better so.
Imtl 8.333 20 Here is this wonderful thought. But
whence came it? Who
put it in the mind? It was not I, it was not you; it is
elemental,-belongs to
thought and virtue, and whenever we have either we see the beams of
this
light.
Imtl 8.335 16 ...a century, when we have once made it
familiar and
compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it
does not
help the matter adding numbers, if we see that it has an end...
Imtl 8.336 5 These long-lived or long-enduring objects
are to us, as we see
them, only symbols of somewhat in us far longer-lived.
Imtl 8.343 8 That which is private I see not to be
good.
Imtl 8.345 16 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself
the immortality of the
soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels
cannot find the secret of their existence, as the eye cannot see
itself;...
Imtl 8.347 22 ...see how the sentiment is wise.
Dem1 10.6 23 You may catch the glance of a dog
sometimes which lays a
kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood. What! somewhat of me down
there? Does he know it? Can he too, as I...see himself...
Dem1 10.7 13 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see
not only a
glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen...
Dem1 10.8 22 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in
certain actions which
seem preposterous...
Dem1 10.13 4 Nature...works...by infinite graduation;
so that we live
embosomed in...spectacles we see not...
Dem1 10.16 11 As [the young man] comes into manhood he
remembers
passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived
of
injurious influence on him. His eyes were holden that he could not see.
Dem1 10.20 16 It is curious to see what grand powers we
have a hint of...
Aris 10.29 16 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/
Is not annexed to
possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire,
lo, in
his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do
shame
and vilanie./
Aris 10.34 17 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if
money could secure such a
result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all
mankind
to see that the steps were taken...
Aris 10.38 15 ...we wish to see those to whom existence
is most adorned
and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...
Aris 10.39 10 I wish...men...who see general effects...
Aris 10.39 13 I wish...men who see the dance in men's
lives as well as in a
ball-room...
Aris 10.39 26 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be
truth,-the doing what
elsewhere is pretended to be done. One would gladly see all our
institutions
rightly aristocratic in this wise.
Aris 10.40 17 It only needs to look at the social
aspect of England and
America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent
commands.
Aris 10.44 7 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me
see his brain, and I
will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
Aris 10.44 13 I see well enough that when I bring one
man into an estate, he sees vague capabilities...
Aris 10.45 2 If we see tools in a magazine...we can
predict well enough
their destination;...
Aris 10.49 7 Time was, in England, when the state
stipulated beforehand
what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed.
Now,if it
were possible, I should like to see that appraisal applied to every
man...
Aris 10.51 9 We do not expect [public representatives]
to be saints, and it is
very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter...
Aris 10.60 1 We...see that if the ignorant are around
us, the great are much
more near;...
Aris 10.60 27 The Golden Table never lacks members; all
its seats are kept
full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully
withdrawn into deep niches, so that no one of them can see any other of
them...
Aris 10.65 15 ...it suffices...that...[the man of
generous spirit] has an
elevation of habit which ministers of empires will be forced to see and
to
remember.
PerF 10.70 1 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to
enumerate the
resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see
how
many rounds of ammunition...we can bring to bear.
PerF 10.70 5 See what your robust neighbor, who never
feared to live in [the air], has got from it;...
PerF 10.73 7 See how trivial is the use of the world by
any other of its
creatures.
PerF 10.73 19 ...we see the causes of evils and learn
to parry them and use
them as instruments, by knowledge...
PerF 10.73 23 It is curious to see how a creature so
feeble and vulnerable
as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural]
forces...
PerF 10.74 21 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at
what power is in
him. It never appears directly, but follow him and see his effects, see
his
productions.
PerF 10.75 2 Where are the farmer's days gone? See,
they are hid in that
stone wall...
PerF 10.81 9 See in a circle of school-girls one with
no beauty...but she can
so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
PerF 10.81 17 See in a circle of school-girls one
with...no special
vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never
alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the
laughter...see where is
the rapt attention...
PerF 10.81 21 See how rich life is; rich in private
talents...
PerF 10.81 24 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and
see the game masterly
played, the best player is the first of men;...
Chr2 10.89 5 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/
Sit still, and Truth is
near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to the sphere:/ Wait a
little, you
shall see/ The portraiture of things to be./
Chr2 10.93 2 ...courage is contempt of danger in the
determination to see
this good of the whole enacted;...
Chr2 10.102 10 See how one noble person dwarfs a whole
nation of
underlings.
Chr2 10.104 27 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment]
is the source, in
natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who
feel
that the forms and dogmas are not true for them, though they do not see
where the error lies.
Chr2 10.106 14 Our horizon is not far, say one
generation, or thirty years: we all see so much.
Chr2 10.106 14 The older see two generations, or sixty
years.
Chr2 10.106 22 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look
into the religious books
of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold. But
why
not? As far as they could see, through two or three horizons, nothing
but
ministers and ministers.
Chr2 10.107 16 ...it by no means follows, because those
[earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women
are irreligious;...but
only...that they see that they can omit the form without loss of real
ground;...
Chr2 10.108 8 ...the new age cannot see with the eyes
of the last.
Chr2 10.121 8 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy
houses, and you
shall see this order without ruler...
Edc1 10.130 5 Whatever the man does, or whatever
befalls him, opens
another chamber in his soul,-that is, he has got a new feeling, a new
thought, a new organ. Do we not see how amazingly for this end man is
fitted to the world?
Edc1 10.130 14 Why does [man] track in the midnight
heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby
a majestic sense of
power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it
were, see
his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
Edc1 10.133 14 When I see the doors by which God enters
into the mind;... I can expect any revolution in character.
Edc1 10.133 20 I have hope, said the great Leibnitz,
that society may be
reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed.
Edc1 10.137 3 Nature, when she sends a new mind into
the world, fills it
beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
Let
us wait and see what is this new creation...
Edc1 10.137 24 I suffer whenever I see that common
sight of a parent or
senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young
soul...
Edc1 10.140 17 If [a boy] can turn his books to such
picturesque account in
his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and
experience... will interpenetrate each other.
Edc1 10.143 21 Respect the child. Wait and see the new
product of Nature.
Edc1 10.149 11 See how far a young doctor will ride or
walk to witness a
new surgical operation.
Edc1 10.151 22 You see [the young man's] sensualism;...
Edc1 10.151 23 ...you see [the young man's] want of
those tastes and
perceptions which make the power and safety of your character.
Edc1 10.152 5 In these judgments one needs that
foresight which was
attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was said his patience
could
see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the end of a hundred years.
Edc1 10.156 21 See what [your pupils] need, and that
the right thing is
done.
Supl 10.166 19 I...am content that [my eyes] should see
the real world...
Supl 10.169 21 The poor countryman, having no
circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him,
is able to look straight at you... and he sees whether you see straight
also...
SovE 10.184 17 I see the unity of thought and of morals
running through all
animated Nature;...
SovE 10.188 9 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine,
on whose purlieus
we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops...
SovE 10.188 20 We see the steady aim of Benefit in view
from the first.
SovE 10.189 26 See how these things look in the page of
history.
SovE 10.190 20 Shall I say then it were truer to see
Necessity calm, beautiful, passionless...
SovE 10.191 22 Man...does not see that he only is
real...
SovE 10.194 3 [Good men] do not see that He [God], that
It, is there, next
and within;...
SovE 10.194 7 [Good men] do not see that particulars
are sacred to [God]...
SovE 10.195 13 ...a man may go to ruin gladly, if he
see that thereby no
shade falls on that he loves and adores.
SovE 10.196 21 Have you said to yourself ever: I
abdicate all choice, I see
it is not for me to interfere.
SovE 10.196 22 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 one of the
crowd;...
SovE 10.196 26 I see...that I have been a pitiful
person, because I have
wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living. I
thought I
managed it very well. I see that my neighbors think so.
SovE 10.197 8 I have not discovered, until this blessed
ray flashed just now
through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would
relieve
me of my load. But now I see.?
SovE 10.198 18 ...I see not why to these simple
instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of
virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
SovE 10.200 5 The word miracle, as it is used, only
indicates the ignorance
of the devotee, staring with wonder to see water turned into wine...
SovE 10.206 5 Superstitious persons we see with
respect, because their
whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
SovE 10.206 11 It is very sad to see men who think
their goodness made of
themselves;...
SovE 10.206 12 It is very sad to see men who think
their goodness made of
themselves; it is very grateful to see those who hold an opinion the
reverse
of this.
SovE 10.212 5 The commanding fact which I never do not
see, is the
sufficiency of the moral sentiment.
Prch 10.217 24 I see in those classes and those persons
in whom I am
accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character, but
skepticism;...
Prch 10.218 5 I see in those classes and those
persons...who contain the
activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them
character, but skepticism;...
Prch 10.218 21 I see movement, I hear aspirations, but
I see not how the
great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
Prch 10.218 22 ...I see not how the great God prepares
to satisfy the heart
in the new order of things.
Prch 10.219 4 We do not see that heroic resolutions
will save men from
those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral,
emotive
and intellectual nature.
Prch 10.221 23 To see men pursuing in faith their
varied action...what are
they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in
God's
resplendent creation?
Prch 10.222 26 The next age will behold God in the
ethical laws-as
mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal, self-executing,
instantaneous and self-affirmed;...
Prch 10.223 21 I see that sensible men and
conscientious men all over the
world were of one religion...
Prch 10.230 23 Let [the young preacher] see his
performances only as
limitations.
Prch 10.231 6 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting
peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only
one
person that is qualified to give it. It is only that person who
concerns me,- him only that I see.
Prch 10.231 22 We come to church properly...for
approach to principles to
see how it stands with us...
Prch 10.232 11 ...these [day's events] are fair tests
to try our doctrines by, and see if they are worth anything in life.
Prch 10.233 4 ...if the events in which we have taken
our part shall not see
their solution until a distant future, there is yet a deeper fact;...
Prch 10.233 6 ...as much justice as we can see and
practise is useful to
men...
Prch 10.233 8 ...as much justice as we can see and
practise is useful to
men, and imperative, whether we can see it to be useful or not.
Prch 10.234 21 That gray deacon or respectable matron
with Calvinistic
antecedents, you can readily see, could not have presented any obstacle
to
the march of St. Bernard...
Prch 10.235 24 A wise man advises that we should see to
it that we read
and speak two or three reasonable words, every day...
Prch 10.237 15 The lower eyes see only surfaces and
effects...
Prch 10.237 19 ...when we...come into the house of
thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see realities...
Prch 10.237 20 ...when we...come into the house of
thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life has no
caprice or fortune...
MoL 10.244 10 See the activity of the imagination in
the Crusades...
MoL 10.244 14 See the activity of the imagination in
the Crusades...heaven
walked on earth, and Earth could see with eyes the Paradise and the
Inferno.
MoL 10.250 7 [Nature says to the American] See to it
that you hold and
administer the continent for mankind.
MoL 10.253 5 See a political revolution dogging a book.
MoL 10.253 6 See armies, institutions, literatures,
appearing in the train of
some wild Arabian's dream.
MoL 10.255 21 We should see in [the work of art] the
great belief of the
artist...
Schr 10.267 26 I do not wish to see you effeminate
gownsmen...
Schr 10.268 14 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will
come to each of
you in loneliest places with their grand alternatives, and Honor
watches to
see whether you dare seize the palms.
Schr 10.270 22 Genius is a poor man and has no house,
but see, this proud
landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
Schr 10.273 3 The scholar, when he comes, will be known
by an energy
that will animate all who see him.
Schr 10.275 20 Nature could not leave herself without a
seer and
expounder. But he could not see or teach without organs.
Schr 10.276 27 ...I delight to see the Godhead in
distribution;...
Schr 10.277 1 ...I delight...to see that men can come
at their ends.
Schr 10.277 2 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I
love to see them in
play...
Schr 10.277 3 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I
love...to see them
trained...
Schr 10.277 12 I like to see a man of that virtue that
no obscurity or
disguise can conceal...
Schr 10.281 24 ...as we see the effrontery with which
money and power
carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and
religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
Schr 10.282 27 I wish to see a revival of the human
mind...
Schr 10.283 1 I wish...to see men's sense of duty
extend to the cherishing
and use of their intellectual powers...
Schr 10.284 16 [The scholar] will have to answer
certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all
women...are the interrogators:...Can
you see tendency in your life?
Schr 10.286 26 Let those come [to scholarship]...who
see that there is no
choice here...
Schr 10.288 13 ...you will see the drift of all my
thoughts, this, namely-
that the scholar must be much more than a scholar...
Schr 10.289 5 ...if I could prevail to communicate the
incommunicable
mysteries, you [scholars] should see the breadth of your realm;...
Plu 10.295 17 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...who
would not wish, she said, to see her son an illustrious dunce, put this
book [Plutarch] into
my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
LLNE 10.355 1 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.
LLNE 10.367 14 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that
nothing so delights
the young Caucasian child as dirt?
LLNE 10.367 15 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that
nothing so delights
the young Caucasian child as dirt? See the mud-pies that all children
will
make if you will let them.
LLNE 10.367 17 See how much more joy [children] find in
pouring their
pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.
EzRy 10.390 26 [Ezra Ripley's] friends were his study,
and to see them
loosened his talents and his tongue.
MMEm 10.410 10 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said,
Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are
shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know
the reasons? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age
guilty of such levity
in her dress.
MMEm 10.417 10 ...it is easy to see that [Mary Moody
Emerson] could
hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any
but
a rarely-found partner.
MMEm 10.418 8 Weary at times of objects so tedious to
hear and see.
Thor 10.457 3 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see
with regret that his
page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights
everybody?
Thor 10.468 13 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which
have been hoed at
by a million farmers...and yet have prevailed...
Thor 10.481 2 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired
his friends with
curiosity to see the world through his eyes...
Carl 10.490 8 [Carlyle]...can see society on his own
terms.
Carl 10.491 5 Young men...press to see [Carlyle]...
Carl 10.491 6 Young men...press to see [Carlyle], but
it strikes me like
being hot to see the mathematical or Greek professor before they have
got
their lesson.
Carl 10.493 22 The literary, the fashionable, the
political man...comes
eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily
enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.
GSt 10.501 7 ...on the instant of [good men's] death,
we wonder at our past
insensibility, when we see how impossible it is to replace them.
GSt 10.505 3 ...enlightened enough to see a citizen's
interest in the public
affairs, and virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he
saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an
indispensable
power in the state.
GSt 10.506 25 ...when I consider that [George Stearns]
lived long enough
to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him
happy
among men.
GSt 10.507 2 ...when I consider...that [George
Stearns]...was never called... to see that others were waiting for his
place and privilege...I count him
happy among men.
LS 11.7 15 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use
of such language
from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...
LS 11.7 27 ...you will see that many opinions may be
entertained of [Jesus'
s] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a
perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
LS 11.15 13 In this manner we may see clearly enough
how this ancient
ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early
Christians...
HDC 11.27 8 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her
boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
HDC 11.38 19 I seem to see [the settlers of
Concord]...addressing
themselves to the work of clearing the land.
HDC 11.52 18 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you
have lived after the
Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they
care
for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...and
this was all they regarded. But you may see the English mind no such
things...
HDC 11.53 11 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the
twenty tribes of
Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with
which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the
new
hope they had conceived...
HDC 11.53 18 It is piteous to see [the Indians']
self-distrust in their request
to remain near the English...
HDC 11.63 24 ...nothing would satisfy [the country
people] but that the
governor must be bound in chains or cords, and put in a more secure
place, and that they would see done before they went away;...
HDC 11.65 20 It is an article in the selectmen's
warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in
for a representative not
exceeding four pounds.
HDC 11.67 23 From the appearance of the article in the
Selectmen's
warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any
instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General
Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord]
Town
Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
HDC 11.76 12 ...we see what manner of persons they were
who stood in
the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.
LVB 11.91 19 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up
and say, This is
not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of
deserters for us; and the American President and the Cabinet, the
Senate
and the House of Representatives, neither hear these men nor see
them...
EWI 11.114 8 ...the bill [for emancipation in the West
Indies] required the
appointment of magistrates who should hear every complaint of the
apprentice and see that justice was done him.
EWI 11.116 24 In some places [in the West Indies], [the
negroes] waited to
see their master, to know what bargain he would make;...
EWI 11.126 7 It was very easy for manufacturers...to
see that if the state of
things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves
had
wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
EWI 11.127 18 It was a stately spectacle, to see the
cause of human rights
argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful
people [the English].
EWI 11.129 23 I could not see the great vision of the
patriots and senators
who have adopted the slave's cause...
EWI 11.129 26 I could not see the great vision of the
patriots and senators
who have adopted the slave's cause:-they turned their backs on me. No:
I
see other pictures,-of mean men;...
EWI 11.129 27 ...I see very poor, very ill-clothed,
very ignorant men...yet
citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-
whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and
Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those
ports...
EWI 11.130 14 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the
States of South Carolina and
Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel
remained
in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to
pay the
costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are
to be sold
for slaves, to pay that expense. This man, these men, I see, and no law
EWI 11.133 14 To what purpose have we clothed each of
those
representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they
are to
sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and
sold;...
EWI 11.134 7 ...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.
War 11.151 21 As far as history has preserved to us the
slow unfoldings of
any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided...
War 11.154 11 We see [war] is the subject of all
history;...
War 11.160 26 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This
thought is...the rising
of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first
made
visible, in the most simple and pure souls, who have therefore
announced it
to us beforehand; but presently we all see it.
War 11.162 1 This is a poor, tedious society of yours,
[sensible men] say; we do not see what good can come of it.
War 11.164 12 Observe the ideas of the present
day...see how each of these
abstractions has embodied itself in an imposing apparatus in the
community;...
War 11.164 21 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy
which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or
two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid
wood
and brick and mortar.
War 11.164 23 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy
which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or
two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid
wood
and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a
million
sheets;...
War 11.164 24 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy
which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or
two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid
wood
and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a
million
sheets; you shall see men and horses and wheels made to walk, run and
roll
for it...
War 11.169 10 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace
embraced by a
nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury;...
War 11.173 17 ...another age comes...and a man puts
himself under the
dominion of principles. I see him to be the servant of truth, of love
and of
freedom...
FSLC 11.183 21 I question the value of our
civilization, when I see that the
public mind had never less hold of the strongest of all truths.
FSLC 11.185 4 I thought none, that was not ready to go
on all fours, would
back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can
see
nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
FSLC 11.188 21 I thought that all men of all conditions
had been made
sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired
moments they
had been made to see how man is man...
FSLC 11.201 7 By white slaves, by a white slave, are we
beaten. Who
looked for such ghastly fulfilment, or to see what we see?
FSLC 11.205 24 The people cleave to the Union, because
they see their
advantage in it...
FSLN 11.217 6 ...I see what havoc it makes with any
good mind, a
dissipated philanthropy.
FSLN 11.219 18 ...it was strange to see that office,
age, fame, talent...all
count for nothing.
FSLN 11.221 11 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was
an event which
drew crowds of people, who went to satisfy their eyes, and could not
see
him enough.
FSLN 11.223 9 ...what [Webster] saw so well he
compelled other people to
see also.
FSLN 11.239 16 These delays [of Retribution], you see
them now in the
temper of the times.
FSLN 11.240 20 [The free man] is a finished man;...the
sun does not see
anything nobler, and has nothing to teach him.
FSLN 11.241 14 I wish to see the instructed class here
know their own
flag...
FSLN 11.242 23 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a
man virtuously
inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics.
FSLN 11.243 12 ...though I [Robert Winthrop] am now to
deny and
condemn you, you see it is not my will but the party necessity.
AsSu 11.247 5 I do not see how a barbarous community
and a civilized
community can constitute one state.
AKan 11.261 26 I am glad to see that the terror at
disunion and anarchy is
disappearing.
JBB 11.267 8 ...I am very glad to see that this sudden
interest in the hero of
Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the
Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
JBB 11.268 8 ...[John Brown] is so transparent that all
men see him
through.
JBB 11.269 16 It is easy to see what a favorite [John
Brown] will be with
history...
JBB 11.271 6 Great wealth, great population, men of
talent in the
executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom
are not safe. Why? Because the judges...do not, like John Brown, use
their
eyes to see the fact behind the forms.
JBB 11.271 22 A good man will see that the use of a
judge is to secure
good government...
JBS 11.277 23 [John Brown] said that he...could not see
a seedy hat
without wishing to pull it off.
JBS 11.280 21 ...it is impossible to see courage, and
disinterestedness, and
the love that casts out fear, without sympathy.
ACiv 11.298 9 ...who is this who tosses his empty head
at this blessing in
disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I see
for such
madness no hellebore...
EPro 11.314 23 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in
daylight or in dark,/ My
thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
EPro 11.318 4 ...when we see how the great stake which
foreign nations
hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a
client
into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation]
was
too long.
EPro 11.319 4 A day which most of us dared not hope to
see...seems now
to be close before us.
EPro 11.322 25 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable
senility of what is
called the Peace Party...
EPro 11.326 2 Happy are the young, who find the
pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an
honest career. Happy the
old, who see Nature purified before they depart.
ALin 11.328 10 How beautiful to see/ Once more a
shepherd of mankind
indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...
ALin 11.335 26 ...who does not see, even in this
tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of
the massacre are already burning
into glory around the victim?
HCom 11.341 3 ...I think it is not in man to see,
without a feeling of pride
and pleasure, a tried soldier...
HCom 11.341 10 I see thankfully those that are here...
HCom 11.343 27 ...when I see how irresistible the
convictions of
Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little
state
bigger than I knew.
HCom 11.345 3 We shall not again disparage America, now
that we have
seen what men it will bear. We see-we thank you for it-a new era...
SMC 11.356 26 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...the village
politician, who could now...see the South...
SMC 11.358 1 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these
words: You may
think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from
danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power
that... enables [men] to see their duty...
SMC 11.361 13 ...[George Prescott's letters] contain
the sincere praise of
men whom I now see in this assembly.
SMC 11.365 5 [George Prescott] had the satisfaction to
see the whole
regiment enjoying the protection of these tents.
SMC 11.375 15 ...it is easy to see that if danger
should ever threaten the
homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of
your
presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
SMC 11.375 19 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil
War] will hardly be
called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already
trampled with
your victories.
EdAd 11.386 17 ...who can see the continent...without
putting new queries
to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is
made?
EdAd 11.388 8 We see that reckless and destructive fury
which
characterizes the lower classes of American society...
Koss 11.397 7 ...[the people of Concord]...have been
hungry to see the man
whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity
of
his actions [Kossuth].
Koss 11.397 20 ...now, Sir [Kossuth], we are heartily
glad to see you, at
last, in these fields [of Concord].
Koss 11.398 23 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win
[from Americans] is worth something;...
Koss 11.399 8 We [people of Concord] only see in you
[Kossuth] the angel
of freedom...
Wom 11.412 17 [Women] emit from their pores a colored
atmosphere...and
see all objects through this warm-tinted mist that envelops them.
Wom 11.413 13 This is the victory of Griselda, her
supreme humility. And
it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric
begins to
have meaning. When we see that, it adds to the soul a new soul...
Wom 11.418 2 There are plenty of people who...do not
see the use of
contemplative men...
Wom 11.419 14 ...perhaps it is because these people
[advocates of women'
s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they
wished...that
they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we
will see
that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
Wom 11.421 19 ...if any man will take the trouble to
see how our people
vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as
wisely.
Wom 11.423 13 It is easy to see that there is
contamination enough [in
politics]...
Wom 11.423 23 ...when I read the list of men of
intellect, of refined
pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted
for, I
think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
SHC 11.430 7 In these times we see the defects of our
old theology;...
SHC 11.431 17 You can almost see behind these pines the
Indian with bow
and arrow lurking...
RBur 11.441 26 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and,
shall I say it? of
middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in
the
homely landscape which the poor see around them...
Shak1 11.449 12 Men were so astonished and occupied by
[Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and
condition...
Shak1 11.449 24 I see, among the lovers of this
catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper
knowledge invites me to
hazard an article of my literary creed;...
Humb 11.456 4 If a life prolonged to an advanced period
bring with it
several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in
the
delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop
themselves...
Humb 11.459 3 ...we have lived to see now, for the
second time in the
history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
Scot 11.464 7 It is easy to see the origin of [Scott's]
poems.
Scot 11.467 5 With such a fortune and such a genius, we
should look to see
what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott]...
FRep 11.514 13 In our popular politics you may note
that each aspirant
who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the
party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for
himself what is
the real public interest, and to stand for that;...
FRep 11.526 14 ...really, though you see wealth in the
capitals, it is only a
sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...
FRep 11.529 26 In this fact, that we are a nation of
individuals...that we
can see and feel moral distinctions...in this is our hope.
FRep 11.531 8 I wish to see America, not like the old
powers of the earth...
FRep 11.532 5 See how fast [our people] extend the
fleeting fabric of their
trade...
FRep 11.532 23 It seems as if history gave no account
of any society in
which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in
ours.
FRep 11.533 19 See the secondariness and aping of
foreign and English
life, that runs through this country...
FRep 11.535 21 I not only see a career at home for more
genius than we
have...
FRep 11.537 22 The new times need a new man...whom
plainly this
country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and
forthright
his whole build and rig than the Englishman's, who, we see, is much
imprisoned in his backbone.
FRep 11.540 14 We can see that the Constitution and the
law in America
must be written on ethical principles...
FRep 11.544 12 ...I see in all directions the light
breaking.
PLT 12.4 15 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and
universal part [of
Nature] which interests us, when we shall...see that what is set down
is true
through all the sciences;...
PLT 12.6 16 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the
student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...that he
shall see
in it the source of all traditions...
PLT 12.6 17 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is...that [the
student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and
shall see
each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations;...
PLT 12.7 7 ...these questions which really interest
men, how few can
answer. Here are learned faculties of law and divinity, but would
questions
like these come into mind when I see them?
PLT 12.12 19 We have invincible repugnance...to study
of the eyes instead
of that which the eyes see;...
PLT 12.14 9 ...this watching of the mind...to see the
mechanics of the
thing, is a little of the detective.
PLT 12.17 10 ...I see that Intellect is a science of
degrees...
PLT 12.22 18 Is it not a little startling to see with
what genius some people
take to hunting...
PLT 12.28 7 'T is only the source that we can see;-the
eternal mind...
PLT 12.28 17 No quality in Nature's vast magazines
[each man] cannot
touch, no truth he cannot see.
PLT 12.29 23 ...every man is furnished, if he will heed
it, with wisdom
necessary to steer his own boat,-if he will not look away from his own
to
see how his neighbor steers his.
PLT 12.30 12 Echo the leaders and they will fast enough
see that you have
nothing for them.
PLT 12.32 11 Many eyes go through the meadow, but few
see the flowers.
PLT 12.32 22 Perhaps creatures live with us which we
never see, because
their motion is too swift for our vision.
PLT 12.33 19 Newton did not exercise more ingenuity but
less than
another to see the world.
PLT 12.34 4 Each man has a feeling that what is done
anywhere is done by
the same wit as his. All men are his representatives, and he is glad to
see
that his wit can work at this or that problem as it ought to be done,
and
better than he could do it.
PLT 12.34 21 [Instinct] is that sense by which men feel
when they are
wronged, though they do not see how.
PLT 12.38 8 In so far as we see [spiritual facts] we
share their life and
sovereignty.
PLT 12.39 19 An intellectual man has the power to go
out of himself and
see himself as an object;...
PLT 12.41 11 The first fact is the fate in every mental
perception,-that my
seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in
the natural
history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees
of
Fahrenheit.
PLT 12.42 14 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...it were a wide prairie.
PLT 12.53 21 We see ourselves; we lack organs to see
others...
PLT 12.55 22 We see those who surmount by dint of
egotism or infatuation
obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
PLT 12.55 25 The right partisan is a heady man, who,
because he does not
see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration;...
II 12.66 18 There is a singular credulity which no
experience will cure us
of, that another man has seen or may see somewhat more than we, of the
primary facts;...
II 12.73 4 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be
screened from the
evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit,
but
those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly,
and hostile, in order to save so much money. I see not how any virtue
is
thus gained to society.
II 12.76 19 We cannot even see what or where our stars
of destiny are.
II 12.77 11 I see that all beauty of discourse or of
manners lies in launching
on the thought, and forgetting ourselves;...
II 12.81 12 It is easy to see that the races of men
rise out of the ground
preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
II 12.81 27 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church,
or a dream of
Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers,
landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them,
and one
related to yours. A stronger idea will subordinate them. Yours, if you
see it
to be nearer and truer.
II 12.82 1 A man of more comprehensive view can always
see with good
humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less
comprehension.
II 12.86 20 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now
fixed to the wall or the
tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
Mem 12.98 19 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as
we came along... as capital stock of knowledge. Where is it now? Look
behind you. I cannot
see that your train is any longer than it was in childhood.
Mem 12.106 1 Nature trains us on to see illusions and
prodigies with no
more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.
Mem 12.109 15 If we occupy ourselves long on this
wonderful faculty [memory], and see the natural helps of it in the
mind...we cannot fail to
draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase
in
the power of memory only through its use;...
Mem 12.110 17 Now we are halves, we see the past but
not the future...
CInt 12.119 19 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows
how to seize the
heart-strings of the people...
CInt 12.122 18 [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...
CInt 12.132 1 ...old men cannot see the powers of
society...passing, or soon
to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an
earnest
wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
CL 12.138 14 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants,
restored [Linnaeus] instantly...
CL 12.139 3 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows,
or might grow, in
Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
CL 12.143 17 ...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.
CL 12.143 26 ...you have [in Illinois] the monotony of
Holland, and when
you step out of the door can see all that you will have seen when you
come
home.
CL 12.156 7 ...we are glad to see the world, and what
amplitudes it has...
CL 12.156 16 If you wish to know the shortcomings of
poetry and
language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company,-and
see
what you make of it.
CL 12.165 5 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the
foldings of the
yolk of a turtle's egg. I can see very well what he is driving at; he
means
men and women.
CW 12.169 1 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of
close, low pine-woods
in a river town;/...
CW 12.174 14 In the arboretum you should have
things...which people who
read of them are hungry to see.
CW 12.176 4 If you use a good and skilful companion [on
a tramp], you
shall see through his eyes;...
CW 12.176 7 In walking with Allston, you shall see what
was never before
shown to the eye of man.
Bost 12.190 16 How easy it is, after the city is built,
to see where it ought
to stand.
Bost 12.199 4 When one thinks of the enterprises that
are attempted in the
heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid,
well-calculated
scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
Bost 12.200 10 If John Bull interest you at home, come
and see him under
new conditions...
Bost 12.200 10 If John Bull interest you at home, come
and see him under
new conditions, come and see the Jonathanization of John.
Bost 12.206 15 ...youth and health like a stirring
town, above a torpid place
where nothing is doing. In Boston they were sure to see something going
forward before the year was out.
Bost 12.207 20 We [New Englanders] are willing to see
our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm.
Bost 12.207 21 We [New Englanders] are willing to see
our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm.
Bost 12.211 17 Let every child that is born of her and
every child of her
adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...
MAng1 12.220 9 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be
comprehended
through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the
hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched,
if one would
really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in
living waves before the eye.
MAng1 12.228 6 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously
at this painful
work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was
unable
to see any picture but by holding it over his head.
MAng1 12.234 16 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the
corrupt and vulgar
eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and
angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find
occasion for devotion in the same figures.
MAng1 12.236 21 In answer to the importunate
solicitations of the Duke of
Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that
he
hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St.
Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be
interfered with...
MAng1 12.240 10 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome
repeatedly to see [Michelangelo].
MAng1 12.243 6 ...are we not authorized to say
that...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to
the human faculties, on
every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and
enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical,
intellectual and
moral faculties of the individual?
MAng1 12.243 13 ...there [in Florence], the tradition
of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. Do you
see that statue of Saint
George? Michael Angelo asked it why it did not speak.
MAng1 12.243 15 ...there [in Florence], the tradition
of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do
you see this fine church of
Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.
Milt1 12.258 10 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons
of the year, when the
air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against
Nature not
to go out and see her riches...
Milt1 12.258 22 ...foreigners came to England, we are
told, to see the Lord
Protector and Mr. Milton.
Milt1 12.260 14 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses
his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave
trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind
may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and
see each blissful deity,/ How he before
the thunderous throne doth lie./
Milt1 12.273 16 [Milton] wished that his writings
should be communicated
only to those who desired to see them.
Milt1 12.275 3 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may
see, under a thin
veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's
life...
ACri 12.286 26 See how Plato managed it, with an
imagination so
gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to
speak
in his style.
ACri 12.289 12 As a study in language, the use of this
word [Devil] is
curious, to see how words help us and must be philosophical.
ACri 12.299 1 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is]
a book...with a
range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that
we not
so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking
into
ours...
ACri 12.300 17 Whatever new object we see, we perceive
to be only a new
version of our familiar experience...
MLit 12.312 18 The poetry and speculation of the age
are marked by a
certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of
earlier times. The poet is not content to see how Fair hangs the apple
from
the rock...
MLit 12.323 10 ...since the earth as we said had become
a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have...seconded
[Goethe's] sturdy
determination to see things for what they are.
MLit 12.323 17 ...[Goethe] is of that comprehension
which can see the
value of truth.
MLit 12.329 13 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself]
The age, that can
damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is
deeply
one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
MLit 12.330 3 ...because Nature is moral, that mind
only can see, in which
the same order entirely obtains.
MLit 12.330 7 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and
Goodness, each
wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which
would see causes reaching to their last effect...
MLit 12.334 9 The very depth of the sentiment, which is
the author of all
the cutaneous life we see, is guarantee for the riches of science and
of song
in the age to come.
MLit 12.334 16 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the
need? Have the
eyes ceased to see that which they would have, and which they have not?
MLit 12.334 17 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the
need? Have the
eyes ceased to see that which they would have, and which they have not?
Have they ceased to see other eyes?
Pray 12.355 8 I know that thou hast not created me and
placed me here on
earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee
here to
profit by;...
Pray 12.356 27 Thee [God] when I first knew, thou
liftedst me up that I
might see, there was what I might see, and that I was not yet such as
to see.
Pray 12.356 28 Thee [God] when I first knew, thou
liftedst me up that I
might see, there was what I might see, and that I was not yet such as
to see.
Pray 12.357 1 Thee [God] when I first knew, thou
liftedst me up that I
might see, there was what I might see, and that I was not yet such as
to see.
AgMs 12.360 6 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund
Hosmer] felt toward the
author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the
historiographer who follows the camp...
AgMs 12.360 23 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was
written for the literary
men. But in that case, the state should not be taxed to pay for it. Let
us see.
EurB 12.366 1 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the
Dante...have...the eye to see
the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...
EurB 12.366 26 In the debates on the Copyright
Bill...Mr. Sergeant
Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked
the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward
for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy
the
coroner. Whilst they have wisdom to the wise, he would see that to the
external they have external meaning.
EurB 12.373 16 ...we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to see
that the story is
rapid and interesting;...
EurB 12.374 16 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses
our respect, because
he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the
charm;...
PPr 12.382 12 ...let [a man] see whether he so holds
his property that a
benefit goes from it to all.
Let 12.397 26 More letters we have on the subject of
the position of young
men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.
Let 12.399 2 It is easy to see that [a stay in Europe]
is only a postponement
of [American youths'] proper work...
Let 12.399 27 Mechanics you shall see [in Germany], but
no man.
Let 12.400 15 It is heartrending to see your [German]
poet, your artist, and
all who still revere genius...
Let 12.403 9 ...after five years [my friend] has just
been [to Illinois] to visit
the young farmer and see how he prospered...
Trag 12.406 8 ...one would say that history gave no
record of any society
in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it
in
ours.
Trag 12.409 11 Hark! what sounds on the night
wind...see these marks of
stamping feet, of hidden riot.
Trag 12.409 19 ...it is...imperfect characters from
which somewhat is
hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
seed, n. (38)
Nat 1.13 11 The wind sows the seed;...
Nat 1.28 12 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting
analogies in the nature
of man is that little fruit made use of...
Nat 1.28 15 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting
analogies in the nature
of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse, up to the
voice of
Paul, who calls the human corpse a seed...
MN 1.203 23 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the
whole tree,-root, stem, leaf, flower, and seed...
MR 1.256 22 The opening of the spiritual senses
disposes men ever...to
cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine
communications. A
purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice. It is the conversion
of our
harvest into seed.
Comp 2.103 15 ...seed and fruit, cannot be severed;...
Comp 2.103 17 ...seed and fruit, cannot be severed;
for...the fruit [preexists] in the seed.
Int 2.323 3 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their
shining goals;--/ The sower scatters broad his seed;/ The wheat thou
strew'st be souls./
Int 2.346 15 This band of grandees...Synesius and the
rest, have
somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once
poetry
and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics. I am present at
the
sowing of the seed of the world.
Pt1 3.23 5 This atom of seed is thrown into a new
place...
Mrs1 3.128 2 [Fashion] is virtue gone to seed...
Nat2 3.186 21 The vegetable life does not content
itself with casting from
the flower or the tree a single seed...
Nat2 3.195 17 They say that by electro-magnetism your
salad shall be
grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner;...
UGM 4.7 14 A sound apple produces seed...
SwM 4.107 14 In the plant, the eye or germinative point
opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the
leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.
NMW 4.256 19 The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and
gone to seed;...
GoW 4.262 21 The gardener saves every slip and seed and
peach-stone...
GoW 4.275 15 The plant goes from knot to knot, closing
at last with the
flower and the seed [wrote Goethe].
ET3 5.41 18 It is not down in the books...that
fortunate day when a wave of
the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall
to
France...cutting off...a territory...enriched with every seed of
national
power...
ET14 5.245 21 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth
which lies in the
mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of
revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their
day.
ET18 5.303 24 ...who would see...the explosion of their
well-husbanded
forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years
from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct
for
liberty...
Wth 6.124 6 Another point of economy is to look for
seed of the same kind
as you sow...
Wsp 6.231 3 The Buddhists say, No seed will die: every
seed will grow.
Wsp 6.231 4 The Buddhists say, No seed will die: every
seed will grow.
Bty 6.291 9 ...a farmer sowing seed...is becoming to
the wise eye.
Art2 7.38 2 Thought is the seed of action;...
DL 7.103 3 The care which covers the seed of the tree
under tough husks
and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and
the
father's house.
WD 7.158 1 Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of
our science;...
Boks 7.198 20 In Plato you explore modern Europe in its
causes and seed...
PI 8.8 14 In botany we have...the poetic perception of
metamorphosis,--that
the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be
transformed at pleasure into every part, as bract, leaf, petal, stamen,
pistil or
seed.
PI 8.71 13 You must have eyes of science to see in the
seed its nodes;...
Chr2 10.97 1 Devout men...have used different images to
suggest this
latent [moral] force; as, the light, the seed...
Prch 10.221 12 The understanding...because it has found
absurdities to
which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so
that
analysis has run to seed in unbelief.
MMEm 10.420 25 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson]
fancy that I am
emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant...
War 11.175 24 ...not in an antiquated appanage where no
onward step can
be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of
Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
Koss 11.401 2 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth]
preach to willing
and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed men.
FRep 11.543 11 No monopoly must be foisted in...no
coward compromise
conceded to a strong partner. Every one of these is the seed of vice,
war and
national disorganization.
Bost 12.204 24 The seed of prosperity was planted [in
Massachusetts].
seed-corn, n. (1)
Clbs 7.249 12 We know that l'homme de lettres is...not
fond of giving
away his seed-corn;...
seed-field, n. (1)
Trag 12.414 21 As the west wind...combs out the matted
and dishevelled
grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a
drying
wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low
bent.
seeds, n. (12)
MR 1.256 27 ...the time will come when we too...shall be
willing to sow
the sun and the moon for seeds.
Nat2 3.186 22 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and
earth with a prodigality
of seeds...
UGM 4.35 9 It is for man...on every side, whilst he
lives, to scatter the
seeds of science and of song...
ET11 5.195 13 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...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers
curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...
Wth 6.83 7 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting
the puny seeds of
power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/
Farm 7.147 1 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin
oak-opening has been
spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer
manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the
seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
Boks 7.206 14 Ximenes...Henry IV. of France, are
[Charles V's] contemporaries. It is a time of seeds and expansions...
OA 7.324 2 All men carry seeds of all distempers
through life latent...
OA 7.324 6 All men carry seeds of all distempers
through life latent, and
we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause,
these sleeping seeds start and open.
PerF 10.71 11 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is
full of peaches, full of
oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and
combine
its virtues;...
Schr 10.260 2 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like
sowers' seeds into
his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./
Thor 10.480 3 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain
chronic
assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he
had
just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a
particular
botanical variety, had failed to describe the seeds or count the
sepals.
seed-time, n. (1)
Thor 10.483 27 How can we expect a harvest of thought
who have not had
a seed-time of character?
seedy, adj. (1)
JBS 11.277 23 [John Brown] said that he...could not see
a seedy hat
without wishing to pull it off.
seeing, adj. (1)
NR 3.232 11 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Greek
sculpture, show that
there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
seeing, n. (2)
Nat 1.8 25 Most persons do not see the sun. At least
they have a very
superficial seeing.
Pow 6.74 15 No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a
man has, the step
from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
seeing, v. (96)
Nat 1.43 9 [Xenophanes] was weary of seeing the same
entity in the tedious
variety of forms.
Nat 1.50 18 We are strangely affected by seeing the
shore from a moving
ship...
Nat 1.51 3 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a
face of country
quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
LE 1.161 14 I console myself...by...seeing what the
prolific soul could
beget on actual nature;...
LE 1.161 16 I console myself...by...seeing that Plato
was...
MN 1.223 8 What man seeing this [great reality], can
lose it from his
thoughts...
Tran 1.352 26 ...When shall I die and be relieved of
the responsibility of
seeing an Universe which I do not use?
YA 1.386 14 Where is he who seeing a thousand men
useless and unhappy... does not hear his call to go and be their king?
Hist 2.28 26 The cramping influence of a hard formalist
on a young child... is a familiar fact, explained to the child when he
becomes a man, only by
seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized
over by
those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the
organ to the youth.
SR 2.79 27 The pupil takes the same delight in
subordinating every thing to
the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a
new
earth and new seasons thereby.
OS 2.269 13 ...the act of seeing and the thing
seen...are one.
Cir 2.317 27 I own I am gladdened by seeing the
predominance of the
saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...
Int 2.333 8 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim for
writing, fancied
that my experiences had somewhat superior;...
Int 2.345 4 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy
of the mind, is
only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness
which you have also your way of seeing...
Pt1 3.26 5 This insight, which expresses itself by what
is called
Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing...
Exp 3.81 5 ...we cannot say too little of our
constitutional necessity of
seeing things under private aspects...
Chr1 3.109 18 The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief
[Zertusht], said, This
form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from
them.
NR 3.225 20 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete
the curve...
NR 3.246 24 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at
ignorance and the life of
the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...making the commonest
offices beautiful by the energy and heart with which she does them; and
seeing this we admire and love her and them...
UGM 4.24 3 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe,
but wherever she
mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies
plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life,
ignorant of the ruin and incapable of seeing it...
MoS 4.152 24 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir
Godfrey Kneller
one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir
Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the
world.
MoS 4.157 14 Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing
that there is no
practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution
can be had?
ShP 4.189 8 ...seeing what men want and sharing their
desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm...
NMW 4.234 27 In vain several officers and myself were
placed on the
slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon
the ice
without breaking it up. Seeing that, I tried a simple method of
elevating
light howitzers.
GoW 4.287 20 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an
artist. Was it...that
his sight was microscopic and interfered with...the seeing of the
whole?
ET2 5.25 19 ...the proposal [to lecture in England]
offered an excellent
opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland...
ET5 5.80 3 [The English] are jealous of minds that have
much facility of
association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to
their
thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative
concentration.
ET10 5.169 20 We estimate the wisdom of nations by
seeing what they did
with their surplus capital.
ET12 5.211 1 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I
believed I saw already an
advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their
contemporaries in
the American colleges.
ET12 5.212 13 Universities are of course hostile to
geniuses, which, seeing
and using ways of their own, discredit the routine...
ET13 5.215 7 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I
sometimes say...This
was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
ET16 5.286 13 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask
to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us, but returned to
our inn, after seeing
another old church of the place.
ET19 5.313 20 I see [England] in her old age...still
daring to believe in her
power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother
of
nations, mother of heroes...
F 6.26 4 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself
what is true of the
mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am immortal;...
F 6.26 5 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself
what is true of the
mind...seeing its invincibility, he says, I am strong.
F 6.31 1 ...whether, seeing these two things, fate and
power, we are
permitted to believe in unity?
F 6.48 18 ...I cannot look without seeing splendor and
grace.
Pow 6.79 16 The masters say that they know a master in
music, only by
seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...
Ctr 6.133 16 Eminent spiritualists shall have an
incapacity of putting their
act or word aloof from them and seeing it bravely for the nothing it
is.
Wsp 6.224 20 Each must be armed--not necessarily with
musket and pike. Happy, if seeing these, he can feel that he has better
muskets and pikes in
his energy and constancy.
SS 7.15 26 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or
fewer people, but
the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...
Civ 7.20 11 In other races [than the Indian and the
negro]...the like progress
that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish
illusions passing daily away and he seeing things really and
comprehensively,--is made by tribes.
Art2 7.53 6 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which
rhymes well, as we
do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
Elo1 7.65 11 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the
people furious, shall
soften and compose them...
WD 7.182 20 A song is no song unless the circumstance
is free and fine. If
the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I
had
rather have none.
Cour 7.254 18 Men admire...the power of better
combination and
foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether,
exploring the
chemical elements whereof we and the world are made, and seeing their
secret, Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
Cour 7.254 22 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of
men, knows how to
come at their end;...
Cour 7.262 9 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an
officer in the
British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander
Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was
ready to faint
away. Lieutenant Ball seeing me...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you
will recover in a minute or so;...
Cour 7.263 8 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the
flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
OA 7.327 20 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's]
soul is appeased by
seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
PI 8.8 16 In geology, what a useful hint was given to
the early inquirers on
seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree
which
was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
PI 8.25 1 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in
things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure.
PI 8.62 6 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain,
are you restrained
so strongly that you cannot...make yourself visible to me; how can this
happen, seeing that you are the wisest man in the world?
SA 8.105 10 Now society in towns is infested by persons
who, seeing that
the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
Res 8.137 16 I am benefited by every observation of a
victory of man over
Nature; by seeing that wisdom is better than strength;...
Res 8.137 17 I am benefited by every observation of a
victory of man over
Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is an
organizer...
Comc 8.172 25 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast
only seen thy face
once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast
wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?
QO 8.203 4 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the
subject to which it
has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
QO 8.203 15 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the
most civilized
countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily
receive
and report what they saw,-seeing what they must, and using no
choice;...
PC 8.209 22 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts
of good nature... proposed by statesmen...
Insp 8.281 25 The wealth of the mind in this respect of
seeing is like that of
a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of
objects
which it reflects.
Grts 8.314 11 Napoleon commands our respect by...the
habit of seeing with
his own eyes...
Imtl 8.339 26 After we have found our depth [on a new
planet], and
assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new
scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired, by seeing them at a
distance, a new mastery of the old thoughts...
Aris 10.44 26 ...the well-built head supplies all the
steps, one as perfect as
the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes
to me
as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there
are estates.
PerF 10.73 2 ...[the force of intellect] is perception,
a seeing, not making, thoughts.
PerF 10.77 24 Every valuable person who joins in an
enterprise...what he
chiefly brings...is...his way of classifying and seeing things...
Chr2 10.95 5 High instincts, before which our mortal
nature/ Doth tremble
like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet
the
fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our
seeing/...
Edc1 10.138 22 I like...boys...putting nobody on his
guard, but seeing the
inside of the show...
Prch 10.235 9 ...emphasize your choice by utter
ignoring of all that you
reject; seeing that opinions are temporary, but convictions uniform and
eternal...
Prch 10.235 11 ...emphasize your choice by utter
ignoring of all that you
reject;...seeing that a sentiment never loses its pathos or its
persuasion...
Plu 10.300 23 [Plutarch's] style is realistic,
picturesque and varied; his
sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens
in
nature or art, or thought or dreams.
MMEm 10.400 12 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at
Malden with her
grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister, in whose
house
she grew up, rarely seeing her brothers and sisters in Concord.
MMEm 10.402 19 Nobody can...recall the conversation of
old-school
people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority
in
their mind...
MMEm 10.408 2 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a
true poem...by
society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and
purged.
Thor 10.473 20 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly
for love of the
Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark
canoe...
HDC 11.46 3 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the
freemen were grown
so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise
the
laws and to assess all monies.
War 11.163 26 ...always we are daunted by the
appearances; not seeing that
their whole value lies at bottom in the state of mind.
TPar 11.286 12 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of
duty, or accepted
nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition
of
knowledge, a rapid wit that heard all, and welcomed all that came, by
seeing its bearing.
FRep 11.544 6 In seeing this guidance of events...I
find new confidence for
the future.
FRep 11.544 6 ...in seeing this felicity without
example that has rested on
the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
PLT 12.6 15 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the
student...shall come to know that in seeing and in no tradition he must
find
what truth is;...
PLT 12.38 4 These [spiritual] facts, this essence
[Truth], are not new; they
are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new.
PLT 12.39 9 The detachment consists in seeing [a fact]
under a new order...
PLT 12.41 10 The first fact is the fate in every mental
perception,-that my
seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in
the natural
history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees
of
Fahrenheit.
Mem 12.94 2 On seeing a face I am aware that I have
seen it before...
Mem 12.98 10 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider
he sees; he seems
to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us that he is in the
habit of
seeing better than other people;...
CL 12.154 5 The seeing so excellent a spectacle [as the
sea] is a certificate
to the mind that all imaginable good shall yet be realized.
CL 12.157 15 The gulf between our seeing and our doing
is a symbol of
that between faith and experience.
CL 12.160 25 When I look at natural structures...I know
that I am seeing an
architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
Bost 12.184 7 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite,
Christian, have all... exchanged a good part of their patrimony of
ideas for the notions, manner
of seeing and habitual tone of Indian society.
Bost 12.187 26 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died
without seeing
the statue of Jove at Olympia.
MAng1 12.220 3 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be
comprehended
through seeing its surface.
MAng1 12.222 25 Seeing these works [of art] true to
human nature and yet
superhuman, we feel that we are greater than we know.
MAng1 12.222 27 Seeing these works [of art], we
appreciate the taste
which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with
unclothed
figures...
Milt1 12.253 9 The opposition to [a masterpiece of
art]...at last ends; and a
new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work, with the utmost
advantage for seeing intimately its power and beauty.
WSL 12.339 16 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his
license of speech that
he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...
seek, v. (104)
Nat 1.23 13 Others have the same love [of nature] in
such excess, that... they seek to embody it in new forms.
Nat 1.24 7 The poet...the architect, seek each to
concentrate this radiance of
the world on one point...
Nat 1.58 16 ...seek the realities of religion.
AmS 1.104 11 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he
seek a temporary peace
by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...
AmS 1.107 12 Men...very naturally seek money or
power;...
DSA 1.123 20 The good, by affinity, seek the good;...
LE 1.183 5 They whom [the student's] thoughts have
entertained or
inflamed, seek him before yet they have learned the hard conditions of
thought.
LE 1.183 7 [They whom the student's thoughts have
entertained or
inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose
solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
LE 1.185 17 What is this Truth you seek?...men will
ask, with derision.
LE 1.186 13 ...let us seek the shade, and find wisdom
in neglect.
MN 1.212 10 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and
overpower each the nature
of every other creature...
MN 1.212 17 Every man who comes into the world [the
stars] seek to
fascinate and possess...
MN 1.222 2 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is
also the act of
God:-I shall not seek to penetrate the mystery...
MR 1.227 21 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves
in such disciplines
and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication
with
the spiritual nature.
Con 1.302 20 Wisdom does not seek a literal
rectitude...
Con 1.307 19 [The youth says] I shall seek those whom I
love, and shun
those whom I love not...
SR 2.52 3 Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why
I exclude
company.
SR 2.65 1 ...if we seek to pry into the soul that
causes, all philosophy is at
fault.
SR 2.65 25 The relations of the soul to the divine
spirit are so pure that it is
profane to seek to interpose helps.
SR 2.73 10 If you cannot [love me for what I am], I
will still seek to
deserve that you should.
SR 2.73 19 If you are true, but not in the same truth
with me, cleave to your
companions; I will seek my own.
SR 2.82 3 I seek the Vatican and the palaces.
Comp 2.98 21 The waves of the sea do not more speedily
seek a level from
their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize
themselves.
Comp 2.103 19 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be
disparted, we seek to
act partially...
Comp 2.104 18 Men seek to be great;...
Comp 2.105 2 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant
things...as soon as we seek
to separate them from the whole.
Comp 2.105 9 Life invests itself with inevitable
conditions, which the
unwise seek to dodge...
Comp 2.111 17 ...as soon as there is any departure from
simplicity and
attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him...[my
neighbor'
s] eyes no longer seek mine;...
SL 2.132 16 Our young people are diseased with the
theological problems
of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
These...never
darkened across any man's road who did not go out of his way to seek
them.
SL 2.144 16 [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 which he would vainly seek words
for
in the conventional images of books and other minds.
SL 2.164 5 Let us seek one peace by fidelity.
Fdsp 2.199 9 We seek our friend not sacredly...
Prd1 2.222 5 [Prudence] is content to seek health of
body by complying
with physical conditions...
OS 2.278 15 [The soul] broods over every society, and
they unconsciously
seek for it in each other.
OS 2.280 19 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And here
we should seek to
reinforce ourselves by its very presence...
OS 2.290 18 The more cultivated, in their account of
their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...and
so seek to throw a romantic
color over their life.
OS 2.293 15 You are running to seek your friend.
Cir 2.321 21 The one thing which we seek with
insatiable desire is to forget
ourselves...
Art1 2.366 11 ...the artist and the connoisseur now
seek in art the
exhibition of their talent...
Art1 2.368 19 ...[genius] will raise to a divine
use...the prism, and the
chemist's retort; in which we seek now only an economical use.
Pt1 3.38 8 If I have not found that excellent
combination of gifts in my
countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of
the
poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries
of
English poets.
Exp 3.57 19 Of course it needs the whole society to
give the symmetry we
seek.
Chr1 3.110 14 ...there is no need to seek remote
examples [of character].
Chr1 3.112 9 Need we be so eager to seek [our friend]?
Mrs1 3.134 8 ...what is it that we seek, in so many
visits and hospitalities?
NR 3.225 5 Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far
enough from being that
truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek
it in
him, I shall not find it.
NR 3.230 4 England, strong, punctual, practical,
well-spoken England I
should not find if I should go to the island to seek it.
NER 3.276 1 ...instead of avoiding these men who make
his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their
society only...
NER 3.282 1 We seek to say thus and so, and over our
head some spirit sits
which contradicts what we say.
NER 3.282 22 Every time we converse we seek to
translate [Providence] into speech...
PPh 4.70 9 ...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.
ShP 4.216 19 ...how stands the account of man with this
bard and
benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude...we seek to strike the
balance?
ET7 5.124 10 The old Italian author of the Relation of
England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when
the war is actually raging
most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their
other
comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
F 6.21 22 ...we must...seek to do justice to the other
elements as well.
F 6.46 14 ...[some people] meet the person they
seek;...
F 6.46 24 ...the moral is that what we seek we shall
find;...
Pow 6.69 9 ...when [the young English] have no wars to
breathe their
riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
Pow 6.75 15 ...if we seek an example [of concentration]
from trade,--I
hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of
money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I
should
wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to
business,--that
is the way to be happy.
Ctr 6.157 10 The saint and poet seek privacy to ends
the most public and
universal...
Wsp 6.236 10 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and
met him on the
way;...
CbW 6.278 12 I prefer to say, with the old prophet,
Seekest thou great
things? seek them not...
Bty 6.292 16 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form,
if the form can
move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
SS 7.14 26 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and
Aunt Miriam, into
pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing
built
in a parlor. Leave them to seek their own mates, and they will be as
merry
as sparrows.
Civ 7.17 3 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The
best of cities with
us, these learned classifiers/ Men knowing what they seek/...
Art2 7.42 24 ...in all our operations we seek not to use
our own, but to
bring a quite infinite force to bear.
DL 7.102 4 Spirits of a higher strain/ Who sought thee
once shall seek
again./
DL 7.130 1 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house
into a museum.
WD 7.175 10 ...that flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their
admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy
foolish
hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres,
mummy-pits
and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.
Clbs 7.225 22 We seek society with very different
aims...
Suc 7.310 1 ...I seek one who shall make me forget or
overcome the
frigidities and imbecilities into which I fall.
SA 8.100 12 Every one must seek to secure his
independence;...
Elo2 8.124 13 ...in your struggles with the
world...seek refuge...in the
precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
PPo 8.256 16 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a
world of light-minded
girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
Insp 8.286 2 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek
the beloved Muses/...
Grts 8.313 27 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke,
If you would be
powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew
prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...
Grts 8.320 25 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he
it is whom we
seek...
Chr2 10.93 8 If from these external statements we seek
to come a little
nearer to the fact, our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual
nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
Chr2 10.94 14 Every hour puts the individual in a
position where his
wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to
seek.
Edc1 10.132 18 Day creeps after day, each full of
facts...that we cannot
enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert. The time we seek to
kill...
SovE 10.207 15 ...if there be really in us the wish to
seek for our superiors... we shall not long look in vain.
Plu 10.315 25 A brother, embroiled with his brother,
going to seek in the
street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut
off his
foot to give himself one of wood.
LLNE 10.352 23 There is an order in which in a sound
mind the faculties
always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual,
they
seek to realize in the surrounding world.
MMEm 10.398 7 [Lucy Percy] is of too high a mind and
dignity not only
to seek, but almost to wish, the friendship of any creature.
MMEm 10.420 17 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in
Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint; I, who have so long despised
means, who have
always found it a sort of rebellion to seek them?
Thor 10.470 24 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which
he called that of
the night-warbler, a bird...which it was vain to seek;...
Thor 10.471 1 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain
for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at
dinner.
Thor 10.471 3 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain
for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at
dinner. You seek it like a
dream, and as soon as you find it you become its prey.
LS 11.22 17 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be
crucified;...was to... teach us to seek our well-being in the formation
of the soul.
HDC 11.52 19 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you
have lived after the
Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they
care
for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...and
this was all they regarded. But you may see the English...only seek
your
welfare...
War 11.174 16 If peace is to be maintained, it must be
by brave men, who
have come up to the same height as the hero...but who have gone one
step
beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life;...
FSLC 11.179 7 The last year has forced us all into
politics, and made it a
paramount duty to seek what it is often a duty to shun.
Wom 11.418 26 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;...
SHC 11.435 27 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not
displace the old
tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the
less...red-eyed
warbler, the heron, the bittern...will seek the waters of the
meadow;...
Shak1 11.451 19 How good and sound and inviolable
[Shakespeare's] innocency, that is never to seek, and never wrong...
FRep 11.513 4 There is not a property in Nature but a
mind is born to seek
and find it.
PLT 12.7 10 Seek the literary circles, the stars of
fame...will they afford me
satisfaction?
II 12.87 17 If immortality, in the sense in which you
seek it, is best, you
shall be immortal.
CL 12.160 1 ...the speculators who rush for
investment...are all more or less
mad...these...persuade us to seek in the fields the health of the mind.
MAng1 12.234 2 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to
approach the Beautiful by
the study of the True, so he failed not...to seek Beauty in its highest
form, that of Goodness.
MAng1 12.244 22 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a
friend to all who
acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature, and who seek by
labor and self-denial to approach its source in perfect goodness.
Milt1 12.263 22 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according
to the fable, ever
seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have
sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all
forms
and appearances of things.
Milt1 12.266 22 [Milton] told the bishops that...they
seek to prove their
high preeminence from human consent and authority.
ACri 12.295 6 My friend thinks the reason why the
French mind is so
shallow, and still to seek..is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
Pray 12.353 13 Why should I feel reproved when a busy
one enters the
room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands, but instantly I
must
seek some cover.
seeker, n. (7)
MN 1.213 21 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the
half fabulous
Zoroaster, a statement of this fact which every lover and seeker of
truth will
recognize.
Cir 2.318 15 ...I simply experiment, an endless seeker
with no Past at my
back.
Art1 2.366 24 As soon as beauty is sought...for
pleasure, it degrades the
seeker.
Exp 3.54 24 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or
the heart, lover of
absolute good, intervenes for our succor...
Wth 6.116 22 Sir David Brewster gives exact
instructions for microscopic
observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object
over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth,
who
needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going
out of
the body to think!
Clbs 7.241 23 ...the simple lover of truth, especially
on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds
himself a stranger and alien.
QO 8.192 23 It never troubles the simple seeker from
whom he derived
such or such a sentiment.
seekers, n. (2)
Con 1.322 19 How will every strong and generous mind
choose its
ground,-with the defenders of the old? or with the seekers of the new?
NER 3.251 15 ...that the Church, or religious
party...is appearing...in very
significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;
composed...of
seekers...
seekest, v. (3)
MN 1.200 16 Away, profane philosopher! seekest thou in
nature the cause?
CbW 6.278 11 I prefer to say, with the old prophet,
Seekest thou great
things? seek them not...
Grts 8.313 26 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke,
If you would be
powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew
prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...
seeking, n. (3)
LT 1.291 7 You shall be the asylum and patron of...every
untried project
which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking.
Fdsp 2.215 14 It would...give me a certain household
joy to quit this lofty
seeking...
Pow 6.53 16 ...[power] is an element with which the
world is so saturated... that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
seeking, v. (24)
YA 1.365 15 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a
continent in the
West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the
western hemisphere...
YA 1.382 6 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm
that the smallest
union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of
poor men and women seeking work...
SR 2.88 15 Thy lot or portion of life...is seeking
after thee;...
SR 2.88 16 Thy lot or portion of life...is seeking
after thee; therefore be at
rest from seeking after it.
SL 2.148 25 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids
another, according
to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly seeking himself in his
associates...
OS 2.287 3 The tone of seeking is one, and the tone of
having is another.
ShP 4.210 16 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling
thoughts and images, which, seeking vent, found the drama next at hand.
ET6 5.106 7 ...[the Englishman's] bearing, on being
introduced, is cold, even though he is seeking your acquaintance...
ET14 5.239 7 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of
meta-chemistry;--the
vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking
resemblances, predominated.
SS 7.14 16 ...[people in conversation] separate...each
seeking his like;...
WD 7.183 14 ...in seeking to find what is the heart of
the day, we come to
the quality of the moment...
Clbs 7.247 5 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters]
have found
virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their
adventures are
instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years...
Cour 7.275 1 [The man with sacred courage] is
everywhere a liberator, but
of a freedom that is ideal; not seeking to have land or money or
conveniences...
Elo2 8.113 18 The orator is he whom every man is
seeking when he goes
into the courts...
QO 8.180 2 In this delay and vacancy of thought we must
make the best
amends we can by seeking the wisdom of others to fill the time.
PPo 8.254 25 Scorn me not, But know I have the pearl,/
And am only
seeking one to receive it./
Dem1 10.26 18 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of
kind,-dunces
seeking dunces...preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of
any
muse.
Edc1 10.151 12 Is it not manifest...that wise
men...heartily seeking the
good of mankind...should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic
life;...
MoL 10.257 9 War, seeking for the roots of strength,
comes upon the moral
aspects at once.
LLNE 10.354 25 It is the worst of community that it
must inevitably
transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to
meet
the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women
seeking they know not what.
MMEm 10.417 27 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been
the means
of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was
honestly seeking his own.
LS 11.22 11 In the midst of considerations as to what
Paul thought, and
why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to
argue to
or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any
form. I
seem to lose the substance in seeking the shadow.
CPL 11.496 9 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to
this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble
library...offering a
strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit
down
here.
MAng1 12.228 20 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single
figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the
composition a certain
universal grace such as Nature makes...
seeks, v. (33)
Nat 1.24 17 No reason can be asked or given why the soul
seeks beauty.
DSA 1.124 15 Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong
by the whole
strength of nature.
DSA 1.125 15 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the
capital mistake of the
infant man, who seeks to be great by following the great...
Hist 2.7 20 [The true aspirant] hears the
commendation...of that character
he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
Hist 2.35 7 ...all the postulates of elfin
annals,--that the fairies do not like to
be named;...that who seeks a treasure must not speak, and the like,--I
find
true in Concord...
Lov1 2.188 7 Thus are we put in training for a
love...which seeks virtue and
wisdom everywhere...
Hsm1 2.245 23 The Roman Martius has conquered
Athens,--all but the
invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his
wife. The beauty of the latter inflames Martius, and he seeks to save
her
husband;...
OS 2.283 3 In past oracles of the soul the
understanding seeks to find
answers to sensual questions...
Nat2 3.187 5 The lover seeks in marriage his private
felicity and
perfection...
UGM 4.5 21 Each man seeks those of different quality
from his own...
UGM 4.5 23 Each man seeks those of different quality
from his own, and
such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the
otherest.
UGM 4.18 21 ...true genius seeks to defend us from
itself.
PPh 4.51 3 That which the soul seeks is resolution into
being above form...
PPh 4.56 4 Thought seeks to know unity in unity;...
NMW 4.224 4 In our society there is a standing
antagonism...between the
interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor, which
seeks to
possess itself of land and buildings and money stocks.
ET14 5.232 17 [The plain style] imports into [English]
songs and ballads
the smell of the earth...and, like a Dutch painter, seeks a household
charm...
Pow 6.60 20 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at
any cost...
Ctr 6.135 3 ...if a man seeks a companion who can look
at objects for their
own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the
fewest
who will give him that satisfaction;...
Bty 6.289 18 ...the sharpest-sighted hunter in the
universe is Love, for
finding what he seeks, and only that;...
Clbs 7.229 13 [The student] seeks intelligent
persons...who will give him
provocation...
Clbs 7.231 23 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the
company of those who have
convivial talent.
Cour 7.270 12 ...each is betrayed when he seeks in
himself the courage of
others.
PI 8.50 20 ...every good reader will easily recall
expressions or passages in
works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he
seeks in professed poets.
PI 8.63 26 Power, new power, is the good which the soul
seeks.
Edc1 10.127 17 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants',
animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man] seeks them as
ends...
Edc1 10.146 25 Always genius seeks genius,
Edc1 10.152 7 Alas for the cripple Practice when it
seeks to come up with
the bird Theory, which flies before it.
SovE 10.204 13 A sleep creeps over the great functions
of man. Enthusiasm
goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch...
Prch 10.223 12 ...this [movement of religious opinion]
of to-day has the
best omens as being of the most expansive humanity, since it seeks to
find
in every nation and creed the imperishable doctrines.
GSt 10.499 2 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks
nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the
example weigh:/ All being
brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./
George
Herbert.
II 12.80 2 ...[the secret Power] frowns on moths and
puppets, passes by us, and seeks a solitary and religious heart.
Milt1 12.278 3 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition
of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the
desires of the mind...
WSL 12.347 21 [Landor] hates false words, and seeks
with care, difficulty
and moroseness those that fit the thing.
seek'st, v. (1)
FRO2 11.484 3 ...Thou seek'st in globe and galaxy,/ He
hides in pure
transparency;/...
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