Said to Saidst

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

said, adj. (7)

    HDC 11.38 4 ...in conclusion, the said Indians declared themselves satisfied, and told the Englishmen they were welcome.
    HDC 11.64 16 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    HDC 11.65 11 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    HDC 11.65 12 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    HDC 11.65 14 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    HDC 11.71 16 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety, to suppress all riots, tumults, and disorders in said town...
    EWI 11.112 26 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...

said, v. (887)

    Nat 1.20 12 All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue; said Salust.
    Nat 1.20 13 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
    Nat 1.29 1 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.
    Nat 1.35 1 Material objects, said a French philosopher, are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
    Nat 1.43 23 A Gothic church, said Coleridge, is a petrified religion.
    Nat 1.56 13 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.
    Nat 1.58 23 ...[the theosophists] might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
    Nat 1.76 1 Then shall come to pass what my poet said...
    AmS 1.84 17 ...the old oracle said, All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.
    AmS 1.92 8 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet...says...that which I also had well-nigh thought and said.
    AmS 1.94 12 I have heard it said that the clergy...are addressed as women;...
    AmS 1.100 4 I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.
    AmS 1.113 19 I learned, said the melancholy Pestalozzi, that no man...is either willing or able to help any other man.
    DSA 1.126 18 What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
    DSA 1.129 1 [Jesus] said...I am divine.
    DSA 1.129 10 The understanding...said, in the next age, This was Jehovah come down out of heaven...
    DSA 1.149 12 Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him;...
    LE 1.168 18 Whilst I read the poets, I think that nothing new can be said about morning and evening.
    MN 1.194 25 When all is said and done, the rapt saint is found the only logician.
    MN 1.195 5 In the bottom of the heart it is said; I am, and by me, O child! this fair body and world of thine stands and grows.
    MN 1.198 25 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God;...
    MN 1.213 22 It is not proper, said Zoroaster, to understand the Intelligible with vehemence...
    MN 1.214 16 You cannot bathe twice in the same river, said Heraclitus;...
    MN 1.222 16 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph, calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.
    MR 1.231 21 ...it is said that in the Spanish islands the venality of the officers of the government has passed into usage...
    MR 1.235 9 But it is said, What! will you give up the immense advantages reaped from the division of labor...
    LT 1.259 23 Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of the philosopher...
    Con 1.297 4 I appeal to Fate also, said Uranus, must there not be motion?
    Con 1.315 15 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this on rich embroidered carpets...
    Con 1.315 19 Look at our pictures and books, [the mothers] said...
    Con 1.315 27 Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother?
    Tran 1.336 5 ...the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the thought, and never, who said it?
    Tran 1.340 16 ...as we have said, there is no pure Transcendentalist...
    Tran 1.353 9 That is to be done which [the Transcendentalist] has not skill to do, or to be said which others can say better...
    YA 1.369 26 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have...as I said, imbibed easily an European culture.
    YA 1.376 1 I am the State, said the French Louis.
    YA 1.376 10 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
    Hist 2.7 7 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...
    Hist 2.7 20 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
    Hist 2.9 16 What is history, said Napoleon, but a fable agreed upon?
    Hist 2.17 8 It has been said that common souls pay with what they do, nobler souls with that which they are.
    Hist 2.18 11 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait...
    Hist 2.29 19 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    Hist 2.31 11 Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said the poets.
    Hist 2.32 20 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger.
    Hist 2.34 8 ...Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
    SR 2.47 8 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
    SR 2.57 25 ...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
    SR 2.68 17 ...the highest truth on this subject...probably cannot be said;...
    SR 2.71 26 Why should we assume the faults of our friend...or child, because they...are said to have the same blood?
    SR 2.79 1 To the persevering mortal, said Zoroaster, the blessed Immortals are swift.
    SR 2.88 14 Thy lot or portion of life, said the Caliph Ali, is seeking after thee;...
    Comp 2.96 4 That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence.
    Comp 2.107 18 The Furies, [the ancients] said, are attendants on justice...
    Comp 2.110 20 No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, said Burke.
    Comp 2.118 12 As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success.
    Comp 2.122 1 Neither can it be said...that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss.
    SL 2.133 26 Timoleon's victories are the best victories, which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said.
    SL 2.146 25 ...Aristotle said of his works, They are published and not published.
    SL 2.148 10 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 2.154 23 No book, said Bentley, was ever written down by any but itself.
    SL 2.155 3 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor;...
    SL 2.156 21 Faces never lie, it is said.
    Lov1 2.175 22 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are...as Plutarch said, enamelled in fire...
    Lov1 2.176 4 ...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
    Lov1 2.179 22 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
    Lov1 2.181 5 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth, went roaming up and down in quest of that other world of its own out of which it came into this...
    Fdsp 2.189 10 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ Through thee alone the sky is arched,/...
    Fdsp 2.206 12 Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly... that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Fdsp 2.217 1 ...these things may hardly be said without a sort of treachery to the relation [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.228 12 Dr. Johnson is reported to have said,--If the child says he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,--whip him.
    Prd1 2.229 10 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Prd1 2.232 10 On him who scorned the world, as he said, the scorned world wreaks its revenge.
    Hsm1 2.254 27 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it...
    OS 2.267 21 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him...
    OS 2.272 12 As I have said, [the soul] contradicts all experience.
    OS 2.277 16 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer.
    OS 2.278 14 The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation.
    OS 2.290 9 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess, who thus said or did to him.
    OS 2.292 12 [Men's] highest praising, said Milton, is not flattery...
    OS 2.294 22 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door, as Jesus said.
    OS 2.297 1 ...revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that its beauty is immense, man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...
    Cir 2.322 4 A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
    Int 2.331 16 I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
    Int 2.343 8 The ancient sentence said, Let us be silent, for so are the gods.
    Art1 2.357 17 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Art1 2.361 16 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou foolish child, hast thou come out hither...to find that which was perfect to thee there at home?
    Art1 2.362 22 ...when we have said all our fine things about the arts, we must end with a frank confession that the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Pt1 3.14 22 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
    Pt1 3.20 19 ...the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth...
    Pt1 3.24 20 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth, Phosphorus, whose aspect is such that it is said all persons who look on it become silent.
    Pt1 3.40 1 What a little of all we know is said!
    Exp 3.46 20 It is said all martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered.
    Exp 3.73 6 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor.
    Exp 3.73 9 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion.
    Exp 3.79 6 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect.
    Chr1 3.89 3 I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
    Chr1 3.101 11 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had served up to it, and would have it.
    Chr1 3.107 15 As I have said, Nature keeps these sovereignties in her own hands...
    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.
    Chr1 3.109 20 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods...
    Mrs1 3.119 1 Half the world, it is said, knows not how the other half live.
    Mrs1 3.119 4 ...[the Feejee islanders] are said to eat their own wives and children.
    Mrs1 3.129 1 In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile.
    Mrs1 3.142 8 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor;...
    Mrs1 3.142 11 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show. Then, said the creditor, I change my debt into a debt of honor, and tore the note in pieces.
    Mrs1 3.142 18 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    Mrs1 3.151 4 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...
    Mrs1 3.151 12 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force...
    Mrs1 3.155 10 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth;...
    Mrs1 3.155 11 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed;...
    Mrs1 3.155 14 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse, as fast as the days succeeded each other. Minerva said she hoped not;...
    Gts 3.159 1 It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy;...
    Nat2 3.174 12 We heard what the rich man said...
    Nat2 3.184 5 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
    Nat2 3.184 13 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians...
    Pol1 3.211 12 It is said that in our license of construing the Constitution... we have no anchor;...
    NR 3.243 11 As the ancient said, the world is a plenum or solid;...
    NR 3.244 24 It is commonly said by farmers that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one;...
    NR 3.246 12 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.
    NR 3.248 6 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can...
    NER 3.259 19 Some intelligent persons said or thought, Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with...
    NER 3.268 11 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    UGM 4.13 13 Napoleon said, You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
    UGM 4.27 11 ...[Voltaire] said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
    PPh 4.39 3 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    PPh 4.43 25 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war...
    PPh 4.44 8 It is said [Plato] went farther, into Babylonia: this is uncertain.
    PPh 4.50 25 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu;...
    PPh 4.60 7 [Plato] has good-naturedly furnished the courtier and citizen with all that can be said against the schools.
    PPh 4.64 16 ...full of the genius of Europe, [Plato] said, Culture.
    PPh 4.64 23 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.
    PPh 4.65 25 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
    PPh 4.67 12 As if [Socrates] had said, I have no system.
    PPh 4.67 23 [Plato] said, Culture; he said, Nature; and he failed not to add, There is also the divine.
    PPh 4.68 7 [Plato] said then, Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence.
    PPh 4.72 25 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    PPh 4.76 12 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is not an orange.
    PPh 4.76 22 ...[Plato] has said one thing in one place, and the reverse of it in another place.
    PNR 4.82 3 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.
    PNR 4.88 5 ...a very well-marked class of souls...are said to Platonize.
    PNR 4.88 23 Intellect, [Plato] said, is king of heaven and of earth;...
    SwM 4.94 24 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
    SwM 4.95 18 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
    SwM 4.95 19 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
    SwM 4.95 23 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 4.95 24 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 4.111 17 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
    SwM 4.136 12 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
    SwM 4.138 15 Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being in the gods are one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./
    SwM 4.140 4 What God is, [Socrates] said, I know not; what he is not, I know.
    MoS 4.152 23 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 4.152 26 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. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks.
    MoS 4.153 16 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...
    MoS 4.154 9 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter.
    MoS 4.154 16 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    MoS 4.162 27 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...who, said the monument, lived to do right, and had formed himself to virtue on the Essays of Montaigne.
    NMW 4.226 19 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin.
    NMW 4.226 27 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them...
    NMW 4.231 8 My hand of iron, [Bonaparte] said, was not at the extremity of my arm, it was immediately connected with my head.
    NMW 4.231 17 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    NMW 4.231 27 Again [Bonaparte] said, speaking of his son, My son can not replace me; I could not replace myself.
    NMW 4.233 19 Incidents ought not to govern policy, [Napoleon] said, but policy, incidents.
    NMW 4.235 10 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said;...
    NMW 4.235 26 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.236 10 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death;...
    NMW 4.239 18 [Napoleon] said that in their exile [the Bourbons] had learned nothing, and forgot nothing.
    NMW 4.240 26 The market-place, [Napoleon] said, is the Louvre of the common people.
    NMW 4.243 3 ...Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen...my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    NMW 4.243 16 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are!
    NMW 4.243 21 ...[Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
    NMW 4.244 13 If he felt himself their patron and the founder of their fortunes, as when he said I made my generals out of mud,--[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from them a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    NMW 4.244 19 ...[Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    NMW 4.244 27 I know, [Napoleon] said, the depth and draught of water of every one of my general.
    NMW 4.247 7 The Austrians, [Napoleon] said, do not know the value of time.
    NMW 4.250 21 ...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    NMW 4.251 3 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said to the last [Antonomarchi], we had better leave off all these remedies...
    NMW 4.256 11 In describing the two parties into which modern society divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat...
    NMW 4.256 22 Bonaparte may be said to represent the whole history of this [democrat] party...
    GoW 4.263 8 ...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to paint what I suffer.
    GoW 4.266 24 ...there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    GoW 4.273 3 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos;...
    GoW 4.274 20 [Goethe] has said the best things about nature that ever were said.
    GoW 4.274 21 [Goethe] has said the best things about nature that ever were said.
    GoW 4.288 15 Socrates loved Athens; Montaigne, Paris; and Madame de Stael said she was only vulnerable on that side...
    ET1 5.8 14 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!--from Donatus, he said.
    ET1 5.8 23 A great man, [Landor] said, should make great sacrifices...
    ET1 5.9 1 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters;...
    ET1 5.9 4 Landor despised entomology, yet, in the same breath, said, the sublime was in a grain of dust.
    ET1 5.9 10 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece, standing before which he said he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a Domenichino.
    ET1 5.9 24 The thing done avails [to Landor], and not what is said about it.
    ET1 5.11 7 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian. Yes, he said, I supposed so;...
    ET1 5.13 1 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths...
    ET1 5.13 6 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said, I do not know whether you care about poetry...
    ET1 5.13 15 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    ET1 5.14 5 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 5.18 20 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said...
    ET1 5.19 11 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago;...
    ET1 5.19 26 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.
    ET1 5.20 3 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important.
    ET1 5.20 24 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....
    ET1 5.21 16 [Wordsworth] said he thought [Carlyle] sometimes insane.
    ET1 5.21 23 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room. I deprecated this wrath, and said what I could for the better parts of the book...
    ET1 5.21 25 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely.
    ET1 5.22 12 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.
    ET1 5.22 20 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers, which, he said, especially the ox-eye daisy, are very abundant on the top of the rock.
    ET1 5.23 15 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public...
    ET1 5.23 18 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets. He said, Yes, they are better.
    ET1 5.24 2 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten;...
    ET1 5.24 5 ...[Wordsworth] said he wished to show me what a common person in England could do...
    ET1 5.24 11 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn;...
    ET2 5.32 16 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.
    ET2 5.33 3 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for its situation...
    ET3 5.36 16 ...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
    ET3 5.38 21 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.
    ET3 5.40 10 Sir John Herschel said, London is the centre of the terrene globe.
    ET3 5.42 26 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET4 5.49 9 'T is said that the views of nature held by any people determine all their institutions.
    ET4 5.51 23 Defoe said in his wrath, the Englishman was the mud of all races.
    ET4 5.56 8 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears. I am tormented with sorrow, he said, when I foresee the evils they will bring on my posterity.
    ET4 5.61 20 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...
    ET4 5.62 23 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.
    ET4 5.62 27 Alfieri said the crimes of Italy were the proof of the superiority of the stock;...
    ET4 5.64 12 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst...
    ET4 5.68 16 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it;...
    ET5 5.78 13 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.
    ET5 5.82 19 Montesquieu said, England is the freest country in the world.
    ET5 5.82 26 Montesquieu said, No people have true common-sense but those who are born in England.
    ET5 5.85 22 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
    ET5 5.89 26 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate: No, said an Englishman, but to set your shoulder at the wheel...
    ET5 5.94 2 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious...
    ET5 5.94 5 Bacon said, Rome was a state not subject to paradoxes;...
    ET5 5.94 18 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No fruit ripens in England but a baked apple;...
    ET5 5.95 21 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET5 5.97 24 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen. The impressment of seamen, said Lord Eldon, is the life of our navy.
    ET5 5.100 5 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET6 5.110 7 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
    ET6 5.112 23 Sir Philip Sidney is one of the patron saints of England, of whom Wotton said, His wit was the measure of congruity.
    ET7 5.117 10 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
    ET7 5.117 27 The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf, It is royal work to fulfil royal words.
    ET7 5.119 10 [The English] have the...preference for property in land, which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.
    ET7 5.119 14 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
    ET7 5.122 2 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...
    ET7 5.122 16 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot;...
    ET7 5.125 1 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months...and he said, Now let me never be bothered more with this proven lie.
    ET7 5.125 19 The French, it is commonly said, have greatly more influence in Europe than the English.
    ET7 5.125 25 ...tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret.
    ET8 5.128 19 [The English] sported sadly; ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays, said Froissart;...
    ET8 5.131 14 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...
    ET8 5.131 16 ...Nelson said of his sailors, They really mind shot no more than peas.
    ET8 5.133 13 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET8 5.136 2 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    ET8 5.139 15 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
    ET9 5.146 4 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    ET9 5.148 22 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...
    ET9 5.149 8 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
    ET10 5.153 21 An Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
    ET10 5.153 23 Nelson said, The want of fortune is a crime which I can never get over.
    ET10 5.154 1 Sydney Smith said, Poverty is infamous in England.
    ET10 5.155 1 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
    ET10 5.159 12 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of mill-owners, and destined, they said, to restore order among the industrious classes;...
    ET10 5.160 16 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    ET11 5.175 1 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran...
    ET11 5.175 4 He shall have the book, said the mother of Alfred, who can read it;...
    ET11 5.178 1 Some of [the English aristocracy]...as Sheridan said of Coke, disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
    ET11 5.193 17 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
    ET11 5.194 3 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
    ET11 5.197 12 Now, said Nelson, when clearing for battle, a peerage, or Westminster Abbey!
    ET11 5.197 14 I have no illusion left, said Sidney Smith, but the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    ET11 5.197 16 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons...
    ET12 5.203 2 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
    ET12 5.211 24 Charles I. said that he understood English law as well as a gentleman ought to understand it.
    ET13 5.221 7 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...
    ET13 5.227 5 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    ET14 5.241 2 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    ET14 5.244 15 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head. Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his countrymen in that faculty;...
    ET14 5.252 17 [The English]...may be said to live and act in a sub-mind.
    ET14 5.258 9 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us be crowned with roses, let us drink wine...
    ET15 5.262 2 So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET15 5.263 17 I asked one of [the London Times's] old contributors whether it had once been abler than it is now? Never, he said;...
    ET15 5.265 4 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    ET15 5.267 15 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University...
    ET15 5.268 7 The [London] Times never disapproves of what itself has said...
    ET16 5.274 27 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.275 2 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.277 19 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
    ET16 5.286 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] loitered in the church [Salisbury Cathedral], outside the choir, while the service was said.
    ET16 5.287 4 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    ET16 5.287 11 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth...
    ET16 5.289 12 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old couple who take care of the church. Some twenty people every day, they said, make the same demand.
    ET17 5.294 20 No Scotchman, [Wordsworth] said, can write English.
    ET17 5.295 11 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    ET17 5.295 19 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
    ET17 5.296 16 [Harriet Martineau] said that in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    ET17 5.297 11 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth...
    ET18 5.305 23 Will, said the old philosophy, is the measure of power...
    ET18 5.308 1 Magna Charta, said Rushworth, is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
    ET19 5.309 19 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...
    F 6.11 8 Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath committed adultery.
    F 6.21 12 The doer must suffer, said the Greeks;...
    F 6.21 14 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked, said the Welsh triad.
    F 6.21 16 God may consent, but only for a time, said the bard of Spain.
    F 6.23 21 Look not on Nature, for her name is fatal, said the oracle.
    F 6.29 20 As Voltaire said, 't is the misfortune of worthy people that they are cowards;...
    F 6.36 24 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.
    F 6.46 26 ...as Goethe said, what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age...
    Pow 6.54 16 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    Pow 6.57 16 On the neck of the young man, said Hafiz, sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
    Pow 6.62 17 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country...
    Pow 6.70 4 March without the people, said a French deputy from the tribune, and you march into night...
    Pow 6.73 5 Ah! said a brave painter to me...if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working.
    Pow 6.73 24 Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle...
    Pow 6.74 24 The poet Campbell said that a man accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
    Pow 6.75 16 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Pow 6.76 1 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London.
    Pow 6.76 27 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    Pow 6.77 6 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day. There are cases where little can be said, and much must be done.
    Pow 6.77 26 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
    Pow 6.79 4 More are made good by exercitation than by nature, said Democritus.
    Wth 6.91 12 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury...as Burke said, at a market almost too high for humanity.
    Wth 6.95 19 Kings are said to have long arms...
    Wth 6.97 5 Goethe said well, Nobody should be rich but those who understand it.
    Wth 6.100 25 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Wth 6.108 22 If the wind were always southwest by west, said the skipper, women might take ships to sea.
    Wth 6.109 13 The ancient poet said, The gods sell all things at a fair price.
    Wth 6.113 15 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage...
    Ctr 6.131 23 It is said a man can write but one book;...
    Ctr 6.132 4 The air, said Fouche, is full of poniards.
    Ctr 6.139 23 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
    Ctr 6.140 2 Robert Owen said, Give me a tiger, and I will educate him.
    Ctr 6.143 19 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
    Ctr 6.143 27 ...Lord Herbert of Cherbury said, A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
    Ctr 6.145 15 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
    Ctr 6.146 18 The boy grown up on a farm, which he has never left, is said in the country to have had no chance...
    Ctr 6.149 10 It is said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
    Ctr 6.152 3 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
    Ctr 6.156 6 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras;...
    Ctr 6.159 13 A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be said to have arrived at self-possession.
    Ctr 6.163 4 Steep and craggy, said Porphyry, is the path of the gods.
    Ctr 6.163 27 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
    Ctr 6.165 15 Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men.
    Bhr 6.176 20 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
    Bhr 6.178 19 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...
    Bhr 6.180 10 There is a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing, and a look when he has said it.
    Bhr 6.180 15 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen, he has said nothing...
    Bhr 6.182 5 Beware you don't laugh, said the wise mother, for then you show all your faults.
    Bhr 6.183 4 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.
    Bhr 6.185 12 Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has seen a cat.
    Bhr 6.188 23 I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal gift of penetration;...
    Bhr 6.190 16 ...men do not convince by their argument, but by their personality, by who they are, and what they said and did heretofore.
    Bhr 6.191 12 Jacobi said that when a man has fully expressed his thought, he has somewhat less possession of it.
    Bhr 6.195 17 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans? Utri creditis, Quirites? When he had said these words he was absolved by the assembly of the people.
    Bhr 6.197 5 An old man...said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    Wsp 6.201 13 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me...
    Wsp 6.201 23 ...we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
    Wsp 6.203 7 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who...it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Wsp 6.209 23 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late King of Naples, It has been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of government.
    Wsp 6.212 3 ...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty;...
    Wsp 6.214 13 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    Wsp 6.218 4 As much love, so much mind, said the Latin proverb.
    Wsp 6.228 27 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said...
    Wsp 6.233 11 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    Wsp 6.233 15 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty. Yes, said the king, but my duty brings me here, and yours does not.
    Wsp 6.234 20 [Benedict] said, I am never beaten until I know that I am beaten.
    Wsp 6.235 15 I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in the country.
    Wsp 6.236 18 [Benedict] had the whim not to make an apology to the same individual whom he had wronged. For this he said was a piece of personal vanity;...
    Wsp 6.236 21 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet. Thus, he said, universal justice was satisfied.
    Wsp 6.237 1 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask?
    Wsp 6.241 1 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.
    CbW 6.247 8 Sydney Smith said, A few yards in London cement or dissolve friendship.
    CbW 6.248 2 Mirabeau said, Why should we feel ourselves to be men, unless it be to succeed in everything, everywhere.
    CbW 6.248 8 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to the man who can will. Is that necessary? That shall be:--this is the only law of success. Whoever said it, this is in the right key.
    CbW 6.248 22 Franklin said, Mankind are very superficial and dastardly...
    CbW 6.255 14 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.
    CbW 6.257 23 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.
    CbW 6.258 21 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/...
    CbW 6.259 1 A man of sense and energy...said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.
    CbW 6.259 6 Mirabeau said, There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness;...
    CbW 6.260 6 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    CbW 6.263 16 Dr. Johnson said severely, Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.
    CbW 6.263 25 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying. I said he seemed to me to need quite other company...
    CbW 6.264 5 I knew a wise woman who said to her friends, When I am old, rule me.
    CbW 6.266 11 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art happy and content in none.
    CbW 6.269 22 ...Talleyrand said, I find nonsense singularly refreshing;...
    CbW 6.273 5 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...
    CbW 6.276 12 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
    CbW 6.278 12 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked.
    Bty 6.285 3 See how happy, [Tisso] said, these browsing elks are!
    Bty 6.288 20 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Bty 6.294 14 [Beauty] is the purgation of superfluities, said Michael Angelo.
    Bty 6.299 23 Abbe Menage said of the President Le Bailleul that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait.
    Bty 6.300 20 It was said of Hooke, the friend of Newton, He is the most, and promises the least, of any man in England.
    Bty 6.300 22 Since I am so ugly, said Du Guesclin, it behooves that I be bold.
    Ill 6.313 8 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.
    Ill 6.324 6 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with one another.
    SS 7.3 10 Do you not see, [my new friend] said, the penalty of learning...
    SS 7.5 4 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot...
    SS 7.5 15 God may forgive sins, [my friend] said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness...
    SS 7.8 2 If I stay, said Dante, when there was question of going to Rome, who will go? and if I go, who will stay?
    SS 7.8 6 ...the necessity of solitude is deeper than we have said...
    SS 7.10 21 The king lived and ate in his hall with men, and understood men, said Selden.
    SS 7.10 21 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
    SS 7.12 25 'T is said the present and the future are always rivals.
    SS 7.13 6 ...Bacon said of manners, To obtain them, it only needs not to despise them...
    Civ 7.22 18 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand?
    Civ 7.22 20 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
    Civ 7.30 12 It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
    Civ 7.31 7 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?...
    Art2 7.38 20 ...most of our necessary words are unconsciously said.
    Art2 7.39 13 ...Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
    Art2 7.39 14 ...Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
    Art2 7.40 26 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    Art2 7.49 23 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said.
    Elo1 7.69 2 Our Southern people are almost all speakers, and have every advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
    Elo1 7.70 11 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
    Elo1 7.73 8 Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself;...
    Elo1 7.73 11 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo1 7.75 13 One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
    Elo1 7.78 2 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
    Elo1 7.78 5 It was said of Sir William Pepperell...that, put him where you might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
    Elo1 7.78 9 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    Elo1 7.79 8 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man.
    Elo1 7.79 11 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander;...
    Elo1 7.87 6 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court...said everything it could think of to fill the time...
    DL 7.103 24 Infancy, said Coleridge, presents body and spirit in unity...
    DL 7.105 3 The childhood, said Milton, shows the man...
    DL 7.123 8 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle...
    DL 7.126 21 Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional, or, as one has said, culminating and perfect only a single moment...
    Farm 7.140 18 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food; or, as Burke said, Man breeds at the mouth.
    Farm 7.146 16 ...as I said, we must not paint the farmer in rose-color.
    WD 7.157 3 Man is the meter of all things, said Aristotle;...
    WD 7.158 18 ...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he reckoned all that had been done by mathematicians from the beginning of the world down to Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be the better half...
    WD 7.160 22 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    WD 7.160 24 The old Hebrew king said, He makes the wrath of man to praise him.
    WD 7.167 25 A farmer said he should like to have all the land that joined his own.
    WD 7.176 25 A general, said Bonaparte, always has troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.
    WD 7.178 12 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    WD 7.178 24 ...Homer said, The gods ever give to mortals their apportioned share of reason only on one day.
    WD 7.179 5 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.
    WD 7.180 20 The world is enigmatical,--everything said, and everything known or done...
    WD 7.181 5 The savages in the islands, [the foreign scholar] said, delight to play with the surf...
    WD 7.182 14 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.
    WD 7.184 23 Phoebus challenged the gods, and said, Who will outshoot the far-darting Apollo? Zeus said, I will.
    WD 7.184 24 Phoebus challenged the gods, and said, Who will outshoot the far-darting Apollo? Zeus said, I will.
    WD 7.185 2 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    Boks 7.194 23 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
    Boks 7.196 8 Dr. Johnson said he always went into stately shops;...
    Boks 7.202 17 Of Jamblichus the Emperor Julian said that he was posterior to Plato in time, not in genius.
    Boks 7.210 1 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer.
    Boks 7.210 7 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded until the Marquis said, Two thousand pounds.
    Clbs 7.233 24 Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He was a treasure in rainy days;...
    Clbs 7.244 14 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Clbs 7.246 4 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] said the fact was incontestable that the society of gypsies was more attractive than that of bishops.
    Clbs 7.246 11 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    Cour 7.255 19 'T is said courage is common...
    Cour 7.258 2 Mankind, said Franklin, are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
    Cour 7.258 6 Lord Wellington said, Uniforms were often masks;...
    Cour 7.258 13 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    Cour 7.258 16 ...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 7.261 18 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear, and recovered courage when he had said a prayer for the occasion.
    Cour 7.261 22 I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he had made up his mind to volunteer for the war. I have not, he said, any proper courage, but I shall never let any one find it out.
    Cour 7.270 14 Captain John Brown...said to me in conversation, that for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Cour 7.270 25 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Cour 7.273 2 Napoleon said well, My hand is immediately connected with my head;...
    Cour 7.274 21 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, This is God's hat.
    Suc 7.284 15 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands.
    Suc 7.292 24 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence... that furrow of care, said to mark every American brow.
    Suc 7.293 25 Horatio Greenough...said to me of Robert Fulton's visit to Paris: Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    Suc 7.302 16 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    Suc 7.305 9 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy. Odoacer, if there was a particle of the gentleman in him, would have said, Let me be defeated a thousand times.
    Suc 7.307 11 'T is presumed, as I said, there is but one Shakspeare, one Homer, one Jesus...
    Suc 7.312 3 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world. A person of this temper once said to a man of much activity, I will pardon you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
    OA 7.316 7 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
    OA 7.318 1 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments.
    OA 7.318 4 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas! at the variegated table of life, I partook of a few mouthfuls, and the Fates said, Enough!
    OA 7.321 24 Beranger said, Almost all the good workmen live long.
    OA 7.322 19 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made...
    OA 7.323 26 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
    OA 7.324 8 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.
    OA 7.328 15 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.
    OA 7.329 24 We have a heroic speech from Rome or Greece, but cannot fix it on the man who said it.
    OA 7.330 11 The day comes...when the brave speech returns straight to the hero who said it;...
    OA 7.332 17 [John Adams] thanked us, and said: I am rejoiced, because the nation is happy.
    OA 7.332 23 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life. I said, The world thinks a good deal of joy has been mixed with it.
    OA 7.333 2 I asked [John Adams] if Mr. [John Quincy] Adams's letter of acceptance had been read to him. Yes, he said...
    OA 7.333 12 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned, [John Adams] said, He is now fifty-eight...
    OA 7.333 18 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never...
    OA 7.333 27 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose, sir, you would not have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as well as he.
    OA 7.334 8 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all.
    OA 7.334 20 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...
    PI 8.13 12 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!
    PI 8.14 15 Our Kentuckian orator [Davy Crockett] said of his dissent from his companion, I showed him the back of my hand.
    PI 8.20 4 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    PI 8.27 17 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...
    PI 8.28 25 The lover is rightly said to fancy the hair, eyes, complexion of the maid.
    PI 8.30 1 Veracity...is that which we require in poets,--that they shall say how it was with them, and not what might be said.
    PI 8.38 21 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.
    PI 8.43 15 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.50 22 Richard Owen, the eminent paleontologist, said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    PI 8.53 10 ...Ben Jonson said that Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging.
    PI 8.60 2 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which resounds in my breast...
    PI 8.60 26 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard a voice which said, Gawain, Gawain, be not out of heart...
    PI 8.61 4 ...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which thus called him by his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me? How, said the voice, Sir Gawain, know you me not?
    PI 8.61 17 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine], you will never see me more...
    PI 8.62 3 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly...
    PI 8.62 7 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? Rather, said Merlin, the greatest fool;...
    PI 8.62 15 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be borne...
    PI 8.66 3 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us...
    PI 8.66 8 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    SA 8.81 14 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
    SA 8.85 21 Keep cool, and you command everybody, said Saint-Just;...
    SA 8.85 27 Eat at your table as you would eat at the table of the king, said Confucius.
    SA 8.89 25 One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
    SA 8.90 15 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society in which everything can be safely said...doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.92 3 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met...
    SA 8.93 11 Steele said of his mistress, that to have loved her was a liberal education.
    SA 8.94 4 ...[Madame de Stael] said, with characteristic nationality, Conversation, like talent, exists only in France.
    SA 8.94 10 ...[Madame de Stael] said one day...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 8.95 5 Madame de Tesse said, If I were Queen, I should command Madame de Stael to talk to me every day.
    SA 8.96 17 ...things said for conversation are chalk eggs.
    SA 8.96 21 A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.
    SA 8.103 3 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such force...combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
    SA 8.103 18 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Elo2 8.122 13 It is said that one of the best readers in his time was the late President John Quincy Adams.
    Elo2 8.125 24 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete...
    Elo2 8.129 14 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    Elo2 8.130 15 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.
    Elo2 8.131 2 What is said is the least part of the oration.
    Elo2 8.132 2 ...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 8.139 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 8.145 27 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.
    Res 8.147 3 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc...he knows not what he does.
    Res 8.150 6 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    Comc 8.168 8 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy.
    Comc 8.168 9 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on.
    Comc 8.168 11 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on. That is W, said the teacher. The devil! exclaimed the boy; is that W?
    Comc 8.171 26 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon, O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.
    Comc 8.172 18 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly.
    QO 8.178 11 He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
    QO 8.184 1 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
    QO 8.184 7 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book;...
    QO 8.185 2 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
    QO 8.186 19 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind.
    QO 8.190 20 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    QO 8.192 3 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.
    QO 8.192 9 If De Quincey said, That is what I told you, [Wordsworth] replied, No: that is mine,-mine and not yours.
    QO 8.192 27 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    QO 8.197 5 You have had the like experience in conversation: the wit was in what you heard, not in what the speakers said.
    QO 8.197 12 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    QO 8.198 22 Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow me to introduce to you my only admirer.
    QO 8.200 17 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius?
    QO 8.201 12 To all that can be said of the preponderance of the Past, the single word Genius is a sufficient reply.
    QO 8.202 15 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
    PC 8.211 11 Steffens said, The religious opinions of men rest on their views of Nature.
    PC 8.220 25 I said that one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science.
    PC 8.224 9 [Man] finds that the universe, as Newton said, was made at one cast;...
    PC 8.231 27 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell...
    PPo 8.238 21 My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other.
    PPo 8.253 4 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!
    PPo 8.254 18 Oft have I said, I say it once more,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    PPo 8.256 1 Here is an ode [by Hafiz] which is said to be a favorite with all educated Persians...
    PPo 8.261 19 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
    Insp 8.269 3 It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
    Insp 8.274 26 [Plato] said again, The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry.
    Insp 8.277 2 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.
    Insp 8.277 17 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Insp 8.278 11 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/...
    Insp 8.278 24 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan.
    Insp 8.279 10 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness...
    Insp 8.279 19 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the lightning it is better than cannon.
    Insp 8.280 4 Sydney Smith said: You will never break down in a speech on the day when you have walked twelve miles.
    Insp 8.283 16 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
    Insp 8.285 8 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./
    Insp 8.289 7 Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
    Insp 8.289 18 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty]. A ride near the sea, a sail near the shore, said the ancient.
    Insp 8.290 24 William Blake said, Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.
    Insp 8.291 20 Allston, it is said, had two or three rooms in different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
    Insp 8.293 9 Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends before the other;...
    Insp 8.294 25 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans;...
    Grts 8.306 4 ...Sir Humphry Davy said...my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    Grts 8.308 13 ...Nelson, said, I feel that I am fitter to do the action than to describe it.
    Grts 8.311 10 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh.
    Grts 8.312 26 If it is the truth, what matters who said it?
    Grts 8.314 1 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared...
    Grts 8.314 21 When one of his favorite schemes missed, [Napoleon] had the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it somewhere else.
    Grts 8.317 2 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
    Imtl 8.323 4 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Imtl 8.329 21 Schiller said, What is so universal as death, must be benefit.
    Imtl 8.329 26 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
    Imtl 8.330 19 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end. What! will it never stop? the child said;...
    Imtl 8.330 21 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Imtl 8.331 17 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues...
    Imtl 8.332 6 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially.
    Imtl 8.332 8 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert.
    Imtl 8.339 5 Franklin said, Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life.
    Imtl 8.340 15 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of the soul...
    Imtl 8.340 26 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
    Imtl 8.341 16 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    Imtl 8.342 5 To me, said Goethe, the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity.
    Imtl 8.343 9 If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old saints;...
    Imtl 8.344 2 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent...
    Imtl 8.349 14 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...
    Imtl 8.349 17 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Through my favor, Gautama will remember thee with love as before.
    Imtl 8.349 23 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry.
    Imtl 8.349 27 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods;...
    Imtl 8.350 4 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality].
    Imtl 8.350 9 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Choose sons and grandsons who may live a hundred years;...
    Imtl 8.350 24 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday.
    Imtl 8.351 2 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou pleasest. The boon which I choose I have said.
    Imtl 8.351 2 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant.
    Dem1 10.9 2 Why...should not symptoms, auguries, forebodings be, and, as one said, the moanings of the spirit?
    Dem1 10.9 20 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
    Dem1 10.12 8 Nature, said Swedenborg, makes almost as much demand on our faith as miracles do.
    Dem1 10.13 25 Euripides said, He is not the best prophet who guesses well...
    Dem1 10.14 25 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground.
    Dem1 10.15 22 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon to his hesitating Chancellor;...
    Dem1 10.17 8 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we...found college professorships to expound. Goethe has said in his Autobiography what is much to the purpose...
    PerF 10.70 21 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    PerF 10.72 24 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    PerF 10.87 10 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
    Chr2 10.104 6 Chateaubriand said...If God made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
    Chr2 10.107 6 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families;...
    Chr2 10.107 7 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families; grace was said at table;...
    Chr2 10.108 27 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
    Chr2 10.109 13 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Chr2 10.110 27 [Voltaire] was like the son of the vine-dresser in the Gospel, who said No, and went; the other said Yea, and went not.
    Chr2 10.117 21 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Chr2 10.120 15 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
    Chr2 10.120 23 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them. Confucius said, If you, sir, were not covetous, although you should reward them to do it, they would not steal.
    Chr2 10.121 14 Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
    Edc1 10.133 19 I have hope, said the great Leibnitz, that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed.
    Edc1 10.152 4 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.
    Supl 10.167 5 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said...I believe him capable of virtue.
    Supl 10.168 9 I judge by every man's truth of his degree of understanding, said Chesterfield.
    Supl 10.168 14 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction...
    Supl 10.168 15 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction, and said it justly;...
    Supl 10.168 18 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?
    Supl 10.170 5 Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said, Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.
    Supl 10.174 12 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    Supl 10.177 4 The ground of Paradise, said Mohammed, is extensive, and the plants of it are hallelujahs.
    SovE 10.186 11 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    SovE 10.190 14 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
    SovE 10.191 14 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    SovE 10.195 1 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
    SovE 10.196 20 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice...
    Prch 10.229 16 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Prch 10.233 18 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
    MoL 10.245 25 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.
    MoL 10.246 19 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and...said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    Schr 10.270 16 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    Schr 10.276 25 As Burke said, it is not only our duty to make the right known, but to make it prevalent.
    Schr 10.279 2 It was said of an eminent Frenchman, that he was drowned in his talents.
    Schr 10.286 21 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career.
    Schr 10.286 23 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career. Freely be that said.
    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.
    Plu 10.305 3 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.
    Plu 10.306 25 Let others wrangle, said St. Augustine; I will wonder.
    Plu 10.309 23 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.
    Plu 10.311 7 La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed.
    LLNE 10.325 8 ...[the witty physician] said, It was a misfortune to have been born when children were nothing, and to live till men were nothing.
    LLNE 10.328 15 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no, set your heart at rest on that point, said the landlord;...
    LLNE 10.344 14 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact...
    LLNE 10.347 3 [Robert Owen] said that Fourier learned of him all the truth he had;...
    LLNE 10.347 15 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said, you may depend on it there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    LLNE 10.354 8 The Stoic said, Forbear, Fourier said, Indulge.
    LLNE 10.356 11 ...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists had a sense of duty which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.
    LLNE 10.364 22 The art of letter-writing, it is said, was immensely cultivated [at Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.366 6 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible.
    EzRy 10.386 21 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
    EzRy 10.387 3 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...
    EzRy 10.387 13 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    EzRy 10.388 13 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done.
    EzRy 10.388 21 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.
    EzRy 10.390 2 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc. Why, said the Doctor with perfect faith, it was a bright moonlight night;...
    EzRy 10.391 15 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.
    EzRy 10.394 19 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable...in his exhortations and prayers. He...said on the instant the best things in the world.
    MMEm 10.403 24 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr. Ripley or Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life.
    MMEm 10.405 27 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies...
    MMEm 10.410 6 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut.
    MMEm 10.410 27 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece]. The man...having found them apologized for calling thus, by telling what Miss Emerson had said to him.
    MMEm 10.416 11 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    MMEm 10.421 4 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.
    MMEm 10.423 8 [War] was the glory of the Chosen People, nay, it is said there was war in Heaven.
    MMEm 10.433 12 Very rightly...the Christian ages, proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
    SlHr 10.438 21 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must go.
    SlHr 10.440 16 When I talked with [Samuel Hoar] one day of some inequality of taxes in the town, he said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded;...
    SlHr 10.441 15 What [Samuel Hoar] said, that would he do.
    SlHr 10.442 14 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    SlHr 10.447 23 When some one said, in his presence, that Chief Justice Marshall was failing in his intellect, Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    Thor 10.455 6 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much;...
    Thor 10.455 11 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man.
    Thor 10.456 15 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him;...
    Thor 10.457 1 I said [to Thoreau], Who would not like to write something which all can read, like Robinson Crusoe?...
    Thor 10.461 3 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body...
    Thor 10.461 20 [Thoreau] could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes.
    Thor 10.462 3 [Thoreau] said he wanted every stride his legs made.
    Thor 10.462 14 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    Thor 10.462 17 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink;...
    Thor 10.463 13 [Thoreau] said,-You can sleep near the railroad, and never be disturbed...
    Thor 10.464 19 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...
    Thor 10.468 14 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and yet have prevailed...
    Thor 10.470 27 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.
    Thor 10.475 11 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
    Thor 10.477 24 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms. This is neither to be censured nor regretted. Aristotle long ago explained it, when he said, One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.
    Thor 10.480 5 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were?
    Thor 10.481 23 ...[Thoreau]...said [echoes] were almost the only kind of kindred voices that he heard.
    Thor 10.482 2 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest. Thank God, he said, they cannot cut down the clouds!
    Carl 10.493 27 [Carlyle's] talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson: If his pistol missed fire, he would knock you down with the butt-end.
    LS 11.16 15 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it?
    LS 11.21 4 ...if miracles may be said to have been [Christianity's] evidence to the first Christians, they are not its evidence to us, but the doctrines themselves;...
    LS 11.24 10 ...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
    LS 11.24 11 ...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
    HDC 11.30 2 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...
    HDC 11.37 9 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms.
    HDC 11.37 20 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    HDC 11.40 5 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
    HDC 11.52 12 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you?
    HDC 11.59 4 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    HDC 11.59 20 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    HDC 11.61 10 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward, the fame of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the Indian.
    HDC 11.66 23 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
    HDC 11.72 18 It is said that all the services of that day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of Concord]...
    HDC 11.77 17 ...[William Emerson]...is said to have deeply inspired many of his people with his own enthusiasm [for the Revolution].
    EWI 11.100 7 The subject [emancipation] is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
    EWI 11.100 18 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need of you!
    EWI 11.104 2 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter, of whom so many unpleasant things are said;...
    EWI 11.113 25 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham, and was by him urged on his colleagues, who, it is said, were inclined to the policy of immediate emancipation.
    EWI 11.122 1 I said, this event [emancipation in the West Indies] is a signal in the history of civilization.
    EWI 11.125 22 Many planters have said, since the emancipation [in the West Indies], that, before that day, they were the greatest slaves on the estates.
    EWI 11.135 20 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves.
    EWI 11.136 6 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America...
    EWI 11.140 20 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?
    EWI 11.142 22 I have said that this event [emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites;...
    EWI 11.147 8 There have been moments, I said, when men might be forgiven who doubted [emancipation].
    War 11.156 21 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
    War 11.157 12 ...all history is the picture of war, as we have said...
    War 11.159 12 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.
    War 11.167 21 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...
    FSLC 11.180 20 In Boston, we have said with such lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
    FSLC 11.182 9 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born.
    FSLC 11.182 27 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed that men would not stick to what they had said...
    FSLC 11.191 16 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.192 5 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    FSLC 11.202 8 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of the Union Committees' cannon. But I have said too much on this painful topic.
    FSLC 11.205 6 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others; he says what he hears said...
    FSLC 11.209 1 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars.
    FSLN 11.225 12 Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things to be said on the part of the South.
    FSLN 11.228 2 Burke said he would pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
    FSLN 11.228 13 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said...Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    FSLN 11.228 19 I said I had never in my life up to this time suffered from the Slave Institution.
    FSLN 11.234 8 ...one would have said that a Christian would not keep slaves;-but Chrisitans keep slaves.
    FSLN 11.235 4 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.
    FSLN 11.236 16 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.
    FSLN 11.239 8 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an offspring...and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
    FSLN 11.239 13 ...For evil word shall evil word be said,/ For murder-stroke a murder-stroke be paid./ Who smites must smart./
    AsSu 11.248 2 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    AsSu 11.251 6 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.
    AKan 11.257 3 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed...as has been elsewhere said, on the scale of a national action.
    AKan 11.258 7 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them...order funeral service to be said for the citizens whom they were unable to defend.
    JBB 11.266 22 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.
    JBB 11.267 3 Gentlemen who have preceded me have well said that no wall of separation could here exist.
    JBB 11.270 21 I said John Brown was an idealist.
    JBB 11.270 23 ...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he believed in putting the thing through.
    JBS 11.277 7 Everything that is said of [John Brown] leaves people a little dissatisfied;...
    JBS 11.277 21 [John Brown] said that he loved rough play...
    JBS 11.278 27 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    TPar 11.289 15 [Theodore Parker] was capable, it must be said, of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed...
    TPar 11.292 2 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always...because he sees that, whether he speak or refrain from speech, this is said over him;...
    ACiv 11.299 20 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
    ACiv 11.301 5 A democratic statesman said to me, long since, that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.
    ACiv 11.308 22 [Emancipation] is borrowing, as I said, the omnipotence of a principle.
    EPro 11.322 19 Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.
    ALin 11.332 22 The poor negro said of [Lincoln], on an impressive occasion, Massa Linkum am eberywhere.
    ALin 11.334 22 It cannot be said there is any exaggeration of [Lincoln's] worth.
    HCom 11.341 13 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things.
    HCom 11.341 14 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things. He said it, no doubt, as science, but we of this day can repeat it as political and social truth.
    HCom 11.342 24 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must.
    HCom 11.343 12 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon.
    HCom 11.344 11 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...whose fathers and mothers said of each slaughtered son, We gave him up when he enlisted.
    HCom 11.344 13 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    SMC 11.357 14 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves. One of them said, he had been thinking a good deal about it, last night, and he thought one was never too young to die for a principle.
    SMC 11.357 21 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SMC 11.361 15 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.
    SMC 11.364 13 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men, and unless he ordered me not to carry them, I should do so. He said he had no objection...
    SMC 11.365 2 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...
    SMC 11.370 25 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully. It was said that Colonel Prescott's reply, when reported, pleased the Acting-Brigadier-General Sweitzer mightily.
    Koss 11.396 1 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    Wom 11.405 23 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste, and accept it; but when she added-I think so, because-Pardon me, madam, he said, leave me to find out the reasons for myself.
    Wom 11.406 6 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never.
    Wom 11.406 23 Plato said, Women are the same as men in faculty, only less in degree.
    Wom 11.409 14 I like women, said a clear-headed man of the world; they are so finished.
    Wom 11.410 1 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...
    SHC 11.432 20 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery;...
    Shak1 11.448 1 We can hardly think of an occasion where so little need be said [as Shakespeare's anniversary].
    Shak1 11.452 8 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.
    ChiE 11.471 14 We had said of China, as the old prophet said of Egypt, Her strength is to sit still.
    ChiE 11.472 21 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    ChiE 11.473 6 ...to the governor who complained of thieves, [Confucius] said, If you, sir, were not covetous, though you should reward them for it, they would not steal.
    FRO2 11.488 22 George Fox, the Quaker, said that, though he read of Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.
    CPL 11.498 6 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley] to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if not in holiness?
    CPL 11.504 1 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.
    CPL 11.504 13 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
    CPL 11.505 19 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    FRep 11.511 18 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...
    FRep 11.514 20 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.
    FRep 11.514 23 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace. It is a very old observation; not truer because Metternich said it...
    PLT 12.55 21 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.
    II 12.74 19 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can; for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
    II 12.78 5 Truth indeed! We talk as if we had it, or sometimes said it...
    Mem 12.105 5 The memory of all men is robust on the subject...of an insult inflicted on them. They can remember, as Johnson said, who kicked them last.
    Mem 12.105 18 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.
    Mem 12.107 17 Thoreau said, Of what significance are the things you can forget.
    Mem 12.108 13 How in the right are children, said Margaret Fuller, to forget name and date and place.
    CInt 12.118 14 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    CL 12.140 4 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    CL 12.140 17 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
    CL 12.141 2 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life.
    CL 12.141 11 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject their imagination or influence into the air.
    CL 12.141 21 You shall never break down in a speech, said Sydney Smith, on the day on which you have walked twelve miles.
    CL 12.141 27 Walking, said Rousseau, has something which animates and vivifies my ideas.
    CL 12.142 2 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    CL 12.142 22 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in this respect.
    CL 12.154 15 We may well yield us for a time to [the sea's] lessons. But the nomad instinct, as I said, persists to drive us to fresh fields and pastures new.
    CL 12.154 20 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...
    CL 12.154 25 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides.
    CL 12.158 11 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts, but on trying this experiment of inverting the view he said, There is the Campagna! and Italy is Massachusetts upside down.
    CL 12.158 19 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk...
    CL 12.161 5 ...Goethe...said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
    CW 12.172 13 Little joy has he who has no garden, said Saadi.
    CW 12.177 9 ...the countryman, as I said, has more than he paid for; the landscape is his.
    Bost 12.181 1 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.181 5 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.183 1 The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food of life;...
    Bost 12.183 20 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.
    Bost 12.185 24 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
    Bost 12.185 25 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
    Bost 12.188 2 It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the city and of the world is the same...
    Bost 12.193 21 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    Bost 12.201 22 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung in every tone of the psalmody of the Puritans;...
    MAng1 12.223 21 ...even at Venice, on defective evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge of the Rialto.
    MAng1 12.228 4 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months, a fact which enlarges, it has been said, the known powers of man.
    MAng1 12.229 3 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ, because, he said, to exercise himself with the mallet was good for his health.
    MAng1 12.231 3 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air;...
    MAng1 12.231 22 ...[St. Peter's dome] is said to have been injured by unskilful attempts to repair it.
    MAng1 12.232 7 Raphael said, I bless God I live in the times of Michael Angelo.
    MAng1 12.232 18 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
    MAng1 12.232 21 ...such was [Michelangelo's] own mastery that men said, the marble was flexible in his hands.
    MAng1 12.239 6 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.
    MAng1 12.239 7 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
    MAng1 12.239 14 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.239 18 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.239 20 ...as we have said, the reputation of many works of art now in Italy derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
    MAng1 12.240 26 [Condivi wrote] As for me, I am ignorant what Plato has said upon this subject [love]; but this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    MAng1 12.243 20 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    Milt1 12.251 7 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings, alive, hath hands and feet...
    Milt1 12.261 24 ...[Milton] said, in his Apology for Smectymnuus...I cannot say that I am utterly untrained in those rules which best rhetoricians have given...
    Milt1 12.263 3 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.
    Milt1 12.264 6 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight;...
    Milt1 12.265 27 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.
    Milt1 12.269 1 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
    Milt1 12.270 1 My mother bore me, [Milton] said, a speaker of what God made mine own, and not a translator.
    Milt1 12.274 24 ...Bacon's imagination was said to be the noblest that ever contented itself to minister to the understanding...
    ACri 12.285 2 Le style c'est l'homme, said Buffon;...
    ACri 12.285 2 ...Goethe said, Poetry here, poetry there, I have learned to speak German.
    ACri 12.286 5 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all.
    ACri 12.289 27 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...
    ACri 12.290 2 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images, and into which, he said, he should be afraid to fall himself, lest he should be burnt up.
    ACri 12.292 10 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    ACri 12.298 1 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb...
    ACri 12.299 20 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
    ACri 12.300 15 To make of motes mountains, and of mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office.
    ACri 12.301 25 Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.
    MLit 12.318 18 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
    MLit 12.323 7 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...
    MLit 12.328 4 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
    WSL 12.344 26 [Landor] draws with evident pleasure the portrait of a man who never said anything right and never did anything wrong.
    WSL 12.349 6 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.
    Pray 12.350 9 Pythagoras said that the time when men were honestest is when they present themselves before the gods.
    AgMs 12.360 10 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than the last...
    AgMs 12.362 1 ...especially observe what is said throughout these [Agricultural] Reports of the model farms and model farmers.
    EurB 12.366 27 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense;...
    EurB 12.367 18 Early in life, at a crisis it is said in his private affairs, [Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
    EurB 12.369 15 What [Wordsworth] said, [many others] were prepared to hear and confirm.
    Let 12.398 9 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...
    Let 12.402 20 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit, or, as men said, from a blade too sharp for the scabbard, it turned out that they had not wit enough.
    Let 12.404 16 In Cambridge orations and elsehwere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature. What can have become of it? The least said is best.
    Trag 12.416 12 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

saidst, v. (1)

    Clbs 7.238 6 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...

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