Seat to Sedulously

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

seat, n. (33)

    Nat 1.21 13 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    AmS 1.102 9 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason from her inviolable seat pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.
    Con 1.295 20 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution.
    YA 1.367 19 We have twenty degrees of latitude wherein to choose a seat...
    SL 2.129 12 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/ Forging, through swart arms of Offence,/ The silver seat of Innocence./
    Exp 3.54 2 Shall I preclude my future by taking a high seat...
    Chr1 3.100 5 There is nothing real or useful that is not a seat of war.
    Pol1 3.197 18 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    NR 3.242 24 [Nature] suffers no seat to be vacant in her college.
    PPh 4.52 12 ...the seat of a philosophy delighting in abstractions...is Asia;...
    PPh 4.72 15 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    SwM 4.95 1 [The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will, which is the seat of personality, seems to convert the universe into a person;...
    SwM 4.130 9 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. ... But this topic suggests a sad afterthought, that here we find the seat of his own pain.
    SwM 4.131 10 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe]...
    MoS 4.157 5 [The skeptic says] Why so talkative in public, when each of my neighbors can pin me to my seat by arguments I cannot refute?
    GoW 4.278 22 We had an English romance here...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
    ET1 5.14 1 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.
    ET5 5.90 27 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte, one after the other defeated, and still renewed, until the sixth hurled him from his seat.
    ET16 5.275 21 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that there and not here is the seat and centre of the British race;...
    ET16 5.284 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall,--the renowned seat of the Earls of Pembroke...
    Ctr 6.159 6 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we should wish to hug him.
    Farm 7.141 9 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    OA 7.317 22 Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion...
    Aris 10.45 12 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved.
    Edc1 10.142 15 ...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man] and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he...make wry faces to keep up a freshman's seat in the fine world?
    HDC 11.37 18 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
    LVB 11.89 1 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen.
    FSLN 11.242 10 The [American] universities are...the seat of inertness.
    EdAd 11.383 19 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    SHC 11.432 3 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park? It dignifies life. It is a seat for friendship, counsel, taste and religion.
    PLT 12.4 10 ...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
    PLT 12.50 16 When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a degree lost. Reason does not keep her firm seat.
    Bost 12.188 16 [Boston] is...a seat of humanity...

seat, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.112 20 The gods must seat themselves without seneschal in our Olympus...
    SA 8.83 7 'T is a great point in a gallery, how you hang pictures; and not less in society, how you seat your party.

seated, v. (6)

    Nat 1.66 5 That which seems faintly possible...is often faint and dim because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.
    Hist 2.23 3 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys. Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation...
    SR 2.47 19 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart...
    CbW 6.270 17 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation;...
    Cour 7.265 12 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...
    EWI 11.102 16 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.

seats, n. (17)

    Con 1.308 25 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die, since it appears...that I have been missent to this earth, where all the seats were already taken...
    Tran 1.359 13 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities...ruined...by new inventions, by new seats of trade...
    ET4 5.51 13 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived. Nor is it easy to trace it home to its original seats.
    ET5 5.97 14 Purity in the elective Parliament [of England] is secured by the purchase of seats.
    ET11 5.172 7 Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the splendor of royal seats.
    ET11 5.182 23 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight seats in Parliament.
    CbW 6.243 4 Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/ Usurp the seats for which all strive;/...
    OA 7.335 17 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice.
    Elo2 8.118 6 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions, and in the state with seats in the cabinet...
    Res 8.141 19 ...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of Esquimaux, become lands of promise.
    Aris 10.60 25 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full;...
    EzRy 10.383 27 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers...and not less with the report like musketry from the movable seats.
    HDC 11.55 23 ...the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.
    EWI 11.138 24 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of powers are filled by underlings...
    AKan 11.258 4 ...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.
    EdAd 11.389 4 We are not well, we are not in our seats, when justice and humanity are to be spoken for.
    Bost 12.202 17 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...fill the high seats...

sea-view, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 15 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale, delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...

sea-voyaging, n. (1)

    ET2 5.27 19 There are many advantages, says Saadi, in sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them.

sea-wall, n. (1)

    ET3 5.41 14 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France, and gave to this fragment of Europe [England] its impregnable sea-wall...

sea-war, n. (1)

    Cour 7.254 8 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign, sea-war and land-war...

sea-ware, n. (1)

    ET18 5.300 19 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted. Multitudes lived miserably by shell-fish and sea-ware.

seaweed, n. (1)

    PLT 12.22 11 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man]...designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

sea-wide, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.288 22 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...in the sea-wide, sky-skirted prairie, still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...

sea-wolf, n. (1)

    F 6.8 7 ...the forms of the shark...the jaw of the sea-wolf...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

seceder, n. (2)

    Con 1.305 22 ...among the lovers of the new I observe...that the seceder from the seceder is as damnable as the pope himself.
    Con 1.305 23 ...among the lovers of the new I observe...that the seceder from the seceder is as damnable as the pope himself.

Secession, adj. (1)

    EPro 11.325 17 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.

secession, n. (3)

    EPro 11.318 2 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated...the secession of three states...
    EPro 11.323 8 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession impossible...
    EPro 11.323 10 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession impossible...

Seckels, n. (1)

    CL 12.146 6 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...

seclude, v. (1)

    ET8 5.130 4 ...the [English] gentry avoid the taverns, or seclude themselves whilst in them.

secluded, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.453 23 [Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds...

secluded, v. (1)

    NMW 4.242 5 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates, secluded from all community with the children of the soil...

seclusion, n. (4)

    LE 1.176 13 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being...
    CbW 6.268 5 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...they look at the farms;--good farms, high mountain-sides; but where is the seclusion?
    Insp 8.288 14 I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home. I thus secured a more absolute seclusion;...
    SHC 11.433 26 [Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat on a Sabbath day...

second, adj. (121)

    AmS 1.88 16 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age.
    AmS 1.109 16 ...we are embarrassed with second thoughts;...
    DSA 1.127 1 [The moral sentiment] cannot be received at second hand.
    DSA 1.134 1 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
    DSA 1.150 12 The remedy to [the old forms'] deformity is first, soul, and second, soul, and evermore, soul.
    MR 1.238 5 Consider further the difference between the first and second owner of property.
    Tran 1.329 15 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;...
    Tran 1.329 17 ...the second class [Idealists] perceive that the senses are not final...
    YA 1.367 17 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have...passed into second childhood.
    YA 1.370 15 In the second place, the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.
    Fdsp 2.202 19 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
    Fdsp 2.202 26 Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Prd1 2.223 1 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    Cir 2.301 2 The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second;...
    Cir 2.316 6 ...that second man has his own way of looking at things;...
    Int 2.329 17 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual and latent.
    Art1 2.356 13 ...what astonished and fascinated me in the first work [of art], astonished me in the second work also;...
    Pt1 3.13 12 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object...
    Pt1 3.22 14 This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature...
    Chr1 3.92 16 In the new objects we recognize the old game, the habit of fronting the fact, and not dealing with it at second hand...
    Mrs1 3.146 7 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants shade-trees for the second and third generation...
    Mrs1 3.148 20 ...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume, and does not please on the second reading...
    Nat2 3.170 11 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would...escape the sophistication and second thought...
    Nat2 3.180 17 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature...
    UGM 4.29 7 How superior [are children] in their security...from vulgarity and second thought!
    PPh 4.51 10 ...the second [diversity] is the power of nature.
    PPh 4.52 4 Each student adheres, by temperament and by habit, to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind [unity or diversity].
    PPh 4.56 18 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato... studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these, as second causes, to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    PPh 4.58 26 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    PPh 4.76 17 In the second place, [Plato] has not a system.
    PPh 4.77 1 Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought;...
    PNR 4.82 13 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
    PNR 4.82 18 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses.
    PNR 4.84 23 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... This second sight explains the stress laid on geometry.
    SwM 4.100 21 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame of second sight...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.115 8 The second and next higher form is the circular...
    SwM 4.146 6 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men...
    MoS 4.160 20 We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first and limber as the second.
    MoS 4.176 18 [The power of moods] is the second negation;...
    ShP 4.195 10 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    ShP 4.211 10 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...their second thought and wiles;...
    ShP 4.217 3 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
    NMW 4.224 7 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...
    GoW 4.262 19 ...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
    GoW 4.271 27 [Goethe's] Helena, or the second part of Faust, is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...
    ET1 5.20 12 I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows, are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
    ET1 5.22 18 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
    ET1 5.22 22 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...
    ET2 5.25 1 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
    ET2 5.30 12 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    ET4 5.73 2 ...[the English] boast...that their horses are become their second selves.
    ET5 5.95 23 In due course, all England will be drained and rise a second time out of the waters.
    ET8 5.141 2 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles and find...a second millennium of power in their colonies.
    ET10 5.154 16 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
    ET10 5.156 18 Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars [in England], or in the second cabin.
    ET13 5.223 8 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the sympathy is at an end...
    ET14 5.236 16 There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...
    ET14 5.260 14 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force, though the first consist of only a dozen souls and the second of twenty millions, forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    ET16 5.276 26 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade...enclosing a second and a third colonnade within.
    ET17 5.294 14 ...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years before, I must not forget this second interview.
    F 6.5 18 On the first [the appointed day], neither balm nor physician can save,/ Nor thee, on the second [the unappointed day], the Universe slay./
    F 6.12 11 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated...
    F 6.35 26 The second and imperfect races are dying out...
    Pow 6.60 1 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better;...
    Pow 6.77 7 The second substitute for temperament is drill...
    Wth 6.117 25 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son of the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide for him.
    Ctr 6.140 11 There are people who can never understand...any second or expanded sense given to your words...
    Ctr 6.163 2 If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come at the first or the second call...
    Bhr 6.186 7 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second is still more effective...
    CbW 6.248 17 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast...
    Civ 7.29 14 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.38 3 Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
    DL 7.125 5 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea; in a second, the difficulties he combated in going to college;...
    WD 7.180 11 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity.
    PI 8.11 7 First the fact; second its impression...
    PI 8.19 10 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.21 20 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs...all but itself. But this second sight does not necessarily impair the primary or common sense.
    PI 8.22 1 This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of delight and of moral use.
    PI 8.27 13 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach...
    PI 8.66 4 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us, and this exists as a second nature...
    SA 8.94 23 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;...
    Elo2 8.116 10 [The people] have sent their best men; the young and ardent... went at the first draft, or the second...
    QO 8.180 9 The first book tyrannizes over the second.
    QO 8.197 14 ...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 8.203 6 He that comes second must needs quote him that comes first.
    PPo 8.240 15 Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
    Insp 8.269 10 Our money is only a second best.
    Grts 8.310 23 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...
    Imtl 8.324 5 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence...
    Imtl 8.349 19 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him;...
    MoL 10.254 4 On second thoughts, [Pytheas] returned and paid [Pindar] for the poem.
    CSC 10.373 12 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the following year [1841], for the discussion of the second topic.
    SlHr 10.440 27 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left an infantile innocence, of which we have no second or third example...
    SlHr 10.443 8 I am sorry to say [Samuel Hoar] could not be elected to Congress a second time from Middlesex.
    LS 11.15 2 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    LS 11.15 10 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
    HDC 11.29 5 ...the people of New England...as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.32 6 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.65 10 ...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;...
    HDC 11.77 8 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
    War 11.169 19 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    FSLC 11.195 6 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    FSLC 11.195 17 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.
    FSLC 11.196 14 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier;...
    FSLN 11.218 23 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
    ACiv 11.307 27 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race...
    SMC 11.363 25 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...
    SMC 11.368 19 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field...
    SMC 11.372 6 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.
    Wom 11.405 19 ...according to the rule, take [women's] first advice, not the second...
    Wom 11.415 18 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil;...
    Wom 11.421 13 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    Humb 11.459 3 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
    CPL 11.500 8 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.
    PLT 12.25 22 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    PLT 12.58 4 [People] entertain us for a time, but at the second or third encounter we have nothing more to learn.
    PLT 12.61 21 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
    II 12.71 17 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem... or true work of literary genius! In five hundred years we shall not have a second.
    CL 12.163 5 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to survey his possessions, and passed onward and left them, before the second owners, as he called them, were awake.
    MAng1 12.218 24 In the second place, certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
    Milt1 12.268 10 The memorable covenant, which in his youth, in the second book of the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.

second, adv. (3)

    Farm 7.151 4 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best;...
    FRep 11.524 2 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    CL 12.164 3 Nature speaks to the imagination;...second, because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language...

Second Chronicles xiii.12, n (1)

    HDC 11.72 15 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12...

second, n. (2)

    DSA 1.127 5 ...on [another soul's] word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
    Wsp 6.219 1 ...the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction of a second.

second, v. (5)

    Con 1.310 15 ...[existing institutions] second the industrious and the kind;...
    Con 1.324 4 [The hero's] greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether [the laws] second him or not.
    NER 3.280 17 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws, which to second and authorize, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigor.
    WD 7.157 11 Machines can only second, not supply, [man's] unaided senses.
    SMC 11.363 17 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights. The best men heartily second him...

secondaries, n. (2)

    MN 1.217 6 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...whereof all [other advantages] are only secondaries and indemnities...
    Pt1 3.8 1 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...

secondarily, adv. (1)

    Pol1 3.202 5 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the parties, of which there is every degree, and secondarily on patrimony, falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.

secondariness, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.197 19 There must not be secondariness...
    FRep 11.533 19 See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English life, that runs through this country...

secondary, adj. (24)

    Nat 1.30 2 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    DSA 1.145 11 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    DSA 1.145 14 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    MN 1.197 2 In the divine order, intellect is primary; nature, secondary;...
    SR 2.53 18 ...I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
    Art1 2.367 16 [Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the ideal. Thus is art vilified; the name conveys to the mind its secondary and bad senses;...
    Pt1 3.9 23 The argument [in modern poetry] is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary.
    Pt1 3.22 9 ...language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
    NR 3.242 19 The universality being hindered in its primary form, comes in the secondary form of all sides;...
    ShP 4.210 14 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
    ET9 5.148 9 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain] takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
    ET9 5.150 21 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    Boks 7.194 17 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...
    PI 8.11 5 ...the secondary use [of a fact], as it is a figure or illustration of my thought, it the real worth.
    PI 8.16 10 Chemistry, geology, hydraulics, are secondary science.
    SA 8.82 12 ...thought disposes the limbs and the walk, and is masterly or secondary.
    Supl 10.177 13 ...the diamond and the pearl, which are only accidental and secondary in their use and value to us, are proper to the Oriental world.
    FSLN 11.225 7 ...though I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism,-yet the secondary merits of a speech, namely, its logic, its illustrations, its points, etc., are not here in question.
    CPL 11.507 25 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are secondary...
    FRep 11.518 17 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place, and the measures are perfunctorily carried through as secondary.
    PLT 12.32 5 ...men are primary or secondary as their opinions and actions are organic or not.
    MAng1 12.230 15 Slighting the secondary arts of coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    Milt1 12.261 21 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power...
    ACri 12.283 4 The secondary services of literature may be classed under the name of Rhetoric...

secondary, n. (1)

    DSA 1.145 8 ...each would be an easy secondary to some Christian scheme...

second-best, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.202 4 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...and why he left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife.

second-best, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.356 13 ...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists had a sense of duty which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.

second-class, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.156 17 Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars [in England]...

seconded, v. (6)

    Nat2 3.194 8 ...it also appears that our actions are seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.
    ET10 5.165 24 [The Englishman]...is seconded by wealth;...
    FSLC 11.209 18 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed? Their power of territory seconded by a genius equal to every work.
    Koss 11.397 8 ...[the people of Concord]...have been hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].
    Milt1 12.259 8 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
    MLit 12.323 10 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have...seconded [Goethe's] sturdy determination to see things for what they are.

second-foot, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.483 18 Hard are the times when the infant's shoes are second-foot.

seconding, n. (1)

    NMW 4.244 15 ...[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.

secondly, adv. (12)

    DSA 1.150 24 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching...
    Comp 2.103 1 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.
    UGM 4.8 21 Men are...representative; first, of things, and secondly, of ideas.
    PNR 4.89 15 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards.
    ET1 5.20 7 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth]; and secondly, to politics;...
    ET6 5.114 25 ...[English table-talk reaches perfection because] the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...and secondly, because the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good.
    ET18 5.304 7 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;... secondly, in the instruction of the people...
    QO 8.183 12 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules...secondly, never to do himself what he could make another do for him;...
    LS 11.15 24 We arrive, then, at this conclusion: first, that it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual; secondly, that it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists.
    Shak1 11.450 18 ...secondly, [Shakespeare] is the most robust and potent thinker that ever was.
    FRO1 11.480 17 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers...
    CL 12.164 11 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...secondly, because we have an instinct that they express a grander law.

second-rate, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.61 18 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...and these have been second-rate powers ever since.

seconds, n. (1)

    FRep 11.511 7 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year...

seconds, v. (1)

    FRep 11.515 14 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.

second-sight, n. (2)

    Bty 6.305 10 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency...
    Dem1 10.21 13 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror; so...the alleged second-sight of the pseudo-spiritualists.

secret, adj. (76)

    DSA 1.120 21 A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
    MR 1.229 17 The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker...
    YA 1.373 5 This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest administration, though rumors exist of its secret tenderness.
    YA 1.375 6 /Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and inviolable springs./
    Hist 2.5 8 We, as we read, must...fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience...
    Hist 2.9 2 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense...
    Hist 2.30 3 [The advancing man's] own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted down before he was born.
    Hist 2.34 18 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of using the secret virtues of minerals...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    Comp 2.106 2 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens...O thou only great God...
    Comp 2.117 22 The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed.
    SL 2.146 22 Plato had a secret doctrine, had he?
    SL 2.156 9 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times...on secret societies...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    SL 2.160 23 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not assisted him...heretofore?
    Hsm1 2.251 13 Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.
    Int 2.328 9 I have been floated into hour...by secret currents of might and mind...
    Int 2.331 9 At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open...whilst we act, intent to learn the secret law of some class of facts.
    Exp 3.70 26 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope.
    Nat2 3.174 11 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    Nat2 3.179 12 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes...
    NR 3.232 13 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor;...
    NER 3.267 11 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul;...
    NER 3.269 5 Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret melancholy...
    NER 3.276 10 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    NER 3.283 12 Men are all secret believers in [the Law]...
    UGM 4.9 3 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature...
    PPh 4.67 19 Quite above us, beyond the will of you or me, is this secret affinity or repulsion laid.
    SwM 4.97 1 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror.
    SwM 4.112 8 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    ET5 5.78 23 ...no breach of truth and plain dealing,--not so much as secret ballot, is suffered in the island [England].
    ET7 5.126 10 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That English treasons never can succeed;/ For they 're so open-hearted, you may know/ Their own most secret thoughts, and others' too./
    ET9 5.146 3 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
    ET19 5.313 17 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct...that in storm of battle and calamity she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.
    Ctr 6.144 4 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all who use them, secret freemasonries.
    Bhr 6.177 27 A cow can bid her calf, by secret signal...to run away...
    Bhr 6.184 26 ...here [in dress circles] are the secret biographies written and read.
    CbW 6.268 1 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore, they will...find a dear cottage deep in the mountains, secret as their hearts.
    Bty 6.283 20 From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to draw great events.
    Bty 6.288 21 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Bty 6.299 14 A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
    Bty 6.305 9 Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies;...
    DL 7.127 3 The secret power of form over the imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
    PI 8.5 21 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...
    PI 8.67 3 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it the wise and generous souls, confirming their secret thoughts...
    Elo2 8.112 25 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...
    PC 8.219 14 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    Insp 8.271 13 ...nothing great and lasting can be done except...by leaning on the secret augury.
    Imtl 8.334 4 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Imtl 8.344 16 Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but inviolable springs./
    Dem1 10.11 5 Secret analogies tie together the remotest parts of Nature...
    Aris 10.36 19 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.61 20 ...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world;...
    Chr2 10.109 14 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Chr2 10.121 25 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    SovE 10.193 3 Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of Divine justice.
    Schr 10.272 20 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion; he is to show...its secret history and issues.
    MMEm 10.426 17 Number the waste places of the journey,-the secret martyrdom of youth...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    MMEm 10.430 22 ...one secret sentiment of virtue, disinterested (or perhaps not), is worthy...
    Thor 10.450 3 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Carl 10.492 1 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat secret and silent...
    War 11.164 20 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
    War 11.171 5 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    JBS 11.279 24 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown]...knew the secret signals by which animals communicate.
    TPar 11.285 10 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
    SMC 11.351 26 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes...an altar where the noble youth shall in all time come to make his secret vows.
    SMC 11.354 10 The secret architecture of things begins to disclose itself;...
    CPL 11.503 12 ...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached.
    FRep 11.527 24 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the antipathy to secret societies...
    PLT 12.32 4 ...individual men have secret senses, each some incommunicable sagacity.
    PLT 12.62 1 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power...
    II 12.79 27 ...the secret Power will not impart himself to us for tea-table talk;...
    II 12.84 26 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...
    CInt 12.112 4 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    CInt 12.124 20 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed, not according to the secret needs of each mind but by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
    Bost 12.193 7 ...by some secret tie [the divine will] holds the poor savage to it...
    ACri 12.299 18 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II]...
    Pray 12.356 3 Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet higher secret experiences which are ineffable!

secret, n. (179)

    Nat 1.8 2 Neither does the wisest man extort [nature's] secret...
    Nat 1.39 27 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will not only particular events but great classes...
    Nat 1.67 1 ...a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments.
    DSA 1.138 5 The capital secret of his profession...to convert life into truth, [the preacher] had not learned.
    DSA 1.144 24 All men go in flocks...avoiding the God who seeth in secret.
    DSA 1.144 25 [Men] cannot see in secret;...
    LE 1.176 14 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being...
    LE 1.181 16 Let [the scholar] know that...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned...
    LE 1.181 25 The good scholar will not refuse...to know...the uttermost secret of toil and endurance;...
    MR 1.229 22 That secret which you would fain keep,-as soon as you go abroad, lo' there is one standing on the doorstep to tell you the same.
    Tran 1.351 27 ...to come a little closer to the secret of these persons, we must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
    YA 1.388 26 ...who announces to us in journal, or in pulpit, or in the street, the secret of heroism?
    SR 2.78 18 The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.
    Comp 2.102 18 Every secret is told, every crime is punished...in silence and certainty.
    Comp 2.106 15 Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for; Minerva another.
    SL 2.135 2 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value...
    SL 2.145 11 It is vain to attempt to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it.
    SL 2.146 23 What secret can [Plato] conceal from the eyes of Bacon?...
    Lov1 2.176 4 ...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
    Lov1 2.176 23 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and [the lover] almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite.
    OS 2.270 15 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.284 26 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to...accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live...
    Cir 2.303 9 Everything looks permanent until its secret is known.
    Int 2.330 13 ...we cannot oversee each other's secret.
    Art1 2.356 17 The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret.
    Art1 2.364 19 Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its secret we do not yet find.
    Art1 2.364 27 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil how deep is the secret of form...
    Pt1 3.5 17 In love...in games, we study to utter our painful secret.
    Pt1 3.11 10 We know that the secret of the world is profound...
    Pt1 3.14 13 We stand before the secret of the world...
    Pt1 3.26 17 It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect he is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...
    Exp 3.55 4 The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects.
    Mrs1 3.141 7 The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
    Nat2 3.167 4 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    Nat2 3.177 27 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature]...
    Nat2 3.180 21 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
    Nat2 3.185 17 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
    Nat2 3.193 27 [Nature's] secret is untold.
    NR 3.234 1 This preference of the genius to the parts is the secret of that deification of art, which is found in all superior minds.
    NR 3.242 25 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die...
    NER 3.278 10 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn...
    UGM 4.12 2 Unpublished nature will have its whole secret told.
    UGM 4.15 21 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius.
    UGM 4.20 24 With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires;...
    UGM 4.28 16 ...the law of individuality collects its secret strength: you are you, and I am I, and so we remain.
    UGM 4.32 15 Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.
    PNR 4.88 21 The secret of [Plato's] popular success is the moral aim which endeared him to mankind.
    SwM 4.104 15 ...Descartes...had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    SwM 4.106 17 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the fine secret that little explains large, and large, little;...
    SwM 4.114 18 This fruitful idea [that nature exists entire in leasts] furnishes a key to every secret.
    SwM 4.140 19 The secret of heaven is kept from age to age.
    ShP 4.195 26 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ShP 4.202 21 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from poets and intellectual men as from courtiers and frivolous people.
    NMW 4.239 16 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt for the born kings...
    GoW 4.285 8 ...his penetration of every secret of the fine arts will make Goethe still more statuesque.
    GoW 4.285 11 [Goethe's] affections help him, like women employed by Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
    GoW 4.290 17 The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us;...
    ET5 5.93 4 There is no secret of war in which [the English] have not shown mastery.
    ET5 5.99 4 One secret of [the Englishmen's] power is their mutual good understanding.
    ET7 5.125 26 ...tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret.
    ET8 5.132 18 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...buy every secret;...
    ET10 5.158 4 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds. But the secret slept with Bacon.
    ET10 5.166 25 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
    ET11 5.185 22 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... who...have seen every secret of art and nature...
    ET13 5.231 2 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret...
    ET13 5.231 6 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...
    ET14 5.235 7 Mixture is a secret of the English island;...
    ET14 5.256 8 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the miraculous;...the beauty of which Chaucer and Chapman had the secret.
    ET15 5.261 11 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...
    ET15 5.268 14 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates. Of this closet, the secret does not transpire.
    ET16 5.282 17 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret...
    ET16 5.282 18 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret...
    F 6.39 17 The secret of the world is the tie between person and event.
    Pow 6.57 7 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding] is in everybody's secret;...
    Pow 6.75 1 Concentration is the secret of strength in politics...
    Wth 6.87 4 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
    Wth 6.117 3 The secret of success lies never in the amount of money...
    Wth 6.120 25 The rule is...to learn practically the secret spoken from all nature...
    Ctr 6.157 12 ...it is the secret of culture to interest the man more in his public than in his private quality.
    Bhr 6.169 8 Nature tells every secret once.
    Bhr 6.171 8 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them; but when these have mastered her secret they learn to confront her...
    Bhr 6.175 17 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
    Bhr 6.184 3 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret;...
    Bhr 6.192 16 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that the best of life is conversation...
    Wsp 6.217 5 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others;...
    Wsp 6.223 9 You cannot hide any secret.
    Wsp 6.223 22 No secret can be kept in the civilized world.
    CbW 6.246 15 That by which a man conquers in any passage is a profound secret to every other being in the world...
    CbW 6.273 8 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship...
    CbW 6.278 16 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...
    Bty 6.294 22 In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power...
    Bty 6.300 8 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ill 6.313 18 Few have overheard the gods or surprised their secret.
    Ill 6.318 27 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
    SS 7.4 14 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge here; set oaks there,--trees behind trees; above all, set evergreens, for they will keep a secret all the year round.
    SS 7.8 9 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on all the rest.
    Civ 7.20 13 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. It is the learning the secret of cumulative power...
    Elo1 7.79 3 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
    Elo1 7.84 26 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
    Elo1 7.93 14 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness, which...keeps the secret of its means and method; and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    Farm 7.149 11 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best. If they have an appetite...even now and then for a dead hog, he will indulge them. They keep the secret well...
    Farm 7.153 6 [The farmer] knows every secret of labor;...
    WD 7.175 22 'T is the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
    WD 7.176 17 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all, in the form of the Madonna; and in life, this is the secret of the wise.
    Boks 7.202 5 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Clbs 7.238 19 Omnis definitio periculosa est, and only wit has the secret.
    Cour 7.254 18 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether, exploring the chemical elements whereof we and the world are made, and seeing their secret, Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
    Suc 7.288 15 The public sees in [an invention] a lucrative secret.
    Suc 7.292 25 Self-trust is the first secret of success...
    Suc 7.303 4 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will, for the secret of it is hard to detect...
    Suc 7.306 7 Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. 'T is a secret, the genesis of either;...
    OA 7.316 22 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public, who presently distinguish him with a most amusing respect; and this lets us into the secret that the venerable forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.
    PI 8.18 25 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us.
    PI 8.26 26 [The true poet] is the healthy, the wise, the fundamental, the manly man, seer of the secret;...
    PI 8.30 6 When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken.
    Res 8.141 11 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who...have the secret of steam, of electricity;...
    Res 8.154 4 The healthy, the civil, the industrious, the learned, the moral race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to these.
    Comc 8.170 10 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    QO 8.185 16 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
    PC 8.217 21 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry...
    PC 8.226 14 Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
    PPo 8.243 22 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./
    PPo 8.258 16 Hafiz says,-Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship...
    PPo 8.264 27 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    Grts 8.313 21 Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar?
    Imtl 8.345 16 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence...
    PerF 10.83 22 ...the secret of the world is that its energies are solidaires;...
    PerF 10.84 10 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    Chr2 10.115 21 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. ... This is the secret of the mischievous result that, in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    Edc1 10.123 1 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Edc1 10.143 14 ...our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
    Edc1 10.143 18 It is not for you to choose what [the pupil] shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret.
    Edc1 10.149 3 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret of algebra...
    Edc1 10.155 6 Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.
    Edc1 10.155 13 [the naturalist's] secret is patience;...
    Edc1 10.156 7 Can you not keep for [the child's] mind and ways, for his secret, the same curiosity you give to the squirrel, snake, rabbit...
    Edc1 10.156 9 [The child] has a secret; wonderful methods in him;...
    SovE 10.193 23 To good men, as we call good men, this doctrine of Trust is an unsounded secret.
    Prch 10.236 2 ...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
    Prch 10.238 4 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.
    MoL 10.243 24 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us into the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.
    MoL 10.248 16 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature,-as Roger Bacon, with his secret of gunpowder...
    MoL 10.248 16 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature,-as Roger Bacon...with his secret of the balloon and of steam;...
    MoL 10.248 18 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Copernicus, with his secret of the true astronomy;...
    MoL 10.252 12 ...I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers. It is real. It is the secret of power.
    Schr 10.282 18 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force. There is no mass that can be a counterweight for it. This makes one man good against mankind. This is the secret of eloquence...
    Schr 10.288 26 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius;...
    Plu 10.322 8 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
    LLNE 10.337 14 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show.
    LLNE 10.349 25 Society, concert, cooperation, is the secret of the coming Paradise.
    MMEm 10.405 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.
    Thor 10.472 20 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed;...
    Thor 10.478 7 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend, knowing not only the secret of friendship, but almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
    HDC 11.46 26 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered...
    HDC 11.50 26 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.
    EWI 11.138 23 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of powers are filled by underlings...
    FSLC 11.194 10 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. You can keep no secret, for whatever is true some of them will unreasonably say.
    FSLC 11.213 21 That is the secret of Southern power, that they rest not on meetings, but on private heats and courages.
    FSLN 11.229 2 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery was no longer mendicant...
    ALin 11.332 27 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him to keep his secret;...
    ALin 11.335 1 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept.
    RBur 11.442 17 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech...
    FRep 11.511 5 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops...the college and the church, have all found out this secret.
    PLT 12.30 4 Let me whisper a secret; nobody ever forgives any admiration in you of them...
    PLT 12.36 11 [Pan] could terrify by earth-born fears called panics. Yet was he in the secret of Nature...
    PLT 12.51 6 The secret of power, intellectual or physical, is concentration...
    II 12.82 24 The secret of power is delight in one's work.
    Mem 12.99 23 The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely adding units to its list of facts.
    CL 12.138 16 [Linnaeus] learned the secret of making pearls in the river-pearl mussel.
    CL 12.166 14 I know that the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons.
    Bost 12.205 6 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that he is greatest who serves best. There was no secret of labor which they disdained.
    ACri 12.290 11 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all...
    ACri 12.290 12 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire;...
    ACri 12.296 18 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of, and did not write up to it, but could write down (a main secret)...
    MLit 12.320 24 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...and knew again the ineffable secret of solitude.
    MLit 12.324 17 This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what they are.

Secretary, Foreign, n. (1)

    PerF 10.85 10 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary.

secretary, n. (4)

    NMW 4.238 17 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering.
    GoW 4.261 2 I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.
    Aris 10.48 26 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager...
    Thor 10.472 17 ...no academy made [Thoreau] its corresponding secretary...

Secretary, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.359 22 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana (afterwards well known as one of the editors of the New York Tribune) was the Secretary.

secrete, v. (1)

    PLT 12.32 1 ...each tree can secrete from the soil the elements that form a peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its kind...

secreter, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.219 10 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...

secretest, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.103 23 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
    Fdsp 2.192 27 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger], drawn from the oldest, secretest experience...

secreting, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.18 2 ...every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the secreting organs of the fish.

secretive, adj. (1)

    ET15 5.261 5 In England...[the power of the newspaper] is all the more beneficent succor against the secretive tendencies of a monarchy.

secretly, adv. (7)

    YA 1.387 16 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by making his life secretly beautiful.
    Exp 3.51 13 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
    ET8 5.135 25 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
    Wsp 6.227 2 What I am has been secretly conveyed from me to another, whilst I was vainly making up my mind to tell him it.
    MMEm 10.407 3 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his vanity...
    FRep 11.542 15 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling, however secretly or slowly, in the province assigned to them...
    PLT 12.11 5 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands...are no defence against this virus, which comes in as secretly as gravitation into and through all barriers.

secrets, n. (62)

    AmS 1.103 8 [The scholar]...learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    AmS 1.103 9 [The scholar]...learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    LE 1.177 14 How shall [the scholar] know [human life's] secrets of tenderness...
    LE 1.184 6 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature...
    MR 1.241 8 ...he only can become a master, who learns the secrets of labor...
    SL 2.145 15 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right. All the secrets of that state of mind he can compel.
    SL 2.145 26 M. de Narbonne in less than a fortnight penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.
    SL 2.147 3 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the wiser...
    SL 2.147 4 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the wiser,--the secrets he would not utter to a chemist for an estate.
    Pt1 3.40 4 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up! and by what accident it is that these are exposed, when so many secrets sleep in nature!
    Exp 3.63 10 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
    Exp 3.63 16 ...we...run hither and thither for nooks and secrets.
    Exp 3.81 3 ...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.
    Chr1 3.110 21 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...
    Nat2 3.180 17 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature...
    Nat2 3.183 18 Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.
    SwM 4.95 16 The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
    SwM 4.136 25 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    MoS 4.161 21 ...the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
    ShP 4.207 22 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the...private letter, that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    ET2 5.31 11 ...the sea is not slow in disclosing inestimable secrets to a good naturalist.
    ET9 5.148 6 ...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is one of the secrets of their power and history.
    ET14 5.257 25 ...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs no mount of vision to bring its secrets to the people.
    F 6.32 19 ...the secrets of water and steam...are awaiting you.
    Wth 6.85 19 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the last secrets of art.
    Ctr 6.161 20 ...there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices but for proficients.
    Bhr 6.172 7 ...when we think what keys [manners] are, and to what secrets;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.182 26 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you, if you wish, in those potent secrets.
    Elo1 7.96 11 ...[the sturdy countryman]...knows all the secrets of swamp and snow-bank...
    Clbs 7.241 15 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
    SA 8.83 26 Manners are the revealers of secrets...
    PPo 8.240 16 Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
    PPo 8.240 25 By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds, so that he heard secrets whenever he went into his gardens.
    PPo 8.257 26 The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded tongue to the smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./
    Insp 8.273 27 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window, and again it...tells all the secrets of the world.
    Insp 8.287 7 ...[from Nature] are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods! I confide that my reader knows these delicious secrets...
    Dem1 10.21 16 Shun [animal magnetism, divination, second-sight] as you would the secrets of the undertaker and the butcher.
    Aris 10.40 13 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity... should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    PerF 10.84 6 Obedience alone gives the right to command. It is like the village operator who taps the telegraph-wire and surprises the secrets of empires as they pass to the capital.
    PerF 10.84 27 A man has a rare mathematical talent, inviting him to the beautiful secrets of geometry, and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
    Edc1 10.128 19 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told...
    Edc1 10.130 27 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt?
    Edc1 10.138 24 There are no secrets from [boys]...
    Edc1 10.142 17 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    Edc1 10.155 7 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest...
    Supl 10.165 11 ...the secrets of death, judgment and eternity are tedious when recurring as minute-guns.
    SovE 10.190 27 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the proud man's scorn...
    SovE 10.203 11 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks...in...the secrets of the heart...
    Schr 10.269 19 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.
    Thor 10.472 10 Our naturalist [Thoreau] had perfect magnanimity; he had no secrets...
    Thor 10.476 2 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his presence...always piqued the curiosity to know more deeply the secrets of his mind.
    EWI 11.102 9 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.
    War 11.153 10 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And, finally...all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.
    ALin 11.334 26 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...
    EdAd 11.391 21 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
    Shak1 11.448 7 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
    CL 12.139 8 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.147 17 [A walk in the woods] is one of the secrets for dodging old age.
    CW 12.176 6 If you use a good and skilful companion [on a tramp], you shall see through his eyes; if they be of great discernment, you will learn wonderful secrets.
    MAng1 12.222 6 No acquaintance with the secrets of its mechanism...can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MAng1 12.223 25 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture]...
    MLit 12.309 21 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and grandeur invite us on every hand...

sect, n. (22)

    LT 1.263 19 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    SR 2.54 19 If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.
    SR 2.86 11 He who is really of [Phocion's, Socrates's] class...will be...in his turn the founder of a sect.
    SL 2.158 25 The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always instruct and command mankind.
    UGM 4.25 27 The like assimilation goes on between men...of one sect...
    ET4 5.48 19 Each religious sect has its physiognomy.
    Wsp 6.222 6 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost.
    Civ 7.26 21 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the enthusiasm of some religious sect which imputes its virtue to its dogma;...
    Imtl 8.326 14 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect;...
    SovE 10.210 17 Such experiments as we recall are those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle]...
    Prch 10.229 13 The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
    Plu 10.297 22 [Plutarch] is...not the founder of any sect or community, like Pythagoras or Zeno;...
    Plu 10.304 25 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    LLNE 10.343 2 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect...
    LLNE 10.348 24 We had an opportunity of learning something of these Socialists and their theory, from the indefatigable apostle of the sect in New York, Albert Brisbane.
    EzRy 10.389 16 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    Wom 11.415 14 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes. It is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers...
    FRO2 11.490 19 I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now hold the opinions they are charged with.
    PLT 12.47 7 The new sect stands for certain thoughts.
    Bost 12.206 20 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other; a new religious sect...
    Milt1 12.251 27 We have lost all interest in Milton as the redoubted disputant of a sect;...
    Pray 12.350 23 Let us not have the prayers of one sect...

sectarian, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.145 9 ...each would be an easy secondary to some...sectarian connection...
    CSC 10.375 16 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

sectarian, n. (4)

    PC 8.211 21 The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity.
    Thor 10.478 14 [Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished: and he thought that the bigoted sectarian had better bear this in mind.
    FRep 11.519 7 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman; the partisan ceasing to be a man that he may be a sectarian.
    PLT 12.6 25 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.

sectary, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.238 21 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines...

section, n. (10)

    AmS 1.115 15 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong;...
    NR 3.236 14 What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes you into your class and section.
    NR 3.240 12 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    PPh 4.68 27 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the objects of these images...
    PPh 4.69 3 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the other section of truths.
    PPh 4.69 4 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the other section of truths.
    Ctr 6.150 3 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section...
    Farm 7.146 26 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied.
    EWI 11.112 21 With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds, in the twelfth section, in the following terms...
    ACiv 11.307 2 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair administration of the government...

sectional, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.41 6 [Plato's] broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.
    Pow 6.61 15 A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    LVB 11.93 19 You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any sectional and party feeling.

sections, n. (8)

    NER 3.251 4 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    PPh 4.68 23 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part and the dark part of each of these worlds.
    PPh 4.68 25 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;...
    PPh 4.69 5 To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith, understanding, reason.
    Boks 7.220 18 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Clbs 7.249 6 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    FSLC 11.213 7 ...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic sections of this country as of equal civilization.
    EdAd 11.388 26 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... clapped on the back by comfortable capitalists from all sections, and persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.

sects, n. (14)

    Nat 1.58 13 The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
    Tran 1.329 14 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...
    SL 2.138 5 We pass in the world for sects and schools...
    Pol1 3.209 12 Parties of principle, as, religious sects...degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    UGM 4.18 15 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...in religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the sects which have taken the name of each founder, are in point.
    ET13 5.228 22 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects...
    ET13 5.230 16 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no;...
    Wsp 6.208 21 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects...
    Chr2 10.113 9 The lines of the religious sects are very shifting;...
    Chr2 10.118 20 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects.
    Prch 10.234 16 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    TPar 11.287 14 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    Wom 11.416 1 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought. Of all Christian sects this is at this moment the most vital and aggressive.
    FRO2 11.488 3 All our sects have refined the point of difference between them.

secular, adj. (28)

    LE 1.176 15 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...bring up out of secular darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
    Cir 2.303 16 Nature looks provokingly stable and secular...
    Exp 3.83 20 The effect is deep and secular as the cause.
    PPh 4.39 1 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.
    SwM 4.135 8 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was retiring from its prominence...
    ShP 4.201 19 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...and the completion of secular plays...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET2 5.30 4 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage;...
    ET12 5.205 21 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study...
    ET13 5.217 24 [The English Church] has the seal of...a ritual marked by the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.
    ET18 5.305 1 [English] culture...is thorough and secular in families and the race.
    Ctr 6.165 5 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Ctr 6.165 9 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
    WD 7.170 27 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...are given immeasurably to all.
    Cour 7.276 18 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...foresee in the secular melioration of the planet how these [beast-like men] will become unnecessary and will die out.
    OA 7.329 2 The best things are of secular growth.
    OA 7.331 14 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
    PI 8.40 11 The writer, like the priest, must be exempted from secular labor.
    PPo 8.238 2 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with...the secular stability...of the Western nations.
    Insp 8.282 6 ...there is diurnal and secular rest.
    Chr2 10.110 5 There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in civil countries, reaches everybody.
    ACiv 11.299 14 Is this secular progress we have described...only to give [man] sensibility...
    SMC 11.351 6 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have...converted these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
    SHC 11.433 8 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved for secular purposes;...
    PLT 12.56 18 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular.
    CL 12.135 21 ...Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses to emigrate...
    Bost 12.183 8 ...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and addicted to change, both in religious and secular affairs.
    PPr 12.384 8 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
    Let 12.404 18 A literature is...a secular and generic result...

secularity, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.179 26 Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature...

secularizes, v. (1)

    CInt 12.130 15 ...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister...is the profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.

secure, adj. (29)

    MN 1.193 26 Nothing solid is secure;...
    Tran 1.331 11 The materialist, secure in the certainty of sensation, mocks at fine-spun theories...
    SL 2.149 11 If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
    Cir 2.320 1 Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
    NER 3.285 22 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul...secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
    PPh 4.59 6 In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following Plato in his flights.
    MoS 4.180 25 [Some minds] may well give themselves leave to speculate, for they are secure of a return.
    ShP 4.192 16 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it.
    ET12 5.200 3 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men, though I imputed to these English an advantage in their secure and polished manners.
    ET14 5.254 9 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student, no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law...
    ET16 5.287 25 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.
    ET18 5.301 23 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
    Wth 6.104 5 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the highways will be less secure;...
    Wth 6.113 10 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries...
    Wsp 6.226 10 You want but one verdict; if you have your own you are secure of the rest.
    Elo1 7.68 5 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal spirits, and makes all safe and secure...
    PPo 8.252 2 The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
    Aris 10.44 9 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be...of a secure hand, of a scientific memory, a right classifier;...
    Edc1 10.147 26 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    Supl 10.168 3 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern...
    SovE 10.211 18 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
    MMEm 10.402 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
    Thor 10.453 11 ...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world. It would cost him less time to supply his wants than another. He was therefore secure of his leisure.
    HDC 11.63 23 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords, and put in a more secure place...
    EWI 11.121 18 It may be asserted...that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.
    FRep 11.521 27 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...
    II 12.87 19 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal. If it is up to the dignity of that order of things you know, it is secure.
    MAng1 12.213 4 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block; yet it therein shall find/ Only the hand secure and bold/ Which still obeys the mind./ Michael Angelo's Sonnets.
    WSL 12.339 27 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of his hands and the jewels of his ring. Afterward, he washes them in water, he washes them in wine; but you are never secure from his freaks.

secure, v. (56)

    DSA 1.137 18 We are fain to...secure...a solitude that hears not.
    YA 1.388 18 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    Cir 2.320 3 No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
    Chr1 3.97 17 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them a fact...and they will ask no more.
    Chr1 3.97 22 A given order of events has no power to secure to [the hero] the satisfaction which the imagination attaches to it;...
    Mrs1 3.128 13 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.137 22 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running, to secure some paltry convenience.
    Nat2 3.190 17 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind.
    Nat2 3.190 20 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
    Pol1 3.213 15 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance;...
    Pol1 3.213 20 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself select his agents.
    NER 3.257 27 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events...
    PNR 4.83 16 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction, which secure instant justice throughout the universe...
    MoS 4.159 4 ...we ought to secure those advantages which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
    GoW 4.266 17 It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
    ET5 5.84 24 [The English] secure the essentials in their diet, in their arts and manufactures.
    ET11 5.177 18 The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the life of the courtier, but to secure the comfort and independence of their homes.
    ET11 5.187 19 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people.
    ET12 5.210 25 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.
    Wth 6.99 8 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.105 25 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
    Ctr 6.154 7 What is odious but...people...who intrigue to secure a padded chair and a corner out of the draught.
    Ctr 6.155 6 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.
    Wsp 6.221 4 ...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
    CbW 6.258 7 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    DL 7.128 4 Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
    Clbs 7.243 15 ...a history of clubs...tracing the efforts to secure liberal and refined conversation...would be an important chapter in history.
    OA 7.324 26 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst...
    SA 8.100 12 Every one must seek to secure his independence;...
    SA 8.101 6 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments. Every country wishes this, and each has taken its own method to secure such service to the state.
    SA 8.101 8 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
    Aris 10.34 15 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Edc1 10.148 8 You must not neglect the form [in education], but you must secure the essentials.
    MoL 10.251 20 ...it is a primary duty of the man of letters to secure his independence.
    LLNE 10.351 23 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory, its apparent directness of proceeding to the end they would secure...commanded our attention and respect.
    LLNE 10.354 14 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.
    GSt 10.506 15 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
    HDC 11.73 27 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge, and secure the return of the plundering party.
    FSLN 11.229 27 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
    AsSu 11.249 4 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
    JBB 11.271 22 A good man will see that the use of a judge is to secure good government...
    JBB 11.271 25 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government.
    JBS 11.280 6 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which...should secure, one year with another, an honest reward...
    TPar 11.285 13 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere to the best...
    ACiv 11.297 22 ...a man coins himself into his labor;...to secure that to him...is the object of all government.
    ACiv 11.297 23 ...a man coins himself into his labor;...to secure that to him, to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government.
    ALin 11.337 7 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.
    CPL 11.498 19 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
    FRep 11.527 9 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.
    CW 12.177 7 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines; and you secure the best company and the best teaching with every advantage.
    Bost 12.210 3 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
    Milt1 12.264 11 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.
    ACri 12.304 20 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation. Nor can we promise that our School of Design will secure a lucrative post to the pupils.
    WSL 12.348 24 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature;...
    Let 12.395 25 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
    Let 12.399 9 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result.

secured, v. (32)

    DSA 1.147 15 Society's praise can be cheaply secured...
    Con 1.312 15 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims, when these substantial advantages have been secured to you?
    Con 1.312 17 Now can your children be educated, your labor turned to their advantage, and its fruits secured to them after your death.
    Nat2 3.186 8 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions...
    Pol1 3.220 1 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    ET5 5.97 13 Purity in the elective Parliament [of England] is secured by the purchase of seats.
    ET13 5.217 15 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    ET13 5.218 6 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a [religious] service in the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.
    ET17 5.296 15 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any display.
    Pow 6.53 22 If [a man] have secured the elixir, he can spare the wide gardens from which it was distilled.
    Wth 6.90 26 ...it is a peremptory point of virtue that a man's independence be secured.
    Ctr 6.132 18 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.134 8 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...
    Ctr 6.155 4 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
    Bhr 6.187 1 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    Wsp 6.221 27 ...the police and sincerity of the universe are secured by God' s delegating his divinity to every particle;...
    SS 7.9 27 We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
    Civ 7.34 9 ...if there be...a country...where the laborer is not secured in the earnings of his own hands;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Clbs 7.227 17 See how Nature has secured the communication of knowledge.
    SA 8.101 13 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured permanence of families...
    PPo 8.255 9 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
    Insp 8.288 13 I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home. I thus secured a more absolute seclusion;...
    Edc1 10.147 17 [The boy] can learn anything which is important to him now that the power to learn is secured...
    Schr 10.266 14 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
    SlHr 10.443 17 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature, where his presence and speech, of course, secured the rebuilding;...
    HDC 11.37 18 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
    FSLC 11.188 13 The resistance of all moral beings is secured to [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    EPro 11.320 9 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right.
    Wom 11.418 12 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...
    II 12.77 11 The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.
    II 12.81 11 The men are all drugged with this liquor of thought, and thereby secured to their several works.
    ACri 12.301 10 After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...

securely, adv. (9)

    NER 3.284 6 ...the good globe is faithful, and carries us securely through the celestial spaces...
    ET11 5.185 5 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is to sit securely...
    ET11 5.187 27 He who keeps the door of a mine...securely knows that the world cannot do without him.
    ET14 5.234 21 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton. When it reaches the pure element, it treads the clouds as securely as the adamant.
    Wsp 6.226 3 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...
    EzRy 10.395 11 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and actions might be securely predicted by a good observer on short acquaintance.
    Carl 10.496 19 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    Mem 12.106 17 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper, without method, yet securely held, and ready to come at call;...
    ACri 12.293 23 There is no such master of low style as [Shakespeare], and therefore none can securely soar so high.

securer, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.92 8 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight, at which we arrive later with securer conviction.

secures, v. (12)

    Prd1 2.236 14 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Pol1 3.207 4 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
    NR 3.245 20 ...nature secures [every man] as an instrument by self-conceit...
    PPh 4.64 12 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality;...
    ET8 5.142 13 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade, which secures an independence through the creation of real values.
    F 6.47 22 ...[man] is to take sides with the Deity who secures universal benefit by his pain.
    F 6.49 6 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece;...
    Elo1 7.99 5 One thought the philosophers of Demosthenes's own time found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue secures its own success.
    OA 7.324 19 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.
    CPL 11.496 7 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now; and whilst it secures a new and needed culture to our citizens...
    FRep 11.527 13 The facility with which clubs are formed by young men for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the notoriety of the questions.
    FRep 11.543 17 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures the foundations of the state...

securest, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.164 11 The laws [of England] are framed to give property the securest possible basis...

securing, n. (1)

    SR 2.50 2 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.

securing, v. (9)

    YA 1.384 8 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
    Prd1 2.240 26 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence, or the art of securing a present well-being.
    Ctr 6.156 16 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    Civ 7.34 23 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    Chr2 10.93 4 ...love is delight in the preference of that benefit redounding to another over the securing of our own share;...
    Thor 10.452 20 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he...was exact in securing his own independence...
    HDC 11.80 27 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury. This was securing the prudence of the
    JBB 11.273 9 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
    ALin 11.337 14 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...securing at last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven.

securities, n. (2)

    ET5 5.75 13 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed.
    Wth 6.108 11 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.

security, n. (42)

    MR 1.229 13 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that the old nations...are built on other foundations.
    Con 1.311 24 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces with every security for strength...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    YA 1.372 8 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit;...
    YA 1.391 4 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that he imparts strength to the State, not receives security from it;...
    Pt1 3.24 7 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension...
    Pol1 3.211 18 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely...
    Pol1 3.219 20 [The movement toward self-government] promises a recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom, or the security of property.
    NR 3.247 4 If we could have any security against moods!
    UGM 4.24 17 Altogether independent of the intellectual force in each is... the security that we are right.
    UGM 4.29 6 How superior [are children] in their security from infusions of evil persons...
    ET2 5.27 19 There are many advantages, says Saadi, in sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them.
    ET4 5.64 8 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall, as security for money which he borrowed.
    ET5 5.82 16 Life [in England] is safe, and personal rights; and what is freedom without security?...
    ET8 5.141 4 The stability of England is the security of the modern world.
    ET14 5.233 11 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it...
    Bhr 6.180 26 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...require crowded Broadways and the security of millions to protect individuals against them.
    Bhr 6.186 25 The hero...should impart comfort by his own security and good nature to all beholders.
    Wsp 6.235 18 Wherever a squirrel or a bee can go with security, I can go [said Benedict].
    Civ 7.33 12 ...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.
    WD 7.167 15 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the sailor might launch his boat in security from storms...
    Boks 7.198 15 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to use it...
    Cour 7.275 21 ...there is no assurance of security.
    SA 8.90 5 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves, and whatever else, with a security and vivacity which belonged to the nobility of the parties...
    Insp 8.291 17 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!
    Grts 8.314 14 Napoleon commands our respect...by the speed and security of his action in the premises, always new.
    Aris 10.55 6 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
    SovE 10.201 12 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient...
    Plu 10.304 6 ...[Plutarch]...cleaves to the security of prose narrative...
    LLNE 10.333 16 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;-feats which no man could better accomplish, such was his self-command and the security of his manner.
    EWI 11.103 6 For the negro...no security from the humors, none from the crimes, none from the appetites of his master...
    EWI 11.119 23 Parliament was compelled to pass additional laws for the defence and security of the negro [in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.125 21 ...like other robbers, [the planters] could not sleep in security.
    War 11.155 6 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being;...
    AKan 11.262 8 Pans of gold lay drying outside of every man's tent, in perfect security [in California].
    ACiv 11.299 22 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
    EPro 11.322 8 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far; a sign of inmost security and permanence.
    FRep 11.522 6 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be no famine in a country reaching through so many latitudes...
    FRep 11.543 19 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...good will, liberty and security of traffic and of production...
    PLT 12.3 8 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    II 12.75 21 Our teaching is indeed hazardous and rare. Our only security is in our rectitude...
    CL 12.154 25 ...[Samuel Johnson] loved the sweet security of streets.
    Bost 12.200 1 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have...its mountains of security...

sedate, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.81 1 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example, good sedate citizen as he is, to make a fanatic of him...
    War 11.156 15 To men of a sedate and mature spirit...the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.

sedative, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.318 11 Is not our faith in the impenetrability of matter more sedative than narcotics?

sedative, n. (1)

    CbW 6.245 15 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.

sedentary, adj. (2)

    ET12 5.209 1 [An English gentleman] should...have bodily activity and strength, unattainable by our sedentary life in public offices.
    PLT 12.8 26 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...

sedge, n. (1)

    CPL 11.497 11 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.

Sedgwick, Adam, n. (1)

    ET17 5.292 27 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science, Robert Brown, Owen, Sedgwick...

Sedgwick's, Adam, n. (1)

    ET16 5.278 14 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.

sedgy, adj. (1)

    CL 12.157 7 Can you bring home...the sedgy ripples of the old Colony ponds?...

sediment, n. (3)

    MN 1.197 7 [Pure law] existed already in the mind in solution; now, it has been precipitated, and the bright sediment is the world.
    CbW 6.248 13 The finest wits have their sediment.
    SA 8.77 3 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world complete./

sedition, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.185 7 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but...sedition...

seditious, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.194 21 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.

seduced, v. (1)

    ShP 4.212 15 ...[Shakespeare's] talents never seduced him into an ostentation...

seduction, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.240 23 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted, stern trials met, wiles of seduction...before [man] dare say, I am free.

seductions, n. (2)

    WD 7.177 10 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
    MAng1 12.241 20 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.

sedulous, adj. (1)

    LE 1.181 8 Let [the scholar] know that...in the sedulous inquiry...to know how the thing stands;...the secret of the world is to be learned...

sedulously, adv. (2)

    Ctr 6.146 14 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which gives currency, as sedulously as with that which gives worth.
    Grts 8.311 1 Let the student...sedulously wait every morning for the news concerning the structure of the world which the spirit will give him.

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