Squint to Stars

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

squint, n. (3)

    ET13 5.229 25 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted, and the eyes of all turned upon me with a frightful squint;...
    F 6.9 12 ...a squint, a pug-nose...betray character.
    Ctr 6.143 18 ...the being master of [minor skills] enables the youth to judge intelligently of much on which otherwise he would give a pedantic squint.

squint, v. (2)

    Hist 2.24 16 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...
    PLT 12.53 22 We see ourselves; we lack organs to see others, and only squint at them.

squinted, v. (3)

    ET13 5.229 26 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted;...
    ET13 5.230 1 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted; the genteel Pepa, the good-humored Chicharona, the Cosdami, all squinted;...
    ET13 5.230 1 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted;...the Gypsy jockey squinted worst of all.

squire, n. (2)

    ET8 5.129 23 The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England]. So is the burly farmer; so is the country squire...
    ET11 5.195 9 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense.

Squire [Samuel] Hoar, n. (3)

    SlHr 10.442 13 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    SlHr 10.442 18 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    SlHr 10.442 26 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the community in which he lived. And in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this?...

squirrel, n. (7)

    Tran 1.338 20 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do...
    Comp 2.116 7 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every...squirrel...
    Art1 2.355 26 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...is beautiful...
    Wsp 6.235 17 Wherever a squirrel or a bee can go with security, I can go [said Benedict].
    Edc1 10.156 8 Can you not keep for [the child's] mind and ways, for his secret, the same curiosity you give to the squirrel, snake, rabbit...
    Thor 10.467 9 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of...in...the specimen of a squirrel or a bird in brandy.
    CL 12.162 14 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go; almost where a squirrel or a bee can go, he can;...

squirrels, n. (1)

    Bost 12.202 12 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state out of reach of anything but squirrels and wild pigeons.

squirrel's, n. (1)

    Thor 10.469 26 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest.

squirrel-track, n. (1)

    Exp 3.59 3 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.

squirt, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 20 Against a principle like this [that immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray of a child's squirt against a granite wall.

Sradda, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.104 13 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the Sradda of Hindoos...are examples of this perversion.

St. Albertus Magnus, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 9 Albert...St. Buonaventura....Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

St. Antoine, Faubourg, Par (1)

    NMW 4.245 13 The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...

St. Antony, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.220 16 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

St. Augustine, n. (17)

    Cir 2.301 5 St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
    PPh 4.40 3 St. Augustine, Copernicus...are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    PI 8.51 1 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
    Imtl 8.347 4 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities. Read St. Augustine, Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant.
    SovE 10.203 19 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe-St. Augustine, and Thomas a Kempis, and Fenelon;...
    Prch 10.227 18 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you.
    Plu 10.306 25 Let others wrangle, said St. Augustine; I will wonder.
    Plu 10.319 7 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of Plotinus, St. Augustine...
    Carl 10.489 12 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin...
    FRO2 11.486 13 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine...
    FRO2 11.486 16 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...
    II 12.74 19 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can; for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
    Bost 12.194 2 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    MLit 12.309 19 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Saint Augustine, Spinoza, Chapman...beside its own riches?
    MLit 12.327 24 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
    Pray 12.356 7 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.

St. Barnabas, n. (1)

    Supl 10.164 10 Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution! and reckons himself with Saint Barnabas, who was sawn in two.

St. Bartholomew, Massacre o (1)

    FSLC 11.192 3 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...

St. Bartholomew, massacres o (1)

    Cour 7.276 4 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...St. Bartholomew massacres, devilish lives...

St. Basle, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.193 18 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Bhr 6.194 12 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him; for that in whatever condition, Basle remained incorrigibly Basle.

St. Bede, n. (1)

    ET5 5.76 27 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...

St. Bernard, n. (5)

    Comp 2.123 12 I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard,--Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
    Elo2 8.122 9 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    Prch 10.227 8 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.
    Prch 10.234 23 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...
    Bost 12.193 27 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...

St. Buonaventura, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 10 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

St. Cross, Church of, Engl (1)

    ET16 5.289 5 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross...

St. Drothin, n. (1)

    Suc 7.287 16 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/...

St. George, n. (2)

    ET9 5.152 12 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...
    MAng1 12.243 13 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. Do you see that statue of Saint George? Michael Angelo asked it why it did not speak.

St. George's, n. (1)

    ET7 5.120 15 At a St. George's festival, in Montreal...I observed that the chairman complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.

St. Germain, Faubourg, Par (1)

    Mrs1 3.127 25 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...

St. Gothard Pass, Switzerl (1)

    MLit 12.325 24 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke, and their passage through the Vallais and over the St. Gothard.

St. Gregory, n. (1)

    ET4 5.66 16 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...

St. Helena, n. (6)

    LE 1.159 9 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact. What else is Greece, Rome, England, France, St. Helena?
    NMW 4.240 2 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte]... could cipher as well as another man. This appears in all parts of his Memoirs, dictated at St. Helena.
    NMW 4.240 18 I like an incident mentioned by one of [Napoleon's] biographers at St. Helena.
    NMW 4.251 2 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed...with Antonomarchi at St. Helena.
    NMW 4.251 16 [Bonaparte's] memoirs, dictated to Count Montholon and General Gourgaud at St. Helena, have great value...
    Trag 12.416 13 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

St. Januarius's, n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 19 ...at Naples [young Englishmen] put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic;...

St. Jerome, Communion of [" (1)

    Exp 3.62 27 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome...are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...

St. Jerome, n. (1)

    Prch 10.227 8 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.

St. John Chrysostom, n. (1)

    Prch 10.227 7 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.

St. John, n. (18)

    Prd1 2.239 1 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    Pt1 3.31 19 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse, the ruin of the world through evil...
    NR 3.244 11 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle;...
    MoS 4.160 17 A theory of Saint John, and non-resistance, seems...too thin and aerial.
    Ctr 6.161 11 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    DL 7.116 7 What kind of a house was kept by Paul and John...
    Suc 7.296 12 We should know how to praise...Saint John, without impoverishing us.
    PI 8.14 7 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.
    PI 8.65 6 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as...St. John and Menu, with their moral burdens.
    Carl 10.492 20 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    LS 11.5 8 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
    LS 11.5 19 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me. In St. John, although other occurrences of the same evening are related, this whole transaction is passed over without notice.
    LS 11.5 23 Two of the Evangelists, namely, Matthew and John, were of the twelve disciples, and were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.5 27 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice.
    LS 11.8 14 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, do not occur in Matthew, Mark or John...yet many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.10 14 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    LS 11.11 18 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John...
    LS 11.22 10 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.

St. John's College, Cambri (1)

    CPL 11.498 4 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader, Rev. Peter Bulkeley, sometime fellow of Saint John's College in Cambridge, England, testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.

St. John's, J. A., n. (1)

    Boks 7.201 27 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece;...

St. Julian, n. (1)

    SL 2.134 14 ...[men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.

St. Louis, Missouri, n. (2)

    AKan 11.255 17 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
    EPro 11.323 16 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.

St. Luke, n. (6)

    LS 11.5 8 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
    LS 11.5 16 St. Luke (Luke xxii. 19), after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.
    LS 11.6 8 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present.
    LS 11.6 10 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present. There is no reason, however, that we know, for rejecting the account of Luke.
    LS 11.6 26 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    LS 11.22 10 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.

St. Mark, n. (4)

    LS 11.5 8 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
    LS 11.5 13 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark (Mark xiv. 22-25) the same words are recorded...
    LS 11.6 5 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice. Neither does it appear to have come to the knowledge of Mark...
    LS 11.8 13 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, do not occur in Matthew, Mark or John...yet many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.

St. Matthew, n. (3)

    LS 11.5 8 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
    LS 11.5 23 Two of the Evangelists, namely, Matthew and John, were of the twelve disciples, and were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.8 13 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, do not occur in Matthew, Mark or John...yet many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.

St. Matthew's Gospel, n. (1)

    LS 11.5 9 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...

St. Michael's, n. (1)

    Wth 6.108 9 If a St. Michael's pear sells for a shilling, it costs a shilling to raise it.

St. Michael's Square, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 23 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square...

St. Michel de Montaigne, n. (1)

    MoS 4.173 11 I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.

St. Paul, n. (29)

    Nat 1.28 14 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse, up to the voice of Paul...
    SR 2.67 24 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what...Paul.
    SL 2.159 23 Can a cook, a Chiffinch, an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or Paul?
    SL 2.165 3 This over-estimate of the possibilities of Paul and Pericles... comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
    SL 2.165 12 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.
    Prd1 2.239 1 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    OS 2.282 5 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the conversion of Paul...are of this kind.
    Pol1 3.199 21 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as...every man of truth, like Plato or Paul, does forever.
    NR 3.244 11 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle;...
    ET1 5.11 10 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    DL 7.116 7 What kind of a house was kept by Paul and John...
    Cour 7.274 10 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Huss, Paul...
    SovE 10.195 27 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt...never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or Saint Paul.
    SovE 10.196 2 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?
    SovE 10.196 3 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well what if he did? Who was more pained than Luther or Paul?
    SovE 10.201 6 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
    SovE 10.201 14 ...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...if he were Paul himself, you also are here, and with your Creator.
    LS 11.13 10 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals, and who very readily abused these to gross riot, as appears from the censures of St. Paul.
    LS 11.13 20 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.14 16 ...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    LS 11.15 18 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah, which kept its influence even over so spiritual a man as St. Paul, would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    LS 11.15 25 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.22 5 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    LS 11.22 7 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.
    LS 11.22 12 That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    FSLN 11.234 11 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible? Won't they? They quote the Bible, quote Paul, quote Christ, to justify slavery.
    CPL 11.501 21 There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have wrought as a carpenter, and Saint Paul as a tent-maker.
    Bost 12.195 1 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion.
    MLit 12.311 18 How can the age be a bad one which gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?

St. Paul's Cathedral, Lond (1)

    ET11 5.186 7 [English nobility] survey society as from the top of St. Paul' s...

St. Paul's, n. (3)

    DSA 1.145 12 Once...take secondary knowledge, as St. Paul's...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    Cir 2.313 17 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    LS 11.13 25 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.

St. Peter, n. (1)

    SL 2.165 12 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.

St. Peter's Basilica, Rome (9)

    Nat 1.68 2 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    Hist 2.17 21 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.
    DL 7.106 3 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
    MAng1 12.216 5 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.
    MAng1 12.229 26 In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's] Pieta, or dead Christ in the arms of his mother.
    MAng1 12.231 2 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
    MAng1 12.236 18 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    MAng1 12.239 9 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
    MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome, to build Saint Peter's, he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.

St. Petersburg, Russia, n. (2)

    YA 1.376 3 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...
    Art1 2.369 1 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.

St. Philip Neri, n. (5)

    Wsp 6.227 20 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri...
    Wsp 6.228 2 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice. The Pope did not well know what to make of these new claims, and Philip coming in from a journey one day, he consulted him.
    Wsp 6.228 3 Philip undertook to visit the nun and ascertain her character.
    Wsp 6.228 11 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
    Wsp 6.228 16 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope;...

St. Pierre, n. (1)

    SovE 10.184 14 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.

St Pierre's, Jacques Henri (1)

    War 11.160 21 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is no man's invention, neither St. Pierre's, nor Rousseau's...

St. Simeon, n. (1)

    Hist 2.28 15 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite.

St. Thomas Aquinas, n. (1)

    QQ 8.181 11 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

St. Vitus, n. (1)

    Schr 10.267 18 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action, but resembles the twitches of St. Vitus.

St. Vitus's, n. (1)

    Prch 10.224 12 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;...

St. Wilfrid [Wilfrith], n. (1)

    ET13 5.216 10 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.

stab, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.236 27 Every violation of truth...is a stab at the health of human society.
    FSLC 11.196 1 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace.

stabilities, n. (1)

    MoS 4.161 3 We are...volitant stabilities...

stability, n. (16)

    Nat 1.48 13 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory...as if it affected the stability of nature.
    Nat 1.49 8 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena...
    Cir 2.318 20 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
    Pt1 3.20 17 [The poet] perceives...the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the symbol.
    ET8 5.141 4 The stability of England is the security of the modern world.
    ET11 5.178 3 ...some curious examples are cited to show the stability of English families.
    ET13 5.219 19 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
    WD 7.180 3 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability.
    PPo 8.238 2 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with...the secular stability...of the Western nations.
    Imtl 8.333 27 All great natures are lovers of stability and permanence...
    Imtl 8.335 10 We delight in stability...
    LLNE 10.345 2 State Street had an instinct that [the Transcendentalists] invalidated contracts and threatened the stability of stocks;...
    SHC 11.436 11 All great natures delight in stability;...
    Mem 12.90 10 ...memory gives stability to knowledge;...
    MAng1 12.231 6 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
    Trag 12.412 11 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...

stable, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.51 21 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    Con 1.304 17 The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs;...
    OS 2.293 12 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    Cir 2.303 16 Nature looks provokingly stable and secular...
    MoS 4.159 24 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying...least of all of scoffing and profligate jeering at all that is stable and good.
    ET8 5.143 6 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable;...
    ET11 5.179 23 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus, who are stable in their manners...
    PPo 8.248 14 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
    CL 12.148 14 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky...
    ACri 12.300 6 The power of the poet is...in using every fact in Nature, however great and stable, as a fluent symbol...

stable, n. (3)

    ET5 5.95 8 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding... converts the stable to a chemical factory.
    Dem1 10.6 16 Our thoughts in a stable or in a menagerie...may well remind us of our dreams.
    Thor 10.483 5 If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable;...

stabler, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.141 5 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains...

stables, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.190 22 ...these servants, this kitchen, these stables, horses and equipage...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    ET4 5.72 1 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully, and if I wanted a good troop of soldiers, I should recruit among the stables.
    Clbs 7.242 26 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square,--the ground-floor being resigned to offices and stables, and the floors above to rooms of state and to lodging-rooms,--were rebuilt with new purpose.
    Supl 10.169 16 [The citizen's] dress and draperies, house and stables, occupy him.

stablish, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.262 21 ...let [a man]...stablish himself in those courses he approves.
    Pol1 3.197 14 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./

stabs, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.446 18 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].

stack, n. (2)

    Nat 1.42 8 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
    Bhr 6.181 3 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows. 'T is the city of Lacedaemon; 't is a stack of bayonets.

stacks, n. (1)

    ET1 5.17 27 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... They burned the stacks and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.

Stael-Holstein, Ann, Baron (2)

    MMEm 10.402 16 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later...Herder, Locke, Madame de Stael...
    MLit 12.318 24 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany, was imported into France by De Stael...and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.

Stael-Holstein, Anne, Baro (13)

    Nat 1.43 21 Thus architecture is called frozen music, by De Stael and Goethe.
    LE 1.175 1 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be...
    Hsm1 2.259 10 ...why should a woman...think, because Sappho, or Sevigne, or De Stael...do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
    Mrs1 3.135 26 ...Napoleon...as all the world knows from Madame de Stael, was wont, when he found himself observed, to discharge his face of all expression.
    GoW 4.288 15 Socrates loved Athens; Montaigne, Paris; and Madame de Stael said she was only vulnerable on that side...
    ET7 5.119 23 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty.
    ET14 5.232 23 [The English muse] says, with De Stael, I tramp in the mire with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.
    Ctr 6.149 26 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed...to elegant society,--in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Clbs 7.238 22 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when France, in the person of Madame de Stael, visited Goethe and Schiller;...
    SA 8.93 25 Madame de Stael, by the unanimous consent of all who knew her, was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...
    SA 8.94 6 Madame de Stael valued nothing but conversation.
    SA 8.94 27 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel!...
    SA 8.95 6 Madame de Tesse said, If I were Queen, I should command Madame de Stael to talk to me every day.

Stael-Holstein's, Anne, Ba (1)

    QO 8.185 19 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music...

staff, n. (7)

    UGM 4.23 11 Sword and staff...carry on the work of the world.
    ET11 5.176 11 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
    ET15 5.266 11 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men.
    Bhr 6.178 7 ...[a farmer's] eye-beam is like the stroke of a staff.
    PI 8.23 16 The staff in [man's] hand is the radius vector of the sun.
    Edc1 10.145 23 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
    SMC 11.369 5 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand.

Staffa, Scotland, n. (1)

    ET1 5.22 9 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa...

staff-like, adj. (1)

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

Stafford, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.180 8 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford, are neither forgetting nor forgotten...

Stafford House, London, En (1)

    ET11 5.181 23 Stafford House is the noblest palace in London.

stag, n. (2)

    Nat 1.44 1 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as of...the stag...but colors also;...
    Comp 2.117 5 The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet...

stage, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.254 9 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage effect.
    Ill 6.316 1 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.

stage, n. (21)

    Nat2 3.181 17 ...the artist still goes back for materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage;...
    PPh 4.71 6 The players personated [Socrates] on the stage;...
    MoS 4.172 8 ...the interrogation of custom at all points is an inevitable stage in the growth of every superior mind...
    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.
    ShP 4.201 21 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ShP 4.205 1 Beside some important illustration of the history of the English stage...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
    ShP 4.206 26 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer, the pride of the English stage;...
    ET14 5.240 9 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
    F 6.44 11 The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other.
    Bhr 6.170 6 Consuelo, in the romance, boasts of the lessons she had given the nobles in manners, on the stage;...
    Bhr 6.191 19 Society is the stage on which manners are shown;...
    Ill 6.324 25 ...on a stage of nations...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    Art2 7.46 13 The effect of music belongs how much...if on the stage, to what went before in the play...
    Elo1 7.71 18 See with what care and pleasure the poet [Homer] brings [Ulysses] on the stage.
    OA 7.324 7 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause, these sleeping seeds start and open. Meantime, at every stage we lose a foe.
    PI 8.1 16 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    PI 8.35 25 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy...
    Insp 8.277 2 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.
    War 11.166 26 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights...
    War 11.167 1 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he makes no offensive demonstration...
    War 11.167 3 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...

stagecoach, n. [stage-coach,] (3)

    ET17 5.296 3 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family, in a diligence or stagecoach.
    Clbs 7.228 25 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where, each passenger being forced to know every other... conversation naturally flowed...
    WSL 12.337 1 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...

stage-coaches, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.5 21 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...

stage-plays, n. (2)

    ShP 4.192 23 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ET12 5.201 8 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.

stages, n. (4)

    Elo1 7.67 14 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    Elo2 8.132 18 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages...
    Res 8.147 22 ...in earlier stages of the disorder [good sense] applies milder and nobler remedies.
    Mem 12.101 19 Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and understand our early history better?

stagger, v. (2)

    Wsp 6.209 7 ...the churches stagger backward to the mummeries of the Dark Ages.
    PI 8.73 7 The high poetry which shall...dissipate the dreams under which men reel and stagger...is deeper hid...

staggered, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.162 24 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea; and though it does not split it, the poor bark is for the moment critically staggered.

staggered, v. (1)

    SwM 4.146 1 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...

staggering, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.28 8 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had no carpet-bag...

stagnant, adj. (1)

    Let 12.396 10 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society.

stagnates, v. (2)

    Exp 3.51 8 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is...too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception without due outlet?
    PLT 12.59 5 I cannot conceive any good in a thought which confines and stagnates.

stagnation, n. (3)

    Con 1.322 26 ...[war] breaks up the Chinese stagnation of society...
    Ctr 6.147 21 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice...when there is required...some diversion or alterative to prevent stagnation.
    Mem 12.94 20 Late in life we live by memory, and in our solstices or periods of stagnation;...

staid, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.127 6 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations: not sadder, but slow and staid...

staidness, n. (4)

    MoS 4.164 9 ...[Montaigne] loved the compass, staidness and independence of the country gentleman's life.
    ET8 5.136 1 [The English] have that phlegm or staidness which it is a compliment to disturb.
    ET14 5.257 2 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford some staidness or hardness...
    Supl 10.175 19 The like staidness is in [Nature's] dealings with us.

stain, n. (5)

    Nat 1.42 25 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds, and leave no wrinkle or stain?...
    Lov1 2.171 10 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error...
    Wth 6.92 18 The statue is so beautiful that it contracts no stain from the market...
    Bty 6.306 13 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
    EWI 11.134 13 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.

stained, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.20 19 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.

stained, v. (2)

    PPo 8.242 27 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    JBB 11.272 2 ...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. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts...stained to all ages...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.

stair, n. (5)

    Exp 3.45 4 We wake and find ourselves on a stair;...
    ET14 5.244 18 Milton, who was the stair or high table-land to let down the English genius from the summits of Shakspeare, used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    Bty 6.306 25 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    PLT 12.17 17 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect], these steps on the heavenly stair...
    PLT 12.17 22 It is a steep stair down from the essence of Intellect pure to thoughts and intellections.

staircase, n. (2)

    ET14 5.238 9 [British] minds...were...climbers on the staircase of unity.
    Cour 7.262 20 The child is as much in danger from a staircase...as the soldier from a cannon...

staircases, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 8 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings.

stairs, n. (11)

    Art1 2.349 25 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
    Exp 3.45 4 ...there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended;...
    Exp 3.45 6 ...there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
    ET1 5.3 4 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London at the Tower stairs.
    Elo2 8.129 22 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
    Dem1 10.2 1 In the chamber, on the stairs,/ Lurking dumb,/ Go and come/ Lemurs and Lars./
    Dem1 10.25 25 Mesmerism is high life below stairs;...
    PerF 10.82 25 These [mental powers] are means and stairs for new ascensions of the mind.
    Schr 10.289 8 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history, and rise on the same stairs to science and to joy.
    MAng1 12.225 25 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi...
    Trag 12.411 7 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

stake, n. (21)

    MN 1.203 19 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    Hist 2.36 20 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    SR 2.63 4 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    Comp 2.115 4 Human labor...from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    Chr1 3.106 18 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...
    Nat2 3.196 2 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    NER 3.274 19 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be held as a trifle light as air...
    GoW 4.266 23 Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    ET11 5.176 3 [French and English nobles] were looked on as men who played high for a great stake.
    ET11 5.183 21 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them?
    Wsp 6.199 9 ...Bound to the stake, no flames appalled,/ But arched o'er him an honoring vault./
    Ill 6.315 3 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold...
    Cour 7.274 20 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...
    PI 8.45 16 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...an alder-bush, or a stake,--they become beautiful by being reflected.
    Elo2 8.118 8 ...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
    MMEm 10.426 18 Number the waste places of the journey,-the secret martyrdom of youth, heavier than the stake, I thought...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    MMEm 10.433 9 ...every banker, shopkeeper and wood-sawer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet.
    FSLC 11.208 3 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design, the vast stake we hold;...all join to demand it.
    EPro 11.318 4 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    ACri 12.289 7 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation. Ye aiblins might, I dinna ken,/ Still have a stake./
    WSL 12.343 15 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments. They could act too, if the stake was worthy of them...

stake, v. (3)

    YA 1.391 26 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Cour 7.273 12 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
    War 11.174 14 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle...

staked, v. (2)

    LVB 11.95 2 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    AsSu 11.248 12 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best.

stake-driver, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 10 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...

stakes, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.235 7 Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his experiences and his wit. Hence competition for the stakes dearest to man.
    Supl 10.174 3 I like no deep stakes.

stalactite, n. (2)

    Ill 6.309 9 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to...a niche or grotto made of one seamless stalactite...
    Ill 6.309 18 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;...

stalagmite, n. (1)

    Ill 6.309 17 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;...

stale, adj. (4)

    LE 1.174 13 Do not go into solitude only that you may presently come into public. Such solitude denies itself; is public and stale.
    SL 2.131 6 Not only things familiar and stale...are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    Fdsp 2.199 14 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet...translate all poetry into stale prose.
    Hsm1 2.246 18 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to commence/ A newer and a better..../

Staley Bridge, England, n. (1)

    ET10 5.159 6 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters, after a mob and riot at Staley Bridge, Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...

stalks, n. (1)

    Farm 7.149 1 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside...

stall, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.361 26 ...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.

stall-feeding, n. (1)

    ET5 5.95 6 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding makes sperm-mills of the cattle...

stalls, n. (2)

    ET13 5.220 18 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return, or find a place in their once sacred stalls.
    DL 7.109 23 We ask the price of many things in shops and stalls...

stalwart, adj. (4)

    MN 1.208 22 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...
    SwM 4.103 10 [Swedenborg's] stalwart presence would flutter the gowns of an university.
    Edc1 10.131 24 ...[man] is to be the stalwart Archimedes...of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
    JBB 11.266 3 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./

stamen, n. (2)

    SwM 4.107 13 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.
    PI 8.8 14 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part, as bract, leaf, petal, stamen, pistil or seed.

stamens, n. (3)

    Bty 6.282 20 Bugs and stamens and spores...are not finalities;...
    OA 7.329 10 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    PLT 12.4 7 [These higher laws]...may be numbered and recorded, like stamens and vertebrae.

stamina, n. (2)

    ET6 5.104 17 [The Englishman] has stamina;...
    FSLN 11.220 14 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed...to carry parties with him.

stammer, v. (2)

    AmS 1.101 8 Long [the scholar] must stammer in his speech;...
    Elo2 8.127 4 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only stammer out with hard literalness...

stammering, adj. (3)

    Pol1 3.201 2 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering.
    GoW 4.264 3 Whatever can be thought can be spoken, and still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs.
    Edc1 10.147 23 By many steps...the stammering boy...in the school debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...

stammering, v. (2)

    Pt1 3.40 11 Stand there, [O poet,]...stammering and stuttering...stand and strive...
    PPo 8.254 21 I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;/ What the Eternal says, I stammering say again./

stammerings, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.98 2 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.

stammers, v. (1)

    GoW 4.281 26 What signifies that [the writer] trips and stammers;...

Stamp Act, n. (1)

    HDC 11.67 26 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

stamp, n. (14)

    Chr1 3.94 26 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...
    Mrs1 3.127 27 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain; doubtless with the feeling that fashion is a homage to men of his stamp.
    MoS 4.165 24 ...I, [says Montaigne,] who am as sincere and perfect a lover of virtue of that stamp as any other whatever, am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    NMW 4.227 5 ...a man of Napoleon's stamp almost ceases to have a private speech and opinion.
    NMW 4.227 15 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures, sets his stamp on them...
    NMW 4.231 19 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    Elo1 7.77 11 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon. Whenever a man of that stamp arrives, the highwayman has found a master.
    Elo1 7.79 9 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man. It was men of this stamp that the Grecian States used to ask of Sparta for generals.
    Suc 7.306 24 Everything lasting and fit for men the Divine Power has marked with this stamp [of beauty].
    QO 8.175 1 Old and new put their stamp to everything in Nature.
    Chr2 10.92 24 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.
    Mem 12.98 1 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who...shares experiences like theirs. 'T is like the impression made by the same stamp in sand or in wax.
    MAng1 12.239 5 ...Michael Angelo's praise on many works is to this day the stamp of fame.
    ACri 12.303 26 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance.

stamp, v. (4)

    OS 2.278 3 [The best minds]...do not label or stamp [truth] with any man's name...
    Pol1 3.200 22 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait...
    PPh 4.45 22 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.
    AsSu 11.251 17 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs. The murderer's brand shall stamp their foreheads wherever they may wander in the earth.

stamped, v. (3)

    SL 2.157 27 ...into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
    SL 2.158 3 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    ET3 5.35 26 ...[England] has, in the last centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with its impress.

stamping, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.409 11 Hark! what sounds on the night wind...see these marks of stamping feet, of hidden riot.

stamping, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.62 9 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...occasional stamping...

stanch, adj. (6)

    Comp 2.92 2 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine,/ Stanch and strong the tendrils twine/...
    ET19 5.311 19 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support...
    F 6.20 24 So soft and so stanch is the ring of Fate.
    DL 7.121 3 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch?
    Aris 10.62 4 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    SovE 10.204 13 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch...

stanch, v. (1)

    SHC 11.432 8 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us...to stanch and appease that fury of temperament which our climate bestows!

stanchness, n. (1)

    ET5 5.101 15 The very felons [in England] have their pride in each other's English stanchness.

stand for the interests of gen (1)

    and. humanity... Which should be that nation but these States? Which should lead that movement, if not New England?

stand, n. (4)

    Con 1.301 3 As we take our stand on Necessity, or on Ethics, shall we go for the conservative, or for the reformer.
    UGM 4.19 22 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general. Thus we make a stand against our rougher masters;...
    ET3 5.40 13 The shop-keeping nation [England], to use a shop word, has a good stand.
    Comc 8.163 9 No dignity...can make any stand against good wit.

stand, v. (226)

    Nat 1.22 18 The intellect searches out the absolute order of things, as they stand in the mind of God...
    Nat 1.24 24 [Beauty in nature] must stand as a part...of the final cause of Nature.
    Nat 1.30 8 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth...old words are perverted to stand for things which are not;...
    Nat 1.48 23 We are not built like a ship, to be tossed, but like a house to stand.
    Nat 1.62 8 ...the noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
    Nat 1.63 15 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis...
    AmS 1.88 1 [Nature] can stand, and it can go.
    AmS 1.101 19 ...[the scholar] takes...the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand to society...
    AmS 1.110 7 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the old and the new stand side by side...
    DSA 1.126 25 ...the doors of the temple stand open...
    DSA 1.140 5 Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life.
    DSA 1.150 21 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore...
    MN 1.191 10 ...[the scholars] stand for the spiritual interest of the world...
    MN 1.193 5 Men stand in awe of the city...
    MN 1.199 20 If anything could stand still, it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted...
    MN 1.208 4 [A man] need not study where to stand...
    MN 1.221 2 I stand here to say, Let us worship the mighty and transcendent Soul.
    MR 1.230 3 We thought [the money-catcher] had some semblance of ground to stand upon...
    MR 1.230 17 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical impediments that stand in the way of virtuous young men.
    MR 1.240 27 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...
    MR 1.247 18 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    LT 1.266 15 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
    LT 1.266 20 ...we are not permitted to stand as spectators of the pageant which the times exhibit;...
    LT 1.267 16 We...stand in the light of Ideas...
    LT 1.268 10 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation, and stand on no argument but possession.
    LT 1.290 12 For that reality let us stand;...
    LT 1.291 11 ...you who hold...not of the times, but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it...
    Con 1.297 14 This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical which has come down to us.
    Con 1.298 21 ...in autumn and winter we stand by the old;...
    Con 1.303 13 ...[the existing world] is the ground on which you stand...
    Con 1.303 22 [The existing world] will stand until a better cast of the dice is made.
    Con 1.306 2 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator...must confess that no man is to be found good enough to be entitled to stand champion for the principle.
    Tran 1.346 27 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends...
    Tran 1.347 3 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends, whereof poet and priest cannot choose but stand in awe;...
    Tran 1.350 25 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor, we ourselves stand in greater want of the labor.
    Tran 1.353 4 These two states of thought diverge every moment, and stand in wild contrast.
    YA 1.387 21 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity...
    YA 1.389 26 ...to stand for the private verdict against popular clamor is the office of the noble.
    Hist 2.5 14 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.
    Hist 2.10 19 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand before every public and private work;...
    Hist 2.41 3 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    SR 2.48 16 So God has...made [youth, puberty, and manhood] enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by if it will stand by itself.
    SR 2.52 16 ...the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    SR 2.60 17 I will stand here for humanity...
    SR 2.71 14 Man does not stand in awe of man...
    Comp 2.99 16 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Comp 2.111 8 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him.
    Comp 2.113 11 Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement.
    Comp 2.115 19 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which stand as manifest in the footing of the shop-bill as in the history of a state,--do recommend to him his trade...
    Comp 2.121 8 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    SL 2.135 4 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, blending with the daylight and the vital energy the power to stand and to go.
    SL 2.154 17 ...Moses and Homer stand for ever.
    Fdsp 2.192 19 Having imagined and invested [the commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man...
    Fdsp 2.194 14 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation...
    Fdsp 2.201 17 In one condemnation of folly stand the whole universe of men.
    Fdsp 2.203 22 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
    Fdsp 2.209 18 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person. Stand aside;...
    Prd1 2.230 8 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life. Let them stand on their feet...
    Prd1 2.231 7 We have violated law upon law until we stand amidst ruins...
    Prd1 2.235 19 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal, that he may not stand in bitter and false relations to other men;...
    Prd1 2.240 1 Wisdom will never let us stand with any man or men on an unfriendly footing.
    OS 2.275 26 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
    OS 2.287 23 All men stand continually in the expectation of the appearance of such a teacher [who speaks always from within].
    OS 2.288 15 In these instances [the scholar and author]...we feel that a man' s talents stand in the way of his advancement in truth.
    Cir 2.311 4 We all stand waiting, empty...
    Cir 2.314 3 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
    Cir 2.314 6 ...these metals and animals, which seem to stand there for their own sake, are means and methods only...
    Art1 2.363 10 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not stand in connection with the conscience...
    Art1 2.364 13 ...under a sky full of eternal eyes, I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    Pt1 3.5 15 ...all men...stand in need of expression.
    Pt1 3.6 1 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars, earth and water. These stand and wait to render him a peculiar service.
    Pt1 3.6 26 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.
    Pt1 3.9 11 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations...
    Pt1 3.14 12 We stand before the secret of the world...
    Pt1 3.34 23 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith;...
    Pt1 3.34 25 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader.
    Pt1 3.40 10 Stand there, [O poet,]...stand and strive...
    Pt1 3.40 12 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive...
    Exp 3.56 27 [Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power...
    Chr1 3.91 15 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    Chr1 3.95 15 All individual natures stand in a scale, according to the purity of this element [truth] in them.
    Chr1 3.99 23 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place...
    Chr1 3.103 19 ...when [your friends] stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike...you may begin to hope.
    Mrs1 3.132 8 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...stand on their head, or what else soever, in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.135 14 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate, before whose eye we have no care to stand, then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    Mrs1 3.149 23 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin Hood;,--yet with the port of an emperor, if need be,--calm, serious and fit to stand the gaze of millions.
    Nat2 3.192 25 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields, or, if you stand in the field, then in the adjacent woods.
    Nat2 3.195 9 These [universal laws]...stand around us in nature forever embodied...
    Pol1 3.208 20 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part...stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
    Pol1 3.215 3 If I put myself in the place of my child, and we stand in one thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law for him and me.
    NR 3.244 8 ...men feign themselves dead...and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
    NR 3.247 20 ...if we did not in any moment shift the platform on which we stand, and look and speak from another!...
    UGM 4.22 27 I admire great men of all classes, those who stand for facts, and for thoughts;...
    UGM 4.31 18 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    PPh 4.42 24 This breadth [of synthesis] entitles [Plato] to stand as the representative of philosophy.
    PNR 4.81 15 Plato's fame does not stand on a syllogism...
    SwM 4.126 22 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head;...
    MoS 4.156 23 [The skeptic says] I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case.
    MoS 4.166 27 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth...
    MoS 4.182 16 [The spiritualist] had rather stand charged with the imbecility of skepticism, than with untruth.
    NMW 4.243 5 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen, in the situation in which I stand, my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    NMW 4.256 19 ...both parties [democrat and conservative] stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property...
    GoW 4.265 26 [The scholar]...must also wish with other men to stand well with his contemporaries.
    GoW 4.268 10 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time...
    GoW 4.268 19 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one;...does he stand for something?
    GoW 4.269 5 ...the writer does not stand with us on any commanding ground.
    ET4 5.59 18 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand...
    ET5 5.101 2 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities. A great ability...poured into the general mind, so that each of them could at a pinch stand in the shoes of the other;...
    ET8 5.139 25 The following passage from the Heimskringla might almost stand as a portrait of the modern Englishman...
    ET8 5.141 7 ...the English stand for liberty.
    ET12 5.211 19 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors, and to the end of a knowledge how the things whereof they treat really stand...
    ET14 5.233 17 [The Englishman's] mind must stand on a fact.
    ET16 5.287 13 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth...
    ET18 5.299 7 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...
    F 6.30 18 We stand against Fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house...
    F 6.35 9 A man must...stand in some terror of his talents.
    Wth 6.108 4 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same simple and surly market?
    Wth 6.115 27 Every tree and graft [on a man's land]...stand in his way... when he would go out of his gate.
    Ctr 6.147 18 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Bhr 6.171 22 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way.
    Bhr 6.182 11 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Wsp 6.202 9 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely as they stand...
    Wsp 6.212 18 Only those can help in counsel or conduct...who were appointed by God Almighty...to stand for this which they uphold.
    CbW 6.246 13 ...not by strength of ours, or of the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the youth] must stand or fall.
    CbW 6.261 13 What tests of manhood could [the rich man] stand?
    Bty 6.291 16 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    Bty 6.297 25 Women stand related to beautiful nature around us...
    SS 7.6 17 Each must stand on his glass tripod if he would keep his electricity.
    SS 7.15 23 ...most men...say good things to you in private, but will not stand to them in public.
    Civ 7.33 23 ...if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests,--a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.55 1 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle, those behind stand on tiptoe...
    Elo1 7.94 8 ...[people] soon begin to ask, What is [the speaker] driving at? and if this man does not stand for anything, he will be deserted.
    Elo1 7.99 6 To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note to the discourses of Demosthenes...
    Elo1 7.99 11 [Eloquence] may well stand as the exponent of all that is grand and immortal in the mind.
    DL 7.117 9 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    DL 7.128 10 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    DL 7.133 1 Let the man stand on his feet.
    Boks 7.194 24 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
    Cour 7.260 12 What cannot stand must fall;...
    Cour 7.279 10 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    OA 7.318 9 If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were June or January;...
    OA 7.322 3 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,-- namely, the men who fear no city, but by whom cities stand;...
    SA 8.99 12 When men consult you, it is not that they wish you to stand tiptoe and pump your brains...
    Elo2 8.115 20 The orator must ever stand with forward foot...
    Res 8.151 11 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk...
    Comc 8.163 1 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides of this Greek fire.
    Comc 8.164 12 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    PPo 8.238 1 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with the multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
    PPo 8.241 1 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand upon...
    Insp 8.280 21 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/...
    Insp 8.286 7 ...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand, then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the true Musagetes./
    Grts 8.301 5 ...in the pursuit [of greatness] we do not stand in each other's way.
    Dem1 10.14 20 ...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur called out to them to stand still...
    Aris 10.37 16 We like cool people...who can stand a slander very well;...
    Aris 10.54 26 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man. I mean the things themselves shall be judges, and determine. In the presence of this nobility even genius must stand aside.
    Aris 10.57 11 Let [a true aristocrat]...stand for that which he was born and set to maintain.
    PerF 10.77 7 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    Chr2 10.98 16 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...
    Chr2 10.113 7 ...it is all in all how you stand to your own tribunal.
    Edc1 10.152 20 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast...
    Supl 10.165 16 The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
    Supl 10.168 1 [People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.
    SovE 10.197 23 If I will stand upright, the creation cannot bend me.
    SovE 10.211 10 Men live by their credence. Governments stand by it...
    SovE 10.211 15 If government could only stand by force...it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
    Prch 10.219 9 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity,-solstices when we...stand still,-will occur.
    Prch 10.226 1 ...the earth we stand upon is not imperishable...
    Prch 10.236 17 It is true that which they say of our New England oestrum, which will never let us stand or sit...
    MoL 10.248 7 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest; trade springs up, and there stand new cities, new homes...
    MoL 10.251 21 Stand by your order.
    MoL 10.251 27 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on the measures of the Radicals. He replied, I shall stand by my order.
    MoL 10.252 8 ...the scholar does not stand by his order...
    MoL 10.254 11 [Scholars]...should stand for freedom, justice, and public good.
    MoL 10.254 12 The scholar is bound to stand for all the virtues and all the liberties...
    Schr 10.286 4 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget, but which...stand frowning and formidable...
    MMEm 10.409 16 ...from the rays which burst forth when the crowd are entering these noble saloons, whilst I [Mary Moody Emerson] stand in the doors, I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    Carl 10.497 6 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire, and, by the help of God, had resolved to stand there.
    LS 11.17 18 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority.
    LS 11.24 17 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world...
    HDC 11.73 20 This little battalion [of minute-men], though in their hasty council some were urgent to stand their ground, retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    LVB 11.91 14 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to execute the same. Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act.
    EWI 11.131 2 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.
    War 11.162 13 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    FSLN 11.225 17 ...it is the genius and temper of the man which decides whether he will stand for right or for might.
    FSLN 11.235 13 He only who is able to stand alone is qualified for society.
    AKan 11.256 23 ...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men, to...enable them to stand against these enemies of the human race.
    AKan 11.258 17 He only who is able to stand alone is qualified to be a citizen.
    TPar 11.289 18 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed, especially if he had any jealousy that they did not stand with the Boston public as highly as they ought.
    ACiv 11.299 18 Is [man] not to make his knowledge practical? to stand and to withstand?
    EPro 11.320 2 With a victory like this [the Emancipation Proclamation], we can stand many disasters.
    HCom 11.339 11 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    SMC 11.361 4 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written...in the saddle, and have to stop because the horse will not stand still.
    SMC 11.362 15 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us. He is very profane, and I will not stand it.
    SMC 11.362 27 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday; told him I would not stand it anyway.
    EdAd 11.388 27 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    Koss 11.398 22 [The sympathy of Americans] is, in every expression, antagonized. No opinion will pass but must stand the tug of war.
    Wom 11.410 3 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...a statue should stand in the air;...
    SHC 11.433 3 In the valley where we stand [in Sleep Hollow Cemetery] will be the Monuments.
    FRO1 11.477 22 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    FRO2 11.489 10 Let [the lesson of the New Testament] stand, beautiful and wholesome...
    FRep 11.514 14 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...
    FRep 11.542 14 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe.
    FRep 11.543 14 We shall stand...for vast interests;...
    PLT 12.16 13 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river...
    PLT 12.44 3 ...the true scholar is one who has the power to stand beside his thoughts...
    Mem 12.96 27 ...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an intellectual man.
    Bost 12.190 17 How easy it is, after the city is built, to see where it ought to stand.
    Bost 12.203 24 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant, who...will stand for liberty and justice, if alone...
    Bost 12.206 6 When men saw that these people [of Boston]...would stand by each other at all hazards, they desired to come and live here.
    Bost 12.211 11 ...here let [Boston] stand forever, on the man-bearing granite of the North!
    Bost 12.211 13 Let [Boston] stand fast by herself!
    MAng1 12.238 11 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all.
    MAng1 12.238 21 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from their contemporaries to their race.
    Milt1 12.253 14 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history...
    Milt1 12.265 8 ...[Milton] replies to the...calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with...labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render...obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations.
    Milt1 12.266 2 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.
    MLit 12.323 15 To read [Goethe's] record is a frugality of time, for you shall find no word that does not stand for a thing...
    MLit 12.323 24 ...[Goethe] felt his entire right and duty to stand before and try and judge every fact in Nature.
    MLit 12.328 5 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
    MLit 12.330 25 The vicious conventions...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.
    MLit 12.335 12 Withered though he stand, and trifler though he be, the august spirit of the world looks out from [man's] eyes.
    WSL 12.338 14 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor, who may stand as a favorable impersonation of the genius of his countrymen at the present day.
    WSL 12.349 7 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.
    Pray 12.355 27 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    EurB 12.378 14 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.
    PPr 12.383 23 [The poet] must stand on his glass tripod, if he would keep his electricity.

standard, adj. (4)

    ET12 5.204 3 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford.
    Boks 7.193 26 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...
    Boks 7.196 19 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
    EurB 12.376 3 ...there is but one standard English novel...

standard, n. (29)

    Nat 1.23 26 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms...
    Nat 1.46 14 When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    DSA 1.147 14 We easily come up to the standard of goodness in society.
    MN 1.197 14 ...we can use nature as a convenient standard...
    SR 2.74 7 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard...
    SR 2.74 18 ...I may also neglect this reflex standard...
    SR 2.85 26 There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk.
    Comp 2.95 16 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of... announcing...the omnipotence of the will; and so establishing the standard of good and ill...
    Fdsp 2.210 18 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook? Let us not vilify, but raise it to that standard.
    Hsm1 2.254 9 These [magnanimous] men...raise the standard of civil virtue among mankind.
    ShP 4.218 20 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who...planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos,--that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    ET3 5.37 4 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard;...
    ET10 5.154 12 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET12 5.207 9 The English nature takes culture kindly. So Milton thought. It refines the Norseman. Access to the Greek mind lifts his standard of taste.
    ET12 5.212 9 ...the great number of cultivated men [in England] keep each other up to a high standard.
    ET18 5.301 3 During the Russian war, few of those that offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical standard...
    Wsp 6.218 14 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
    Wsp 6.227 15 [As we grow older] We have another sight, and a new standard;...
    SS 7.11 18 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;...
    Elo1 7.98 25 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard...
    Comc 8.159 23 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...bring the standard...
    Aris 10.63 9 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw?
    MMEm 10.428 21 Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to battle as his standard.
    MMEm 10.432 20 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...
    EWI 11.138 9 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for...reference of every question to the absolute standard.
    FSLC 11.184 21 Nothing proves...the absence of standard in men's minds, more than the dominion of party.
    MAng1 12.217 22 There is no standard whereby the understanding can determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
    MAng1 12.217 25 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
    Milt1 12.278 14 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time...eager to carry on the standard of truth to new heights.

standard-bearer, n. (1)

    TPar 11.292 26 ...amiable and blameless at home, feared abroad as the standard-bearer of liberty...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...

standards, n. (15)

    SR 2.74 7 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard...
    SL 2.144 27 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    Art1 2.361 2 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia...
    Exp 3.67 13 To-morrow again...the habitual standards are reinstated...
    Chr1 3.92 26 The habit of [the natural merchant's] mind is a reference to standards of natural equity and public advantage;...
    Mrs1 3.143 18 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    NMW 4.246 20 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
    ET14 5.245 13 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...
    ET14 5.259 8 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
    Pow 6.62 15 As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
    Pow 6.62 27 As long as our people quote English standards they will miss the sovereignty of power;...
    Wsp 6.206 22 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ... In sooth, my standards will in future be despised, not through my fault, but through thine...
    Aris 10.31 11 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men...if possible, living standards.
    MLit 12.327 8 ...without adverting to absolute standards, we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...
    EurB 12.368 12 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris...

standing, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.34 12 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began;...
    SL 2.137 5 [Our society] is a standing army, not so good as a peace.
    NMW 4.223 18 In our society there is a standing antagonism between the conservative and the democratic classes;...
    ET5 5.97 16 Foreign power [in England] is kept by armed colonies; power at home, by a standing army of police.
    Wth 6.110 20 ...the standing army of preventive police we must pay.
    Farm 7.148 19 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing in the garden square/ A dead and standing pool of air/...
    Farm 7.149 21 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil...
    PI 8.19 18 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in speaking to the Father and to matter;...
    War 11.165 16 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man.
    EdAd 11.391 11 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...
    FRep 11.529 4 A congress is a standing insurrection...

standing, n. (6)

    Mrs1 3.133 12 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.
    Mrs1 3.142 15 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him, saying, his debt was of older standing, and Sheridan must wait.
    NER 3.284 13 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    ET13 5.222 20 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET16 5.289 14 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    EWI 11.138 21 Up to this day we have allowed to statesmen a paramount social standing...

standing, v. (41)

    Nat 1.10 5 Standing on the bare ground...all mean egotism vanishes.
    LE 1.185 7 ...I thought that standing, as many of you now do, on the threshold of this College...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    MN 1.211 9 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place.
    MR 1.229 24 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.
    MR 1.243 3 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn to eat his meals standing...
    Hist 2.9 11 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.
    Pt1 3.9 18 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house...with well-bred men and women standing and sitting in the walks and terraces.
    Mrs1 3.123 26 [The name gentleman] describes a man standing in his own right...
    Mrs1 3.146 2 There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes, standing on the wharf, who jumps in to rescue a drowning man;...
    NR 3.231 11 The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale...
    NER 3.257 24 The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.
    NER 3.278 24 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    UGM 4.23 7 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...
    MoS 4.163 7 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau, still standing near Castellan, in Perigord...
    NMW 4.225 24 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the standing in the attitude of a benefactor to all persons about him...
    ET1 5.9 9 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece, standing before which he said he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a Domenichino.
    ET1 5.13 10 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
    ET1 5.23 1 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising,--he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a school-boy declaiming,--that I at first was near to laugh;...
    ET7 5.122 22 [The English] love stoutness in standing for your right...
    ET12 5.204 25 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing.
    ET12 5.209 16 The definition of a public school [in England] is a school which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.
    Wsp 6.209 12 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a moral teacher, it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    Farm 7.137 19 ...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
    WD 7.164 2 ...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    Boks 7.191 4 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place, peopled...with heroes and demigods standing around us...
    Cour 7.266 20 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she...inhaled the air of the cavern standing on the tripod, fell into convulsions and died.
    Comc 8.159 5 Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...
    SlHr 10.445 11 It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's] character should make so deep an impression, standing and working as he did on so common a ground.
    Thor 10.460 7 ...idealist as he was, standing for abolition of slavery, abolition of tariffs, almost for abolition of government, it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    HDC 11.34 17 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth standing stoutly to his labors...
    HDC 11.36 22 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    HDC 11.37 22 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    FSLC 11.183 18 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
    FSLN 11.217 18 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they...affirm these...only from their cramped position of standing for their teacher.
    FSLN 11.241 22 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
    ACiv 11.297 13 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    EPro 11.316 26 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience...now at last so searched and kindled that they come forward, every one a representative of mankind, standing for all nationalities.
    HCom 11.343 19 ...standing here in Harvard College...in Massachusetts...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    SMC 11.351 18 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument], standing on such memories...mixes with surrounding nature...
    Wom 11.421 22 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    PLT 12.59 3 ...becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature, and death the penalty of standing still.

Standpoint, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 10 We are now offended with Standpoint, Myth, Subjective, the Good and the True and the Cause.

stands, n. (2)

    NER 3.263 14 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...
    ET16 5.290 4 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt into which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman arches of the old church on which the present stands, was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.

stands, v. (145)

    Nat 1.32 19 ...we see that [nature] always stands ready to clothe what we would say...
    Nat 1.34 1 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God...
    Nat 1.53 12 ...[My passion] all alone stands hugely politic./
    Nat 1.61 17 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with bended head...
    AmS 1.85 17 To the young mind every thing...stands by itself.
    AmS 1.89 5 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book, stands upon it...
    LE 1.168 13 The man who stands on the seashore...seems to be the first man that ever stood on the shore...
    LE 1.181 10 Let [the scholar] know that...in the sedulous inquiry...to know how the thing stands;...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    MN 1.195 7 In the bottom of the heart it is said; I am, and by me, O child! this fair body and world of thine stands and grows.
    MN 1.197 1 In the absence of man, we turn to nature, which stands next.
    LT 1.281 20 ...let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
    Con 1.298 13 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations...
    Con 1.300 6 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
    Con 1.306 9 There [the youth] stands, newly born on the planet...
    Con 1.310 25 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    Tran 1.331 15 The materialist...believes...that he...knows where he stands, and what he does.
    YA 1.391 3 ...the wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet;...
    Hist 2.30 21 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals...
    SR 2.67 17 ...man...stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
    SR 2.89 3 It is only as a man...stands alone that I see him to be strong...
    SR 2.89 13 He who knows that power is inborn...stands in the erect position...
    SR 2.89 15 ...a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.
    SR 2.89 16 ...a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.
    Lov1 2.178 21 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues.
    Fdsp 2.192 17 [The commended stranger] stands to us for humanity.
    Fdsp 2.197 2 A man who stands united with his thought conceives magnificently of himself.
    Fdsp 2.211 22 There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until in their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
    OS 2.280 11 If we...see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
    OS 2.280 13 ...the Maker of all things and all persons stands behind us...
    OS 2.294 27 Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers.
    OS 2.295 11 The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
    Cir 2.309 10 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.
    Int 2.325 2 Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables...
    Int 2.325 3 Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables, positively to that which stands below it.
    Int 2.326 11 Intellect...sees an object as it stands in the light of science...
    Art1 2.356 2 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...stands then and there for nature.
    Art1 2.357 2 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see...the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.
    Art1 2.364 20 ...the [art] gallery stands at the mercy of our moods...
    Art1 2.367 17 ...[art] stands in the imagination as somewhat contrary to nature...
    Pt1 3.5 2 [The poet] stands among partial men for the complete man...
    Pt1 3.7 7 [The poet]...stands on the centre.
    Pt1 3.20 22 ...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step nearer to things...
    Pt1 3.24 11 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden.
    Pt1 3.25 7 Over everything stands its daemon or soul...
    Pt1 3.35 17 Swedenborg...stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought.
    Exp 3.45 8 ...the Genius which according to the old belief stands at the door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Chr1 3.96 15 A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True...
    Chr1 3.96 17 ...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun...
    Chr1 3.101 16 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated...
    Nat2 3.172 23 My house stands in low land...
    Pol1 3.200 19 The statute stands there to say, Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day?
    Pol1 3.214 16 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world.
    Pol1 3.220 10 ...according to the order of nature...it stands thus; there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    NR 3.225 12 The man momentarily stands for the thought, but will not bear examination;...
    NER 3.281 25 ...man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested.
    PPh 4.43 6 Plato...stands upon the highest place of the poet...
    PPh 4.44 25 [Plato] stands between the truth and every man's mind...
    PNR 4.82 15 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which has no end...
    SwM 4.94 7 The human mind stands ever in perplexity...
    MoS 4.152 13 In England...property stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.
    MoS 4.155 7 ...[the skeptic] stands for the intellectual faculties...
    MoS 4.173 2 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say.
    ShP 4.190 11 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way...
    ShP 4.201 12 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
    ShP 4.216 16 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare]...
    NMW 4.240 11 [Napoleon] interests us as he stands for France and for Europe;...
    ET6 5.102 2 I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
    ET6 5.105 12 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made.
    ET6 5.111 23 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen. No merit quite countervails the want of this whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.
    ET7 5.123 15 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe what stands recorded in the gravest books, that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
    ET11 5.181 19 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London, where the British Museum, once Montague House, now stands...
    ET14 5.254 4 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans...
    ET15 5.261 3 In England, [the power of the newspaper] stands in antagonism with the feudal institutions...
    ET19 5.311 22 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races...
    F 6.33 13 Man...stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
    Ctr 6.161 3 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads the rumors of the newspapers...with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Bhr 6.193 17 The man that stands by himself, the universe stands by him also.
    Wsp 6.216 6 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man...
    Wsp 6.224 6 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
    Bty 6.289 11 We ascribe beauty to that...which stands related to all things;...
    Bty 6.299 17 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands...she confers a favor on the world.
    Elo1 7.93 15 ...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...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    Elo1 7.96 15 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...so that he stands in the New England assembly a purer bit of New England than any...
    DL 7.117 16 [A house] stands there under the sun and moon to ends analogous, and not less noble than theirs.
    DL 7.133 8 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands.
    Farm 7.137 4 [The farmer] stands close to Nature;...
    Farm 7.140 13 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room...
    Farm 7.141 21 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.153 10 The farmer stands well on the world.
    Farm 7.153 18 ...[the farmer] stands well on the world...
    WD 7.176 15 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all...
    Suc 7.308 7 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    PI 8.4 12 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    PI 8.17 18 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
    PI 8.24 7 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
    PI 8.27 10 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as is the ground on which he stands...
    PI 8.69 13 The book [Goethe's Faust]...stands unhappily related to the whole modern world;...
    SA 8.96 18 Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while...
    Comc 8.161 7 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding...
    Comc 8.169 5 The poorest man who stands on his manhood destroys the jest.
    PPo 8.246 27 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the Doomsday;/ The wine-cup shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./
    Grts 8.309 7 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for gives its own authority to him...
    Dem1 10.18 2 ...[the demonaical property] stands specially in wonderful relations with men...
    Aris 10.61 21 ...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world; stands there a real, substantial, unprecedented person...
    PerF 10.88 15 The world stands on ideas...
    Chr2 10.101 4 ...[the man of profound moral sentiment] lights up the house or the landscape in which he stands.
    Chr2 10.116 18 As it stands with us now, a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...
    Edc1 10.146 14 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum, where it now stands, the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    SovE 10.187 22 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.200 7 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.
    Prch 10.231 22 We come to church properly...for approach to principles to see how it stands with us...
    MoL 10.252 6 ...the noble in England and Europe stands by his order...
    MoL 10.253 14 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square. It made a good story, and circulated in that day. But how stands it now? The military expedition was a failure.
    Thor 10.469 2 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands.
    Carl 10.491 10 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt; they profess freedom and he stands for slavery;...
    Carl 10.494 4 ...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause to which he is not born and organically committed.
    LS 11.13 25 I am of opinion that it is wholly upon the Epistle to the Corinthians...that the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] stands.
    LS 11.16 17 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...
    LS 11.18 13 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God...
    FSLC 11.204 1 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.
    FSLC 11.212 19 [The Fugitive Slave Law] must be abrogated and wiped out of the statute-book; but whilst it stands there, it must be disobeyed.
    FSLN 11.239 24 England maintains trade, not liberty; stands against Greece; against Hungary;...
    AsSu 11.250 23 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken;...
    TPar 11.284 6 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands, looking more like a ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward, not graceful at least;/...
    SMC 11.350 27 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    SMC 11.352 1 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution...
    Koss 11.398 19 ...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
    Wom 11.407 15 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children. Man stands astonished at a magnanimity he cannot pretend to.
    FRep 11.512 17 Our modern wealth stands on a few staples...
    PLT 12.47 8 The new sect stands for certain thoughts.
    PLT 12.53 26 The world stands by balanced antagonisms.
    II 12.83 2 Whilst [a man] serves his genius, he works when he stands, when he sits, when he eats and when he sleeps.
    CInt 12.117 12 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands...
    CInt 12.117 18 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
    CInt 12.117 24 I presently know...whether [my companion] stands for ideal justice, or for a timorous expediency.
    CL 12.145 14 Look over the fence at the farmer who stands there.
    CL 12.147 21 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to people who are growing old, against their will. A man in that predicament, if he stands before a mirror...is made quite too sensible of the fact;...
    Bost 12.211 10 Here stands to-day, as of yore, our little city of the rocks [Boston];...
    MAng1 12.229 20 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...
    MAng1 12.244 8 There [in Santa Croce]...stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
    Milt1 12.253 27 Milton stands erect, commanding...
    ACri 12.302 3 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.
    WSL 12.345 24 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience.
    AgMs 12.359 2 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...and here he stands, with Atlantic strength and cheer, invincible still.

stand-up, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.63 8 Dear to the English heart is a fair stand-up fight.

Stanhope, Philip [Earl of (1)

    Supl 10.168 9 I judge by every man's truth of his degree of understanding, said Chesterfield.

Stanhope, Philip [Lord Che (5)

    ET1 5.8 15 [Landor] glorified Lord Chesterfield more than was necessary...
    ET7 5.118 13 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
    SA 8.87 8 It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control. Lord Chesterfield had early made this discovery...
    Elo2 8.124 27 ...Lord Chesterfield thought that without being instructed in the dialect of the Halles no man could be a complete master of French.
    Milt1 12.255 16 The man of Lord Chesterfield is unworthy to touch [Milton's man's] garment's hem.

Stanhope, Philip, n. (1)

    Aris 10.62 1 ...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonapate is the model of the Century...

Stanley, Edward [Lord Derb (1)

    EWI 11.112 2 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation.

stanza, n. (6)

    SR 2.58 11 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;...
    ET14 5.258 12 A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for...
    PPo 8.243 9 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed...especially in an image addressed to the eye and contained in a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
    PPo 8.252 5 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.
    Thor 10.475 4 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry]...
    Mem 12.94 7 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.

stanzas, n. (2)

    PPo 8.243 14 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...
    Milt1 12.277 1 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man. This was his poem; whereof all his indignant pamphlets and all his soaring verses are only single cantos or detached stanzas.

staple, adj. (2)

    SA 8.80 9 The staple figure in novels is the man of aplomb...
    PPo 8.243 3 These legends [of Persian kings], with...lilies, roses, tulips and jasmines,-make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

staple, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.225 23 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles.
    PPo 8.259 8 Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations, though it forms the staple of the Divan.

staples, n. (2)

    ET5 5.84 1 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples...
    FRep 11.512 17 Our modern wealth stands on a few staples...

Star, Bethlehem, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.90 3 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...

star, n. (60)

    Nat 1.68 27 [Man's] eyes dismount the highest star/...
    AmS 1.82 6 ...the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...
    DSA 1.124 1 ...one mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star...
    LE 1.183 20 ...the youth has lost a star out of his new flaming firmament.
    MN 1.212 13 Every star in heaven is discontented and insatiable.
    LT 1.267 6 ...many another star has turned out to be a planet or an asteroid...
    Con 1.309 21 ...the moon and the north star you would quickly have occasion for in your closet and bed-chamber.
    Hist 2.4 15 ...the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant...
    SR 2.43 1 Man is his own star;.../
    SR 2.63 27 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...
    SR 2.85 12 ...the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
    Comp 2.91 8 Gauge of more and less through space/ Electric star and pencil plays./
    Comp 2.93 24 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    SL 2.137 19 ...the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and ever.
    Lov1 2.185 9 Does that other [lover] see the same star...that now delights me?
    Fdsp 2.197 10 Only the star dazzles;...
    Hsm1 2.247 9 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words to follow such a deed as this?/
    Cir 2.312 15 The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to find the parallax of any star.
    Int 2.344 5 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more bright star shining serenely in your heaven...
    Pt1 3.1 7 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through man, and woman, and sea, and star/ Saw the dance of nature forward far;/...
    Nat2 3.181 4 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff...
    Nat2 3.188 15 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant; he reads them on his knees... by the morning star;...
    Nat2 3.193 14 [The maiden] was heaven whilst [the lover] pursued her as a star...
    Pol1 3.217 1 We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
    NR 3.240 23 We want the great genius only...for one star more in our constellation...
    PPh 4.70 23 Socrates and Plato are the double star which the most powerful instruments will not entirely separate.
    PNR 4.80 6 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    MoS 4.184 18 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds; he could lay his hand on the morning star;...
    NMW 4.231 15 [Bonaparte's] favorite rhetoric lay in allusion to his star;...
    NMW 4.254 11 [Napoleon's] star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the immortality of the soul, are all French.
    ET1 5.12 4 [Coleridge] had been called the rising star of Unitarianism.
    ET18 5.302 7 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which might give additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest star.
    F 6.38 27 ...the papillae of a man run out to every star.
    Wth 6.83 22 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    Wsp 6.218 27 The path of a star, the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction of a second.
    CbW 6.243 20 ...Where the star Canope shines in May,/ Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay./
    CbW 6.265 16 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
    CbW 6.265 19 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith.
    Bty 6.282 9 Astrology interested us, for it tied man to the system. Instead of an isolated beggar, the farthest star felt him and he felt the star.
    Civ 7.28 24 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star...
    Civ 7.29 8 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt, as, for example, in detecting the parallax of a star.
    Civ 7.29 9 ...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...
    Civ 7.30 15 Hitch your wagon to a star.
    Elo1 7.59 8 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
    Farm 7.135 20 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/ For there 's no rood has not a star above it;/...
    QO 8.188 12 As they do by books, so [people] quote the sunset and the star...
    PC 8.224 12 The asteroids are the chips of an old star...
    Imtl 8.335 21 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star...
    Chr2 10.90 3 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
    Edc1 10.131 22 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending their relation and law.
    Supl 10.179 10 ...there is no question that the star of empire rolls West...
    SovE 10.193 9 Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it...
    LLNE 10.333 27 [Everett]...speaking, walking, sitting, was as much aloof and uncommon as a star.
    LLNE 10.339 17 Dr. Channing, whilst he lived, was the star of the American Church...
    SlHr 10.437 8 [Samuel Hoar] was born under a Christian and humane star...
    War 11.161 11 The star once risen...will mount and mount...
    PLT 12.39 13 To us [a fact] had economic, but to the universe it has poetic relations, and it is as good as sun and star now.
    II 12.70 4 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith;...
    CW 12.170 1 There is no rood has not a star above it;/...
    EurB 12.366 1 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...

Star, North, n. (2)

    MN 1.212 22 It is not enough that [the stars] are Jove, Mars, Orion, and the North Star, in the gravitating firmament;...
    Bty 6.303 8 If I could put my hand on the North Star, would it be as beautiful?

Star-Chamber, Mammoth Cave (1)

    Ill 6.310 11 On arriving at what is called the Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the guide...

star-chamber, n. (1)

    ET5 5.87 24 ...star-chamber, ship-money, Popery...are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...

star-dust, n. (1)

    Ill 6.318 17 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion...must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.

stare, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.382 14 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./

stare, v. (1)

    SL 2.147 7 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face...

stares, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.86 18 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.

star-gazers, n. (1)

    Tran 1.331 12 The materialist...mocks...at star-gazers and dreamers...

staring, v. (2)

    SovE 10.200 4 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee, staring with wonder to see water turned into wine...
    FSLN 11.244 17 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men, and now the Nebraska Bill leaves us staring.

stark, adj. (5)

    Pt1 3.35 14 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    MoS 4.160 16 The Spartan and Stoic schemes are too stark and stiff for our occasion.
    MoS 4.161 27 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    Bty 6.292 3 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded...
    Bty 6.304 9 Facts which had never before left their stark common sense suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.

starlight, n. (1)

    YA 1.381 13 All this drudgery, from cock-crowing to starlight...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag...

star-lit, adj. (1)

    LE 1.186 20 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth...

star-pointing-roof, n. (1)

    PPo 8.262 23 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/

starry, adj. (5)

    Art1 2.349 16 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
    Chr1 3.115 20 ...there are many [eyes] that can discern Genius on his starry track...
    Res 8.149 24 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave], disclosing its starry splendor...
    PPo 8.253 9 When Hafiz sings...Anaitis, leader of the starry host, calls even the Messiah in heaven out to the dance.
    Wom 11.412 19 ...the starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment...

Stars and Stripes, n. (1)

    SMC 11.363 23 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.

stars, n. (128)

    Nat 1.7 5 ...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
    Nat 1.7 12 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...
    Nat 1.7 19 The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible;...
    Nat 1.18 5 ...the stars of the dead calices of flowers...contribute something to the mute music.
    Nat 1.19 11 The shows of day...stars...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Nat 1.20 16 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators. So are...all the stars of heaven.
    Nat 1.69 10 The stars have us to bed/...
    AmS 1.84 26 Every day...after sunset, Night and her stars.
    AmS 1.91 17 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    AmS 1.100 23 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men...
    AmS 1.100 26 ...[the scholar]...cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    AmS 1.108 22 [The universal mind] is one light which beams out of a thousand stars.
    AmS 1.114 21 Young men...shined upon by all the stars of God...turn drudges...
    DSA 1.119 9 Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays.
    DSA 1.125 3 ...the silent song of the stars is [the religious sentiment].
    MN 1.202 11 When we...look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever...to... ruin [your rival] with this solemn fop in wig and stars,-the king;-one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.203 13 The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of new stars.
    MN 1.205 21 The great Pan of old...the firmament, his coat of stars,-was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    MN 1.223 4 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    LT 1.260 13 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its crosses, and crescents, and stars and stripes...over every rood of the planet...
    LT 1.266 27 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us...
    LT 1.267 1 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us, and certain stars close up behind us;...
    LT 1.267 7 ...only a few are the fixed stars which have no parallax, or none for us.
    Con 1.324 21 ...the stars in heaven shall glow with a kindlier beam, that I have lived.
    YA 1.395 6 Here stars, here woods, here hills, here animals, here men abound...
    Hist 2.2 2 I am owner of the sphere,/ Of the seven stars and the solar year/...
    Hist 2.26 19 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes...to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    Hist 2.39 13 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars...
    Comp 2.120 1 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
    SL 2.147 26 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl. These are like the stars whose light has not yet reached us.
    SL 2.151 27 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens, one with the revolution of the stars.
    Lov1 2.176 10 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when...the stars were letters...
    Lov1 2.184 26 Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine.
    Fdsp 2.215 15 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit...this spiritual astronomy or search of the stars...
    OS 2.273 22 ...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere.
    OS 2.296 21 [The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars...
    Int 2.323 1 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;/...
    Pt1 3.5 27 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars...
    Pt1 3.10 22 We sat in the aurora of a sunrise which was to put out all the stars.
    Pt1 3.16 21 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    Pt1 3.21 14 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...
    Pt1 3.31 20 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse...the stars fall from heaven...
    Pt1 3.42 19 ...Wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.55 9 When at night I look at the moon and stars, I seem stationary, and they to hurry.
    Chr1 3.87 2 Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:/...
    Chr1 3.111 17 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
    Chr1 3.114 18 ...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
    Nat2 3.173 12 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars...signify it and proffer it.
    Nat2 3.174 10 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    Nat2 3.174 15 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company, but the provocation and point of the invitation came out of these beguiling stars.
    Nat2 3.176 9 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...
    NER 3.257 19 ...we cannot tell our course by the stars...
    PPh 4.50 27 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu; and animals and stars are transient paintings;...
    PPh 4.62 19 As there is a science of stars, called astronomy;...so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    SwM 4.141 7 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains, agreeing with...the rising and setting of autumnal stars.
    NMW 4.237 27 ...the stars were not more punctual than [Napoleon's] arithmetic.
    NMW 4.250 20 ...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    GoW 4.269 16 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky; and the sun and stars were only letters of the same purport and of no more necessity.
    ET5 5.91 3 Sir John Herschel, in completion of the work of his father, who had made the catalogue of the stars of the northern hemisphere, expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...
    ET8 5.131 9 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    ET16 5.274 25 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    F 6.48 10 I do not wonder at...the glory of the stars;...
    Wth 6.83 4 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
    Wth 6.95 22 ...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
    Ctr 6.147 18 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Ctr 6.156 1 Solitude...is to genius...the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
    CbW 6.267 17 In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
    Bty 6.284 3 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...
    Bty 6.297 27 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form with moon and stars...
    Bty 6.305 1 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...flushes of morning and stars of night...
    Ill 6.307 14 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./ See the stars through them,/ Through treacherous marbles./
    Ill 6.307 16 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./
    Ill 6.307 17 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./
    Ill 6.310 15 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...
    Ill 6.310 20 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
    Ill 6.321 22 ...we cannot even see what or where our stars of destiny are.
    SS 7.5 7 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...
    SS 7.8 21 ...the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light...
    DL 7.105 15 [The boy] walks daily among wonders: fire, light, darkness, the moon, the stars...
    DL 7.129 7 ...when men shall meet as they should...each...a shower of falling stars...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    WD 7.155 6 To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms, stars and sky that holds them all./
    WD 7.168 24 Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas. The very stars in their courses wink to them of nuts and cakes...
    WD 7.181 12 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem to measure my tasks...
    Boks 7.204 25 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of Plutarch.
    Boks 7.217 12 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...in stars and mountains...the analogons of our own thoughts...
    Clbs 7.250 18 Discourse...when it lifts us into that mood out of which thoughts come that remain as stars in our firmament, is between two.
    Cour 7.254 15 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician, penetrating the cubic weights of stars, predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    OA 7.331 9 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
    PI 8.25 21 ...[people] like to name the stars;...
    PI 8.39 18 [The poet] knows that he did not make his thought,--no, his thought made him, and made the sun and the stars.
    PI 8.65 12 [Nature] is not proud...of the stars...
    SA 8.83 13 Whilst one man by his manners pins me to the wall, with another I walk among the stars.
    PPo 8.253 1 This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,/ Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!/
    PPo 8.260 17 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    Grts 8.312 8 The day will come...when the eye, which carries in it planetary influences from all the stars, will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.
    SovE 10.196 15 When the stars and sun appear...we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
    SovE 10.202 4 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    Schr 10.263 26 [Intellect] is the power that makes the world incarnated in man, and...setting the north and the south, and the stars in their places.
    Schr 10.288 5 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold. The fire retreats and concentrates within into a pure flame, pure as the stars to which it mounts.
    Plu 10.321 26 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it.
    LLNE 10.336 5 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe, around which the sun and stars revolved every day...
    LLNE 10.336 12 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system, which in turn was too minute to be seen at the distance of many stars which we behold.
    LLNE 10.346 7 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed,-or under the stars, when the farmer denied the shed and the buffalo-robe.
    LLNE 10.348 16 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women...
    MMEm 10.412 17 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow...then, however awed, who can fear?
    MMEm 10.418 21 The moon and stars reproach me, because I [Mary Moody Emerson] had to do with mean fools.
    MMEm 10.422 8 Dissolve the body and the night is gone, the stars are extinguished...
    HDC 11.77 4 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons.
    EWI 11.144 21 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
    TPar 11.292 14 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms it, the stars in their courses...
    SMC 11.351 22 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature,-by day with the changing seasons, by night the stars roll over it gladly...
    EdAd 11.382 8 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
    RBur 11.441 24 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like Goethe, in the stars...
    Scot 11.467 15 Under what rare conjunction of stars was this man [Scott] born, that, wherever he lived, he found superior men...
    PLT 12.7 10 Seek the literary circles, the stars of fame...will they afford me satisfaction?
    PLT 12.9 13 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused, though the stars of heaven must be plucked down and packed into rockets to this end.
    PLT 12.16 1 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    PLT 12.36 9 [Pan] wears a coat of leopard spots or stars.
    PLT 12.45 22 You must formulate your thought or 't is all sky and no stars.
    II 12.76 20 We cannot even see what or where our stars of destiny are.
    CW 12.176 22 A man...should know the hour of the day or night, and the time of the year, by the sun and stars;...
    MLit 12.309 16 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...the stars are white points...
    MLit 12.318 1 There are...sentiments...which are soothed...by the pale stars...
    MLit 12.320 21 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...
    PPr 12.386 9 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes, to the very mountains and stars almost...
    PPr 12.387 21 ...the sun and stars affect us only grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say, Is that all?
    Let 12.397 16 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic village. Every one of the villagers has committed his several blunder; his genius was good, his stars consenting, but he was a marplot.
    Trag 12.407 18 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you count ten stars you will fall down dead;...

Stars, n. (1)

    CL 12.141 11 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject their imagination or influence into the air.

Stars, Seven, n. (2)

    CW 12.175 9 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
    CW 12.175 15 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.

stars, v. (1)

    HDC 11.38 25 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.

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