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Chapter M: =Machine=, the model, 264, 5 (4)

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=Sense=, as deceptive, 473, 5;
and dreams, 337, 41;
and thought, their partitions, 373, 9;
better than loquacity, 261, 23;
common, contrasted with fine, 106, 30;
compared with learning, 236, 28;
good, relation between, and good taste, 83, 51;
higher, ennobling power of, 131, 3;
in confronting evil, 86, 4;
men of, and wit, 467, 5;
native, to be respected, 509, 29;
objects of, not there, 539, 5;
strength, 146, 53;
true, its power, 500, 36;
want of, 3, 20;
want of, and crime, 173, 39

=Senses=, and faith, 99, 56;
avenues to enjoyment, 313, 2;
delusion of, how to annihilate, 186, 45;
man owes to experience, 37, 6;
not deceptive, 453, 13;
origin of, 102, 2;
our, and impressions, 339, 16;
our, planets, 262, 46;
their truthfulness, 66, 16

=Sensibilities=, our, to be cherished, 204, 14

=Sensibility=, effect of, on circumstances, 46, 14;
excessive, 386, 51;
quick, mark of intelligence, 365, 11;
that is true taste, 278, 24;
too much, 497, 46;
without humour, 425, 41

=Sensible=, man, a merely, his value, 7, 44;
man, a, when deceived, 232, 52;
man, most, 551, 42;
the, no novelty, 532, 24

=Sensual= indulgence, effects of, 156, 45

=Sensualist=, body of a, 418, 46

=Sensuality=, always a failure, 90, 47;
an offence to reason, 151, 1;
debasing, 16, 16;
life of, how atoned for, 79, 39;
most potent antidote to, 473, 29;
the evil of, 399, 39

=Sentence=, good, the first quoter of, 297, 43;
understanding _versus_ dissecting, 423, 47;
what gives force to, 207, 38

=Sentences=, our, characterised, 337, 19;
pregnant, 468, 10

=Sentiment=, in women and men, 476, 30;
no expression of, we don't feel, 330, 29;
the sail, 264, 23;
_versus_ action, 91, 52

=Sentimental=, doomed, 453, 14

=Sentimentalism=, a watery, 490, 4

=Sentimentalist=, barren, 416, 47;
the, assiduous, tiresome, 334, 24

=Sentiments=, social, rule for, 244, 13

=Separation=, rule of, 520, 11

=Sequence=, essential to value, 94, 23

=Serenity=, a gift of time, 487, 22;
attainment of, 154, 34;
feigning, 453, 16;
peculiar to man, 416, 9

=Serfdom= in England at present, 472, 4

=Serious=, difficult to master, 496, 34

=Seriousness=, the root of, 340, 15

=Sermon=, criticism of a, 477, 38;
qualities required in, 242, 53

=Sermons=, flowers in, 107, 54; in stones, 408, 20

=Serpent=, shedding its skin, 550, 20;
wisdom of, whence? 455, 4

=Serpent's= brood, no covenant with, 218, 6

=Servant=, a, by nature, advantage of, 198, 32;
a wise, the loss of, 439, 46;
bad, worst part of, 458, 8;
being without a, 491, 1;
how to secure faithful, 177, 35;
negligent, how made, 2, 35;
never, never master, 150, 43;
qualification for, 175, 3;
the duty of, in misfortune, 188, 12

=Servants=, a necessity, 172, 27;
ambition of, 116, 20;
evil of many, 66, 49;
greatest, in a house, 270, 51;
how to regard our, 527, 38;
many, little service, 42, 39
no, without real masters, 559, 45;
of the great, airs of, 136, 49;
that wait on man, 283, 35;
the most abject, 70, 16

=Serve=, what will, fit, 538, 12

=Served=, how to be well, 177, 30, 35, 36;
the best, 37, 51

=Service=, a, that is no slavery, 100, 34;
care or coldness in, 189, 49;
from below upwards, a necessity, 495, 37;
greater than the god, 488, 19;
measure of, 171, 49;
of self, best, 330, 4;
our domestic, 337, 39;
our highest, a watchword, 435, 5;
pride of, a merit, 150, 43;
proffered, 278, 33;
reciprocal, 1, 14;
remuneration for, 532, 1
small, true, 394, 32;
the curse of, 488, 48;
the law of, 184, 41;
value of faithful, 313, 11;
who can do no, as a friend, 532, 14;
with noble ease, 153, 18

=Serving= others, two ways of, 284, 31

=Servitude=, a noble, 263, 34

=Set=, one's own, mistake about, 149, 16

=Settlements=, all, temporary, 472, 31

=Seventeenth= century, how far of worth, 453, 17

=Severity=, compared with love and justice, 285, 13;
our, thought of, at death, 543, 18

=Sex=, either, imperfect, 80, 8;
virtue of, 460, 43

=Shackles=, the, not therefore a slave, 539, 11

=Shade=, we shall fight in, 397, 12

=Shadow=, a, no measuring, 551, 8;
and the sun, 93, 62;
catch not at, 36, 52;
gazing on one's, 269, 28;
dependent on light, 548, 37;
on dial, 453, 49;
failing to grasp a, 195, 9

=Shadows=, clutched at for substances, 162, 44;
kissing, 399, 6;
Nature's, 292, 41

=Shakespeare=, a wonder to nature, 292, 7;
and wayside incidents, 436, 16;
art of, 534, 10;
Ben Jonson on, 149, 25;
characteristic of, 419, 44;
death of, without sign, 415, 37;
harmony of, 454, 29;
how made great, 489, 1;
M. Arnold on, 484, 1;
magic of, 33, 23;
Milton on, 55, 35; 538, 14;
rank among poets, 503, 48;
the player, 465, 14

=Shakespeare's=, critics, Carlyle on, 300, 26;
knowledge, 394, 28;
wit, 311, 54

"=Shall=," same as "can," 35, 1

"=Shalt=," legibility of, 483, 45

"=Shalt, thou=," as a command, how softened, 421, 10

=Shame=, a barrier, 140, 24;
false, 100, 46;
soil of virtue, 197, 20;
the moral virtue of, 289, 24

=Sharpness=, a matter of degree, 330, 40

=Shekinah=, the true, 459, 9

=Shell=, delight in the, 186, 31;
lure to kernel, 333, 18

=Shelter=, the only storm-proof, at present, 66, 28;
though given, to be wrought for, 125, 40;
under an old hedge, 209, 1

=Shepherd=, a good, duty of, 31, 31

=Shepherds=, contrasted with kings, 123, 43

=Sheridan=, a witticism of, 451, 38;
to a creditor, 566, 19

=Sheridan's= self-confidence, 167, 32

=Shiftlessness=, poverty of, 474, 51

=Shine=, how one may fail to, 566, 32

=Ship=, the best captain of a, 551, 39;
with most sail, 453, 23

=Shoe=, benefit of wearing, 197, 11

=Shoes=, old, till new ones, 71, 48

=Shooting=, often, effect of, 325, 31

=Shop=, opening and keeping open, 201, 29

=Short-cuts=, circuitous, 45, 40

=Shortcomings= to be overlooked, 320, 7

=Shot=, a good, 144, 33

"=Should=" and "would" contrasted, 414, 28

=Showy=, the, and the true, 453, 29

=Shrew=, how to chastise, 145, 48

=Shrewdness=, power of, 328, 7

=Shyness=, meaning of so-called, 536, 47

=Sibyl=, impersonation of the prophetic in nature, 291, 26

=Sick= with too much, 109, 18

=Sickness=, amendment after, rare, 105, 19;
mental, how relieved, 65, 15;
poor-spirited, 428, 43

=Sighing=, plague of, 16, 38;
vanity of, 72, 31

=Sighs=, the Bridge of, 300, 28

=Sight=, effect on, of bodily anguish, 558, 24;
great, first impression of, 315, 21;
partial, better than none, 26, 9;
people vainest of their, 202, 52;
point of, not within, 427, 37;
requisites of, 300, 27;
the sense of, 2, 54

=Significant=, and insignificant, diverse estimate of, 55, 5

=Silence=, a, commended, 547, 14;
a necessity, 477, 6;
a preacher, 468, 31;
a Pythagorean, benefit of, 345, 21;
a temple, 457, 5;
a test of sagacity, 20, 26, 30;
a, to be imitated, 243, 27;
to maintain, ability, will, and obligation, 382, 21;
and speech, prompters of, 205, 23;
better than irrelevancy, 29, 40;
better than discourse, 129, 4;
better than propagating error, 170, 8;
confession, 42, 31;
compared with speech, 401, 2; 402, 2;
contrasted with unrestrained talk, 488, 4;
essential for peace, 23, 6;
expressive, 74, 19;
great empire of, fascination of, 253, 13;
in these days preferable to speech, 256, 28;
incapacity for, a misfortune, 39, 17;
its significance, as induced, 490, 2;
misconstrued, 350, 1;
never recorded, 180, 45;
of fools and wise, 235, 12;
often safe course, 235, 14;
or saying better, 28, 24;
power of, 382, 20;
reaping, 152, 20;
rebuke for, 26, 51;
safety of, 19, 27;
sometimes offensive, 526, 10;
tact required for, 378, 45;
the significance of, 144, 8, 13, 14;
the wish of the strong, 397, 27;
tree of, fruit of, 458, 27;
value of, 171, 35; 185, 14;
virtue of, 367, 40;
virtue of the foolish, 227, 35;
virtue there is in, 26, 56;
when a duty, 535, 29

=Silent=, men, and objects to be guarded against, 29, 64, 65;
the noble, 253, 13

=Siller=, want of, 3, 20

=Silver=, love of, 147, 54

=Similes=, always imperfect, 318, 32

=Simple=, more difficult than the complex, 201, 40;
reasonings of, 498, 48

=Simpleton=, a, advice of, 505, 22

=Simplicity=, advantage of faith in, 333, 14;
and beauty, 507, 34;
as a grace, Ben Jonson on, 123, 11;
excellence of, 185, 26;
power of, 360, 11;
rare, 5, 24;
seal of truth, 54, 29; 392, 7

=Sin=, a, confessed, 344, 21;
and misery, 209, 23;
and repentance, experience of, 93, 14;
sundry attitudes to, Fuller on, 146, 12;
burnt into the blood by practice, 453, 40;
each, God-annihilating, 75, 23;
essence of, 425, 33;
evil of, 272, 47;
forsaking all, 148, 39;
found out, 28, 41;
guilt of, dependent on knowledge, 326, 31;
how to avoid, 149, 32;
how to save men from,565, 41;
how to treat, 509, 37;
natural to man, 13, 9;
of hot heart and of cold, 471, 28;
source of all, 116, 14;
that hero atones for, 204, 4;
the unpardonable, 446, 18
thinking about, waste, 481, 21;
truth of, not to be known, 527, 18;
without limits, 375, 18

=Sincerity=, as a virtue, 100, 28;
how to constrain, 55, 33;
simple, commended, 87, 20, 21;
the happiness of, 171, 25;
without simplicity, 269, 33;
years of, 215, 35

=Sing=, how learn to, 252, 1;
I, because I must, 165, 42

=Singer=, the business of, 66, 19

=Singers=, business of, 489, 39;
the general fault of, 328, 37

=Singing=, according to gift, 93, 31;
as an accomplishment, 374, 17;
at work, Carlyle on, 123, 36;
true, worship, 500, 38

=Singularity=, and fashion, 102, 30;
none without, 307, 33;
sign of genius, 133, 22;
taste for, how induced, 222, 40

=Sinned=, more, against than sinning, 164, 29

=Sinner=, a worn out, most denunciatory, 25, 25;
repentance of, joy of gods over, 532, 5

=Sinners=, faintly condemned, 476, 3;
mercy of heaven to, but not fools, 154, 14

=Sinning=, and bearing with the sin different, 105, 6;
occasion for pardon, 384, 24

=Sins=, denied, 310, 30;
Emerson's advice in regard to, 438, 42;
the root of all, 68, 22

=Situation=, to every, its own pleasures, 187, 44

=Sixpence=, virtue in, 553, 19

=Skeleton=, the, our mortal companion, 525, 16

=Skies=, attempt to scale, vain, 322, 7

=Skill=, and exertion, economy of, difficult, 201, 40;
and labour, value of, 94, 35;
compared with strength, 221, 45;
mead of, 497, 19;
not an estimable quantity, 358, 10;
not visible, 516, 16;
power of, 300, 8;
the greatest, 432, 36

=Skin=, a living, blessedness of having, 473, 31;
a, natural to all living, 9, 54

=Sky=, who aims at the, 392, 51

=Slackness= breeds worms, 243, 18

=Slain=, the, thrice he slew, 399, 37

=Slander=, comfort under, 547, 6;
lives upon succession, 111, 6;
not to be believed, 27, 31;
provocation under, 490, 36;
to good man, 395, 30;
world's delight in, 226, 15

=Slave=, a, defined, 150, 39;
a freedom allowed, 62, 2;
a heaven-made, irredeemable, 553, 38;
as regards reason, 148, 53;
at heart, not free, 180, 4;
born to be, 25, 58;
fetters of, 427, 34;
if I'm
designed yon lordling's, 172, 42;
none, with will free, 306, 6

=Slave-driving=, two kinds of, 399, 1

=Slave-holding=, effect of, 51, 52;
enslaving, 177, 8

=Slaves=, all, 522, 17;
master of, 441, 34;
men who are, 478, 52;
the greatest, 311, 14;
virtue of, 103, 43

=Slavery=, act of will, 114, 17;
bitter, 69, 19;
but one, 476, 23;
defined, 471, 13;
in the heart, 560, 11;
not abolishable by Parliament, 565, 28;
only deliverance from, 96, 19;
our, self-imposed, 339, 21;
spiritual, 8, 26;
the distinguishing sign of, 424, 3;
the greatest, 387, 36;
the one intolerable, 445, 38

=Sleep=, a gentle thing, 322, 5, 6;
a palliative, 246, 45;
and his brother Death, 163, 2;
at midday, 281, 10;
death's counterfeit, 388, 6;
gift of God to His beloved, 142, 33;
in smoky cribs, 555, 14;
inventor of, blessed, 30, 47;
no, where care, 36, 4;
of rustic men, 399, 24;
of the labouring man, 453, 43;
our, when deepest, 162, 44;
rule for, 387, 8;
Shakespeare on, 258, 28;
tired Nature's sweet restorer, 487, 34;
when I am drowsy, 165, 22

=Sleepers=, and awake, alike watched over, 125, 41;
the, to whom life is a dream, 531, 24

=Sleeping=, the, and the dead, 453, 44

=Slippery= places, standing on, 148, 28

=Sloth=, a thrall to, 147, 24;
and poverty, 103, 14;
evil of, 107, 36;
misery entailed by, 117, 22

=Slothful= and waster, 142, 5

=Sluggard= in his own conceit, 453, 48

=Sluggishness= and stupidity, 103, 15

=Slugs=, men once, 526, 13

=Small=, connected with great, importance of, 394 34;
people, the talk of, 65, 11;
things, man who scorns, 441, 20;
things, not to be despised, 342, 14

=Smallest= space, fruitful, 556, 9

=Smile=, a, a test of character, 399, 19;
a broad, after a frown, 19, 61, 62;
from a superior, 566, 38;
or laugh, effect of, on a man, 542, 16;
the virtue in a, 94, 56

=Smiles=, characters of, 466, 41

=Smiling= in self-mockery, 385, 33

=Smith=, a poor, 143, 9

=Smoke=, and flame, interchangeable, 203, 10;
consuming one's, a first lesson, 491, 24;
convertible power of, 307, 13;
to be emitted only as fire, 472, 48;
when to consume and when to emit, 456, 14;
where fire, 107, 18

=Snail=, the, in its shell, 454, 3

=Sneer=, malicious, 440, 17

=Snob=, Thackeray's definition of a, 567, 35, 37

=Snow=, statues of, 522, 32

=Soaring=, no, without wings, 180, 11

=Sobriety=, how secured, 81, 42;
the virtue of, 403, 33

=Sociability=, how produced, 344, 49;
risky, 199, 23;
source of, 483, 35

=Social=, evils, nature of, 215, 32;
hive, drones and busy bees of, 531, 25;
intercourse, advantage of, 527, 30;
procedure, all, dependent on finding and installing the able man, 106, 22;
ties that warp from truth, 51, 50

=Socialism=, alpha and omega of, 416, 2;
charges against, 468, 1;
defined, 519, 7

=Sociality=, the foundation of, 396, 1

=Societies=, insecure, 467, 28

=Society=, a church, in one of three predicaments, 90, 28;
advantage of, 397, 21, 22;
based on religion, 340, 20;
bases of, 427, 13;
collectively representing culture, 20, 2;
composition of, 163, 30;
condition of, 549, 35;
contingent on mutual dupery, 277, 20;
conversation in, 47, 43;
dependence of, on religion, 307, 14;
effect of, 397, 23;
family ideal of, 338, 41;
fatal, 397, 23;
fine, no help in, 488, 51;
good, advantage of, 77, 7;
great hope of, 431, 21;
how possible, 335, 1;
importance of, to a man, 205, 16;
in birth-pangs, 457, 29;
no, without flattery, 173, 35;
only one great, 476, 14;
relation of, to humanity, 121, 56;
rules of, nothing, 378, 31;
the basis of, 105, 38; 372, 15;
the best, 397, 25, 28;
the bonds of, 396, 4;
the upper and under currents of, 460, 10;
the vital element in, 451, 7;
whence its regeneration, 451, 5;
without justice, 559, 37

=Socrates=, and Christ, 420, 16;
and Christ, difference between, 423, 33;
equanimity of, 63, 42;
Milton of, 554, 3;
of himself, 396, 40

=Soil=, weed-producing, value of, 21, 4

=Soldier=, brave, the aim of, 24, 33;
effect of use on, 509, 36;
his ultimate and perennial office, 454, 7;
inspiring effect of courage of, 48, 66;
no, without war, 520, 32;
profession of, 107, 11;
trade of, its nature and honourableness, 454, 6;
without good-breeding, 452, 27

=Soldier's=, honour, 515, 37;
prize and wealth, 109, 43

=Soldiers=, baptized in fire, Napoleon on, 545, 16;
Napoleon on, 465, 26;
two kinds of, 468, 11

=Solidarity=, instance of, 453, 52;
of life, 474, 52

=Solitude=, at times best society, 111, 7;
defined, 558, 36;
how we endure, 523, 19;
its safety, 476, 27;
its unknown nature and extent, 251, 11;
life of, in a crowd, 201, 24;
love or dislike of, 12, 51;
necessary for all great work, 3, 35;
or solitariness not good for man, 203, 50;
or vulgarity, our choice, 465, 12;
painful, 64, 9;
perpetual effect of, 346, 34;
power of, on mind, 189, 53;
risk of, 30, 43;
the incapable of, 560, 21;
the virtue in, 531, 14;
true, Byron on, 279, 3;
unnatural, to be abandoned, 81, 24;
who prepared for, 405, 52;
why intolerable, 206, 28;
within, 420, 28

=Solomon=, felicities of, the record of, 447, 19

=Something= _versus_ nothing, 89, 3

=Son=, a, how to enrich, 461, 30;
a, legacy to, 22, 17;
love for, 38, 29;
the best, 418, 2

=Song=, an old, 163, 6;
ascensive forces of, 99, 58;
effect of, contrasted with eloquence, 80, 50;
gift of, 125, 46;
great, sincere, 9, 41;
in own reward, 170, 10;
sacred, love of, 109, 27;
the end of everything, 498, 35;
the meaning of, 194, 14;
the power of, 20, 5; 36, 24, 25; 37, 30;
when great, 133, 40;
without ear of taste, 537, 21

=Songs=, our sweetest, 525, 29

=Sophistry=, entangling power of, 398, 24

=Sophists=, effect of their teaching on Church, 239, 26

=Sorrow=, a sign of nobleness, 450, 23;
a teacher, 150, 44;
akin to course of things, 476, 36;
and fear, associated with melancholy, 103, 31;
and joy, 213, 27, 28, 37, 41, 42, 46, 50, 51, 52;
as a teacher, 334, 47;
consecrated in Christ, 524, 42;
contrasted with happiness, 139, 42;
disappearance of, under love, 86, 34;
each present, absorbing, 75, 22;
effect of time on, 318, 36;
effect of, worse than giddiness, 231, 12;
ennobled by Christianity, 42, 53; 43, 3;
for loss of fortune, 539, 12;
give, words, 123, 26;
gnarling, mocked at, 124, 43;
how to treat, 528, 29;
involves joy, 114, 48;
knowledge, 136, 36;
over the dead, effect of, 444, 32;
path of, 447, 10;
real, hard to detect, 369, 15;
self-incurred, 153, 28;
shared, 20, 7;
sign of deep, 422, 46
sympathy of, 456, 37;
tears of, fruit of, 94, 13;
the eloquence of, 391, 38;
the first great, 472, 25;
the triumph of, 42, 53, 56;
vanity of, 531, 10;
violence of, how to tame, 511, 30;
what underlies all, 506, 22;
while there is hope, 550, 21

=Sorrow's=, crown of sorrow, 20, 6;
fell, tooth, 104, 27

=Sorrows=, a fire at which we warm our hands, 249, 37;
all, healed by heaven, 75, 48;
associated with pleasure, 409, 11;
desperate, 100, 35;
each condition its own, 82, 55;
how they come, 545, 18;
lighter than cares, 36, 9;
little and great, 251, 19;
never wanting, 212, 20;
not to be complained of, 543, 28;
of earth, in eye of heaven, 474, 5;
of yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow compared, 454, 11;
our, like thunder-clouds, 339, 18;
part of the divine plan, 89, 23;
small and great, effect of, 19, 55;
soothed by friendship, 319, 10;
source of, 11, 13;
true easing of, 503, 31;
vanished, soul-quickening, 48, 59;
we must bear, 468, 18

=Soul=, a fresh, breeding, 491, 10;
a great, 184, 13;
a man's, his mightiest possession, 297, 42;
a noble, to the vulgar, 421, 12;
a precious, 168, 19;
a reality, 262, 25;
a strong, mark of, 346, 30;
a strong, to be prayed for, 112, 47;
a strong, works of, 307, 16;
a sweet and virtuous, never gives, 334, 43;
a true, first trial questions of, 141, 34;
a, with unsubdued passions, 535, 22;
active, the one thing of value, 445, 40;
an enigma to itself, 361, 30;
an inmate, 551, 37;
and body mutually helpful, 9, 35;
and love, co-operating or disjoined, 253, 50;
as God, unchangeable, 75, 45;
beautiful, finding, a gain, 79, 5;
black speck in every, 469, 21;
cannot be killed, 402, 6;
independent of counsel, 62, 37;
depth of, approved, 430, 19;
depths in, 466, 36;
effect on, of chastening, 48, 5;
elevation of, 537, 14;
excellence and greatness of, in what seen, 223, 13;
fiery, effect of, on body, 5, 44;
frequent contrast of body and, 8, 41;
gives form to body, 325, 14;
immortality of, Goethe's faith in, 164, 43;
great, invulnerable but for compassion, 506, 39;
greatness of, a mark of, 81, 2;
greatness of revelations of, 26, 63;
his, entrusted to each man, 127, 52;
how it regards all it loves, 325, 6;
how rendered great, 162, 9;
human, a bird born in a cage, 436, 4;
immortality of, proof of, 494, 26;
in sick body, 533, 21;
indispensable, 179, 23;
individual, union it should seek, 436, 30;
indolence of, evil of, 107, 30;
its greatness, 482, 25;
its integrity, sacred, 314, 37;
its palace, 6, 63;
its spiritual position, 95, 13;
largest, of a country, 438, 1;
life of, 75, 26; 487, 3;
like a star apart, 486, 9;
man's, an unspeakable subject, 162, 14;
man's, like water, 385, 11;
man's mightiest possession, 324, 37;
mystery in connection with, 263, 20;
no kindling of, without soul, 162, 26;
noble and ignoble, in prosperity contrasted, 171, 32;
noble, fairest fortune to, 61, 5;
of man, presence-chamber of Highest, 202, 40;
one's anxiety about, 13, 46;
one's own, 94, 12;
our, our own, 94, 12;
poorest, wishes of, 448, 30;
sad, in merry company, 379, 14;
salvation of, sole motive of religion, 152, 31;
sayings about, 454,14-27;
secret of, inexpressible by words, 308, 3;
sick, its physician, 65, 14;
sickness of, common cause of, 325, 30;
so situated that it may emancipate itself, 126, 8;
sanctuary of, 18, 36;
source of events, 472, 33;
strength of, true to its high trust, 133, 42;
strength without greatness of, 385, 12;
strenuous and success, 21, 2;
that strives and sins, misery of, 539, 13;
the, no coercing, 33, 36
the, everything, 352, 39;
the, great and plain, 133, 41;
the, indivisible, 413, 5;
the, mirror of, 426, 29;
the sole reality, 446, 20;
the window of, 426, 31;
the true strength of, 459, 10;
thrift of having, 2, 55;
unbelief in the richness of, 523, 13;
virtuous and sensuous, 461, 3;
want of the, 233, 8;
without fixed purpose, 222, 8;
without reflection, 20, 9;
youth of, 466, 3

=Soul's=, grandeur, in what revealed, 312, 32;
the, emphasis right, 540, 1

=Souls=, all, forfeit once, 554, 43;
at work in stinted body, 194, 13;
the, Cicero on, 284, 6;
common, contrasted with nobler, 45, 21;
dear to God, 33, 25;
feeble, how they fail, 104, 4;
fine, _versus_ fine society, 488, 51;
generous, weakness of, 120, 6;
godlike, forbidden fleshly gratification, 128, 21;
great, characterised, 238, 23;
great, endurance of, 136,48;
great (see =Great souls=);
hard to discern, 391, 26;
lessons taught to, incommunicable, 484, 42;
little, shifty, 251, 36;
men's, the poles of 277, 30;
noble, do nothing by halves, 298, 17;
our chief concern, 568, 27;
our, far-seeing, 339, 19;
privileged, Frederick the Great on, 237, 45;
pure, crushed to death, 468, 19;
related, division among, a sad riddle, 414, 8;
sad, Dante's, 222, 22;
small, authors of great evils, 276, 19;
strong, related, 10, 25;
to be saved, and souls not, 154, 15;
to whom God manifests Himself, 127, 20;
twin, 467, 39;
yearning, appeal to, 518, 14

=Sovereigns=, a weakness of, 407, 48

=Sovereignty= and learning, 236, 35

=Sowing=, and reaping, 8, 32;
compared with reaping, 379, 19;
necessary to reaping, 149, 5

=Space=, and time, a dream, 402, 3;
and time, as interests, 424, 41;
and time, but creations of God, 486, 26;
and time, do not belong to the eternal world, 293, 24

=Spared=, better, a better man, 165, 32

=Sparing= and spending, in due measure, 557, 32

=Spark=, neglected, 20, 10

=Sparks=, and the light they give, 14, 12

=Sparrow=, providence in fall of, 477, 47

=Spartan= mother to her son, 87, 35

=Spartans=, the, Emerson on, 335, 8

=Speak=, injunction to, 523, 7;
well, advantage of ability to, 198, 34;
well, how to, 565, 26

=Speaker=, fine, who does not speak the truth, 555, 30

=Speaking=, a master of, 93, 56;
a rule of, 567, 11;
condition of, 305, 23;
evil from, 116, 7;
good, condition of, 506, 4;
in childhood, 190, 17;
man, contrasted with silent, 42, 20;
men, soul of all worth in, 189, 27;
much and to the point, 205, 9;
much or seldom, significance of, 151, 17;
rule in, 381, 18;
rule of, 141, 37; 274, 45
sowing, 152, 20;
well, 362, 6;
what is implied in, 334, 40;
what is wanted in, 313, 20;
what one likes, 152, 11;
without thinking, 138, 24

=Spécialité=, a, desirable, 141, 32

=Species=, Cuvier's definition of, 20, 11

=Speck=, black, in every soul, 469, 21

=Spectacles=, behind which is no eye, 441, 3;
ugliest of, 506, 26

=Speculation=, among practical men, 189, 14;
contrasted with practice, 355, 2;
Goethe on the man of, 5, 34;
limit of, a wise man's, 199, 48;
no, in those eyes, 307, 18;
not man's end, 266, 18;
our proneness to, 331, 6;
tendency of, 174, 5

=Speculations=, effect of time on, 486, 33

=Speech=, a knavish, by whom entertained, 7, 47;
and fact, gulf between, 401, 1;
and silence, 370, 44, 45;
and thought, 484, 42;
as a sign, 437, 29;
combined with song, 10, 22;
compared with action, 402, 42;
contrasted with silence, 391, 28, 33;
corruption in, bad sign, 549, 17;
discretion of, 69, 10;
disguise of thought, 182, 22;
effect of, to a soul holy and true, 545, 19;
fair, 1, 9;
flattering, 273, 2;
freedom of, risky, 341, 2;
Goethe's rule in regard to, 519, 30;
good, what underlies all, 506, 23;
hour of, 253, 18;
indiscreet, 148, 25;
kind, power of, 150, 13;
like a tangled chain, 157, 12;
modern, theme of, 38, 17;
motive of most, 330, 35;
not safe, when one would be silent, 303, 29;
often matter of regret, 224, 9;
pungency of, how to attain, 177, 29;
rarer than song, 79, 2;
right naming, 313, 4;
rule of, 308, 23; 519, 14;
rule for, 244, 14; 382, 19; 481, 4;
rules for, 400, 39-45, 50, 51, 55; 401, 1;
subservient to action, 553, 36;
the best, contrasted with thought, 392, 26;
the bond of society, 317, 12;
the dial-plate of thought, 320, 33;
the greatest virtue of, 336, 9;
to be sparing, and good, 100, 29;
to be weighed, 42, 45;
to conceal thought, 226, 34;
to purpose, tact required for, 378, 45

=Speeches=, fine, of knaves or fools, 106, 31;
long, a bore, 92, 26

=Spenser=, characteristic of, 419, 44

=Spending=, before earning, 148, 27;
economy in, 165, 13;
more difficult than earning, 76, 45;
much, and gaining little, 495, 46;
the use of, 376, 12

=Spendthrift=, the, 357, 47;
with others' property, 201, 25

=Sphere=, chosen for one, 295, 32;
limit of one's view, 241, 26

=Sphinx-riddle=, of the day, to whom insoluble, 150, 14

=Spinoza=, Novalis on, 131, 4

=Spirit=, a drop of, not water, the thing wanted, 534, 14;
a man of, 511, 34;
a soaring, 2, 63;
a worthy and generous, sign of, 199, 38;
and nature, 454, 34;
and reason, two aspects of one thing, 414, 37;
architect of body, 86, 2;
confining power of, 94, 7;
constructive power of, 94, 6;
debauchery of, 85, 30;
defined, 54, 16;
hard to keep, pure, 395, 35;
he that ruleth his, 147, 19;
how to warm one's, 519, 2;
in which we act, highest matter, 59, 57;
indigenous, 60, 2;
instance of elevation of, 54, 11;
listening to voices of the, 144, 42;
men of, characteristic of, 319, 17;
oppressed by matter, 58, 19;
power of, over nature, 290, 27; 291, 47;
presence of, as remedy, 514, 14;
small, impotent against a greater, 307, 12;
sovereign in moral world, 246, 1;
swifter than body, 3, 11;
task of, 454, 39;
the alone born of, 303, 7;
the genuine, characterised, 59, 49;
the interpreter of action, 3, 47;
the mysterious ways of, 454, 31;
the only possession of, 303, 7;
the organ of revelation, 538, 11;
the, sayings about, 454 31-35;
the striving, drawn to truth, 197, 1;
the sword of, 404, 10;
the, within, 533, 22;
the work of, idle questioning about, 508, 33;
to be under rule, 15, 31;
versus flesh, 454, 34;
versus letter, 438, 44;
we love, ever mysteriously with us, 539, 1;
who hath no rule over his, 146, 51;
wilful gloominess of, 171, 27;
without body, 474, 22;
witnessed to by nature, 290, 26

=Spirits=, art in binding, 218, 20;
dangerous to fraternise with, 119, 24;
evil, and the light, 311, 37;
from the vasty deep, 165, 17;
great and little, their errors, 7, 7;
great, power of, over love, 135, 10;
how tried, 98, 10;
locking out, 533, 22;
no art in freeing, 218, 20;
noble, and the dead, 308, 14;
stirring, 403, 15;
to be tried, 27, 32;
victory, source of, 23, 38

=Spiritual=, and sensual, mediator between, 287, 8;
chemistry, mixtures of, 442, 35;
death, in this epoch, 331, 9;
denial of, in man, 416, 47;
in man determining power, 207, 4;
leaders of the race, 533, 38;
man judge and not judged, 147, 21;
man, mysterious ways of, 454, 31;
man, the, and his world, 454, 44;
heavens, the phenomena of, how produced, 191, 18;
nature of man, one and indivisible, 267, 7;
opportunity thrown away, 176, 4;
problem resolved by Christ, 454, 45;
sovereignty of, 262, 25;
power, denial of a test, 190, 15;
the, sayings about, 454, 41-43; 456, 1, 2;
universe, in what it exists, 462, 14;
universe, the laws of, 454, 46;
virtue, perfection of, 447, 27;
word, influence of, 79, 10

=Spiritually-minded=, to be, 490, 39

=Spirit-world=, not shut, 64, 22

=Splendour unseen=, 145, 10

=Spontaneity=, destroyed by analysis, 14, 17

=Sport=, perfection of faculty, 438, 7;
tedious, 171, 42

=Spring=, days of, 568, 38;
the, when apprehensible, 455, 4

=Spur=, a, in head, 20, 19;
no, to prick the sides of my intent, 167, 6

=St. Christopher and Christ=, 205, 46

=St. Francis=, the order of, rules of, 497, 4

=St. Martin=, faith of, 506, 35

=St. Paul's=, its builders and architect, 403, 18;
the builder of, 534, 20

=Stage=, man on the, 331, 16

=Stagnation=, enjoyment impossible in, 565, 42

=Stags with lion for leader=, 112, 35

=Standing=, high, the risk of, 479, 48;
still, no, 116, 2

=Stanzas=, ill-polished, advice as to, 88, 25

=Star=, a, a good steed, 81, 26;
guiding, takes an astronomer to catch a, 81, 26;
one's, to be followed, 383, 44;
the greatest, 432, 38;
without haste, without rest, 556, 2

=Stars=, as gems on God's mantle, 200, 40;
but hid to reappear, 419, 18;
Byron's apostrophe to, 564, 22;
companions of solitude, 171, 28;
for money, 538, 36;
hid by heaven's own light, 311, 55;
hide heads diminished, 22, 20;
road to, not easy, 309, 31;
sayings about, 455, 5-7;
the, Carlyle on, 162, 41;
the eternal, there, 426, 7;
two, different spheres of, 504, 6;
way to the, 258, 35

=Start=, early, 75, 35

=State=, a, at its greatest, 20, 41;
a, the fate of, guided by unintelligence, 414, 9;
a, worth in, 465, 36;
affairs of, the question in, 53, 11;
cloth of, may be mean, 165, 27;
construction and destruction of, 21, 43;
effects of prudence and enthusiasm on, 450, 5;
element of greatness of, 449, 25;
health of a, condition of, 433, 26;
in danger, Carlyle on, 455, 8;
its relation to citizen, 455, 9;
life of a, like a stream, 54, 13;
misfortune in, 442, 34;
no, now purely self-derived, 392, 22;
quality of heart of, 223, 10;
the, false ambition in, 191, 20;
the, Louis XIV.'s definition of, 223, 9;
the, purpose of, 492, 7;
the safeguards of a, 309, 39;
what constitutes a, 534, 37

=States=, how lost, 330, 19;
in, unborn and accents unknown, 161, 39

=Statesman=, a, out of harness, 167, 40;
and politician contrasted, 455, 10;
proper study of, 20, 43;
two qualities of, 504, 3

=Statesmanship=, true, 500, 39

=Statesmen=, cobblers, 279, 46;
minds of some, 442, 27

=Station=, a freak of fortune, 96, 61;
high, a low-bred man in, 20, 13;
high, when appreciated, 156, 33

=Stations of eminence=, 81, 28, 29

=Statue=, a, without tongue, 246, 32;
the light on, no anxiety, 71, 36

"=Steal, thou shalt not=," comprehensiveness of, 331, 27

=Stealing=, akin to lying, 258, 17;
sayings about, 148, 29, 30; 152, 23

=Steel=, true as, 287, 50

=Step=, a false, effect of, 171, 48;
a man's greatest, in life, 60, 7;
first difficult, 38, 2;
first expensive, 180, 29;
one wrong, 334, 36;
the hardest, 432, 17

=Stepping-stones=, rising on, of dead selves, 167, 19

=Stewards=, heaven-elected, 273, 35

=Still=, people dangerous, 238, 21;
waters, danger of, 241, 37

=Stoic=, sayings about, 455, 13, 14

=Stoicism=, sayings about, 455, 15, 16

=Stomach=, a hungry, not fastidious, 212, 24

=Stone=, a rolling, 18, 21;
a white, 7, 67;
refused by builders, 455, 18

=Stones= thrown only at fruit-loaded trees, 330, 15

=Stoning=, different kinds of, 197, 30

=Stoop= to rise, 395, 37

=Stores=, best of, 403, 20

=Stories=, gulling power of, 298, 3

=Storm= and a master-spirit, 441, 35

=Story-telling=, mark of mediocrity, 224, 16;
the habit of, 199, 11;
the least supportable, 324, 22

=Straightforward=, hard to walk, 190, 38

=Straightforwardness=, effect of, 498, 16

=Strain=, it had a dying fall, 414, 11

=Stranded=, nothing ever, 314, 28

=Strange= better than troublesome, 29, 33

=Straws=, knotting, rather than nothing, 29, 30

=Stream=, prudence before crossing, 42, 16

=Streams=, shallow, run dimpling, 88, 2

=Strength=, admired by women, 67, 8;
assurance of, 386, 2;
cause of loss of, 56, 62;
course of, 443, 31;
innate, 10, 23;
not equal to desire, 65, 13;
not to be divided, 526, 36;
one's, ignorance of, 11, 31;
our, measure of, 200, 51;
our, secret of, 339, 24; 522, 2;
popular estimate of, 55, 1;
property in the, we have overcome, 520, 32;
superior, with right, 407, 3;
the secret of, 46, 4; 190, 39;
the determining element of, 313, 24;
varieties of, sources of, 455, 27;
without wisdom, 537, 8

=Strife=, anti-Christian, 242, 28;
genders strife, 250, 31;
more interest in, than victory, 184, 33;
to be left off, 417, 23

=Stringed= instruments, sayings about, 455, 28, 29

=Striving=, and forgetting, 111, 42;
eager, from ignorance, 317, 8;
praying, 28, 7

=Stroke=, a transmitted, still a stroke, 455, 30

=Strokes=, power of repeated, 155, 5

=Strong=, and unsound contrasted, 450, 44;
for the weak, 455, 34;
men, the faith of, 388, 25;
not independent of help, 399, 33;
the, love life, 10, 24

=Stronger=, contending with, 424, 41

=Strongest=, right with, 61, 26

=Stubbornness=, how to meet, 18, 52;
how to treat, 4, 65

=Student=, brooding, Wordsworth to, 509, 16;
diligent, solitary, 397, 24;
the life of a, 378, 42;
the one virtue of a, 68, 27

=Students=, ill-behaved, as preachers, 63, 49

=Studies=, for ornament, 496, 38;
how regarded by different classes, 49, 33;
learned, the value of, 139, 1;
what of our, we retain, 528, 10

=Study=, ennobling, 467, 21;
evermore overshot, 395, 26;
how to enter on a, 186, 31;
importance of, 200, 48;
much, a weariness, 327, 7;
the effect of, 394, 9;
the use of, 407, 2;
what should be our chief, 324, 31;
without genius, 78, 7

=Stuff=, we are made of, 522, 18

=Stumbling-block=, man must have a, 111, 37;
not to be laid, 384, 33

=Stupid=, class, the, 471, 15;
the, no novelty, 532, 24

=Stupidity=, and indolence, 193, 31;
and sluggishness, 103, 15;
deadening effect of, 161, 8;
dreadful, 434, 28;
invincible to the gods, 281, 1;
our one enemy, 445, 35;
penalty of, 412, 43;
with sound digestion, power of, 558, 46

=Style=, a fine, characteristic of, 541, 4;
a natural, our pleasure in, 362, 7;
a noble, condition of, 554, 30;
a rugged, 166, 29;
after a model, 94, 11;
copy of mind, 119, 43;
dependent on mind, 456, 1;
every man has his, 92, 4;
fastidiousness about, 543, 2;
how to write a grand, 119, 43;
how to write a lucid, 119, 43;
master of, mark of, 211, 52;
Swift's definition of, 358, 5;
the man, 235, 17;
two great faults of, 358, 15

=Subject=, adherence to, 217, 38;
the power of the, 33, 32;
will of, wanton restraint of, 95, 9

=Subjects=, difficult, novel and profound, how to treat, 528, 34

=Sublime=, an instance of, 72, 46;
from, to ridiculous, 74, 40;
moment in man's life, 12, 31;
nature of, 167, 29;
of man, the, 489, 7;
sayings about, 456, 4-9;
step from, to ridiculous, 334, 12;
the truly, 459, 18

=Sublimest= spectacle, the, in the world, 405, 19

=Sublimity=, contrasted with humour, 164, 7;
in child and maiden, 249, 14

=Subordinates=, need of, 329, 11

=Subsistence=, man's sure, 265, 35;
Mirabeau on three means of, 211, 6

=Substance=, discriminated from accident, 2, 45;
for shadow, 36, 53;
my, is not here, 305, 31;
the only real, 446, 20

=Substitute= in absence of the king, 21, 9

=Succeeding=, best way of, 565, 7

=Success=, a condition of, 5, 39; 209, 35;
a diagnosis required for, 495, 53;
a dream, 72, 49;
a result, 159, 33;
a secret of, 271, 57;
by failure, 99, 27;
condition of, 12, 36;
conditions of, 149, 7;
Danton on the secret of, 38, 11;
desert of, thing to aim at, 488, 27;
encouragement from, 160, 37;
ever tinged with sadness, 210, 21;
failure of, reason of, 201, 46;
first essential of, 495, 44;
first secret of, 386, 15;
great secret of, 493, 34;
honoured, 89, 10;
how missed, 456, 26;
how to attain, 177, 43;
how won, 330, 25;
in need of consolation, 89, 30;
nothing succeeds like, 316, 39;
secret of, 452, 46, 48, 49; 476, 6;
the effect of, on our judgment, 138, 32;
the greatest, 432, 39;
the parent of, 193, 36;
two ways to, 468, 3;
worldly, glare of, 469, 36;
worldly, Queen Elizabeth on, 479, 24

=Successes= often disappointments, 277, 23

=Succour=, angelic, 162, 12;
from above, when sure, 563, 24

=Suddenness=, the shock from, 88, 14

=Suffer=, to, and be strong, sublime, 219, 52

=Sufferance=, badge of Jew, 111, 8

=Sufferer=, the greatest, not always best, 298, 6

=Suffering=, acute, of short duration, 520, 6;
compulsory, 381, 22;
contrasted with happiness, 139, 40;
effect of, on native character, 314, 11;
general, a sign of general immorality, 119, 40;
human, cause of, 267, 31;
human, root of, 134, 39;
law of, 443, 9;
necessary to being, 489, 45;
nothing singular in, 326, 39;
often in apprehension, 350, 8;
our lot, 206, 25;
protection from, 517, 31;
remembrance of, 361, 9;
sole remedy for, 111, 9;
the effect of, 335, 9;
vicarious, 428, 24

=Sufferings=, another's, judging of, 202, 32;
light, test of, 244, 33;
our, tutors, 342, 52;
superiority to, 475, 2

=Sufficiency=, a moderate, 27, 55

=Suffrage=, universal, questionableness of, 507, 38

=Sullenness=, an attribute of things, 480, 34

=Summit=, of power, man at, 116, 30;
the, reached by climbing, 34, 11

=Summons=, the, that arouses a man, 284, 16

=Sun=, a type of Jesus, 483, 33;
and shadow it casts, 546, 6;
beautifying power of, 26, 21;
-clear, the, no arguing against, 4, 72;
down, while yet day, 155, 3;
extinction of, effect of, 415, 10;
looks on all alike, 453, 8;
never sets on my dominions, 170, 5;
not to be economically viewed, 530, 2;
on evil and good, 144, 28;
real or spiritual, condition of love for, 565, 36;
spots, vulgar judgment of, 422, 19;
splendour of brief, 89, 29;
the rising, Mirabeau to, 390, 4;
the, no liar, 397, 13;
the power of, 319, 21;
the real and the spiritual, defined, 565, 36;
the, sayings about, 456, 16-21;
there, though concealed, 89, 35;
things that love, 10, 58;
who soars too near, 552, 34

=Sunbeam=, incorruptible purity of, 21, 11

=Sunlight=, our dependence on, 204, 9

=Sun-setting=, a bright, 520, 19;
effect of, 396, 49

=Suns= that shine at night, 334, 14

=Sunshine=, from, to sunless land, 161, 15;
those who bring us, 483, 3

=Superfluities=, folly of pursuit of, 397, 44

=Superfluous=, necessary, 235, 18

=Superior=, and inferior, law of, 198, 19;
man, way of, 461, 21;
without subjection to, no rest, 125, 6

=Superiority=, condition of, 554, 9;
contrasted with majority, 260, 15;
manifestation of, price of, 441, 25;
the art of attaining, 233, 32;
the condition of, 147, 23

=Supernatural=, Horace on introduction of, into composition, 293, 33;
the, the source and goal of all things, 554, 31;
the, to a child, 315, 44;
true region of, 396, 33

=Superstition=, effect of, contrasted with atheism, 21, 32;
compared with fanaticism, 101, 40;
defined, 569, 41;
effect of science on, 544, 20;
Frederick the Great on Voltaire's raid against, 555, 29;
its power over us, 456, 25;
obstinacy of, 468, 7;
rather than unbelief, 166, 25;
the basis of, 53, 3;
the worst, 465, 33;
those opposed to, 479, 31;
weakness of, 11, 20;
where sure to be found, 402, 43

=Supper=, Holy, observance of, 435, 25

=Suppliants= at preferment's gate, 508, 14

=Surfeit=, mortality from, 286, 17;
suffering from, 19, 58;
they that, with too much, 478, 44

=Surgeon=, good, qualifications of, 6, 56;
young, 212, 48

=Suspicion=, a life of, 147, 40;
the evil of, 400, 27

=Suspiciou=s man, a, 41, 31

=Swallow=, the, wheeling, 553, 3

=Swallow-flights=, short, of song, 389, 32

=Swan of Avon=, sweet, 149, 25

=Swearer=, the cheap, 420, 3

=Swedenborg=, the mourner, 465, 14

=Sweet=, and bitter, common source of, 116, 29;
no, without sweat, 302, 23;
the fate of everything, 513, 21

=Sweetness=, fleeting, 88, 41;
versus asperity, 4, 55

=Swift's= epitaph, 504, 35

=Sword=, and pen compared, 27, 51;
and the right, 456, 36;
good, in poor scabbard, 130, 13;
leaden, in ivory scabbard, 7, 72;
striking with, 148, 31

=Swordsman=, a good, 31, 28

=Sworn= foe to sorrow, care, or prose, 167, 23

=Sybarite=, the, and his body, 315, 23

=Symbol=, new, a welcome gift, 473, 30;
the idea of a, 184, 23

=Symbolic=, everything, 10, 55

=Symbols=, who works merely with, defined, 152, 48

=Sympathy=, and pleasure, effects of, 349, 32;
flower of life, 502, 12;
in ordinary life, rare, 385, 34;
indifference to, 316, 24;
power of, 281, 9; 319, 11; 390, 40;
secret of, 253, 14;
with lowest, power of, 153, 10;
with spirit of man, significance of, 548, 46

=Systems=, only words, 534, 9

T

=Taciturnity=, commended, by Burns, 235, 42;
where to learn, 332, 45

=Tact=, and perseverance, value of, 346, 40;
contrasted with talent, 409, 48;
importance of, 559, 45

=Taking= out and never putting in, 4, 43

=Tale=, a round, unvarnished, 251, 28;
an oft-told, 369, 4;
he cometh with a, 142, 16;
I could a, untold, 165, 31;
plainly told, 15, 18;
spoiled in telling, 307, 23

=Tale-bearer=, words of, 463, 44

=Talent=, a, to be guarded against, 528, 31;
all, moral, 10, 27;
and character, how formed respectively, 85, 20;
and the world, 464, 24;
as determining and determined, 2, 57;
as man's enemy, 464, 47;
compared with wealth, 136, 42;
contrasted with genius, 120, 18, 50; 121, 3;
definition of, 481, 41;
eye for, what is involved in, 458, 40;
field open to, 194, 4;
for literature, a, 477, 22;
guide to vocation, 75, 14;
great, happiness of, 17, 40;
happiness of using, 441, 15;
mark of, 491, 39;
ordinary, with perseverance, power of, 558, 38;
the curse of, 206, 7;
versus genius, 54, 32;
a, which we cannot perfect, 29, 66

=Talents=, by nature, 239, 28;
characteristic of, 382, 14;
distinguished, not therefore discreet, 69, 44;
great, often hid, 379, 28;
great (see Great talents);
high, the pride of, 400, 33;
often without genius, 269, 11

=Talisman=, a, acknowledged by nature, 21, 23

=Talk=, filthy, 166, 33;
honourablest part of, 435, 29;
measure of, 529, 19;
the ineffectuality of, 176, 40;
unwise, harmfulness of, 509, 11

=Talkers=, a consideration for, 306, 24;
an evil they suffer, 428, 16;
compared with thinkers, 33, 8;
great, 39, 23; two sets of, 399, 3;
weaknesses of, 19, 13

=Talking=, always, effect of, 479, 19;
and acting, motives of, 529, 20;
caution in regard to, 345, 6;
good, and good work, conjointly impossible, 305, 22;
great charm of, 496, 1;
and doing nothing, 491, 19;
in morals and art, 53, 8;
long, effect of, 252, 36;
much, 148, 35, 36;
not to be monopolised, 297, 3;
passion of women, 448, 4;
the rule in, 34, 28

=Tall= men often empty-headed, 325, 37

=Tardiness=, the evil of, 401, 37

=Tarpeian= Rock, the, 227, 29

=Task=, a noble, never easy, 305, 32;
one's, how to be done, 541, 33

=Taskmaster=, the great, 19, 7

=Taste=, defined, 381, 28;
effect of delicacy of, 57, 48;
false, defined, 536, 11;
good (see Good taste);
purity of, test of, 339, 5;
sense of, its exquisiteness, 137, 32;
true, development of, 500, 40

=Tastes=, pleasant, 349, 26

=Tattler=, characterised, 21, 25

=Taxation=, a reason for, 295, 34;
for benefit of a class, 496, 3;
in relation to liberty, 185, 41;
of posterity, for folly, 475, 45;
on mere labour and brains, 307, 19

=Taxes=, self-imposed, 522, 21;
sinews of the state, 524, 25;
the heaviest, 170, 33;
to the commonwealth, 511, 50

=Teach=, who should, 242, 40

=Teachable= mind, mark of, 21, 26

=Teacher=, a good, test of, 305, 50;
a wise, 144, 3;
an authoritative, ever a necessity, 566, 14;
and pedant contrasted, 234, 23;
business of, 492, 50;
man's best, 414, 32;
qualification of, 77, 22; 151, 45;
the only, 454, 38;
with imperfect knowledge, 475, 34

=Teachers=, our real, 231, 51;
who have boobies to deal with, Burns' pity for, 126, 18

=Teaching=, a, before all, 519, 38;
false, Gen. Gordon on, 544, 48;
great art of, 493, 33;
no living by, 308, 20;
no, without inspiration, 162, 26;
rule in, 366, 14;
to be commensurate with intelligence in pupil, 203, 46;
to be successful, 353, 35;
when spiritually profitable, 307, 24

=Tear=, a, for pity, 142, 51;
law that moulds, 414, 20;
merit of drying, 424, 25;
of joy, the, 456, 44;
of tender heart, no stemming, 208, 32;
the mourning, 456, 44;
witchcraft in a, 533, 25

=Tears=, a debt, 406, 50;
a necessity for man, 239, 9;
causes of, 399, 4;
expression of tenderness, 282, 16;
expressiveness of, 195, 42;
joyful, oh for a bosom in which to shed, 322, 21;
lent by nature, 291, 10;
motive powers, 231, 14;
Nature's, 292, 42;
obscuring power of, 478, 18;
of penitents, 456, 45;
often a bad sign, 151, 13;
sacredness in, 470, 25;
safety-valves, 452, 22;
sometimes for show, 349, 53;
soothing power of, 87, 27;
sowing in, 479, 49;
tender, power of, 482, 41;
the cause of, 205, 18;
the channels of, 394, 38;
to be secret, 335, 24

=Teeth= without bread, and bread without teeth, 41, 25

=Telegraph=, electric, no substitute for face of a man, 425, 1

=Teleology=, question of, 450, 30

=Telescope= _versus_ eye, 360, 36

=Telescopes= and eyes, 98, 21

=Tell-tale=, harm one, does, 332, 20;
out of school, 457, 1

=Temper=, an even and cheerful, benefit of, 426, 9;
and circumstance, accord between, 143, 29;
fate, 12, 59;
the, how to treat, 198, 39

=Temperaments=, our, diversity in, 339, 25

=Temperance=, a physician, 227, 37;
and health, 153, 32, 37; 260, 36;
as a virtue, 460, 42;
defined, 113, 12; 432, 27;
in cold latitudes, 435, 11;
incompatible with love of pleasure, 303, 5;
true, a part of, 199, 49

=Tempers=, unsociable, 508, 26

=Tempest=, sorest, issue of, 454, 10;
the objects it attacks, 457, 4

=Temple=, but one, in world, 471, 19;
no, easily reared, 565, 40;
reared on ruins of churches, 125, 19

=Temptation=, a, merely fled from, 527, 6;
anxiety to avoid, a snare, 269, 25;
common, 469, 17;
effect on us of resisting, 524, 9;
enduring, blessed, 30, 53;
flight from, 117, 11;
no guard against, 306, 26, 40;
object of, 106, 43;
our desire, 525, 18;
power of victory over, 565, 5;
resisted, not known, 540, 5;
resisting, serving God, 126, 33;
to sin in loving virtue, 284, 12;
virtue unequal to overcome, 162, 32;
when under, 547, 9

=Temptations=, and trials, our own, thought hardest, 91, 50;
beginning of all, 417, 20;
only skin deep, 268, 15;
teaching of, 525, 9

=Tenants=, poor, in the factor's hands, Burns on, 352, 38

=Tendency=, present, of things, 429, 45

=Tenderness=, defeating prudence, 450, 4;
thought of, at death, 543, 18;
throne of, 75, 49;
want of, 518, 34;
weakness of, 395, 21

=Tennyson=, rank as poet, 503, 48

=Term= of things, God-appointed, 480, 32

=Territory=, loss of, 439, 46

=Terror=, a life-long, horror of, 27, 46

=Terrors=, men amidst, 161, 8;
most, illusory, 284, 39

=Testament=, framed with injustice, 472, 51

=Testimony=, written, value of, 250, 34

=Teufelsdröckh=, as a rejected man, at the centre of indifference, 111, 14

=Thanks=, at all enough, 544, 4;
exchequer of poor, 89, 46;
fed on, 287, 42

=Thanksgiving=, God-glorifying, 126, 35

=Theatre=, and pulpit, 457, 14;
private, of great account, 262, 5

=Theft=, contrasted with carelessness, 36, 6;
proscribed by Christianity, 241, 7

=Theme=, a common, hard to treat freshly, 67, 28

=Theologian=, experience of, 424, 8

=Theologians= slain by science, 97, 59

=Theological= absurdities embraced by the greatest men, 307, 26

=Theology=, and philosophy, Carlyle on, 347, 38;
compared with religion, 372, 22;
false, the cure for, 422, 26

=Theorists=, crotchety, 444, 4

=Theory=, all, gray, 132, 42;
how to test a, 397, 38

=There=, never here, 457, 15

=Thief=, and anvil, 8, 60;
and opportunity, 77, 27;
saving a, 381, 8;
the greatest, 324, 41

=Thieves=, and their chains, 251, 38;
little and great, how treated, 219, 35, 36;
more, than are hanged, 52, 23

=Thing=, a, how defined, 21, 35;
that most needs to be done not easy, 414, 31

=Things=, all, co-operative, 11, 3;
all, only halves, 75, 25;
are as regarded, 233, 12;
best at their sources, 238, 8;
how to know, 377, 19;
more, in heaven and earth, 467, 23;
often misconstrued, 33, 16;
the path of, 447, 12;
to be done decently and in order, 240, 20;
with more spirit chased, 552, 23

=Think=, how to learn to, 200, 43

=Thinker=, accurate, compared with accurate observer, 110, 34;
arrival of, an epoch, 186, 32;
earnest, no plagiarist, 301, 37;
fairest fortune to a, 54, 26;
great, test of, 305, 37;
peril to things caused by advent of, 545, 35;
the, and the public, 486, 18;
the light he requires, 457, 28;
the, want of, 529, 38;
to be guarded against, 29, 73

=Thinkers=, and seers compared, 453, 7;
relation of, to workers, 482, 47

=Thinking=, a disease, 333, 31;
abortiveness of always, 42, 8;
acting, 496, 21;
and having ideas compared, 493, 9;
and living, contrasted, 40, 12;
and saying, 344, 42, 43;
any, rather than none, 266, 19;
as wishing, 320, 8;
before writing, 241, 2;
clear, and ardent loving, 230, 32;
contrasted with doing, 50, 42;
defined, 339, 26;
effect of, 475, 15;
evil of too much, 559, 7;
faculty, Goethe's thrift of, 334, 18;
free-, a vain boast, 523, 26;
how alone possible, 205, 14;
leaving off, evil of, 427, 17;
less harm from, than speech, 269, 6;
man a terror to the devil, 21, 39;
man, fairest portion of, 493, 4;
man, not appreciated, 161, 16;
no, no wisdom, 148, 4;
often no thinking, 161, 16;
power of, 485, 2;
powerful and bold, 264, 30;
rare, 164, 13;
rule of, 274, 45;
that is none, 149, 15;
the rule of, 481, 16;
the value of, 369, 6;
too much, 152, 32;
too much, effect of, 569, 8;
what is implied in, 334, 40

=Thirty=, without sense at, 364, 5

=Thomson=, Littleton on the muse of, 110, 3

=Thongs=, from others' leather, 32, 45

=Thorn=, but a changed bud, 21, 41;
near the rose, 529, 34

=Thorns=, when to trample on, 550, 22

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