All 9 Uses
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Selected Essays
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- The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things, and reverse theirs, pay for benefits not with money but with honor, and represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic[210] by which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every man.†
Chpt 3.
- The worth of the thing signified must vindicate our taste for the emblem.†
Chpt 6.
- What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of?†
Chpt 9.
- It is but a Twelfth Night,[650] or Midsummer Night's Dream, or a Winter Evening's Tale: what signifies another picture more or less?†
Chpt 9.
- A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified; these are wise men.†
Chpt 10. *
- I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.†
Chpt 4.
- Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.†
Chpt 4.
- These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances, signify it and proffer it.†
Chpt 8.
- What does it signify?†
Chpt 9.
Definition:
to indicate (to show or to mean)