Late to Lavoisier

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

late, adj. (57)

    LE 1.160 22 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the...late fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    MR 1.230 12 Had I waited a day longer to speak, I had been too late.
    MR 1.254 19 Have you not seen in the woods, in a late autumn morning, a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Hist 2.22 1 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...
    Prd1 2.229 2 ...what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?
    Exp 3.75 19 It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.
    ET11 5.175 24 In France and in England, the nobles were, down to a late day, born and bred to war...
    ET15 5.264 27 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times...
    ET16 5.278 25 We are not yet too late to learn much more than is known of this structure [Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.280 13 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to protect their spread windrows.
    ET16 5.290 21 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford. But it was growing late in the afternoon.
    ET18 5.300 11 Down to a late day, marriages performed by dissenters were illegal [in England].
    Wth 6.117 26 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son of the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide for him.
    Ctr 6.140 22 We are always a little late.
    Ctr 6.163 9 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel too late for the tide... to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Ctr 6.164 21 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    Ctr 6.164 22 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    Bhr 6.177 22 In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
    Bhr 6.183 5 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.
    Wsp 6.209 23 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late King of Naples, It has been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of government.
    CbW 6.258 26 A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.
    SS 7.10 22 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
    WD 7.155 10 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent. I, too late,/ Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn./
    Cour 7.261 2 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
    Elo2 8.122 14 It is said that one of the best readers in his time was the late President John Quincy Adams.
    Insp 8.285 5 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened,/ And after every late morning/ Followed unprofitable days./
    Aris 10.42 8 The English nation down to a late age inherited the reality of the Northern stock.
    Aris 10.45 10 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early.
    Chr2 10.106 11 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister.
    Chr2 10.109 2 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
    Supl 10.172 8 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    Prch 10.217 23 We are born too late for the old and too early for the new faith.
    Prch 10.232 25 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...
    LLNE 10.335 7 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer, no marks of late hours and anxious, unfinished study...
    EzRy 10.381 18 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...
    EzRy 10.382 26 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...the late learned Dr. Prince of Salem.
    EzRy 10.386 17 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer;...
    EzRy 10.391 12 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.
    MMEm 10.429 17 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him. Science, Nature,-O, I 've yearned to open some page;-not now, too late.
    Thor 10.461 12 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes, and a grave aspect,-his face covered in the late years with a becoming beard.
    Thor 10.463 6 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready...for conversation prolonged into late hours.
    HDC 11.84 24 Of late years, the growth of Concord has been slow.
    LVB 11.90 16 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...
    EWI 11.106 16 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery];...
    EWI 11.127 27 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.133 17 There is a scandalous rumor that has been swelling louder of late years...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
    FSLC 11.180 8 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.182 14 One intellectual benefit we owe to the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.213 11 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost...
    FSLN 11.239 8 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution...limping, late in her arrival.
    ACiv 11.311 1 ...it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation;...
    ACiv 11.311 2 ...it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation; but we think it will always be too late to make it gradual.
    Wom 11.419 13 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    ChiE 11.471 9 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event, considered in connection with the late innovations in Japan, marks a new era...
    FRO1 11.480 15 The soul of our late war...was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...
    II 12.89 1 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].
    Mem 12.104 15 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.

late, adv. (15)

    AmS 1.105 4 It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature;...
    MN 1.223 2 Who shall dare think he has come late into nature...who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    Con 1.308 1 ...I have risen early and sat late...
    SR 2.43 4 Nothing to [man] falls early or too late./
    Comp 2.103 9 The specific stripes may follow late after the offence...
    Fdsp 2.212 14 Late,--very late,--we perceive that no arrangements...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
    Exp 3.56 18 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us (and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect) is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    ET15 5.269 20 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    F 6.21 9 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator...always striking soon or late when justice is not done.
    Ctr 6.155 15 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...works early and late...
    Wsp 6.199 12 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late/...
    HDC 11.66 1 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...
    EWI 11.121 3 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these terms...
    FSLC 11.204 8 [Webster] adheres to the letter. Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared, the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
    Mem 12.94 19 Late in life we live by memory...

lately, adv. (33)

    MN 1.215 5 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...hates the enterprise which lately seemed so fair...
    Comp 2.94 3 I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
    Fdsp 2.197 21 Thou [my friend] hast come to me lately...
    Fdsp 2.216 7 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    Chr1 3.105 23 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought.
    NR 3.233 18 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    ET1 5.13 8 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said...I will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary...
    ET4 5.44 17 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].
    ET8 5.135 10 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner], odd and ugly...
    ET10 5.154 11 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...
    ET11 5.182 20 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides...
    ET13 5.221 15 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    ET14 5.232 5 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to thought, as of sailors and soldiers who had lately learned to read.
    WD 7.163 23 Tantalus...has been seen again lately.
    OA 7.332 1 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825...
    Comc 8.166 1 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    PPo 8.252 20 [Hafiz] tells us, The angels in heaven were lately learning his last pieces.
    Insp 8.285 18 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/...
    Grts 8.305 11 Others find a charm...in the elements of which the whole world is made. These lately have stimulus to their study through the extraordinary revelations of the spectroscope that the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Imtl 8.330 16 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
    MoL 10.251 9 I chanced lately to be at West Point...
    MMEm 10.416 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;- was ignorant that it was lately promulged, or partially received.
    LS 11.3 9 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    HDC 11.64 23 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?
    FSLN 11.242 13 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...
    CPL 11.496 15 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country...
    CPL 11.497 16 ...though [Papyrus] hardly grows now in Egypt, where I lately looked for it in vain, I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant in 1833...
    PLT 12.3 2 I have used such opportunity as I have had, and lately in London and Paris, to attend scientific lectures;...
    PLT 12.22 23 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy;...
    II 12.83 4 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...
    II 12.86 21 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
    ACri 12.299 21 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
    Pray 12.351 25 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...

latency, n. (2)

    Exp 3.70 9 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    Chr2 10.97 4 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...all indicating its power and its latency.

latent, adj. (18)

    SR 2.45 9 Speak your latent conviction...
    Fdsp 2.208 1 Unrelated men...will never suspect the latent powers of each.
    Int 2.329 17 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual and latent.
    Pt1 3.7 4 ...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. ... ...each of these three has the power of the others latent in him and his own, patent.
    Chr1 3.89 22 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance. The largest part of their power was latent.
    Chr1 3.102 4 Had there been something latent in the man...we had watched for its advent.
    NER 3.279 16 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    UGM 4.9 26 In the history of discovery, the ripe and latent truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself.
    CbW 6.264 25 The latent heat of an ounce of wood or stone is inexhaustible.
    SS 7.13 4 ...this genial heat [of animal spirits] is latent in all constitutions...
    OA 7.324 3 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent...
    Comc 8.162 10 Men celebrate their perception of halfness and a latent lie by the peculiar explosions of laughter.
    QO 8.180 18 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover...its latent, but real connection with our own Bibles.
    Dem1 10.9 20 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us. Of all it is true that the reason of them is always latent in the individual.
    Chr2 10.97 1 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    SovE 10.183 10 There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle.
    Shak1 11.452 3 There are periods fruitful of great men; others, barren;, or, as the world is always equal to itself, periods when the heat is latent,- others when it is given out.
    II 12.69 14 ...the drop of blood has latent power and organs...

later, adj. (49)

    Hist 2.24 3 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later?
    Hist 2.30 20 ...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion, with some closeness to the faith of later ages.
    SR 2.64 8 ...all later teachings are tuitions.
    Lov1 2.170 24 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later...traits.
    SwM 4.102 9 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in magnetism, some important experiments and conclusions of later students;...
    NMW 4.239 12 In his later days [Napoleon] had the weakness of wishing to add to his crowns and badges the prescription of aristocracy;...
    NMW 4.243 19 In later years...[Napoleon's] respect for mankind was not increased.
    ET1 5.6 16 I have a private letter from [Greenough],--later, but respecting the same period...
    ET4 5.60 1 The early [Norse] Sagas are sanguinary and piratical; the later are of a noble strain.
    ET4 5.66 18 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...
    ET6 5.113 22 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London, and if any company is expected, one or two hours later.
    ET11 5.191 4 In later times, when the baron, educated only for war, with his brains paralyzed by his stomach, found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET14 5.243 23 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
    ET15 5.262 6 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words; you and I shall not live to see it, but this young gentleman (Lord Eldon) may, or it may be a little later, but...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET16 5.274 12 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out, and, in his later writings, changed his tone.
    ET16 5.277 7 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...
    ET16 5.289 27 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried...and, later, in his own church, William of Wykeham.
    ET17 5.292 7 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England]...
    Ctr 6.164 12 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    DL 7.121 22 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
    Boks 7.202 14 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have, six or seven centuries later, the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    Boks 7.220 11 These are a few of the books which the old and the later times have yielded us...
    Cour 7.265 21 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last suffering, the later hurts being lost on insensibility.
    Cour 7.272 25 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius.
    PI 8.57 9 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    PI 8.68 11 ...many of our later books we have outgrown.
    Imtl 8.331 16 [Both men] were men of intellect, and one of them, at a later period, gave to a friend this anecdote.
    Edc1 10.140 1 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    Edc1 10.142 22 There comes the period of the imagination to each, a later youth;...
    SovE 10.203 24 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.
    Plu 10.302 23 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
    SlHr 10.448 2 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability... and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's political course in his later years.
    Thor 10.454 17 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much, but approved it with later wisdom.
    Thor 10.479 9 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric not quite outgrown in his later, of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.
    GSt 10.503 2 [George Stearns's] first donations were only entering-wedges of his later;...
    HDC 11.32 11 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
    HDC 11.39 7 As the season grew later, [the settlers of Concord] felt its inconveniences.
    HDC 11.85 20 Humble as is our village [Concord] in the circle of later and prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.
    War 11.154 9 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.
    ACiv 11.299 6 ...the rude and early state of society does not work well with the later...
    EPro 11.318 20 Life in America had lost much of its attraction in the later years.
    SMC 11.357 17 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    Wom 11.415 14 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes. It is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers...
    Scot 11.463 21 In the face of the later novels, we still claim that [Scott's] poetry is the delight of boys.
    CPL 11.498 24 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642, and two sons to later classes.
    PLT 12.12 5 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees, or perhaps at a later observation a remote curve of the same orbit...
    Mem 12.92 4 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    Bost 12.194 12 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?
    Milt1 12.254 13 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].

later, adv. (59)

    AmS 1.96 27 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not, sooner or later...astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    Con 1.325 6 Sooner or later all men will be my friends...
    YA 1.382 25 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread...
    Comp 2.126 15 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    Lov1 2.184 7 Cause and effect...the progressive, idealizing instinct, predominate later...
    Pt1 3.5 14 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later.
    Exp 3.79 25 ...all things sooner or later fall into place.
    Mrs1 3.132 4 The maiden at her first ball, the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed, or the failing party must be cast out of this presence. Later they learn that good sense and character make their own forms every moment...
    UGM 4.11 1 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they...reappear in conversation, character and politics. But this comes later.
    SwM 4.100 10 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office of Assessor...
    MoS 4.163 3 Some years later, I became acquainted with an accomplished English poet, John Sterling;...
    ET5 5.75 7 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity...
    ET8 5.138 23 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid; but, later, do them justice as people who wear well...
    ET15 5.262 6 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...a little sooner or later, these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    F 6.11 18 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    F 6.44 20 The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first, but all will announce it a few minutes later.
    SS 7.5 24 These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases...
    Farm 7.151 27 Later [the first planter] learns that his planting is better than hunting;...
    Boks 7.202 7 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery, owed first to Wolff and later to Boeckh, that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Clbs 7.229 8 Later, when books tire, thought has a more languid flow;...
    Clbs 7.248 4 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men...sooner or later, impart all that is singular in their experience.
    OA 7.324 13 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July; they stay a fortnight later in mine.
    OA 7.325 6 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable. Later, the interiors of mind and heart open, and supply grander motives.
    PI 8.32 22 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind...
    PI 8.48 21 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like to transfer that rhyme to life...
    PI 8.67 15 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
    PI 8.75 9 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry...
    SA 8.92 26 If you rise to frankness and generosity, [people] will respect it now or later.
    SA 8.99 19 Manners first, then conversation. Later, we see that as life was not in manners, so it is not in talk.
    QO 8.182 20 Later, when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    PC 8.213 20 Later, each European nation, after the breaking up of the Roman Empire, had its romantic era...
    Insp 8.276 4 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...
    Insp 8.294 3 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is not at last a few individuals, or any scared heroes...
    Grts 8.301 10 I might call [the prize] completeness, but that is later...
    Dem1 10.8 26 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later.
    SovE 10.192 7 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery...later in the school...
    Prch 10.232 24 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must.
    LLNE 10.330 6 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...and then I should say much later from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...
    LLNE 10.335 24 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
    LLNE 10.343 25 ...The Dial...under the editorship of Margaret Fuller, and later of some other, enjoyed its obscurity for four years.
    MMEm 10.400 21 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days.
    MMEm 10.402 14 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later, Plato, Plotinus, Marcus Antoninus...
    MMEm 10.411 11 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.413 25 Later [Mary Moody Emerson] writes of her early days in Malden: When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.416 9 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    FSLN 11.244 22 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it. But be that sooner or later...I hope we have reached the end of our unbelief...
    ALin 11.333 14 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests; and only later, by the very acceptance and adoption they find in the mouths of millions, turn out to be the wisdom of the hour.
    SMC 11.359 9 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott]...later, as the colonel who got off his horse when he saw one of his men limp on the march, and told him to ride.
    SMC 11.365 26 This [old artillery] company, chiefly recruited here [in Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...
    SMC 11.371 6 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles...
    Shak1 11.450 16 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours. Later they find riper and manlier lessons in the plays.
    Shak1 11.453 15 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakspeare were not published until three years later.
    Scot 11.464 4 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth, when, later, they come to dismiss finally their school-days' library, will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    FRep 11.529 27 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...and that on such an organization sooner or later the moral laws must tell, to such ears must speak,-in this is our hope.
    FRep 11.534 19 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West...
    PLT 12.43 25 Our thoughts at first possess us. Later, if we have good heads, we come to possess them.
    Mem 12.92 8 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight, at which we arrive later with securer conviction.
    MAng1 12.232 9 Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.
    Let 12.400 25 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and they flit about like ghosts...

lateral, adj. (1)

    MN 1.196 7 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...

laterally, adv. (1)

    MN 1.196 1 As our soils and rocks lie in strata...so do all men's thinkings run laterally...

Lateran Council, Fourth, n. (1)

    LS 11.3 21 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year...

late-returning, adj. (1)

    WD 7.160 23 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.

latest, adj. (15)

    PNR 4.80 7 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion...to add a bulletin, like the journals, of Plato at the latest dates.
    ET1 5.4 5 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey, and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals, Carlyle;...
    ET4 5.67 24 I apply to Britannia...the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.
    ET5 5.95 23 The latest step was to call in the aid of steam to agriculture [in England].
    ET14 5.232 14 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.
    ET16 5.273 9 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    F 6.36 1 In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception... are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    Civ 7.24 17 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...
    Clbs 7.226 4 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is love, and makes the balm of our early and of our latest days;...
    QO 8.187 25 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    Supl 10.170 21 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence.
    SlHr 10.444 1 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders. His beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days...
    HDC 11.70 2 ...we will...to the utmost of our power, defend all our rights inviolate to the latest posterity.
    EPro 11.321 3 We confide that...as [Lincoln]...has resisted the importunacy of parties and of events to the latest moment, he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].
    RBur 11.439 6 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands, and at the latest hour too, to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].

lathe, n. (1)

    ACri 12.290 27 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.

Latimer, Hugh, n. (7)

    ET7 5.121 1 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET13 5.216 19 Latimer, Wicliffe, Arundel...are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
    ET14 5.233 27 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English. It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle and in the Sagas of the Northmen. Latimer was homely.
    TPar 11.289 7 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like Luther, Knox and Latimer...to speak tart truth...
    RBur 11.440 20 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    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...
    ACri 12.296 11 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style. He is, therefore, a good example of the modernness of an old English writer. So Latimer, so Chaucer, so the Bible.

Latimer's, Hugh, n. (1)

    TPar 11.284 13 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.

Latimers, n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 13 ...the age...of the Latimers, Mores, Cranmers;...is gone.

Latin, adj. (27)

    LE 1.167 14 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...
    Fdsp 2.211 14 There is at least this satisfaction in crime, according to the Latin proverb;--you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
    Prd1 2.237 16 The Latin proverb says, In battles the eye is first overcome.
    ShP 4.197 24 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.
    GoW 4.282 20 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.
    ET7 5.116 3 The Teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart, which contrasts with the Latin races.
    ET8 5.138 12 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted, herein differing from Rome and the Latin nations.
    ET12 5.206 23 ...an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...
    ET14 5.235 9 Mixture is a secret of the English island; in their dialect, the male principle is the Saxon, the female, the Latin;...
    Ctr 6.142 14 You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
    Wsp 6.218 4 As much love, so much mind, said the Latin proverb.
    Civ 7.21 25 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar...
    WD 7.172 3 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    Boks 7.204 10 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian...book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    Suc 7.303 20 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as...Eros in the Greek, or Cupid in the Latin heaven.
    Elo2 8.128 27 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...
    Comc 8.168 24 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./
    QO 8.196 11 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...
    Edc1 10.147 10 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
    Plu 10.294 5 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome...he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    Plu 10.294 7 ...[Plutarch]...with one or two doubtful exceptions, never quotes a Latin book;...
    LLNE 10.332 12 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...with their unripe Latin and Greek reading...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    EWI 11.108 10 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will?
    Milt1 12.258 17 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome, and to her he addressed his Italian sonnets and Latin epigrams.
    Milt1 12.259 9 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
    Milt1 12.263 8 [Milton] tells us, in a Latin poem, that the lyrist may indulge in wine and in a freer life;...
    Milt1 12.268 6 ...[Milton]...devoted much of his time to the preparing of a Latin dictionary.

Latin, n. (19)

    OS 2.279 7 In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek...stead me nothing;...
    NER 3.258 19 Once...Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.258 27 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    NER 3.259 6 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin...
    NER 3.259 20 Some intelligent persons said or thought, Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with...
    NER 3.259 26 ...[some intelligent persons] jumped the Greek and Latin, and read law, medicine, or sermons, without it.
    SwM 4.111 12 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day, and tranferred them... from their forgotten Latin into English...
    MoS 4.165 2 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only, and almost all were written in Latin;...
    ET4 5.60 19 [The Normans] had lost their own language and learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls...
    ET12 5.206 20 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of Greek and Latin and of mathematics...
    ET14 5.235 5 The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed. The Latin unmixed is abandoned to the colleges and Parliament.
    ET14 5.237 25 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin, before our modern facilities were yet ready;...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    Elo2 8.128 12 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education,--teaching a youth Latin and metaphysics and history... that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Plu 10.294 22 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    CInt 12.128 19 ...if the Latin, Greek, Algebra or Art were in the parents, it will be in the children...
    Milt1 12.269 26 [Milton] preferred his own English...to the Latin...
    Milt1 12.270 5 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin;...
    ACri 12.286 6 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together...
    ACri 12.288 4 The short Saxon words with which the people help themselves are better than Latin.

Latin School, n. (2)

    SL 2.133 5 The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
    Bhr 6.195 7 Here is a lesson which I brought along with me in boyhood from the Latin School...

Latinity, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.250 2 The Defence of the People of England, on which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is, when divested of its pure Latinity, the worst of [Milton's] works.

latitude, n. (16)

    MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
    YA 1.367 18 We have twenty degrees of latitude wherein to choose a seat...
    Hist 2.27 6 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I measure degrees of latitude...
    SL 2.151 4 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul [which]...native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.
    Pt1 3.9 15 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...with belts of the herbage of every latitude on its high and mottled sides;...
    Exp 3.78 13 ...every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another.
    PNR 4.87 22 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated, and can distinguish poles, equator and lines of latitude...
    ET3 5.38 15 The climate [in England] is warmer by many degrees than it is entitled to by latitude.
    ET14 5.259 4 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    ET16 5.281 26 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...
    Wth 6.96 22 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface.
    PI 8.49 24 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer.
    Aris 10.39 4 I wish catholic men, who by their science and skill are at home in every latitude and longitude...
    CSC 10.374 10 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion...
    Bost 12.189 16 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...
    Bost 12.196 13 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude...

latitudes, n. (10)

    Hist 2.22 25 A man of rude health and flowing spirits...lives in his wagon and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc.
    Nat2 3.169 8 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
    UGM 4.12 27 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    Ctr 6.147 11 ...nature has put fruits apart in latitudes...
    Supl 10.166 23 How impatient we are, in these northern latitudes, of looseness and intemperance in speech!
    MMEm 10.433 7 It is essential to the safety of every mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically ascertained;...
    Thor 10.468 26 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...
    FRep 11.522 8 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be no famine in a country reaching through so many latitudes...

latitudinarian, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.366 5 ...the most punctilious in some particulars are latitudinarian in others.

latter, adj. (9)

    Hsm1 2.245 22 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife. The beauty of the latter inflames Martius...
    Pt1 3.3 22 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ, much less is the latter the germination of the former.
    NER 3.285 17 ...that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.
    ShP 4.208 18 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me...if the former account in any manner for the latter;...
    ET3 5.34 5 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art conquers nature...
    ET5 5.85 26 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
    Bhr 6.194 18 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when the latter was King of Spain...
    PI 8.54 9 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    MMEm 10.409 21 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...

latter, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.18 5 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof.

lattice, n. (1)

    Insp 8.285 10 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./

Laud, William, n. (3)

    ET12 5.201 25 [Oxford] is still governed by the statutes of Archbishop Laud.
    LS 11.4 10 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...
    HDC 11.31 4 The best friend the Massachusetts colony had...was Archbishop Laud in England.

laudable, adj. (2)

    LLNE 10.349 14 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.
    Milt1 12.256 9 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...

laudation, n. (1)

    SR 2.86 24 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.

laudatory, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.7 17 A true aspirant therefore never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.

laugh, n. (3)

    ET8 5.135 12 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...resembling in countenance the portrait of Punch with the laugh left out;...
    PPo 8.256 24 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/ Neither endurance nor truth belongs to the laugh of the rose./
    AgMs 12.359 22 [Edmund Hosmer's] laugh rings with the sweetness and hilarity of a child;...

laugh, v. (17)

    LE 1.156 24 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans, who should laugh and leap in the continent...
    MR 1.230 9 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the same thing.
    Hsm1. 2.252 26 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense.
    Exp 3.50 23 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he laugh and giggle?...
    ET1 5.23 4 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising...that I at first was near to laugh;...
    ET13 5.221 24 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror. In good company you expect them to laugh at the fanaticism of the vulgar; but they do not; they are the vulgar.
    ET14 5.255 2 [The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity; they laugh you down, or they change the subject.
    Bhr 6.182 4 Beware you don't laugh, said the wise mother, for then you show all your faults.
    Clbs 7.234 11 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails? Does he not eat,--bleed,-- laugh,--cry?
    SA 8.87 11 ...[Lord Chesterfield] says, I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.
    SA 8.98 3 True wit never made us laugh.
    Comc 8.156 1 And if I laugh at any mortal thing/ 't is that I may not weep./ Byron.
    Aris 10.54 8 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets...
    Prch 10.221 13 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling wilderness.
    War 11.157 8 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge that these enemies over sea or over the mountain are such men as we; who laugh and grieve... as we do.
    PLT 12.51 3 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of one idea...
    PLT 12.54 12 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is fast becoming sense, and we must flee again into the distance if we would laugh.

laughable, adj. (3)

    Pol1 3.215 2 ...any laws but those which men make for themselves are laughable.
    Comc 8.173 16 We do nothing that is not laughable whenever we quit our spontaneous sentiment.
    War 11.161 24 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men; should appear laughable even, to numbers;...is very natural.

laughed, v. (4)

    DSA 1.138 2 [The preacher] had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept...
    Hist 2.31 25 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?
    Grts 8.303 25 There is somewhat in the true scholar which he cannot be laughed out of...
    Trag 12.405 20 Projects that once we laughed and leapt to execute find us now sleepy and preparing to lie down in the snow.

laughing, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.62 17 In the best parlors of modern society [the gentleman] will find the laughing devil...

laughing, v. (1)

    Comc 8.173 3 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If we weep not, who should weep? Therefore have I wept. Timur almost split his sides with laughing.

laughingly, adv. (1)

    QO 8.187 4 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...

laughs, v. (2)

    HDC 11.27 8 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
    ACri 12.297 18 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly moderates...

laughter, n. (29)

    Exp 3.80 20 How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting...
    Chr1 3.100 6 Our houses ring with laughter and personal and critical gossip, but it helps little.
    NMW 4.258 24 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter...
    ET14 5.246 17 Dickens...with pathos and laughter...writes London tracts.
    F 6.26 17 The world of men show like a comedy without laughter...
    F 6.37 25 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions arrived...awaiting him with...laughter...
    Wth 6.88 11 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Elo1 7.65 13 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the people furious...shall draw them, when he will, to laughter and to tears.
    Boks 7.216 20 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day.
    Boks 7.219 20 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women.
    SA 8.86 26 ...what a seneschal and detective is laughter!
    Res 8.148 4 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    Comc 8.157 10 ...it is in comparing fractions with essential integers or wholes that laughter begins.
    Comc 8.158 2 ...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy, and it announces itself physically in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
    Comc 8.159 18 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the intellect, and the outward sign is the muscular irritation of laughter.
    Comc 8.160 10 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Comc 8.162 11 Men celebrate their perception of halfness and a latent lie by the peculiar explosions of laughter.
    Comc 8.164 4 ...the occasion of laughter is some seeming, some keeping of the word to the ear and eye, whilst it is broken to the soul.
    Comc 8.173 22 We must learn by laughter, as well as by tears and terrors;...
    Comc 8.174 6 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
    Imtl 8.333 2 All laughter at man is bitter...
    Dem1 10.4 16 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...
    PerF 10.81 16 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...
    Carl 10.489 17 ...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, remaining Hugh Whelan all the time, should talk scornfully of all this nonsense of books that he had been bothered with, and you shall have just the tone and talk and laughter of Carlyle.
    Carl 10.495 10 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    FSLN 11.228 17 ...if the reporters say true, [Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.
    ACri 12.293 26 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself, uproarious with laughter and animal joy, on the scene...
    PPr 12.391 8 We have never had anything in literature so like earthquakes as the laughter of Carlyle.
    PPr 12.391 10 [Carlyle's laughter] is like the laughter of the Genii in the horizon.

launch, v. (3)

    Nat2 3.184 9 It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
    WD 7.167 15 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the sailor might launch his boat in security from storms...
    PI 8.52 3 With...the first strain of a song, we...launch on the sea of ideas and emotions...

launched, v. (3)

    Elo2 8.109 13 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/...
    Schr 10.277 25 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy; Jove, and the thunderbolt launched from his hand.
    Milt1 12.268 1 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task, by which he might serve the state daily... whilst he launched from time to time his formidable bolts against the enemies of liberty.

launches, v. (1)

    PC 8.228 21 The affections are the wings by which the intellect launches on the void...

launching, v. (1)

    II 12.77 12 ...all beauty of discourse or of manners lies in launching on the thought, and forgetting ourselves;...

laundry, n. (1)

    CbW 6.247 6 [Fine society] renders the service of a perfumery or a laundry...

Lauraguais, Comte de, n. (1)

    ET5 5.94 18 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No fruit ripens in England but a baked apple;...

laureate, adj. (1)

    PI 8.54 5 Poetry will never be a simple means, as when...laureate odes on state occasions are written.

laureate, n. (1)

    Plu 10.318 15 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

laurel, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.92 7 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/...
    Pt1 3.35 24 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their hands.
    Boks 7.200 18 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.

Laurel Hill, Virginia, n. (1)

    SMC 11.371 16 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded...

laurel, n. (9)

    Exp 3.69 10 Nature will not spare us the smallest leaf of laurel.
    NER 3.275 13 ...a naval and military honor...the laurel of poets...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    SwM 4.144 17 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    GoW 4.272 19 Still [Goethe] is a poet,--poet of a prouder laurel than any contemporary...
    GoW 4.278 16 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius, and the just award of the laurel to its toils and denials, have also reason to complain.
    Ctr 6.164 7 What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Imtl 8.325 19 [The Greek] adorned death, brought wreaths of parsley and laurel;...
    MMEm 10.429 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] am resigned to being nothing, never expect a palm, a laurel, hereafter.
    EurB 12.365 21 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe, such as every gentleman could write but none would think...of claiming the poet's laurel on their merit.

laurel-leaves, n. (1)

    HDC 11.76 27 We will not hide your [veterans of the battle of Concord's] honorable gray hairs under perishing laurel-leaves...

laurelled, adj. (1)

    DL 7.105 2 On the strongest shoulders [the child] rides, and pulls the hair of laurelled heads.

laurels, n. (7)

    NER 3.275 26 Is [a man's] ambition pure? then will his laurels and his possessions seem worthless...
    UGM 4.31 26 Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have won them!
    Civ 7.22 3 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    DL 7.121 17 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys] and are weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want...
    DL 7.122 16 I honor that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the state or the army...but to be a master of living well...
    Suc 7.302 6 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition, overstimulating...to have distinction and laurels and consumption!
    SMC 11.375 12 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War]. I hope they will be content with the laurels of one war.

Laurentian, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.243 22 Here [in Florence] is the church, the palace, the Laurentian library, [Michelangelo] built.

Lauriat, George, n. (1)

    SMC 11.368 13 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades, now and then particularizing names: Bowers, Shepard and Lauriat are as brave as lions.

laurus benzoin, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 8 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea...or laurus benzoin...

Lavater, Johann Kaspar, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.181 25 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you how significant a feature is the nose;...
    MLit 12.328 4 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.

Lavater's, Johann Kaspar, n (1)

    LLNE 10.337 10 [The eagerness for reform] appeared in the popularity of Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.

lavender, n. (2)

    PI 8.72 17 Music seems to you sufficient, or the subtle and delicate scent of lavender;...
    AKan 11.259 26 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. They call it otto of rose and lavender,-I call it bilge-water.

Lavengro [George Borrow], n (1)

    SA 8.84 9 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...

lavish, adj. (3)

    ET18 5.301 6 The foreign policy of England, though ambitious and lavish of money, has not often been generous or just.
    Elo1 7.78 26 The confidence of men in [Caesar] is lavish...
    PI 8.50 2 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion.

lavish, v. (1)

    Bty 6.282 21 Bugs and stamens and spores, on which we lavish so many years, are not finalities;...

lavished, v. (1)

    HCom 11.340 1 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./

lavishly, adv. (3)

    Exp 3.51 23 We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt;...
    PPo 8.242 6 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    AKan 11.257 4 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men.

Lavoisier, Antoine, n. (1)

    SR 2.79 13 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...a Lavoisier...it imposes its classification on other men...

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