Law to Lax

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

law, adj. (4)

    ET11 5.184 19 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    Plu 10.321 14 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in...the coffee-house, the law courts...
    LLNE 10.328 3 In the law courts, crimes of fraud have taken the place of crimes of force.
    FSLC 11.190 10 I had often heard that the Bible constituted a part of every technical law library...

Law, Canon, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.191 18 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.

Law, Common, n. (2)

    ShP 4.200 15 The nervous language of the Common Law, the impressive forms of our courts...are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    ET5 5.100 14 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.

Law, Courts of, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.329 8 Authority falls, in Church, College, Courts of Law, Faculties, Medicine.

Law, Fugitive Slave, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.219 7 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.244 15 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men...

Law, Hebrew, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.229 16 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law.

Law, Higher, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.190 7 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.

Law, Highest, n. (1)

    OS 2.270 7 ...I desire...to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.

Law, Intellectual, n. (1)

    CInt 12.113 15 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords...to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.

law, Lynch, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 26 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power of Lynch law...

Law, Maine, n. (2)

    Supl 10.163 6 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command...
    SlHr 10.447 7 ...under the Maine Law [Samuel Hoar] was a prosecutor of the liquor dealers.

law, n. (541)

    Nat 1.35 13 Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth, - is the fundamental law of criticism.
    Nat 1.41 27 The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference.
    Nat 1.44 2 The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors.
    Nat 1.44 12 Each creature is only a modification of the other;...and their radical law is one and the same.
    Nat 1.44 14 ...a law of one organization, holds true throughout nature.
    Nat 1.55 11 [Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena...
    Nat 1.55 13 That [universal] law, when in the mind, is an idea.
    Nat 1.55 25 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and...seized their law.
    Nat 1.56 7 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
    Nat 1.68 12 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself...in every new law of color...
    Nat 1.72 4 [Man] perceives that if his law is still paramount...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    Nat 1.75 5 We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it... to the higher law of the mind.
    Nat 1.75 8 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels. We behold the real higher law.
    AmS 1.86 2 ...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects... have a law which is also a law of the human mind?
    AmS 1.86 12 The ambitious soul...one after another reduces...all new powers, to their class and their law...
    AmS 1.86 22 ...when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more earthly natures...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.98 26 ...these fits of easy transmission and reflection...are the law of nature...
    AmS 1.98 27 ...these fits of easy transmission and reflection...are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit.
    AmS 1.103 10 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks...
    AmS 1.111 24 ...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...
    AmS 1.114 2 ...in yourself is the law of all nature...
    DSA 1.123 19 See again the perfection of the Law as it...becomes the law of society.
    DSA 1.124 22 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment...
    DSA 1.130 4 Having seen that the law in us is commanding, [Jesus] would not suffer it to be commanded.
    DSA 1.151 20 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart;...
    LE 1.165 11 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law...to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    LE 1.165 12 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency...to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    MN 1.193 20 ...we set...a bound to the pretensions of the law and the church.
    MN 1.197 4 That which once existed in intellect as pure law, has now taken body as Nature.
    MN 1.200 22 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law.
    MN 1.214 5 ...because ecstasy is the law and cause of nature, you cannot interpret it in too high and deep a sense.
    MN 1.214 19 Does not the same law hold for virtue?
    MN 1.222 20 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight. Instantly we...can speak a deeper law.
    MR 1.232 18 ...the general system of our trade...is not measured by the exact law of reciprocity...
    MR 1.233 15 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    MR 1.235 25 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of law...
    LT 1.265 14 Could we indicate the indicators...so that all witnesses should recognize a spiritual law as each well-known form flitted for a moment across the wall, we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.274 27 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform] looks into the law of Property...
    LT 1.286 25 We have come to that which is the spring of all power...and who shall tell us according to what law its inspirations and its informations are given or witholden?
    LT 1.288 19 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
    LT 1.288 24 ...we...do not know that the law and the perception of the law are at last one;...
    LT 1.288 25 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men...
    LT 1.288 27 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men,-immortal with the immortality of this law.
    Con 1.299 14 ...[conservatism] thinks there is a general law without a particular application...
    Con 1.299 15 ...[conservatism] thinks there is a general law without a particular application,-law for all that does not include any one.
    Con 1.304 5 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
    Con 1.307 2 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act; imprisonment, if we find you afterward. And by what authority, kind gentlemen? By our law.
    Con 1.307 3 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act; imprisonment, if we find you afterward. And by what authority, kind gentlemen? By our law. And your law,-is it just? As just for you as it was for us.
    Con 1.307 5 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so.
    Con 1.307 6 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so. I repeat the question, Is your law just?
    Con 1.307 10 I will none of your law, returns the youth;...
    Con 1.310 11 [Existing institutions] have...left you...no law but our law...
    Con 1.310 20 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
    Con 1.314 1 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
    Con 1.323 2 A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    Con 1.323 20 ...it is always at last the virtue of some men in the society, which keeps the law in any reverence and power.
    Con 1.323 27 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    Con 1.324 6 If [the hero] have earned his bread...in the narrow and crooked ways which were all an evil law had left him, he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    Con 1.324 27 ...how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
    Con 1.325 8 I cannot thank your law for my protection.
    Con 1.325 17 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
    Con 1.325 25 The law acts then as a screen of [the intemperate, covetous person's] unworthiness...
    Tran 1.333 24 ...[the idealist] does not respect government, except as far as it reiterates the law of his mind;...
    Tran 1.352 18 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that law existed for me and for all;...
    YA 1.366 9 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment, which...has interrogated every...law, has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.373 9 [Destiny's] law is, you shall have everything as a member, nothing to yourself.
    YA 1.374 13 ...the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
    YA 1.379 19 ...the office of statute law should be to express and not to impede the mind of mankind.
    YA 1.393 10 The aristocracy, incorporated by law and education, degrades life for the unprivileged classes.
    Hist 2.3 21 Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant...
    Hist 2.5 12 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you.
    Hist 2.6 26 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...for us...
    Hist 2.10 16 Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all.
    Hist 2.13 6 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them...
    SR 2.50 23 No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
    SR 2.58 6 All the sallies of [a man's] will are rounded in by the law of his being...
    SR 2.63 15 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    SR 2.63 18 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    SR 2.70 9 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    SR 2.70 22 I see the same law working in nature for conservation and growth.
    SR 2.71 12 Let...our docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches.
    SR 2.73 1 ...henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law.
    SR 2.73 2 ...henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law.
    SR 2.74 10 ...the law of consciousness abides.
    SR 2.74 24 If any one imagines that this law [of self-reliance] is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
    SR 2.75 4 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself...
    Comp 2.96 13 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
    Comp 2.100 5 This law [Compensation] writes the laws of cities and nations.
    Comp 2.100 14 If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.
    Comp 2.102 7 That soul which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law.
    Comp 2.107 14 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance... certifying that the law is fatal;...
    Comp 2.109 8 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    Comp 2.110 3 Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.
    Comp 2.114 27 The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power;...
    Comp 2.116 14 ...the law holds with equal sureness for all right action.
    Comp 2.121 21 There is no stunning confutation of [the criminal's] nonsense before men and angels. Has he therefore outwitted the law?
    Comp 2.124 21 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
    SL 2.137 3 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built...and which are superseded by the discovery of the law that water rises to the level of its source.
    SL 2.138 23 ...a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...
    SL 2.145 16 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right. All the secrets of that state of mind he can compel. This is a law which statesmen use in practice.
    SL 2.157 6 This is that law whereby a work of art...sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he made it.
    SL 2.161 24 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction...
    Lov1 2.170 27 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
    Fdsp 2.197 26 The law of nature is alternation for evermore.
    Fdsp 2.201 26 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! ... Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation and honor its law!
    Fdsp 2.206 26 ...I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation...
    Prd1 2.222 10 ...a true prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws...
    Prd1 2.225 3 [Prudence] respects...the law of polarity, growth and death.
    Prd1 2.228 1 Let a man keep the law,--any law,--and his way will be strown with satisfactions.
    Prd1 2.228 7 If you think the senses final, obey their law.
    Prd1 2.230 19 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... making every law our enemy...
    Prd1 2.231 7 We have violated law upon law until we stand amidst ruins...
    Prd1 2.232 23 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    Prd1 2.235 16 ...every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck...
    OS 2.274 16 After its own law...is the rate of [the soul's] progress to be computed.
    OS 2.275 10 This is the law of moral and of mental gain.
    OS 2.275 24 Within the same sentiment is the germ of intellectual growth, which obeys the same law.
    OS 2.282 21 The nature of these revelations is the same; they are perceptions of the absolute law.
    OS 2.293 9 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    OS 2.296 16 [The soul]...feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on, its nature.
    Cir 2.302 4 Our globe seen by God is a transparent law...
    Cir 2.302 4 The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.
    Cir 2.304 21 Every general law [is] only a particular fact of some more general law...
    Cir 2.304 22 Every general law [is] only a particular fact of some more general law...
    Cir 2.308 12 Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts, as expressions of one law.
    Cir 2.314 11 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft...who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
    Cir 2.314 23 The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the virtues...
    Int 2.327 27 Whatever any mind doth or saith is after a law...
    Int 2.328 1 ...this native law remains over [the mind] after it has come to reflection or conscious thought.
    Int 2.331 10 At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open...whilst we act, intent to learn the secret law of some class of facts.
    Int 2.332 6 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...
    Int 2.332 7 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...
    Int 2.332 10 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature...by which the heart now draws in, then hurls out the blood,--the law of undulation.
    Int 2.342 12 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates]...respects the highest law of his being.
    Art1 2.365 20 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    Art1 2.368 16 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...our law...
    Pt1 3.17 23 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is...
    Pt1 3.27 1 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...his thought is law...
    Exp 3.52 20 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life...
    Exp 3.53 5 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being;...
    Exp 3.64 10 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful, are not children of our law;...
    Exp 3.64 23 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed...
    Exp 3.70 23 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    Exp 3.79 5 ...there is no crime to the intellect. That is antinomian or hypernomian, and judges law as well as fact.
    Exp 3.83 7 I can very confidently announce one or another law...
    Exp 3.84 20 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.
    Exp 3.84 27 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance.
    Exp 3.85 12 ...far be from me the despair which prejudges the law by a paltry empiricism;...
    Chr1 3.94 5 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep. The faculties are locked up, and offer no resistance. Perhaps that is the universal law.
    Chr1 3.106 1 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity; I never listened to your people's law...
    Mrs1 3.120 17 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which, without written laws or exact usage of any kind, perpetuates itself...
    Mrs1 3.125 1 My gentleman gives the law where he is;...
    Mrs1 3.130 6 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land.
    Mrs1 3.147 12 ...'t is the eternal law/ That first in beauty shall be first in might./
    Gts 3.162 1 The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
    Nat2 3.183 14 This guiding identity [in nature]...characterizes every law.
    Pol1 3.199 6 ...every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;...
    Pol1 3.200 6 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law.
    Pol1 3.200 15 The law is only a memorandum.
    Pol1 3.201 12 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years...
    Pol1 3.203 5 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    Pol1 3.203 6 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    Pol1 3.203 11 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    Pol1 3.203 17 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property...
    Pol1 3.204 15 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement and the moral sentiment will write the law of the land.
    Pol1 3.205 17 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
    Pol1 3.205 19 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...if not for the law, then against it;...
    Pol1 3.206 12 The law may do what it will with the owner of property;...
    Pol1 3.206 15 The law may in a mad freak say that all shall have power except the owners of property;...
    Pol1 3.206 17 ...by a higher law, the property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property.
    Pol1 3.206 22 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do, either through the law or else in defiance of it.
    Pol1 3.212 8 Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
    Pol1 3.213 12 The idea after which each community is aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
    Pol1 3.215 5 If I put myself in the place of my child, and we stand in one thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law for him and me.
    NR 3.227 20 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
    NR 3.234 22 We obey the same intellectual integrity when we study in exceptions the law of the world.
    NER 3.256 1 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who...embarrass the courts of law by non-juring...
    NER 3.259 27 ...[some intelligent persons] jumped the Greek and Latin, and read law, medicine, or sermons, without it.
    NER 3.263 14 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...
    NER 3.263 15 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands, before the law of its own mind.
    UGM 4.8 12 Gift is contrary to the law of the universe.
    UGM 4.19 13 Rotation is the law of nature.
    UGM 4.22 3 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little...of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    UGM 4.28 15 ...the law of individuality collects its secret strength: you are you, and I am I, and so we remain.
    UGM 4.28 22 ...every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature...
    PPh 4.48 2 We unite all things by perceiving the law which pervades them;...
    PNR 4.82 14 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
    PNR 4.82 21 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death,--that law by which, in nature, decomposition is recomposition...
    PNR 4.89 18 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards. Let such be free of the city and above the law.
    SwM 4.96 27 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law.
    SwM 4.106 14 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale or degrees;...
    SwM 4.109 16 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we find chemistry only an extension of the law of masses into particles...
    SwM 4.110 9 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality;...
    SwM 4.114 6 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    SwM 4.117 6 Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence] in their dark riddle-writing.
    SwM 4.119 10 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.
    SwM 4.123 16 [Swedenborg] saw things in their law...
    SwM 4.127 12 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated without Gothicism...
    SwM 4.130 14 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination...
    SwM 4.140 15 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is to carry the law of surface into the plane of substance...
    SwM 4.141 4 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
    MoS 4.158 5 ...shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
    MoS 4.164 5 In 1571...Montaigne...retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...
    MoS 4.172 24 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.
    MoS 4.177 1 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law...
    MoS 4.179 12 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    MoS 4.179 17 Shall I add, as one juggle of this enchantment, the stunning non-intercourse law which makes co-operation impossible?
    MoS 4.183 19 This faith avails to the whole emergency of life and objects. The world is saturated with deity and with law.
    ShP 4.201 9 Every book supplies its time with one good word; every municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day;...
    NMW 4.258 14 It was...the eternal law of man and of the world which baulked and ruined [Napoleon];...
    GoW 4.273 20 [Goethe] had a power to unite the detached atoms again by their own law.
    ET1 5.13 25 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen...
    ET1 5.19 22 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law does not take cognizance.
    ET1 5.19 23 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law does not take cognizance.
    ET2 5.27 14 Watchfulness is the law of the ship...
    ET4 5.44 5 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...
    ET4 5.46 21 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET4 5.51 2 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... aggressive freedom and hospitable law with bitter class-legislation;...
    ET4 5.64 24 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...
    ET4 5.67 12 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for law, lawful trade...
    ET5 5.75 10 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 managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;...
    ET5 5.97 4 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system. Their law is a network of fictions.
    ET6 5.110 27 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary.
    ET8 5.137 11 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race; in Canada, the old French law;...
    ET8 5.142 9 ...[the English] hold in esteem the barrister engaged in the severer studies of the law.
    ET9 5.144 15 There is no freak so ridiculous but some Englishman has attempted to immortalize by money and law.
    ET9 5.147 2 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;--for that is British law;...
    ET9 5.147 4 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;--for that is British law; but not a hobnail shall they dare make in America, but buy their nails in England;--for that also is British law;...
    ET10 5.153 15 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that their days shall be long in the land...
    ET10 5.161 20 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under.
    ET11 5.173 18 The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy. Time and law have made the joining and moulding perfect in every part.
    ET11 5.196 22 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should make the law;...
    ET12 5.211 24 Charles I. said that he understood English law as well as a gentleman ought to understand it.
    ET14 5.241 4 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    ET14 5.254 10 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student, no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law...
    ET14 5.256 19 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law...
    ET14 5.258 16 By the law of contraries, I look for an irresistible taste for Orientalism in Britain.
    ET15 5.261 7 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his attention.
    ET15 5.267 17 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London.
    ET16 5.287 19 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    ET18 5.300 14 A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.
    ET18 5.303 25 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct for liberty and law...
    ET18 5.305 18 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag, under the formula that it is the excellence of the British constitution that no law can anticipate the public opinion.
    ET18 5.306 1 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
    F 6.25 17 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens...to the omnipresence of law...
    F 6.48 27 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Pow 6.54 6 [All successful men] believed that things went not by luck, but by law;...
    Pow 6.56 19 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Pow 6.66 19 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...
    Pow 6.80 21 ...[spirit] is as much a subject of exact law and arithmetic as fluids and gases are;...
    Wth 6.88 2 ...here we must recite the iron law which nature thunders in these northern climates.
    Wth 6.94 18 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.
    Wth 6.101 9 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept up:--and he might have added that the way in which it must be begun and kept up is by obedience to the law of particles.
    Wth 6.121 1 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things...will show to the watchful their own law.
    Wth 6.126 8 Will [the man] spend his income, or will he invest? His body and every organ is under the same law.
    Wth 6.126 13 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms...
    Ctr 6.140 4 ...to meliorate is the law of nature;...
    Ctr 6.140 23 Politics is...a poor patching. We are always a little late. The evil is done, the law is passed...
    Bhr 6.186 14 Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
    Wsp 6.209 27 In this country...the phrase higher law became a political gibe.
    Wsp 6.215 6 The true meaning of spiritual is...that law which executes itself...
    Wsp 6.219 5 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Wsp 6.221 7 The law is the basis of the human mind.
    Wsp 6.221 13 Law it is, which is without name, or color, or hands, or feet;...
    Wsp 6.238 3 ...the highest virtue is always against the law.
    Wsp 6.241 13 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the algebra and mathematics of ethical law...
    CbW 6.248 8 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to the man who can will. Is that necessary? That shall be:--this is the only law of success.
    CbW 6.249 20 When [the population] reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    CbW 6.249 24 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    CbW 6.261 18 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law.
    CbW 6.264 16 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things, does not despond...
    CbW 6.277 22 The main difference between people seems to be that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and another is not. As he has not a law within him, there's nothing to tie him to.
    Bty 6.286 5 ...we are aware of a perfect law in nature...
    Bty 6.290 8 'T is a law of botany that in plants the same virtues follow the same forms.
    Bty 6.292 27 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
    Bty 6.293 17 I need not say how wide the same law [of gradation] ranges...
    Ill 6.308 7 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.321 17 How can we penetrate the law of our shifting moods and susceptibility?
    SS 7.10 23 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.
    SS 7.10 24 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.
    Civ 7.33 26 ...if there be...a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.37 4 All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel, and to labor to express, the identity of their law.
    Art2 7.40 14 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
    Art2 7.40 15 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts. The law is this. The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
    Art2 7.40 24 Nature is the representative of the universal mind, and the law becomes this,--that Art must be a complement to Nature...
    Art2 7.41 14 [Our works] must be conformed to [Nature's] law...
    Art2 7.41 27 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...
    Art2 7.42 27 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
    Art2 7.48 6 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay...
    Elo1 7.87 17 The superior court must establish the law for this...
    Elo1 7.88 7 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law...
    Elo1 7.88 16 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Franklin. Its application to law seems quite accidental.
    Elo1 7.89 6 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its law is method, which constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
    DL 7.132 8 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
    Boks 7.192 4 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Cour 7.259 27 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault, not that we have taken the initiative and given the law.
    Suc 7.283 18 ...we value ourselves on all these feats. 'T is the way of the world; 't is the law of youth, and of unfolding strength.
    Suc 7.300 25 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which stream through things...
    Suc 7.306 3 The very law of averages might have assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five good heads.
    Suc 7.308 14 We may apply this affirmative law to letters, to manners...
    OA 7.321 21 Nature, in the main, vindicates her law [of time].
    PI 8.7 5 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen, by law of thought and not by law of kitchen clock or county committee.
    PI 8.7 6 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen, by law of thought and not by law of kitchen clock or county committee.
    PI 8.8 7 Identity of law, perfect order in physics...exist.
    PI 8.9 27 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see the law gleaming through...
    PI 8.16 7 ...whenever you enunciate a natural law you discover that you have enunciated a law of the mind.
    PI 8.16 8 ...whenever you enunciate a natural law you discover that you have enunciated a law of the mind.
    PI 8.31 23 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to this moment...
    PI 8.34 6 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
    PI 8.39 16 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands of himself,-- veracity, first of all. But with that, he is the lawgiver, as being an exact reporter of the essential law.
    PI 8.42 21 Anything, child, that the mind covets...thou mayest obtain, by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind.
    SA 8.84 1 It is the law of our constitution that every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...
    SA 8.98 20 The law of the table is Beauty...
    SA 8.98 24 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law;...
    Elo2 8.111 13 ...[an anecdote of eloquence] has a beautiful and prodigious surprise in it. For all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground, so that the result is often predicted by the observer with great certainty before the charge is sounded. Not so in a court of law, or in a legislature.
    Elo2 8.124 16 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Res 8.149 8 It is a law of chemistry that every gas is a vacuum to every other gas;...
    Res 8.150 5 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    Res 8.150 8 ...the come-and-go of the pendulum, is the law of mind;...
    Res 8.153 8 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    QO 8.184 25 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
    PC 8.208 20 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    PC 8.222 24 [Newton's] law was only a particular of the more universal law of centrality.
    PC 8.222 25 [Newton's] law was only a particular of the more universal law of centrality.
    PC 8.222 26 Every law in Nature...has a counterpart in the intellect.
    PC 8.223 19 Mind carries the law;...
    PC 8.224 16 The good wit finds the law from a single observation...
    PC 8.224 17 The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the law, and its limitations, and its correspondences...
    PC 8.229 25 The same law holds for the intellect as for the will.
    PPo 8.248 25 A law or statute is to [Hafiz] what a fence is to a nimble school-boy,-a temptation for a jump.
    PPo 8.252 3 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.
    Insp 8.270 21 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
    Insp 8.294 22 We have not learned the law of the mind...
    Grts 8.306 19 ...diamagnetism is a law of the mind...
    Grts 8.310 3 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle, nor an angel, nor a dream, nor a law;...
    Grts 8.312 22 ...the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular men, but with man enamoured with the law and the Eternal Source.
    Grts 8.314 9 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon, who... was intellectual and knew the law of things.
    Imtl 8.342 20 The health of the mind consists in the perception of law.
    Imtl 8.342 21 [The mind's] dignity consists in being under the law.
    Dem1 10.11 23 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Dem1 10.22 21 ...we know that the law of the Universe is one for each and for all.
    Dem1 10.22 27 Every fact in which the moral elements intermingle is not the less under the dominion of fatal law.
    PerF 10.73 3 The man must bend to the law, never the law to him.
    PerF 10.82 24 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
    PerF 10.86 6 Things are saturated with the moral law.
    PerF 10.87 25 ...the courts snatch...at any vicious form of law to rule [the moral sentiment] out;...
    Chr2 10.97 19 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.
    Chr2 10.104 6 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism; whilst in Nature is none at all, God...known only as pure law...
    Chr2 10.106 17 ...what has been running on through three horizons, or ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature...
    Chr2 10.112 1 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    Chr2 10.118 26 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no fagot, no penance, no fine, no rebuke. Is not this wrong? is not this dangerous? 'T is not wrong, but the law of growth.
    Edc1 10.125 16 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.130 13 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
    Edc1 10.131 23 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending their relation and law.
    Edc1 10.133 27 We are not encouraged when the law touches [education] with its fingers.
    Edc1 10.141 12 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...teaches by practice the law of conversation...
    Edc1 10.152 24 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim martial law...
    Edc1 10.157 21 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk;...
    Supl 10.170 12 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade.
    SovE 10.187 20 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.187 24 Every judge is a culprit, every law an abuse.
    SovE 10.188 5 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law...
    SovE 10.188 21 Melioration is the law.
    SovE 10.192 25 The law is: To each shall be rendered his own.
    SovE 10.195 11 We perish, and perish gladly, if the law remains.
    SovE 10.195 22 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem; so neither do we doubt or fail to love the eternal law, of which we are such shabby practisers.
    SovE 10.196 8 The law of gravity is not hurt by every accident...
    SovE 10.196 10 The law of gravity is not hurt by every accident, though our leg be broken. No more is the law of justice by our departure from it.
    SovE 10.209 12 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are not continuous and technical...
    SovE 10.212 1 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from London or Washington law...to the self-revealing idea;...
    SovE 10.213 26 A man who has accustomed himself...to pierce to the principle and moral law, and everywhere to find that,-has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.222 20 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history...
    Prch 10.222 22 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history, to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...
    Prch 10.234 3 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep observer]. He will find...as dazzling a glory on the invincible law.
    MoL 10.248 21 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Smith, with his law of trade;...
    Schr 10.261 16 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like. We are used to these surprises. This is but one operation of a more general law.
    Schr 10.262 27 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...affirmers of the one law...
    Schr 10.264 1 ...[intellect] sees no bound to the eternal proceeding of law forth into nature.
    Schr 10.264 3 All the sciences are only new applications...of the one law which [the scholar's] mind is.
    Schr 10.279 23 Order is heaven's first law.
    Plu 10.296 2 Montesquieu drew from [Plutarch] his definition of law...
    LLNE 10.338 23 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...
    LLNE 10.353 15 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic, which he sees to include all men in its law...
    SlHr 10.442 12 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    Thor 10.474 12 The depth of [Thoreau's] perception found likeness of law throughout Nature...
    Thor 10.474 13 ...I know not any genius who so swiftly inferred universal law from the single fact [as did Thoreau].
    Thor 10.477 26 ...One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.
    Carl 10.491 22 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.
    Carl 10.492 22 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    HDC 11.30 12 In the country, without any interference of the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
    HDC 11.44 2 The necessity of the colonists wrote the law.
    HDC 11.47 23 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every man...might introduce any business into a public meeting.
    HDC 11.65 5 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...
    HDC 11.71 8 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...
    HDC 11.80 10 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was...to prescribe by law the prices of articles.
    HDC 11.81 3 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    HDC 11.81 26 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord], and asked the town whether they would have it for the law of the State?
    EWI 11.104 6 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work; when, not they, but the eternal law of animal nature refused to work;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.106 3 [Granville] Sharpe instantly sat down and gave himself to the study of English law for more than two years...
    EWI 11.106 7 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible...with the whole spirit of English law.
    EWI 11.106 25 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    EWI 11.110 8 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation, declaring that slavery was as much a crime against the Divine law as the slave-trade.
    EWI 11.111 7 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen hours, and his ration by law, in some islands, was a pint of flour and one salt herring a day.
    EWI 11.117 10 ...the habit of oppression was not destroyed [in the West Indies] by a law and a day of jubilee.
    EWI 11.121 12 ...men of all colors have equal rights in law [in Jamaica], and an equal footing in society...
    EWI 11.129 17 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
    EWI 11.130 14 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense. This man, these men, I see, and no law
    EWI 11.136 15 ...The reasonableness of the law is the soul of the law...
    War 11.172 6 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    FSLC 11.182 9 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born.
    FSLC 11.182 11 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born. What kind of law is that which extorts language like this from the heart of a free and civilized people?
    FSLC 11.185 2 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.185 25 It is the law of the world,-as much immorality as there is, so much misery.
    FSLC 11.186 21 An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it...
    FSLC 11.186 23 ...virtue is the very self of every man. It is therefore a principle of law that an immoral contract is void, and that an immoral statute is void.
    FSLC 11.187 4 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law.
    FSLC 11.187 9 It is not easy to parallel the wickedness of this American law [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.187 10 ...that is the head and body of this discontent, that [the Fugitive Slave] law is immoral.
    FSLC 11.187 18 If our resistance to this law [the Fugitive Slave Law] is not right, there is no right.
    FSLC 11.188 12 ...all men that are born are, in proportion to their power of thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.188 17 I thought it a point on which all sane men were agreed, that the law must respect the public morality.
    FSLC 11.189 10 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life...
    FSLC 11.189 18 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law;...
    FSLC 11.190 11 I had often heard...that it was a principle in law that immoral laws are void.
    FSLC 11.190 25 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...
    FSLC 11.191 2 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
    FSLC 11.191 5 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
    FSLC 11.191 8 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it...
    FSLC 11.192 23 How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons charity?
    FSLC 11.192 26 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.
    FSLC 11.193 20 Will you...blame the air for rushing in where a vacuum is made or the boiler for exploding under pressure of steam? These facts are after laws of the world, and so is it law, that, when justice is violated, anger begins.
    FSLC 11.194 1 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.194 15 You can commit no crime, for [men] are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.
    FSLC 11.195 6 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    FSLC 11.195 8 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
    FSLC 11.195 17 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.
    FSLC 11.195 18 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.
    FSLC 11.195 25 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men...
    FSLC 11.196 3 This [Fugitive Slave] law comes with infamy in it, and out of it.
    FSLC 11.196 12 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating;...
    FSLC 11.196 25 I wonder that our acute people...should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    FSLC 11.198 2 You have a law [The Fugitive Slave Law] which no man can obey, or abet the obeying, without loss of self-respect...
    FSLC 11.199 5 [Webster's] pacification has brought...all scrupulous and good-hearted men, all women, and all children, to accuse the law.
    FSLC 11.199 20 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
    FSLC 11.199 22 The only benefit that has accrued from the [Fugitive Slave] law is its service to education.
    FSLC 11.199 26 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has...made every citizen a student of natural law.
    FSLC 11.200 7 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...what exposure of the mischief of the law;...
    FSLC 11.201 15 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.201 16 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law. Mr. Webster cannot choose but regret his law.
    FSLC 11.206 15 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    FSLC 11.206 15 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion. The law is suicidal, and cannot be obeyed.
    FSLC 11.206 17 The Union is at an end as soon as an immoral law is enacted.
    FSLC 11.207 6 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law;...
    FSLC 11.210 21 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument... none can tell, or by what sources God has guarded his law; still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLC 11.212 12 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude.
    FSLC 11.212 17 This [Fugitive Slave] law must be made inoperative.
    FSLC 11.213 4 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe.
    FSLC 11.214 1 ...there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLC 11.214 5 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.219 13 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law.
    FSLN 11.223 21 It is a law of our nature that great thoughts come from the heart.
    FSLN 11.225 21 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.
    FSLN 11.226 26 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law;...
    FSLN 11.227 1 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages, and settled always in the same way by every great jurist, that an immoral law cannot be valid.
    FSLN 11.227 18 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
    FSLN 11.228 4 ...by Mr. Webster the opposition to the [Fugitive Slave] law was sharply called treason...
    FSLN 11.228 14 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    FSLN 11.228 23 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...
    FSLN 11.233 13 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right...
    FSLN 11.233 14 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs.
    FSLN 11.233 16 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs. But what if unhappily the judges were chosen from the wolves, and give to all the law a wolfish interpretation?
    AKan 11.257 21 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory under the sanction of every law...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.258 11 We adore the forms of law...
    AKan 11.260 12 What are the results of law and union?
    AKan 11.261 2 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law...
    AKan 11.261 3 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law, in direct opposition to the known foundation of all law, that every immoral statute is void.
    AKan 11.261 23 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;...
    JBB 11.272 4 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    ACiv 11.299 5 ...a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy: we have attempted to hold these two states of society under one law.
    ACiv 11.305 4 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    EPro 11.319 11 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
    EPro 11.320 12 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature...
    SMC 11.352 9 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they overlooked the moral law...
    SMC 11.352 12 ...in the necessities of the hour, [Americans]...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant. But the moral law...did not wink at it...
    EdAd 11.389 11 Public affairs are chained in the same law with private;...
    Koss 11.400 15 ...I speak the sense not only of every generous American, but the law of mind, when I say that it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who...think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    Wom 11.423 17 The fairest names in this country in literature, in law, have gone into Congress and come out dishonored.
    Wom 11.423 20 ...when I read the list of...giants in law, or eminent scholars...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    Wom 11.425 16 ...woman moulds the lawgiver and writes the law.
    Shak1 11.450 4 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    Humb 11.457 20 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law...
    FRO1 11.479 16 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRO2 11.486 6 ...the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the Universe was made;...
    FRO2 11.488 19 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize;...
    CPL 11.505 24 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    FRep 11.514 19 The law of water and all fluids is true of wit.
    FRep 11.520 4 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...break away from the law of honesty...
    FRep 11.528 2 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public even when irregular and vicious,-the voice of mobs, the voice of lynch law...
    FRep 11.528 8 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance...proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition.
    FRep 11.528 10 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance... proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition. If they unmake a law, they can easily make a new one.
    FRep 11.540 14 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    FRep 11.540 22 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect...announcing its good pleasure that now...the world shall be governed by common sense and law of morals.
    NHI 12.1 1 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...
    PLT 12.7 6 ...these questions which really interest men, how few can answer. Here are learned faculties of law and divinity, but would questions like these come into mind when I see them?
    PLT 12.8 15 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...and poor Nature and the sublime law...are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.
    PLT 12.13 10 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the record of some law whose working was surprised by the observer in natural action.
    PLT 12.17 11 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness...
    PLT 12.18 1 ...as the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into earths and moons, by a higher force of the same law the mind detaches minds...
    PLT 12.20 27 This reduction to a few laws, to one law, is not a choice of the individual...
    PLT 12.21 16 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...
    PLT 12.23 21 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...
    PLT 12.41 15 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
    PLT 12.51 9 It is a law of Nature that he who looks at one thing must turn his eyes from every other thing in the universe.
    PLT 12.63 7 ...[identification of the Ego with the universe's] communication from one to another follows its own law...
    II 12.75 8 ...[the inner mind's] communication from one to another follows its own law...
    II 12.77 18 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true;...
    II 12.83 7 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 12.85 19 [A man] shall keep the law which shall keep him.
    II 12.87 10 As the whole has its law, so each individual has his genius.
    Mem 12.93 5 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances, until it shall become the whole law of Nature and life.
    Mem 12.97 3 Nature interests [the intellectual man];...mind, being, in their own method and law.
    Mem 12.101 13 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    Mem 12.107 24 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but a reminder of its law...
    Mem 12.109 23 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection as a planet in its orbit (every other orb, or the law or system of which it is a part, being a perpetual reminder),-we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an
    Mem 12.110 11 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us...
    CInt 12.117 13 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands, what is the law of it without reference to persons.
    CInt 12.123 11 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is to observe the order...
    CInt 12.124 25 ...genius is always its own law...
    CInt 12.129 19 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will find the circumstances not altered;...as dazzling a glory on the invincible law.
    CL 12.164 12 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...secondly, because we have an instinct that they express a grander law.
    Bost 12.204 18 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law;...
    Bost 12.205 24 The sailor and the merchant [in America] made the law to suit themselves...
    Bost 12.209 12 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life...of education, of social order, of loyalty to law.
    Milt1 12.272 8 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body, which was good ground in law.
    ACri 12.302 27 ...this is the ball that is tossed in every court of law, in every legislature and in literature...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    ACri 12.304 2 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance. One is the product of inclination, of caprice, of haphazard; the other carries its law and necessity within itself.
    MLit 12.327 7 ...in the court and law to which we ordinarily speak...we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...
    WSL 12.346 27 Mr. Landor's definitions are only enumerations of particulars; the generic law is not seized.
    Trag 12.406 25 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law not adapted to man, nor man to that...
    Trag 12.408 19 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...
    Trag 12.413 23 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society, any revolution of custom, of law, of opinion, and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

Law, n. (18)

    DSA 1.123 18 See again the perfection of the Law as it applies itself to the affections...
    DSA 1.125 8 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures;...
    DSA 1.131 19 ...you shall not dare and live after the infinite Law that is in you...
    DSA 1.134 4 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...is not explored...
    DSA 1.141 24 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    DSA 1.141 25 What a cruel injustice it is to...that Law whose fatal sureness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate; - that it is travestied and depreciated...
    DSA 1.142 3 The pulpit in losing sight of this Law, loses its reason...
    NER 3.283 9 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and beautiful...
    MoS 4.178 21 Reason, the prized reality, the Law, is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...
    F 6.49 21 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence;...
    F 6.49 22 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which is not intelligent but intelligence;...
    Wth 6.84 21 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law/...
    Wsp 6.221 12 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.
    DL 7.132 13 Will [man] not see, through all he miscalls accident, that Law prevails for ever and ever;...
    DL 7.132 20 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond.
    Chr2 10.113 24 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
    Schr 10.259 10 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold,/ Melting matter into dreams,/ Panoramas which I saw,/ And whatever glows or seems/ Into substance, into Law./
    FSLC 11.190 5 I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of Law to be discredited.

law-abiding, adj. (3)

    Wth 6.103 16 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime...
    FSLC 11.205 13 The people are loyal, law-loving, law-abiding.
    FRep 11.528 16 The [American] people are loyal, law-abiding.

law-book, n. (1)

    Pow 6.62 18 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country...

law-books, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.190 9 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.

law-breaker, n. (1)

    Exp 3.51 11 Of what use to make heroic vows of amendment, if the same old law-breaker is to keep them?

law-court, n. (1)

    ET5 5.92 24 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau...

law-courts, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 10 ...in any trade, or in law-courts...they only prosper or they prosper best who have a military mind...

law-forms, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.184 3 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?

lawful, adj. (7)

    Comp 2.122 27 ...all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had if paid for in nature's lawful coin...
    PNR 4.84 25 [Plato] saw that the globe of earth was not more lawful and precise than was the supersensible;...
    ET4 5.67 12 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for law, lawful trade...
    ET5 5.80 9 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought, however lawful, whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule.
    Prch 10.226 17 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    LLNE 10.354 19 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is; how chaste is their organization; how lawful a class.
    Thor 10.467 11 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river, as itself a lawful creature...

lawfully, adv. (1)

    SovE 10.207 16 ...if there be really in us the wish to seek...for that which is lawfully above us, we shall not long look in vain.

lawfulness, n. (1)

    Exp 3.64 27 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned;...

law-giver, n. [lawgiver,] (17)

    MR 1.241 12 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea...of...the law-giver...
    Pol1 3.216 15 [The wise man] needs...no statute-book, for he has the lawgiver;...
    PPh 4.63 18 Nature is good, but the intellect is better: as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
    GoW 4.269 20 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he is no longer the lawgiver...
    GoW 4.287 17 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist.
    ET8 5.137 19 England is the lawgiver, the patron, the instructor, the ally.
    Clbs 7.235 25 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue...
    PI 8.39 15 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands of himself,-- veracity, first of all. But with that, he is the lawgiver...
    SA 8.83 1 An intellectual man...is instantly reinforced by being put into the company of scholars, and, to the surprise of everybody, becomes a lawgiver.
    SA 8.93 1 In this art of conversation, Woman...is the lawgiver.
    QO 8.195 4 In [a writer's] own [book] he waits as a candidate for your approbation; in another's he is a lawgiver.
    PerF 10.74 24 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Plu 10.297 19 [Plutarch] is...not a lawgiver...
    Wom 11.425 15 ...woman moulds the lawgiver and writes the law.
    FRep 11.538 11 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations...
    Bost 12.205 23 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here...into a maritime country made for trade, where was no rival and no envious lawgiver.
    MAng1 12.229 16 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf.

Law-giver, n. (1)

    Tran 1.336 10 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.

lawgivers, n. [law-givers,] (9)

    Prd1 2.231 3 Poets should be lawgivers;...
    UGM 4.20 8 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
    SwM 4.124 8 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws...entitle him to a place...among the lawgivers of mankind.
    MoS 4.174 11 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected.
    F 6.25 25 We are as lawgivers;...
    CbW 6.258 22 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers...mainly rely on this stuff...
    PI 8.19 6 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes. And thus begins that deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every kind,--saints, poets, lawgivers and warriors.
    PI 8.65 24 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
    MoL 10.249 14 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...

lawless, adj. (5)

    Exp 3.75 14 ...scepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless...
    PNR 4.86 26 There is no lawless particle...
    Dem1 10.26 24 [The demonologic] is a lawless world.
    LLNE 10.355 6 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...
    FRep 11.524 9 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler. But how was it done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and threw in these hundreds of ballots in defiance of the magistrates?

law-lord, n. (1)

    ET11 5.174 15 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and the mill-owner;...

law-loving, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.205 13 The people are loyal, law-loving, law-abiding.

lawmaker, n. (1)

    MR 1.229 18 The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker...

lawn, n. (2)

    ET13 5.227 1 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter.
    ET16 5.284 27 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]... yet the eye was still drawn to the windows, to a magnificent lawn...

lawns, n. (1)

    ET12 5.199 7 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see...the beautiful lawns and gardens of the colleges [at Cambridge]...

law-receiver, n. (1)

    PPh 4.63 18 Nature is good, but the intellect is better: as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

law-reform, n. (1)

    ET18 5.305 13 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;--law-reform, army-reform...

Lawrence, Colonel, n. (1)

    SMC 11.364 2 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons...

Lawrence, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    F 6.42 26 We know in Massachusetts...who built...Lawrence...

Lawrence's, Thomas, n. (1)

    ET12 5.202 18 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.

Laws, Corn, n. (2)

    YA 1.380 13 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the English League against the Corn Laws;...
    ET15 5.264 4 [The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.

Laws [Menu], n. (1)

    Boks 7.218 17 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Vedas and Laws of Menu;...

laws, n. (438)

    Nat 1.3 19 Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
    Nat 1.15 12 By the mutual action of [the eye's] structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced...
    Nat 1.21 11 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled, to suffer death as the champion of the English laws, one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    Nat 1.32 27 The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.
    Nat 1.33 4 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics.
    Nat 1.34 11 ...the light of higher laws than [the universe's] own shines through it.
    Nat 1.38 4 ...[property] is hiving...experience in profounder laws.
    Nat 1.39 5 How calmly and genially the mind apprehends one after another the laws of physics!
    Nat 1.39 12 ...Time and Space relations vanish as laws are known.
    Nat 1.40 23 ...every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.41 1 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.44 4 The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat from the river that wears it away.
    Nat 1.48 17 Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man.
    Nat 1.49 5 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    Nat 1.66 1 In inquiries respecting the laws of the world...the highest reason is always the truest.
    Nat 1.71 17 The laws of [man's] mind...externized themselves into day and night...
    AmS 1.87 4 [Nature's] laws are the laws of [the scholar's] own mind.
    DSA 1.120 8 ...when the mind...reveals the laws which traverse the universe...then shrinks the great world...into a mere illustration...
    DSA 1.120 14 Behold these out-running laws...
    DSA 1.121 13 The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws.
    DSA 1.121 20 These [divine] laws refuse to be adequately stated.
    DSA 1.122 8 The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.
    DSA 1.122 9 These laws [of the soul] execute themselves.
    DSA 1.124 22 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment...
    DSA 1.134 4 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...is not explored...
    DSA 1.136 25 Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced as to fill my ear...
    DSA 1.137 2 ...the laws of nature control the activity of the hands...
    DSA 1.151 17 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
    LE 1.177 17 [Human life's] laws are concealed under the details of daily action.
    LE 1.178 6 ...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    LE 1.187 14 By virtue of the laws of that Nature which is one and perfect, [Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to the scholar...
    MN 1.192 21 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    MN 1.198 20 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    MN 1.212 1 Is it [man's] work in the world to study nature, or the laws of the world?
    MN 1.215 25 Tell me not how great your project is...laws of love for laws of property;...
    MR 1.228 23 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment,-Christianity, the laws...
    MR 1.229 14 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the laws of centuries...are built on other foundations.
    MR 1.234 4 ...our laws which establish and protect [property] seem not to be the issue of love and reason...
    MR 1.254 1 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich...
    LT 1.269 11 ...the agitators on the system of Education and the laws of Property, are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    LT 1.280 3 ...if I am just, then is there no slavery, let the laws say what they will.
    LT 1.283 1 ...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends in thought...
    Con 1.307 13 [The youth says] I cannot understand, or so much as spare time to read that needless library of your laws.
    Con 1.307 21 [The youth says] I shall seek those whom I love, and shun those whom I love not, and what more can all your laws render me?
    Con 1.319 22 ...society has resolved itself into a Hospital Committee, and all its laws are quarantine.
    Con 1.324 2 It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are.
    Tran 1.333 14 Although in his action overpowered by the laws of action... yet when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Tran 1.333 22 [The idealist] does not respect...property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol, illustrating with wonderful fidelity of details the laws of being;...
    YA 1.370 21 ...here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    YA 1.374 6 We devise sumptuary and relief laws...
    YA 1.375 8 ...we make prospective laws...for remote generations.
    Hist 2.3 21 ...all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws.
    Hist 2.5 27 ...we hedge [human life] round with penalties and laws.
    Hist 2.6 1 All laws derive hence [from the universal nature] their ultimate reason;...
    Hist 2.6 6 ...instinctively we at first hold to [property] with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations.
    Hist 2.15 24 Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.
    Hist 2.22 16 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    Hist 2.37 14 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac... anticipate the laws of organization.
    SR 2.76 24 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself, tossing the laws...out of the window, we pity him no more...
    Comp 2.96 7 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Comp 2.100 5 This law [Compensation] writes the laws of cities and nations.
    Comp 2.106 8 The human soul is true to these facts [of Compensation] in the painting...of laws...
    Comp 2.107 13 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted...to shake itself free of the old laws...
    Comp 2.109 8 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    Comp 2.111 27 Our property is timid, our laws are timid...
    Comp 2.114 2 Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws.
    Comp 2.115 13 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than...in the laws of light and darkness...
    Comp 2.115 15 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
    Comp 2.115 26 The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor.
    Comp 2.116 11 The laws and substances of nature...become penalties to the thief.
    Comp 2.124 23 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends and home and laws and faith...
    SL 2.135 15 ...we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
    SL 2.136 24 If we look wider...laws and letters and creeds and modes of living seem a travesty of truth.
    SL 2.149 19 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind...
    SL 2.155 21 The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the laws of health.
    SL 2.155 22 The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the laws of health.
    Lov1 2.184 2 ...things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws.
    Fdsp 2.199 3 The laws of friendship are austere and eternal...
    Fdsp 2.199 5 The laws of friendship are...of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
    Fdsp 2.211 10 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower...
    Prd1 2.222 4 [Prudence] moves matter after the laws of matter.
    Prd1 2.222 7 [Prudence] is content to seek...health of mind by the laws of the intellect.
    Prd1 2.222 11 ...a true prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws...
    Prd1 2.222 16 [Prudence] is legitimate...when it unfolds the beauty of laws within the narrow scope of the senses.
    Prd1 2.224 26 [Prudence] takes the laws of the world...as they are...
    Prd1 2.225 1 [Prudence] takes the laws of the world...as they are, and keeps these laws that it may enjoy their proper good.
    Prd1 2.225 9 Here is a planted globe, pierced and belted with natural laws...
    Prd1 2.228 20 The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
    Prd1 2.230 26 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same;...
    Prd1 2.232 3 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...
    Prd1 2.232 27 A man of genius...reckless of physical laws...becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
    Prd1 2.234 10 The laws of the world are written out for [a man] on every piece of money in his hand.
    Prd1 2.236 11 We must not try to write the laws of any one virtue, looking at that only.
    Hsm1 2.249 3 The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also.
    Hsm1 2.249 7 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws...
    Hsm1 2.253 7 Citizens, thinking after the laws of arithmetic, consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside...
    Cir 2.309 13 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...the intrepid conviction that his laws...may at any time be superseded...
    Int 2.325 6 ...the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws, method, and the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    Int 2.329 27 In every man's mind, some...facts remain...which others forget, and afterwards these illustrate to him important laws.
    Int 2.336 10 There is an inequality, whose laws we do not yet know, between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty [of communication].
    Int 2.340 18 ...all the laws of nature may be read in the smallest fact.
    Int 2.341 16 ...every man is a receiver of this descending holy ghost, and may well study the laws of its influx.
    Int 2.345 21 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
    Art1 2.359 18 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting...that they had their origin from thoughts and laws in his own breast.
    Art1 2.366 22 ...this division of beauty from use, the laws of nature do not permit.
    Exp 3.76 24 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
    Chr1 3.91 1 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears...to be an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun...
    Chr1 3.93 19 I see [in the natural merchant]...the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
    Chr1 3.103 13 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house to adorn the landscape and strengthen the laws.
    Chr1 3.107 18 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    Chr1 3.112 3 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men]...and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
    Chr1 3.112 14 Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity;...
    Mrs1 3.120 12 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations;...
    Mrs1 3.131 25 ...the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
    Mrs1 3.138 25 I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.
    Mrs1 3.150 12 Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
    Mrs1 3.155 5 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion has good laws as well as bad...
    Gts 3.159 23 ...everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.
    Nat2 3.180 18 The whole code of [nature's] laws may be written on the thumbnail...
    Nat2 3.181 7 Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws.
    Nat2 3.181 8 [Nature] keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them.
    Nat2 3.183 22 A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature...
    Nat2 3.195 8 ...though we are always engaged with particulars...we bring with us to every experiment the innate universal laws.
    Pol1 3.199 24 Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city...
    Pol1 3.201 20 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Pol1 3.204 1 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...
    Pol1 3.205 2 Things have their laws, as well as men;...
    Pol1 3.208 4 Good men must not obey the laws too well.
    Pol1 3.211 25 No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.
    Pol1 3.212 15 We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws.
    Pol1 3.215 1 ...any laws but those which men make for themselves are laughable.
    Pol1 3.215 21 ...the less government we have the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
    Pol1 3.221 10 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
    NR 3.231 13 ...[the day-laborer] is saturated with the laws of the world.
    NR 3.231 19 Money...is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    NR 3.231 26 How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of nations are largely detailed...
    NER 3.262 6 Do you complain of the laws of Property?
    NER 3.280 16 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    NER 3.284 4 [A man] can already rely on the laws of gravity...
    NER 3.284 25 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...we refuse the laws...
    UGM 4.18 4 The eyes of Plato, Shakspeare, Swedenborg, Goethe, never shut on either of these laws [of identity and of reaction].
    UGM 4.18 5 The perception of these laws [of identity and of reaction] is a kind of metre of the mind.
    PPh 4.45 18 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a...man, able to honor, at the same time, the ideal, or laws of the mind, and fate, or the order of nature.
    PPh 4.56 18 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato... studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    PPh 4.76 1 ...expounding the laws of the state...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    PPh 4.77 15 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    PNR 4.83 15 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction...
    PNR 4.83 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially...in Socrates' belief that the laws below are sisters of the laws above.
    PNR 4.83 20 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially...in Socrates' belief that the laws below are sisters of the laws above.
    SwM 4.105 16 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving...the first birth and annunciation of one of the laws of nature.
    SwM 4.119 5 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    SwM 4.119 18 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
    SwM 4.122 27 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects...and opened the future world by indicating the continuity of the same laws.
    SwM 4.124 6 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws, take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    SwM 4.126 6 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...
    SwM 4.128 24 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
    SwM 4.139 25 ...the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    SwM 4.145 23 By the science of experiment and use, [Swedenborg] made his first steps: he observed and published the laws of nature;...
    MoS 4.149 19 [A man] builds his fortunes, maintains the laws...but he asks himself, Why? and whereto?
    MoS 4.177 4 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
    MoS 4.185 25 [The world-spirit] snaps his finger at laws...
    ShP 4.200 20 The nervous language of the Common Law...and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    ShP 4.211 1 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    ShP 4.211 16 ...[Shakespeare] knew the laws of repression which make the police of nature...
    NMW 4.254 18 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great reputation] continues...
    GoW 4.274 20 [Goethe] has defined art, its scope and laws.
    GoW 4.279 18 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws;...that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    ET1 5.6 24 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
    ET3 5.36 6 ...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET4 5.46 7 [The English] laws are hospitable...
    ET4 5.46 17 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune;...
    ET5 5.83 3 This [English] common-sense is a perception...of laws that can be stated, and of laws than cannot be stated...
    ET5 5.95 27 Steam is almost an Englishman. I do not know but they will send him to Parliament next, to make laws.
    ET8 5.143 3 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures, and forms and reforms the laws, letters, manners and occupations.
    ET10 5.164 10 The laws [of England] are framed to give property the securest possible basis...
    ET11 5.172 14 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions. Laws, customs, manners...affirm it.
    ET11 5.186 27 [The English] wear the laws as ornaments...
    ET14 5.240 22 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    ET14 5.242 17 ...the very announcement...of Kepler's three harmonic laws...finds a sudden response in the mind...
    ET14 5.243 25 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
    ET14 5.250 3 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of decay.
    ET14 5.252 23 ...a faith in the laws of the mind like that of Archimedes;... the modern English mind repudiates.
    ET14 5.252 26 ...a belief like that of Euler and Kepler, that experience must follow and not lead the laws of the mind;...the modern English mind repudiates.
    ET14 5.255 13 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    ET18 5.301 20 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas, and wrathfully supported by their laws...
    ET18 5.308 9 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous for immortal laws...
    F 6.4 3 ...there is Fate, or laws of the world.
    F 6.8 24 ...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy power of other laws which act on us daily.
    F 6.10 23 Ask the digger in the ditch to explain Newton's laws;...
    F 6.19 1 ...not less work the laws of repression...
    F 6.21 4 ...if we give it the high sense in which the poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate; that too must act according to eternal laws...
    F 6.27 1 'T is the majesty into which we have suddenly mounted...the sphere of laws, that engage us.
    F 6.49 11 ...in geology, vast time but the same laws as to-day.
    Pow 6.54 16 The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
    Pow 6.56 12 The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events and strong with their strength.
    Pow 6.60 26 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Pow 6.81 2 If these forces [of spirit] and this husbandry are within reach of our will, and the laws of them can be read, we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Wth 6.92 9 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done. No matter whether he makes shoes, or statues, or laws.
    Wth 6.101 11 Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world...
    Wth 6.101 12 Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world, and since those laws are intellectual and moral, an intellectual and moral obedience.
    Wth 6.101 16 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read...the ascendency of laws over all private and hostile influences, as any Bible which has come down to us.
    Wth 6.105 24 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.
    Wth 6.105 25 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
    Wth 6.106 5 The laws of nature play through trade...
    Wth 6.106 11 The sublime laws play indifferently through atoms and galaxies.
    Wth 6.106 25 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.125 20 The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the universe.
    Bhr 6.172 25 Bad behavior the laws cannot reach.
    Wsp 6.209 15 ...[Christ's personality] recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
    Wsp 6.215 18 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    Wsp 6.219 22 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity...and so forth.
    Wsp 6.219 24 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those...of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them...
    CbW 6.253 17 ...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.
    Bty 6.288 21 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Bty 6.298 17 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all...should have been beautiful if our ancestors had kept the laws...
    Bty 6.305 15 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things. The laws of this translation we do not know...
    Ill 6.320 5 One after the other we accept the mental laws...
    Ill 6.322 10 When we break the laws, we lose our hold on the central reality.
    Ill 6.324 1 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence; as in our employments, which only differ in the manifestations but express the same laws;...
    Ill 6.324 21 The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope, and the will by clothing the laws of life in illusions.
    Civ 7.23 27 Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity...
    Civ 7.33 22 Not the less the popular measures of progress will ever be the arts and the laws.
    Art2 7.48 9 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature...
    Art2 7.52 19 The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.
    Elo1 7.99 9 Eloquence...rests on laws the most exact and determinate.
    Elo1 7.100 5 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country, or the laws...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    DL 7.104 17 With an acoustic apparatus of whistle and rattle [the child] explores the laws of sound.
    DL 7.119 13 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads the laws of the universe...
    DL 7.127 8 The first glance we meet may satisfy us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
    Farm 7.141 17 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.141 20 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who, heedless of laws and constitutions, stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Boks 7.214 7 ...books that...distribute things...after the laws of right reason... put us on our feet again...
    Clbs 7.245 20 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
    Suc 7.292 12 ...we import the religion of other nations;...we cite their laws.
    PI 8.3 4 We must learn the homely laws of fire and water;...
    PI 8.5 18 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws...
    PI 8.5 21 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...
    PI 8.6 14 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...
    PI 8.6 16 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind; its strange suggestions and laws;...
    PI 8.8 8 Identity of law...perfect parallelism between the laws of Nature and the laws of thought exist.
    PI 8.8 9 Identity of law...perfect parallelism between the laws of Nature and the laws of thought exist.
    PI 8.9 1 The laws of light and of heat translate each other;...
    PI 8.9 2 The laws of light and of heat translate each other;--so do the laws of sound and of color;...
    PI 8.21 25 [The poet] observes higher laws than he transgresses.
    PI 8.32 7 Eternal laws are very well, which admit no violation...
    PI 8.32 13 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies itself with exceptions...
    PI 8.38 5 A poet comes who...gives [mortal men] glimpses of the laws of the universe;...
    PI 8.38 8 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws...
    PI 8.41 25 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows...
    PI 8.42 10 The poet is enamoured of thoughts and laws.
    PI 8.68 20 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...
    SA 8.81 4 Manners are stronger than laws.
    SA 8.106 12 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
    SA 8.106 27 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those who delight in each other only because both delight in the eternal laws;...
    Res 8.141 3 By his machines man...can...divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
    Comc 8.163 12 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity,--they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice...
    Comc 8.166 29 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar only as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Comc 8.167 17 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard, that the laws of disease are as beautiful as the laws of health;...
    QO 8.178 26 We quote...arts, sciences, religion, customs and laws;...
    QO 8.200 14 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair,-all these we never made...
    QO 8.201 26 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of thought.
    PC 8.209 20 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense in now in power, and that resting...on perceptions less and less dim of laws the most sublime.
    PC 8.217 19 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him;...
    PC 8.223 1 The laws above are sisters of the laws below.
    PC 8.223 2 The laws above are sisters of the laws below.
    PC 8.224 15 As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature, the play of all its laws, in one atom.
    PC 8.224 21 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand, its laws to his science, not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    PC 8.228 16 Science...necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.
    PC 8.230 26 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...you are...under bad governments to force on them, by your persistence, good laws.
    PC 8.232 2 Periodicity, reaction, are laws of mind as well as of matter.
    PPo 8.236 11 ...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her cause./
    Grts 8.302 14 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art.
    Grts 8.308 7 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander]...works after her laws...
    Grts 8.310 25 ...if you are a scholar, be that. The same laws hold for you as for the laborer.
    Grts 8.320 19 The man...in whom no regard of self degraded the adorer of the laws...he it is whom we seek...
    Imtl 8.331 6 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth, for the moral laws, does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Imtl 8.342 24 Nothing seems to me so excellent as a belief in the laws.
    Imtl 8.345 6 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey...
    Imtl 8.347 6 Let any master simply recite to you the substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
    Imtl 8.347 7 Let any master simply recite to you the substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
    Dem1 10.17 6 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we regard in passing laws...
    Dem1 10.19 16 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    Dem1 10.19 20 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.
    Dem1 10.22 16 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    Dem1 10.26 17 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind...preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
    Aris 10.34 14 ...if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.39 9 I wish...men...who know the beauty of animals and the laws of their nature...
    Aris 10.39 10 I wish...men...whom the mystery of botany allures, and the mineral laws;...
    Aris 10.49 14 In the absence of such anthropometer I have a perfect confidence in the natural laws.
    Aris 10.49 16 I think that the community-every community, if obstructing laws and usages are removed-will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
    PerF 10.72 13 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind...
    PerF 10.72 20 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PerF 10.72 21 ...the laws of force apply to every form of it.
    PerF 10.80 2 The geometer shows us the true order in figures; the painter in laws of color;...
    PerF 10.85 25 [This world] is a fagot of laws...
    PerF 10.85 26 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a true analysis of these laws...would be a wholesome lesson for every time and for this time.
    Chr2 10.100 5 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Chr2 10.112 6 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions.
    Chr2 10.114 7 The soul...asks...no new laws...
    Edc1 10.125 3 The use of the world is that man may learn its laws.
    Edc1 10.128 4 Here is a world pierced and belted with natural laws...
    Edc1 10.129 2 Every one has a trust of power,-every man, every boy a jurisdiction, whether it be over a cow...or the laws of a state.
    Edc1 10.129 7 [The desire of power] is a constant teaching of the laws of matter and of mind.
    Edc1 10.151 2 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?
    SovE 10.183 8 ...each of the great departments of Nature...exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
    SovE 10.190 4 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws.
    SovE 10.192 3 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are...significant pictures of the laws of the mind;...
    SovE 10.192 5 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.
    SovE 10.207 21 [The mystic or theist] knows the laws of gravitation and of repulsion are deaf to French talkers...
    SovE 10.210 5 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of...the laws of trade...come for a hearing.
    SovE 10.213 9 Now science and philosophy recognize...how the laws of both [Spirit and Matter] are one, or how one is the realization.
    Prch 10.222 26 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...
    Prch 10.223 6 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws...
    Prch 10.237 22 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life...is...a growth after immutable laws under beneficent influences the most immense.
    MoL 10.242 12 [The inviolate soul] is a learner of the laws of Nature...
    MoL 10.255 2 Neither...the laws, the customs or dogmas of nations...can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    MoL 10.256 11 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    Schr 10.261 14 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like.
    Schr 10.268 27 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.
    Schr 10.285 4 These questions [of life] speak...to Genius...whose private counsels are not tinged with selfishness, but are laws.
    Schr 10.287 3 ...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron, who distributes sun and shade after immutable laws.
    Plu 10.319 16 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship quite as well as Horace...
    LLNE 10.327 5 ...[the new race] hate...hierarchies, governors, yea, almost laws.
    LLNE 10.336 16 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws...
    EzRy 10.395 19 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is...most fit that in the fall of laws a loyal man should die.
    MMEm 10.421 2 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.
    SlHr 10.447 6 In the time of the Sunday laws [Samuel Hoar] was a tithing-man;...
    Thor 10.478 2 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.
    Thor 10.479 18 The tendency...to read all the laws of Nature in the one object or one combination under your eye, is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    Thor 10.479 24 [Thoreau] referred every minute fact to cosmical laws.
    Carl 10.492 19 The navigation laws of England made its commerce.
    HDC 11.28 7 Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
    HDC 11.43 4 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]... ordered that all fundamental laws should be enacted by the freemen of the colony.
    HDC 11.46 5 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
    HDC 11.47 10 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of patriots, enacting wholesome and creditable laws.
    HDC 11.71 17 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...to aid all untainted magistrates in the execution of the laws of the land.
    HDC 11.84 2 I find [in Concord annals] no ridiculous laws...
    EWI 11.103 25 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest.
    EWI 11.105 24 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.
    EWI 11.107 6 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...
    EWI 11.119 23 Parliament was compelled to pass additional laws for the defence and security of the negro [in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.123 17 The national aim and employment streams into...our laws...
    EWI 11.125 3 Unhappily...for the planter, the laws of nature are in harmony with each other...
    EWI 11.125 15 It was shown to the planters...that they needed the severest monopoly laws at home to keep them from bankruptcy.
    EWI 11.130 23 In the sleep of the laws, the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    EWI 11.131 6 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection...
    EWI 11.131 21 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler;...the General Court is a dishonored body, if they make laws which they cannot execute.
    EWI 11.132 22 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be.
    EWI 11.141 23 ...the white has, for ages, done what he could to keep the negro in that hoggish state. His laws have been furies.
    War 11.151 7 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...its expansion and general reception, until it publishes itself to the world by destroying the existing laws and institutions...
    War 11.154 3 [Alexander's conquest of the East]...sowed the Greek customs and humane laws over Asia...
    War 11.175 3 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.179 17 I have lived all my life in this state [Massachusetts], and never had any experience of personal inconvenience from the laws, until now.
    FSLC 11.185 25 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] is interesting as it shows the self-protecting nature of the world and of Divine laws.
    FSLC 11.186 25 ...laws do not make right...
    FSLC 11.189 26 All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual element...
    FSLC 11.190 2 The laws especially draw their obligation only from their concurrence with [the spiritual element].
    FSLC 11.190 12 I had often heard...that it was a principle in law that immoral laws are void.
    FSLC 11.191 1 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature, among whose principles are, that we should live on, should hurt nobody, and should render unto every one his due, etc. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this.
    FSLC 11.191 23 No engagement (to a sovereign) can oblige or even authorize a man to violate the laws of Nature.
    FSLC 11.191 27 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    FSLC 11.193 19 Will you...blame the air for rushing in where a vacuum is made or the boiler for exploding under pressure of steam? These facts are after laws of the world...
    FSLC 11.194 26 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened by the written laws themselves...
    FSLC 11.195 1 Laws are merely declaratory of the natural sentiments of mankind...
    FSLC 11.195 3 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment.
    FSLC 11.203 22 Mr. Webster perhaps is only following the laws of his blood and constitution.
    FSLC 11.207 5 ...I conceive it demonstrated,-the necessity of common sense and justice entering into the laws.
    FSLN 11.228 24 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative.
    FSLN 11.231 19 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...the laws of the world...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
    FSLN 11.232 27 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings, platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
    FSLN 11.234 17 These things show that no forms, neither constitutions, nor laws, nor covenants...are of any use in themselves.
    FSLN 11.234 22 Covenants are of no use without honest men to keep them; laws of none but with loyal citizens to obey them.
    FSLN 11.235 7 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    FSLN 11.235 11 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    FSLN 11.236 4 ...we are in this world...to be instructed...in the laws of moral and intelligent nature;...
    FSLN 11.241 20 We should not forgive...the Government, if it sustain the mob against the laws.
    AKan 11.255 21 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion;...
    AKan 11.257 26 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where...the whole world knows that this is...a systematic war...in defiance of all laws and liberties,- I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    JBB 11.272 14 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    JBS 11.281 14 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    ACiv 11.306 12 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent...
    ACiv 11.309 13 ...the laws by which the universe is organized reappear at every point, and will rule it.
    EPro 11.324 26 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    ALin 11.337 25 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
    EdAd 11.388 8 ...we believe politics to be...subject to the same laws with trees, earths and acids.
    EdAd 11.389 22 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
    EdAd 11.390 8 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.
    Wom 11.414 13 ...in the East...where the laws resist the education and emancipation of women...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    Wom 11.419 2 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.
    Wom 11.420 23 If new power is here, of a character...which...tries and condemns our religion, customs, laws...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    Wom 11.424 2 Let the laws be purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
    Wom 11.424 10 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern them.
    Wom 11.426 3 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course. It could not be otherwise, and hence the new desire of better laws.
    FRO1 11.479 17 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRep 11.515 18 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the combat; then poets are born, and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.530 1 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 11.532 1 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the universe...
    FRep 11.538 19 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    FRep 11.541 22 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world... hospitality of fair field and equal laws to all.
    FRep 11.544 18 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection, the purest religion will...write our laws for the benefit of men.
    PLT 12.3 5 ...in listening to Richard Owen's masterly enumeration of the parts and laws of the human body...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    PLT 12.3 14 ...I thought-could not a similar [scientific] enumeration be made of the laws and powers of the Intellect...
    PLT 12.4 1 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws, namely, which are common to chemistry, anatomy...laws of the world?
    PLT 12.4 3 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy...intellect, morals and social life;-laws of the world?
    PLT 12.4 4 These [higher] powers and laws are also facts in a Natural History.
    PLT 12.4 16 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall...see that what is set down is true through all the sciences; in the laws of thought as well as of chemistry.
    PLT 12.4 20 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working...after the laws of the human mind.
    PLT 12.5 19 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PLT 12.10 19 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity...
    PLT 12.14 1 I wish to know the laws of this wonderful power, that I may domesticate it.
    PLT 12.20 27 This reduction to a few laws, to one law, is not a choice of the individual...
    PLT 12.23 7 The momentum, which increases by exact laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual action.
    PLT 12.27 1 The mechanical laws might as easily be shown pervading the kingdom of mind as the vegetative.
    PLT 12.35 22 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being; then ascends step by step to suggestions which are when expressed the intellectual and moral laws.
    PLT 12.38 20 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. The young hear it, and...they accept it, vote for it at the polls, embody it in the laws.
    PLT 12.40 7 The philosopher knows only laws.
    PLT 12.42 18 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world...
    PLT 12.43 1 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
    PLT 12.55 7 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    II 12.68 20 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth... and then ascends, step by step, to suggestions, which are, when expressed, the intellectual and moral laws.
    II 12.70 25 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you, and perpetually to divert attention from himself, by the stream of thoughts, laws and images.
    II 12.80 19 Whence came all these tools, inventions, books, laws, parties, kingdoms?
    Mem 12.96 20 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought; and still another deals with laws and perceptions that are the theory of the world.
    Mem 12.107 17 We forget also according to beautiful laws.
    CInt 12.127 25 ...I thought...a college was to teach you geometry, or the lovely laws of space and figure;...
    CInt 12.128 10 Now if there be genius in the scholar, a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world...he is made to find his own way.
    CInt 12.132 2 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    CW 12.172 4 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers,- not doctors of laws but doctors of land...
    Bost 12.186 12 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...
    Bost 12.210 4 [Boston's] genius will write the laws and her historians record the fate of nations.
    MAng1 12.215 9 ...so true was [Michelangelo] to the laws of the human mind, that his character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.227 20 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    Milt1 12.254 1 Milton...reads the laws of the moral sentiment to the new-born race.
    Milt1 12.266 9 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws...
    Milt1 12.272 25 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws;...
    Milt1 12.273 14 And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent...believer in the omnipotence of spiritual laws.
    MLit 12.317 8 ...selfishness and the senses write the laws under which we live...
    Trag 12.408 18 There must always remain...the hindrance of our private satisfaction by the laws of the world.

Laws, n. (4)

    LT 1.259 2 ...the present aspects of our social state, the Laws, Divinity... have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    Wsp 6.242 1 The Laws are [man's] consolers...
    Wsp 6.242 2 ...the good Laws themselves are alive...
    II 12.76 21 The inexorable Laws, the Ideas...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...

Laws of Menu, n. (1)

    ET8 5.137 14 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the East Indies, the Laws of Menu;...

law-school, n. (1)

    SS 7.12 3 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.

Lawton, Abel, n. (1)

    Mem 12.105 24 Abel Lawton knew every horse that went up and down through Concord...

lawyer, n. (23)

    YA 1.386 2 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay...a lawyer.
    SL 2.157 2 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    NER 3.253 11 [Other reformers] assailed particular vocations, as that of the lawyer...
    NER 3.259 21 If the physician, the lawyer, the divine, never use [Greek and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at mine.
    ET11 5.177 10 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet...
    Pow 6.62 16 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country...
    Pow 6.76 23 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...
    Wth 6.92 20 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust...but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
    Ctr 6.149 27 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    CbW 6.245 18 The lawyer advises the client, and tells his story to the jury and leaves it with them...
    Bty 6.285 23 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details...
    OA 7.325 23 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court...
    Grts 8.305 20 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea... another will be a lawyer;...
    Aris 10.50 5 When the lawyer tries his case in court he himself is also on trial...
    MoL 10.256 10 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    SlHr 10.445 7 These tactics of the lawyer were the tactics of [Samuel Hoar' s] life.
    SlHr 10.445 22 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison...
    EWI 11.106 15 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery];...
    EWI 11.132 4 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends all forms.
    EWI 11.142 8 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies; and is, besides, an architect, a physician, a lawyer...
    AKan 11.261 19 The President is a lawyer, and should know the statutes of the land.
    ALin 11.330 15 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...
    Wom 11.425 12 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write stipulations...

lawyers, n. (30)

    ET1 5.19 11 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers...
    ET11 5.177 12 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers...
    ET11 5.197 16 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons...
    Ctr 6.135 27 Have you seen a few lawyers, merchants and brokers...
    Bhr 6.188 13 People masquerade before us...as...senators, or professors, or great lawyers...
    Elo1 7.86 26 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the commonwealth.
    Elo1 7.87 20 ...the lawyers saved their rogue under the fog of a definition.
    Elo1 7.88 10 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense...
    Elo1 7.88 25 ...I read without surprise that the black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at [Lord Mansfield's] equitable decisions...
    Clbs 7.238 14 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes, the lawyers in the court-house...
    Suc 7.289 4 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
    PI 8.31 24 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs. Parties, lawyers and men of the world will invariably dispute such an application, as romantic and dangerous;...
    MoL 10.241 5 You go to be teachers, to become physicians, lawyers, divines;...
    MoL 10.243 6 Lawyers [in California] went and came with pick and wheelbarrow;...
    Schr 10.269 4 ...the lawyers and the manufacturers, are idealists...
    Schr 10.282 4 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...
    EWI 11.105 23 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.
    EWI 11.133 25 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants... there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    EWI 11.136 1 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to the heart of the reader.
    EWI 11.136 19 Out it would come, the God's truth, out it came [in emancipation in the West Indies]...for all the mumbling of the lawyers.
    FSLC 11.181 11 ...insurers, lawyers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.185 18 The learning of the universities...the acumen of lawyers... are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
    FSLC 11.190 4 I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of Law to be discredited.
    FSLN 11.227 5 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from them that this truth was the foundation of States.
    AKan 11.257 16 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.
    JBB 11.272 16 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    SMC 11.355 25 The invasion of Northern...tradesmen, lawyers and students did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    PLT 12.22 25 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...
    II 12.81 23 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...
    Bost 12.209 1 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what mathematicians, what lawyers, what wits;...

lawyer's, n. (2)

    Pow 6.58 13 ...the lawyer's authorities are hunted up by clerks;...
    Elo1 7.74 12 There is a petty lawyer's fluency...

lax, adj. (3)

    Hist 2.25 16 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is a gang of great boys, with such a code of honor and such lax discipline as great boys have?
    SR 2.74 24 If any one imagines that this law [of self-reliance] is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
    CInt 12.131 2 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that...but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...

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