Liturgies to Logically

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

liturgies, n. (4)

    PI 8.54 3 The prayers of nations are rhythmic, have iterations and alliterations, like the marriage-service and burial-service in our liturgies.
    QO 8.182 5 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth...
    Dem1 10.17 5 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power to which we...make liturgies and prayers...
    Chr2 10.112 21 ...the mind of our culture has already left our liturgies behind.

liturgy, n. (4)

    ET13 5.216 1 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the English Bible, the liturgy, the monkish histories...
    ET13 5.219 15 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church; the liturgy, ceremony, architecture;...
    ET13 5.225 14 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...
    Prch 10.229 6 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma; as if it was the liturgy, or the chapel that was sacred...

Liturgy, n. (1)

    ShP 4.200 4 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations...

live, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.17 27 Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill...
    Schr 10.285 26 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which are live men...
    Thor 10.475 4 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry]...

live, v. (297)

    Nat 1.59 8 I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
    AmS 1.99 6 ...[the artist] has always the resource to live.
    AmS 1.99 9 A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
    AmS 1.107 11 [The hero] lives for us, and we live in him.
    DSA 1.131 18 ...you shall not dare and live after the infinite Law that is in you...
    DSA 1.146 11 ...live with the privilege of the immeasurable mind.
    LE 1.160 1 ...now will we live...
    LE 1.160 2 ...now will we live-live for ourselves...
    LE 1.176 3 We live in the sun and on the surface...
    LE 1.176 10 Let us live in corners...
    MN 1.191 3 The land we live in has no interest so dear...as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought.
    MN 1.221 12 I will that we...live a life of discovery and performance.
    MN 1.222 24 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    MR 1.227 16 ...the community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...
    MR 1.243 9 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must live in a chamber...
    MR 1.252 19 See this wide society of laboring men and women. We allow ourselves to be served by them, we live apart from them...
    Con 1.304 27 You who...are willing to...risk the indisputable good that exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this [society]...
    Con 1.305 8 ...you are under the necessity...to live by [the Actual order of things], whilst you wish to take away its life.
    Con 1.309 7 I must not only have a name to live, I must live.
    Con 1.317 15 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...and a very good state and condition are you for gentlemen and ladies to live under;...
    Tran 1.342 14 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to live in the country rather than in the town...
    YA 1.367 26 A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live.
    YA 1.369 23 The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land...
    YA 1.373 1 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
    YA 1.373 2 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but...the best that could yet live;...
    YA 1.373 19 It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the general, that we poor particulars...find it so hard to live.
    YA 1.392 17 [Imaginative persons in this country] ask, who would live in a new country that can live in an old?...
    YA 1.392 18 [Imaginative persons in this country] ask, who would live in a new country that can live in an old?...
    YA 1.392 22 ...it is one thing to visit the Pyramids, and another to wish to live there.
    YA 1.394 27 ...Let us live in America, too thankful for our want of feudal institutions.
    Hist 2.8 17 [Each man] should see that he can live all history in his own person.
    Hist 2.10 6 Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,--must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
    Hist 2.11 21 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...and they live again to the mind, or are now.
    Hist 2.28 2 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains every fact...
    Hist 2.31 7 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against...a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous. It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator, and live apart from him and independent of him.
    Hist 2.36 18 [A man] cannot live without a world.
    SR 2.50 18 ...What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?...
    SR 2.50 23 ...if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
    SR 2.53 4 I do not wish to expiate, but to live.
    SR 2.53 27 It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;...
    SR 2.54 1 ...it is easy in solitude to live after our own [opinion];...
    SR 2.57 9 It seems to be a rule of wisdom...to...live ever in a new day.
    SR 2.67 15 ...[man] does not live in the present...
    SR 2.68 8 If we live truly, we shall see truly.
    SR 2.72 22 Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.
    SR 2.73 22 It is alike your interest...and all men's...to live in truth.
    Comp 2.104 10 The soul strives amain to live and work through all things.
    Comp 2.117 16 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone...
    SL 2.132 4 The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will live the life of nature...
    SL 2.149 24 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...to live with him were life indeed...
    Prd1 2.222 20 One class live to the utility of the symbol...
    Prd1 2.222 22 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol...
    Prd1 2.222 25 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
    Prd1 2.225 14 We live by the air which blows around us...
    Prd1 2.240 7 Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
    Hsm1 2.246 16 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/ Soph. Thou dost not, Martius,/ And, therefore, not what 't is to live;.../
    Hsm1 2.246 17 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/ Soph. Thou dost not, Martius,/ And, therefore, not what 't is to live; to die/ Is to begin to live..../
    Hsm1 2.247 1 Kiss thy lord,/ And live with all the freedom you were wont./
    Hsm1 2.260 2 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain you live...
    Hsm1 2.261 16 ...to live with some rigor of temperance...seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    Hsm1 2.262 17 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...and died when it was better not to live.
    OS 2.269 5 We live in succession...
    OS 2.276 19 I live in society;...
    OS 2.276 22 I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the great instincts to which I live.
    OS 2.284 22 By this veil which curtains events [the soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
    OS 2.284 26 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to...accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live, work and live...
    OS 2.296 26 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards and actions. So come I to live in thoughts and act with energies which are immortal.
    OS 2.297 10 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity.
    Cir 2.316 18 Let me live onward;...
    Int 2.331 16 I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
    Art1 2.349 26 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
    Art1 2.353 11 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times...
    Pt1 3.5 14 ...all men live by truth...
    Pt1 3.12 4 ...I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live...
    Pt1 3.15 17 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]?
    Pt1 3.29 2 Milton says that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously...
    Exp 3.45 23 We have enough [spirit] to live and bring the year about...
    Exp 3.51 25 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account; or if they live they lose themselves in the crowd.
    Exp 3.59 24 We live amid surfaces...
    Exp 3.60 6 ...to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
    Exp 3.60 18 Men live in their fancy...
    Chr1 3.103 23 Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
    Chr1 3.103 24 Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
    Chr1 3.111 26 If it were possible to live in right relations with men!...
    Mrs1 3.119 2 Half the world, it is said, knows not how the other half live.
    Mrs1 3.119 19 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
    Nat2 3.170 18 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with them...
    Nat2 3.173 22 I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance, but a countryman shall be my master of revels.
    Nat2 3.175 13 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished saloons than he has visited...these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...
    Nat2 3.186 25 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...that tens may live to maturity;...
    Nat2 3.190 4 We live in a system of approximations.
    Pol1 3.220 18 We live in a very low state of the world...
    NR 3.235 21 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that...life will be simpler when we live at the centre and flout the surfaces.
    NR 3.237 9 ...it is not the intention of Nature that we should live by general views.
    NR 3.248 18 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I was glad of men of every gift and nobility, but would not live in their arms.
    NER 3.266 22 Men will live and communicate...as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
    NER 3.267 5 [The union of men] is the union of friends who live in different streets or towns.
    NER 3.275 21 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    NER 3.278 21 [The proposition of depravity] has had a name to live in some dogmatic theology...
    UGM 4.3 15 ...actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.
    UGM 4.22 13 We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool, or land;...
    UGM 4.25 21 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like, and if they should live long enough we should not be able to know them apart.
    UGM 4.30 10 Children think they cannot live without their parents.
    PPh 4.41 18 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus live in several bodies...
    PPh 4.60 25 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
    PPh 4.67 1 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes; so that it is not possible for me to live with these.
    PPh 4.72 19 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live on a few olives;...
    PPh 4.72 23 [Socrates'] necessary expenses were exceedingly small, and no one could live as he did.
    SwM 4.108 14 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone...
    SwM 4.139 21 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him...that the Dutch, in the other world, live in a heaven by themselves...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    MoS 4.160 24 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all;...
    MoS 4.167 22 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I live within compass...
    NMW 4.233 7 Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth...
    NMW 4.258 12 [Napoleon] did all that in him lay to live and thrive without moral principle.
    GoW 4.282 18 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.
    GoW 4.288 21 We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
    GoW 4.288 25 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world. None was so fit to live, or more heartily enjoyed the game.
    ET1 5.4 18 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world;...
    ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air...
    ET5 5.78 14 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.
    ET5 5.92 3 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded, a London extended into every man's mind, though he live in Van Dieman's Land or Capetown.
    ET8 5.129 1 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons, as if they were willing to show that they did not live by their tongues...
    ET8 5.136 21 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...
    ET8 5.137 2 More intellectual than other races, when [the English] live with other races they do not take their language, but bestow their own.
    ET8 5.139 9 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    ET10 5.153 12 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses.
    ET10 5.161 19 Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
    ET10 5.161 21 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under.
    ET11 5.181 1 The English go to their estates for grandeur. The French live at court, and exile themselves to their estates for economy.
    ET11 5.181 3 As [the French] do not mean to live with their tenants, they do not conciliate them...
    ET11 5.189 13 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same land that fed three millions.
    ET11 5.193 18 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
    ET13 5.224 14 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live.
    ET14 5.252 18 [The English]...may be said to live and act in a sub-mind.
    ET15 5.262 4 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words; you and I shall not live to see it...but...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    F 6.3 12 ...the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live?
    F 6.16 3 The population of the world is...not the best, but the best that could live now;...
    F 6.25 22 If the air come to our lungs, we breathe and live;...
    Pow 6.56 6 ...[sickness] must husband its resources to live.
    Pow 6.68 12 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood cannot live on nuts, herb-tea, and elegies;...
    Wth 6.98 27 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Wth 6.114 7 Pride...can live in a house with two rooms...
    Ctr 6.147 16 ...of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world.
    Ctr 6.148 8 A man should live in or near a large town...
    Ctr 6.153 12 [The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe, who live for show...
    Ctr 6.154 5 What is odious but...people...who live to dine...
    Ctr 6.154 15 Let us learn to live coarsely...
    Ctr 6.156 13 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd...
    Ctr 6.162 13 Fear not a revolution which will constrain you to live five years in one.
    Ctr 6.163 22 The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women;...
    Wsp 6.204 4 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that...which prevails now on the slope of...Pike's Peak. Yet we make shift to live.
    Wsp 6.207 17 We live in a transition period, when the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.
    Wsp 6.208 11 How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are?
    Wsp 6.239 8 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live...
    Wsp 6.239 23 Men are too often unfit to live...
    Wsp 6.240 13 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    CbW 6.243 18 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/ Drink the wild air's salubrity/...
    CbW 6.243 27 Of all wit's uses, the main one/ Is to live well with who has none./
    CbW 6.270 19 How to live with unfit companions?...
    CbW 6.271 1 ...it is [conversation] which all are practising every day while they live.
    CbW 6.275 6 ...we live with people on other platforms;...
    CbW 6.275 7 ...we live with dependents;...
    Bty 6.279 26 [Seyd] thought it happier to be dead,/ To die for Beauty, than live for bread./
    Bty 6.283 12 'T is curious that we only believe as deep as we live.
    Bty 6.285 15 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the horror of death. The monarch rejoined, Live, my child, and be wise.
    Ill 6.307 6 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./ Sleep is not, death is not;/ Who seem to die live./
    Ill 6.312 3 We live by our imaginations...
    Ill 6.316 2 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.
    Ill 6.316 6 We live amid hallucinations;...
    Ill 6.323 8 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...
    SS 7.6 23 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    SS 7.10 18 Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must;...
    SS 7.13 20 Men cannot afford to live together on their merits...
    Civ 7.23 6 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man...to live by his better hand,--fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Elo1 7.62 16 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...
    DL 7.105 7 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history...
    DL 7.108 22 We live ruins amidst ruins.
    Farm 7.139 21 In the town where I live, farms remain in the same families for seven and eight generations;...
    WD 7.183 17 It is the depth at which we live and not at all the surface extension that imports.
    Clbs 7.242 10 ...we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen...
    Cour 7.258 27 The political reigns of terror have been...a total perversion of opinion; society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.
    Suc 7.299 10 We live among gods of our own creation.
    Suc 7.301 27 Ah! if one could...live in the happy sufficing present...
    Suc 7.311 7 We live on different planes or platforms.
    OA 7.321 25 Beranger said, Almost all the good workmen live long.
    OA 7.325 4 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions...
    OA 7.328 6 ...a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience...
    OA 7.331 10 Bentley thought himself likely to live till fourscore...
    PI 8.22 5 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts. We live in both spheres...
    PI 8.37 26 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot...
    SA 8.84 19 As long as men are born babes they will live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
    QO 8.188 7 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that...that multitudes of men do not live with Nature...
    QO 8.188 13 ...[people] live as foreigners in the world of truth...
    PC 8.208 3 Who would live in the stone age...
    Insp 8.282 19 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/...
    Insp 8.283 16 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me; I commanded myself to live.
    Insp 8.293 25 We live day by day under the illusion that it is the fact or event that imports...
    Imtl 8.328 27 The name of death was never terrible/ To him that knew to live./
    Imtl 8.329 2 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live;...
    Imtl 8.329 15 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Imtl 8.334 17 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui? Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter.
    Imtl 8.337 7 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us...
    Imtl 8.338 14 We wish to live for what is great...
    Imtl 8.338 15 I do not wish to live for the sake of my warm house...
    Imtl 8.338 17 I do not wish to live to wear out my boots.
    Imtl 8.343 9 If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old saints;...
    Imtl 8.344 4 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live;...
    Imtl 8.345 4 We live by desire to live;...
    Imtl 8.345 4 ...we live by choice;...
    Imtl 8.345 17 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence, as the eye cannot see itself;-but, ending or endless, to live whilst I live.
    Imtl 8.345 18 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence, as the eye cannot see itself;-but, ending or endless, to live whilst I live.
    Imtl 8.350 10 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Choose sons and grandsons who may live a hundred years;...
    Imtl 8.350 12 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth.
    Imtl 8.350 27 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou pleasest.
    Dem1 10.13 2 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed in sounds we do not hear...
    Dem1 10.24 18 ...[occult facts] are merely physiological, semi-medical, related to the machinery of man, opening to our curiosity how we live...
    Dem1 10.24 19 ...[occult facts] are merely physiological, semi-medical... and no aid on the superior problems why we live, and what we do.
    Aris 10.52 14 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He...does not scorn to live by their labor...
    Aris 10.52 16 To live without duties is obscene.
    Aris 10.56 18 Rather let us be alone whilst we live, than encounter these lean kine.
    PerF 10.70 6 See what your robust neighbor, who never feared to live in [the air], has got from it;...
    Supl 10.165 14 Thousands of people live and die who were never...hungry or thirsty...
    Supl 10.173 5 We...cannot live without much outlet for all our sense and nonsense.
    Supl 10.176 6 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...
    SovE 10.185 9 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe.
    SovE 10.208 7 ...by dying we live.
    SovE 10.211 4 Man does not live by bread alone...
    SovE 10.211 9 Men live by their credence.
    Prch 10.235 19 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
    Prch 10.238 7 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.
    MoL 10.247 4 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force. I wish him to rely on the spiritual arm; to live by his strength, not by his weakness.
    Schr 10.280 2 ...society, in which we live, is subject to fits of frenzy;...
    Schr 10.288 2 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees;...
    Plu 10.316 26 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps, and did not take away the nourishment they had given, but permitted them to live and shine by it.
    LLNE 10.325 9 ...[the witty physician] said, It was a misfortune to have been born when children were nothing, and to live till men were nothing.
    LLNE 10.336 3 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...
    LLNE 10.345 6 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste...
    LLNE 10.357 17 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live...
    LLNE 10.360 9 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm], and so received pupils for their education. The parents of the children in some instances wished to live there, and were received as boarders.
    LLNE 10.364 9 The Founders of Brook Farm should have this praise, that they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
    LLNE 10.368 5 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways.
    LLNE 10.368 12 Few people can live together on their merits.
    MMEm 10.409 20 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...
    MMEm 10.419 20 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live free from calculation...
    MMEm 10.426 24 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite.
    Thor 10.453 9 ...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.
    Thor 10.459 23 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him. The men were all imitating each other, and on a small mould. Why can they not live as far apart as possible, and each be a man by himself?
    Thor 10.477 6 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    Carl 10.494 7 ...a lover who will live and die for that which he speaks for... [Carlyle] respects;...
    LS 11.10 26 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    HDC 11.63 1 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...live in good houses;...
    FSLC 11.190 26 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.
    FSLN 11.216 4 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    AsSu 11.247 18 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people live for the moment...
    AKan 11.257 6 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...live in smaller tenement...
    JBB 11.270 5 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
    ACiv 11.299 22 We live in a new and exceptionable age.
    ACiv 11.300 23 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world. If they have a comatose tendency in the brain, they are pro-slavery while they live;...
    ACiv 11.307 9 [Slavery] cannot live but by injustice...
    SMC 11.352 23 ...only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    EdAd 11.391 26 Is the age we live in unfriendly to the highest powers;...
    Koss 11.400 16 ...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 11.418 18 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them...
    Shak1 11.452 22 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
    FRep 11.515 11 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.537 6 We want...men...who can live in the moment and take a step forward.
    PLT 12.14 5 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to live with it wisely...
    PLT 12.22 5 ...[a muskrat] is only man modified to live in a mud-bank.
    PLT 12.22 6 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea;...
    PLT 12.32 21 Perhaps creatures live with us which we never see, because their motion is too swift for our vision.
    PLT 12.63 10 We need all our resources to live in the world which is to be used and decorated by us.
    II 12.80 6 We must live by our strength, not by our weakness.
    Mem 12.94 19 Late in life we live by memory...
    Mem 12.102 9 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day.
    Mem 12.110 10 When we live by principles instead of traditions...the Great Mind will enter into us...
    CL 12.140 12 In summer, we have...scores of days when the heat is so rich, and yet so tempered, that it is delicious to live.
    CL 12.145 27 [The pear]...could live, like an Arab, on air and water.
    CL 12.159 18 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing.
    CW 12.172 27 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    CW 12.173 1 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has...so ordered [my fate] that I live happier than the king of the Persians.
    CW 12.173 3 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden;...
    CW 12.177 25 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little, a multitude of plants live and grow...
    Bost 12.185 3 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.
    Bost 12.189 21 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
    Bost 12.205 10 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination that man is for use;...and that his ruin is to live for pleasure and for show.
    Bost 12.206 7 When men saw that these people [of Boston]...would stand by each other at all hazards, they desired to come and live here.
    Bost 12.207 25 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.
    MAng1 12.231 7 [Michelangelo] did not live to complete the work [St. Peter's];...
    MAng1 12.232 7 Raphael said, I bless God I live in the times of Michael Angelo.
    MLit 12.317 8 ...selfishness and the senses write the laws under which we live...
    MLit 12.323 1 [Goethe] was not afraid to live.
    Pray 12.353 17 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me;...
    Pray 12.355 22 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm so long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.
    Let 12.396 24 To live solitary and unexpressed is painful...
    Let 12.400 11 ...is [a man] driven into a circumstance where the spirit must not live? Let him thrust it from him with scorn, and learn to dig and plough.
    Let 12.400 18 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They live in the world as strangers in their own house;...
    Trag 12.411 15 The spirit...learns to live in what is called calamity as easily as in what is called felicity;...

lived, v. (126)

    AmS 1.92 5 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world...says that which lies close to my own soul...
    AmS 1.95 3 Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
    AmS 1.98 9 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived...
    AmS 1.108 13 The man has never lived that can feed us ever.
    DSA 1.128 22 ...ravished by [the soul's] beauty, [Jesus Christ] lived in it...
    DSA 1.137 27 [The preacher] had lived in vain.
    DSA 1.138 4 If [the preacher] had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it.
    DSA 1.138 13 ...yet was there not a surmise, a hint, in all the discourse, that [the preacher] had ever lived at all.
    LE 1.174 25 The poets who have lived in cities have been hermits still.
    Con 1.324 22 ...the stars in heaven shall glow with a kindlier beam, that I have lived.
    YA 1.365 6 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    Hist 2.38 25 You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
    SR 2.69 15 Life only avails, not the having lived.
    SR 2.72 25 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.
    Art1 2.361 11 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms,--unto which I lived;...
    Exp 3.76 3 Once we lived in what we saw;...
    Exp 3.83 12 A wonderful time I have lived in.
    Mrs1 3.137 26 Must we have a good understanding with one another's palates? as foolish people who have lived long together know when each wants salt or sugar.
    Nat2 3.169 17 To have lived through all [the day's] sunny hours, seems longevity enough.
    NER 3.270 10 Life must be lived on a higher plane.
    UGM 4.3 12 They who lived with [good men] found life glad and nutritious.
    UGM 4.19 10 Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, She had lived with me long enough.
    PPh 4.43 13 [Great geniuses] lived in their writings...
    SwM 4.101 4 ...[Swedenborg] lived on bread, milk and vegetables;...
    SwM 4.101 5 ...[Swedenborg] lived in a house situated in a large garden;...
    SwM 4.106 13 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale or degrees;...
    SwM 4.144 23 [Swedenborg] lived to purpose...
    MoS 4.162 21 I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with [Montaigne's Essays].
    MoS 4.163 1 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...who, said the monument, lived to do right, and had formed himself to virtue on the Essays of Montaigne.
    ShP 4.200 19 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 4.205 8 It appears...that [Shakespeare] lived in the best house in Stratford;...
    ShP 4.212 11 [Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his legend with form and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
    GoW 4.271 16 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind...easily able by his subtlety...to draw his strength from nature, with which he lived in full communion.
    GoW 4.271 17 ...[Goethe] lived in a small town...
    ET1 5.7 2 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor, who lived at San Domenica di Fiesole.
    ET1 5.23 14 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish;...but what he had written would be printed, whether he lived or died.
    ET7 5.120 4 [Wellington] augured ill of the [Napoleonic] empire as soon as he saw that it was mendacious, and lived by war.
    ET9 5.145 2 Swedenborg, who lived much in England, notes the similitude of minds among the English...
    ET11 5.172 9 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them.
    ET11 5.175 18 Our success in France, says the historian [Thomas Fuller], lived and died with [Richard Beauchamp].
    ET11 5.177 2 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    ET12 5.199 16 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford]...and I lived on college hospitalities.
    ET13 5.216 9 [Christianity] lived by the love of the people.
    ET15 5.264 26 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition; since many papers, first and last, have lived by their attacks on the leading journal.
    ET16 5.280 6 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers;...
    ET17 5.296 11 Miss Martineau, who lived near him, praised [Wordsworth] to me not for his poetry, but for thrift and economy;...
    ET17 5.296 17 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    ET17 5.297 22 [Wordsworth] lived long enough to witness the revolution he had wrought...
    ET18 5.300 18 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted. Multitudes lived miserably by shell-fish and sea-ware.
    F 6.15 26 ...when a race has lived its term, it comes no more again.
    CbW 6.268 10 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small, old, thin; discontented people lived there and are gone;...
    Ill 6.313 19 Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
    SS 7.10 19 The king lived and ate in his hall with men, and understood men, said Selden.
    WD 7.181 21 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    Cour 7.267 11 Of [Charles XII, of Sweden] we may say that he led a life more remote from death, and in fact lived more, than any other man.
    Suc 7.294 1 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.
    Suc 7.299 19 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate...
    OA 7.332 20 [John Adams said]...I am astonished that I have lived to see and know of this event.
    OA 7.332 21 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October);...
    SA 8.82 19 It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived too long in college.
    Comc 8.166 2 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    PPo 8.240 20 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world...
    Insp 8.283 26 Had I not lived with Mirabeau, says Dumont, I never should have known all that can be done in one day...
    Grts 8.313 3 Where were your own intellect, if greater had not lived?
    Grts 8.315 21 Diderot was...unclean as the society in which he lived;...
    Grts 8.319 15 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in New York...there might be fit society;...
    Imtl 8.347 27 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear. It makes a day memorable. We say we lived years in that hour.
    Supl 10.163 19 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
    LLNE 10.339 17 Dr. Channing, whilst he lived, was the star of the American Church...
    LLNE 10.356 23 [Thoreau] lived extempore from hour to hour...
    LLNE 10.360 12 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders, and lived there for years.
    LLNE 10.361 17 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a great deal in a short time...
    LLNE 10.363 8 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life;...
    EzRy 10.386 2 ...in passing each house [Ezra Ripley] told the story of the family that lived in it...
    MMEm 10.400 13 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband lived on a farm...
    MMEm 10.400 24 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people...
    MMEm 10.401 14 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister...
    MMEm 10.401 27 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood...
    MMEm 10.405 5 Where were thine own intellect if others had not lived?
    MMEm 10.419 22 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live free from calculation, as in the first half of life, when my poor aunt lived.
    MMEm 10.420 12 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city, where she had lived for a while with her brother [Mr. Emerson's father] and afterwards with his widow.
    SlHr 10.442 25 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the community in which he lived.
    Thor 10.454 7 ...[Thoreau] lived alone;...
    Thor 10.457 27 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone...
    Thor 10.462 25 [Thoreau] lived for the day...
    Thor 10.477 6 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    GSt 10.506 24 ...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him happy among men.
    GSt 10.507 3 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...lived while he lived, and beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,- I count him happy among men.
    GSt 10.507 4 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...lived while he lived, and beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,- I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.12 20 The disciples lived together;...
    LS 11.22 12 That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    LS 11.22 26 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose;...
    HDC 11.36 7 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck...
    HDC 11.51 16 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire, as opportunity served, and the English lived among them, to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.52 13 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you?
    FSLC 11.179 15 I have lived all my life in this state [Massachusetts], and never had any experience of personal inconvenience from the laws, until now.
    FSLC 11.182 10 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.
    FSLN 11.216 2 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    FSLN 11.219 1 I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery.
    AsSu 11.251 2 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever lived.
    JBS 11.278 19 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in [John Brown] that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived.
    ALin 11.336 3 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than to have lived to be wished away;...
    ALin 11.336 7 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?
    SMC 11.358 27 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... fair, blond, the rose lived long in his cheek;...
    SMC 11.375 5 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive...in other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they lived.
    SHC 11.431 16 Shadows haunt [trees]; all that ever lived about them cling to them.
    Shak1 11.446 7 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
    Humb 11.459 3 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
    Scot 11.464 13 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
    Scot 11.467 16 ...wherever he lived, [Scott] found superior men...
    II 12.88 17 Our books are full of generous biographies...of men and of women who lived for the benefit and healing of nature.
    Mem 12.109 6 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.
    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...
    Bost 12.208 24 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...
    MAng1 12.215 5 [Michelangelo] lived one life; he pursued one career.
    MAng1 12.221 5 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years; we ought to say, rather, as long as he lived.
    MAng1 12.227 23 ...[Michelangelo] was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    MAng1 12.234 5 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.
    MAng1 12.237 9 [Michelangelo] lived alone...
    MAng1 12.237 18 ...[Michelangelo] lived like a poor man...
    MAng1 12.242 18 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born, which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.
    MAng1 12.243 2 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...
    Milt1 12.254 22 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.
    MLit 12.328 18 Does [Goethe] represent, not only the achievement of that age in which he lived, but that which it would be and is now becoming?

liveliest, adj. (2)

    Ill 6.324 10 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    MAng1 12.226 19 Versatility of talent in men of undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...

livelihood, n. (4)

    AmS 1.97 17 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving shepherds...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    Wth 6.85 6 [A man] is no whole man until he knows how to earn a blameless livelihood.
    MAng1 12.242 26 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living...
    Let 12.402 1 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...

livelong, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.183 9 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity...
    Farm 7.139 11 The farmer...acquires that livelong patience which belongs to [Nature].

lively, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.28 11 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Fdsp 2.193 2 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...so that they who sit by...shall feel a lively surprise at our unusual powers.
    Cir 2.317 23 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    NR 3.234 17 Lively boys write to their ear and eye...
    NER 3.273 8 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
    GoW 4.281 3 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated,--so many columns, so many hours, filled in a lively and creditable way.
    ET1 5.15 14 [Carlyle] was...full of lively anecdote...
    ET8 5.127 13 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who, from Froissart, Voltaire, Le Sage, Mirabeau, down to the lively journalists of the feuilletons, have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.
    ET11 5.176 26 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...a lively, pleasant man, became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    ET12 5.201 19 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    SS 7.3 15 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one? He added many lively remarks...
    Elo1 7.69 5 ...neither can the Southerner in the United States, nor the Irish, compare [in eloquence] with the lively inhabitant of the south of Europe.
    Cour 7.261 3 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
    PPo 8.243 8 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed in a lively image...were always current in the East;...
    Dem1 10.4 23 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us one syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
    Chr2 10.105 5 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    SMC 11.375 8 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War], and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they require no badge or reminder.
    Milt1 12.276 24 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.

liver, n. (3)

    Exp 3.51 17 I knew a witty physician who...used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist...
    NMW 4.223 11 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs; the liver, of infinitely small livers;...
    SMC 11.367 24 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots, and with short rations; on one day nothing but liver, blackberries, and pennyroyal tea.

Liverpool, England, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.76 5 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants...
    Pow 6.68 23 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet...

Liverpool, England, n. (10)

    GoW 4.274 2 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he...was not a whit less vivacious or rich in Liverpool or the Hague than once in Rome or Antioch.
    ET2 5.27 7 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    ET3 5.35 8 The problem of the traveller landing at Liverpool is, Why England is England?
    ET3 5.39 27 A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire in his parlor about one day in the year.
    ET4 5.65 16 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool;...
    ET6 5.102 5 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
    ET17 5.291 19 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me...
    ET17 5.294 2 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...in Sheffield, in Manchester, in Liverpool.
    PC 8.215 1 ...looking over how many horizons as far as into Liverpool and New York, [Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    EdAd 11.383 21 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...

livers, n. (1)

    NMW 4.223 11 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs; the liver, of infinitely small livers;...

livery, n. (4)

    LE 1.157 15 ...men here...prefer...any livery productive of ease or profit, to the unproductive service of thought.
    Exp 3.76 11 ...the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery...
    Wth 6.91 23 The world is full of fops...who had persuaded beauties and men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
    Ctr 6.152 25 A gorgeous livery [in England] indicates new and awkward city wealth.

Lives [John Aubrey], n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 17 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Aubrey's Lives;...

lives, n. (59)

    LE 1.161 8 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.162 9 To feel the full value of these lives...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    MR 1.246 26 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform, nor do they once perceive the cruel joke of their lives...
    Tran 1.353 21 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    SR 2.67 26 We shall not always set so great a price...on a few lives.
    Hsm1 2.255 6 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink at the peril of their lives.
    NER 3.280 13 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...
    UGM 4.19 13 We touch and go, and sip the foam of many lives.
    ShP 4.206 18 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and Macready dedicate their lives to this genius [Shakespeare];...
    ShP 4.218 12 Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man [Shakespeare], in wide contrast.
    NMW 4.225 8 Every one of the million readers of anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.
    ET2 5.27 6 [The good ship] has...left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown, which were far east of us at morn...and still we fly for our lives.
    ET5 5.78 19 ...when [the English] have pounded each other to a poultice, they will shake hands and be friends for the remainder of their lives.
    ET10 5.155 23 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they were taxed within an inch of their lives...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET10 5.157 10 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European; or, his life as a workman is three lives.
    ET13 5.221 16 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    ET14 5.244 1 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision...from one, as from multitudes of lives.
    CbW 6.248 21 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities of poor lives...
    CbW 6.249 12 The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    Bty 6.301 17 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid, and the thought of passing our lives with them insupportable.
    Bty 6.301 27 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    DL 7.125 25 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith in a better life...
    WD 7.179 4 I am of the opinion of Pliny that whilst we are musing on these things, we are adding to the length of our lives.
    Boks 7.199 23 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of Cimon, Lycurgus...are what history has of best.
    Cour 7.273 13 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
    Cour 7.274 13 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.
    Cour 7.276 5 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...St. Bartholomew massacres, devilish lives...
    Res 8.139 23 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
    Res 8.139 25 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
    PC 8.225 10 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems, which we ponder all our lives through, and leave where we found them;...
    Insp 8.275 2 Like bees, [the artists] must put their lives into the sting they give.
    Grts 8.316 13 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
    Imtl 8.334 15 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui?
    Imtl 8.336 22 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value, and we may revolve through many lives before we shall assimilate or exhaust them.
    Dem1 10.3 9 The witchcraft of sleep divides with truth the empire of our lives.
    Aris 10.39 14 I wish...men who see the dance in men's lives as well as in a ball-room...
    Chr2 10.101 20 I am in the habit of thinking...confirmed by what I notice in many lives-that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Chr2 10.113 5 Morals is the incorruptible essence, very heedless in its richness of any past teacher or witness, heedless of their lives and fortunes.
    Prch 10.224 25 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and short motives...so that the result of most lives is zero.
    MoL 10.250 15 You [scholars] are to imperil your lives and fortunes for a principle.
    MoL 10.257 16 We do not often have a moment of grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives...
    Thor 10.454 5 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance, and few lives contain so many renunciations.
    HDC 11.69 24 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    HDC 11.76 10 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
    LVB 11.95 2 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    EWI 11.111 23 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters, their lives threatened...
    EWI 11.135 23 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness...
    EWI 11.135 27 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.
    FSLC 11.192 13 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible...
    FSLN 11.233 23 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States,-if they are so happy as to get out with their lives...
    TPar 11.285 9 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
    EPro 11.319 25 This act [the Emancipation Proclamation] makes that the lives of our heroes have not been sacrificed in vain.
    HCom 11.345 5 We see...a new era, worth to mankind all the treasure and all the lives it has cost;...
    HCom 11.345 6 We see...a new era...worth to the world the lives of all this generation of American men, if they had been demanded.
    SHC 11.430 23 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of these lives.
    II 12.86 23 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away. Men likewise, they put their lives into their deed.
    MAng1 12.215 1 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious;...
    EurB 12.368 25 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth] pitied and rebuked [the dukes' and earls'] false lives, and celebrated his own with the religion of a true priest.
    Let 12.396 20 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...

Lives, n. (1)

    Plu 10.318 1 What a trilogy is lost to mankind in [Plutarch's] Lives of Scipio, Epaminondas, and Pindar.

Lives of the Martyrs [John (1)

    Cour 7.274 10 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at Fox's Lives of the Martyrs...

Lives [Plutarch], n. [Lives] (7)

    Hsm1 2.248 19 Each of [Plutarch's] Lives is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.
    Boks 7.200 4 ...such a reader as I am writing to can as ill spare [Plutarch's Morals] as the Lives.
    Plu 10.294 21 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    Plu 10.294 25 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in Rome in 1470...
    Plu 10.295 6 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's] Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.
    Plu 10.296 12 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579...
    Plu 10.318 18 The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.

lives, v. (67)

    Nat 1.72 11 [Man] lives in [the world] and masters it by a penny-wisdom;...
    AmS 1.99 21 ...the scholar loses no hour which the man lives.
    AmS 1.101 25 [The scholar] is one who...breathes and lives on public and illustrious thoughts.
    AmS 1.107 11 [The hero] lives for us...
    DSA 1.143 24 Society lives to trifles...
    LT 1.289 2 Underneath all these appearances lies...that which lives...
    Con 1.318 19 ...[the conservative party] lives in the senses, not in truth;...
    Hist 2.11 19 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...
    Hist 2.22 25 A man of rude health and flowing spirits...lives in his wagon and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc.
    SR 2.66 7 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom...it lives now...
    SR 2.67 19 [Man] cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present...
    SR 2.68 13 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook...
    SR 2.76 15 [A sturdy lad from Vermont]...feels no shame in not studying a profession, for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
    Prd1 2.233 10 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    Exp 3.54 19 On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism...
    Exp 3.68 8 Man lives by pulses;...
    Chr1 3.90 26 Man, ordinarily...only half attached, and that awkwardly, to the world he lives in, in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...
    NR 3.223 6 ...in the new-born millions,/ The perfect Adam lives./
    NER 3.285 20 Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives?
    UGM 4.35 9 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song...
    PPh 4.77 26 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him.
    SwM 4.138 1 He who loves goodness...lives with God.
    MoS 4.154 24 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world lives by humbug, and so will I.
    ET5 5.97 16 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...
    ET14 5.246 8 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius. It is wise and rich, but it lives on its capital.
    ET14 5.252 5 Every one of [the Englishmen] is a thousand years old and lives by his memory...
    ET14 5.253 19 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value.
    F 6.37 10 [The animal] becomes torpid when the fruit or prey it lives on is not in season...
    F 6.41 6 The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it...
    Wth 6.124 15 Hotspur lives for the moment...
    Ctr 6.159 11 A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful...
    CbW 6.255 7 ...Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts...
    CbW 6.274 13 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree...these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    Ill 6.312 12 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer. The man lives to other objects, but who dare affirm that they are more real?
    Civ 7.32 18 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
    Farm 7.147 11 Set out a pine-tree, and it dies in the first year, or lives a poor spindle.
    Farm 7.147 13 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries...
    Farm 7.151 18 ...[the first planter]...lives in a cave or a hutch...
    Farm 7.151 20 ...[the first planter]...has no road but the trail of the moose or bear; he lives on their flesh when he can kill one, on roots and fruits when he cannot.
    Farm 7.154 2 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
    Suc 7.311 25 [The inner life] lives in the great present;...
    Res 8.153 3 ...[the willows'] gentle persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...
    Comc 8.166 4 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    PPo 8.240 21 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf.
    Imtl 8.321 8 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/...
    PerF 10.86 24 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Chr2 10.107 27 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor?
    Edc1 10.135 13 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives.
    Edc1 10.147 9 Pardon in [a boy] no blunder. Then he will give you solid satisfaction as long as he lives.
    SovE 10.191 26 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...
    Prch 10.237 4 The old intellect still lives...
    MoL 10.249 18 The intellectual man lives in perpetual victory.
    Schr 10.275 14 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he...will oppose all mankind at the call of that private and perfect Right and Beauty in which he lives.
    Plu 10.307 5 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions...
    MMEm 10.407 1 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who lives in society alone...
    MMEm 10.426 12 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life! Even Fame which lives in other states of Virtue, palls.
    Thor 10.463 12 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the Graham House.
    FSLC 11.203 24 Mr. Webster is a man who lives by his memory...
    SMC 11.348 11 These things are dear to every man that lives,/ And life prized more for what it lends than gives./
    EdAd 11.390 4 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof...
    Shak1 11.451 11 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...
    Mem 12.93 3 [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...
    Mem 12.94 21 Late in life we live by memory, and in our solstices or periods of stagnation; as the starved camel in the desert lives on his humps.
    Mem 12.103 15 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. Then a thousand times over it lives and acts again...
    CW 12.178 22 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
    Bost 12.185 5 Who lives one year in Boston ranges through all the climates of the globe.
    Bost 12.207 23 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.

livest, v. (1)

    OS 2.293 27 O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!

liveth, v. (2)

    ET16 5.287 18 ...'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.
    Plu 10.295 9 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...As God liveth, you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].

livid, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.167 25 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen; face and hands livid...

living, adj. (50)

    Nat 1.3 14 ...why should we...put the living generation into masquerade out of [the past's] faded wardrobe?
    Nat 1.21 5 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?
    LE 1.169 5 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MN 1.216 14 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence, as of...a living plant, is more predicable of man.
    MN 1.217 20 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it.
    LT 1.288 26 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men...
    Hist 2.19 22 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    SR 2.88 10 ...what the man acquires, is living property...
    Comp 2.121 10 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    Comp 2.125 5 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...
    SL 2.129 1 The living Heaven thy prayers respect/...
    SL 2.166 11 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form and done some other deed, and that is now the flower and head of all living nature.
    Art1 2.357 22 There is no statue like this living man...
    Pt1 3.15 27 ...[the coachman or the hunter] has no definitions, but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present.
    Mrs1 3.145 16 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
    Pol1 3.200 18 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat: so much life as it has in the character of living men is its force.
    Pol1 3.207 12 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people...
    PPh 4.57 9 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man...
    SwM 4.116 2 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur, I will not say in the living body only, but throughout nature...
    SwM 4.116 23 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted. This symbolism pervades the living body.
    SwM 4.125 14 [To Swedenborg] We have come into a world which is a living poem.
    ShP 4.193 26 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play...
    ShP 4.204 12 It was not until the nineteenth century, whose speculative genius is a sort of living Hamlet, that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    NMW 4.224 3 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor...
    ET15 5.271 21 [The London Times] is a living index of the colossal British power.
    Ctr 6.159 2 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of a living banker, his success in poetry;...
    Boks 7.219 15 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life.
    PI 8.41 3 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the human cheek, the living rock...were painted.
    PI 8.45 26 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
    PI 8.51 9 Of their living habitations they made little account...
    Dem1 10.27 21 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature...
    Aris 10.31 10 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men...if possible, living standards.
    LS 11.7 22 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...
    LS 11.10 7 [Jesus] instructed the woman of Samaria respecting living water.
    HDC 11.76 15 We...confirm from living lips the sealed records of time.
    HDC 11.82 27 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine.
    LVB 11.89 6 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.
    TPar 11.293 2 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever learning, wit, honest valor and independence are honored.
    Koss 11.398 20 ...[the sympathy of Americans] is a living soul contending with living souls.
    Koss 11.398 21 ...[the sympathy of Americans] is a living soul contending with living souls.
    RBur 11.441 5 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. If I should add another name, I find it only in a living countryman of Burns [Carlyle].
    Mem 12.92 23 Memory is...a living instructor...
    CInt 12.128 5 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher...
    Bost 12.206 18 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind agitating the mass...
    MAng1 12.220 10 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.
    MAng1 12.233 5 Grace in living forms, except in very rare instances, did not satisfy [Michelangelo].
    WSL 12.346 4 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].
    EurB 12.370 6 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his independence of any living masters...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
    EurB 12.378 3 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures...
    Let 12.402 13 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...

living, n. (40)

    AmS 1.101 9 ...[the scholar] must...often forego the living for the dead.
    MR 1.234 9 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world;...
    Hsm1 2.254 25 ...without railing or precision [the great man's] living is natural and poetic.
    Nat2 3.171 26 We nestle in nature, and draw our living as parasites from her roots and grains...
    Nat2 3.181 9 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth...
    UGM 4.21 13 ...I am plagued, in all my living, with a perpetual tariff of prices.
    ET5 5.88 11 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    ET13 5.227 10 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    F 6.38 13 ...nature makes every creature...get its living...
    Pow 6.68 21 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for hair-breadth adventures, huge risks and the joy of eventful living.
    Wth 6.85 4 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?
    Wth 6.85 7 Society is barbarous until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.
    Wth 6.91 25 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion, that it is not respectable to be seen earning a living;...
    Ctr 6.148 23 In the country [a man] can find...cheap living and his old shoes;...
    DL 7.111 10 The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness, in ventilation...
    DL 7.116 26 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must correct the whole system of our social living.
    DL 7.116 27 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come with plain living and high thinking;...
    Elo2 8.124 7 In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
    Grts 8.316 11 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Imtl 8.345 11 ...whilst I find that all the ways of virtuous living lead upward and not downward,-yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    Aris 10.41 18 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack; got his name, rank and living for that;...
    Chr2 10.117 21 Men may well come together to kindle each other to virtuous living.
    Edc1 10.158 22 By simple living, by an illimitable soul, you inspire...all.
    Schr 10.286 19 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress... is of the same chemistry as praise and fat living;...
    LLNE 10.360 16 [Brook Farm] was a noble and generous movement in the projectors, to try an experiment of better living.
    LLNE 10.360 17 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...
    Thor 10.477 21 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
    Thor 10.478 3 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.
    War 11.153 3 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living.
    War 11.172 13 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    FSLC 11.189 20 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was to confound all distinctions...
    SHC 11.432 21 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery;...
    SHC 11.432 22 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery; a garden for the living...
    SHC 11.432 23 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead;...
    SHC 11.432 25 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living.
    SHC 11.432 26 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living. But if the direct regard to the living be thought expedient, that is also in your power.
    FRep 11.523 27 ...a certain style of living fast becomes necessary;...
    MLit 12.335 26 [The Genius of the time] will describe...the now unbelieved possibility of simple living...
    Pray 12.353 6 If I may not search out and pierce thy thought, so much the more may my living praise thee [My Father].
    AgMs 12.362 13 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood on each of which now a farmer manages to get a good living.

living, v. (99)

    AmS 1.99 7 Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.
    AmS 1.99 12 [The great soul] can still fall back on this elemental force of living [his truths].
    DSA 1.140 14 Would [the poor preacher] urge people to a godly way of living;...
    MN 1.194 2 Is [the scholar] living in his memory?
    MN 1.206 12 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...a mode of living...
    MR 1.243 21 The duty that every man...should call the institutions of society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    MR 1.252 2 ...there will dawn ere long...on our modes of living, a nobler morning than that Arabian faith...
    LT 1.271 13 Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination.
    LT 1.286 16 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the recommendation of low methods.
    Con 1.308 13 I am unworthy to arraign your manner of living, until I too have been tried.
    Con 1.313 18 You are yourself the result of this manner of living...
    Tran 1.341 3 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living...
    Tran 1.349 16 As to the general course of living, and the daily employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these...
    Tran 1.359 11 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded; these modes of living lost out of memory;...
    YA 1.366 5 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth is not inoperative;...
    YA 1.381 19 ...the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    SR 2.53 1 [Men's] works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world...
    SR 2.77 7 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...in...their modes of living;...
    Comp 2.126 21 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living...
    SL 2.136 25 If we look wider...laws and letters and creeds and modes of living seem a travesty of truth.
    Prd1 2.230 18 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature, distorting our modes of living...
    Prd1 2.232 19 ...[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...
    Hsm1 2.258 12 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should deck [our life] with more than regal or national splendor...
    OS 2.283 22 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    OS 2.296 2 we have...no record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us.
    Cir 2.312 9 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    Int 2.330 24 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men...
    Int 2.343 22 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living.
    Art1 2.360 15 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Pt1 3.4 8 ...even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living...
    Pt1 3.29 12 ...the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
    Gts 3.162 12 We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living by it...
    Nat2 3.186 18 ...we do not eat for the good of living...
    Pol1 3.200 1 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population...may be voted in or out;...
    Pol1 3.207 25 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right.
    NR 3.231 9 ...[general ideas] round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
    NR 3.240 18 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them...Shakers, or by any known and effete name? Let it be a new way of living.
    NR 3.248 24 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...could well consent to their living in Oregon for any claim I felt on them,--it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.274 13 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home, of raging riders, who drive their steeds so hard, in the violence of living to forget its illusion: they would know the worst...
    MoS 4.161 15 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own;...
    MoS 4.165 17 Five or six as ridiculous stories, too, [Montaigne] says, can be told of me, as of any man living.
    MoS 4.171 12 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    ET1 5.4 10 If Goethe had been still living I might have wandered into Germany also.
    ET1 5.4 13 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold...
    ET1 5.7 4 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca...
    ET3 5.34 2 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...
    ET4 5.57 27 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...living amphibiously on a rough coast...
    ET5 5.101 21 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
    ET9 5.144 9 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living...
    ET11 5.193 3 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses...
    ET11 5.193 7 Dismal anecdotes abound...of ruined dukes and earls living in exile for debt.
    F 6.7 11 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is...race living at the expense of race.
    F 6.42 21 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town.
    Wth 6.90 16 ...no clanship, no patriarchal style of living by the revenues of a chief...suits [the Saxons];...
    Wth 6.95 21 ...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
    Wth 6.97 2 ...it is each man's interest that...ease and convenience of living... should exist somewhere...
    Wth 6.124 2 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Ctr 6.156 3 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended... from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of [other men's] opinions.
    Ctr 6.156 17 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    CbW 6.271 19 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of living...
    DL 7.113 18 It is a sufficient accusation of our ways of living...that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    DL 7.122 18 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to be a master of living well...
    DL 7.123 27 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes the crisis of life...
    Farm 7.153 13 ...living or dying, [the farmer] never shall be heard of in [palaces];...
    Boks 7.190 11 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Cour 7.266 11 The thoughtful man says...do you not see...that my way of living is organic?
    OA 7.326 14 Every one is sensible of this cumulative advantage in living.
    PI 8.38 23 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.
    PI 8.42 26 We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms.
    SA 8.79 16 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    Res 8.138 15 ...if you tell me that there is always life for the living;...I am invigorated...
    PPo 8.240 23 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf. No fowler has taken him, and none now living has seen him.
    Insp 8.293 16 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require new ways of living...
    Imtl 8.328 18 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living.
    Imtl 8.343 17 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the man by their praise for this act. And Mahomet in the same mind declared, Not dead, but living, ye are to account all those who are slain in the way of God.
    Imtl 8.347 19 ...when we are living in the sentiments we ask no questions about time.
    PerF 10.80 24 I knew a stupid young farmer, churlish, living only for his gains...
    SovE 10.189 2 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...in spite of malignity and blind self-interest living for the moment, an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    SovE 10.196 25 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living.
    Plu 10.293 12 [Plutarch] has been represented...as living long in Rome in great esteem...
    Plu 10.311 23 [Seneca] is not happily living.
    Plu 10.312 2 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living with men of business... learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
    LLNE 10.362 17 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    Thor 10.452 26 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
    Thor 10.454 16 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much...
    Thor 10.484 20 Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this plant [the Edelweisse]...
    LS 11.14 16 ...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    JBS 11.279 13 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends...
    SMC 11.361 19 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them...
    FRep 11.521 4 We are all living according to custom;...
    FRep 11.523 19 ...[the people]...must have the means of living well...
    Mem 12.94 18 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.
    CL 12.142 4 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    Bost 12.196 22 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    MAng1 12.242 27 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living...
    Milt1 12.250 17 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
    Milt1 12.263 6 [Milton's] habits of living were austere.
    Milt1 12.263 27 When [Milton] was charged with loose habits of living, he declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem... and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    EurB 12.369 4 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...

Livingstone, David, n. (1)

    Wth 6.95 5 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated, and who is using these to add to the stock. So it is with...Livingstone.

livre, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.153 21 ...Jupiter livre le monde/ Aux mirmidons, aux mirmidons./

livres, n. (1)

    War 11.159 16 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that he...ordered a pension of eight livres a day to be paid him during life.

Livy, n. (2)

    LE 1.170 19 Thucydides, Livy, have only provided materials.
    Boks 7.204 22 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book;...

lizard, n. (4)

    Hist 2.39 22 ...see the lizard on the fence...
    Hist 2.40 14 What does Rome know of rat and lizard?
    CL 12.165 2 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
    CL 12.165 7 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.

lizards, n. (1)

    Bty 6.284 22 [The collector] has got all snakes and lizards in his phials...

llama, n. (1)

    Cour 7.267 22 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.

Lloyd, John, n. (1)

    EWI 11.107 23 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783,- William Dillwyn, Samuel Hoar, George Harrison, Thomas Knowles, John Lloyd, Joseph Woods, to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

Lloyd, Jones, n. (1)

    ET15 5.266 13 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr. Bailey, have contributed to its renown...

Lloyd's, n. (1)

    ET10 5.160 12 Forty thousand ships are entered in Lloyd's lists.

load, n. (18)

    LE 1.177 20 [The scholar] must bear his share of the common load.
    Con 1.298 8 ...[conservatism] must saddle itself with the mountainous load of the violence and vice of society...
    SL 2.139 2 Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
    GoW 4.262 16 ...that which is for [a man] to say lies as a load on his heart until it is delivered.
    GoW 4.289 12 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET8 5.139 12 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle, when vast numbers are found who can each lift this enormous load.
    Wth 6.104 12 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out.
    Wth 6.104 13 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out.
    CbW 6.243 10 ...wilt thou measure all thy road,/ See thou lift the lightest load./
    Civ 7.31 12 Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies...
    DL 7.112 1 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous. We need all the force of an idea to lift this load...
    Cour 7.267 22 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.
    OA 7.326 12 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights. What a lust of appearance, what a load of anxieties that once degraded him he is thus rid of!
    Res 8.139 13 Is there any load which water cannot lift?
    SovE 10.197 7 I have not discovered, until this blessed ray flashed just now through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would relieve me of my load.
    EPro 11.321 16 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor, this heavy load lifted off the national heart, we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    MLit 12.315 5 The great never with their own consent become a load on the minds they instruct.
    Trag 12.410 13 [Tragedy] looks like an insupportable load under which earth moans aloud. But analyze it;...it is always another person who is tormented.

loaded, adj. (4)

    Bhr 6.178 8 An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun...
    CbW 6.247 17 I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
    Farm 7.135 6 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
    SA 8.95 14 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.

loaded, v. (17)

    Nat 1.39 1 ...Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    AmS 1.95 4 Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
    Comp 2.102 13 ...The dice of God are always loaded.
    Art1 2.364 11 Under an oak-tree loaded with leaves and nuts...I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    UGM 4.23 8 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...loaded with advantages...
    ShP 4.214 24 ...the sentence [in Shakespeare] is so loaded with meaning and so linked with its foregoers and followers, that the logician is satisfied.
    ET4 5.59 19 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea...
    ET12 5.207 3 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning;...
    Wsp 6.214 27 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words...to their ancient meaning.
    Wsp 6.221 23 Let me show [the reader] that the dice are loaded;...
    Farm 7.151 14 The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear;...
    PI 8.59 15 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds...
    PerF 10.75 15 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees... loaded with grafted fruit.
    SMC 11.360 18 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer. These necessities make the topics of the ten thousand letters with which the mail-bags came loaded day by day.
    SMC 11.364 4 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons, but only three came. On these they loaded all the canvas of the tents, but took no tent-poles.
    CL 12.155 23 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road, although they were both loaded heavily enough with my baggage.
    EurB 12.371 22 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded with potatoes and apples...

loads, n. (4)

    ET5 5.94 26 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    Wth 6.122 26 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Res 8.140 24 By his machines man...can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift;...
    CL 12.137 6 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...with loads of natural productions collected on the way.

loads, v. (1)

    Comp 2.113 15 If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

loadstone, n. (6)

    SL 2.144 9 [A man] is...like the loadstone amongst splinters of steel.
    NR 3.228 24 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest...
    UGM 4.9 18 Justice has already been done to steam...to loadstone...
    ET16 5.282 21 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone...
    PLT 12.35 15 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.
    Mem 12.98 27 Only so much iron will the loadstone draw;...

loaf, n. (7)

    Con 1.305 10 The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread you would break up the oven.
    GoW 4.283 24 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably, as a baker when he has left his loaf;...
    Wth 6.88 13 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Wth 6.106 14 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Bty 6.290 10 It is a rule of largest application, true in a plant, true in a loaf of bread, that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Farm 7.140 15 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room, and weighs to each his loaf.
    Insp 8.272 1 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.

loam, n. (5)

    Wth 6.104 12 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out.
    PI 8.24 18 The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam...
    PerF 10.71 8 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds?
    PLT 12.28 27 To the gardener [Nature's] loam is all strawberries, pears, pineapples.
    CW 12.169 13 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./

loan, n. (2)

    Wth 6.105 14 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved.
    Thor 10.458 23 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...

loans, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.205 8 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It is an exchange...of useful loans;...
    ET10 5.161 12 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and emigration empties the country;...

loath, adj. (2)

    EWI 11.133 4 ...I am loath to say harsh things...
    EdAd 11.383 6 ...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the planet, and the population neither loath nor inexpert to use their advantages.

loathing, n. (1)

    ET4 5.63 14 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing...

loathsomeness, n. (1)

    Insp 8.292 3 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy.

loaves, n. (2)

    Wth 6.106 16 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer, that no wishing will change the rigorous limits of pints and penny loaves;...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Schr 10.276 15 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves and soup.

lobbied, v. (1)

    FRep 11.518 14 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures. The men themselves are suspected and charged with lobbying and being lobbied.

lobbies, n. (2)

    CSC 10.377 4 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to memorable interviews and conversations, in the hall, in the lobbies or around the doors.
    Wom 11.421 4 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged, in the lobbies of legislatures, against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...

lobby, n. (1)

    CInt 12.120 12 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...not a wire-puller paid to manage the lobby and caucus.

lobby, v. (1)

    DL 7.110 7 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his savings...eager agents to lobby in legislatures...

lobbying, v. (1)

    FRep 11.518 13 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures. The men themselves are suspected and charged with lobbying and being lobbied.

Lobenstein, Germany, n. (1)

    NMW 4.236 9 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death;...

lobes, n. (1)

    F 6.11 3 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already predetermined in his lobes...

lobster, n. (1)

    SovE 10.183 19 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form.

local, adj. (51)

    Nat 1.50 16 ...a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
    DSA 1.143 2 In the country, neighborhoods, half parishes are signing off, to use the local term.
    YA 1.364 5 ...when...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment... there is no danger that local peculiarities and hostilities should be preserved.
    YA 1.389 13 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Cir 2.304 10 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance...a local usage...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Int 2.326 5 Intellect separates the fact considered...from all local and personal reference...
    Art1 2.358 20 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Pt1 3.3 8 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local...
    Nat2 3.176 5 We exaggerate the praises of local scenery.
    Pol1 3.209 22 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure...
    PPh 4.45 12 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by any thing short-lived or local...
    SwM 4.127 17 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal, and not local;...
    SwM 4.127 21 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue;...
    NMW 4.245 24 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...
    ET2 5.30 5 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage;...
    ET4 5.46 16 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
    ET9 5.151 13 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in the absence of real ones;...
    ET14 5.246 20 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style, and local in his aims.
    ET14 5.246 21 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style, and local in his aims.
    ET16 5.273 20 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.
    ET16 5.280 22 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...
    ET17 5.292 2 ...the editor of a powerful local journal, [my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
    F 6.6 14 Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town.
    Ctr 6.163 22 ...the youth must rate at its true mark the inconceivable levity of local opinion.
    Art2 7.55 10 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world... the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.86 23 I remember long ago being attracted, by...the local importance of the cause, into the court-room.
    WD 7.175 5 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    WD 7.185 10 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    Clbs 7.249 24 Every man brings into society some partial thought and local culture.
    Suc 7.287 21 These boasted arts are of very recent origin. They are local conveniences...
    Suc 7.288 1 These [boasted arts] are local conveniences...
    Suc 7.289 16 Egotism...seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.
    PC 8.209 5 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve local famine...
    Grts 8.303 27 ...don't inculpate yourself in the local, social or national crime...
    Grts 8.319 3 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Dem1 10.21 26 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing family, clan, country and each exclusive and local connection...
    EzRy 10.394 13 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are possessed by any survivor.
    LS 11.12 2 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why" For two reasons: (1) because it was a local custom, and unsuitable in western countries;...
    LS 11.12 6 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us...
    HDC 11.47 19 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.
    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.
    FSLC 11.181 20 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news.
    JBB 11.271 25 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government.
    EPro 11.315 7 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
    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 11.331 3 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...
    SMC 11.349 8 ...the facts which make to us the interest of this day are in a great degree personal and local here;...
    CPL 11.495 3 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each independent in its local government...
    CInt 12.116 1 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the telegraph which speeds the local news over the land.
    Milt1 12.251 23 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...
    PPr 12.386 21 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...

local, n. (2)

    AmS 1.88 12 ...neither can any artist entirely exclude...the local...
    PI 8.32 14 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies itself...with the local and individual.

localities, n. (5)

    Mrs1 3.153 4 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities...
    ShP 4.207 12 Can any biography shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?
    Insp 8.290 15 Certain localities...are excitants of the muse.
    PLT 12.28 2 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up and minister in petty niches and localities...
    Bost 12.184 23 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...were preferred before others.

locality, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.177 5 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes...to fetch a plant or a mineral from a remote locality...
    Wsp 6.205 9 In all ages, souls...are born, who are rather related to the system of the world than to their particular age and locality.

lochs, n. (1)

    ET3 5.39 10 In the northern lochs [of England], the herring are in innumerable shoals;...

lock, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.225 19 A door is to be painted, a lock to be repaired.
    WD 7.161 26 ...every chance is timed, as if Nature, who made the lock, knew where to find the key.

lock, v. (5)

    LE 1.175 20 ...lock the door;...
    OS 2.294 8 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.
    ET10 5.164 12 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.
    Wth 6.119 26 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.
    EWI 11.139 27 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...would fain...lock up every house where liberty and innovation can be pleaded for.

lock-and-bolt, adj. (1)

    YA 1.390 10 That is [the hero's] nobility...always to throw himself...on the liberal, on the expansive side, never on the defensive, the conserving, the timorous, the lock-and-bolt system.

Locke, John, n. (17)

    AmS 1.89 13 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke...have given;...
    AmS 1.89 14 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
    Tran 1.340 1 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    SR 2.79 13 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power, a Locke...it imposes its classification on other men...
    OS 2.287 9 The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    UGM 4.18 14 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...the credit of...Locke;...are in point.
    PPh 4.39 19 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation,--Boethius...Locke...is some reader of Plato...
    SwM 4.105 4 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology; whilst Locke and Grotius had drawn the moral argument.
    SwM 4.136 12 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
    ShP 4.199 4 As Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Webster vote, so Locke and Rousseau think, for thousands;...
    ET14 5.239 20 Locke is as surely the influx of decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
    ET14 5.243 15 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England]...
    Clbs 7.243 27 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren, Evelyn and Locke;...
    PI 8.13 18 If you agree with me, or if Locke or Montesquieu agree, I may yet be wrong;...
    LLNE 10.330 5 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians, Hartley and Priestley and Belsham, the followers of Locke;...
    MMEm 10.402 16 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later...Herder, Locke, Madame de Stael...
    Milt1 12.255 10 The man of Locke is virtuous without enthusiasm...

Locke, n. (1)

    Nat 1.8 16 Miller owns this field, Locke that...

locked, v. (10)

    Chr1 3.94 4 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep. The faculties are locked up, and offer no resistance.
    ET5 5.80 18 [The English people's] mind is...locked and bolted to results.
    ET12 5.200 13 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont...that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...
    ET12 5.203 18 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...and had the doors locked and sealed by the consul.
    Insp 8.275 25 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain...
    Dem1 10.3 10 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms...
    Chr2 10.116 23 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
    Edc1 10.133 12 [If I have renounced the search of truth] I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just...locked himself up...
    CPL 11.494 2 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...
    Mem 12.109 21 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...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...

Lockists, n. (1)

    ET14 5.239 26 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists.

lock-jaw, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.249 9 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...

lockjaws, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.147 25 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain, and meditating on the contingencies of wounds, cancers, lockjaws, rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...

locks, n. (8)

    DSA 1.133 13 The preachers do not see that they...shear [Jesus] of the locks of beauty...
    LT 1.273 20 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, with all the locks and keys, into his custody;...
    OS 2.283 8 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and places. But we must pick no locks.
    Bty 6.306 10 ...the woman who has shared with us the moral sentiment,-- her locks must appear to us sublime.
    PPo 8.253 12 No one has unvailed thoughts like Hafiz, since the locks of the World-bride were first curled.
    PPo 8.256 22 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...
    PPo 8.261 1 In the midnight of thy locks,/ I renounce the day;/ In the ring of thy rose-lips,/ My heart forgets to pray./
    Milt1 12.274 12 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

Locksley Hall [Alfred, Lor (1)

    EurB 12.372 12 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.

locksmith, n. (2)

    Wth 6.108 6 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    Ctr 6.138 27 A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk and a dancer could not exchange functions.

lockstep, n. (1)

    ET5 5.101 25 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep.

locomotion, n. (4)

    Nat 1.36 5 Space...locomotion...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    Ctr 6.146 12 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
    Bty 6.292 22 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained. This is the charm of...the locomotion of animals.
    PLT 12.21 27 If man has organs...for locomotion, for taking food...you shall find all the same in the muskrat.

locomotive, n. (11)

    YA 1.363 23 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    Nat2 3.195 14 We anticipate a new era from the invention of a locomotive...
    ET5 5.93 6 The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.
    F 6.15 9 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like the locomotive, strong enough on its track, but which can do nothing but mischief off of it;...
    Pow 6.81 16 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
    Wth 6.87 21 Wealth begins...in a horse or a locomotive to cross the land...
    Wth 6.89 25 ...the webs of his loom; the masculine draught of his locomotive...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Elo2 8.117 9 [The orator] is put together...like a locomotive just finished at the Tredegar works.
    Edc1 10.139 1 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails...
    Schr 10.270 2 The engineer in the locomotive is waiting for [the poet];...
    Mem 12.90 22 It is essential to a locomotive that it can reverse its movement...

locomotives, n. (6)

    NER 3.253 2 ...the man must walk, wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him.
    ET5 5.76 7 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants, for whom Stephenson and Brunel are contriving locomotives and a tubular bridge?
    ET10 5.160 26 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
    Res 8.144 3 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    Supl 10.178 22 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by Stephenson, in order to the construction of locomotives.
    FSLC 11.183 26 It is not skill in iron locomotives that makes so fine civility...

locust, n. (4)

    Hist 2.21 1 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced...its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce.
    CbW 6.254 16 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
    Thor 10.482 19 The locust z-ing.
    SHC 11.436 2 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...and in the grass, and by the pond, the locust, the cricket and the hyla, shall shrilly play.

Lodbrok, King Regnar, n. (1)

    PI 8.57 26 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards, as:--The whole ocean flamed as one wound. King Regnar Lodbrok.

lodge, v. (1)

    SA 8.81 9 Though the person so clothed [in manners]...lodge in the same chamber...he is yet a thousand miles off...

lodged, v. (16)

    Tran 1.343 17 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Chr1 3.97 13 [The feeble souls] never behold a principle until it is lodged in a person.
    Mrs1 3.136 18 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    UGM 4.24 13 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature...
    F 6.14 21 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken thought, became animal;...
    F 6.14 22 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
    Pow 6.53 15 ...there is no chink or crevice in which [power] is not lodged...
    Wth 6.83 8 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/
    CbW 6.274 3 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you have been lodged on the first floor or the attic;...
    Bty 6.285 5 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]?
    Chr2 10.98 5 When I think of Reason, of Truth, of Virtue, I cannot conceive them as lodged in your soul and lodged in my soul...
    Chr2 10.98 7 When I think of Reason, of Truth, of Virtue, I cannot conceive them as lodged in your soul and lodged in my soul, but that you and I and all souls are lodged in that;...
    Edc1 10.156 25 No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee... can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...
    EPro 11.322 17 ...this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    Mem 12.102 2 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures which every new day retouches...
    Trag 12.414 18 As the west wind lifts up again the heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

lodges, n. (1)

    LT 1.267 19 What further relations we sustain, what new lodges we are entering, is now unknown.

lodges, v. (3)

    LT 1.274 2 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...feasts him, lodges him;...
    Ctr 6.147 12 ...knowledge and fine moral quality [nature] lodges in distant men.
    WD 7.176 3 In the Greek legend, Apollo lodges with the shepherds of Admetus...

lodging, n. (9)

    Nat 1.61 6 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...
    Con 1.325 25 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society, and not that rich board and lodging he now enjoys.
    Int 2.340 26 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird...have nothing of them; the world is only their lodging and table.
    Art1 2.360 19 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...in the narrow lodging where [the artist] has endured the constraints and seeming of a city poverty, will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    ET12 5.206 1 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540, averaging 200 pounds a year, with lodging and diet at the college.
    Bhr 6.196 7 It is good to give a stranger...a night's lodging.
    DL 7.113 14 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for sweet bread and warm lodging...
    MMEm 10.409 14 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    Thor 10.455 21 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses...

lodging, v. (1)

    FRep 11.517 5 The lodging the power in the people...has the effect of holding things closer to common sense;...

lodging-rooms, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.242 27 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square,--the ground-floor being resigned to offices and stables, and the floors above to rooms of state and to lodging-rooms,--were rebuilt with new purpose.

lodgings, n. (2)

    SlHr 10.438 4 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston]...
    HDC 11.34 9 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings...

Lofn, n. (1)

    Suc 7.303 17 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India...

loftier, adj. (7)

    LT 1.260 27 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform], which has a loftier port and reason than heretofore...
    OS 2.280 20 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence, and to speak with a worthier, loftier strain of that advent.
    Mrs1 3.133 15 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities...
    UGM 4.21 7 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/...
    Boks 7.198 12 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher, with loftier strains of musical wisdom than Homer reached;...
    PI 8.56 26 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise to a loftier strain...
    Res 8.136 3 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./

loftiest, adj. (6)

    Comp 2.98 22 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    ET14 5.234 13 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in their loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.
    F 6.21 18 In its last and loftiest ascensions, insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient members.
    CbW 6.243 17 The richest of all lords is Use,/ And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse./
    Plu 10.312 10 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of Nero had the natural effect of driving virtue to its loftiest antagonisms.
    Milt1 12.265 11 [Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus, the loftiest song in the praise of chastity that is in any language.

loftily, adv. (2)

    Elo1 7.77 24 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Cour 7.254 14 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether, more loftily, a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...

loftiness, n. (5)

    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, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this.
    F 6.24 6 The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
    Ctr 6.160 19 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.
    Insp 8.287 22 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...it has...festal notes ringing out all measures of loftiness.
    MAng1 12.240 3 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.

lofty, adj. (50)

    MR 1.234 2 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
    LT 1.265 21 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...
    Tran 1.341 15 ...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems drudgery.
    YA 1.388 11 I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood.
    Hist 2.9 1 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense...
    Hist 2.37 5 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    Fdsp 2.206 25 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women...between whom subsists a lofty intelligence.
    Fdsp 2.215 14 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking...
    Hsm1 2.259 25 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...so wilful and lofty, inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    OS 2.289 11 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
    Int 2.345 22 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
    Art1 2.362 21 [The work of art] was not painted for [picture dealers], it was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by simplicity and lofty emotions.
    Art1 2.363 12 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not make the poor and uncultivated feel that it addresses them with a voice of lofty cheer.
    Nat2 3.175 7 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses. Can a musical note be so lofty, so haughtily beautiful!
    MoS 4.174 8 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension, even of lofty piety, leads to this ghastly insight...
    NMW 4.248 20 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains.
    ET10 5.157 21 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced (as if looking from his lofty cell, over five centuries, into ours) that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET11 5.190 21 In the roll of [English] nobles are found...men of solid virtues and of lofty sentiments;...
    ET13 5.222 20 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET14 5.243 19 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus...
    Bhr 6.167 5 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/...
    Bty 6.279 11 Oft peeled for [Seyd] a lofty tone/ From nodding pole and belting zone./
    Bty 6.287 2 ...the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Ill 6.318 9 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
    Art2 7.52 4 These [ancient sculptures] are...the face of man in the morning of the world. No mark is on these lofty features of sloth or luxury or meanness...
    DL 7.127 21 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest a true and lofty life...especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    Boks 7.204 5 ...in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    OA 7.316 1 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain.
    Res 8.149 20 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead and hides all its possibilities in lofty depths, 't is but gloom on gloom.
    QO 8.202 18 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty platform...
    PPo 8.258 25 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./
    Dem1 10.26 5 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions.
    Aris 10.57 18 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    Chr2 10.104 22 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms, thundering its protest, sometimes in earnest and lofty rebuke;...
    Prch 10.237 25 ...how rare and lofty, how unattainable, are the aims [the Church] labors to set before men!
    CSC 10.376 12 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in the lofty reliance on principles...
    MMEm 10.397 18 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    MMEm 10.433 1 Is it the less desirable to have the lofty abstractions because the abstractionist is nervous and irritable?
    Carl 10.498 6 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has...taught scholars their lofty duty.
    FSLC 11.180 20 In Boston, we have said with such lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
    ALin 11.333 27 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions;...and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone!
    ALin 11.335 25 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    EdAd 11.385 16 Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new eras with hymns of lofty cheer?
    SHC 11.434 25 The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that belongs to this town [Concord];-no lofty crags, no glittering cataracts;...
    Scot 11.464 20 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser...
    MAng1 12.215 22 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel...
    Milt1 12.250 9 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...
    MLit 12.317 13 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life.
    WSL 12.345 24 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience.
    Let 12.398 16 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things...

log, adj. (5)

    Civ 7.17 12 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Civ 7.17 17 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Civ 7.21 23 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier.
    SMC 11.373 24 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts...
    Koss 11.401 3 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.

log, n. (5)

    Hist 2.39 23 ...see...the lichen on the log.
    Pt1 3.3 9 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire...
    WD 7.157 22 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    Edc1 10.155 14 [the naturalist's] secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.
    FRep 11.537 11 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is no log or sluggard...

logarithms, n. (3)

    UGM 4.10 20 The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
    PPh 4.59 6 In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following Plato in his flights.
    WD 7.159 20 ...taught by Mr. Babbage, [steam] must calculate interest and logarithms.

log-book, n. (1)

    MoL 10.248 19 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Columbus, with America in his log-book;...

log-cabin, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.16 19 Witness...the log-cabin...and all the cognizances of party.

log-hut, n. (1)

    Art1 2.360 18 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...in the log-hut of the backwoods...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.

log-huts, n. (1)

    ET9 5.146 15 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...

logic, n. (44)

    SL 2.153 1 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed. It must affirm itself, or no forms of logic or of oath can give it evidence.
    Int 2.329 18 We want in every man a long logic;...
    Int 2.329 19 Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;...
    Int 2.346 10 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat so vast in their logic, so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    PPh 4.39 8 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    PPh 4.73 21 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...whose dreadful logic was always leisurely and sportive;...
    PPh 4.74 13 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    PNR 4.84 27 [Plato] saw...that a celestial geometry was in place [in the supersensible], as a logic of lines and angles here below;...
    SwM 4.104 4 The robust Aristotelian method...shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    ET5 5.80 12 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is a logic that brings salt to soup...
    ET5 5.80 14 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists...
    ET5 5.80 25 All the steps [the English] orderly take; but with the high logic of never confounding the minor and major proposition;...
    ET5 5.81 18 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;...
    ET5 5.82 24 Their self-respect...and their realistic logic...have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
    ET8 5.129 12 Was it...a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg, or was it only his pitiless logic, that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves?
    ET10 5.153 7 A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;...
    ET12 5.207 19 The men [English students] have learned accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
    ET13 5.222 17 [The English] talk with courage and logic, and show you magnificent results...
    ET14 5.252 23 [A good Englishman] has learning, good sense, power of labor, and logic;...
    ET14 5.253 10 The eye of the naturalist must have...a susceptibility...alive to the heart as well as to the logic of creation.
    F 6.18 12 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical brain, apt for the same vigorous...logic;...
    Wsp 6.215 27 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...logic to rhythm and to display;...
    Clbs 7.234 13 [Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation. This conclusion is at once the logic of persecution and of love.
    PI 8.10 18 We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic.
    PI 8.10 19 We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic.
    PI 8.21 24 The poet has a logic, though it be subtile.
    SA 8.96 1 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning.
    SA 8.96 6 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which you found irresistible.
    Elo2 8.111 16 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic...all are invisible and unknown.
    Elo2 8.117 13 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    Res 8.138 8 A Schopenhauer, with logic and learning and wit, teaching pessimism...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    PPo 8.243 13 [The Persian poets] use an inconsecutiveness quite alarming to Western logic...
    Edc1 10.140 15 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    Plu 10.306 27 ...the logic of the sophists and materialists...fills us with disgust.
    SlHr 10.439 16 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence...
    FSLC 11.200 5 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy; what subtlety, what logic, what learning...
    FSLN 11.225 7 ...though I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism,-yet the secondary merits of a speech, namely, its logic, its illustrations, its points, etc., are not here in question.
    TPar 11.287 17 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless, and he, with something less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous logic, rejected them.
    Wom 11.406 15 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...
    FRO2 11.489 4 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That claim takes his teachings out of logic and out of nature...
    PLT 12.13 19 I want not the logic, but the power, if any, which [metaphysics] brings into science and literature;...
    PLT 12.13 21 I want...the man who can humanize this [metaphysical] logic, these syllogisms, and give me the results.
    II 12.67 19 The eye and ear have a logic which transcends the skill of the tongue.
    Milt1 12.268 4 [Milton] compiled a logic for boys;...

logical, adj. (14)

    Tran 1.331 5 Even the materialist Condillac, perhaps the most logical expounder of materialism, was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    Int 2.329 16 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    ET4 5.57 18 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...wherein the association is logical, between merit and land.
    ET5 5.79 25 There is a necessity on [the English people] to be logical.
    ET11 5.191 17 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
    ET12 5.204 11 The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer.
    DL 7.122 5 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland], so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Suc 7.301 4 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas, and a logical exposition of the world, that are our first need;...
    PI 8.14 23 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.39 10 Men in the courts or in the street think themselves logical and the poet whimsical.
    Schr 10.280 11 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function, as his logical...skill, the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
    TPar 11.286 20 [Theodore Parker] had...a logical method...
    EdAd 11.389 16 Men reason badly, but Nature and Destiny are logical.
    FRep 11.536 6 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb.

logically, adv. (5)

    ET5 5.79 27 [The English people] would hardly greet the good that did not logically fall...
    ET10 5.156 9 [The English] proceed logically by the double method of labor and thrift.
    ET13 5.228 14 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism.
    Elo1 7.65 6 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in...arguing logically...
    PerF 10.86 10 All our political disasters grow as logically out of our attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part of your house comes of defect in the foundation.

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