La Fontaine to Lands
La Fontaine, Jean de, n. (1)
QO 8.181 20
M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the
originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.
Laban, n. (4)
Pol1 3.202 10
Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after
by an officer on the frontiers...
Pol1 3.202 16
It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights
to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
Pol1 3.202 18
It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the
officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
Pol1 3.202 22
...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
label, v. (1)
OS 2.278 3
[The best minds]...do not label or stamp [truth] with any man's
name...
labels, v. (1)
OA 7.329 13
[The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species:
all but a few are empty.
labeure, v. (1)
WD 7.178 17
...an old French sentence says, God works in moments,--En
peu d'heure Dieu labeure.
labial, adj. (1)
ET6 5.104 7
[The Englishman's] elocution is stomachic,--as the American'
s is labial.
Labor, Day, n. (1)
LT 1.275 4
[The spirit of Reform] casts its eye on Trade, and Day Labor...
Labor, Equal, n. (1)
MN 1.214 24
The reforms whose fame now fills the land with...Equal
Labor...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
labor, n. (225)
Nat 1.36 5
Space...labor...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is
unlimited.
Nat 1.75 12
...poverty, labor, sleep, fear, fortune, are known to you.
AmS 1.81 3
Our anniversary is one of hope, perhaps, not enough of labor.
AmS 1.83 8
...the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return
from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.
AmS 1.93 3
When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of
whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
AmS 1.94 8
There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be...as
unfit for any handiwork or public labor as a penknife for an axe.
AmS 1.100 5
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of
the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.
AmS 1.100 7
...labor is everywhere welcome;...
MN 1.208 21
Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in
labor;...
MN 1.215 24
Tell me not how great your project is...a new division of
labor and of land...
MR 1.234 25
Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of
many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of
every young man.
MR 1.235 8
...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to
take each of us bravely his part...in the manual labor of the world.
MR 1.235 11
...will you give up the immense advantages reaped from the
division of labor...
MR 1.236 7
...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all
these institutions [commerce, law, state]...the way will be open again to the
advantages which arise from the division of labor...
MR 1.236 11
...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the
doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the
members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be
deprived of it.
MR 1.236 15
The use of manual labor is one which never grows obsolete...
MR 1.236 24
Manual labor is the study of the external world.
MR 1.240 19
I do not wish to overstate this doctrine of labor...
MR 1.241 6
...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work
of the world;...for this reason, that labor is God's education;...
MR 1.241 8
...he only can become a master, who learns the secrets of
labor...
MR 1.241 14
...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the
maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual
exertion.
MR 1.242 7
...no separation from labor can be without some loss of power
and of truth to the seer himself;...
LT 1.285 26
The revolutions that impend over society are...from new
modes of thinking...which shall animate labor by love and science...
Con 1.308 7
...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in
your own fidelity and labor...
Con 1.308 11
To that fidelity and labor I pay homage.
Con 1.312 16
Now can your children be educated, your labor turned to
their advantage...
Con 1.325 11
I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my
place in the affections of mankind...
Tran 1.333 19
[The idealist] does not respect labor...otherwise than as a
manifold symbol...
Tran 1.333 20
[The idealist] does not respect...the products of labor,
namely property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol...
Tran 1.341 15
...[many intelligent and religious persons] consent to such
labor as is open to them...
Tran 1.348 14
The popular literary creed seems to be, I am a sublime
genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
Tran 1.349 23
...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal
professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly
compromise...
Tran 1.350 24
New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy,
is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor, we ourselves stand in
greater want of the labor.
Tran 1.350 25
New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy,
is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor, we ourselves stand in
greater want of the labor.
Tran 1.353 13
Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere
waiting;...
YA 1.366 27
...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the
adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor...
could suggest.
YA 1.382 13
[The Associations] were founded in love and in labor.
YA 1.383 12
...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite
project of theirs, that of paying talent and labor at one rate...
Hist 2.28 12
More than once some individual has appeared to me with such
negligence of labor...begging in the name of God, as made good to the
nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
Comp 2.114 1
Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws.
Comp 2.114 3
Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor.
Comp 2.114 13
...in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
Comp 2.114 16
...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue...
Comp 2.114 21
These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real
exertions of the mind...
Comp 2.115 3
Human labor...is one immense illustration of the perfect
compensation of the universe.
Comp 2.123 1
...all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had if paid
for...by labor which the heart and the head allow.
SL 2.137 15
All our manual labor and works of strength...are done by dint
of continual falling...
SL 2.142 14
If the labor is mean, let [a man] by his thinking and character
make it liberal.
Prd1 2.226 17
...not one stroke can labor lay to without some new
acquaintance with nature...
Prd1 2.233 27
Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and
mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than
the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
Art1 2.352 27
No man can quite exclude this element of Necessity from his
labor.
Art1 2.364 10
...[sculpture] is...not the manly labor of a wise and spiritual
nation.
Pt1 3.5 16
In love...in labor...we study to utter our painful secret.
Exp 3.58 13
Our young people have thought and written much on labor and
reform...
Exp 3.60 20
Men live in their fancy, like drunkards whose hands are too
soft and tremulous for successful labor.
Gts 3.160 12
If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit
him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think
there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
Nat2 3.196 26
...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into
us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of
cheerful labor;...
Pol1 3.203 10
Gift...makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor
made it the first owner's...
Pol1 3.215 14
A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from
afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical
end...
Pol1 3.220 1
We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried,
and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
NR 3.231 22
The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and
the virtue have been in nations...
NER 3.256 8
Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house
be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
NER 3.256 10
Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house
be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
NER 3.256 26
Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those
gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
NER 3.264 5
[The new communities] aim to give every member a share in
the manual labor...
NER 3.264 6
[The new communities] aim...to give an equal reward to labor
and to talent...
NER 3.264 7
[The new communities] aim...to unite a liberal culture with an
education to labor.
NER 3.264 9
The scheme [of the new communities] offers, by the
economies of associated labor and expense, to make every member rich, on
the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every
member poor.
UGM 4.6 11
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of
thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;...
SwM 4.93 13
A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and
imagination with ideas and pictures which...console [men] for...the
meanness of labor and traffic.
SwM 4.107 3
...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy...
which he experimented with and established through years of labor...
MoS 4.158 15
Remember the open question between the present order of
competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
MoS 4.158 16
The generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared
by all;...
MoS 4.158 20
...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the
spirit of man...
MoS 4.180 13
Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit
may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war,
hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
ShP 4.199 24
...what is best written or done by genius in the world...came
by wide social labor...
NMW 4.223 23
In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the
interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave...
and the interests of living labor...
NMW 4.224 1
In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the
interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave,
which labor is now entombed in money stocks...and the interests of living
labor...
NMW 4.224 4
In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the
interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor...
NMW 4.240 16
In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and
value of labor...
ET1 5.16 20
The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that country [America] was
that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
ET3 5.36 6
...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion
take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
ET4 5.45 25
[The English] have...supreme endurance in war and in labor.
ET4 5.48 27
Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...open
market, or good wages for every kind of labor;...
ET4 5.49 6
Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...sense of
superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war...
ET5 5.75 16
The island [England] is lucrative to free labor...
ET5 5.88 22
Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts,
they are impatient of toil and labor.
ET5 5.90 11
The high civil and legal offices [in England] are...posts which
exact frightful amounts of mental labor.
ET5 5.91 17
Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek
remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them,
got his marbles on ship-board.
ET5 5.93 8
The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the
cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.
ET10 5.155 6
...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate
family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it
was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers, as it must
raise the price of labor and of manufactured goods.
ET10 5.156 9
[The English] proceed logically by the double method of
labor and thrift.
ET10 5.160 4
...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of
England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run
out of all figures.
ET10 5.167 19
The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the
man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and
presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of
linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is
admonished of the mischief of the division of labor...
ET10 5.167 23
...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined
except such as are proper individuals, capable of...the application of their
talent to new labor.
ET11 5.177 24
...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of
many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their
homesteads.
ET11 5.195 18
All advantages given to absolve the young patrician from
intellectual labor are of course mistaken.
ET13 5.214 4
[People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure
rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
ET13 5.216 12
The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the
boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
ET14 5.252 23
[A good Englishman] has learning, good sense, power of
labor, and logic;...
ET14 5.253 26
...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds
that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...
adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power
of labor in the English mind.
ET16 5.283 26
...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over
the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens
on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk
when so many thousands of English men were hungry and wanted labor.
ET18 5.302 25
...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage,
through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and
stoutness! What courage in war, what sinew in labor...
F 6.33 8
...the wild beasts [man] makes useful for...labor;...
Pow 6.56 22
The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any
labor, art or concert.
Pow 6.57 1
[A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York
or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or
labor to it.
Pow 6.58 20
...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many
young men, as well as the playbooks.
Wth 6.85 22
...a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.
Wth 6.99 21
Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
Wth 6.99 22
Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
Wth 6.101 23
The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no
waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents.
Wth 6.104 26
Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable
talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
Wth 6.108 3
You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you
as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he
knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks
and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and
value should stand on the same simple and surly market?
Wth 6.110 10
...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor,
which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and
stoppages.
Wth 6.112 8
...[each man's] native determination guides his labor and his
spending.
Wth 6.114 11
...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and
peace...
Wth 6.119 4
The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it.
If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man
could afford to hire labor without selling his land.
Ctr 6.148 22
In the country [a man] can find...manly labor...
Bhr 6.178 5
The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the
human eye.
Bhr 6.178 24
...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances,
whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision
(that of art and labor).
Wsp 6.237 25
Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real,
finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
CbW 6.263 6
No labor, pains, temperance...that can gain [health], must be
grudged.
Bty 6.291 11
...the smith at his forge, or whatever useful labor, is becoming
to the wise eye.
Civ 7.21 16
...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the
horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief
enemies are kept at bay.
Civ 7.23 3
The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy
laborers;...
Civ 7.28 24
...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to
hitch his wagon to a star...
Civ 7.32 17
...when I...see...the invitation which experience and permanent
causes open to youth and labor...I see what cubic values America has...
Elo1 7.96 12
...[the sturdy countryman]...has nothing to learn of labor or
poverty or the rough of farming.
DL 7.116 14
...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the
good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty
untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the
household begins.
DL 7.116 15
I see not how serious labor...is to be avoided;...
DL 7.116 16
I see not how...the labor of all, and every day, is to be
avoided;...
DL 7.116 18
...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in
regard to manual labor...
DL 7.116 20
Another age may divide the manual labor of the world more
equally on all the members of society...
DL 7.119 24
There is many a humble house...where talent and taste and
sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
DL 7.132 16
Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and
bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact
demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
DL 7.133 10
These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the
household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in
any good degree attained...can the labor of many for one, yield anything
better, or half as good"
Farm 7.138 25
[The farmer] represents continuous hard labor...
Farm 7.141 22
...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in
the field, investing his labor in the land, and making a product with which
no forced labor can compete.
Farm 7.141 23
...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in
the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
Farm 7.153 6
[The farmer] knows every secret of labor;...
PI 8.40 11
The writer, like the priest, must be exempted from secular labor.
SA 8.87 20
When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor,
puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
SA 8.99 23
...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes,
house, tools...
SA 8.100 8
[The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by
the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and
labor.
SA 8.107 8
These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely,
manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
Res 8.144 1
The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand
anecdotes attesting...the skilled labor of our people.
PC 8.209 2
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
search for just rules affecting labor;...
PC 8.209 19
...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power,
and that resting on a vast constituency of intelligent labor...
PC 8.210 9
In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done
has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
PC 8.219 7
...Archimedes or Napoleon is worth for labor a thousand
thousands...
Insp 8.287 12
Are you poetical...tired of labor and affairs?
Grts 8.311 5
Labor, iron labor, is for [the scholar].
Imtl 8.325 7
The labor of races was spent [in Egypt] on the excavation of
catacombs.
Imtl 8.329 24
A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant
labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he
said;...
Imtl 8.341 26
Courage comes naturally to those who have the habit of
facing labor and danger...
Aris 10.52 15
...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...
PerF 10.75 2
We are surrounded by human thought and labor.
PerF 10.75 8
Labor hides itself in every mode and form.
Chr2 10.96 6
There is no labor or sacrifice to which [the moral sentiment]
will not bring a man...
Chr2 10.114 9
The soul...finds in every cart-path of labor ways to heaven...
Edc1 10.128 18
...here [in the household] labor drudges, here affections
glow...
Edc1 10.153 19
[An automaton] facilitates labor and thought so much that
there is always the temptation in large schools...to govern by steam.
Edc1 10.153 25
Our modes of Education aim...to save labor;...
SovE 10.210 7
...there are the new conventions of social science, before
which the questions of...regulation of labor, come for a hearing.
MoL 10.243 14
It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own,
have balanced their labor by mental activity...
MoL 10.250 25
...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas...
imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.
So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic...loving
labor...
Schr 10.267 6
Young men, I warn you...against irrational labor;...
Schr 10.273 4
The labor of ambition and avarice will appear fumbling
beside [the scholar's].
Plu 10.301 11
[Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which
he deals with his manifold topics. There is no trace of labor or pain.
LLNE 10.347 22
Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward,
with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
LLNE 10.359 24
Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying
money, others held shares by their labor.
LLNE 10.360 22
[The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our
ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to
combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily
labor.
LLNE 10.365 24
...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]...
were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their
knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that
proportion averse to labor...
LLNE 10.369 9
[Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a
sentiment which all shared...of the honesty of a life of labor...
MMEm 10.415 26
This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of
bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses
and understanding seemed but means of labor...
MMEm 10.432 7
Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the
memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance...
Thor 10.453 4
...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by
some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
Thor 10.458 1
In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the
shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and
study.
Carl 10.492 13
[Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the
money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make
them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could
find them in plenty of Indian meal.
HDC 11.39 27
Hard labor and spare diet [the settlers of Concord] had...
EWI 11.112 14
...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three
fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
FSLC 11.194 25
...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten
Commandments which are the root of our European and American
civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
FSLC 11.202 21
We delighted...in [Webster's] power of labor...
FSLC 11.209 21
By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled,
telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused;...
FSLN 11.237 19
A man who steals another man's labor steals away his
own faculties;...
AsSu 11.247 10
In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education, with
skilful labor...
AsSu 11.250 3
I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political
friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing...to bear his part in
the labor which party organization requires.
ACiv 11.297 1
Use, labor of each for all, is the health and virtue of all
beings.
ACiv 11.297 10
...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing
of men and setting them to work, stealing their labor, and the thief sitting
idle himself;...
ACiv 11.297 16
...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these
people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and
to pronounce labor disgraceful...
ACiv 11.297 18
...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these
people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and
to pronounce...the well-being of a man to consist in eating the fruit of other
men's labor.
ACiv 11.297 18
Labor: a man coins himself into his labor;...
ACiv 11.297 19
Labor: a man coins himself into his labor;...
ACiv 11.298 2
There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of
labor;...
ACiv 11.298 8
...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in
disguise...and calls labor vile...
ACiv 11.298 26
We have attempted to hold together two states of
civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right
of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military
tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes
an oligarchy...
ACiv 11.304 24
[The Southerner's] laborer works for him at home, so that
he loses no labor by the war.
ACiv 11.307 15
Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out
white labor;...
ACiv 11.307 17
Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out
white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their
interest will be...to get the best labor...
ALin 11.332 9
...this man [Lincoln] was...all right for labor...
ALin 11.333 6
...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and
exhausting crises, the natural resorative...
RBur 11.440 15
[Burns's] organic sentiment was absolute independence,
and resting as it should on a life of labor.
Scot 11.465 22
By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time
and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and
graces of that class, and by his eminent humanity and his love of labor
escaped its harm.
ChiE 11.474 4
[Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor, their
versatility...are unlooked-for virtues.
FRep 11.526 12
...here is the human race poured out over the continent to
do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work, when labor
is sure to pay.
FRep 11.542 10
The distinction and end of a soundly constituted man is his
labor.
FRep 11.543 4
Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free
labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.
II 12.72 6
It is as impossible for labor to produce a sonnet of Milton...as
Shakspeare's Hamlet...
II 12.83 8
The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French
nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and
shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;
and all good labor...will be found to be of that kind.
CInt 12.127 15
You all well know...the facility with which men renounce
their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too high for
me;...
CL 12.136 14
...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise
of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.
Bost 12.196 24
...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.
Bost 12.204 27
[The people of Massachusetts] did not try to unlock the
treasure of the world except by honest keys of labor and skill.
Bost 12.205 6
[The people of Massachusetts] knew...that he is greatest who
serves best. There was no secret of labor which they disdained.
Bost 12.205 19
The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell
here into a climate which befriended it...
Bost 12.208 11
...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...labor
or luxury;...
MAng1 12.228 26
[Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures
alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is
taken away.
MAng1 12.244 23
...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who
acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature, and who seek by
labor and self-denial to approach its source in perfect goodness.
Milt1 12.264 25
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any
bell awake men to labor or devotion;...
Milt1 12.279 1
We have offered no apology for expanding to such length
our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or
danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests
of man prompted.
AgMs 12.362 24
The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either
by other resources...or by getting their labor for nothing...
PPr 12.380 23
The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic
shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and
Present] when they resume their labor.
PPr 12.381 27
As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we
are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption
throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty
of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.
PPr 12.390 17
Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and
labor with which the world has gone with child so long.
Let 12.403 19
From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty
cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving
men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to
work on the land; which has rewarded them not only with wheat but with
habits of labor.
Labor, n. (1)
FRep 11.516 15
The questions of Education, of Society, of Labor...may
well occupy us...
labor, v. (12)
LE 1.176 26
A mistake of the main end to which they labor is incident to
literary men...
Tran 1.348 15
...genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Int 2.332 11
...now you must labor with your brains, and now you must
forbear your activity and see what the great Soul showeth.
ET13 5.216 15
The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the
boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his
boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited
him altogether.
Art2 7.37 3
All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel, and to
labor to express, the identity of their law.
PerF 10.88 5
...the cause of right for which we labor never dies...
LLNE 10.345 19
[The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some
necessary product...
EzRy 10.381 22
...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr.
Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and to have him labor during
the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
Bost 12.186 7
What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might
be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost.
Bost 12.203 6
...there is always [in Boston] a minority unconvinced, always
a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence.
MLit 12.318 19
The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster
conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
Pray 12.353 15
Are they only the valuable members of society who labor
to dress and feed it?
laboratories, n. (3)
NMW 4.251 8
Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all
these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing
about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence? Its own means are
superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories.
GoW 4.288 11
I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of
the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable
scholar...who knew where libraries, galleries, architecture, laboratories,
savans and leisure were to be had...
Wth 6.126 17
The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it
becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and thought;...
laboratory, adj. (1)
CInt 12.124 3
No books, no aids, laboratory apparatus, prizes, can compare
with [a good teacher].
laboratory, n. (13)
MR 1.228 24
...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to
judgment,-Christianity...the laboratory;...
MR 1.250 19
...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best...engineers'
tools, with chemist's laboratory and smith's forge to boot...
Exp 3.81 3
...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish
the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.
NR 3.239 2
...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a laboratory...and in each
new place he is no better than an idiot;...
UGM 4.12 5
Shall we say that...the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in
solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
SwM 4.112 10
[Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret
recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
Wth 6.89 24
...the fabrics of his chemic laboratory;...are [man's] natural
playmates...
CbW 6.262 20
Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new
creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory,
converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
Farm 7.148 27
...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a
box of one or two rods square, will take the roots into his laboratory;...
WD 7.159 4
...the immense productions of the laboratory, are new in this
century...
Clbs 7.227 27
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Clbs 7.239 3
It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried
a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was
coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was
engaged.
Aris 10.43 12
When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a
symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large
brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed
with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the
laboratory.
labored, adj. (1)
Plu 10.305 26
[Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps
a youthful prize essay: it appeared to me captious and labored;...
labored, v. (4)
PPh 4.70 21
...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are
assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose
biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the
light of Plato's mind.
LLNE 10.354 12
[Fourier] labored under a misapprehension of the nature
of women.
LS 11.22 2
...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show
by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be
perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I
feel that here is the true point of view.
MAng1 12.219 13
[Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the
entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.
laborer, n. (30)
MN 1.192 23
I would not have the laborer sacrificed to the result...
MN 1.192 24
...I would not have the laborer sacrificed to my convenience
and pride...
YA 1.371 12
...the land of the laborer...[America] should speak for the
human race.
SwM 4.93 15
Then, also, the philosopher has his value, who flatters the
intellect of this laborer by engaging him with subtleties which instruct him
in new faculties.
GoW 4.289 22
This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...tasked himself with stints
for a giant...
ET5 5.77 9
Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with
impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather
transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
ET5 5.97 17
The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...
ET5 5.101 4
The laborer [in England] is a possible lord.
Wth 6.86 23
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a
laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.
Wth 6.107 23
You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for
you as soon as I cannot do without you.
Civ 7.34 9
...if there be...a country...where the laborer is not secured in the
earnings of his own hands;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
WD 7.159 6
...one franc's worth of coal does the work of a laborer for
twenty days.
Res 8.140 2
See...how every traveller, every laborer...improves the national
tongue.
PC 8.219 3
...a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...
Grts 8.310 26
...if you are a scholar, be that. The same laws hold for you as
for the laborer.
Imtl 8.341 4
A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven by his work all day,
but it ends at night;...
SovE 10.206 2
The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he
believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
LLNE 10.350 1
By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his
own work, it becomes pleasure.
Carl 10.492 19
[Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side. If you
urge free trade, he remembers that every laborer is a monopolist.
GSt 10.502 1
[George Stearns] was an early laborer in the resistance to
slavery.
EWI 11.99 15
I might well hesitate...without the smallest claim to be a
special laborer in this work of humanity, to undertake to set this matter
[emancipation] before you;...
ACiv 11.298 4
There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of
labor; it covers all, and constitutions and goverments exist for that,-to
protect and insure it to the laborer.
ACiv 11.304 9
[Emancipation] is a progressive policy...puts every man in
the South in just and natural relations with every man in the North, laborer
with laborer.
ACiv 11.304 23
[The Southerner's] laborer works for him at home...
ACiv 11.307 23
Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the
South, and identifies his interest with that of the Northern laborer.
FRep 11.519 11
Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to
the state.
FRep 11.527 9
The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities
and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary
education.
ACri 12.283 23
...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer
has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
AgMs 12.358 17
As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the
midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.
PPr 12.381 13
As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we
are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition that the
laborer must have a greater share in his earnings;...
laborers, n. (20)
Nat 1.65 19
...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are
digging in the field hard by.
AmS 1.83 9
...the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return
from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.
MR 1.253 5
In every knot of laborers the rich man does not feel himself
among his friends...
Con 1.320 27
The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore...
found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
SL 2.136 14
We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them
give them. Farmers will give corn;...laborers will lend a hand;...
PPh 4.42 5
...society is glad to forget the innumerable laborers who
ministered to this architect...
MoS 4.158 21
...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the
spirit of man, and the laborers cry unanimously, We have no thoughts.
ET4 5.69 13
Beef, mutton, wheat-bread and malt-liquors are universal
among the first-class laborers [in England].
ET5 5.89 17
A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some
one art or detail...
ET14 5.235 4
The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed.
Civ 7.23 7
The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy
laborers;...
Farm 7.146 8
...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down
any weights which man cannot carry, and if he wants aid, knows where to
find his fellow laborers.
OA 7.319 26
...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well
with the chronic valetudinarian.
PC 8.219 4
...a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...
Edc1 10.146 2
...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk
point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost
buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and
fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and
uncovered many blocks.
MoL 10.242 24
Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of
laborers;...
EWI 11.112 9
The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August,
1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be
registered as apprenticed laborers...
ACiv 11.304 25
All our soldiers are laborers;...
ACiv 11.307 18
Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out
white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their
interest will be...to get the best labor, and, if they fear their blacks, to invite
Irish, German and American laborers.
MLit 12.315 13
The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident...
with the stream of laborers in the street...
laborer's, n. (1)
ET10 5.154 20
Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer'
s son.
laboring, adj. (6)
MR 1.252 17
See this wide society of laboring men and women.
Nat2 3.167 4
Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's]
laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear
from east to west./
EWI 11.120 18
Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British
Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum
and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested
on that happy occasion [emancipation].
laboring, v. (6)
Nat 1.11 13
To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath
sadness in it.
LT 1.286 3
There was never so great a thought laboring in the breasts of
men as now.
YA 1.373 16
It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the
general, that we poor particulars...find it so hard to live.
NER 3.284 14
Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the
unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning themselves, and
will certainly succeed.
EWI 11.112 11
The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August,
1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be
registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and
privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain
conditions.
ALin 11.334 21
...this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find
what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
laborious, adj. (10)
AmS 1.93 18
History and exact science [the wise man] must learn by
laborious reading.
LE 1.173 19
[The scholar] must be a solitary, laborious, modest, and
charitable soul.
ShP 4.195 9
...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred
from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and
Third parts of Henry VI....
ET10 5.159 23
England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water,
wood, coal, iron...
Elo1 7.69 20
The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be
interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes, the most laborious
student in that kind, signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote,
Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
DL 7.111 22
A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy;...
OA 7.333 10
[John Adams said] [John Quincy Adams] has always been
laborious...from infancy.
MMEm 10.416 18
...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody
Emerson] say, in youth and laborious poverty, that, should He make me a
blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never
been equalled...
HDC 11.35 24
A march of a number of families with their stuff, through
twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
Bost 12.197 12
In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
laborious, n. (1)
UGM 4.14 9
Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil
terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden,
who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the
most laborious...of Falkland...
labors, n. (33)
AmS 1.98 2
Years are well spent in country labors;...to the one end of
mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
MN 1.192 20
That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is
the fruit of higher laws than their will...
MR 1.235 25
Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of
competition in the labors of commerce...
LT 1.271 22
Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;
but not...the ripe fruit and considered labors of man.
Tran 1.341 1
...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves
from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
Tran 1.347 24
...[the Transcendentalists'] solitary and fastidious manners
not only withdraw them from the conversation, but from the labors of the
world;...
SL 2.138 24
...our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless;...
UGM 4.12 17
...in good faith, we are multiplied by our proxies. How easily
we adopt their labors!
SwM 4.100 5
[Swedenborg]...withdrew from his practical labors...
ShP 4.191 5
Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the
great man], and he enters into their labors.
F 6.34 3
[Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant...
namely...the labors of all men in the world;...
Wth 6.89 8
He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from
the labors of the greatest number of men...
Bty 6.291 9
...the labors of hay-makers in the field...is becoming to the wise
eye.
DL 7.114 12
...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the
man or woman of worth who alights at our door. How can we do this, if the
wants of each day imprison us in lucrative labors...
DL 7.116 22
Another age may...make the labors of a few hours avail to the
wants and add to the vigor of the man.
Farm 7.137 2
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is
his part to create.
Boks 7.201 25
Aristophanes is now very accessible...through the labors of
Mitchell and Cartwright.
Res 8.150 9
...the come-and-go of the pendulum, is the law of mind;
alternation of labors is its rest.
Edc1 10.155 26
...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of
nature]...resume their haunts and their ordinary labors and manners...
EzRy 10.388 3
[Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his
grave, full of labors and virtues.
MMEm 10.412 6
I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my
expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every
morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an
error, nor scarcely a sacrifice, but more fulness of content in the labors of a
day never was felt.
MMEm 10.424 21
...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy
warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel
he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,-
labors, rather...
MMEm 10.427 27
Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not
whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the
atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always
refuse...
HDC 11.33 2
Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in an affecting
narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
HDC 11.34 18
[Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that
can lift a hoe to strike into the earth standing stoutly to his labors...
HDC 11.38 17
The labors of a new plantation were paid by its excitements.
LVB 11.90 11
...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of
these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of
eternal inferiority...
SMC 11.372 23
...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for
one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the
[Thirty-second] regiment.
MAng1 12.242 6
In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his
friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that
one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
Milt1 12.262 22
...[Milton's] virtues are so graceful that they seem rather
talents than labors.
Milt1 12.265 3
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors
preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and
not lumpish obedience to the mind...
AgMs 12.360 3
I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer]
ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked. Our conversation
naturally turned on the season and its new labors.
PPr 12.385 26
In this work [Past and Present], as in his former labors, Mr.
Carlyle reminds us of a sick giant.
labors, v. (8)
OS 2.277 25
There is a certain wisdom of humanity...which our ordinary
education often labors to silence and obstruct.
Cir 2.318 25
Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as
large and excellent as itself...
NER 3.268 1
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want
of faith.
MoS 4.155 3
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually
exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of
materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between
these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes.
He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.
ET10 5.157 8
An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the
course of a year as another European;...
Prch 10.237 26
...how rare and lofty, how unattainable, are the aims [the
Church] labors to set before men!
MLit 12.319 25
[Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni
and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite, which so labors for expression
in their different genius.
MLit 12.334 2
The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth
through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this
hour meditates and labors to say.
Labrador, adj. (1)
Exp 3.57 3
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar...
Labrador, n. (3)
Pow 6.55 24
If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he
will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric
and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...reach Labrador
and New England.
Wth 6.87 1
[Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar
circle;...
Farm 7.148 21
The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that
acre a quadruple share of sunshine...and makes a little Cuba within it,
whilst all without is Labrador.
Labrus [labrus], n. (1)
F 6.8 6
...the forms of the shark, the labrus...are hints of ferocity in the
interiors of nature.
labyrinth, n. (2)
Nat 1.63 6
[If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in
the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions...
SwM 4.144 25
[Swedenborg] elected goodness as the clue to which the
soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.
lace, n. (1)
Aris 10.36 21
...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the
Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love which ought to reside in
every man. This is the steel that is hid under gauze and lace...
Lacedaemon, n. (3)
MR 1.244 24
Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of
Lacedaemon...
Bhr 6.181 3
The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical,
now under rustic brows. 'T is the city of Lacedaemon;...
Elo1 7.79 11
[The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops,
but they said, Send us a commander;...
Lacedaemonians, n. (1)
Elo1 7.64 10
Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest
of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
laces, n. (2)
ET5 5.96 18
[The English] make ponchos for the Mexican...laces for the
Flemings...
FRep 11.533 16
We import trifles, dancers, singers, laces, books of
patterns...
Lacey, Father, n. (1)
ET4 5.69 27
Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration
of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.
Lachaise, Pere, Cemetery, (1)
MoS 4.162 25
It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of
Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...
laches, n. (1)
F 6.29 23
As Voltaire said...un des plus grand malheurs des honnetes gens
c'est qu'ils sont des laches.
lack, n. (8)
LE 1.183 23
Hence the temptation to the scholar...to hear the question...to
make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of things.
Tran 1.337 9
I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition
to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like
Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David;
yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I
was fainting for lack of food.
Farm 7.139 6
The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or
planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...excess or lack of water...
Comc 8.164 14
...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of
all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the
absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its
stead. To the sympathies this...occasions grief. But to the intellect the lack
of the sentiment gives no pain;...
ALin 11.334 24
If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was
no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule.
EdAd 11.385 21
We have taste, critical talent, good professors, good
commentators, but a lack of male energy.
Wom 11.422 19
Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him
brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is
had. Now there is no lack, I am sure, of the expediency...
Wom 11.422 21
There is no lack of votes representing the physical wants;...
lack, v. (11)
Nat 1.46 10
We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some
friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we
can mend or even analyze them.
AmS 1.99 10
Does [the great soul] lack organ or medium to impart his
truths?
Prd1 2.229 22
Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be
drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon
their centre of gravity...
Exp 3.45 20
Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in
nature, that she was so sparing of her fire and so liberal of her earth that it
appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...
Mrs1 3.121 12
An element which unites all the most forcible persons of
every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an
individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character
and faculties universally found in men.
NMW 4.229 10
To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in
things...but these men ordinarily lack the power of arrangement...
ET1 5.20 9
...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of
leisure...
Ill 6.314 5
Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now
and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe
the show in due glory...
Chr2 10.112 8
The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions.
Now that their religions are outgrown, the empires lack strength.
FRep 11.536 11
Our young men lack idealism.
PLT 12.53 21
We see ourselves; we lack organs to see others...
lacked, v. (3)
Int 2.333 20
Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be
conscious...only that he possessed a strange skill of using, of classifying his
facts, which we lacked.
ET1 5.13 2
I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's
pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work.
Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that
God was a God of order.
MAng1 12.238 25
It has been the defect of some great men that they did
not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and
so lacked one of the richest sources of happiness...
lacking, v. (3)
ET14 5.250 20
There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long
Atlantic roll...only lacking what ought to accompany such powers, a
manifest centrality.
Pow 6.74 19
...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step
out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking
this, lacks all;...
MLit 12.332 5
That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his
other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this,
he failed in the high sense to be a creator...
lack-lustre, adj. (2)
SwM 4.144 10
In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no
pleasure, for there is no beauty. We wander forlorn in a lack-lustre
landscape.
ET2 5.32 8
Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which
whistled over us;...
lacks, v. (11)
Nat 1.74 1
The reason why the world lacks unity...is because man is
disunited with himself.
SR 2.85 7
[The civilized man] is supported on crutches, but lacks so much
support of muscle.
SwM 4.133 3
Swedenborg's system of the world...lacks power to generate
life.
Pow 6.74 19
...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step
out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking
this, lacks all;...
Bty 6.282 19
All our science lacks a human side.
Boks 7.201 13
Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek
history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote'
s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or
of Gillies will serve.
Aris 10.60 24
The Golden Table never lacks members;...
Plu 10.311 20
[Seneca] lacks the sympathy of Plutarch.
MMEm 10.421 18
Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It...
lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical
age.
Thor 10.475 21
...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never
lacks the causal thought...
Bost 12.196 21
...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.
Lacofrupees, Mr., n. (1)
Ctr 6.135 24
Have you talked with Messieurs Turbinewheel, Summitlevel,
and Lacofruppees? Then you may as well die.
Laconian, adj. (1)
GoW 4.269 11
There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred
person: he wrote...Laconian sentences...
Laconic Apothegms [Plutarch (1)
Plu 10.322 6
It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force
ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
lacquered, adj. (1)
LLNE 10.365 7
Married women I believe uniformly decided against the
community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels.
lactation, n. (2)
Chr2 10.99 10
The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the
child...a short period of lactation...
FRep 11.516 9
...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great
crisis in its history, as necessary as lactation or dentition or puberty to the
human individual.
lacustrine, adj. (1)
PC 8.208 4
Who would live in the stone age...or the lacustrine?
lad, n. (2)
SR 2.76 6
A sturdy lad from New Hampshire...is worth a hundred of these
city dolls.
SL 2.143 3
We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut...
and a nimble-fingered lad out of shreds of paper with his scissors...
ladder, n. (7)
Comp 2.116 9
[Commit a crime and] You...cannot draw up the ladder, so
as to leave no inlet or clew.
Lov1 2.183 1
...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint
which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends...to the love and
knowledge of the Divinity, by steps on this ladder of created souls.
Cir 2.305 18
Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder;...
SwM 4.145 17
I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of
Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last
rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as
the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
ShP 4.208 1
...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the
Genius draws up the ladder after him...
ET4 5.70 2
Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration
of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He says, His
bed was under a thatching, and the way to it up a ladder; his fare was
coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
Civ 7.27 12
You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe
chopping upward chips from a beam.
ladders, n. (1)
Pow 6.72 24
...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind
the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them
with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last
suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and
prophets.
laden, v. (1)
PPo 8.241 16
On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden
with presents, appeared before his throne.
ladies, n. (21)
Con 1.317 14
Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...and a very
good state and condition are you for gentlemen and ladies to live under;...
Art1 2.357 7
...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature
paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies...
Exp 3.76 14
...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at
once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
Mrs1 3.148 14
Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had
some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths
before the days of Waverley;...
NMW 4.252 8
He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the
terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every
addition.
ET6 5.109 26
The Knights of the Bath take oath to defend injured ladies;...
ET6 5.112 9
An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit
for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or
remembering.
ET6 5.114 3
The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours
before the ladies leave the table.
ET6 5.114 5
The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours
before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen...rejoin the ladies in the
drawing-room and take coffee.
Wth 6.117 16
In England...I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no
more guineas to give away than other people;...
Wsp 6.203 26
'T is a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in
search of religions.
Plu 10.295 26
Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not
this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare
now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters.
LLNE 10.341 6
Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to
Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of
ladies and gentlemen.
LLNE 10.362 9
Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the
place [Brook Farm].
LLNE 10.366 22
The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so
it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out
clothes;...
EzRy 10.389 6
[Ezra Ripley's] partiality for ladies was always strong...
MMEm 10.399 2
I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have
honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
MMEm 10.411 1
When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual
chance found themselves in her neighborhood and visited her, I told them
that [Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play
on...
Mem 12.99 8
...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which
never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen and ladies...
CL 12.143 13
...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a
little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if
young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be
wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I
fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
WSL 12.339 17
Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that
he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...
lads, n. (1)
NMW 4.236 10
To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon
said, My lads, you must not fear death;...
Lady Diving in the Lake..., (1)
QO 8.186 23
There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the
human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...the Lady Diving in the Lake
and Rising in the Cave...
lady, n. (31)
Hist 2.18 10
A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the
woods always seemed to her to wait...
Mrs1 3.137 19
...a lady is serene.
Mrs1 3.148 1
If the individuals who compose the purest circles of
aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman
and no lady;...
NR 3.225 17
...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a
certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners; but
separate them and there is no gentleman and no lady in the group.
ET7 5.119 6
[The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign
of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false
stones...
ET9 5.149 16
An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of
her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are
English; it is you that are foreigners.
Wsp 6.207 10
[Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/
That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty
and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he
loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
CbW 6.275 21
A lady complained to me that of her two maidens, one was
absent-minded and the other was absent-bodied.
Cour 7.277 18
I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote
of pure courage from real life, as narrated in a ballad by a lady to whom all
the particulars of the fact are exactly known.
SA 8.86 11
A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much.
SA 8.88 24
...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the
lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a
feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
SA 8.91 7
That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to
exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization
still rude.
SA 8.96 20
A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what
they say as I do for what makes them say it.
Comc 8.171 5
...among the women in the street, you shall see one whose
bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
Comc 8.171 18
A lady of high rank...had given the Countess Dulauloy the
nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
QO 8.184 16
...a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a
great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as
a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
LLNE 10.342 10
...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the
question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence
abnegates attribute?
LLNE 10.369 12
...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw
the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted
them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own
theory of life.
EzRy 10.389 10
[Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing;...and, as a
lady thus favored remarked to me, seemed as if he was going to make a
meal of you.
MMEm 10.413 6
I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more
miles...just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most
commonplace virtue. The lady is celebrated for her cleverness, and she was
never so good to me.
MMEm 10.413 8
[I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning
walk, a foreigner...
MMEm 10.420 21
The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady,
is obvious.
ACiv 11.301 14
Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],-
like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in
her carriage.
Wom 11.405 20
...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment
in questions of taste...
Wom 11.425 8
...a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.
CPL 11.499 6
I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody
Emerson], native of this town [Concord]...who removed into Maine...
CPL 11.500 20
In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read
any noble verses?
Bost 12.193 20
An old lady who remembered these pious people [the
Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the
huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
MAng1 12.240 5
[Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most
accomplished lady of the time...
Milt1 12.257 7
Handsome to a proverb, [Milton] was called the lady of his
college.
Trag 12.415 22
The market-man never damned the lady because she had
not paid her bill...
Lady, n. (2)
FSLN 11.244 5
[Liberty] is the oppressed Lady whom true knights on their
oath and honor must rescue and save.
ACri 12.292 23
Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there being scarce a person of
any note in England but what some time or other paid a visit or sent a
present to our Lady of Walsingham...
lady's, n. (1)
MMEm 10.432 26
...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a
lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
ladyship, n. (1)
ET18 5.302 20
...what facility and plenteousness of knighthood, lordship,
ladyship, royalty, loyalty;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight
hundred years!
Laelius, n. (1)
Elo2 8.124 14
...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the
friendship of Laelius and Scipio...
Laertes [Homer, Iliad], n. (1)
Elo1 7.72 1
[Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise
Ulysses, son of Laertes...
laetus, adj. (1)
CbW 6.265 6
It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus,
sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
Lafayette, Marie du Motier (1)
UGM 4.15 12
Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that
homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and
Gracchus down to...Lafayette...
Lafayette, Marquis de [Mari (3)
NMW 4.228 11
The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a
word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...Lafayette is an ideologist.
NMW 4.244 4
[Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot,
Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
PC 8.220 9
In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one, as of...
Lafayette...
Lafayette, Marquis de [Mari (1)
MMEm 10.400 1
When introduced to Lafayette at Portland, [Mary Moody
Emerson] told him that she was in arms at the Concord Fight.
Laharpe, Jean Francois de, (1)
Plu 10.311 7
La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius the most naturally
moral that ever existed.
laid, v. (78)
LE 1.162 14
The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the
distinctions of the individual...
MR 1.252 10
The money we spend for courts and prisons is very ill laid out.
LT 1.266 6
Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through
nature in vain to parallel, laid up on the shelf in some village to rust and
ruin.
LT 1.268 3
Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of
things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
LT 1.274 4
[The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his
religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep;...
Con 1.308 3
...I laid my bones to, and drudged for the good I possess;...
Hist 2.29 8
[The child] finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his
door, and himself has laid the courses.
SR 2.62 14
That popular fable of the sot...washed and dressed and laid in
the duke's bed ...symbolizes...the state of man...
Prd1 2.234 24
...timber...if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dry-rot;...
Hsm1 2.263 25
Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly
congratulates Washington...that he was laid sweet in his grave...
OS 2.265 7
...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been
tampered with/...
Int 2.332 5
...the oracle comes because we had previously laid siege to the
shrine.
Int 2.337 26
...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious
states]...can design well and group well;...its colors are well laid on...
Exp 3.49 12
The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should
not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
Chr1 3.105 18
This masterpiece [character] is best where no hands but
nature's have been laid on it.
PPh 4.65 27
[Plato's] patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions of birth.
PPh 4.66 18
A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in
the dialogue with the young Theages...
PPh 4.67 20
Quite above us, beyond the will of you or me, is this secret
affinity or repulsion laid.
PPh 4.71 10
[Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect
temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to
certain defeat in any debate...
PNR 4.84 23
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. ... This second sight explains the stress laid on geometry.
MoS 4.165 26
...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest
virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard
some jarring sound of human mixture;...
ShP 4.195 14
...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be
inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First,
Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771
were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the
foundation laid by his predecessors...
ShP 4.195 21
In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the
original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
NMW 4.235 13
[Napoleon] laid his bones to, and wrought for his crown.
ET1 5.24 9
...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young
man to whom he had given this slip of ground, which was laid out, or its
natural capabilities shown, with much taste.
ET4 5.60 13
...the foundations of the new civility were to be laid by the
most savage men.
ET10 5.154 19
Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer'
s son.
ET10 5.160 19
In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways,
in the last four years.
ET16 5.277 6
It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple
structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had
long outstood all later churches...
ET16 5.278 17
I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's
Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain
that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these
rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
ET16 5.282 3
...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the
magnet; laid their courses by it;...
ET16 5.285 11
We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall]
built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid
for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
ET16 5.290 10
Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in
the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I.
to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the
city, and laid under the high altar.
F 6.34 15
...sometimes the religious principle would get in and...rive every
mountain laid on top of it.
Wth 6.88 20
...the philosophers have laid the greatness of man in making
his wants few...
Wth 6.122 6
We say the cows laid out Boston.
Bhr 6.197 10
As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that
any other than negative rules can be laid down.
Wsp 6.227 24
Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had
appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
Ill 6.315 16
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts,
I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that
any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this
tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick.
Ill 6.316 7
...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with...
Art2 7.56 7
The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the
priest and the people were overpowered by their faith. Love and fear laid
every stone.
Elo1 7.98 15
It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that
the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal
beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
DL 7.126 13
[One] perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations
of a divine building...
Suc 7.285 2
[Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and
found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
OA 7.322 26
We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain
vase laid up in the centre of France...
PI 8.6 11
The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a
makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some
one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised; gun-powder
is laid under every man's breakfast-table.
Res 8.144 7
The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild
the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the
hidden rails, laid the track...
Res 8.148 13
...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of
his mill...
PC 8.223 14
On...this all-dissolving unity, the emphasis of heaven and
earth is laid.
PPo 8.241 11
...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had
built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over
running water...
PPo 8.245 16
On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of
circumstance;...
Insp 8.286 19
I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who
told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies
for the next morning.
Dem1 10.13 5
Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live
embosomed...by innumerable impressions so softly laid on that though
important we do not discover them until our attention is called to them.
Aris 10.57 17
...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.
Plu 10.310 3
[Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of
them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the
notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the
dogma of the professor, who laid them aside as memoranda for future
revision...
LLNE 10.327 26
Astrology, magic, palmistry, are long gone. The very last
ghost is laid.
LLNE 10.337 12
Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
LLNE 10.359 5
...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults
to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
MMEm 10.397 22
...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 10.406 23
If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little
ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not
wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's
your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
MMEm 10.423 23
O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low
the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...
HDC 11.61 7
The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone. In 1659, his bones were
laid at rest in the forest.
EWI 11.128 10
For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the
West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost
men of the earth;...every particle of evidence was sifted and laid in the
scale;...
War 11.175 25
...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can
be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of
Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
FSLC 11.200 2
When a moral quality comes into politics...general
principles are laid bare...
FSLN 11.244 12
I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that
has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it
to heart.
ALin 11.330 18
[Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a
captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in the
rural legislature of Illinois;-on such modest foundations the broad
structure of his fame was laid.
SMC 11.350 18
The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for
a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile
enough,-a few slabs of granite, dug just below the surface of the soil, and
laid upon the top of it;...
SMC 11.369 23
[George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in
two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a
barn to make the best coffin we could...
SHC 11.429 6
Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided
the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the
[Sleep Hollow] cemetary...having laid off as many lots as are likely to be
wanted at present, have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
SHC 11.434 7
In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which
within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery],
I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
CL 12.138 4
[Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and
found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
CL 12.138 12
When Kalm returned from America, Linnaeus was laid up
with severe gout.
MAng1 12.239 9
[Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect
Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated,
luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
MAng1 12.244 2
Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he
might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome
of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the
church stood open. And there and so is he laid.
Milt1 12.267 20
[Milton] laid on himself the lowliest duties.
MLit 12.328 8
What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him,
that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the
boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
Let 12.393 21
...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but
laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad
Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.
lain, v. (2)
SL 2.131 12
Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a
solemn ornament to the house.
TPar 11.290 25
[Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent
that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in
the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
lair, n. (1)
F 6.38 17
Every creature, wren or dragon, shall make its own lair.
Lais [Marie de France], n. (1)
ShP 4.198 4
...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from
William of Lorris and John of Meung...The Cock and the Fox, from the
Lais of Marie...
laity, n. (2)
ET7 5.116 6
The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated
missals are charged with earnest belief.
LS 11.3 18
In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and
then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth
century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the
priesthood.
lake, adj. (1)
PI 8.26 3
[People] like to see sunsets...on a lake shore.
Lake Como, Italy, n. (1)
Nat2 3.176 4
We can find these enchantments [of the landscape] without
visiting the Como Lake, or the Madeira Islands.
Lake..., Lady Diving in the (1)
QO 8.186 23
There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the
human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...the Lady Diving in the Lake
and Rising in the Cave...
Lake Leman, Switzerland, n. (1)
SA 8.94 8
When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake
Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac!...
Lake, Moosehead, Maine, n. (1)
MN 1.220 21
Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in
Moosehead Lake...
lake, n. (14)
UGM 4.31 12
...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another
experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower
basin.
PPh 4.70 8
...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of
ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance
the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
NMW 4.234 19
At the moment in which the Russian army was making its
retreat...on the ice of the lake, the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full
speed toward the artillery.
NMW 4.235 7
...in less than no time we buried some thousands of Russians
and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
ET10 5.163 26
This comfort and splendor [in England], the breadth of lake
and mountain, tillage, pasture and park...all consist with perfect order.
Bty 6.279 7
[Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of
the broken wave./
Art2 7.47 15
Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake,
whose melody is sweeter than he knows...
WD 7.168 1
Bonaparte...endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French
lake.
Insp 8.288 3
Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian
harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods
in summer...
MMEm 10.401 17
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, for many years. It was...within sight of the White
Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear
Mountain.
HDC 11.50 26
Master of all sorts of wood-craft, [the Indian] seemed a part
of the forest and the lake...
SMC 11.353 25
...when you replace the love of family or clan by a
principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...leaps the
mountains, bridges river and lake...
PLT 12.11 9
Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws
and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different
sides of this dim and perilous lake...
CW 12.176 26
This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake
or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
Lake Windermere, England, n (2)
EurB 12.368 8
[Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin
of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime
midnights for his theme...
EurB 12.368 15
[Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the
dim spirits which these haunts harbored.
lakes, n. (9)
Nat2 3.172 17
The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the reflections of trees
and flowers in glassy lakes;...these are the music and pictures of the most
ancient religion.
ET3 5.39 12
...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes
contain one part water and two parts fish.
ET3 5.42 18
In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe,
having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which
the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch
the imagination.
ET5 5.95 9
The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England], too much fished, or
obstructed by factories, are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot
and herring.
ET11 5.189 8
The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis
of Breadalbane have introduced...the artificial replenishment of lakes and
ponds with fish...
Elo1 7.59 12
For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/
Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The
pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/
And life pulsates in rock or tree./
Res 8.144 26
See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up
under a blanket of ice...
Dem1 10.22 2
A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may
fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or
him Tecumseh;...
CL 12.159 4
Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know
the lakes, the hills...these we call professors.
Lalla Rookh [Thomas Moore] (1)
EurB 12.370 13
In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is
farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the
Loves of the Angels.
L'Allegro [John Milton], n (1)
Milt1 12.275 7
L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are but a finer autobiography of
[Milton's] youthful fancies at Harefield;...
Lamartine, Alphonse Marie (1)
UGM 4.15 12
Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that
homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and
Gracchus down to...Lamartine.
Lamb, Charles, n. (4)
Boks 7.209 2
There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as
Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Lamb;...
QO 8.198 22
Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow me to introduce
to you my only admirer.
Plu 10.316 12
[Plutarch's] excessive and fanciful humanity reminds one of
Charles Lamb...
CL 12.154 24
Like Charles Lamb, [Samuel Johnson] loved the sweet
security of streets.
lamb, n. (4)
Nat 1.26 20
A lamb is innocence;...
Comp 2.99 8
Thus [Nature]...takes the boar out and puts the lamb in...
Gts 3.161 13
The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet
brings his poem the shepherd, his lamb;...
LS 11.9 8
It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the
unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.
lambent, adj. (1)
Ill 6.307 20
Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive
also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's
flight./
Lambert, Pyramid, n. (1)
ACri 12.293 5
Persons have been named from their abuse of certain
phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...
Lambeth House, London, Eng (1)
Milt1 12.270 4
[Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of
Lambeth House had been writ in Latin;...
Lamb's, Charles, n. (1)
EzRy 10.389 5
[Ezra Ripley's] hospitality obeyed Charles Lamb's rule, and
ran fine to the last.
lambs, n. (1)
FSLN 11.233 14
You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right,
excellent law for the lambs.
lamb's-wool, n. (1)
Res 8.144 12
The invalid sits shivering in lamb's-wool and furs; the
woodsman knows how to make garments out of cold and wet themselves.
lame, adj. (10)
Hist 2.17 22
Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after
a divine model.
Art1 2.363 17
...[art] is impatient of working with lame or tied hands...
Mrs1 3.154 1
Are you...rich enough to make...the lame pauper hunted by
overseers from town to town...feel the noble exception of your presence and
your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
GoW 4.278 23
We had an English romance here...in which the only reward
of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage. Goethe's romance [Wilhelm
Meister] has a conclusion as lame and immoral.
Wth 6.120 8
Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his
work; but they get blown and lame.
Wth 6.120 9
Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his
work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen?
CbW 6.249 6
Masses are rude, lame, unmade...
Bty 6.289 20
...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and
Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other
all eyes.
Farm 7.151 22
[The first planter] falls, and is lame;...
Comc 8.172 3
...Timur...had a blind eye and a lame foot.
lame, n. (1)
LE 1.155 20
...feet is [the scholar] to the lame.
lame, v. (1)
F 6.35 11
A transcendent talent draws so largely on [a man's] forces as to
lame him;...
lamed, adj. (1)
Mem 12.102 25
The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet
disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against
the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of
youth and talent.
lamed, v. (1)
WD 7.166 22
Every [inventor]...is lamed by his excellence.
lameness, n. (1)
Pt1 3.18 20
In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures, as
lameness to Vulcan...to signify exuberances.
lament, v. (5)
Hist 2.29 18
How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of
the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
SA 8.80 19
...we chide, lament, cavil and recriminate.
Supl 10.166 10
Among these glorifiers, the coldest stickler for names and
dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.
Plu 10.317 24
...I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be
ascribed to him...
MMEm 10.417 16
...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I
[Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place,
which I most bitterly lament...
lamentations, n. (2)
SwM 4.131 21
[Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was
formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the
unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their
lamentations;...
DL 7.103 15
[The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his
voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...
lamented, v. (2)
Con 1.314 25
The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the
crimes of mankind...
SovE 10.207 9
...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is
lamented...
lamenting, v. (1)
PI 8.60 20
[Sir Gawaine] came into the forest of Broceliande, lamenting as
he went along.
laments, v. (4)
SR 2.67 16
...man...with reverted eye laments the past...
UGM 4.30 17
The thoughtful youth laments the superfoetation of nature.
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...
MLit 12.335 10
In the gay saloon [man] laments that these figures are not
what Raphael and Guercino painted.
lames, v. (1)
F 6.47 27
...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity...
to repay.
laminae, n. (1)
SwM 4.133 5
The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a
gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted order...
Lammermoor, Bride of, The [ (1)
Scot 11.465 12
The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified
by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of
Lammermoor...
Lammermoor, Bride of [Walte (1)
Hist 2.35 12
I read the Bride of Lammermoor.
lamp, n. (15)
LE 1.183 8
[They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or
inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose
solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
Int 2.333 3
...[men] have myriads of facts just as good [as the writer's],
would they only get a lamp to ransack their attics withal.
Wth 6.87 21
Wealth begins...in a good double-wick lamp...
Ill 6.310 23
Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the
Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this
magnificent effect.
Res 8.142 7
...we have found the Taurida in Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they
have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have the Aladdin oil.
PPo 8.257 14
With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose
in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
Insp 8.275 8
The moth flies into the flame of the lamp;...
Insp 8.284 26
...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it,
instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
Insp 8.292 4
The moth must fly to the lamp...
Grts 8.317 18
The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of
oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the
petroleum which he lights behind it;...
Imtl 8.335 20
A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help
the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the
sun and the star...
PerF 10.84 21
[Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel
darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents
to serve them like footmen.
Plu 10.316 14
When the guests are gone, [Plutarch] would leave one lamp
burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to fires...
PLT 12.46 14
If the thought is not a lamp to the will...the wise are imbecile.
Mem 12.100 25
In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is
a lamp lighting up related words...
lamplight, n. (1)
DL 7.104 6
By lamplight [the nestler] delights in shadows on the wall;...
lampoon, n. (2)
OA 7.321 13
The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the
universal prayer for long life...
Grts 8.315 24
A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him...
came with it in his poverty to Diderot...
lampoon, v. (1)
PLT 12.8 20
Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found
everybody wrong; acute and ingenious to lampoon and degrade mankind?
lampooner, n. (1)
Grts 8.316 2
A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him...
came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature,
wrote the dedication for him, and so raised five-and-twenty louis to save his
famishing lampooner alive.
lampoons, n. (1)
Tran 1.356 2
...no doubt [Transcendentalists] will lay themselves open to
criticism and to lampoons...
lamps, n. (9)
AmS 1.91 18
...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, -
we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn
is.
Ill 6.310 11
On arriving at what is called the Star-Chamber [in the
Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the guide...
Dem1 10.25 14
[Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which
was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and
lamps of Aladdin...
Chr2 10.117 13
Religion is as inexpugnable as the use of lamps...
Plu 10.316 24
...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was
over, dealt well with the lamps...
MMEm 10.421 24
...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to
talk of Time...
MMEm 10.421 27
...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to
date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held to measure out
some of the moments of eternity...
FSLN 11.222 18
...[Webster's] splendid wrath, when his eyes became
lamps, was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood for.
EurB 12.370 15
Amid swinging censers and perfumed lamps...we long for
rain and frost.
lamp-wick, n. (1)
Prch 10.222 12
I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the
purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to illuminate
the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever. It is a lamp-wick for
meanest uses.
Lamson, Father, n. (1)
Bost 12.207 4
From Roger Williams...down to Abner Kneeland, and Father
Lamson...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and
innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
Lanark, Scotland, n. (1)
LLNE 10.346 18
Robert Owen of Lanark came hither from England in
1845...
Lancashire, England, n. (1)
ET2 5.25 3
The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation
from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
Lancaster, Massachusetts, n. (2)
HDC 11.58 19
John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he had
burned Medfield and Lancaster...
HDC 11.60 12
...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep,
she...took a horse they had stolen from Lancaster...and rode through the
forest to her home.
Lancaster, n. (1)
FRep 11.515 4
No interest now attaches to the wars of York and
Lancaster...
Lancaster Sound, n. (1)
Pow 6.69 17
...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their
riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...yachting
among the icebergs of Lancaster Sound;...
lance, n. (1)
Boks 7.210 13
Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord
Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh
lance to renew the fight.
lance, v. (1)
PPr 12.389 17
...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance
of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very
word...
lances, n. (1)
HCom 11.344 20
[Harvard men] might say, with their forefathers the old
Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.
land, adj. (1)
Farm 7.143 7
Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants
balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the
animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.
land, n. (257)
Nat 1.47 22
...what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or
whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are
inscribed in the constant faith of man?
Nat 1.52 1
[The poet] unfixes the land and the sea...
Nat 1.76 14
...you perhaps call [your house]...a hundred acres of ploughed
land...
DSA 1.131 15
One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/
than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding...
not land and professions, but even virtue and truth foreclosed...
DSA 1.136 24
Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to
leave all and follow...house and land...
LE 1.185 15
You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money,
place and name.
LE 1.185 22
When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let
learning and romantic expectations go...then dies the man in you;...
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 1.205 12
...the point of greatest interest is where the land and water
meet.
MN 1.214 23
The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter
things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
MN 1.215 24
Tell me not how great your project is...a new division of
labor and of land...
MN 1.223 24
...[these qualities] penetrate the ocean and land, space and
time...
MR 1.234 17
...whilst another man has no land, my title to mine...is at once
vitiated.
MR 1.238 24
...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...ploughed land...the son
finds his hands full...
MR 1.239 18
...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the
father had...whom...water and land...seemed all to know and to serve,-we
have now a puny, protected person...
LT 1.264 27
Whilst the Daguerreotypist...begins now to traverse the land,
let us set up our Camera also...
LT 1.275 2
Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a
trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water,
and the land to men...
LT 1.279 19
...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that
if that abuse were redressed all would go well, and they fill the land with
clamor to correct it.
Con 1.310 26
...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands
ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
Con 1.311 23
...for thee roads have been cut in every direction across the
land...
Con 1.312 20
It is frivolous to say you have no acre, because you have not
a mathematically measured piece of land.
Con 1.312 25
...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or
acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need
land;...
Con 1.320 24
...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the
intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a
hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself, and new distribute the land.
Tran 1.345 18
In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of
the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the
invisible and heavenly world, to these?
Tran 1.359 8
...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land,
speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
YA 1.363 22
This rage of road building is beneficent for America...
inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union
staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience
of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances of land and
water.
YA 1.364 16
...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years
the planting of tracts of land...
YA 1.364 20
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the
sleeping energies of land and water.
YA 1.365 10
...prudent men have begun to see that every American should
be educated with a view to the values of land.
YA 1.365 17
Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the
West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the
western hemisphere...
YA 1.365 18
Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the
West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the
western hemisphere, to balance the known extent of land in the eastern;...
YA 1.365 24
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and
fantastic in our culture.
YA 1.366 1
The land...is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional
education...
YA 1.367 1
...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
YA 1.367 13
There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an
American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of
Europe;...works...which might well make the land dear to the citizen...
YA 1.368 24
The land...looks poverty-stricken...
YA 1.368 27
In Europe...the land is full of men of the best stock...
YA 1.369 16
I look on such improvements [gardens] also as directly
tending to endear the land to the inhabitant.
YA 1.369 17
Any relation to the land...generates the feeling of patriotism.
YA 1.369 23
The vast majority of the people of this country live by the
land...
YA 1.370 5
How much better when the whole land is a garden...
YA 1.370 10
...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and
increasing power on the citizen...
YA 1.371 12
...the land of the laborer...[America] should speak for the
human race.
YA 1.384 24
These rising grounds which command the champaign below,
seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords, who understand the land and its
uses and the applicabilities of men...
YA 1.387 18
I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart and be the
nobility of this land.
YA 1.395 4
This land too is as old as the Flood...
Hist 2.6 27
We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there
law was enacted, the sea was searched, the land was found...for us...
Comp 2.114 5
It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener...
Pt1 3.42 11
Thou [O poet] shalt have the whole land for thy park and
manor...
Exp 3.65 4
Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the
vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
Chr1 3.115 2
When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine
character] is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial
land, then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of
heaven.
Mrs1 3.130 6
...come from year to year and see how permanent [the
distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man,
where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land.
Nat2 3.172 23
My house stands in low land...
Pol1 3.204 15
...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated,
the institutions will share their improvement and the moral sentiment will
write the law of the land.
Pol1 3.206 12
[A cent's value] is...so much water, so much land.
Pol1 3.213 4
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds,
in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these
decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement, and only in these; not in
what...what amount of land or of public aid each is entitled to claim.
Pol1 3.213 6
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds,
in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This
truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to the
measuring of land...
NR 3.237 6
We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape...
NER 3.277 24
...we hold on to our little properties, house and land...for the
bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
UGM 4.22 15
We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool,
or land;...
PPh 4.52 19
...[Europe] is a land of arts, inventions, trade, freedom.
PPh 4.60 17
...[Plato] paints and quibbles; and by and by comes a sentence
that moves the sea and land.
SwM 4.145 4
In the shipwreck...the pilot chooses with science,--I plant
myself here; all will sink before this; he comes to land who sails with me.
ShP 4.213 4
...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the
land into mountain slopes without effort...
NMW 4.224 2
In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the
interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave,
which labor is now entombed in money stocks, or in land and buildings
owned by idle capitalists,--and the interests of living labor...
NMW 4.224 4
In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the
interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor, which seeks to
possess itself of land and buildings and money stocks.
NMW 4.229 16
...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the
intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to
cipher.
NMW 4.229 17
...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the
intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to
cipher. Therefore the land and sea seem to presuppose him.
NMW 4.242 3
The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the
throne was occupied and the land sucked of its nourishment, by a small
class of legitimates...
ET1 5.5 1
It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed
sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
ET2 5.29 19
To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change...
ET2 5.30 1
A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west
on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of
mankind...
ET2 5.33 7
As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt.
ET3 5.34 6
Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth
living in;...the latter because art...transforms a rude, ungenial land into a
paradise of comfort and plenty.
ET3 5.34 16
The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has
turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
ET3 5.37 16
As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an
illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
ET3 5.39 4
The land [in England] naturally abounds with game;...
ET4 5.53 19
In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but...no
right relation to the land...
ET4 5.55 14
[The Celts] had no violent feudal tenure, but the husbandman
owned the land.
ET4 5.57 18
...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse
Sagas]...wherein the association is logical, between merit and land.
ET4 5.58 2
[The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...drawing half their
food from the sea and half from the land.
ET4 5.59 24
The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear
flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of
King Hake.
ET4 5.64 18
As soon as this land [England]...got a hardy people into it,
they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.
ET5 5.75 2
...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...
ET5 5.92 20
[The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of
habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.
ET5 5.94 13
[England's] short rivers do not afford water-power, but the
land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
ET5 5.95 15
By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of
acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...
ET5 5.98 13
The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;...
and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren,
almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land
in the whole earth.
ET6 5.110 12
Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland,
Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land
which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by
men of the same name and blood.
ET7 5.119 10
[The English] have the...preference for property in land,
which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.
ET10 5.153 16
[The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with
sonorous emphasis that their days shall be long in the land...
ET10 5.158 8
Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs.
ET10 5.162 6
...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the
steam-piston gives value to the duke's land...
ET10 5.163 14
Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or
grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
ET10 5.165 8
An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to
establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds,
so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he
transforms his paling into stone-masonry...and all Europe cannot prevail on
him to sell or compound for an inch of the land.
ET10 5.169 8
...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of
chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that the yeoman was
forced to sell his cow and pig, his tools and his acre of land;...
ET11 5.173 15
Every man who becomes rich [in England] buys land...
ET11 5.174 21
The foundations of these [noble English] families lie deep
in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.
ET11 5.175 21
The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land
was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it...
ET11 5.179 4
The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an
atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land.
ET11 5.181 19
The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land
occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
ET11 5.189 14
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.
ET12 5.213 8
England is the land of mixture and surprise...
ET13 5.217 10
The distribution of land [in England] into parishes enforces
a church sanction to every civil privilege;...
ET14 5.242 8
In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's
political rule that power must rest on land,--a rule which requires to be
liberally interpreted;...
ET16 5.284 1
...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this
land [Salisbury Plain]...
ET18 5.301 25
In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall
have safe and secure conduct...to pass as well by land as by water...
ET18 5.308 6
[England] is the land of patriots, martyrs, sages and bards...
ET19 5.310 14
...as for Dombey...there is no land where paper exists to
print on, where it is not found;...
F 6.37 14
Eyes are found in light;...feet on land;...
F 6.40 14
All the toys that infatuate men...houses, land, money, luxury,
power, fame, are the selfsame thing...
Pow 6.57 24
What enhancement to all the water and land in England is the
arrival of James Watt or Brunel!
Wth 6.86 11
One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the
course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted,
makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
Wth 6.87 22
Wealth begins...in a horse or a locomotive to cross the land...
Wth 6.101 25
[The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;...
Wth 6.114 24
We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire
to go upon the land...
Wth 6.115 22
No land is bad, but land is worse.
Wth 6.115 23
If a man own land, the land owns him.
Wth 6.119 5
The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it.
If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man
could afford to hire labor without selling his land.
Wth 6.120 16
[Mr. Cockayne] plants trees; but there must be crops, to keep
the trees in ploughed land.
Wth 6.122 15
When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes
out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from
his windows;...
CbW 6.243 5
...The forefathers this land who found/ Failed to plant the
vantage-ground;/...
CbW 6.249 2
'T is pedantry to estimate nations...by square miles of land...
CbW 6.275 5
...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and
fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation
and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
Bty 6.303 13
Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or
land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
Civ 7.22 21
There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child
saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them
to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found
wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must
begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
Civ 7.22 27
...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a
letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion
of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
Civ 7.32 7
...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and
illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their
daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
Civ 7.34 21
Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they
are fertile, but as they are free; and the remark holds not less but more true
of the culture of men than of the tillage of land.
Farm 7.137 8
...all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Farm 7.138 13
Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves:
Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land...
Farm 7.139 9
The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or
planting is the manners of Nature;...patience...with the largeness of the sea
and land we must traverse...
Farm 7.139 20
[The farmer]...clings to his land as the rocks do.
Farm 7.141 10
He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside,
makes the land so far lovely and desirable...
Farm 7.141 22
...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in
the field, investing his labor in the land, and making a product with which
no forced labor can compete.
Farm 7.143 1
Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages...
mellowed his land...
Farm 7.149 17
See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he
alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through
constant evaporation...
Farm 7.150 2
...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been
discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of
complaint from any quarter.
Farm 7.150 15
[The farmer's tiles] drain the land...
Farm 7.151 6
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...
the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters.
Farm 7.151 13
The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from
his enemy,--man or beast,--takes poor land.
Farm 7.152 8
As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come
up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
WD 7.163 7
...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every
square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
WD 7.167 26
A farmer said he should like to have all the land that joined
his own.
Boks 7.207 21
...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all
these fine [Elizabethan] persons together, and to the land to which they
belong.
Cour 7.275 1
[The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but
of a freedom that is ideal; not seeking to have land or money or
conveniences...
OA 7.327 13
[Man] wants...power, house and land...
PI 8.50 27
Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of
extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or
to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of
mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
PI 8.58 21
[The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills
it,/ On the sea, on the land./
PI 8.59 6
[Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was
bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
Res 8.141 22
When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary
of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was
suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
Res 8.141 24
When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary
of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was
suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
PC 8.207 24
Land without price is offered to the settler...
PC 8.212 8
...I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have
grown trite and commonplace.
PPo 8.255 23
If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/
How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/
Insp 8.269 7
...every reasonable man would give any price of house and
land and future provision, for condensation, concentration and the recalling
at will of high mental energy.
Insp 8.294 25
Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the
way to the Hyperboreans;...
Imtl 8.339 17
...[men] want more time and land in which to execute their
thoughts.
Dem1 10.3 11
This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked
in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and
sea...
Dem1 10.10 26
The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there
is no near land in the direction from which they come.
Aris 10.44 18
If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he
should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for orchard, tillage...
Aris 10.56 8
Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but
material values. As much health and muscle as you have, as much land...
avails.
PerF 10.77 22
Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he
chiefly brings...is not his land or his money or body's strength, but his
thoughts...
PerF 10.84 19
[Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all
fruits of these, for property...
Supl 10.167 22
The people of English stock...are a solid people...owners of
land whose title-deeds are properly recorded.
Supl 10.172 18
The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of
Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in
visible nature.
SovE 10.190 12
...it is found at last that some establishment of property,
allowing each on some distinct terms to fence and cultivate a piece of land,
is best for all.
MoL 10.250 5
[Nature says to the American] I give you the land and sea...
the elemental forces, nervous energy.
MoL 10.250 10
[Nature says to the American] One thing you have rightly
done. You have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son of
Adam who will till it.
Schr 10.270 1
What the Genius whispered [the poet] at night he reported to
the young men at dawn. He rides in them, he traverses sea and land.
Schr 10.271 17
There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius
and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
LLNE 10.326 27
People grow philosophical about native land and parents
and relations.
LLNE 10.350 26
and each community should take up six thousand acres of
land.
Thor 10.473 8
The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon
discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every
farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to feel a
little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
HDC 11.27 2
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed
the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples,
wool and wood./
HDC 11.28 6
Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And
make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
HDC 11.36 2
...the rough welcome which the new land gave [the pilgrims]
was a fit introduction to the life they must lead in it.
HDC 11.38 21
I seem to see [the settlers of Concord], with their pious
pastor, addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.
HDC 11.39 11
The land [at Concord] was low but healthy;...
HDC 11.41 1
...the original distribution of the land [in Concord], or an
account of the principle on which it was divided, are not preserved.
HDC 11.41 12
...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the
necessary public charges...
HDC 11.41 24
In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...
and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house
of Captain Humphrey Hunt.
HDC 11.41 26
The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of a
reservation of land for the minister...
HDC 11.42 22
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting
of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe
themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small
corporations of land and power.
HDC 11.43 12
...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled
into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own
benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor
possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
HDC 11.43 14
...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled
into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own
benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor
possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
HDC 11.47 13
In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion
had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every bushel
of rye, its entire weight.
HDC 11.48 14
In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord],
upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in
making a bridle-road;...
HDC 11.55 13
The fish, which had been the abundant manure of the
settlers, was found to injure the land.
HDC 11.55 19
New plantations and better land had been opened, far and
near;...
HDC 11.68 13
...in answer to letters received from the united committees
of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view
with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us
of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
HDC 11.71 18
On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole
town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...to aid all
untainted magistrates in the execution of the laws of the land.
HDC 11.73 22
This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the
enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
HDC 11.85 20
Humble as is our village [Concord] in the circle of later and
prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the presence
and activity of the purest men.
LVB 11.90 22
...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the
understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the
matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that
[the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
LVB 11.93 10
...how could we call...the land that was cursed by [the
Cherokees'] parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?
EWI 11.131 9
...this kidnapping [of freeborn negroes] is suffered within
our own land and federation...
EWI 11.140 4
...the strong and healthy yeomen and husbands of the land...
fear no competition or superiority.
War 11.165 6
...when a truth appears,-as, for instance, a perception in the
wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea...it will build
ships;...
FSLC 11.181 25
The very convenience of property, the house and land we
occupy, have lost their best value...
FSLC 11.209 12
Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig
away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of
the world.
FSLC 11.211 19
...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the
brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I
mean...Massachusetts...as she sees her progeny scattered over the face of
the land...
AKan 11.261 20
The President is a lawyer, and should know the statutes of
the land.
AKan 11.262 9
The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a
few feet wide...
AKan 11.263 4
...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a
network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
AKan 11.263 20
When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for
any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and
depart to some land where freedom exists.
JBB 11.266 19
...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might
Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies
from the curse that blights the land;/...
JBS 11.276 3
A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a
touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring
spell./
ACiv 11.298 27
We have attempted to hold together two states of
civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right
of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military
tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes
an oligarchy...
ACiv 11.299 3
We have attempted to hold together two states of
civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right
of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military
tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes
an oligarchy...
ACiv 11.301 12
...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good
many small owners. One man owns land and slaves; another owns slaves
only.
EPro 11.322 15
If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp,
which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then
this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best
investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
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 11.329 4
We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln]
which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the
fearful tidings travel over sea, over land...
SMC 11.351 15
...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the
largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing
this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
SMC 11.360 7
...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and
the privates too, are domestic men, just wrenched away from their families
and their business by this rally of all the manhood in the land.
EdAd 11.386 3
We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently
announcing duties which clothe life with joy, and endear the face of land
and sea to men.
Koss 11.398 4
Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention your progress
through the land...
Koss 11.399 9
We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel
of freedom, crossing sea and land;...
SHC 11.433 5
On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery],
towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the
village...
SHC 11.436 15
Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew agreeable to men,
but because they want more time and land to execute their thoughts in?
Humb 11.458 7
...at any point on land or sea [Humboldt] found the objects
of his researches.
CPL 11.495 7
That town is attractive to its native citizens and to
immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...
CPL 11.502 6
It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests,
after the annual extinction of the household fires of their land, to procure in
the temple fire from the sun...
FRep 11.513 14
Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk
Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war, all
fortification by land and sea...on that one compound...
FRep 11.520 15
We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape
Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the
spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good
pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want
a prayer, this land wants manure.
FRep 11.520 16
We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape
Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No,
this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
FRep 11.520 17
We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape
Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No,
this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
FRep 11.529 16
The men, the women, all over this land shrill their
exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is
unbecoming in the government...
FRep 11.534 26
...the land and sea educate the people...
FRep 11.541 24
Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest
and the best. The land is wide enough, the soil has bread for all.
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.
CL 12.135 3
The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait
which has received the name of Earth-hunger, a love of possessing land.
CL 12.135 7
The land, the care of land, seems to be the calling of the
people of this new country...
CL 12.135 12
The capable and generous, let them spend their talent on the
land.
CL 12.143 6
The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under
favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never
was on land or sea...
CL 12.144 1
In Massachusetts, our land is agreeably broken...
CL 12.145 2
The privilege of the countryman is the culture of the land...
CL 12.145 23
One [apple] tree yields the rent of an acre of land.
CL 12.148 8
Some English reformers thought...that, if there were no cows
to pasture, less land would suffice.
CL 12.148 9
...a cow does not need so much land as the owner's eyes
require between him and his neighbor.
CL 12.162 19
Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in
crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to
prevent the sparrows or tortoises. It was their land before it was his...
CL 12.162 21
My naturalist knew what was on [the sparrows' and
tortoises'] land, and the farmers did not...
CL 12.162 27
...the very time at which [my naturalist] used [the farmers']
land and water (for his boat glided like a trout everywhere unseen) was in
hours when they were sound asleep.
CW 12.172 5
Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and
true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country
through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers,-
not doctors of laws but doctors of land...
Bost 12.191 14
...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at
Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men, instead of jumping on to
the first land that offered, wisely judged that the best point for a city was at
the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
Bost 12.207 22
We [New Englanders] are willing to see our sons emigrate,
as to see our hives swarm. That is...what the land wants and invites.
Milt1 12.269 23
[Milton] felt the dear love of native land and native
language.
MLit 12.335 16
...[man's] thought can animate the sea and land.
WSL 12.342 9
From the moment of entering a library and opening a
desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless
leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects:-In the afternoon we came unto
a land/ In which it seemed always afternoon./
AgMs 12.359 8
No rich father or father-in-law left [Edmund Hosmer] any
inheritance of land or money.
AgMs 12.359 12
[Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way
year by year...
AgMs 12.362 17
...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his
skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.
PPr 12.385 14
Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and
Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the
reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for
everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...
Let 12.403 11
From Massachusetts to Illinois the land is fenced in and
builded over...
Let 12.403 18
From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty
cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving
men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to
work on the land;...
land, v. (2)
PI 8.31 5
Every writer is...a sailor, who can only land where sails can be
blown.
War 11.162 5
...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our
commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you
would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
Land, Van Dieman's, n. (1)
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.
land-birds, n. (1)
ET2 5.26 27
...[the good ship] has reached the Banks; the land-birds are
left;...
land-commander, n. (1)
NMW 4.248 10
What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the
profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men
and animals.
landed, adj. (3)
Nat2 3.174 6
I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible
in the State with these dangerous auxiliaries [of nature].
ET11 5.176 25
How came the Duke of Bedford by his great landed estates?
CL 12.135 19
The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is
called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole beauty
of a farm or landed estate.
landed, v. (8)
ET1 5.3 4
In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
ET4 5.60 23
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings.
ET4 5.72 14
In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses
where they landed...
ET5 5.77 6
Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with
impunity.
PI 8.5 6
...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was
power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It
was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great
conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the
wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary
uses...
EWI 11.110 13
In 1821, according to official documents presented to the
American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were
deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Havana
alone.
War 11.158 22
I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of
ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I
burned and spoiled.
Bost 12.191 5
The colony of 1620 had landed at Plymouth.
landholder, n. (1)
WSL 12.344 10
[Landor] has the common prejudices of an English
landholder;...
landholders, n. (1)
ET4 5.57 9
In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders...
Landing, Harrison's, n. (1)
SMC 11.368 8
...the [Thirty-second] regiment did good service at Harrison'
s Landing...
landing, n. (3)
ET3 5.42 2
...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river
Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the
kingdom, giving road and landing to innumerable ships...
ET4 5.65 16
I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at
Liverpool;...
ET17 5.291 18
At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester
correspondent awaiting me...
landing, v. (2)
ET3 5.35 8
The problem of the traveller landing at Liverpool is, Why
England is England?
ET19 5.310 13
...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir
A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;--a sort of
programme or play-bill to tell the seafaring New Englander what he shall
find on his landing here.
landless, adj. (1)
Con 1.312 1
...thou wast born landless...
landlocked, adj. (1)
ET4 5.64 27
In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law,
that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be
accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked
counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
land-lord, n. [landlord,] (7)
Pt1 3.42 15
...thou [O poet] shalt possess that wherein others are only
tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord! sea-lord! air-lord!
ET5 5.98 20
A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The
tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
Wth 6.107 22
You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can
reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a
worse one; besides that a relation a little injurious is established between
landlord and tenant.
CbW 6.260 24
A Fifth Avenue landlord...is not the highest style of man;...
Schr 10.270 22
Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud
landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
LLNE 10.328 15
Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller
in France. Oh, no, set your heart at rest on that point, said the landlord;...
AgMs 12.359 13
[Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way
year by year, and this without prejudice to himself the landlord...
landlords, n. [land-lords,] (7)
Con 1.321 15
...if priest and church-member should fail...the very
innholders and landlords of the county, would muster with fury to [religious
institutions'] support.
YA 1.384 23
These rising grounds which command the champaign below,
seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords...
ET10 5.167 17
The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the
man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and
presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of
linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords.
Wth 6.105 8
If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are
shot down in Ireland.
Farm 7.150 22
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...
HDC 11.27 4
Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm/ Saying, 't is
mine, my children's and my name's./
II 12.81 23
Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of
Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords,
who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...
landlord's, n. (3)
Cir 2.316 24
...are all claims on [a man] to be postponed to a landlord's or
a banker's?
ET17 5.297 1
A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter
Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every
day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter; and one day passing with
Wordsworth the inn, he was betrayed by the landlord's asking him if he had
come for his porter.
Pow 6.67 27
...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper,
the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring
citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and
paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
land-nations, n. (1)
ET4 5.56 22
The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage,
sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm
them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they come into the
fight from a higher ground of power than the land-nations;...
Landor, Walter Savage, n. (25)
Lov1 2.180 13
Concerning [poetry] Landor inquires whether it is not to be
referred to some purer state of sensation and existence.
ET1 5.4 4
...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see
the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor,
DeQuincey...
ET1 5.7 1
Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation
from Mr. Landor...
ET1 5.7 3
On the 15th May I dined with Mr. Landor.
ET1 5.9 3
Landor despised entomology...
ET1 5.9 14
...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives
away his books...
ET1 5.9 16
Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the
English delight to indulge...
ET1 5.9 26
Landor is strangely undervalued in England;...
ET1 5.10 4
...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a
multitude of elegant sentences;...
ET14 5.257 7
[Wordsworth] wrote a poem, says Landor, without the aid of
war.
ET17 5.297 7
Landor, always generous, says that [Wordsworth] never
praised anybody.
Ctr 6.143 18
Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than
from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
DL 7.128 18
It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the
great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it
pleases him.
Boks 7.209 2
There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as
Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor;...
QO 8.191 21
When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor
replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
QO 8.196 8
It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of
ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...as Cicero, Cowley,
Swift, Landor and Carlyle have done.
MLit 12.321 26
With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the
name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor...
WSL 12.338 13
Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished
mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
WSL 12.339 6
Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater
soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...
WSL 12.341 1
Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who
make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.
WSL 12.343 21
Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs
to this sacred class; and among these, few men of the present age have a
better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
WSL 12.344 2
...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and
civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the
appreciation of character.
WSL 12.346 4
Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has
indicated his perception of [character].
WSL 12.347 4
...as it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less
elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded, so is
Mr. Landor the most useful and agreeable of critics.
WSL 12.348 11
...it is not as an artist that Mr. Landor commends himself to
us.
Landor's, Walter Savage, n. (5)
ET1 5.16 16
Landor's principle was mere rebellion; and that [Carlyle]
feared was the American principle.
WSL 12.339 19
In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a certain air of
defiance...
WSL 12.346 6
These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of
letters one of great mark and dignity.
WSL 12.346 25
Mr. Landor's definitions are only enumerations of
particulars;...
WSL 12.349 4
Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to
remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which
will stand firm, place them how or where you will.
land-owner, n. (1)
ET10 5.162 16
...old energy of the Norse race [in England] arms itself with
these magnificent powers [of steam]; new men prove an overmatch for the
land-owner...
land-owning, n. (1)
Aris 10.40 27
...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great
Americans inculcate,-that which they preach...out of their old war and
modern land-owning...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every
aristocracy are moral.
land-room, n. (1)
ET4 5.52 13
The English derive their pedigree from such a range of
nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the
varieties of talent and character.
lands, n. (45)
Nat 1.3 18
There are new lands, new men, new thoughts.
AmS 1.81 21
...our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws
to a close.
MR 1.249 6
I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to
feel that he is rich in my presence.
Con 1.307 5
We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so.
YA 1.367 25
...the whole force of all the arts goes to facilitate the
decoration of lands and dwellings.
Hist 2.39 9
I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the
discovery of new lands...
SR 2.81 5
...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands,
he is at home still...
Comp 2.94 19
What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are
miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine,
horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
Int 2.343 16
Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow
me.
Gts 3.165 12
I find that I am not much to you;...you do not feel me; then
am I thrust out of doors, though you proffer me house and lands.
UGM 4.3 16
We call our children and our lands by [great men's] names.
ET11 5.175 9
...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had
their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their
lands.
ET11 5.177 5
...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a
large share of the plundered church lands.
ET11 5.180 1
The English lords do not call their lands after their own
names...
ET11 5.180 2
The English lords...call themselves after their lands...
Pow 6.63 8
...the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow
promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority
and majesty of manners.
Wth 6.89 19
Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the
key to all the lands.
Wth 6.124 21
...Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this
improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.
Bhr 6.174 26
Broad lands and great interests...arrive to such heads as can
manage them...
CbW 6.266 18
...we shall not always traverse seas and lands with light
purposes...
SS 7.11 4
Never his lands or his rents, but the power to charm the disguised
soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's]
rent and ration.
Farm 7.140 8
...[the farmer] has broad lands for his home...
Farm 7.151 4
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the
plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the
first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best;...
Farm 7.151 14
The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better
lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear;...
Farm 7.152 13
The last lands are the best lands.
Farm 7.152 15
It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best
lands, and in the best manner.
Suc 7.285 19
[Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots]
can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was
abundance of gold...
Res 8.141 20
...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of
Esquimaux, become lands of promise.
Grts 8.305 19
...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and
must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the
forecastle; another longs for travel in foreign lands;...
Dem1 10.4 13
...[in dreams] we seem busied for hours and days in
peregrinations over seas and lands...
Schr 10.275 12
The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries
and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and
money, and power...
SlHr 10.445 23
Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter
lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison,
and their lands out of attachment.
Thor 10.473 4
The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon
discovered...his knowledge of their lands...
HDC 11.37 19
...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already
secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid, to treat with
him for his lands.
HDC 11.41 22
In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop,
and 1000 to Thomas Dudley, of the lands adjacent to the town [Concord]...
HDC 11.41 27
The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of...the
appropriation of new lands as commons or pastures to some poor men.
HDC 11.44 22
In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the
freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and
woods, and choose their own particular officers.
HDC 11.46 21
...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to
exercise a sovereignty...in the disposal of town lands;...
HDC 11.54 15
...Concord increased in territory and population. The lands
were divided;...
HDC 11.55 2
The very great immigration from England made the lands
[near Concord] more valuable every year...
HDC 11.63 27
...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689]
confine themselves to descriptions of lands...
Wom 11.411 27
For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange
lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and
lapis lazuli./
II 12.85 15
Each must be rich, but not only in money or lands...
CL 12.133 6
What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern
day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./
CL 12.144 19
One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they
showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet
high.