Leather to Leg

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

leather, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.302 7 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a man can wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.

leather, n. (7)

    ET5 5.84 2 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick...
    ET5 5.89 4 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return. Their leather lies tanning seven years in the vat.
    ET10 5.166 26 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
    Wth 6.95 18 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
    EWI 11.141 4 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...leather, glass, dyes...
    FSLN 11.227 12 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question whether man shall be treated as leather?...
    Bost 12.196 17 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year, and then again shuttng up the body in flannel and leather, defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...

leathern, adj. (4)

    Comp 2.107 22 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    SwM 4.142 27 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
    SS 7.13 3 Before [animal spirits] what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge!
    Boks 7.191 27 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes;...

leave, n. (28)

    DSA 1.147 5 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls...that gave us leave to be what we inly were.
    LE 1.165 24 The vision of genius comes by...giving leave and amplest privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.
    Comp 2.94 27 Is it that [the good] are to have leave to pray and praise, to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now.
    Fdsp 2.192 25 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont. We have...a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time.
    Hsm1 2.246 4 Valerius. Bid thy wife farewell./ Soph. No, I will take no leave..../
    Int 2.343 11 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
    Exp 3.56 2 How strongly I have felt of pictures that when you have seen one well, you must take your leave of it;...
    Mrs1 3.132 19 ...we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.
    UGM 4.14 13 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...of Falkland, who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.
    MoS 4.180 25 [Some minds] may well give themselves leave to speculate, for they are secure of a return.
    ET1 5.10 9 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him.
    ET13 5.217 7 [The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
    ET13 5.227 18 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect;...
    Bhr 6.179 1 [Eyes]...ask no leave of age, or rank;...
    Ill 6.315 11 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game...
    Boks 7.212 24 The man asks for a novel,--that is, asks leave for a few hours to be a poet...
    Clbs 7.229 21 Mainly [the student] must have leave to be himself.
    Cour 7.272 8 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    PI 8.35 17 The use of occasional poems is to give leave to originality.
    SA 8.91 12 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    Elo2 8.123 18 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture, in taking leave of his class, contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    Plu 10.319 27 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    HDC 11.32 8 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.77 27 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...
    ACiv 11.304 3 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
    PLT 12.64 8 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is that no tongue shall syllable it without leave;...
    CL 12.162 15 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go;... and no man is asked for leave.
    Bost 12.202 9 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to breathe and think freely.

leave, v. (165)

    Nat 1.14 14 ...the examples [of the useful arts are] so obvious, that I shall leave them to the reader's reflection...
    Nat 1.42 25 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds, and leave no wrinkle or stain?...
    AmS 1.107 18 Wake [men] and they shall...leave governments to clerks and desks.
    DSA 1.136 23 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...
    DSA 1.145 2 See how nations and races...leave no ripple to tell where they floated or sunk...
    DSA 1.145 10 Once leave your own knowledge of God...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    DSA 1.147 10 Can we not leave...the virtue that glitters for the commendation of society...
    LE 1.161 1 Leave me alone;...
    MR 1.232 8 I leave for those who have the knowledge the part of sifting the oaths of our custom-houses;...
    MR 1.243 4 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others the costly conveniences of housekeeping...
    MR 1.256 16 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave their signal talents...
    Tran 1.345 24 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? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet...
    Tran 1.350 11 A great man...will leave to those who like it the multiplication of examples.
    Hist 2.32 14 Every animal...has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    SR 2.57 14 Leave your theory...
    SR 2.86 8 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men, but they leave no class.
    SR 2.89 20 ...do thou leave as unlawful these winnings...
    Comp 2.104 2 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
    Comp 2.110 27 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own.
    Comp 2.116 10 [Commit a crime and] You...cannot draw up the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    Lov1 2.171 4 ...we must leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts...
    Fdsp 2.201 4 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship]...
    Fdsp 2.207 11 In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone.
    Fdsp 2.209 10 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow...
    Fdsp 2.209 23 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property...
    Fdsp 2.210 7 Leave this touching and clawing.
    Hsm1 2.246 19 ...[To die] is to leave/ Deceitful knaves for the society/ Of gods and goodness..../
    Hsm1 2.246 24 Val. But art not grieved nor vexed to leave thy life thus?/
    OS 2.275 18 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    OS 2.292 6 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction...of new ideas. They leave them wiser and superior men.
    Cir 2.311 18 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations...
    Int 2.335 8 [The thought] is...always a miracle...which must always leave the inquirer stupid with wonder.
    Int 2.343 16 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.
    Pt1 3.22 18 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself;...
    Pt1 3.41 9 [O poet] Thou shalt leave the world, and know the muse only.
    Exp 3.49 3 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    Exp 3.52 21 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life, but must not leave it without noticing the capital exception.
    Exp 3.59 23 To fill the hour,--that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
    Exp 3.61 23 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour...
    Mrs1 3.134 21 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit, though it were of his sovereign, should not leave his roof...
    Mrs1 3.138 6 Let us leave hurry to slaves.
    Mrs1 3.140 12 [One] must leave the omniscience of business at the door, when he comes into the palace of beauty.
    Gts 3.160 27 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience. If it be a fantastic desire, it is better to leave to others the office of punishing him.
    Gts 3.165 16 [Men] eat your service like apples, and leave you out.
    Nat2 3.169 21 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...
    Nat2 3.172 27 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I leave the village politics and personalities... behind...
    Nat2 3.190 10 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty...
    Pol1 3.204 23 The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    Pol1 3.219 6 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution;...
    NR 3.227 10 All our poets, heroes and saints...leave us without any hope of realization but in our own future.
    NR 3.247 22 ...if there could be any regulation...that a man should never leave his point of view without sound of trumpet.
    NR 3.248 6 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first...
    NER 3.264 11 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    NER 3.267 10 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul;...
    NER 3.273 2 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley, when he was preparing to leave England with his plan of planting the gospel among the American savages.
    UGM 4.5 26 A little genius let us leave alone.
    SwM 4.111 23 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg]...leave me nothing to say on their proper grounds.
    SwM 4.129 7 ...it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    MoS 4.178 3 We have been sopped and drugged...with sciences, with events, which leave us exactly where they found us.
    MoS 4.178 5 The mathematics, 't is complained, leave the mind where they find it...
    ShP 4.218 16 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    NMW 4.238 27 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks...
    NMW 4.251 3 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies...
    NMW 4.255 7 Leave sensibility to women [said Napoleon];...
    NMW 4.258 23 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;...
    ET1 5.4 23 The conditions of literary success...do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms.
    ET3 5.42 10 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET4 5.51 22 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
    ET4 5.63 6 The crimes recorded in [English] calendars leave nothing to be desired in the way of cold malignity.
    ET6 5.112 3 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope behind.
    ET6 5.114 3 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table.
    ET8 5.138 3 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they like with their own. With education and intercourse, these asperities wear off and leave the good-will pure.
    ET10 5.154 23 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.
    ET12 5.202 13 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some article of plate;...
    ET13 5.226 7 If in any manner [the wise legislator] can leave the election and paying of the priest to the people, he will do well.
    ET16 5.281 9 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew; but we [Emerson and Carlyle] were content to leave the problem with the rocks.
    F 6.6 22 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence, which, whenever the good man wants a dinner, makes that somebody shall knock at his door and leave a half-dollar.
    F 6.42 23 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town. If you do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a little puzzled;...
    Pow 6.81 17 ...in these [machines man] is forced to leave out his follies and hindrances...
    Wth 6.93 22 Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it. But [Columbus] was forced to leave much of his map blank.
    Wth 6.96 2 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Wth 6.113 14 ...the man who has found what he can do, can spend on that and leave all other spending.
    Wth 6.115 24 If a man own land, the land owns him. Now let him leave home, if he dare.
    Wth 6.118 21 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
    Wth 6.124 23 ...we must not leave the topic [economy] without casting one glance into the interior recesses.
    Ctr 6.132 1 ...if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
    Ctr 6.134 23 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is...to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.
    Ctr 6.137 21 We must leave our pets at home when we go into the street...
    Bhr 6.175 14 ...Nature and Destiny...never fail to leave their mark...
    Bhr 6.176 23 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns. Take a date-tree, leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates.
    Bhr 6.196 26 Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
    CbW 6.249 5 Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses.
    CbW 6.264 1 ...if people were sick and dying to any purpose, we would leave all and go to them...
    CbW 6.274 7 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck: these things are forgotten so quickly, and leave no effect.
    Bty 6.284 9 These geologies, chemistries, astronomies...leave us where they found us.
    SS 7.14 26 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor. Leave them to seek their own mates, and they will be as merry as sparrows.
    Civ 7.30 20 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way...every god will leave us.
    Farm 7.143 17 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light and heat and leave the atom bare.
    Farm 7.152 27 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him unaffected...
    WD 7.159 25 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery. If that were satire, yet it is coming to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind, and will leave the satire short of the fact.
    Boks 7.189 19 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we leave the shop with a sigh...
    Boks 7.212 5 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction and leave us dry on this side;--I mean the Imaginative.
    Boks 7.214 25 So much novel-reading cannot leave the young men and maidens untouched;...
    Boks 7.218 9 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
    OA 7.328 21 We leave one pursuit for another...
    PI 8.5 8 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that...the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses, and we can afford to leave it one day.
    PI 8.56 17 ...we will leave to the masters their own forms.
    PI 8.61 7 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well, but...thus the proverb says true, Leave the court and the court will leave you.
    PI 8.71 10 ...the poet complains that the solid men leave out the sky.
    PI 8.75 6 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to...leave them no countenance to say aught of what is so trivial as their selfish thinking and doing.
    SA 8.80 26 In the gymnasium or on the sea-beach [the well-mannered man' s] superiority does not leave him.
    Res 8.152 5 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must leave the house, the streets and the club...
    PC 8.225 10 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems, which we ponder all our lives through, and leave where we found them;...
    PC 8.233 1 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste,-to come and go without rebuke. But that kind of loose association does not leave a man his own master.
    PPo 8.244 10 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    Grts 8.308 21 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result...
    Grts 8.308 26 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Grts 8.311 21 Leave others to count votes and calculate stocks.
    Dem1 10.21 18 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air.
    PerF 10.72 6 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual;...
    Chr2 10.116 23 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
    Edc1 10.131 18 In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe into himself, or out of that quarry leave nothing unrepresented.
    Edc1 10.144 1 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies...
    Edc1 10.155 5 Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature.
    Edc1 10.155 12 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone.
    Edc1 10.157 2 ...[these difficulties and perplexities in education] solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
    Edc1 10.158 4 Nobody [in the school] shall...leave his desk without permission...
    SovE 10.201 3 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to...leave you no need of hunting here or there for any particular exhibitions of power.
    Schr 10.275 18 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder.
    Schr 10.287 26 He that would sacrifice at [the Muse's] altar must not leave a few flowers...
    Plu 10.299 16 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers, now and then, at a long distance behind him...
    Plu 10.301 3 [Plutarch's] vivacity and abundance never leave him to loiter or pound on an incident.
    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...
    LLNE 10.340 6 ...there was no great public interest...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    LLNE 10.356 10 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts, and which he can leave, when the sun is warm, and defy the robber.
    MMEm 10.401 7 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will.
    Thor 10.484 26 It seems an injury that [Thoreau] should leave in the midst his broken task...
    HDC 11.57 23 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
    EWI 11.145 27 These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of the country.
    FSLC 11.189 24 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.
    FSLC 11.206 10 I am willing to leave [the North and the South] to the facts.
    AKan 11.263 14 I wish we could send the sergeant-at-arms to stop every American who is about to leave the country.
    TPar 11.286 8 Theodore Parker was...a man of study...rapidly pushing his studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
    TPar 11.287 6 'T is sometimes a question, shall we not leave [the old religions] to decay without rude shocks?
    ACiv 11.303 1 I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if government would not obey the same, would leave the government behind...
    EdAd 11.392 5 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    Wom 11.405 23 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste, and accept it; but when she added-I think so, because-Pardon me, madam, he said, leave me to find out the reasons for myself.
    Wom 11.420 25 If new power is here, of a character...which...opens new careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    Wom 11.422 9 Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
    RBur 11.443 2 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
    Scot 11.462 2 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
    PLT 12.28 22 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar...
    PLT 12.58 10 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...and to leave all our past for this enlarged scope.
    II 12.83 15 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
    MAng1 12.236 18 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    Milt1 12.260 9 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    ACri 12.291 6 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished; as when you break up a prose wall, and leave all the strength in the poetry of columns.
    MLit 12.311 3 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which leave no man where they found him...
    MLit 12.328 1 Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the feeling that the thing itself was so admirable as to leave all comment behind, went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.
    MLit 12.333 4 We feel that a man gifted like [Goethe] should not leave the world as he found it.
    Pray 12.352 8 ...soon...I desire to leave [my long-attached friend]...because I wwished to be engaged in my business.
    PPr 12.385 20 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.
    Let 12.401 5 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave nothing pure, which they do not pollute...

leaven, n. (3)

    YA 1.387 9 That were [the noble's] duty and stint,-to keep himself pure and purifying, the leaven of his nation.
    LS 11.10 5 [Jesus] admonished his disciples respecting the leaven of the Pharisees.
    Let 12.395 10 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!-so heedless is our correspondent of putting all the dough into one pan, and all the leaven into another.

leaven, v. (1)

    II 12.69 19 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]?

leavened, adj. (1)

    LS 11.3 11 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...whether leavened or unleavened bread should be broken;-the questions have been settled differently in every church...

leaves, n. (42)

    Nat 1.16 9 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...leaves...
    Nat 1.64 8 ...the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
    LE 1.168 7 ...the fall of swarms of flies...pattering down on the leaves like rain; the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    MN 1.222 23 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases...
    LT 1.259 18 The Times...are to be studied...as sacred leaves...
    Con 1.300 22 The leaves and a shell of soft wood are all that the vegetation of this summer has made;...
    Con 1.315 1 ...rising one morning before day from his bed of moss and dry leaves, [Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...
    SL 2.143 22 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves;...
    Fdsp 2.197 24 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves...
    Cir 2.303 19 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will...these leaves hang so individually considerable?
    Int 2.334 2 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light with boughs and leaves thereto...
    Art1 2.364 12 Under an oak-tree loaded with leaves and nuts...I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    GoW 4.287 27 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like.
    ET12 5.203 14 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz...and a duplicate of the same, which had been deficient in about twenty leaves at the end.
    F 6.45 22 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
    Wth 6.83 15 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
    Elo1 7.59 13 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./
    Farm 7.144 17 The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.
    Clbs 7.231 16 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves.
    Suc 7.298 19 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods];...
    Suc 7.309 5 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground, and makes haste to cover it up with leaves and vines...
    PC 8.211 23 The creeds of [the sectarian's] church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory...
    PPo 8.247 14 We absorb elements enough, but have not leaves and lungs for healthy perspiration and growth.
    PerF 10.71 6 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    EzRy 10.384 11 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...written in the blank leaves of the almanac for the year 1735.
    MMEm 10.397 11 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./
    MMEm 10.414 23 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me, Even these leaves you use to think my better emblem have lost their charm on me too...
    Thor 10.464 5 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot. As he was in the act of getting up from his fall, he saw for the first time the leaves of the Arnica mollis.
    Thor 10.482 25 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear...
    Thor 10.483 3 The tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves.
    Thor 10.483 10 Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line.
    LS 11.21 26 That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in [Christianity's] eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.
    II 12.80 26 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove, and covers the sand with a soil by shedding its leaves.
    II 12.81 24 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, as leaves and wood are made of air, an idea fashioned them...
    Mem 12.95 5 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters.
    Mem 12.95 8 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...
    CL 12.145 9 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples] amid the green leaves...
    CL 12.151 21 In August...when the leaves whisper to each other in the wind, we observe already that the leaf is sere...
    CL 12.152 11 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go rummaging through them, that we can hear nothing else.
    ACri 12.302 14 [Channing] complains of Nature,-too many leaves, too windy and grassy...
    MLit 12.309 17 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...the stars are white points, the roses, brick-colored leaves...
    Pray 12.355 24 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...

leaves, v. (66)

    Nat 1.63 5 ...if it only deny the existence of matter, [Idealism] does not satisfy the demands of the spirit. It leaves God out of me.
    Nat 1.63 5 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions...
    DSA 1.143 20 Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market.
    LT 1.259 14 The Times are...the receptable in which the Past leaves its history;...
    LT 1.261 3 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which encroaches on [Conservatism] every day...and leaves it nothing but silence and possession.
    LT 1.274 9 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop, trading all day without his religion.
    LT 1.278 11 The world leaves no track in space...
    Con 1.304 22 ...so deep is the foundation of the existing social system, that it leaves no one out of it.
    Comp 2.95 26 [Men's] daily life gives [their theology] the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience...
    SL 2.151 20 [The world] leaves every man, with profound unconcern, to set his own rate.
    Fdsp 2.201 7 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common...
    OS 2.279 10 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will against mine...and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength.
    Int 2.343 17 Who leaves all, receives more.
    Exp 3.49 9 ...something which I fancied was a part of me...falls off from me and leaves no scar.
    Exp 3.73 15 This vigor accords with and assists justice and reason, and leaves no hunger.
    Exp 3.79 9 ...[the intellect] leaves out praise and blame and all weak emotions.
    Exp 3.82 11 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous. This is a divine answer, and leaves no appeal...
    Chr1 3.88 4 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
    Chr1 3.100 21 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few.
    Chr1 3.100 22 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few.
    Mrs1 3.136 17 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    Gts 3.160 16 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day, and one is glad when an imperative leaves him no option;...
    NER 3.259 7 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he shuts those books for the last time.
    UGM 4.13 24 If you affect to give me bread and fire...at last it leaves me as it found me...
    PPh 4.47 19 [Plato] leaves with Asia the vast and superlative;...
    ShP 4.194 7 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    ShP 4.195 16 ...the proceeding investigation hardly leaves a single drama of [Shakespeare's] absolute invention.
    ShP 4.198 10 [Chaucer] steals by this apology,--that what he takes has no worth where he finds it and the greatest where he leaves it.
    NMW 4.237 20 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
    GoW 4.261 11 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...
    ET4 5.58 14 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
    ET16 5.279 2 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    Wth 6.115 5 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
    Wth 6.118 20 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
    Wth 6.120 12 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?
    Ctr 6.142 23 ...you are not fit to direct [your boy's] bringing-up if your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.
    Wsp 6.229 20 Not only does our beauty waste, but it leaves word on how it went to waste.
    CbW 6.245 20 The lawyer advises the client, and tells his story to the jury and leaves it with them...
    CbW 6.267 18 On experiment the horizon...leaves us on an endless common...
    Bty 6.299 17 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she...leaves a shadow on the wall...she confers a favor on the world.
    Civ 7.21 15 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
    Elo1 7.81 17 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that...being absent, leaves them a merely superficial value.
    DL 7.116 12 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched.
    Cour 7.257 9 The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone...
    Suc 7.307 25 We know the answer that leaves nothing to ask.
    Suc 7.308 2 The searching tests to apply to every new pretender are amount and quality,--what does he add? and what is the state of mind he leaves me in?
    OA 7.335 25 ...the central wisdom...dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
    PI 8.71 8 The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts;...
    Imtl 8.344 26 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... which threads the globes as beads on a string, leaves this out of its circuit, leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Imtl 8.344 27 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Imtl 8.351 17 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    Dem1 10.24 7 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    Aris 10.42 4 [Ulysses] builds the boat with which he leaves Calypso's isle...
    Edc1 10.126 12 ...when one and the same man...leaves the din of trifles...to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.
    Edc1 10.129 22 Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every pain I suffer, leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    SovE 10.194 1 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them...
    SovE 10.200 14 ...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and rises, it leaves crowds.
    Prch 10.228 10 An era in human history is the life of Jesus; and the immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition almost harmless.
    Plu 10.303 27 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter; but...he leaves the reader with a relish and a necessity for completing his studies.
    FSLN 11.244 16 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men, and now the Nebraska Bill leaves us staring.
    JBS 11.277 7 Everything that is said of [John Brown] leaves people a little dissatisfied;...
    EdAd 11.383 18 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...leaves his library and takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    FRO1 11.476 9 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
    PLT 12.30 16 There is always a loss of truth and power when a man leaves working for himself to work for another.
    CW 12.179 13 ...there is a general sense which the best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves unexplained.
    Trag 12.406 17 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.

leaving, v. (38)

    Nat 1.10 4 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life...no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.
    Con 1.297 21 That which is was made by God, saith Conservatism. He is leaving that, he is entering this other, rejoins Innovation.
    Con 1.311 8 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
    Tran 1.342 9 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    OS 2.267 20 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him...
    OS 2.274 11 The soul looketh steadily forwards...leaving worlds behind her.
    Pt1 3.13 5 ...leaving these victims of vanity, let us, with new hope, observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
    Mrs1 3.127 9 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by...leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.
    Nat2 3.179 8 ...taking timely warning, and leaving many things unsaid on this topic, let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    PPh 4.71 16 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after leaving the whole party under the table, goes away as if nothing had happened...
    PNR 4.82 26 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul;...
    ET8 5.132 14 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense; leaving no lie uncontradicted;...
    ET16 5.285 13 On leaving Wilton House, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the coach for Salisbury.
    F 6.47 21 Leaving the daemon who suffers, [man] is to take sides with the Deity...
    Wsp 6.222 3 The countryman leaving his native village for the first time and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
    Elo1 7.76 10 Leaving behind us these pretensions...to come a little nearer to the verity,--eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency...
    Boks 7.193 1 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
    Boks 7.197 3 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was...
    Suc 7.285 9 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    OA 7.331 19 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...leaving all in the best posture for the future.
    QO 8.182 8 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages, leaving the worse and saving the better...
    PPo 8.239 8 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos...
    Prch 10.235 21 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.
    EzRy 10.381 6 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving nineteen children...
    Thor 10.451 13 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school...
    HDC 11.85 13 With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
    FSLN 11.217 3 I do not often speak to public questions;-they are odious and hurtful, and it seems like meddling or leaving your work.
    TPar 11.290 2 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...
    ACiv 11.306 25 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely, leaving their haughty dictation.
    EPro 11.326 1 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career.
    Scot 11.465 14 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate-leaving on every reader the impression of the highest and purest tragedy.
    ChiE 11.471 21 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history, leaving no trace.
    FRO1 11.478 23 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    PLT 12.15 22 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force...making day where it comes and leaving night when it departs, is no fee or property of man or angel.
    PLT 12.16 27 Leaving aside the question which was prior, egg or bird, I believe the mind is the creator of the world...
    Milt1 12.253 17 Leaving out of view the pretensions of our contemporaries...we think no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.
    WSL 12.344 17 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings, and, leaving to others the painting of circumstance, aspire to the office of delineating character.
    Trag 12.405 16 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain... leaving its planted fields to erasure and annihilation.

leav'st, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.175 25 Thou are not gone being gone, where'er thou art,/ Thou leav' st in him thy watchful eyes,.../
    Ctr 6.162 3 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./

Leben, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 18 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...

Lechmere, Mr., n. (1)

    OA 7.333 22 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere...

lecture, n. (11)

    ShP 4.192 3 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    ET9 5.146 5 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God, at the close of a lecture, that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    Elo2 8.123 18 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    Elo2 8.127 12 ...when once going to preach the Thursday lecture in Boston...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Grts 8.306 8 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...
    Edc1 10.133 25 ...a convention for education, a lecture, a system, affects us with slight paralysis...
    MoL 10.246 9 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
    Plu 10.309 12 ...Plutarch thought, with Ariston, that neither a bath nor a lecture served any purpose, unless they were purgative.
    EzRy 10.387 10 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.
    Thor 10.457 10 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...
    Thor 10.457 17 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother, who were to sit up and go to the lecture, if was a good one for them.

Lecture, n. (1)

    Scot 11.462 9 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory. Lecture, Being and Seeming, 1838.

Lecture, Thursday, n. (1)

    Pow 6.68 14 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood...cannot satisfy all their wants at the Thursday Lecture or the Boston Athenaeum.

lecture, v. (1)

    Thor 10.457 9 ...a young girl, understanding that [Thoreau] was to lecture at the Lyceum, sharply asked him, Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...

lecture-room, n. (4)

    GoW 4.282 27 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects: the student, out of the lecture-room, still broods on the lessons;...
    Plu 10.305 24 Many [of Plutarch's discourses] are notes for disputations in the lecture-room.
    LLNE 10.330 25 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.
    LLNE 10.332 22 In the lecture-room, [Everett] abstained from all ornament...

lecture-rooms, n. (1)

    DSA 1.151 1 What hinders that now...in lecture-rooms...you speak the very truth...

Lectures [Barthold Georg N (1)

    Boks 7.202 2 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece; the Life and Letters of Niebuhr, even more than his Lectures, furnish leading views;...

lectures, n. (16)

    ET1 5.21 13 Of Cousin (whose lectures we had all been reading in Boston), [Wordsworth] knew only the name.
    ET2 5.25 10 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland. I was invited, on liberal terms, to read a series of lectures in them all.
    ET6 5.106 10 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...
    ET14 5.237 27 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin...by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,-- required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    Elo2 8.123 1 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806, not only the students heard him with delight...
    Elo2 8.123 13 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge, his class attended...
    Schr 10.284 8 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
    Plu 10.294 4 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome, and read lectures to some friends or scholars, he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    LLNE 10.335 11 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
    LLNE 10.346 19 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners;...
    LLNE 10.351 3 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what concerts, what lectures...
    Thor 10.457 7 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course, and vaunted the better lectures which reached only a few persons.
    Shak1 11.451 25 [Shakespeare's] mind has a superiority such that the universities should read lectures on him...
    PLT 12.3 3 I have used such opportunity as I have had...to attend scientific lectures;...
    CInt 12.122 6 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst...lectures, poets, libraries, newspapers...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    Bost 12.196 3 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained...

lectureships, n. (1)

    ET12 5.209 19 Oxford...shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...

lecturing, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.335 14 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...

led, v. (61)

    MR 1.253 10 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are... led in opposition to manifest justice and the common weal...
    LT 1.266 11 Now and then comes...a more surrendered soul, more informed and led by God...
    YA 1.395 10 If only the men are employed in conspiring with the designs of the Spirit who led us hither and is leading us still, we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    Hist 2.12 5 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
    Mrs1 3.125 19 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world; and it is a material deputy which walks through the dance which [power] has led.
    Nat2 3.170 27 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind, all memory obliterated by the tyranny of the present, and we were led in triumph by nature.
    NER 3.254 8 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...
    PPh 4.56 22 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    SwM 4.93 5 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not led out a colony, nor invented a loom.
    SwM 4.98 15 This man [Swedenborg]...no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...
    SwM 4.137 22 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the element of personality of Deity.
    MoS 4.154 13 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him;...
    MoS 4.180 6 Is life to be led in a brave or in a cowardly manner?...
    ShP 4.218 12 Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man [Shakespeare], in wide contrast.
    ShP 4.218 23 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    ET1 5.4 7 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe...it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
    ET1 5.22 2 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden...
    ET1 5.24 7 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk...
    ET5 5.82 1 [Englishmen] are not to be led by a phrase...
    ET13 5.228 14 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism.
    F 6.12 24 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.40 18 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    Pow 6.56 20 ...everywhere men are led in the same manners.
    Pow 6.67 15 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech.
    Pow 6.75 10 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen, the street which led to the market-place and the council house.
    Bty 6.282 2 The naturalist is led from the road by the whole distance of his fancied advance.
    Ill 6.313 13 Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bawble or another.
    Ill 6.317 17 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good horse Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk...
    SS 7.5 24 These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases...
    Cour 7.253 15 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. This has made the power of the saints of the East and West, who have led the religion of great nations.
    Cour 7.267 10 Of [Charles XII, of Sweden] we may say that he led a life more remote from death, and in fact lived more, than any other man.
    OA 7.315 19 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    Elo2 8.113 4 By leading [people's] thought [the eloquent man] leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all...
    Elo2 8.122 11 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    Grts 8.306 14 ...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity.
    Dem1 10.4 8 They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted yesterday./
    Dem1 10.11 1 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
    Chr2 10.122 7 ...[a well-principled man] feels the immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is led by it.
    Edc1 10.136 20 Let [the young man] be led up with a long-sighted forbearance...
    SovE 10.192 5 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven.
    MoL 10.253 20 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon, which led the way to all the subsequent studies of the English and German scholars on that foundation.
    MoL 10.254 19 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army. It was badly led.
    MoL 10.254 21 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army. It was badly led. But, before this, it was not the army alone, is was the population that was badly led.
    Plu 10.296 18 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch and his contemporaries; led...by the eminent critic Sainte-Beuve.
    LLNE 10.356 13 ...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists had a sense of duty which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.
    MMEm 10.407 10 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
    MMEm 10.415 16 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
    SlHr 10.446 9 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    Thor 10.453 22 [Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds...
    GSt 10.505 22 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...
    GSt 10.506 21 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him, overtasked his strength...
    LS 11.4 25 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    AKan 11.259 4 The government armed and led the ruffians against the poor farmers [in Kansas].
    AKan 11.260 7 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy], dance and sing...with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    SMC 11.358 22 Our first company was led by an officer who had grown up in this village from a boy.
    Shak1 11.449 14 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition, or say... what life he led;...
    PLT 12.61 13 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...
    MAng1 12.223 1 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
    MLit 12.315 20 ...the weak and wicked, led also to analyze, saw nothing in thought but luxury.
    MLit 12.316 1 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love?
    Pray 12.351 24 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...

Leda [Goethe, Helena], n. (1)

    Hist 2.33 17 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.

ledge, n. (1)

    Bost 12.183 13 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night...from every rock ledge;...

ledger [leger], n. (1)

    Comp 2.115 12 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...

ledger, n. (3)

    AmS 1.111 25 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates...
    YA 1.369 21 ...he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger... values [the land] less.
    Wsp 6.234 26 [Benedict said] My ledger may show that I am in debt...

ledges, n. (2)

    Wth 6.86 22 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood...
    Wth 6.89 20 ...ledges of rock, mines of iron, lead, quicksilver, tin and gold;...are [man's] natural playmates...

Lee, Ann [Mother Ann], n. (1)

    Bost 12.207 2 From...Ann Hutchinson, and Whitfield, and Mother Ann, the first Shaker, down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

Lee, Robert E., n. (2)

    SMC 11.374 11 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which...forced the surrender of Lee.
    SMC 11.374 14 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a grand charge, when the white flag of General Lee appeared.

Leeds, England, n. (2)

    ET8 5.129 6 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    Res 8.148 9 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...

Lee's Hill, Massachusetts, (1)

    HDC 11.36 7 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill.

lee-side, n. (1)

    Res 8.145 6 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.

Leeuwenhoek [Leuwenhock], A (1)

    SwM 4.104 22 Unrivalled dissectors, Swammerdam, Leuwenhock...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

left, adj. (4)

    ET4 5.66 2 The French say that the Englishwomen have two left hands.
    PPo 8.241 3 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand upon,-men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his left.
    War 11.166 7 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right.
    PLT 12.42 17 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line...over terrific pits right and left, it were a wide prairie.

left, adv. (2)

    Elo1 7.96 18 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...so that he stands in the New England assembly a purer bit of New England than any, and flings his sarcasms right and left.
    Cour 7.278 15 One day as through the cleft/ Between two mountains steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...

left, v. [left] (148)

    Nat 1.56 10 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind, and left matter like an outcast corpse.
    MR 1.231 11 ...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world anew...
    MR 1.245 1 ...as soon as there is society, comfits and cushions will be left to slaves.
    MR 1.247 3 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give...
    MR 1.251 23 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...
    Con 1.310 10 [Existing institutions] have, it is most true, left you no acre for your own...
    Con 1.324 6 If [the hero] have earned his bread...in the narrow and crooked ways which were all an evil law had left him, he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    YA 1.367 15 [Gardening] is the fine art which is left for us...
    YA 1.377 15 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    YA 1.393 25 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador; You have left a business of importance for a ceremony.
    Hist 2.14 9 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
    Fdsp 2.207 24 No two men but being left alone with each other enter into simpler relations.
    OS 2.278 13 The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation.
    OS 2.283 18 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner, and so forth. They even dream that Jesus has left replies to precisely these interrogatories.
    OS 2.284 1 It was left to [Christ's] disciples to sever duration from the moral elements...
    OS 2.286 14 Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open...
    Cir 2.302 12 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July.
    Cir 2.318 5 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good into every chink and hole that selfishness has left open...
    Art1 2.352 12 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success,--all the weary miles and tons of space and bulk left out...
    Art1 2.361 7 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...
    Art1 2.361 13 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so many conversations.
    Art1 2.361 26 ...that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...
    Pt1 3.10 14 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither...
    Exp 3.49 16 Nothing is left us now but death.
    Exp 3.58 24 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay;...and the men and maidens it left pale and hungry.
    Exp 3.59 9 There is now no longer any right course of action nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.
    Chr1 3.96 3 An individual is an encloser. Time and space...truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
    Mrs1 3.129 15 ...if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
    Mrs1 3.151 6 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large;...
    NR 3.232 2 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out.
    NER 3.259 1 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    UGM 4.8 16 Mind thy affair, says the spirit:--coxcomb, would you meddle with the skies, or with other people? Indirect service is left.
    UGM 4.24 20 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
    PPh 4.76 26 Here is the world...perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left...
    PNR 4.85 14 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    SwM 4.99 14 In 1716, [Swedenborg] left home for four years...
    SwM 4.104 24 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
    SwM 4.105 5 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?
    MoS 4.184 22 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor...left to whistle by himself...
    ShP 4.192 21 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ShP 4.201 25 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    ShP 4.202 4 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...and why he left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife.
    ShP 4.212 12 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions.
    NMW 4.257 13 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...of this demoralized Europe? It came to no result. All passed away like the smoke of his artillery, and left no trace.
    NMW 4.257 13 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it;...
    GoW 4.283 24 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably, as a baker when he has left his loaf;...
    GoW 4.288 2 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place.
    ET1 5.4 25 It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET1 5.6 6 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks].
    ET2 5.26 27 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks; the land-birds are left;...
    ET2 5.27 2 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown...
    ET2 5.28 17 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now, at night, seems to hear the steamer behind her, which left Boston to-day at two;...
    ET2 5.32 11 Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart...
    ET3 5.34 12 Nothing [in England] is left as it was made.
    ET4 5.59 21 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
    ET4 5.61 19 The power of the race migrated and left Norway void.
    ET4 5.63 21 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...
    ET6 5.103 5 Machinery has been applied to all work [in England], and carried to such perfection that little is left for the men but to mind the engines...
    ET8 5.135 12 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...resembling in countenance the portrait of Punch with the laugh left out;...
    ET10 5.156 2 It is [Englishmen's] maxim that the weight of taxes must be calculated, not by what is taken, but by what is left.
    ET11 5.197 14 I have no illusion left, said Sidney Smith, but the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    ET13 5.228 13 The English Church, undermined by German criticism, had nothing left but tradition;...
    ET13 5.230 4 The [English] church at this moment is much to be pitied. She has nothing left but possession.
    ET13 5.230 13 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    ET16 5.273 2 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.276 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the train at Salisbury and took a carriage to Amesbury...
    ET16 5.280 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...
    ET16 5.290 12 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    ET16 5.290 21 Slowly we [Emerson and Carlyle] left the old house [Winchester Cathedral]...
    F 6.27 4 ...now we are as men in a balloon, and do not think so much of the point we have left...as of the liberty and glory of the way.
    Pow 6.73 1 [Michel Angelo] was not crushed by his one picture left unfinished at last.
    Wth 6.88 5 If happily [a man's] fathers have left him no inheritance, he must go to work...
    Wth 6.109 10 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] will perhaps find by and by that he left the Muses at the door of the hotel, and found the Furies inside.
    Ctr 6.138 2 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
    Ctr 6.138 11 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin. You restore to him his eyes which he left in pledge at Mimir's spring.
    Ctr 6.146 18 The boy grown up on a farm, which he has never left, is said in the country to have had no chance...
    Bhr 6.182 7 Balzac left in manuscript a chapter which he called Theorie de la demarche...
    Bhr 6.192 10 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face and the poor reader is left outside in the cold...
    CbW 6.261 26 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard, have been...left for dead...and know the realities of human life.
    Bty 6.304 8 Facts which had never before left their stark common sense suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.
    SS 7.1 14 ...when the mate of the snow and wind,/ [Seyd] left each civil scale behind/...
    SS 7.4 7 [My new friend] left the city;...
    Civ 7.22 10 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.
    DL 7.124 20 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals, ten, twenty years after they had left the halls, returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    DL 7.127 18 We read in [our companion's] brow, on meeting him after many years, that he is where we left him...
    WD 7.185 3 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    Boks 7.218 8 There is no room left,--and yet I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
    Clbs 7.228 21 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded! What a motive had then our solitary days! How the countenance of our friend still left some light after he had gone!
    Cour 7.267 5 Swedenborg has left this record of his king...
    Suc 7.305 19 An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    PI 8.61 10 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons, but because I have left the court, I am known no longer...
    PC 8.214 6 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...
    PPo 8.256 21 Cumber thee not for the world, and this my precept forget not,/ 'Tis but a toy that a vagabond sweetheart has left us./
    Insp 8.285 3 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened/...
    Insp 8.291 3 Allston rarely left his studio by day.
    Grts 8.314 16 [Napoleon] has left a library of manuscripts...
    Imtl 8.331 24 When my friend at last left Congress, [the two men] parted...
    Dem1 10.26 25 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have left the geometry, the compensation, and the conscience of the daily world...
    Aris 10.59 26 The youth...having got into decent society, is left to himself...
    Chr2 10.112 21 ...the mind of our culture has already left our liturgies behind.
    Edc1 10.133 17 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    Edc1 10.138 8 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art which the Greeks left on their temple walls.
    Supl 10.173 21 ...the luminous object...is luminous because it is burning up; and if the powers are disposed for display, there is all the less left for use and creation.
    SovE 10.189 15 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher-a process...in which no point of the lower should be left untranslated;...
    SovE 10.209 9 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it left all for this...
    Prch 10.221 12 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left.
    MoL 10.253 17 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt...
    LLNE 10.335 6 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...
    LLNE 10.339 19 ...we then thought, if we do not still think, that [Channing] left no successor in the pulpit.
    EzRy 10.388 4 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you...
    MMEm 10.425 12 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
    SlHr 10.440 26 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left an infantile innocence...
    SlHr 10.446 14 [Samuel Hoar] had...a native temperance, which left him no temptations...
    SlHr 10.446 21 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar] .Yet when politicians or speculators approached him, these memories left no scar;...
    LS 11.8 21 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.
    HDC 11.62 9 ...a few vagrant [Indian] families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes.
    HDC 11.79 26 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their debts.
    LVB 11.92 13 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    EWI 11.102 20 [The negro slaves'] case was left out of the mind and out of the heart of their brothers.
    EWI 11.105 14 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole body became diseased, and the man useless to his master, who left him to go whither he pleased.
    EWI 11.108 15 [Thomas Clarkson] left Cambridge;...
    EWI 11.115 3 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.131 22 The great-hearted Puritans have left no posterity.
    EWI 11.134 23 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims]...may with impunity be left in their chains or to the chance of chains,-then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.140 21 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?
    War 11.168 27 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    FSLC 11.205 26 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself.
    FSLN 11.226 13 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...
    TPar 11.288 7 'T is plain to me...that [Theodore Parker] has so woven himself in these few years into the history of Boston, that he can never be left out of your annals.
    HCom 11.340 4 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    SMC 11.357 18 One of our later volunteers, on the day when he left home... said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SMC 11.368 2 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left the ranks for thirty hours...
    SHC 11.435 13 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...the good, the wise and great will have left their names and virtues on the trees;...
    FRO1 11.477 12 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard. To many...I have found so much in accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.
    FRO2 11.486 4 ...the Author of Nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind...
    II 12.67 18 ...Haydon found Voltaire's tales left him melancholy.
    CInt 12.116 26 ...[the scholars] were traders and left their altars and libraries and worship of truth...
    CL 12.146 11 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms, where the neglected orchard has been left to itself...
    CL 12.163 4 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to survey his possessions, and passed onward and left them...
    MAng1 12.224 21 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.
    MAng1 12.239 14 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.240 22 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
    Milt1 12.247 10 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame...
    Milt1 12.265 26 When [Milton] had cut down his opponents, he left the details of death and plunder to meaner partisans.
    Pray 12.355 9 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by; thou hast not done this, and then left me here to myself, a poor, weak man, scarcely able to earn my bread.
    AgMs 12.359 8 No rich father or father-in-law left [Edmund Hosmer] any inheritance of land or money.
    Let 12.393 7 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...
    Let 12.398 12 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said...there is now no longer any right course of action, nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.

leg, n. (9)

    Int 2.337 6 A child knows if an arm or a leg be distorted in a picture;...
    Exp 3.81 24 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger they will drown him.
    Wth 6.115 19 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Wsp 6.228 12 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
    OA 7.330 24 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...ever restlessly stroking his leg...
    Res 8.145 22 Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg.
    SovE 10.196 9 The law of gravity is not hurt by every accident, though our leg be broken.
    PLT 12.52 7 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared; some one power fed, all the rest pine. 'T is like a withered hand or leg on a Hercules.
    CL 12.149 22 [The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree, and can fit his leg with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.

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